We regret to notice the death of Serjeant Cox, a
man who must have possessed abilities of a very peculiar kind. Known to the gene- ral public as a second-rate Judge, of good but eccentric character, and- to a special circle as an ardent and very credulous spiri- tualist, he was also known to the newspaper world as one of the most successful of newspaper speculators and managers. He would buy the most various papers in the most moribund stages of decrepitude, and make them all succeed. The Field was his, and the Queen, and the Law Times, and the County Courts' Chronicle, and, we believe, the Bazaar, with other papers besides ; and of these, the first three at least, though purchased, it is said, for a few pounds, must have be- come, under his management, very considerable properties. Such success, attained, as it has been, by honourable means, implies great faoulties, industry, skill in choosing men, anal sympathy with many sections of the people.
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