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Lord Derby has been and apparently still is lying at

the point of death at Knowsley. The disease was, as usual, gout, but the danger appears to have arisen rather from exhaustion. At in- tervals he has been insensible, and there has been no bulletin dated later than yesterday morning, which was nearly as bad as could be, though not quite so bad as the previous report. Lord Derby is only seventy, an age at which it is far from impossible that he might have strength to rally, but the tone of the recent bulletins seems intended to extinguish hope.

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