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frigate to Woolwich are to return to Portsmouth, and
will navigate the Leopard steam frigate to 'that port, to
be made ready for sea. , •
The Cyclops steam-frigate is expected to leave`Woolt;9.
wich, for Sheerness, on Wednesday or Thursday next,
and will remain as an advanced war steamer at that
port.
The officers of the Rattler steam-sloop invited their
Commander, Arthur Cumming, to dinner at the Ship
Hotel, Woolwich, on the evening of the day on which
she was paid off, as a parting tribute of the many plea-
sant days they had spent together on board the vessel.
The Lords of the Admiralty have highly approved of
the returns made by Commander Arthur Cumming dur-
ing his service on the coast of Africa, as they have
proved creditable to all on board. Their Lordships
have also made a special memorandum of the correctness
and neatness of the pay books, and have ordered Mr.
Robert Collins, clerk of (1848), to be entered as a super-
numerary on board the flag-ship at Woolwich, and
granted him six weeks' leave of absence. 150/. was of-
fered for the chimpanzee brought over in the Rattler the
night before it died of asthma, owing to the bold it had
caught on its arrival in England.

[PRICE SD.

prise among its inhabitants that Jutland stands at
present so much in the back-ground. Five out of
every six of the Danish merchants who have esta-
blished themselves in England or Scotland are na-
tives of the peninsula. The Jutland farmers are an
active race, fond of gain, and of thrifty habits; but
as the internal commerce of that part of Denmark is
carried on almost wholly through the medium of
barter, there is but little inducement for greater ex-
ertions than are required to insure enough, and a
little to spare. A railroad through Jutland to
Hjerting, and its certain consequences—speedy com-
munication with, and remunerating markets in
England—will change the aspect of the peninsula
slightest
like magic. Flourishing towns will spring up around
the railroad stations, and the brownness of heath and
moor will be succeeded by the yellow hues of ripening
arvests.
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The lin
De ofa Danish Jutland in the course of a few years, I have not the
peoplelway will
are
runto through
too
intelli-
gent to ignore the immense benefits of railway com-
munication. Education is universal. Every man,
woman, and child (above a certain age) in Denmark
is able at least to read, write, and keep accounts. The
people at large enjoy also an unusual share of poli-
tical power, for every man of full age, and untainted
by crime, has a right to vote in the election of mem-
bers of the Second Chamber. As the project of a
railroad through Jutland is prodigiously popular
there, and will be of great advantage to the other
parts of Denmark, by completing the direct line of
communication with England, the works will pro-
bably be undertaken as soon as the condition of the
public finances will admit, at the expense of the
State, if in the interval a private company does not
come forward and obtain a concession of the line.
I have dwelt at some length on the present meanr
of communication between England and Denmark,
and the prospect just opened of obtaining in a short
time still greater facilities for international intercourse,
on account of the great importance to both countries
of a route at once rapid and direct. Denmark is now,
and must for many years yet to come remain, an
agricultural country. Half the population, according
to the figures given by your Special Correspondent,
are tillers of the ground. The only manufacture
which is carried on to any extent is that of iron ; and
both the iron and the coal which are used come ex-
clusively from England, for the coal found in Den-
mark is unfit for smelting purposes, being of that
kind which is called the newest formation. The
ability of Denmark to purchase a larger amount of
our manufactured fabrics than she has hitherto taken
must, of. course, be measured by our capacity to con-
sume the corn and the cattle which she can spare—a
capacity which, owing to the pressure of a rapidly
increasing population, only finds a limit in the means
of supply. The quantity of cattle shipped from Den-
mark of late years has been very considerable ; and 1
was informed by Dr. Poulsen, to whose authority I
have already referred, that in 1850 no less than
12,500 cattle were sent to London from Hjerting and
Tonning alone. Now that a regular line of com-
munication is established between Hjerting and
Lowestoft, a great increase in the supplies of provisions
may be expected to follow. The Prince, on her first
return voyage, carried out 60 bulloks and 179 pigs,
besides 750 cwts. of pickled pork. On her second
return voyage she had on board 63 bullocks, 80 pigs,
and 4 horses, and this vessel alone will probably bring
to Lowestoft during the season from 1,800 to 2,000
head of cattle. A Danish merchant, who was one of
our fellow-passengers, told me that _he had entered
into a contract to ship from Hjerting at the end of
this month a full cargo of cattle by a steamer belong-
ing to the General Steam Navigation Company ; and
I know that a steam-boat, to be called the Jutland, is
now building on the account of the Danish Govern-
ment, and is intended to convey cattle between the
Agger Channel, high up on the north-western coast
of the peninsula, and London. Lowestoft, however,
would, I should think, be selected as the port of de-
barkation. Altogether, the attempt of the Northern
Steam Packet Company to establish a direct commu-
nication with Denmark cannot fail to lead, directly or

