The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-03 00:00:00

LORD CH ELMSFORD.

It may not be generally known that Sir Frederic
Thesiger was for some years in her Majesty's navy,
and that it was only an accidental circumstance
which led him to exchange that profession for the
bar. He is the youngest, but only surviving, son
of the late Mr. C. Thesiger, sometime collector of
customs in the island of St. Vincent, and nephew of
Sir Frederic Thesiger, a naval officer of distinction,
who was aide-de-cimp to Lord Nelson at the battle
of Copenhagen. His lordship was born in London
in 1794, so that be is now in the 64th year of his
age, though he looks younger, and has consequently
the prospect of a long and useful life before him.
His lordship entered the royal navy at an early age
as midshipman in the Cambrian frigate, and saw
some active service in that vessel at Copenhagen in
1807. We believe that the destruction of his father's
property at St. Vincent, by the volcanic eruption
of Mount Souffrier, in that island, coupled with
the death of father and his elder brothers, was
the turning point of his destiny, and induced hint
to resolve on retrieving the fortunes of his family
by entering himself as a student for the bar. After
the usuEl course of study in the chambers of a senior,
he was called to the bar at Gray's-inn in Michaelmas
Term, 1818, and went the Home Circuit, of which
he was for many years the acknowledged leader.
It is in grateful remembrance of his successful
career upon that circuit that his lordship bas
chosen to take the title by which he will henceforth
be known in the peerage and remembered in history,
from one of the county towns which witnessed his
early triumphs as Mr. Sergeant Thesiger. And
why sle he not, even as Sir Thomas Wilde, for
a similar reason, chose the title of Lord Truro, and
whils Mr. Sergeant Copley is said to have selected
that of Lyndhurst, from the town in the New
Forest where he first met the lady who beoamo his
wife.

The subsequent Parliamentary career of Sir F.
Thesiger, as M.P. successively for the boroughs of
Woodstock, Abingdon, end Stamford, and es So-
licitor and Attorney General under Sir R. Peel, is
too well known to our readers to need recording
here. Like bis eminent predecessors, Lords
Lyndhurst, Brougham, and St. Leonard; and the
late Lords Erskine, and Cottenbarn, Sir Frederic
Thesiger has been promoted directly, and per sot-
hat
the there
career ia second
of Lord
Chelmsford and that of one of the
turn, from his position at the bar to the woolsack
of England, without having ever occupied a seat on
reminded
betwe e
iti
the judicial bench. Our readers may possibly be
point interested
o f
at
parallelismbeing
above-mentioned
Chancellors—Lord Erskine---wh3 served in the
navy—and indeed in the army also—for some years
before he resolved on devotinu bthe talents and
energies of hto
is maturer years
_
he afterwards attained such high distinction as an
advocate.
By his wife, a daughter of Mr. William Tinlin ,
of Southampton, Lord Chelmsford y g
rd has a youthful
fainliY. liis second daughter, Julia, is married to
13rigadier-General Sir John Eardley "Wilmot Inglis,
who has recently been gazetted a K.C.B. for his
gallant defence of the Residency at Lucknow.

RAILWAYS BLOCKED WITH Ssrow.—There has been a
considerable fall of snow during the last few days in the
neighbourhood of Manchester, and, owing to the high
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completely blocked on both lines for a considerable dis-
tance near Hadfield, arid all trains from Sheffield to
Manchester, or in theiontrary direction, were compelled,
on reaching that point, to stop or return. As soon as
this state of things became known at head-quarters
pass tharoorduagtioDe
very
in-
structions were issued to all the booking offices to warn
passengers taking tickets to places beyond Hadfield that
they must do so on their own responsibility, there being
a
for the time no means of transit. A similaor stoppage
took
.Greenfield and
Manchester to Huddersfield, betweenee..6o. Oa both
took place on the London and North-Western
Diggle, to a distance of about threeeet
toll
work as soon
railways strong bodies of men
h were rd every other available
.is possible, with snow plougvat. pato/31mm
the London and North-
nstrument, and the up-linee
ped, so that all trains were
Western was speedily rasp
much, and up to that
either direction ; but at
Hadfield the snow vi':ind continued so violent until
120011 as to impede
°Pah had been cleared.
enabled to
lisle of s
ume neithg .