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BEAT WESTERN RAILWAY. " CHEAP EXCURSION to SOUTH WALES and IRELAND On FRIDAY, the 28th of June, an Excurs on Train will leave Paddington at 8.0 a.m., and Reading at 9.10 a.m., for extEpsTOW (16s. and 10s.),Newport (19s. and 125.), Cardiff (21s. and 135.), Biidgend (r.s. and 145.), Port Talbot (235. and 155.), Neath (245. and 15s. 6d.), Landore and Swansea ( 2 55. 6d. and 165.), Llanelly (265. and 16s. 6d.), Carmarthen Junetion (278. and 175.), Narbeth-road and llaverfordwest (295. and 178. 6d.), Milford-road, New Milford, for Tenby (300. and 18s.), and Waterford (40s. and 305.). for Kilarney or gilt kenny (425. (Id. and 325. 6d.), Limerick (455. and 355.) Passen= gers to South Wales Stations to return by a Special Trait from New Milford on Tuesday, the 9th of July, and passengers to Ireland can return by the 11.0 a.m. train from Milt° , d any day up to Saturday, the 13th July. For fares and full parti culars, see bills.. GR TEA WESTERN RAILWAY. On SATURDAY, June 29, sin EXCURSION TRAIN 'will leave Paddington at 3.30 p.m., and Reading at 4.35 p.m., tor OXFORD (6s. 6d. and 4s ), Ranbuty (Bs. and 55.), Learning - - ton and Warwick (10s. Gd. and es.), Stratford-on-Avon and Birminghain (12s. and 75.), West Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Bilston (12s, Gd. and 7s. 6d.), and Wolverhampton (13s. and Bs.), returning on Monday, July 1. CREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. CFf .t'AP EXCURSION.—On SUNDAY, June 30, an Ekeursion Train will leave Paddington at 7.45 a.m., and Reading at 8.50 a . m., for CIRENCESTER and STROUD (os. and es.), and Gioucebter and Cheltenham (108. and 65.), re turning the same evening. SCINDE RAILWAY COMPANY.-INDUS STEAM FLOTILLA. The Directors are prepared to receive applications for DE BENTURES at par, in sums of not less than ZlOO, for the unappropriated portion of the £83,0 ODebentures about to be issued for the purposes of the Indus Steam flotilla, bearing. inter est at 5 per ( ent. for five years, renewable for a second period of five years, and payable by coupon at the Ban house of Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, No. 1, Lombard street._ _ The bopds will be dated on the Ist of May, 18)1, and will bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum from that date on ill monies paid on or before the 36th June, 1861. The payment of the principal and interest is guaranteed by the Secretary of State for India in Council, as will appear on the face of the Bonds. The Debentures are convertible into Indus Steam Flotilla Stock at par, at the option of the holder. Forms of application may be obtained at the offices of the Company, • By order of the Board, THOMAS BURNELL, Sec. Scinde Railway Offices, Gresham-house, Old Bread-street, May 26, 1861. OYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.he Committee of this Institution earnestly APPEAL to the public for PECUNIARY ASSIST ANCE to aid them to meet the present heavy demands on the limited funds of the Society. THOMAS BAILING, Chairman. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Deputy-Chairman, 14, John-street, Adeiphi, Feb., 1861. Pankers—Messrs. Willis and Co. ; Coutts and Co.; }ferries and Co. A/ R. W. S/WOODIN'S 'NEW ENTERTAIN -17i_ mi.:NT. the CABINET of CURIOSITIES, POLY GRAPHIC HALL, King William-street, Charing-cross, TO-NIGHT, and EVERY EVENING (except Saturday), at Eight. Private boxes, £1 ls. ; Stalls and box stalls, 35. ; area, 2s. ; amphitheatre, is. -A pl an of the stalls may be seen, and seats secured (without extra charge), at the Box office, from 10 till 4 Morning Performance, Saturday, May 11. A RGYLL ROOMS. GRAND MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT, %cith the Celebrated BAND, Forty in number (established eleven years), chosen from the Philharmonic Concerts, Royal Italian Operas, and the Household Troops. Conducted by Mons. Lamotte. Cornet-a-piston, M. Bouloourt.—Dancing at Nine o'clock.-Is. admission. pRESENTS,__ ORNAMENTAL and SCIEN TIFIC.—ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant assortment 01 VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &c., in Italian,Alabas ter, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, Am Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to her Majesty, 149, Stand, W.C., London. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate the interesting* study of MINERALOGY, CONCHOLOGY and GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANr, at 149, Strand, W.C. TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. I , cott, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and iver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c. For habitual costiveness, as a fa mily aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their operation and gratefkil to the stomach, they create appe Cite, promote dig,estion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, and by most druggists, in boxes, ls. lid. and 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's iiilibus and Liver Pins. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert, 20, Jerrayn-street," engraved on the stamp. DR. BRIGHT'S THREE DAYS' CURE. —The BUCHU GLOBULES, containing the Quint essence of Copaiba, Cubebs, Buchu, at once cure Gonor rhoea, obstinate Gleet, Stricture, and Urethral Discharges, immediately subduing all inflammatory action ; encased in sugar, thereby rendered free from taste or smell, and adapted for either sex. Price lts. ;by pest 12s. 6d. Newbery, 45, St. Paul's Church-yard; Hannay, 63, Oxford street. GIVEN AWAY TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS. HENRY SMITH. M.D., of the University of Jena, has just published, for the benefit of Nervous Fufferers, a FREE EDITION of his valuable work, THE 'WARNING VOICE TO YOUNG MEN (120 pages). A teclical work on the cure of Nervous Debility, Loss of r en TrY, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude, Indigestion, Dislike ,o•Society, Spermatorrhoza, Local Weakness, Muscular Re nocation, Languor, Listlessness, Depression, &c., which, if meglected, result in consumption, insanity, and premature death ; with plain directions for perfect restoration to health and vigour. The book will be sent, post free, secure from ob nervation, to any address, on receipt of a di rec t e d enve l ope and two stamps. Address, HENRY SMITII, M.D., 8, Burton crescent, Tavistock-equare, London, W.C. MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS. Dr. LA'MERT, Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, d i nburgh ; Member of the Royal College of Surgeons. England, Sze., may be Confidentially CONSULTED on the Functional Derangements of the Nervous and Reproductive System; daily at his residence, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON. Dr. La'Mert is the only qualified practitioner on the Medi cal Register who, for 20 years, has exclusively devoted his attention to the treatment of those physicalinfirmities which militate against the happiness of Married Life, or prevent the contraction of engagements which constitute the most cherished objects of existence. Dr. La'Mert's Treatise on "Self-preservation." published by Mann, bookseller, 39, Cornhlil, p r ice is., post free for 13, or sealed, for 20 stamps, contains much useful info rma ti on regarding the moral, social, and physical obligations of mar riage, with simple and efficacious instructions for the resto ration of health, vigour, and all the dignified prerogatives of , manhood, when lost or impaired by pernicious habits or excess. The work will be found totally free from those ex agtrerated and alarming statements contained in the host of pretended medical publications by unqualified persons, pro fessing to treat on these important subjects. At home from 10 till 3, and from 6 till 8. SPECTACLES.—SIGHT AND HEARING.— . DEAFNESS.—A newly-invented instrument for ex _lreme cases of deafness, called the SOUND MAGNIFIER, into Vibrator, and Invisible Voice Conductor. It fits so into the ear as not to be in the least perceptible ; the unplea flint sensation of singing noises in the head is entirely re /moved. It affords instant relief to deaf persons, and enables them to hear distinctly at Church and at public assemblies. E very other kind of hearing instrument s . M essrs. SOLO ,'IONS have invented spectacle lenses of the greatest trans /Arent power. The valuable advantage derived from their invention is, that vision becomes preserved and strengthened ; m a st aged persons are enabled to employ their sight a t th e Most minute occupation, can see with these lenses of a muc h less magnifying power, and they do not require the frequent Changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assist mtice•-39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Ii oteL TELESCOPES, Opera, Race-course, Field, and general Out-door Day and Night Perspective Glasses, very small, f or th e waistcoat pocket, each containing 12 and 18 lenses, constructed of German glass. Will show distinctly a person to know him at two-and-a-half and three miles, and an object from 8 to 10 miles distant. Her Majesty's Coast Guard are making use of them as day and night ;lasses in preference to all others ; they are also preferred for deer stalking by sport smen, gentlemen, and gamekeepers. Tele scopes, 3i inches long, by which a person may be clearly seen and known at 34 miles, and an object at 12 to 14 miles' dis lance ; and wit an extra astronomical eye-piece Juniter's moons, Saturn's rings, variety, double stars are distinctly seen ; they are in endless of lar , er and all sizes, with increasing power., and are secured by her Ma'esty' Royal letters patent.