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

LORD CHELMSFO.RA

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-clmp 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 say
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 his 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 USUEI course of study in the chambers of a senior,
be 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
a titlecircuit that his lordship has
chosen
knownes by which-he will henceforth
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early triumphs as Mr. Sergeant Thesiger. And
why should he not, even as Sir Thomas Wilde, for
a similar reason, chose the title of Lord Truro, and
whilst 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 became his
wife.

The subsequent Parliamentary career of Sir F.
Thesiger, as M.P. successively for the boroughs of
Woodstock, Abingdon, and Stamford, and as So-
licitor and Attorney. General under Sir R. Peel, is
too well known to our readers to need recording

here. Like his eminent predecessors, Lorda
Lyndhurst, Brougham, and St. Leonardo' and the
late Lords Erskine and Cottenham, Sir Frederic
Thesiger has been promoted directly, 'and per sal-
tam from his position at the .bar to the woolsack
of England, without having ever occupied a seat on
the judicial bench. Our readers may possibly
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interested at being reminded that there is a second
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Chelmsford and that of one of the above-mentioned
Chancellors—Lord Erskine—who served in the
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wife, a daughter of Mr. William Tinling,
of Southampton, liouth
sa mpt' on, Lord Chelmsford has a youthful
family. His second daughter, Julia, is married to
Brigadier-General Sir John Eardley Wilmot Inglis,
who has recently been gazetted a K.C.B. for his
gallant defence of the Residency at Lucknow.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has appointed Mr.
Ralph Earle, attache to her Majesty's Embassy at Paris,
to be his private secretary.
RAILWAYS BLOCKED wire Show,—There has been a
considerable fall of snow daring the last few days in the
neighbourhood of Manchester, and, owing to the high
winds prevailing yesterday morning, the drifting in the
hilly district to the north and east of that city was anffi-
cleat to cause a serious interruption to railway commu-
nication. The Manchester and Sheffield Railway was
completely blocked on both lines for a considerable dis-
tance near liadfield, and all trains from Sheffield to
Manchester, or in the contrary direction, were compelled,
in reaching that point, to atop or return. As soon as
this state of things became known at head-quarters 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
for the time no means of transit. A similaritoeppar
took place on the London and North-Westernn_ddiarn7
Manchester to Huddersfield, between
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Oa both
railways strong bodies of men were
„eery
Diggle, to a distance of about threeert
other available
as passible, with snow ploughs
d so that all trains were
Western was speedily reepr
either direction ; 'but at
instrument, and the n
continued BO violent until
joiework as soon
enabled to pass througwh p line of the London and North."
Hadfield the snow anddioms very much, and up to that
noon AB to impede or:s
time
atitw line anuis had been cleared.