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Contents
I. Steven Lawrence, Yeoman. By the Author of Archie
Lovell." Chap. 43. Gone on to Brest.—Chap. O. Dora's
Repentance.—Chap. 45. Her Confession.
2. Memories of the Jungle.
3. Mimi's Sin. By Julia Kavanagh, Author of "Na,thalie," &c
4. Yorkshire Life and Character
5. The Bath-Chair Man's Story. By Florence Marryat.
6. Queen Elizabeth's Garden.
7. The Silver Thistle.
8. A Di eam-Life. A Poem.
9. A Lost Name. By the Author of "Uncle Silas." Chaps.
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THE LA7E LORD WENSLEYDALE.

The death of Lord Wensleydale on Tuesday last,
in his 86th year, severed one of the few remaining
links between the last and the present century.
Contemporary of Campbell, St. Leonards, Lushing-
ton, and Pollock, and but a few years junior to
Lyndhurst and Broughatn, he belonged to a still
older school of legal thought, and represented a type
which now becomes extinct. Like so many of our
greatest lawyers, 113 was born (on the 22d March,
1782) in the north of England, and e lucated in one
of those north country grammar schOols from which
Cambridge has derived her very sturdiest mathe-
maticiacs. In October, 1799, he entered Trinity
College as a pensioner, but was elected Scholar in
the next year, and in 1803 gained the double honour,
which few have since rivalled, of the fifth place,
among the Wranglers and the Senior Chancellor's
Medal. In 1801 he became Fellow of Trinity, and
soon afterwards commenced reading for the Bar, a
profession for which his remarkable industry and
rare subtlety of intellect peculiarly fitted him. lie
was not, however, called to the Bar until the year
1813, but in the meantime he had acluired a con-
siderable practice below the Bar as a pleader, and
retained to the very last that partiality for prece-
dent and form to which the interests of justice were
too often sacrificed in the good old days of " special
demurrer." _ Four years later he married, and after
15 years' experience on the Northern Cir—cuit, but
without attaining the dignity of a silk gown, suc-
ceeded Mr. Justice Holroyd as a Puisne Judge in
the "Court of Queen's Bench, over which Lord Ten-
terden then presided. From this period until Jan.,
1856, he was a distinguished member of the Judicial
Bench, being transferred in 1831 to the Court of

Exchequer, ;here he sat, as Baron Parke, for no
less than 22 years. It was often said, indeed, that
Baron Parke ruled the Exchequer, and it is certain
that its decisions were influenced, if not coloured,
by an habitual deference to his authority, always on

the side of adherence to the letter, even where it

conflicted with the spirit, of the law. We can
well imagine the disgust which the sweeping in-
novations and vernacular phraseology of the Com-
mon Law Procedure Acts, passed in 1852 and
1854, must have inspired in a mind so constituted ;
nor did he long retain his seat upon the Bench
after they had transformed the whole system of
pleading and practice. At the beginning of 1856
Lord Palmerston conferred upon him the celebrated
life peerage, which is likely to be associated with
his name when the memory of his long judicial
career and profound learning shall have faded into

obscurity.
It is but twelve years since this great constitu-

tional question was raised and discussed with great
ability, yet of those who took a leading part in

hose famous debates how few are still to be found

in their places ! Lord Lyndhurst, who, though
past four-score, was the real hero of the day, passed
away from among us four years ago ; Lord Camp-
bell, who on this occasion sided with the Conserva-
tive Peers, had preceded him two years before to
the grave ; Lord Brougham survives, but with
shattered powers, after a life of activity unpi ece-
dented for its duration in n:odern tittles ; Lord
Derby, by far the youngest among the prominent
opponents of the bill, has just been compelled
by failing health to resign office. The import-
ance of the principle at stake was not unworthy of
the interest which it excited. Lord Wensleydale
had no sons, and known to be far advanced in years.
Nothing, therefore, was to be gained by limiting his
peerage by patent to the term of his natural life