—Messrs. S. and B. SOLO MOlNTS ‘ . j optic s ian_ 30 Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the Tort Hotel, W. MAGIC LANTERNS and DIS SOLVING [ ll VIEWS lent out, and sent i n t o th e col option to purchase. Messrs. S. St D. SOLOIVIO N W' I th the ;; roved Phantasmagoria Lanterns having lenses of pure German Glass, and being arranged with Solomous' beautiful which surpasses any other for its simplicity and brilliancy, a clear disc is obtained 20 feet diameter, hitherto unattained. Slides in great variety. They also beg to introduce their new Instrument, which is one of the most amusing and in structive ever brought out. It illustrates the motion of the Planets, Armstrong's shot, and many , wonderful effects, price 21 SA. Also, the improved Life-boat Barometer, by Admiral Fitzroy; it needs no comment upon its superiority, and is now arranged by them for the use of the public. Price £4 4s. Scientific Instrument Makers, 39, Albemarle-street, Picca dilly, W. _ "The temp orar y relief obtained by means of purgative ie weines is purchased at the high price of the aggravation "d the perpetuating the disease."—HENßY, M.D. NO MORE PILLS OR ANY OTHER PHYSIC FOR CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION (DYSPEPSIA), PALPI TATION, NERVOUS, BILIOUS, AND LIVER COMPLAINTS, DEBILITY, DROPSY, EPILEPSY, PARALYSIS, COUGH, ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, SORE THROAT, FEVERS DU BARRY'S delicious HEALTH RESTOR ING REVALENTA ARABICA FOD, which, at a I ' W7 Penee per day, saves fifty times its st e in Medicine, and urea without purging or any of the uncertainties, annoy chces6and ruinous expenses incurred by m edicine, cod liver or visits to distant climates. C ertificate No. 36,418.—We find it the safest remedy, An drew Ure, M.D., F.R.S. ; Dr. Harvey; Dr. Wu rz er ; Dr. Shor 4an,d ; Dr. Campbell. e extract a few out of 56,000 cures:— , Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de DecEss of many years' 'Y B Pepsia. Cure No. 49,832. Of fifty yea -* indiscrlbable i t 'Fauly from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipa „'Pn„, flatulency, spasms, sickness. and vomiting, Maria Joly, LYnn, Norfolk. Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, O. extreme nervousness, inclig,estion, gatherings, low spirits, nervous fancies. Cure No. 54,816. The Rev. James T. Syderstone Rectory, near Fakenham, Norfolk of y 'itnn and jiver com. Cure No. ,814. Mr. Satnnel tf,txgtooest ,Leicester, of twoplaints years' diarrhoea . so Cure So. 180. Mr. • Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London, of 25 years' nervous nstipation indigestion, and debility. Cure No. 4,028: s '.. .„"t. Years' dysp'epsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, 1,,,,, and nauSea, Rev. John W. Flavel, Ridlington Rec ;2:: Norfolk. Cure No. 3,906. Thirteen years' cough, indi i)".°"n, and general debility, James Porter, Athid-street, erth. Cure No. 58,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, ear Liverpool, of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors of linten2rvboet:smirer4thaabnilti,tyo.f Frimley,eure No Surrey, Mr. James Roberts, y of 30 years' diseased pitting' ot blood, liver derangement, partial deafness. timilar testimonials from 56,000 patients who can be re ler„r,ed to. fin Food is sold in canisters, 21b, 4s. 6d., 121 b. 1 12 0 R iv ~`l4lb. 40s. ; super-refined quality, 51b. 225„ 101 b. 335.. The 121 b., and 241 b. canisters carriage free on receipt oi p_st-office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent ; FOrtnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly, ; Abbia, 60, Gracecharch-street; 4, Cheapside ; - fin s 150, Oxford-street ; 330 and 452, Strand ; 49 and 60, i n ",' lc ysgate-street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury-pavement ; Phillips tre"er- tea dealers • , Petty, Wood, and Co., King William , City, andlB7,fligh liolborni and all.griners. ~..............V . country limited decline Itatione. cheaper 6d per .oad de pon the Dderate. riptionS Friday's change rt, with rea e. Bar malting r 30 at. Beaus to 5s Od id 3s 61 ack. air sale, n scarce d to 7d d to Od to 61. oratior, of sales one or lent re- ay —, fly 13. ay 4.1 me erdue. ly 2. tly—. me 26. -erdue. rerdue, ne 26. ne 25. 'erdue. .ne 21. me lg. net/, ,ne 26. ly 10. eipts. 1860. 911 27,02/ 8,227 4,026 289 1532 8, , 204 24,865 1,767 8,697 42,777 _ _ _ 25* 37,016 1 133 181 126 462 86,820 1,576 21,624 18,624 '363 1,189 11,855 1,016 1,186 38,331 4,423 1,792 1,( 08 3,809 21,533 7,254 3,254 6,644 4,506 1,787 702 989 34,890• .276 1,048 2,2'83 3,710 49,371 4,680 11,527 4,008 2,718 8,280 5,470 12,565 43,88? , - ii4r 77,036 50,3:30 1,324 32,459 19,580 Roe , . • of a D wife 3 WM, N. 21;521. THE NEW QUARTERLY REVIEW, for JULY, No. XXXVIII. Price 2s. 6d., CONTAINS Earl Stanhope's Life of Pitt. Naval Administration. The Tale of Tubs. Aft Education. Dramatic and Musical Summary. KOral of the Session. Retrospect of the Literature of the Quarter. Life of Lord Grey--Life of Porson—Martin's translation of Catullus—Paget's New Examen—Buckle's History of Civilisation, volume 2—Mill on Representative Govern ment. London : Robert Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly. 1 1 11 E PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in bus ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive, intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." Kent and Co., late Piper and Co., Paternoster-row. Just published, price 25., free by post. 25.'4d., 'ON SPERMATORRHCF',A. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E., And formerly , Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. " The aim of the author is to present a common-sense view of the Causes, Nature, Consequences, and, Treatment of this Disease, as also to free these questions from the Professional Fallacies, the Popular Delusiont, and the exaggerations of Quackery by which theyhave hitherto been surrounded, to the destruction of the health and happiness of thousands. These objects are discussed in a common-sense and highly prabtical manner."—Medical Circular. ''''l)3ndon : 219, Regent-street.' In the Press, and shortly will be published, price 2s. 6d., • by post 2s. 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President—lfis Grace the Duke of Buecleach, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This Hospital relieves distress in its most helpless shape, that of disease aggravated by destitution. With more ade quate funds the Weekly Board could make immediately avail able 500 beds for the relief of the large mass of suffering in this metropolis. Its present resources, supplied entirely by the Voluntary Contributions of the Public. enable it to afford, in addition to its In-patients, effective Medical Assistance to an average exceeding 2.000 Out-patients weekly. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co.;Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co.: Prescott, Grote, and bo. Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.;• Overend, Gurney, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; Masterman and Co. ; and at the Hospital J. B. OWEN, M.A„ Chairman of the Weekly Board. IMPORTANT TO OWNERS OF HORSES.— After long experience, deep researches into chyrnistry, by the aid of costly machinery, I have discovered the means whereby oats, beans, and oilcake may be entirely dispensed with in the feeding of horses and cattle. I have nowinvented a compound meal, composed of locust beans, Indian corn, linseed, &c., at £lO per ton, which is equal in value to £24 worth of oats, beans, or any other feeding material in the market. Two quarts of this compound meal, weighing 31bs., at the cost of 5d., mixed with a peck of chopped hay, is a feed fsr a draught horse, and superior in every respect to three quarterns of oats, costing 74d. 14 barrels weigh net 1 ton 1 cwt., at 16s. per cwt., £lO ifs. net cash, free,,delivered by my own waggons to any station in London. Nothing less than 21 cwt. sold at the manufactory, and orders must be accom- J anied with cheques crossed, made p M ayable to the inventor, JOSEPH THORLEY. Steam ills, Caledonian-road, King's-cross, April 8, Mil. Single barrels, weighing 11 cwt., may be had for 305., at 77, Newgate-street, City, or of any of my accredited Agents in the country. THORLEY'S CONDIMENTAL FOOD 1 (mixed wi h crushed Oats, dm.) for My Horses.