23 OCTOBER 1869, Page 2

Lord Derby has been dying all the week, and it

is very likely that he may be no more before these pages are in our readers' hands. The Countess has injured her own health by unremitting attendance on her husband's protracted sufferings,—or rather, we hope we may say, on the weary but painless ebbing-away of his life ; for for many days Lord Derby has been unconscious, and not touched food. The question of the successorship to Lord Derby in the Chancellorship of the University of Oxford has been already publicly broached, in surely indecent haste, and Lord Salisbury proposed for that office.