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 From the Examiner.

The death of Mrs. Maclean, who as Miss Landon, has associated her name and memory with the highest literature of our time, is described in all its painful and distressing details, in another part of this journal. Ordinary friends and acquaintances were reading letters from her of singular hope and cheerfulness, while others to whom she was bound by more intimate ties were grieving over letters of a very different character—when the awful news, as little expected in the one case as it was but too mournfully prepared for in the other, reached London. The same post brought intelligence of the death of her uncle, Dr. Wittington Landon.

This is not the time to enter upon any review of the literary claims or position of this accomplished and lamented woman. We may quote from one or two sources however-not ill qualified to pronounce upon such a matter—the estimation in which she was held. The Editor of the Courier writes—

"The qualities which gave to 'L. E. L.' so proud and permanent a claim upon public admiration, were not those which constituted the chief charm of her character in the estimation of her more intimate and deeply attached friends. Brilliant as her genius was, her heart was after all the noblest and truest gift that nature in its lavishness had bestowed upon her—upon her, who paid back the debt which she owed for these glorious endowments of heart and mind, by an indefatigable exercise of her powers for the delight of the public, and by sympathies the most generous and sincere with human virtue and human suffering. More perfect kindness and exquisite susceptibility than her's was, never supplied a graceful and fitting accompaniation to genius, or elevated the character of woman. We cannot, however, write her eulogy now—we can only lament her loss, and treasure the recollection which a long and faithful friendship renders sacred."