The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-04 00:00:00

No. 16,631. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING SUN, DECEMBER 4, 1845.

LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY
EXTENSION AND BRANCH LINES.
The Shareholders are hereby informed that the Plans, Sections, and
Books of Reference have been duly deposited with the Board of Trade
and the several Clerks of the Peace, in conformity with the standing
orders of Parliament, in respect of the Wakefield and Leeds Exten-
sion, the Hertford, the St. Alban's, Luton, and Dunstable, and the
Stamford and Spalding branch lines.
By order of the Committee R. Direction,
J. . MOWATT, Secretary.
Office:, No. 7, Lethbury, London, Dec. 2, 1845.

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1110STON, STAMFORD, and BIRMING-
-1) HAM RAILWAY (Leicester, by Stamford, to Bostou and

Wisbeach).
(Provisionally Registered, 17th April, 1845.)
The Committee of Management have the pleasure of announcing to
the Shareholders is this important undertaking, that the plans, sec-
tions, and books of reference have been duly deposited with the seve-
ral Clerks of the Peace, and at the Board of Vale, iu compliance
with the standing orders of Parliament.
By order, EDWARD DANIEL, Secretary.
18, Abingdon-street, Westminster, Dec. 1, 1845. •

LEICESTER and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY
(BAXTER'S LINE).
(Provisionally Registered, 10th April, 1845.)
The Committee of Management have the pleasure of announcing
to the Skareholders in this important undertaking, that the Plans.
Sections, and Books of Reference have been duly deposited with the
several Clerks of the Peace, anti at the Board of Trade, in compliance
with the standing orders of Parliament.
By order, EDWARD DANIEL, Secretary.
IS, Abingdon-street, Westminster, Des. 1, 1845.

GREA'r WESTERN, BRENTFORD, AND
CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY.
The Provisional Directors of the above Company have the pleasure
to inform their Shareholders that their Gazette and Newspaper
Notices have been duly given, and that tie Plans, Sections, Books of
Reference, &c., have been deposited with the respective Clerks of
the Peace and with the Board of Trade ; and that the rules and re-
gulations of the standing orders of Parliament have, in all respects,
been fully complied wit.h.
By order of the Board,
11. DIORICING, Secretary.
Office, 53, Charing-croes, Dec. 1, 1845

DIRECT BIRMINGHAM and LEICESTER
RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management have great pleasure in stating, for
the information of the Shareholders in this undertaking, that the
Plans and Sections of the line, with the accompanying Book of Re-
ference, have been deposited at the several places prescribed by the
standing orders of the Houses of Parliament.
By order of the Board,
F. KNIGHT, Secretary.
Company's Offices, 36, Temple-street. Birininalmn,

LONDON and NOTTINGHAM RAILWAY,
connecting London, Nottingham, Sheffield, and Leeds.
(Provisionally Registered pursuant to 7 and 8 Vitt. c. 110.)
cosilitirrzx OF MANAGEMENT.
irGeorge Larpent, Bart., Chairman
Henry Robert Fowler, Esq., Deputy Chairman
Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq.
William Bradley, Esq.
Joseph Braithwaite, Esq.
James grand, Esq.
Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq.
Lieutenant-Colonel Elrington
Richard Groucock, Esq.
James Gernon, Esq.
William Hannay, Esq.
Captain Adamson George Parker
Samuel Parsons, Esq.
William Raines, Esq.
Thomas Wakefield, Esq.
LOCAL COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT AT NOTTINGMAM.
John Heard, Esq, Chairman
Joseph Braithwaite, Esq.
Thomas Close, Esq.
William Hannay, Esq.
Lewis Heymann, Esq.
Capt. Adamson George Parker
Thomas Wakefield, Esq.
ENGINEER-IN-CHlEF—Charles Hutton Gregory, Esq., C.E.
ACTING ENGINEERS.
T. Hawkesley, Esq. C.E.
Nathaniel Briant, Esq., C.E.
STANDINP COUNSEL—Mr. Sergeant Clarke.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Birch and Bramah, Great Winchester-street, London
Messrs. Forbes and Drake, Warnford-court, London
Messrs. Freeth and Rawson, Nottingham.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Messrs. Parker and Smith, Sheffield
C. S. B. Busby, Earl., Chesterfield
William Latham, Esq., Melton Mowbray.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Gregory, Faulkner, and Co., 11, Parliament-street
BANKERS.
Messrs. Roberts, Curtis, and Co., lb, Lombard-street, London
Messrs. Moore and Robinson, Nottinghamshire Banking Company,
Nottingham
The Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield.
The Directors have pleasure in iaforraing the Shareholders that,
after a very careful investigation of several alternative routes, a line
has been selected which fully confirms the views of the promoters
as to the moderate cost of the works, and the absence of engineering
rdifficues, whilst it admits of gradients of a very favourable cha-
racterl ;ti ns, and that the pla sections, and books of reference are daly
lodged in compliance with the standing orders of the Houses of Par-
liament.
The Directors have also much gratification in alluding to the very
valuable assistance given, and facilities afforded, on the progress of
the survey, by many influential landed proprietors on the line—and
to the good feeling towards the scheme which so generally pervades
the district proposed to be traversed.
The Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement will lie
for signatre at tbe undermentioned places, at the days a
stated, betuween the hours of eleven and four o'clock each day times
At the Offices of the Company, 8, Warnford-court, London, on and
after this day.
Anti Counterparts,—
At the Offices of Messrs. Freeth and Rawson, Nottingham, from
Wednesday, the 3d instant, until Wednesday, the 10th instant.
At the Ofilices of Messrs. Parker and Smith, Sheffield, on Thursday,
the 11th instant, until Saturday, the 13th instant.
At the Queen's Hotel, Manchester, ou Monday, the 15t h instant.
At the White Hart Hotel, Leeds, on Tuesday, the 16th instant.
At the Kingston Hotel, Hull, on Wednesday, the 17th instant.
At the Waterloo Hotel, Princes-street, Edinburgh, on Friday, the
19th instant.
At the Tontine Hotel, Glasgow, on Saturday, the 20th instant.
At the George Hotel, Perth, on Monday, the 22d instant.
At the Royal Hotel, Aberdeen, on Wednesday, the 24th instant.
By order, JOHN CATER, Secretary.
3, W./.rnford-court, London, Ist Dec., 1845.

