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926 TO CORRESPONDENTS. IL is impossible to ackuowledge the mass of letters we receive. Thtir insertion is oftet. delayed, owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite inde pendent of the merits of the communication. We cannot undertake to return communications of which we do not avail ourselves. Ccmmunications should always be legibly written, and on one side of the paper only. If long it increases the difficulty of finding space for them. Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer, Out necessarily fur publica tion, but as a guarantee of his good faith. Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment in town. ; TO Xi+ LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1854. POSTSCRIPT. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. A telegraphic despatch has been received at the Admiralty from Rear-Admiral Sir William Carroll, at Cork, announcing the arrrval of her Majesty's ship Phernix at that port, with Captain Mg:lure, of the Investigator, CM board. The following is the text of the message received at the Admiralty : " Arrived her Majesty's ship Phantix, bringing captains of the Investigator, Assistance, and Resolute, and part crews of Assistance and Resolute. " The North Star and Talbot convey the remainder of the crews of the Assistance, Resolute, Investigator, and tenders; first and third lieutenants and surgeon of Resolute, master and clerk in charge of Assistance, and Monsieur de Bray, arrived in Phcenix." The Emperor and Empress of the French left Boulogne on Wednesday for Sculiques, where a grand sham battle took place. The Emperor commanded the attacking troops, and several hours were occu pied in manoeuvres, in which a largo body of forces was engaged, and several briltiant charges of cavalry were effected. The mamenvres extended over four miles of ground. The Emperor and Empress got into town about eight o'Aock. His Majesty knocked up four horses in the course of the day. The squadron under Admiral Parseval has been highly complimented by the Emperor and the Minister of Marine for its past services in the Baltic. Constantinople letters of the 18th announce that Fuad Effendi has been elected a member of the committee for the reform of the haratsch, or poll tax, which is to be abolished. A reform is also to take place in the jurisdiction of the Gretk patriarchs. All rayahs are to be included in the general military conscription. The administrative system is to be reorganised. All non-Mahommedans, subjects of the Porte, are to enjoy equal political rights. Nego tiations with Greece are prolonged for a month. The Sultan has reviewed 8,000 troops. The Moniteur states that while Fuad Effendi was at Volo he availed himself of the opportunity to lay the first stone of a Greek church authorised by the Sultan. Advices from St. Petersburg assert that a new issue of paper mcmey had taken place to the amount of 6,000,000 roubles. The new notes are to bear in terest from the 13th of August. A correspondent of the Fremden Bladt says, that one of the heads of the Russian commissariat, General Zuroff, defrauded the army-chest of 75,000 ducats at Oltenitza and in the Dobrudscba. At Ibraila he took possession of the receipts of the taxes and customs, dt pretence of applying the money to the use of the army. The fraud was discovered after the raising of the siege of Silistria, and General ZurolT was arrested at Kalarsch (in Wallachia). --- In an Athens letter of the 22nd we read that Mavrocordato is still opposed to the quartering 2,500 French troops at Athens this winter. The Cardinal Vicar of Rome has just published an edict, in which, after attributing the cholera to the sins of the Romans, he directs that the finger of St. Peter, the arm of St. Roc, the heart of St. Charles, and other relics, shall be exposed to the adoration of the faithful, in order to avert the wrath of the Almighty. A letter from Leghorn, in the Gazette de Savoie, says: I regret to announce to you that the health of the great composer Rossini has of late declined so imtch that there is no hope whatever of his recovery. A violent attack was lately near carrying him oft but he partially re covered, and was able to return to Florence. BM even if be should live, he will never recover his clearness of ideas. The deepest melancholy has had possession of him since his last illness." a -- - - Y. CIF PitE SS. At Turin, on the 20th, the two well-known insur gent leaders, Garibaldi and ltosselli, were said to be going to tight a duel. The intelligence from Madrid comes down to the 25th inst. Symptoms of disturbance had appeared which produced much uneasiness in the public mind. The Government were, however, on the alert to sup ress the first manifestations of rebellion. The Queen was said to be ar.,aiu enceinte. The cholera has broken out over the whole of Bavaria, bat as an etlideinic only in Upper Bavaria and Schwaben, two districts intimately connected by means of the South-North Railway. Twenty victims fall daily in Munich itself. The overland mail left Marseilles for England at nine o'clock yesterday (Friday) morning. Lord John Russell has accepted the invitation of the mayor, magistrates, and town council of Bristol to the civic banquet, which will take place on Friday, the 27th of October, at the Victoria Rooms. Lord Stanley, M.P., who has been staying on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond at Gordon Castle, has left for the south. One of the "Garters " now vacant is to be bestowed on the Earl of Elgin, the Governor General of Canada. Wednesday, the 11th October, has been fixed for the nomination of a representative for the county of Forfar, when there seems little doubt that Viscount Duncan will be elected without opposition. Obituarg. .01.