The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-12 00:00:00

THEATIS E ROYAL HAYMARKET._
s ole Lessee and Manager, Mr, fiurkstone.
.rgIS +NEI ING, FINESSE; or, Spy and counter Sny :
'Mr. Alfred N'? roan, Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Chippendale, Mr.
Howe, Mr. W.. Farren ; Mrs. Dowton, Miss L. Angel, Mrs.
Alfred Wiga,a, F. Wright, &c.
After whi.:ll , CHARLES THE TWELFTH : Messrs. A.
Wigan, Bucks tone, Compton, Howe, and Miss L Keeley.
Concluding with TIIE GALLICIAN FETE.

NEW 'THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole P: ronrletor and Manager, Win B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, at 7, TIIE TRAGEDY QUEEN Mrs.
cling.
At 8, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported
by Messrs.Artliur Stirling, R. Phillips, Billington, Stuart,
A. Wood, Eburne, Miss IL Simms and Mrs. Billington.
To conclude with CATCHING AN HEIRES
s . Aries
Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood.

BATENIAN.—LEAH.—The celebrated
_1 young American Actress, Miss BATEMAN; having
on her first appearance in the New Drama of LI,Ali ob-
tained the most triumphant and enthusiastic success that has
been wi nessed for many years, and the profound impression
created by her impersonation of the character of LEAH upon
a c owded audience htt.vin, been completely ratified by the
unanimous verdict and critical approval ot the enttre Daily
Press, the Manager of the NEW ADELrIII THEATRE has
14.'MAN will appear
the honour to announce that 31 est BAT
in the New Drama of LEA-U EVERY EVENING till f urther
notice.

O STRAND THEATRE.
-
W H. Swanborough.
Manager, •
THIS EVENING Cid time) MIRIAM' -A CRIME. 3fessrs.
Honey, Farselle, Belford, Turner, Miss K. Saville, and Miss
Menders.
INIOTTO, " I'M ALL THERE." Messrs.
Followed by THE
E. Dall.vers, Collier, Mesdames Ada
Honey, Turner, Turner,
borough, F. liughes, estop, Thorne, Wallace, and Jenny
White.
To conclude with WHERE'S YOUR WIFE. Mr. Belford.
Commence at 7.

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THERMOMETER.
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Barometer-29.54.
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LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 12, 1863.

Another of our great public characters has
within the last few hours passed away from the
midst of us. The illustrious ex-Chancellor, Lord
LYNDHURST, who expired at five minutes to three
o'clock this morning, has added another famous
name to the fast-increasing list of celebrated persons
of whom the Obituary of 1863 will have to take
note. Scarcely have we learnt from Florence of the
death, at a ripe old age, of Mrs. TROLLOPE,
the popular novelist scarcely have we re-
ceived the like tidings from Dublin, announc-
ing to us the close of the long career
of Archbishop WHATELY, the profoundest of all
modern logicians, when a third renown of a very
different character to either of those,suddenly drifts,
as they have done, from the present into the past.
As a living presence, familiar enough to the last
three generations—to the first as a gifted counsel
at the bar, to the second as a distinguished judge
upon the bench, and thrice occupant oZ the wool-
sack as Lord High Chancellor, to ourselves, more
recently and immediately, as the -NESTOR of
the House of Lords—Baron LYNDHURST, now that
be has abruptly disappeared from the public scene,
will long be missed from among the chief actors
grouped upon it, ho will for a certainty be very
long held by his late contemporaries in their most
honourable remembrance. Hie once handsome and
of late venerable appearance is recognisable conspi-
cuously, so to speak, in:the retrospect, when regard-
ing that public scene as it extends back in perspec-
tive through the long vista of the last three reigns—
the third and last of those reigns being, thanks
to Heaven! still (as we trust it will yet continue
to be for many long years to come) incomplete.
Prominently visible in the foremost rank among
the historical personages who graced the reigns of
King GEORGE the Fourth, of King WILLIAM the
Fourth, and of onr beloved and most gracious Sove-
reign, was the noble and learned peer of the realm
just now deceased. Born upwards of ninety-one
years ago, in the city of Boston, Massachusetts,
JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, notable for some years as
Sir JOHN COPLEY, renowned for a great many more
years as Lord LYNDHURST, contrived to fix public
attenticn upon himself, upon his sayings and doings,
as continuously almost as conspicuously during the
chief part of the interval which has elapsed between
the 21st of May, 1712, the date of his birth, and
this very day, the 12th of October, 1863, henceforth
memorable in his biography as the date of his
demise. The principal phases of his career--re-
markable in themselves when viewed sepa-
rately—are strange indeed when scanned as
a connected series, when regarded, that is
to say, as a diversified but homogeneous
-whole- An American loyalist by birth, the
deceased ex-Chancellor, at the outset of his career,
had distinct and undeniable proclivities towards
that ultra-liberalism which was born of the Revo-
lution. It was during the earlier period of his pro-
fessional advancement that his opinions became so
far modified that they gradually (at first almost im-
percetably, but at length quite recognizably) pre-
pared the way for others more suitable to the future
Tory Lord Chancellor. Beginning his legal career
(iramediately after his call to the Bar) in chambers
situated upon the second fluor of Brick-court,
Temple, he rapidly won his way to considerable
Practice, jostling even the leader of his circuit, Ser-
geant Itoucar, in his advance. His first case of any
Particular note, that of the double return for Hors•
ha
ta, brought Mr. Cones's name before the public
"nal'leuously as far back as 1808, that is five and
fifty Seats ago! A period marking out, fur how
many, a
""010 lifetime. From that date, how-
ever'
the Ulan, eteff gowned barrister advanced
higher and higher
in the glare of more and more conspicuously,
Publicity until ho took his seat
in the Houge of
ords as a Baron of England, at
three intervals to preside over its proceedings in
the Supreme Position as Lord High Chancellor.
Silk Gown, member for Yarmouth
Solicitor Gene-
ral, Attorney-General, Chief
!;anon,
occupant of
the woolsack, such were the successive honours,
offices, or responsibilities falling to the lot of this
able and ambitious lawyer; one profoundly versed
in the science of the law itself, and beyond that,
rarely with the great gifts of oratory,
rarely
lifts sedulously cultivated by him throughout his
pub tic life, at the ber,*on the Bench,in the Commons,
and in the Lords. As happened in the instance of the
first Duke of WELLINGTON, a middle period was
passed through by Lord LYNDHURST when his
name, politically, was an object, almost, it might be
said, of popular e-cecration. Identified with Toryism
in its most stubborn and obdurate aspect, it WAS long