The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-29 00:00:00

THE NEW LORD AMPTHILL.

The elevation of the Right Hon. Baron Parke
to the House of Peers by the title of Baron Ampt-
hill has been announced, and will probably be pub-
lished officially in the new Gazette. His lordship
is the youngest son of the late Mr. Thomas Parke,
of Highfield, near Liverpool, who, we believe, was
a merchant of that place, by a daughter of Mr.
William Preston. He was born in 1782, and in
1817 married Cecilia, daughter of Mr. Samuel F.
Barlow of Middlethorpe, Yorkshire. He was edu-
cated at Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he
was elected a Scholar in 1800, aid graduated B.A.
in 1803 as ith Wrangler and Senior Chancellor's
Medallist, in the same year with Professor Pryme,
the late Mr. Justice Coltman, and Dr. Davys, the
present Bishop of Peterborough. For some time
after taking his degree he remained in residence in
the University, and was elected Fellow of Trinity
in the folloyiig year. He was not called to the
bar until some 10 years later, his name appearing
among those called_ at the Inner Temple in Easter
Term, in 18).3. His steady and persevering indus-
try here broughthim early into notice, and business
flowed in upon him. with sufficient rapidity to war-
raat him in imotnag his fellowship at Trinity by
marriage, as we have said above, within four years
after he became a member of the bar. Henceforth
his rise was rapid. In 1828 we find him pro-
moted to the bench as one of the puisne judges of
the King's Bench, on the death of Sir George S.
Holroyd, from which he was transferred to the
Court of Exchequer in 1834, 'in the place of the
late Barn Taunton. It does not appear that Lord
Ampthill ever rose to the bench through the in-
King's Serjeant, or " one of
learned in the law." He
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counsel,
never held the office of Attorney-General or Soli-
citor-General, and never occupied a seat in Parlia-
ment. His lordship has long been the oldest judge
upon the bench, from which he might have retired
many years ago with the usual pension, had he
been less activelyjand laboriously inclined. As it is
he has the experience of 28 years on the judicial
bench to carry with him to the assistance of the
bew Lords in the Upper House, who are now only
five in number—viz., Lords Lyndhurst, Brougham,
Campbell, Cranworth, and St. Leonards—and to
whom his assistance will be peculiarly valuable.
The newly-created peer has no male issue, his lord-
ship's only surviving child being a daughter, who
is married and resides in Bedfordshire. The park
of Amptill belonged to the late Lord Carteret,
and is still the property of the Thynne family ;
and it is not a little singular that Baron Parke
should have chosen his title from a place with
which, though rich in historical associations as
the residence of Queen Catherine, the first wife
of Henry VIII., he has, we believe, no more
permanent connexion than a temporary lease o
the mansion.—Times.

RAISING OF THE BLOCKADE IN THE
BALTIC.

(Fgeot the Gazette of last Evening.)
FOREIGN OFFICE, DEC. 28.

It is hereby notified that the Right Honourable the
Earl of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's Principal Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received from the
Lords Commission/Ica of the Admiralty, an official com-
munication, stating that i& appears by a report from
Rear-Admiral Baines, dated "11.3,1.'8 steam-vessel Re•
tribution, Copenhagen, Dec. 12, 1855," that the block-
ade of all ports, roads, havens, and creeks, belonging to
the enemy in the Baltic, was entirely raised on the 10th
inst.