—Read Admiral Rous on the English Racehorse. 40s. per barrel, containing 448 feeds. TiFIORLEY'S CONDIMENT for My Cows. Increasing the quantity and enriching the quality of Milk. 40s. per barrel. THORLEY'S COMPOUND for My Sheep. Sold hi barrels, containing 449 feeds, with measure enclosed, and carriage paid to any railway station in the ingdom. TR ORLEY for My pigs. -c 40s. per barrel. THORLEY'S GLEANER is Published every Monday in time for pod, and contains forty Columns of valuable information, including Ma r k-la n e Report, Agri mitural and Sporting intelligence up to time of going to Press. Price One Penny. Order of any Newevendor.-77, Newgate-street, City. I, GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET, W., NEAR THE PANTHEON. nR. CULVERIVELL, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate of Midwifery, and Apo becarlcs' Hall, London, can be consulted daily (only) as hove, on all cases of Nervous Debility, Languor, Incapacity, Loss of Memory, Sterility, and all Functiznal Durangeznents botb Sexes, emanating from early and excessive jadul ewes" Has Just published, price Is.; by post, 11 stamps, 18 sealed, No. 4, An entire new and original Work, entitled OURSELVES. Rynopsis : The Physiology and Anatomy of our 0 eneration The Origin of Disease—Symptoms, Treatment, and Cure. A !so, an Exposition of. and Remedy tor, all Urinary Derange ,tents and Marital Disqualifications, LE. ilis, Stricture, Blcrinorrhagla The modern treatmen t of Gonorrha.a), Spermatorrhcca, Impotency, all Diseases of and he Urinary O rgans, w i th Prescriptions, ,14.1 M Sy A ph FEMALE. The Physiolopy and Anatomy of Women— Fan otional Ir (ularitles in health and Sickness—Choice in MarriaL 'e— and I heir E xpectancies and Disappointments—Thy Cause • -en-loyal of St er ili ty —The Theory and Symptoms of Ge sta. ou—Use of the Speculum. Also, No. HEALTH, HAPPTNICSS, an d LO N G EV I T Y ; 1. On Debility, Nervousness, yspepsia, and Indigestion. No 2. r LOVE AND MARRIAGE lheir Obligations, happiness, and Disappointments; Love sad other Matches. Sterility Removed. and Ilealthy Oil pring secured., _ No. 3, - THE CASE BOOK-:' , . 100 Cases of SPERMATORRITCEA Their Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment, Conies:done and Cure by Cauterisations, Galvanism, 4, 0. ~ke. &a To be bad of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; and th e Authors. Advice the W(°srlikincer2AfirrasomTeefent.e)e Balt-a-Guinea: DAr.dClete iR) lrerwell is the only legally qualified medical practi tioner living of that name, and can be consulted (only as above). DR. CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD: k MED fCAL ESSAY ON SPERMATORRIHE NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, Arc. fust Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price Is., Sold by all Booksellers, and sent post paid, by the Author, for 12 stamps, 1/1 ANHOOD : the CAUSE and CURE of PRE TA. MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions for Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. CURTIS, 15, A . .berniarle-street, Piccadilly,,London. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological , tructurc and Functions of the Reproductive Organs. CHAPTER ll.—Causes of Spermatorrhoca and Impotence; fearly Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER L—A Review of the various Disqualifications 1 Marriage ; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Inftion. CHAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern T reatment of Gonorrhea and Syphilis. The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting aces, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive Lotion. REVIEWS Ole THE WORK. "Curtis on Manhood.--This is a truly valuable work, and should be in the hands of young and old."—" Sunday Times," '3d March, 18.56. "The anthor has conferred a great boon by publishing this tittle work, in which is described the source of those diseases which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature old age."--" Daily Telegraph," March 27, 18 56 . "This work, which for twenty years has stood the test of professional criticism and empirical hostility, treats in a plain and sympathising manner on the various disqualifications and impediments arising from nervous excitement and de bility ; and to invalids suffering from youthful errors and ,xcesses it will be found valuable and useful."—Record. London : Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater noster-row ; Mann, 39, Cornhill. 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He tilled this high office with in creasing reputation, and even more general accept ance, until Lord Palmerston succeeded to power an 1859, when the Biographer of the Lora - Cha33cellors was himself appointed to the.Weolsack; .111 any may -have expected that a Jud ge so l ong prac ti se d in the administration of the Queen's Bench would have felt at a loss in the House of Lords or the Court of Chancery ; but we believe we speak the opinion not only of the Bar, but of all his colleagues of the Bench, when we state our belief that his judgments maintain their authority, and that Lord Camp ,. '.77+ none of the fame as Lord Chancellor which ..e lo,d most justly acquired as Lord Chief Justice. —limes. (From the Morning Herald) oad ufetralesitrrhtehoregret swell-spentto have life,oi n announcew hwhich the thee -two, L c o o r ti d Campbell, prbeeal reaped , e d a t i t n h e age profession f e e i s g s o t n y greatest llnexi) ehPotencl his lavishly betowed upon him. After having risen throughout the various grades of the Bar to the dignity of Lord Chief Just ice of England, and finally t:, the office of Lord Chancellor, the author of the " Lives of the Chancellors" is numbered with the illustrious dead whOSe memory he has perpetuated. The close of such a life leaves, indeed, little cause for regret beyond the immediate circle of his lord ship's friends and acquaintances. All that could be hoped for he had achieved. He has died rich in the respect of h:s countrymen, of all classts and politics, and he has added another to the long list of British worthies who, by their integrity and in dustry, have risen to the highest honours of the State and inscribed their names in the nation's temple of fame. There are those living who can recollect Lord Chancellor Campbell a reporter for the Morning Chronicle; they have seen him selected by the Premier, within the last two years, for the highest post which the Sovereign can bestow. He has died, in fact, in harness, preserving to the last his great intellectual powers undimmed, and main taining to the last the old unflinching firmness and decision of character which illustrated his earlier career. There have been many occasions on which we have been compelled to take opposite views, and animadvert upon the strong political tendencies of the late Lord Campbell. But we have never failed to render justice to his great talents .and his own unswerving integrity. We willingly pay this last tribute of respect to the departed nobleman. EDINBURGH AND GLASGO W BANK WISE. About two months ago a jury trial, lasting seven days, took place at Edinburgh before the Lord Justice Clerk, in which the Rev. David Debbie, Free Church minister of Makerstown, Roxburghshire, prosecuted Sir William Johnston and Mr. G. E. Russell, directors of the late Edinburgh and Glas gow Bank, for repayment of £3,211, paid by him for certain shares of the bank which he purchased in February and March, 1858; the ground of action being alleged false and fraudulent representations on the part of the defenders in making, along with the other directors, a report to the shareholders on the 4th of February, 1858. The trial ended in the jury finding that the representations were false, but not fraudulent, and proposing that the verdict should be returned for the pursuer. The presiding j idge stated that the verdict must be given for the defenders unless fraud as well as falsehood were affirmed, but some of the jury declined to give a verdict for the defenders. The judge then offered to take down the terms of their findings, and leave it to the Court legally to construe them, to which the jury assented. While the judge was receiving the ver dict the court-room was quite empty, for, after three hours' enclosure, the jury had come in and stated that they were disagreed. By Scotch statute, after three hours, a verdict of three-fburths (nine) of the jury may in a civil case be taken, but the jury were more equally divided, and the judge re , manded them to sit for three hours more, by which time the statute would allow them to be discharged, if they were still unable to give a verdict. The judge having appointed the jury to meet him at