The Press.
London, England, 1857-01-31 00:00:00

Obituarn.

THE PRINCESS De LLEVEN well known in the poli.
tical salons of Europe, died at Paris on Monday
night last from acute bronchitis.

Mn. BARON ALDERSON died at his residence in
Park• crescent on Tuesday afternoon, in his seventieth
year. The Hon. Sir Edward Hall Alderson, Baron of
her 3lajesty's Court of Exchequer, was the eldest
son of the late Mr. Robert Alderson, barrister at-
law and Recorder of Norwich, by the daughter of
Mr. Samuel Hurry, of Great Yarmouth, where he
was born in the year 1787. Having received his
early education at the Charterhouse, then under Dr.
Matthew Raine, he proceeded to Caius College,
Cambridge, where he closed a brilliant career as an
undergracivate by taking his degree in January,
1809, as Senior Wrangler and Smith's prizeman, and
Senior Chancellor's Medallist; thus obtaining the all
but singular reward of the very highest honours
which that university has to bestow for classical and
mathematical attainments. In the following year
Mr. Alderson was elected a fellow of his college, and
in 1812 he proceeded to take his degree as Master of
Arts. He had been already called to the bar of the
Inner Temple in the preceding year, and for several
years went the Northern Circuit. Ho became well
known in his profession by editing, in conjunction
with Mr. Barnewall, five volumes of reports of cases
heard in the Court of King's Bench between 1815
and 1820, which form part of the standard classical
series of law reports of that court, and which were
afterwards continued by Mr. Justice Cresswell. He
never held a seat in Parliament, but perhaps on that
very account had leisure to earn even a higher
reputation as a legal junior, and to secure a very ex-
tensive practice as a chamber counsel. W still
wearing a stuff gown, he was promoted, by Lord
Lyndhurst, in 1830, to the Court of Common Pleas

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as an additional puisne judge (Mr. Justice Patteson
and the late Baron Taunton being his companions
in the elevation) ; and on that occasion lie received
the honour of knighthood. He was transferred from
that court, however, in 1834 to a puisne judgeship in
the Court of Exchequer, where for many years he
was second to the late Mr. Baron Patke. They
were the two great legal luminaries of that court, and
they delivered judgment in many important cases
with great learning. Among others, the Turf,
Gorham, and Salomons gees. Baron Alderson bore
in his profession the character of a careful, learned,
and conscientious judge. His intercourse with
the members of the bar was uniformly courteous
and friendly, and his good humour and wit made
him generally popular. In 1823 he married the
youngest daughter of the Rev. Edward Drewe, of
Broadhembury, in the county of Devon, by whom he
had a large family.

Da. V.H. MEuticasr, the late eminent missionary
to China, died last Saturday night at his lodgings in
Pimlico. His age was sixty-one. Dr. bledhurst was
first appointed to China in 1816, and had conse-
quently spent forty years in that important portion
of the missionary field. After residing at Malacca
and Penang for several years, he settled at Batavia.
In 1835 he was called upon to undertake a journey
along the south east coast of China, with a
view to ascertain how far the country might be
open to the reception of the Gospel. Many of
our readers will remember the striking narra-
tive, " China ; its State and Prospects, with special
reference to the Spread of the Gospel." It compre-
hends a succinct, yet most interesting account of that
marvellous country and people, their antiquity,
manners, literature, and religion ; and it also con-
tains some notices of the more ancient, as well as a
fuller account of the more recent, labours of I'rotes-
taut missionaries, and affords ample proof of the
writer's title to the confidence of the great society as
its leading representative in China.