but the creation of a precedent vitally affecting the

constitution of the House of Lords. The real con-
troversy was felt, and justly felt, to be, not between
the prerogative of the Crown and the privileges of
the Upper House, but rather between an official

and an hereditary peerage. This is not the place
to revive the argument upon its merits, but no one
can blame the spirit of the House of Lords, what-
ever may be thought of their policy, in resisting a
claim which threatened ultimately to place their in-
dependence at the mercy of the House of Commons.
The result was, as is well known, that a new patent
was granted, under which Baron Parke, instead of
taking his seat as Baron Wensleydale, of IVensley-
dale, for life, took the tide of Baron Wensleydale,
of Walton, in Yorkshire, with the remainder to
himself and his issue male. As he died without
such issue, the barony is now extinct.
The appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords,
which it was the professed object of his elevation to
strengthen, has since been reinforced by Lord
Westbury, Lord Cairns, and Lord Romilly. His
mature and penetrating judgment, however, will be
sensibly missed there, as well as at the Privy Coun-
cil, of which he was a member for 35 years. A
Liberal in politics, he never took a conspicuous
share in political movements, and seldom made a
speech on any but legal questions in the House of
Lords. It is, perhaps, more remarkable, in an age
when authorship is the foible of public men, that
he never wrote a book even upon a legal subject,
or edited a single volume of Law Reports. On the
other hand, the scholarship of his earlier years
ripened into a higher culture in his old age, while
the geniality of disposition which had made him a
favourite with the Bar never failed to characterise
his manner in private society. If he cannot be
numbered among the brightest luminaries of Eng-
lish law, he at least earned and maintained for half
a century the respect of his profession, and leaves
behind him a spotless reputation.

TRADE WITH JAPAN.

(From a Correspondent of the Times.)

HIOGO, Jan. 2.
Yesterday the ports of Hiogo and Osaka were
formally openedto European traffic. This ceremony
ought to have taken place long ago, but on one
pretext or another the Japanese authorities have
hitherto successfully opposed it. Now, however,
all restrictions are removed, and all the advan-
tages—real or supposed—resulting therefrom are
only waiting for enterprising speculators to gather
them.

Osaka, one of the five imperial cities, is situated
in Niphon, on the banks of the river Jodogawa, at
the north-eastern extremity of the inlarid sea. No
vessels larger than barges can approach within two
miles of it. It is intersected by canals cut from the
river deep enough to be navigable by small boats,
which bring the goods to the merchants' doors.
Upwards of 100 wooden bridges, many extraordi-
narily beautiful, span these channels. The town is
certainly the most important commercial entrepot in
the empire. It abounds in manufactures of every
kind, and is also the resort of rich people from all
parts of the country, who are attracted by the num-
ber of theatres and other diversions which have made
some writers call Osaka the Paris of Japan. It is
also celebrated as being the place where the best
saki is brewed. This, the only intoxicating liquor
made in Japan, is sent to all parts of the empire,
much as Burton ale is with us. It is very superior
to the samshu of the Chinese, but latterly many of
the Princes have taken to bitter beer and cham-
pagne, so we may reasonably entertain hopes of
their ultimate civilisation.

Iliogo, also a large and important city on the
sea coast, about 18 miles from Osaka, possesses the
inestimable advantage of good and secure anchorage
for ships of any size and in any number at a short
distance from the shore. It is built on a plain be-
tween the sea and the mountains, which from a
sheltering background to it, as Monreale does to
Palermo. Yesterday there were present the line-
of-battle ship Rodney, bearing the flag of Vice-
Admiral Sir H. Keppel, Commander-in-Chief ;
Ocean (ironclad), Basilisk, Rinaldo, Cormorant,
Sylvia, Serpent, Salamis, Adventure, Manilla, and
Snap, four American sloops of war, and one Japa-
nese frigate. The ships Rattler, Laplace, and
Shenandoah represent English, French, and Ameri-
can interests respectively at Osaka, or rather as