his residence at the expiry of that period, the large assemblage in the court-room immediately dismissed, and his lordship was on the point of leaving the robing-room, when he received a message from the jury that they were likely immediately to give a verdict. His lordship waited a short time longer, and the proceedings above stated took place in the absence of parties, the pursuer's counsel only coming in at the last moment. In the circumstance the pursuer resolved to apply to the Court for a new trial, and his case was strengthened by an affidavit signed by the foreman and nine others of die jury, to the effect that they meant the verdict to he a verdict for the pursuer, and but for their expec tation that the Court would so apply it they would have gone back and altered their verdict, or allowed discharge to take place. The judges of the Second Division gave judgment on the mo tion for a new trial on Wednesday last. Lord Wood, in a lengthened and elaborate opinion, pointed out that the jury had practically exhausted the issue in finding falsehood, but not fraud; that their at tempt to have the verdict entered for the pursuer was going beyond their province, which was simply to pronounce on the facts, and that, fraud having been negatived, the verdict must be entered for the defenders. As to the absence of pursuer's counsel at the delivery of the verdict, the pursuer, he thought, had suffered no detriment, for the jury had shown no hesitation in negativing fraud ; and, with regard to the affidavit, he was unable to understand how the jury could conscientiously have given a simple verdict for the pursuer with their opinion that fraud was not proved, or could honestly have allowed a discharge to take place when their minds were made up upon the facts. Lords Cowan and Benholme and the Lord Justice Clerk concurred, expressing their belief that the jury had acted under the erroneous impression that it was their duty to decide m ul o w t n iuu th f e uru law as the case. The. new well trial ws the factsastheref of refused.ore A letter from Vienna in the .Nord says :—" The magnates and the young men at Pesth had proposed to give a banquet and a serenade by torchlight to Mr. Dunlop, the Secretary to the British Legation, but the latter requested the originators of the fete not to carry their intentions into effect, as it might be attended with unpleasant consequences to him." THE CIVIL SERVICE ESTIMATES.—An estimate was published yesterday, showing the several civil services for which further votes on account are required for the year ending March, 1862. For the Treasury £lO,OOO is required in this way. For the Foreign Department, £16,000. For the Board of Trade, £15,000. For the Printing and Stationery Offices, the whole estimate for which is £416,218, of which £lOO,OOO has been already voted on account, an additional £50,000 is inw required. For criminal prosecutions in England £20,000 is wanted out of a whole vote of £167,000. For county courts, £BO,OOO, in addition to £lO,OOO already given, out of £200,320. For metropolitan police, £35,000, out of £136,204. For the Irish constabu lary, £25,000 is required, in addition to £160,000 already given, out of £696,974. For education in Great Britain £60,000, in addition to £lOO,OOO out of £803,794. For edu cation in Ireland, £70,000. We have only mentioned a few of the items in a long list. Most of those that remain, how ever, are of comparative small amount. The total amount of the money now required on account is £811,300. THE RAPIDS OF THE SHANNON.—The opening of the Limerick and Castle Connell Railway affords the readiest means of reaching the rapids of the versa, besides the opportunity of viewing oe to which place the Galway from Limerick, or vice Shannon, and the ruins of the new lino is railway is to be extended. country fertile and pleasingly fourteen miles, through a . length of undulating. but without any claims to picturesqueness. Castle • Castle Connell is a little village,deriving its name from Tlihiell ro yal OBriens, erected a t an old castle of th e r ' a very early period. The ruins stand on a conical rock overhanging the river, an d areapproached by a broad gravel path, leading TIP f ro m the village. They consist of the lower' part of a tower, and some broken walls, overgrown with are all the These ivy.r emains of the castle in which the descendants of the renowned Brian Boru once lived, and i n which his grandson was murdered by the Prince of Thomond. Nothing remains of the halls in which the Earl of Ulster once held his court, nothing of the keep in which the Irish partisans of James 11. held out against the Prince of Hesse, by whose orders it was det3troyed with gunpowder, large masses of masonry . scatterod about at testing the force of the explosion. The Shannon is hero for more than a quarter of a mile almost a cataract,. -present ing a scene unparalleled in the United Kingdom. Inglis, than whom there can be no more coinvtent jt of scenery, thus states in what its uniqueness consis is :—lt is only in the streams and rivulets of England thaw t rapids are found; the larger.ivers generally glide smoothly on without impediment from rocks—the Thames,. Trent, Mersey, and Severn, whenthey lose the character of; streams and become rivers, hold a noiseless course, but ti pe Shan non, larger than all the four, here pours that imm else body of water, which above the rapids is 40 feet the' r and 300 yards wide, through and over stones and rocks, •I which ex tend nearly half a mile, and offers not only at a unusual scene, but a spectacle approaching much neat or to the sublime than any moderate-sized stream can c ifD 3r i n its highest cascade. None of the Welsh waterfalls , * nor even the Geisbach in Switzerland, can compare for a, m .oraent in grandeur and effect with the rapids of the Shar ,nor L. Willis compares the scene to the rapids of the St. I ,ayei 'mice, and the most recentliterary touristin Ireland, Dr.. I aodenburgh, was much impressed by its wild grandeuri. —Stir Cusack .ROney'S Xonth in Ireland." SUN, LONDOD:‘, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1861. DEATH OF LORD CHANCELLOR CAMPBELL. The public will sympathise with us in the deep regret with which we announce the sudden death of Lord Chancellor Campbell. He died yesterday morning. He had attended a Cabinet in the course of the day and had entertained a party at dinner on Saturday evening with that keen and hospitable enjoyment of society which always distinguished him. He retired to rest in his accustomed health and spirits, and passed away without giving an alarm. Shortly before eight o'clock yesterday morn ing his servant upon entering his bedroom found him seated in a chair motionless, with his head thrown back and blood oozing from his mouth. Medical aid was immediately in attendance, but he had evidently been dead at least two hours. It is believed that the cause of death was the rupture of one of the great arteries in the region of the heart. One of the most n•)table judges that ever sat in the Court of Queen's Bench—Lord Campbell's in dustry atoned for the want of genius; his intellect reached by good sense to results which ether men attain by subtleratiocination ; his kindness of heart and liberality of sentiment reconciled men to the absence of refinement ; facility of quotation and abundance of amusing anecdote supplied the place of wit; and his language, if neither passionate nor polished, was, at all events, clear and trustworthy. With little that was attractive in his manner, with nothing that was graceful, with everything to re« mind one of the title which at one time he affected of " plain John Campbell," he obtained by energy and determination the highest rank in his profes sion, and he so fulfilled the duties of Lord Chief Justice and of Lord,..Chancellor as to win a name not unworthy to be placed beside those of any of his predecessors whose careers he has described. There is a well-known Scotch proverb—" He that will' to Cupar maun to Cupar"—which connects the place of Lord Campbell's birth with a display of indomitable resolution, and there can be no more fitting illustra tion of that saying (which is precisely the same in spirit as the motto of the family—audacter et aperte) than the history of ate rough Scotch lad who entered college at the age of ten, and who by sheer force of character fought his way up to the House of Peers, where, at the age of four score, he' was as much beyond his years in vigour as in youth he had been before his time in intelligence. Not many men begin life so early as he did ; still fewer end it so late, and very few indeed spend so long a term in equal labour, usefulness, and honour. It is an odd circumstance that Lord Campbell, to whom both as judge and legislator the law of Eng land owes so much, was born at a place which gives its name, " Cupar justice," to the peculiar system of law which hangs a man first and tries