•
EXETER GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Being a Line between -Yeovil and Exeter, and between
Bridport and Exeter, with Branches to Sidmouth and Chard.
Capital, 1,300,0001., in Shares of 50/. each.
On which 4 per cent. is guaranteed by the Great Western Railway
Company.
Deposit, bl. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered pursuant to Act 7th and lith victoria,
cap. 110.)

PROVISIONAL CONNITTEIL
The Earl of Devol, Powderham Castle, Devon
The Earl of Itchester, Melbury House, Dorset
Earl Digby, Sherborne Castle, Dorset
The Earl of Falmouth, Tregothaan Castle, Truro
Lord Portman, Bryanston House, Dorset
Lord De Manley, Canford, Dorset
The Viscount Ceurtenay, M.P.
Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., M.P., F.R.S.
Sir Lawrence Vaughan Palk, Eart.
Major-Gen. Sir Dudley St. Leger Hill, C.B.
Alex. D. W. Baillie Cochrane, Esq., M.P
Thomas Gill, Esq., M.P.
Thomas Alexander Mitchell, Esq., M.P.
Richard B. Sheridan, Esq., M.P.
Henry C. Sturt, Esq., M.P.
Charles Russell, Esq., M.P
Wm. Goodenough Hayter, Esq., M.P.
Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq.
George Jones, Esq.
Edward Wheler Mills, Esq.
W. Tothill, Esq.,
Ralph Barnes, Esq.
Richard Basta,d, Esq.
John Batten, jun., Esq.
William Battiscombe, Esq.
William R. Bayley, Esq.
J. Wentworth Buller, Esq.
Henry Champernowne, Esq.
John Worthy Colson, Esq.
0. H. Cutler, Esq.
John Edye, nit.
George Fursdon, Esq.
Robert Gordon, Esq.
John Gould, Esq.
Joseph Gundry, Esq.
Samuel Bowden Gundry, Req.
William EUSIaCe Gundry, Esq.
M. Gutteres, Esq.
Arthur H. Holdsworth, Esq.
Henry Hooper, Esq.
William Hooper, Esq.
Thomas Collins Hounsell, Esq.
G. G. Kekewich, Esq.
Samuel Trehawke Kekewich, Esq.
Emanuel Lousada, Esq.
Charles Herbert Matlock, Esq.
John Newberry, Esq.
Thomas Cordell Newberry, Req.
Henry Stafford Northoote, Esq.
G. B. Northcote, Esq.
Lawrence Palk, Esq.
Henry Patteson, Esq.
Joseph Player, Esq.
Benjamin Salter, Esq.
Thomas C. Sanders, Esq.
George Sharland, Esq.
Joseph Shepherd, Esq.
F. W, Slade, Esq.
Humphry Weld, Esq.
J. C. Willcocks, Esq.
Michael Williams, Esq.
Thomas Woollcombe, Esq.
(With power to add to their number.)
ENOINEIR—I. K. Brunel, Esq.
• Ormolus tit LONDON-449, West Strand, and Paddington Station.
PROSPECTUS.
The object of the proposed undertaking is to unite the city of Exeter
with the towns of Yeovil and Bridport, as forming a part of the
great integral scheme for making the best direct railway cemunica-
tion from the metropolis, through Exeter to the important seaports and
harbours in the British Channel, as well as completing the chain
of south coast communication from the ports of Dover, Portsmouth,
and Southampton, to Exeter, Plymouth, and Falmouth.
and Wey-
Between Yeovil and Westbury, the Wilts, Somerset,
mouth Railway will form the se
ed extension
of communication, at which
latter place it will join a proposed extension of the Berks and Hants
Railway from Hungerford, carried through the Pewssy Valley, as
shown more distinctly in the accompanying plan. The Berks and
wants, and the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Bills have already
passed, and those lines are under construction. The Groat Western.
Railway Company will apply for the extension from Hungerford to
Westbury, only thirty-five miles, in the approaching session.
The line of the Exeter Great Western Railway is intended to com-
mence at a distance of about three miles from Exeter, by a to
with the Bristol and Exeter Railway at Stoke Canon, and proceed-
ing then{ the
Ottery Saint Mary and Honiton, will pass into the
Talley af the Axe at Axminster. From that place, the main line, in
one direction, will continue along the same valley, passing within
about three Miles of Chard (which town it is proposed to connect
with the main line by a short branch), and through Crewkerne, to-
wards Yeovil, near to which town it will join the Wilts, Somerset,
and Weymouth itsilway. From Axminster, the main line, is the
other direction, will proceed near to Lyme Regis, and thence to
Rai
way, where it will also join the Wilts, Somerset, a
lias Weymouth
Railway, leading towards Dorchester and the coast eto South-
ampton.
It is agreed that the line shall be werked by the Great Western
Railway Company, under a lease, as in the case of the Wilts, Somer-
set, and Weymouth Xsilway ; in consideration of which, the Great
Western Railway Company have Undertaken to guarantee to the
proprietors four per cent. per annum epon the paid-up capital, with
an increase of one-half per cent., in propmortion to any dividend of one
per cent. upon their own stock, exceeding eight per cent., which in-
crease shall be payable to the proprietoil of the Exeter Grea
and
t
Western Railway Company, in addition to the' guaranteed
the Great Western Railway Company are to b,scome responsible for
all the preliminary expenses, in case the Act s.hall not be obtained
within the two next sessions of Parliament.
The capital will be raised in 26,000 shares of iOl. etch, upon which
a deposit of 51. per share will be paid upon subscrOtions, and no
further call will be made previously to obtaining the let Pi' Incor-
poration.
Interest at four per cent. per annum will be allowed, after the Act
shall have passed, on the deposit, and on all paid-up calls during the
construction of the line, and until the dividends are provided for,
under the guarantee of the Great Western Railway Company.
The notices are already given, and the plans and books of re-
ference will be deposited In time for the Act to be applied for at the
meetin of Parliament. If the Act should not be obtained, as before
mentiong ed, the depositwill be paid back to the proprietors, but with-
out interest.
A decided preference will be given to landowners and to parties
locally interested, or residing on the line, in the allotment of shares.
The prospectus may be obtained, and applications made for shares,
to the Secretary of the Great Western Railway Company, at the
London office of the Company, 449, West Strand, or at the Padding-
ton or Bristol stations, or may be addressed to the care of any of the
Bankers and Solicitors.—Unexceptionable references must be
l given
when parties applying for shares are not personally known, or ocally
interested in the line.