hdugoinse to rally.
DEATH OF LORD LANGDALE.
Scarcely a month has elapsed since the late Master of
the Rolls took his final leave of the court and the bar
over which he had so long presided, and already we are
called upon to record the melancholy close of a life which
had been exhausted in the severest labours of the judi-
cialefor the benefit of his health. The over-exer-
service. Lord
.Langdale expired on Good Friday, at
T
prolonged attendance in the Court of Chan-
ranh
produced a degree of exhaustion from which
e og
was Tunbridge-wells,
well; whither he had repaired about a fort-
i
night
faculties,
which had re-
mained unimpaired to the last moment of his judicial
duty, collapsed under that repose which came too late.
A paralytic stroke followed, and though hopes had at
one time been entertained that change of scene and com-
plete rest would revive his Lordship's vital
4n
ieuytar i
of
adg
unable
powers " the
silver chord was already loosened, and the bowl was
broken at the fountain."
Henry Bickersteth, Lord Langdale,
was born on the
18th of June, 1783, in the county of Westmoreland,
where his father belonged to the class of the small
landed gentry of the north of England. He had conse-
quently not yet completed his 68th year. Originilly
destined for the medical profession, in which he had al..
ready completed his studies with success, he visited the
Continent with the family of the late Earl of Orford;
and it was by the advice of those discerning friends that
he was induced to embark on the more ambitions career
in which his remarkable talents already promised him
no ordinary success. He entered Caius College, Cam-
bridge, where he took his degree as Senior Wrangler in
1808. Three years afterwards he was called to the bar
by the Society of the Inner Temple, and he engaged at
once in the arduous duties of his profession.
Throughout the whole course of his life Lord Lang•
dale was ardently devoted to the cause of liberal opinions,
and although he figured but little at any time in the
arena of party politics, no man pursued with greater
enthusiasm the work of reform, or brought a more subtle
intellect to bear upon the great probleras of social and
legal improvement. His speculative-opinions upon these
topics brought him into close and habitual contact with
that relarkable set of men who, about a quarter of a
century ago, looked up to Mr. Bentham as their sage and
lawgiver; and although the philosopher of Queen-square,
Westminster, was hardly destined to witness the prac-
tical application of his Sybilline labours, no small por-
tion of the reforms we have since accomplished 'in out.
laws, our administration, and the Constitution itself,
may be traced to that class of thinkers who claimed to
be his disciples, and amongst whom Lord Langdale oc-
cupied a distinguished place.
Assiduous in his devotion to his professional duties,
Mr. Bickersteth rose to great eminence in the Equity
Courts, to which he confined his practice; and perhaps
at tile period of his career to which we are now advert-
ing a higher estimate was formed of his powers than his
judicial performances subsequently warranted. Indeed
it may be said that his personal reputation stood even
higher than his forensic weight and celebrity amongst
the party which had at that time recently been sum-
moned to the councils of the empire. Probably it was
with a view to the services Mr. Bickersteth was expected
to render in the cause of law reform, and possibly in
Dart to supply the loss which had recently been sus-
tained by the rupture of the Whig Cabinet with Lord
Brougham, that the equity counsel was suddenly ap..
pointed on the 19th of January, 1836, to succeed Lord
Cottenham as Master of the Rolls, and was at the same
time called to the House of Peers. By an unusual ex-
ception to th© course of high legal preferment in this
country, his Lordship had thus risen to one of the most
honourable and important posts in his profession without
having mingled in active political life, and without
having either sate in the House of Commons or held the
office of a legal adviser to the Crown.