him afterwards, and that he had his country residence (Hartrigge house, Roxburghshire) in the neighbourhood of another town which gave the name of " Sedburgh justice" to an equally summary code, the great prin ciple of which is, " Hang all or save all." His family were for several generations settled in the "Kingdom of Fife," as it is called, being a branch of the Campbells of Argyle, through a certain George Campbell who in the troubles of Covenant ing times considerably impaired his fortune by an adherence to his chief, the first Marquis of Argyll, an 4 who finally (1662), after the restoration of the Stuarts, pitched his tent in St. Andrews, becoming proprietor of the estate of Baltulla in the vicinity. The great grandson of this patriarch, and the father of the late Chief Justice, was the Rev. Dr. George Campbell, for 54 years Minister of Cupar. Lord Campbell was greatly attached to him, and it says much both for the influence of the father and for the affection of the son that when the latter was Attorney-General, and his chambers in Paper buildings, Temple, were one night burnt to the ground, all his law books and MSS., together with valuable official documents, being consumed, the loss which he most of al: lamented was that of a collection of letters written to him by his father in a continued series from the time when he left the manse for college until in 1824 the aged pastor had departed this life. Dr. George Campbell married in 1776 a Miss Hallyburton, through whom he became distantly connected oiith several noble familiesamong which deserves to be especially mEntione'l the family of Wedderburn, the Lord Chancellor: By this lady he became the father of five daughters and two sons. One of these daughters married a man of true genius, although his reputation is confined to Scotland, where, however, he is held in high esteem as a poet and as a scholar, the late Dr. Thomas Gil lespie, Professor of Humanity in the University of St. Andrew's. Of the sons, the elder was Sir George Campbell, of Edenwood, who died in 1854. The younger is the subject of the present memoir, and was born at Springfield, near Cupar, September 15, 1781. John Campbell received his first instruction at the grammar school at Cupar, but he was removed at a very early age to the United College of St. Salvator and St. Leonard's in the University of St. Andrew's, with the view of studying for the Church. No man in Scotland can enter into holy ordersunless he has passed through a curriculum of eight years' study, four being devoted to the classics and philo sophy, and four more to theology. But if with such a regulation men went up to the University at the period usual in England, they would be 25 or 26 years old before they had a chance of a living — an arrangement bad enough anywhere, but impos sible in a poor country like Scotland. The conse quence is that the freshmen are often mere boys, who at the end of the University term, which lasts only five continuous months in the year, return home either to be sent back again to school or to study under a private tutor. It was in this way that in November, 1791, Thomas Chalmers entered at the University of St. Andrew's, while not yet 12 years of age, and being, in fact, with but one exception, the youngest student there. That excep tion was John Campbell, who appears to have en tered in the same session, when little more than 10 years of age. In these days the arrangements at St. Andrew's were somewhat different from those now adopted at all the Scottish Universities. The students lived in college and dined at a common table. Till a very recent date the rooms occupied by Chalmers and by Campbell were to be seen, and the visitor in looking at them was reminded of many a wild escapade in which the ingenuous youth of that boisterous period indulged. If, as was most likely, the youngest student in the University cul tivated the acquaintance of the next youngest, he certainly could not have found a more riotous companion than " mad Tam Chalmers." In one respect, if we may trust to tradition, the fellow students were very much alike. To his latest hour Chalmers had a difficulty in speaking without notes; he read his addresses to the society, and used to horrify a Scotch audience by reading not only his sermons, but even his prayers. The tradition with regard to Campbell is that when he had but all com pleted his theological course he was called upon to sa crificed d it h fi b so e r i h n t ; eea c sr u . o s customary a ry prefermentf o r the students in the Divinity Hall to perform this duty by turns, and he so egregiously failed that in a fit of disgust he sa uess for clerical duty, working and determined to study for the h assigned about this time powerfauel true one is, changeprobabl w t Other i r n e g a reasons have he r w i a t l h s also n am bition been of his intentions ; but the for distinction 'Whigs. The feeling ltyi deep-rooted affe cted t h s e e sense n o gf Scot tishunfit the English bar which century. studies for N ot w h w h ith which a Scotchmen r s ant b a ar t i t s he v b er e y gir d th iff in e g ren n t f i e n sel days, f e ne over then, it is d tr a ue, every young from the views of an E as a n s g pi y a seatedon the n th o e w atthear of Westrnm a ner a tai o n ve the y. Scotchmen seemed lawyer woolsack hopes butes t o n fi find o h s pres tige ei er : Os a e r ea , chancesr rasecdotttni sbhe: o na f tat t ta h i on e bn profession,attached it to be carrying off more than their due share of the hi g hest legal honours. It stirred their bl oo d t o see one of their own people (for, although Mansfield was educated in England from a child, he was still by birth a fellow - country m a n ) Lord Chief Justice of the Kin's Bench. The elevation of Wedderburn to the Chancellorship " reminded the Scottish youth"—to use the words of Campbell, himself a cousin of Wedderburn—" that if they co u ld n o longer hope to rival the fame of Belhaven or Fletcher of Saltoun in their own land, and if the decrees of their supreme court were to be subjected to revision in the British Houle of Lords, loftier objects of ambition were presented to them than to their forefathers, and that they may enjoy the power and eclipse the fame of a Somers pr a Hardwicke." Erskine, who had studied at Campbell's own college, and who, indeed, was a school and class fellow of Campbell's father, was in all his glory, a predestined Chancellor; and Macintosh had won great renown for the vigour with which, in defence of the French Revolution, he had i roken a lance with no less a man than Edmund Burke. Such examples roused the ambition of the Scottish youth; and arnong a crowd of eager competitors we note two in particu lar who preferred the bar of Westminster to that of Edinburgh. Both were connected, either by the tie of friendship or by the tie of relationship, with Prin cipal Robertson, who up to that time had done more than any man to identify the intellectual aspirations of Scotchmen with those of Englishmen. One of these was Henry Brougham, who had actually entered at the Scottish bar; the other was John Campbell, who went straight to London from St. Andrew's, and whose ambition, after long waiting, was to be gratified by becoming first Lord Chief Justice and finally Lord Chancellor of England. When Wedderburn left Edinburgh for London in 1757 the journey occupied six days. " When I first reached London," says Campbell, " I performed the same journey in three nights and two days, Mr. Palmer's mail coaches being then established; but this swift travelling was considered dangerous as well as wonderful, and I - was gravely advised to stay a day at York, as several passengers who had gone through without stopping had died of apoplexy from the rapidity of the motion," It is not difficult to imagine this ungainly Scotch lad, with his broad Fifeshire dialect, making his way through London, and delivering letters of introduction to his fellow-countrymen, who cling to each other so tenaciously all over the world. Young Campbell is a thorough-going Scot, and, what is , more, a thorough-going clansman. He is a " Cawmell," Macallumore is his chieftain, and anything dero gatory to the name of Campbell is wormwood to his soul. To the very last he never lost this cha racteristic, and one is amused on looking through his "Lives of the Chancellors" to see the pride of the clansman continually breaking forth. He is "sorry to say" that a certain jury were all Campbells; he is at a loss to understand how in the rebellion of 1745 all the wit, all the poetry, all the good tunes, and all the good songs, " with the exception of The Campbells are Coming," were on the side of the Jacobites ; he is distressed to think that the Massacre of Glencoe has brought infamy on the house of Campbell; and, after noting that the Irish House of Lords had committed a John Campbell to prison for breach of privilege, he announces with