Directors of the Great
Western Railway
Compaily

PLYMOUTH AND NORTH CORNWALL
RAILWAY COMPANY.
The promoters of this Company have duly deposited the Plans,
Sections, and Books of Reference, pursuant to the standing orders of
Parliament.
15, Basinghall-street, December 3, 1845.

BIRMINGHAM AND BOSTON DIRECT
RAILWAY COMPANY.
The Committee of Management have great pleasure in announcing
that the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference have been duly de-
posited with the Board of Trade, and the several Clerks of the Peace,
in accordance with the standing orders.
By order, JAMES ELLIOTT, Secretary.
26, Moorgate-street, Dec. 3, 1845.

WOLVERHAMPTON, CHESTER, AND
BIRKENHEAD JUNCTION RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management have the satisfaction to announce
to the Shareholders that the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference
of this line, were all duly deposited on the 29th ult. at the office of the
Board of Trade, pursuant to standing orders, and that in fulfilment
of their p,oclgo they resolve on going to Parliament in the ensuing
session. By order,
C. W. JACKSON, Secretary, pro tern.

THE DIRECT LINCOLN, EAST RETFORD,
AND SHEFFIELD JUNCTION RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management, in accordance with their Resolu-
tion of the 14th Nevemher last, whereby they undertook to provide
the necessary expenses for completing the surveys, &c., previous to
the allotment of shares, have great pleasure in announcing to the
respective applicants that the Plans and Sections, together with the
Books of Reference, have been deposited with the Board of Trade and
the several Clerks of the Peace, in compliance with the standing
orders of Parliament, and that the Allotment of Shares will shortly
be announced

MILLAR ♦ND CARR, Solicitors.
Temporary Offices, 47, Eastcheap.

TRENT VALLEY, CHESTER, and HOLY-
HEAD CONTINUATION RAILWAY.
'the Committee of Management have the satisfaction to announce
to the Shareholders that the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference
of this line, were all duly deposited on the 29th ult. at the office of the
Board of Trade, pursuant to Standing Orders, and that in fulfilment
of their pledge they resolve on going to Parliament in the ensuing
session. By order,
C. W. JACKSON, ',esrotary pro tern.

BOSTON, GRANTHAM, LEICESTER, AND
MIDLAND COUNTIES JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Offices, 5, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street.
Capital, 800,0001., in 40,000 *hares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
The Committee of Management have now the satisfaction to state
that the Plans, Sections, Books of Reference, Sec., have been duly de-
posited with the Clerks of the Peace for the counties through which
the line runs,. and with the oar Of Trade, and they invite the
strictest investigation to ascertain that this Company has fully com-
plied with the standing orders of Parliament.
GEORGE FARRER, Secretary.

