3 NOVEMBER 1860, Page 2

Lord Dimdonald has joined his comrades of the old war

who had gone before him. How fast the links between that time and this break asunder. Yesterday it was a Napier who died ; today it is a Harry Smith, a Duke of Richmond, a Dundonald. Greater

than all these, the latest taken from us by death, for he was a man in whose soul burned the true fire of genius ; and the coun- try will not soon forget that party hatred and administrative cor- ruption, deprived us of the full value of the services of one of our greatest sailors.