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horizon being the parting on his leaving for Australia. His marriage brought him additional wealth through the family relations of Mrs. Grundy, that lady being connected with some of the best circles in Carlisle. like many prosperous Manchester men, he was induced by the railway mania to invest a considerable portion of his fortune in that stock, and was one of the victims of the 1846 panic. During his residence in Manchester he was identified with many philanthropic movements for the benefit of that town, and, in conjunction with others, was instrumental in getting Peel Park opened on the Sabbath by the Corporation for the purpose of recreation for the poor Lancashire operatives, which step brought him into collision with several strict Sabbatarians; and to those who remember the drudgery and hardships of factory life of forty years ago, they will conceive what an inestimable boon was conferred on the working classes. He was intimately connected with various public works and political movements, and had for a coadjutor the late Richard Cobden. Mr. Grundy was the originator of infant schools in Manchester; and also the Christian Institute, and he took a prominent part in the Agricultural Drainage Association. As an authority and essayist on agriculture he was awarded a silver medal with this inscription:—"Institute, Manchester, 1767. Society for the Improvement of Agriculture. To Mr. E. L. Grundy, for an essay upon Destructive Insects, 1829." The activity of Mr. Grundy was of unostentatious simplicity, and no one was more desirous of realizing the maxim of doing good by stealth and blushing to find it fame than he; but any man might nurture a pardonable degree of pride in feeling he had done the State service, and that he was likely to leave behind him in the hearts of some a kindly feeling for his honest endeavours. Misfortunes in railway speculations induced him to turn his attention to the colonies, and South Australia was selected as his future home. He thought it advisable not to bring Mrs. Grundy with him, but