SHREWSBURY and LEICESTER DIRECT
RAILWAY.
The Committee bf Management have much satisfaction in an-
muncing that the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference have
th,s day all been duly deposited with the Board of Trade, Clerks of
the Peace, &c., pursuant to the Standing Orders.
By order,
J. W. JELLICORGE, Secretary,
18, Finsbury-place.

Nov. 29, 1845

MIDLAND UNION and BURTON-UPON-
TRENT, ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH, and LEICESTER
RAILWAY, with a diverging Line to Trent Valley Railway at
Atherstone.
(Provisionally Registered, 16th May, 1845.)
The Committee of Management have the pleasure of announcing
to the Shareholders in this iinpertant undertaking, that the Plans,
Sections, and Books of Reference have been duly deposited with the
several Clerks of the Peace, and at the Board of Trade, in compli-
ance with the standing orders of Parliament.
By order, WILLIAM KNIGHT, Secretary.
18, Abingdon-street, Westminster, Dec. 1, 1845.

THE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
RAILWAY.
CIIAIIMAX—Thomas Dowglasse, Esq.
E,GlNaaa-IN•CnleF—Samuel Charles Breee, Req.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Elmalie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street.
EincanTaav—Z. llubbersty, Esq.
The Committee of Management have the satisfaction to announce
that the proper Notices have been published in tke " London Ga-
zette" and Provincial Newspapers, and that the Plans, Sections, and
Books of Reference, have been deposited in the Parliamentary Offices
and witk the Clerks of the Peace for the several Counties through
which the Line is proposed to pass. The Committee are further
desirous to state that Testimonials in favour of the Line have been
most numerously signed by tile landowners, tradesmen, farmers, and
inhabitants of every town throughout tke country proposed to be
traversed ; and that the Engineer of the Company assures them that
the construction of the intended railway will be completed at very
ninth less expense than he originally contemplated.
By order of the Beard,
Z. HUBBERSTY, Secretary.
Bfoargate Chambers, Moorgate-street, Dec. 1, 1845.

S HREWSBURY and HEREFORD RAIL-
WAY.
The Committee of Management have much pleasure in informing
the Shareholders that the Plans, sections, and Books of Reference,
have been duly deposited in compliance with the standing orders of
Parliament. By order,
CONWAY ROSE, Sec.
419, West Strand, London, Dec. 3, 1845.

1 REAT WESTERN, SOUTHERN, AND
101' EASTERN COUNTIES, OR IPSWICH AND SOUTH-
AMPTON RAILWAY.
The Committee of Direction have the satisfaction to announce that
theylans, Sections, and Books of Reference of the portions of the line
from Colchester to Hertford (the continuation of the line as far as
St. Alban's being undertaken by another Company) have been duly
deposited at the Office of the Board of Trade and with the Clerks of
the Peace for the several comities through which the proposed
railway will pass. The notices of application to Parliament for a
rill have also been given in the Loudon Gazette and local newspapers,
as prescribed by the standing orders.
PETER A. BURRELL, Solicitor.
W. A. GRAHAM, Secretary.
5, Gresham-street, Guildhall, 3d December, 1845.

8, King's-road, Bedford-row, London, December 3,1845.
RUGBY, WARWICK, AND WORCESTER
RAILWAY.
OTlCE.—Arrangements for the Amalgamation of this Company
with the Warwick and Worcesterßailway, the London and Birming-
ham Extension Railway, and the Warwick and Birmingham Canal
Railway, are in progress, and will be perfected in a few days, of
which due notice will be given.
"GEORSE WELLER, 2 Solicitors of the
GEORGE.PELL, jun., j Company.

DIRECT WEST-END AND CROYDON
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
The Committee of Management have great pleasure in announcing
that the notices of the intended application to Parliament to autho-
rise the construction of this line of railway have been given, and that
the Plans and Sections and Books of Reference have been deposited
with the Clerk of the Peace and with the Board of Trade, in com-
pliance with the standing orders of Parliament, and that the Com-
mittee of Allotment, as intimated in a former advertisement, will
now proceed to complete their duties.—Dated this 3d DecemberZlB4s.
By order,
34, Gracechurch-street. J. L. COTTON, Secretary.

THE GREAT GRIMSBY, LOUTH, HORN-
CASTLE, LINCOLN, and MIDLAND JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
The Committee of Management beg respectfully to announce to
the shareholders of this Company that the Plans, Sections, and
Books of Reference have been this day deposited at the Board of
Trade, and at the officea of the Clerks of the Peace, in accordance
with the standing orders of Parliament. The Committee cannot
forbear congratulating the shareholders upon the favourable position
in which the Company is now placed, and they have every con-
fidence that their application to Parliament will be completely suc-
cessful. By order,
THOMAS COXIIEAD, Secretary.
Offices, 6, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street, Nov. 29, 1845.

WARWICK AND CHELTENHAM RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.
The acting Committee having agreed upon terms with the acting
Committee of the Warwickshire and London Company for an amal-
gamation of the two Companies upon a satisfactory basis, the par-
ticulars of which. will shortly be published ;
All persons having claims upon the Warwick and Cheltenham
Company, are hereb requested to send in such claims to thebe Office
of the Company, on yor before the Bth instant, that they may ex-
amined, and, if found to be correct, discharged.
By order, H. CASSIN, Secretary.
3, Church-court, Old Jewry, London, Dee. 1, 1845.