•....4.• DEATH OF LOAD DENMAN. This venerable peer and judge, who resigned only a few years since the appointment of Lord Chief Justice of England, which he had held for eighteen years, died yesterday week from a sudden stroke of apoplexy, at the age of 76. The father of the deceased was one of the Court physicians in the time of George 11., and was the son of a farmer at Bakewell, in Derbyshire, a locality to which the family has been attached for several gene rations. Dr. Denman was fond of his farm at Stoney Middleton, near Bakewell, and Lord Denman im proved the farmhouse into a delightful residence. Lord Denman's mother was aunt to the present Sir Benjamen Brodie, and two of his sisters mulled physicians, one of whom was married to Dr. Baillie, and the other to the unhappy Sir Richard Croft, who attended the Princess Charlotte in her confinement, and, being unable to get over the shock of her death, committed suicide. The deceased peer was born in July, 1779; and not being obliged, like most young barristers, to defer marriage till middle life, or to plunge their wives into poverty, he indulged himself with a home at an early age. He married, in 1804, Theodosia Anne Vevers, eldest daughter of a clergy man of Saxby, and grand-daughter of a Lincolnshire baronet. Fifteen children were the offspring of this marriage, of whom eleven survived, five sons and six married daughters, when Lady Denman died in 1852. In early childhood Thomas Denman was sent to Palgrave School, near Dias, in Norfolk, which was then under the management of Mr. and Mrs. Parbauld, and the judge was sometimes wont to relate in after life that lie had received from that accomplished lady the rudiments of instruction, and the first lessons of diacipl ne. Towards the close of the last century he entered at St. John's College, Cambridge, where be graduated in DO). In 1800 he was called to the bar at Lincoln's-inii, and engaged in the active pursuit of the law. The moment was unfavourable to the public career of a young man entering life with principles wholly opposed to the dominant School of politics, and connected with the men and the principles which were doomed to a quarter of a century of opposition before they obtained a footing in the Government of this country. Mr. Denman entered Parliament for the borough of Wareham at the general election of IMIB, Mid at once took his seat with the Whig Opposition. In the following year he was elected for Nottingham, for which place he continued to sit until his promotion to the bench in Mt!. His first appearance in Parliament was in favour of certain•reforms in the law, but it was not until 1,421) that the extraordinary occasion of the Queen's trial called forth all his energy, and placed him in a more conspicuous position before the country. When Queen Caroline formed the determination of coming to this country upon the accession of her husband to the throne, Mr. Brougham accepted the office of her Majesty's Attorney-General, while that of her Solicitor-General was filled by Mr. Benman. It was impossible to declare war more openly upon the Government, upon the heads of the legal profession, and upon the private feelings of the King. The part taken by Mr. Denman in the memorable trial which followed gave the public a high idea of his courage and uprightness, and contributed in no slight degree to its successful result. This success, however, was an offence not to be pardoned by the head of the law as long as Lord Eldon held the Great Seal, and accordingly the honours of his profession, to which Mr. Denman was entitled by his talents and his standing, were withheld from him, as far as they depended on the will of the Chancellor. Mr. Denman was, however, appointed to the office of Common Sergeant by the Corporation of London in 18.2 . 2, probably as a mark of their sympathy for the legal defenders of the Queen, in whose affairs We late Sir Matthew" Wood had taken so active SATURDAY, a part. It was not until 1828, when Lord Lyndhurst first held the Great Seal, that this injustice was repaired, and the King was induced to grant the patent of Precedence to which Mr. Denman had long been entitled. In 1830, upon the formation of Lord Grey's Govern. meta, Sir Thomas Denman was immediately raised to the post of Attorney-General, which he held during the mo mentous debates on the Reform Bill. In 183'2, however, upon the death of Lord Tenterden, he was appointed to the Chief Justiceship of the court of Queen s 'ten c h, which he held till 1850, having been raised to the peerage in 18:14. As a judge, Lord Denman cannot be ranked with the highest legal authorities who have