Mr. Fawcett, senior, died at Salisbury at the ripe age of ninety-five, after a successful and much honoured life. It is interesting to read what the Prime Minister said of Fawcett, by whom he had been at times so vigorously and successfully opposed, and to whom the downfall of his Government was once largely due. [Sidenote: The Old Folk and Salisbury.] The sorrow of the grief-stricken parents in Salisbury for the loss of their beloved son seemed too great a burden for their aged shoulders to bear. But slowly, as time went on, the father gathered comfort from the sympathy of great and humble. Reviewing lovingly bit by bit the brave course which his boy had run, he realised perhaps, as the crowning comfort, that in the inscrutable workings of fate, his unwittingly blinding his own child had not after all proved an irreparable calamity. Rather it had, by depriving the lad of the blessing of sight, miraculously sped him on valiantly to a great life gladly lived. [Sidenote: From Carpenters, Bricklayers, etc.] Among the many sympathetic letters sent to Mrs. Fawcett, perhaps none express more truly the feelings of those to whom her husband had given his constant solicitude, and certainly none are more touching, than these two:— PANGBOURNE, _November 8th, 1884_. ‘DEAR MADAM,—I hope you will forgive us, but having followed the political life of the late Professor Fawcett, we felt when we saw his death in the papers on the 7th that we had lost a personal friend, and that a great man had gone from us. The loss to you must be beyond measure; but we as part of the nation do give you who have been his helper our heartfelt sympathy in your great trouble, and we do hope you may find a little consolation in knowing that his work that he has done for the working classes has not been in vain. ‘We, as working men, do offer you and your child our deepest sympathy, and beg to be yours respectfully, ‘HARRY COX, Carpenter. CHARLES EDDY, Carpenter. RICHARD BOWLES, Carpenter. G. LEWENDON, Bricklayer. GEORGE BROWN, Bricklayer. WILLIAM COX, Carpenter. CHARLES COX, Blacksmith. M. CLIFFORD, Postmaster. F. CLIFFORD, Clerk.’ [Sidenote: A Tribute from the Railroad men of Brighton.] ‘11 ELDER PLACE, ‘BRIGHTON, _November 11th, 1884_.