BOSTON, NEWARK,AY AND SHEFFIELD
The Committee of Direction beg to inform the shareholders that
the Plans and Books of Reference of the line were duly lged with
the Board of Trade and with the Clerks of the Peace on the 30th
ult., but in consequence of the fraudulent abstraction of twenty sheets
of the Sections from the premises of the Lithograper (a fact which
the Committee are in a position to substantiate, and for the discovery
of the perpetrator of which felonious proceeding they have taken the
most decisive steps), the Sections, though deposited at the Board
of Trade, were a 'few hours too late at the offices of the Clerks of the
Peace ; tboy were, however, deposited before office hours on the
following morning.
The Conaniittee feel confident that no impediment to the progress
of the Bill will arise from this delay, the case of the Sheffield and
Lincolnshirßailwaylast session affording, from the exact simarity,
a decisive piesident for insuring the safety of the Rill in the stailnding
orders. •
With the exception of about 500 reserved shares, the full deposit
of 10 per cent. tuts been paid on the capital, of which 100,0001. has
been invested at 314 per cent. interest, and 19,0001. at 3 per cent.
The Sections *ill be found, on inspection, to show an excellent
line, with favourable gradients, and very little earth-work or tun-
nelling for the length of the line. The landowners, whose property
the railway traverses, are all but lumnimously favourable, and the
Committee feel undiminished confidence in the ultimate success of the
undertaking. By order,
JOHN' DENNISTON, Secretary.
Mansfield, Dectmber 3, 1845. • •