exultation—" My clansman was released." Accord ingly his associates in London were those Scotch Whigs to whom the name of Campbell had a fine Presbyterian flavour. He very soon joined a club of Sons of the Clergy of the Church of Scotland, of whom Sergeant Spaekie and Wilkie, the painter, were members, the sentiment which bound them together being expressed by Wilkie in words which Campbell delighted to quote long afterwards when he was raised to the British peerage—" Born in the manse we have all a patent of nobility.' To Wilkie he was related by a double bond, for not only was the painter's birthplace, Cults, quite close to Camp bell's birthplace, Cupar, but also the painter's wife, the beautiful Mary Campbell, was an aunt of "plain John's." To Sergeant Spankie, then editor of the Morning Chronicle, he was indebted for an appoint ment on that. newspaper, by which he became a reporter and theatrical critic. We believe that he held the office of theatrical critic on that journal even so late as 1810. Probably he was thinking very much of his own experience when in writing the life of Wedderburn he pointed out how great muAt hive been the influence of the green-room in assisting the future Chancellor to get rid of his Doric accent, and when he summed up the results of his attempts to attain a Southern pronunciation in an exhortation to his young countrymen to beware of clippi(ig the Queen's English. To the same ex perience we are to refer the very frequent allusions to the stage, and to the incidents not of dramatic literature in general, but always of acting plays which occur throughout his writings. The young son of a Scotch clergyman seems to have taken very kindly to the drama, which is the great bugbear of Puritan divines; and the young Scotch Whig still fur ther showed his freedom from prejudice by so far vio lating the principles of his party as to indulge in war like aspirations.. He joined .that gallant,corps, the 8.1. C. A.—the Bloomsbury and Inns of Court Asso ciation—a body of volunteers which, like the rival corps, the Temple Light Infantry, er Devil's Own, consisted of barristers, attorneys, law students, and clerks. It wa.4 not for these pursuits, however, that Campbell had come to the great metropolis. He had come to study law. The club gave him friend ship, the regiment gave him excitement, the news paper gave him pay, but the law was to be his pro fession, and by the law he was to rise. Imme diately, therefore (November, 1800), he entered himself a student of Lincoln's-inn, and began to study the mysteries of special pleading, under the guidance of Mr. Tidd, through whom he traced his legal pedigree up to the celebrated TOW Warren, father of this wondrous art. Tom Warren begat Serjeant Runnington, Serjeant Runnington begat Tidd, Tidd begat Campbell, and Campbell begat Dundas and Vaughan Williams. "Tidd," writes his grateful pupil, " lived to see four sons Lynd hurst, Lord Denman, Lord Cottenham, and Lord Campbell. T o th e unspeakable a d vantage of hay- sitting together in the R ouse o f Lords—Lord tog been three y e a rs that when at th e en d of him a second fee of b 100 guineas he that it would n o t b e success at the bar. I have henet h e e discovered yr o e v fe e s r e ed d t t o h etake finesta second,an analytical lyti a l head, and if he had devoted quite insisted on returning me the first. Of all the ui. his te m y pupil l e p g n i v r l r e es l a n ticehni teyear pridefifnyr me i n as r c e r c i t o b n r e recording himself to sciencec I lawyers atns l ur h e av t e ha e t ve h r but s known world hhe had av e earned great f ame and his manners as a discoverer. His disposition male him universally beloved." Campbell, always egotistical, was in later years fond of dwelling on the difficulties which he had to surmount in early life, and filled the footnotes of his biographical writings With anecdotes illustrative of his career. In thi s h s Si a n Y coln's-inn Hall, where, we vividly see him e ating his first din ner i n after a long silence at rness, a brother student, offers wishing to be sociable, to break the por tentous pause by addressing t h e c b . young ~cotcuman, " Pray, Sir, what is your opunon of the scintilla paris r The silence having thus been broken, the associates strike up an acquaintance, and amicably proceed to enliven their d inner by a discussion with regard to the feeding o f uses. Campbell has scarcely entered Lincoln's-inn when 4 rumour spreads that Lord Thurlow, after a long absence from Parlia ment, would on a certain nigh appear in the House of Lords to deliver a speech oa a Divorce Bill, by which, for the first time, it wts proposed to dissolve ' the marriage tie at the instance of the wife, the hus- , band in this case having been Roved guilty of incest. All the great lawyers present were intent on reject ing the measure, but Thullow, in a powerful speech, converted them. to hiE4 views, the Bill was assed, and established a Precedent in cases of similar aggravation. The scene made a profoun d impression on young Campbell, who, at a later period of life, recalling to his recollection the ap pearance of the great Chancellor " bent with age, dressed in an o:d•fashioned gra, coat, with breeches and gaiters of the same stuff, %brown scratch wig, tremendous white bushy eyebrows, eyes still spark ling with intelligence, dreadful crowsfeet round them, very deep lines in his countenance, and shrivelled complexion of a sallo w hue,,, exclaimed in an access of legal enthusian " Virgilium vidi tantum." ss and a pleasure, and T h a u making law at the samet i b m o e t h educating a busp . i business his powers and adding to his means by visil the theatres and writing for the press, Campbel was called to the bar in Michaelmas Term, 1806. He travelled the Oxford Circuit, where he soon c6tained consider able practice, and where he fo Itned an intimate acquaintance with the late Justic e T a lf our d, w h o had a certain sympathy with him in his admira tion of the dramatic art. But it was t o hi s Lon don business that he chiefly look e d f or advance ment in his profession, and it mi st b e con f esse d that he pushed his way in a manner the most original. In one of his biographies remarks of Pratt that he 'zpersevered for eight or n i ne years , but not inviting attorneys to dine wi t h hi m , an d never dancing with their daughters, his practice did not improve." 'Whether Campbell cultivated cultivated the for this purpose the arts of dining and dancing we do not know, but he certainly acquaintance of the attorneys, and in a way pecu liarly his own. Between 1809 and 1816 he pub lished a series of reports at Zisi Prius, extending to four vol umes , w hich are' mos! valuabl e i n t h emselves, but which were of especial interest to the attorneys who had been engaged l in any of the cases recorded, linasmuch as for the first tim e in the history of such reporting he had at the ens of each decisi on s tat e d the names of those attorneyl who had to do with the leadilv solicitors, obtained ti large practice, and was retained, EIB a mat ter of course, in shipping cases and in nearly every important cause tried before a special jury at the Guildhall sittings. Apart, how ever, from the popularity of these volumes among the attorneys, they were held in still wider estima. tion as the admirably-reptlrted decisions of Lord Fdlenborough ; and Campbell took credit to himself for having in some degree created the reputation of that lawyer. " When I was a Nisi Prins reporter," he said, " I had a drawer marked ' Bad Law,' into which I threw all the cases which seemed to me improperlyruled: I was flattered to hear Sir James Mansfield, C.J., say, Whoever reads Campbell's reports must be astonished to find how uniformly Lord Ellenborough's decisions were right.' My re ected cases, which I had kept as a curiosity—not maliciously —were all burnt in the great fire in the Temple when I was Attorney-General." In this way John Campbell plodded on laboriously from year to year, extending his practice, but, under the stern rule of Lord Eldon, attaining to none of the honours of his profession, although long before •the retirement of that Chancellor he was the leader of the Oxford Circuit. There is but one incident to break the monotony of his labour. In 1821 he married Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir James Scarlett, afterwards Lord Abinger, a lady who in addition to other attractions had this most important one in the eyes of a Campbell, that she wore the Campbell tartan—her mother having been a maiden of the clan, the third daughter of Mr. Peter Campbell, of Kilmorey, in Argyllshire. It was probably due very much to the influence of Sir James Scarlett that in 1827 John Campbell at length obtained the honour of a silk gown and a seat within the bar. That was the year in which the Coalition Ministry, headed by Canning, came into power ; Sir James Scarlett was