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Lord Lyndhurst left town an Thursday afternoon, for Paris, having received a very alarming accoma of the state of his daughter's !width. About six weeks ago his Lord•hip, at the suggestion of two medical friends (one a physician, the other a surgeon) of greet experience and reputation, took his second daughter to Paris for the purpose of having an operation of a delicate nature performed on her throat by r. Roux, who has acquired considerable celebrity for his skill in that branch of surgical science. The operation was performed with success, and the young patient, an interesting child of fifteen, was pronounced to be cured, when she was suddenly seized with the Parisian epidemic called " la grippe." The symptoms scon manift sted themselves in the most severe forms of cough and fever, and Lord Lyndhurst was so totteh alarmed, thdt in spite of the urgent claims upon him, as a leader of his party to attend to his Parliamentary duties, he merged the statesman in the parent, and determined not to leave Paris. At the beginning of last week, however, his daughter was pronounced convalescent ; and Miss Copley, his Lordship's sister, having arrived at Paris, he left that metropolis for London. Since his return all the accounts have been favourable till Thursday, when he received a letter announcing a dangerous relapse : he immediately ordered horses, and started with his eldest daughter for Paris, to receive, we fear, the last embrace of his poor child ; or, what is more probable, to find her no longer a living object of his affection. We have entered into this detail in order to explain to the general public the reason of the absence of a political chief at this important political crisis—a reason which all who have any thing worthy to be called a heart, will admit with sympathy and aespect.— Times.
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