But a few months had elapsed aiter his accession to
the Mastership of the Rolls when Lord Langdale deli-
vered in the House of Lords his remarkable speech on
the administration of justice in the Court of Chancery,
and on the appellate jurisdiction of their Lordships'
House. To the opinions expressed in that speech, and
in favour of the division of the duties of the Great Seal,
Lord Langdale constantly adhered; but when the occa-
sion arrived at which it might have been possible for
him with more robust health and greater energy to
carry these plans into execution, his time of action was
already verging to its close. Upon the resignation of
Lord Cottenham last year, the Great Seal was more than
once tendered to Lord Langdale by the head of the
present Administration; but though he consented to act
as First Commissioner, and actually sate for a short time
in the Lord Chancellor's Court and in the House of
Lords in that capacity, the intense application to which
the state of the Court of Chancery had condemned him
forbade any further stretch of his powers, and he longed
only for that repose which the expiration of 15 years'
uninterrupted judicial service entitled him to claim,
though not to enjoy.
As a judge the reputation of Lord Langdale has at
times fallen somewhat below what was expected of him
in the earlier years of his professional life. He wanted
that boldness of judgment and self-guiding energy which
has enabled our greatest lawyers to apply and even to
frame the results of scientific analysis with instinctive

indirectly, to results of the greatest importance to the
two countries.

One great want, however, must be supplied
,Ita,soon
as possible. There is no pier at Hjerting, and it takes
two days to drag on board a cargo of cattle, which,
if that accommodation were at hand, might be shipped
in as many hours. Surveys have been made by a

practical English engineer, whose report to me was
that an excellent pier might be built for 1,4001. When
this is done, Hjerting will command the greatest
cattle traffic of any of the seaports on the Western
coast of Denmark. The passenger traffic it must
soon entirely monopolize, but ladies cannot be ex-
pected to select the new route until some better
means of landing be found than a ricketty fraam and
the back of a Danish fisherman. A good-sized punt,
and a sloping stage on wheels, will be much better
adapted to tranquillize the apprehensions of our fair
countrywomen, whose love of the beautiful and the
picturesque may lead them to explore the " fresh
fields and pastures new" of Scandinavia.

felicity and precision. But he was unsurpassed in the
lucid and methodical exposition of the facts with which
he had to deal. His elaborate and cautious dissection
of every case before him led him by a safe though slow
process to the discovery of truth; and the subtlety of
his logical powers enabled him to unravel with indefa-
tigable accuracy the most intricate chain of reasoning.
His labours as a reformer of the Court of Chancery
fell infinitely short of his intentions and his
desires, though even these ho powerfully and
systematically contributed to the new rules for the
removal of delays, the reduction of costs, and the
abolition of needless formalities. But the philoso-
phical lawyer was baffled by the duties and obliga-
tions of the active judge. No man ever sate in that
court who was more anxious to reform its abuses, and
the last disappointment of his life was the production by
Lord John Russell of the miserable Chancery Bill of the
present session.
personal
not inferior to that which it conferred upon himself, for
Lord Langdale brought to his office a p di nit
y
he was a man earnestly devoted to truth and justice—
the suspicion of a job or
theby
loftiest motives of action.
He preserved the s
of fi s
subservience whole
life
was
t e anyimplicity of his manners
the con
fi
nand his love
unsullied
but
of literature in the residence on es of Rich-
-
mond-par.t., where of late years he exclusively resided,
and in the gardens or library he had himself formed.
Younger and more active men have already succeeded
functions ho SO recently discharged, but amongst
the the
the lawyers who have filled the chief offices of
their profession, and who might have filled the highest
ate
of all, none leaves purer fame than the I
Master
of
the Rolls.
pis Lordship married late in life the Lady Jane
Har-
ley, eldest daughter of the late Lord Orford, by whom
he leaves one daughter;
his peerage, therefore, becomes
extinct.— Times.