Attorney-General, and Lord Lyndhurst appointed as King's Counsel a con siderable batch, which, irrespective of politics, was intended to include every barrister who had a fair claim to this distinction, Mr. Denman being the only name of importance that was excepted. From this time forward the Whigs gradually increased in power, and Campbell determined to improve his chances by trying for a seat in Parliament. He accordingly presented himself in 1830 to the electors of Stafford, to whom he was introduced by his rela tive Major Scarlett. The result of the contest was that Campbell stood second on the poll, and accord ingly represented Stafford during 1830 and 1831. In November, 1832, he was appointed Solicitor- General, and in the following month was returned by Dudley as its member in that reformed Parlia ment the election of which was, in Lord Eldon's view to seal the doom of the nation. One has a vivid idea of the bigoted but kindly old Chancellor, and the vast good humour of the Solicitor-General in his new honours—which, if Lord Eldon had had his way, he would never have reached—through an anecdote related by Lord Campbell himself. Eldon and his son are walking in Piccadilly, when some one drives past them in a cabriolet, takes off his hat and makes a low bow. " Who is that who treats me with respect now I am nobody ?" inquires Lord Eldon. His son replies, "It is Sir John Campbell, the Whig Solicitor-General." "I wonder what they would have said of me," exclaimed the ex-Chancel lor, " if I had driven about in a cabriolet when I was Solicitor-General ?" " I will tell you what they would have said,—" There goes the greatest lawyer and the worst whip in all England." Sir John Campbell was appointed Attorney-Gene ral in February, 1834, on the retirement of Sir Williem Horne; but, unfortunately, on presenting himself in the same month to his constituents at Dudley for re-election he was unseated. By the appointment of Francis Jeffrey, however, as a Lord of Session, a vacancy was shortly afterwards created in the representation of Edinburgh; in the June following Sir John Campbell was elected in the place of that distinguished reviewer, and continued member for the Modern Athens until his elevation to the peerage in 1841. The most enduring ser vice which Sir John Campbell rendered to the country during the period of his Attorney- Generalship was the inauguration of a a eries of legal reforms, which year by year have become more and more important, and which in the progress of revi sion and consolidation Campbell fostered to the utmost of his power. lie, for example, introduced an Act, called Lord Campbell's Act, for the amend ment of the law of libel asit affects newspapers, by which the proprietor is permitted to pay a small sum into court, and to escape further damages by proving both that the libel had appeared without malice end that it was followed by the insertion of an apology. To another measure of not less im portance he was urged by the case of the Duke of Cadaval, who was arrested on a false affidavit for a debt which he did not owe ; and accordingly he in troduced a bill to limit the powers of arrest, requir ing fee judge to be satisfied on oath before the order is issued, and permitting the defendant, when ar rested, to dispute the plaintiff's affidavit, and so obtain liberation. When rendering these solid ser vices to the public, a lustre was imparted to his career as a barrister by certain very important cases which were tried during his Attorney-Generalship. In the prosecution of Lord Cardigan before the House of Peers for shooting Captain Tuckett—in which case the House of Lords sat as a criminal court for the first time since the trial, 64 years pre viously (1776), of the Duchess of Kingston for bigamy—he failed, but failed so completely that those who knew Sir John Campbell's diligence and careful accuracy, and had observed the wonderful tenderness to the accused Earl displayed in his opening address, charged him with intentional failure. Immediately on the closing of the case for the prosecution, Sir Wm. Follett, whom no technical lapse could escape, coolly rose and pointed out that the prosecution had neglected to establish an import ant fact—a fact which nobody really doubted, which could most easily have been proved, but which was essential to a conviction—namely, that the person engaged with Lord Cardigan in the duel was named Harvey Garnett Phipps Tuckett, as alleged in the indictment, or that a Captain Harvey Gar nett Phipps Tuckett was on Wimbledon-common at all on the day of the duel. The result was that the case broke down, and Lord Cardigan was pronounced not guilty, without being called upon for his defence. Sir John Campbell was not more successful in vindicating the privileges of the House of Commons in the celebrated case of "Hansard v. Stockdale," an action brought against the priutar of the House of Commons for a libel contained in some papers printed by order of the house ; bat the speech delivered by him on this occasion may be regarded as a very complete treatise on Parliamentary privilege. The most celebrated of all his forensic displays, however, was the defence of Lord Melbourne in the action for damages raised by. Mr. Norton—an action of the more importance from the fact that the cha racter of the Prime Minister, and to some extent the stability of his Cabinet, depended on the issue of the trial. Sir John Campbell successfully re butted the charge, and proved the utter ground lessness of the imputation that had been cast on the lady. After a long day's sitting, the jury unhesitatingly gave their verdict in her favour at 9 o'clock that night, and Sir John Campbell, as he entered the House of Commons near midnight, was rewarded by the cheers of the members pre-- sent. In a moment of leisure, which soon came to him, he published his speeches as Attorney- General, and placed this one in defence of Mrs. Norton at the commencement of the series. There is nothing remarkable about it save the extraor dinary calmness with which Sir John Campbell could handle such a subject. The publication of these speeches was a very harmless exhibition of vanity, at which his friends made merry. "If Campbell, said Perry of the Morning Chronicle, " had engaged as an opera dancer, I do not say he would have danced as well as Deshays, but I feel confident he would have got a larger salary." Perry's remark, however, seemed not to hold good when Campbell was appointed Attorney-Gene ral. Whatever his qualifications for that post, it certainly did not seem that he was likely to get too many of the good things which belong to it. Pepys was appointed over his head to the Mastership of the Rolls, and then Bickersteth was as Lord Lang dale elevated to the same office when Lord Cotten ham was raised to the woolsack. The nomination of Bickersteth to the Rolls seemed at first scarcely credible, and Lord Melbourne certainly had great difficulty to encounter in passing over the claims of the Attorney-General, the chief obstacle to whose preferment was that he was not an equity lawyer. Campbell, however, gave way ; the Cabinet ex pressed their sense of his generosity by raising Lady Campbell to the peerage in her own right under the title of Baroness Stratheden, and "H. B." illustrated the transaction in a Sketch of the Serpent tempting Eve, and Eve tempting Adam, with a coronet for an apple, in the garden of (Strath) Eden. This was in January, 1836, and for five years more Sir John Campbell waited apparently without the prospect of a rise. Sir John Campbell, however, was not to be trifled with, and the Whigs saw the necessity of providing for him in some way, especially as they felt they might soon have no opportunity of serving him. A bill was therefore projected " for Facilitating the Administration of Justice in Equity," by which he would be raised to the peerage. The Opposition -~, .;. ' _ PRICE 4D . STAMPED; 51) had no objection to the principle of the bill, but they deemed it unwise to give a falling Government the appointments which it would necessarily create, and they refused to let the measure come into ope ration until the following October, when a new,Par liament would assemble. The bill was therefore withdrawn, and there seemed every likelihoo the Attorney, General would be left t!!e along with the Cabinet, especially since—beyonu doing the Scottish metropolis the honour of calling his youngest daughter after it, Edina, as he had in like manner in 1838 done Dudley the honour of naming his youngest son after that town—he had taken no precautions to secure his re-election for Edinburgh. In this difficulty the Irish Chancellor was consulted, in the hope that the w oul resign, but Lord Plunkett declared with some spirit that he would be no party to an arrangement by which an English barrister was to be placed at the head of the legal profession in Ireland, and a common law barrister rendered supreme