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THE LATE JUDGE STORY
The Honourable Joseph Story, recently deceased, one
of the Justices of the United States Supreme Judicial
Court, and Dane Professor in the law school of Harvard
University, in Massachusetts, possessed a European re-
putation, and all that relates to so eminent a lawyer and
jurist must be deeply interesting to the British bar and
legal profession generally. We leave, therefore, collected
from American sources the following particulars of his
professional life and publications :
Judge Story was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts,
Sept. 18, 1782, and graduated at Harvard College, in
1798. His father, Dr. Elisha Story, served in the army
during the revolutionary war. His son studied law
under the direction of Judge Putnam, and established
himself in the practice of it in Essex county. He soon en-
tered into political life, being chosen a Member of the Mas-
sachusetts Legislature in 1805, and he was afterwards,
while yet young, elected Speaker of the House. At
this time he was connected with the Democratic party,
and was, in fact, their leader in Massachusetts. In 1809
ho was chosen a representative to Congress, to fill a
vacancy in Essex, south district. He served in this body
ith much distinction, but declined a re-election. In
1811 he was appointed by President Madison a judge of
the Supreme Court of the United States, and then
severed himself from all political connexion. " His
judicial life was prolonged to a period almost unex-
ampled in the a•inals of the common law. The wisdom
of the election was immediately indicated by the distin-
guished ability which he displayed, and each succeeding
year added to the splendour and extent of his judicial
fame. He moved with familiar steps over every province
and department of jurisprudence. All branches of the
law have been illustrated and enlarged by his learning,
acuteness, and sagacity, and of some he has been the
creator. His immortal judgments contain copious stores
of ripe and sound learning, which will be of inestimable
value in all future times, alike to the judge, the practi-
tioner, and the student."
In 1830 he was appointed Dane Professor in the law
school of Harvard University, on the munificent foun-
dation of his friend Mr. Nathan Dane, of Beverley, and
he continued to discharge the duties of his office with re-
markable ability and success till the day of his death.
His reputation drew together a great number of students
from all parts of the Union, and the unprecedented
success of the school is to be attributed almost entirely
to his exertions. " As a teacher of jurisprudence, he
brought to the important duties of the professor's chair
the most exuberant learning, the most unwearied pa-
tience, a native delight in the great subjects which he
expounded, a copious and persuasive eloquence, and a
contagious enthusiasm, which filled his pupils with love
for the law, and for the master who taught it so well.
All his teachings were illumined by the loftiest mora-
lity, and never failed to show that whosoever aspired to
the fame of a great lawyer, must be also a good man."
He began his career as an author early in life, by the
publication of an excellent edition of Abbott on the
" Law of Shipping." Soon after his appointment to
the Dane Professorship, he published his " Common-
taries on the Constitution of the United States," in
three vols. Bvo. These were followed by a succession
of treatises on different branches of the law, too nume-
rous to be mentioned here, the extent and excellence of
which, with the vast amount of legal learning displayed
in them, leave it a matter of astonishment that they
could be prepared within the short space of about
twelve years, by a man who was all the while discharg-
ing, with great assiduity, the onerous duties of a judge
of the Supreme Court of the United States, and
a professor in the law school of the University.
Among them were commentaries on the " Law
of Bailments ;" on the " Conflict of Laws ;" "Equity
Jurisprudence," " Equity Pleadings," " Bills of Ex-
change," and " Promissory Notes." "in regarding the
deceased as an author, jurisprudence mourns ono of her
greatest sons—one of the greatest, not only among those
of his own age, but in the long succession of ages—
whose fame has become a familiar word in all lands
where the law is taught as a science ; whose works have
been translated and commented on in several of the
languages of the European continent ; and have been
revered as authorities throughout the civilised world.
It was his rare lot, while yet alive, to receive, as from a
distant posterity, the tribute of foreign nations to his
exalted merit as a jurist." In his devotion to the
science of law, he did not forget the claims of literature
and general scholarship, and his addresses on public oc-
casions, his contributions to the North American Review,
and other miscellaneous writings, show a mind imbued
ith sound learning, and capable of grasping almost
every subject that has ever taxed the human intellect.
As a man, and a member of society, he was remark-
able for his domestic virtues, his warm affections and
generous temper, the purity, elevation, and simplicity of
his life and conversation, and the spontaneous sympathy,
which gave so cordial a charm to his looks, his tones,
and his greetings. The approach of age never chilled
the impulses of his heart, nor deadened his interest in
life. The members of the Suffolk bar, in their resolu•
tions upon the occasion of his death, from which we have
already largely quoted, rightly declare, " That the death
of one so great as a judge, as an author, as a teacher, and
so good as a man, is a loss which is irreparable to the
bar, to the country, and to mankind."
On the day of the funeral of Mr. Justice Story, on the
12th of September last, at a meeting of the Suffolk bar,
h.-1d in the Circuit Court-room at Boston (Chief Justice
&haw in the chair), Mr. Webster pronounced the follow-
ing just and eloquent eulogium on the deceased judge:—
" Your solemn announcement, Mr. Chief Justice, has
confirmed the sad intelligence, which had already reached
us through the public channels of information, and deeply
afflicted us all,
" Joseph Story, one of the associate justices of the
Supreme Court of the United States, and for many years
the presiding judge of this circuit, died on Wednesday
evening last, at his own house in Cambridge, wanting
only a few days for the completion of the sixty-sixth
year of his age.
" This most mournful and lamentable event has
called together the whole bar of Suffolk, and all con-
nected with the courts of law, or the profession. It
has brought you, Mr. Chief Justice, and your asso-
ciates of the bench of the Supreme Court of Massa-
chussets, into the midst of us ; and you have done us
the honour, out of respect to the occasion, to consent
to preside ever us, while we deliberate on what is due,
as well to our own afflicted and smitten feelings, as
to the exalted character and eminent distinction of the
deceased judge. The occasion has drawn from his re-
tirement, also, that venerable man, whom we all
so much respect and honour, (Judge Davis), and
who was for thirty years the associate of the deceased
upon the same bench. It has called hither another judi-
cial personage, now in retirement (Judge Putman), but
long an ornament of that bench of which you are now
the head, and whose marked good fortune it is to have
been the professional teacher of Joseph Story, and the
director of his early studies. He is here also to whom
this blow comes near—l mean the learned judge (Judge
Sprague) immediately from whose side it has struck
away a friend, and a highly -venerated official associate.
The members of the school, to which the deceased was
so much attached, and who returned that attachment
with all the ingenuousness and enthusiasm of educated
and ardent youthful minds, are here also, to manifest
their sense of their own severe deprivation, as well as
their admiration of the bright and shining professional
example, which they have so loved to contemplate ; an
example—let me say to them, and let me say to all, as a
solace, in the midst of their sorrows—which death hath
not touched, and which time cannot obscure.
" Mr. Chief Justice, one sentiment pervades us all.
It is that of the most profound and penetrating grief,
mixed, nevertheless, with an assured conviction that the
great man whom we deplore is yet with us, and in the
midst of us. He hath not wholly died. He lives in the
affections of friends and kindred, and in the high regard
of the community. He lives in our remembrance of his
social virtues, his warm and steady friendships, and the
vivacity of his conversation. He lives, and will live still
more permanently by his words of written wisdom, by
the results of his vast researches and attainments, by his
imperishable legal judgments, and by those juridicial
disquisitions, which have stamped his name, all over the
civilised world, with the character of a commanding
authority. Vivit, enim, vivetque semper ; atque etiam
latius in memoria hominum et sermone versabitur, post-
quam ab oculis recessit.'
" Mr. Chief Justice, there are consolations which
arise to mitigate our loss, and shed the influence of re-
signation over unfeigned and heartfelt sorrow. We are
all penetrated with gratitude to God, that the deceased
lived so long ; that he did so much for himself, his
friends, the country, and the world ' • that his lamp went
out at last, without unsteadiness or flickering. He con-
tinued to exercise every power of his mind, without
dimness or obscuration, and every affection of his heart,
with no abatement of energy or warmth, till death drew
an impenetrable veil between us and him. Indeed, he
seems to us now, as in truth he is, not extinguished, or
ceasing to be, but only withdrawn ; as the clear sun
goes down at its setting, not darkened, but only no