presided over that court, but no man ever took a loftier view of its duties to society. The conduct of the court in the difficult case of " Stockdale v. Hansard," when it was directly assailed by one branch of the Legislature, is n memorable instance of the exercise of that constituti.bal power which enables our judges to interpose the authority of the law against the arbitrary pretensions of the moat powerful body in this realm, and to combat privilege in the name of justice. '' Most willingly would 1 decline," said Lord Denman in delivering judgment on that occasion, " to enter upon an inquiry which may lead to my differing from that great end powerful assembly (the House of Commons). But, when one of my fellow•subjects presents hiniselt before me in this court demanding justice for nn injury, it is not at my option to grant or to withhold redress. I aro bound to afford it him, if the law declares him entitled to it. Par liament is said to be supreme. I must fully acknow ledge its supremacy. It follows, then, that neither branch of it is supreme when acting by itself." In those few words, and in the judicial power of enforcing that truth, lies the supreme guardianship of the liberties of England. At a late date it was Lord Denman's business to preside in the House of Peers, as its Loy' High Steward, on oc casion of the trial of Lord Cardigan, in 1841, for a "felo uions attempt "to fight a duel. The earl, it will be remembered, was acquitted through a mistake, accidental or otherwise, in the name of the person challenged. The latter years of Lord Denman's life have been much clouded by indisposition. In 1850 his declining health induced him to vacate his seat as Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, to which Lord Campbell, though two years his senior in age, succeeded. Since that period Lord Denman has lived in comparative privacy. DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OF ORMONDE. The melancholy intelligence of the sudden death of this much-respected nobleman was received in London on Wednesday. The Kilkenny Journal gives the following particulars of the event : It is scarcely more than a week since we chronicled the departure of the Martinis and Marchioness of Ormonde, with their family, front Kilkenny Castle, to take up their residence at Loftus-hall, on the promontoly of Houk, county of Wexford, for the remainder of the bathing season. His lordship was in excelleht health ; and was muck pleased with and interested in the locality of his temporary residence. After breakfast on Monday, at about ten o'clock, he proceeded with his w ife to the strand, only a few minutes' walk from the hall, to see his children hath• ing. Whilst yet calling to them, and joining in their innocent mirth, his lordship suddenly fell down upon the beach. Lady Ormonde was under the impression that this was a sportive proceeding, and took no notice of it for afew moments, her attention being occupied by the children. However, observing his lordship still lying motionless, she called to hint, and, receiving no answer, he ran, in alarm, to raise him. To her horror she found him perfectly senseless, and upon giving the alarm, and assistance arriving, it was but too evident that he had been stricken down by apoplexy. He was immediately conveyed to the hall, medical assistance proMptly obtained, and every remedy used which skill and experience could suggest, but, we are deeply sorry to say, without producing any favour able results. e understand that, from the moment he fell, his lordship never uttered a word, or manifested the slightest sign of consciousness, and he died in the come of Monday night. The journal adds :—ln Me no marquis we lose not alone an accomplished, upright, and benevolent resident nobleman, but a worthy, generous, kind-hearted citizen, respected and beloved by all who km w him. The deceased nobleman, John Butler, Marquis of Ormonde, Earl of Ormonde and Ossory, Viscount Thurles, of Thurles, county Tipperary, in the peerage of Ireland, anti Baron Ormonde in that of the United Kingdom, was born on the 24th of August, 1808, and succeeded his father (first marquis) on the 18th May, 1838. Ho was married on the 10th Se p t, 1843, to 'Frances Jane, eldest daughter of the Hon. Sit Edward I'aget, G.C.B. and is succeeded by his eldest son, James Edward William Theobald, Earl of Ossnry, who has not yet attained his tenth year. The noble marquis was Hereditary Chief Butler of Ireland, a Knight of St. Patrick, and, since 1841, has been a Lord in Waiting on her Majesty. SONE Swiss Workmen last week discovered in the estate of Eggbuhl, near Zurich, belonging to .1111vor Voegelt, a bronze mortar, bearing the initials of George 11. of England, and having on it the follow. ing inscription in French :—" Given to the after yal Regiment of Auvergne by General Washington, the capture of the redoubts of York Town, in Tin . ginia, Oct. 19; 1181." The regiment of Auvergne formed part of the troops commanded by General Lafayette, and it contained a consider able numberof Swiss, very few of wham ever returned to their coun try. It is thought probable that one of these buncd it for security before the battle fought between No , sena awl Korsakow. Il I