in equity. He was per suaded, however, to retire ; and towards the end of June, 1841, Campbell was raised to the peerage and to the Irish Chancellorship. He did not retain his office long. He did not sit in Court, we believe, more than a day, or two days at most ; he left Ire land before the month was out, and in the Septem ber following he resigned with the Melbourne Ministry. He retained the title and a pension of £4,000 a-year, but he declined the pecuniary reward and lived for the next five years without office, pro fession, salary, or pension. " Several Englishmen," wrote Lord Campbell, inone of the numerous notes which he affixed to his writings, " owe their distinction as authors to their crosses as politicians. If my "Lives of the Chan cellors" gain any celebrity my humble name may be added to the class adorned by Clarendon and Bolingbroke. I shall then be highly contented with my lot. Ido not undervalue great judicial reputation, but I would rather have written Hyde's character of Falkland than have pronounced the most celebrated judgments of Lord Hardwicke or Lord Eldon." Lord Campbell's active mind could not rest satisfied without emPloyment. He fre quently took a lading part in the debates of the House of Lords, and in particular threw off his superfluous energy in duels with Lord Brougham. But these exercitations were not sufficient, and he recurred to those literary pursuits which in early life had helped so materially to form his mind and to advance his views. Revelling in the resumption of classical studies and in the perusal of modern authors, "by degrees I began to perceive the want of a definite object," he says, " I recollected what Lord Coke and Lord Bacon say of the debt due from every successful lawyer to his profession ; and I felt within me a revival of the aspiration after literary fame which in my most busy days I was never able entirely to extinguish. Having amused myself with revising for the press a selection of my speeches at the bar and in the House of Commons, I resolved to write the Lives of the Chancellors.' The first series of these biographies was published early in 1846, and th e wor became immediately popular. The success, indeed, with which Lord Campbell had portrayed successive Chancellors was rather startling to those who were not acquainted with his previous literary training, who saw in him only a practical lawyer, and who had overlooked the Scotchman's natural aptitude for biography. It is generally supposed that the Scotch are eminently metaphysical. It is a great mistake. There is not a Scotch philosopher of eminence who has not spent his life in proving that metaphysics is an impossible study. Scottish philosophy is nothing in the world but psychology —nothing but a natural history of the human mind. Every student who passes through the Scottish Universities has to study this subject most elaborately; it is the great study of his college life, in the same way as the classics and mathematics have the same pre-eminence at Oxford and Cm bridge ; and it is evidently the best preparative for biography or the history o l individual minds. In this department of literature, accordingly, which, simple as it may appear, contains perhaps more examples of conspicuous failure in proportion to the number of those who devote themselves to it than any other, Scottish writers have fairly out stripped their English competitors. Boswell's Life of Johnson is confessedly the best biography in the language; Lockhart's Life of Scott is probably the second best; and Lord Campbell, in his rough but ready style, has given additional proof of the na tional talent in this direction, a talent by the way which is not only developed by the training of the University, but which is immensely aided by that estimation of clanship and that love for genealogical detail which seems to be more or less inherent in all Seotchmen, and which actuated the late Chief Justice very powerfully. The Lives of the Chan cellors indeed, and th e s u b sequen t se ri e s of Liv e s of the ( hief Justices must not be regarded as finished specimens of biography. With all its vigour and vivacity the style is as unkempt as it can well'be; Lord Campbell is palpably before us, not in robe and wig, but in dressing-gown and slippers. Every page has its notes, and there are notes to the notes. Not only in the notes but in the text he is continu ally referring to himself; to his speeches, to the Acts of Parliament identified with his name, to the incidents of his life, to his private opinions, in a manner which is not unwelcome, but very un artistic. Worse than this, there is something of the " School for Scandal" in these biographies. While smiling very complacently on his friends and prede cessors, Lord Campbell has displayed not a little of Mrs. Candour's art in tearing their characters to pieces with the utmost kindness ; he has in several instances not been at sufficient pains to authenticate his facts, being apparently more anxious to enjoy the joke of the circuit and to give point to his sen tences than to find the truth or to save a friend ; while for much of the information with which his volumes abound it has been stated, and we be lieve with some justice, that he has been indebted to sources which he ought to have more fully acknowledged. With all its defects, however, moral and critical, the portraiture in these volumes is sharp and lifelike; there is very little of what he called " flummery" in his observations ; every page is full of interesting matter, displaying immense stores of information at once various and minute, while he deserves credit for the impartiality with which on the whole he has appreciated the characters and acts of politicians differing from him in opinion. The subject was most happilychosen, and the work has been executed with an ability which precludes any future biographer from lightly attempting the same theme. Probably, in the choice of his subject Lord Camp bell had an eye to the Chancellorship, and when Lord John Russell's Cabinet was formed in 1846 it was expected that he would obtain the Great Seal. Lord John Russell, however, offered to Lord Camp bell only the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lan caster—a post which he hesitated to accept until the Premier overcame his scruples by saying, " Remem ber, the office has been held by Sir Thomas More and by Dunning." His seat in the Cabinet, however, scarcely interrupted his literary pursuits, and, in fact during his lease of office he published several volumes of his biographical series. His leisure was not seriously invaded until Lord Denman, early in 1850, retired from the Chief Justiceship of the Queen's Bench, when Lord Campbell was appointed to reign in his stead. Even this appointment was cavilled at. Lord Denman had a noble presence and a dignified eloquence, looked every inch a judge, and, though not a great lawyer, mad e his cffice respected. Lord Campbell was certainly not of a commanding address; his language was homely, and his judicial faculty was almost un tried. To his honour it must - be recorded that with few natural advantages in his favour he very soon proved to be superior even to his more fortu nate predecessor. He did not fail to maintain the dignity of his office; he was not less alive than Lord Denman to popular sympathies, and inhe was a more profound lawyer. His conduct, too,.those te great criminal trials in which the direction oef hash presiding judge is of the highest importance, nee been worthy of the bench on which he sat.i suited the argument of Horne speaklooketo function is judge in a jury trial as an o . fficer whoserely of the to preserve like that of the common crier, order. At a trial like that of themneoftaor j i u o d u g s Palmer such a view of the dutiteasi e, if ever oon:fd,thwosoouledas haveeeases f for a moment seriously entertained, been rudely shaken. It w w hi a c so coul , d , leave not the circumstantial evidence nu s guilt on the shadow of a doubt of th b e t pri u avery strong attempt mind of any juryman; might be that, however clear made to prove our was assurance with regard to the murder and the murderer, still the legal evidence was incomplete, and that Palmer ought to have the benefit of the lapse in the argument. The case was removed from Stafford to be tried before Lord Campbell at the Old Bailey, where it was exp ec t e d that the prisoner would obtain better law and a f a i rer field. The Crown prosecution was conducted by the Attorney- General in person. Great as was the praise wh i c h Sir A. Cockburn justly reaped on this occasion, to none engaged upon the trial was its satisfactory result more due than to Lord Campbell, who, un awed by the opposition which the friends of Palmer attempted to raise and the confidence which they expressed, overruled. their frivolous objections, and ÜBL ICAIION S. 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