longer seen.
" This calamity, Mr. Chief Justice, is not confined to
the bar, or the courts, of this commonwealth. It will be
felt by every bar throughout the land, by every court,
and, indeed, by every intelligent and well-informed man
in or out of the profession. It will be felt still more
widely, for his reputation bad a still wider range. In the
High Court of Parliament, in every tribunal in West-
minster Hall, in the Judicatories of Paris and Berlin,
Stockholm and St. Petersburg, in the learned univer-
sities of Germany, Italy, and Spain, by every eminent
jurist in the civilised world, it will be acknowledged that
a great luminary has fallen from the firmament of public
jurisprudence.
" Sir, there is no purer pride of country, than that in
which we may indulge, when we see America paying
back the great debt of civilisation, learning, and science
to Europe. In this high return of light for light, and
mind for mind, in this august reckoning and accounting
between the intellects of nations, Joseph Story was
destined by Providence to act, and did act, an important
part. Acknowledging, as we all acknowledge, our
obligations to the original sources of English law,
our
as well as of civil liberty, we have seen, i
generation, copious and salutary streams turning and
running backward, replenishing their original foun-
tains, and giving a fresher and a brighter green to the
fields of English jurisprudence. By a sort of reversed
hereditary transmission, the mother, without envy
or humiliation, acknowledges that she has received a
valuable and cherished inheritance from the daughter.
English justice admits, with frankness and candour, and

with no feeling but that of respect and admiration, that
he, whose voice we have so recently heard within these
walls, but shall now hear no more, was of all men who
have yet appeared most fitted, by the comprehensive-
ness of
.his mind, and the vast extent and accuracy of
his attainments, to compare the codes of nations, to trace
their differences to difference of origin, climate, or reli-
gious or political institutions, and to exhibit, neverthe-
less, their concurrence in those great principles, upon
which the system of human civilisation rests.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth.
It is the ligament which holds civilised beings and civi-
lised nations together. Wherever her temple stands,
and so long as it is duly honoured, there is a foundation
for social security, general happiness, and the improve-
ment and progress of our race. And whoever labours
on this edifice, with usefulness and distinction, whoever
clears its foundations, strengthens its pillars, adorns its
entablatures, or contributes to raise its august dome still
higher in the skies, connects himself, in name and fame
and character, with that which is and must be as durable
as the frame of human society.
" All know, Mr. Chief Justice, the pure love of coun-
try which animated the deceased, and the zeal, as well
as the talent with which he explained and defended her
institutions. His work on the Constitution of the United
States is ono of his most eminently successful labours.
But all his writings, and ali his judgments, all his opi-
nions, and the whole influence of his character, public
and private, leaned strongly and always in the support
of sound principles, to the restraint of illegal power.
and to the discouragement and rebuke of licentious and
disorganising sentiments. Ad rempublicam firmandam,
et ad stabiliendas vires, et sanandum populum, omnis
ejus pergebat institutio.'
" But this is not the occasion, sir, nor is it for me to
consider and discuss at length the character and merits
of Mr. Justice Story, as a writer or a judge. The per-
formance of that duty, with which this bar will, no
doubt, charge itself, must be deferred to another oppor-
tunity, and will be committed to abler hands. But, in
the homage paid to his memory, one part may come with
peculiar propriety and emphasis from ourselves. We have
known him in private life. We have seen him descend
from the bench, and mingle in our friendly circles. We
have known his manner of life, from his youth up. We can
bear witness to the strict uprightness and purity of his
character.; his simplicity and unostentatious habits ; the
ease and affability of his intercourse ; his remarkable
vi-
vacity amidst severe labours ; the cheerful and animating
tones of his conversation, and his fast fidelity to friends.
Some of us, also, can testify to his large and liberal cha-
rities—not ostentatious or casual, but systematic and
silent ; dispensed almost without showing the hand, and
falling and distilling comfort and happiness like the dews
of heaven. But we can testify also, that in all his pur-
suits and employments, in all his recreations, in all his
commerce with the world, and in his intercourse with
the circle of his friends, the predominance of his
judicial character was manifest. He never forgot the
ermine which he wore. The judge, the judge, the use-
ful and distinguished judge, was the great picture which
he kept constantly before his eyes, and to a resem-
blance to which all his efforts, all his thoughts, all his
life, were devoted. We may go the world over, with-
out finding a man who shall present a more striking
real'sation of the beautiful conception of D'Aguesseau,
C'est vain quo l'on cherche a distinguer en lin la per-
uonne priv63 et la personae publique ; un mime esprit
les anime, un memo objet les reunit ; le pore
de famille, le citoyen, tout est en lui consacr6 a la glom
du magistrat.
" Mr. Chief Justice, one may live as a conqueror, a
king, or a magistrate ; but he must die as a man. The
bed of death brings every human being to his pure indi-
viduality—to the intense contemplation of that deepest
and most solemn of all relations—the relation between the
creature and his Creator. Here it is that fame and re-
nown cannot assist us; that all external things must fail to
aid us; that even friends, affection, and human love and
devotedness cannot succour us. This relation, the true
foundation of all duty, a relatien perceived and felt by
conscience, and confirmed by revelation, our illustrious
friend, now deceased, always acknowledged. He reve-
renced the scriptures of truth, honoured the pure mo-
rality which they teach, and seized hold on the hopes of
future life, which they impart. He saw enough in na-
ture, in himself, and in all that can be known of things
seen, to feel assured that there is a Supreme Power,
without whose providence not a sparrow falleth to the
ground. To this gracious Being he trusted himself, for
time and for eternity ; and the last words of his lips,
ever heard by mortal ears, were a fervent supplication to
his Maker to take him to himself."
At the request of the Suffolk bar this address was pub-
lished by Mr. Webster, with the following dedication to
the surviving mother of Judge Story :
" Boston, Sept. 15, 1545.
" Venerable Madam,—l pray you to allow me to
present to you the brief remarks which I made before
the Suffolk bar, on the 12th instant, at a meeting occa-
sioned by the sudden and afflicting death of your distin-
guished son. I trust, dear Madam, that as you enj.oycd
through his whole life constant proofs of his profound
respect, and ardent filial affection, so you may yet live
long to enjoy the remembrance of his virtues and his
exalted reputation.—l am, with very great regard, your
obedient servant, " DANIEL WEBSTER.
" To Madam Story."
We rejoice to learn that a committee is forming of
members of the bar and eminent solicitors in the Law
Institution, for the purposu of settinx on fotol a publiQ
subscription in honour of Mr. Justice Story. we be-
lieve that it is intended to offer to the benchers of Lin-
coln's Inn a marble statue of this eminent transatlantic
judge, as a tribute of respect due to an accomplished
lawyer, whose immortal works are equally estimated in
the " mother country" and in the American United
States.

