19 DECEMBER 1891, Page 3

We greatly regret to say that the Duke of Devonshire

is Klispaired of by his medical attendants. It is supposed that he may still linger for a day or two, but not longer. The electors of Rossendale are already looking out for a successor to Lord Harlington when he shall be com- pelled to enter the Upper House ; and the Liberal Unionists, of coarse, are already beginning to grieve over the loss which they must suffer in the House of Commons as a necessary consequence of their leader's elevation to the Peerage. In the meantime, great regret is felt for the condition of the Duke himself, whose career has been of that beneficent, noble, and generous type which still lends something of splendour to the higher aristocracy of England.