The Press.
London, England, 1854-09-30 00:00:00

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.

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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 'tench,
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 Sept,
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 considerable 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.