THE STARS OF THE FRENCH

CHAMBERS.

The entrance of Marshal Soult produces always a
certain amount of sensation. * * The illustrious
warrior, in respect to the popular sovereignty, uncovers
his noble head even before he enters the Salle des Pas
Perclus. Handing his stick to the valet who follows
him, he traverses the hall with a slow and halting pace
—the consequence of a wound received forty years ago,
at the siege of Genoa. The crowd make way as he
approaches. Men of all ranks bow to the Marshal, but
no one offers him the hand: his martial bearing, his hair
whitened in the service of the State, his stately attitude,
impose respect.—When M. Guizot enters, men press
on his footsteps, and follow him through the hall, seek-
ing fin his face the traces of that energy and firmness
which he exhibits in discussion. But he, in most
cases, glides through the hall'at a quick pace, his hat
overshadowing one-half his face, and vanishes in the
passages, disconcerting the curious by the rapidity of
the evolution. Towards the close of the session, how-
ever, when all the questions of foreign policy are re-
solved, M. Guizot makes his triumphal entries. With
his hat thrown back, his face unshaded, and his hands
in his pockets, he advances slowly up the hall, receives
compliments, takes leave of his friends, and grasps
hands on every side. * * When M. Thiers is in
power, like M. Guizot, he hurries through the crowd,
and passes on. But during the last two sessions his en-
trance, as chief of the Opposition, is very bustling. Fol-
lowed by
.several of his political friends, at every step
his train increases. On all sides lie is stopped, ques-
tioned, apostrophised. He answers with a short and
dry politeness—takes by the arm one of his colleagues,
or one of the editors of the journals in his interest,
and makes his way into one of the more retired
halls, or into the lobbies of the public galleries, for
greater freedom of speech. He shakes off his cortege,
as a general might his staff. * * Count Molt
has the bearing and attitude of a statesman—a great
man of former days. Round him are neither aides-de-
camp, nor friends, nor familiars. He has colleagues, but
no equals ; and the courtiers who throng on his foot-
steps in power keep not far aloof. His march is grave,
even solemn ; his speech, though polite, reserved, cold,
abrupt—sometimes monotonous. He traverses the hall
with a slow and measured pace ; and passes through its
bustling and agitated groups without even regarding
them. From time to time, he replies to such compli-
ments or questions as ho cannot avoid ; but without a
movement, look or gesture that betrays to the most pe •
netrating his sentiment or impression of the hour. *
But he has the art to win the confidence and sympathy of
those whom he desires to conciliate, by his affability in
private interviews, carefully conducted—and which in-
clude the secret of his power.—M. Berryer loves to show
himself in the hall, and receive the compliments and ho-
mage of its groups. He is the centre of a circle of admirers
and flatterers of his great renown ; but his following is
ordinarily composed less of Deputies than of persons from
out of doors. M. Berryer wears his historical blue coat,
buttoned military-fashion up to the throat—which gives
a severe and martial appearance to the man.—M. de
Lamartine appears rarely in the hall, and never stays
there long. Occasionally he may be observed, with his
melancholy air, passing towards the waiting-room in
search of his constituents, who draw him from the
Chamber under pretext of obtaining tickets, but often
really with a view to acquaint themselves with the. tea-
-1 tures of the illustrious poet. * Dupin
as he passes, his pointed arrows of speech ag t
friend and foe ; and while his jeux d'esprit are passing
from mouth to mouth, and occupying the
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descends to pause here, his circle oflitshteenneeersbetrays to instantly
swells ; and the loud laugh. that arises
all the hall who is its witty centre.—The entrance of
M. Odillon Barret is always solemn—his look haughty,
his gait magisterial. The leader of H the Left seems to
carry his head with self -respct .
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loudly ao one, takesnd
no notice of the homage paid , speaks
scatters his words with au easy indifference.—M. Du-
faure is the only Deputy of great note who never pauses
in the Salle des Pas Perdus. He passes through it ra-
pidly with his eyes on the ground. He has always an
anxious brow and an impenetrable face. I never saw
him smile, or converse in any group—as if he feared to
be taken for a conspirator. * * He has abandoned, in
turn, his friends et the Opposition and his Conservative
friends ; and, in the very isolation which he has created
for himself, has been, nevertheless, the most dangerous
opposition in the Chamber.

Mr. Montgomery Martin had an interview yesterday
with the Earl of Dalhousie.