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London, England, 1845-12-04 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING SUN, DECEMBER 4, 1845.

I4ONDON AND YORK RAILWAY
EXTENSION AND BRANCH LINES.
The Shareholders are hereby informed that the Plans, Sections, and
Books of Reference hare been duly deposited with the Board of Trade
and the several Clerks of the Peace, in conformity with the standing
orders of Parliament, hi respect of the Wakefield and Leeds Exten-
sion, the Hertford, the St. Alban's, Luton, and Dunstable, mad the
Stamford and Spalding branch linos.
By order of the Committee of Direction,
J. It. MONTATT, Secretary.
OfAcee, No. 7, Lethbury, London, Dec. 2, 1845.

BOSTON, STAMFORD, and BIRMING-
HAM RAILWAY (Leicester, by Stamford, to Boston and
Wisteach).
(Provisionally Registered, 17th April, 1845.)
The Committee of Management have the pleasure of annouueiug to
the Shareholders is this important undertaking, that the plans, sec-
tions, and books of reference have besn duly deposited with the seve-
ral Clerks of the Peace, and at the Board of Tra,!e, in compliance
with the standing orders of Parliament.
By order, EDWARD DANIEL, Secretary.
IS, 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
is the Shareholders in this important undertaking, that the Plans,
Sections, aid Books of Reference have been duly deposited with the
several Clerks of the Peace, and at the Board of Trade, in compliance
with the standing orders of Parliament.
By order, EDWARD DANIEL, Secretary.
It, Abingdon-street, Westminster, Dee. 1, 1845.

GREAT WESTERN, BRENTFORD, AND
CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY.
The Provisional Directors cif the above Company have the pleasure
to inform their Shareholders that their Gazette and Newspaper
Notices have been duly given, and that the 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 with.
By order of the Board,
H. MORNING, Secretary.
Office, 53, Charing-cross, Dec. 1, 1845.

IRECT BIRMINGHAM and LEICESTER

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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, Birmingham.

LONDON and NOTTINGHAM RAILWAY,
connecting London, Nottingham, Sheffield, and Leeds.
(Provisionally Registered pursuant to 7 and 8 -Viet. c. 110.)
COMMITTEE 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 Groueock, Esq.
James Gernon, Esq.
William Hannay, Esq.
Captain Adamson Georgt Parker
Samuel Parsons, Esq.
William Raines, Esq.
Thomas Wakefield, Esq.
LOCAL COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT AT NOTTINGHAM.
John Heard, Esq, Chairman
Joseph Braithwaite, Esq.
- • - ; Thomas Close, Esq. ' •
William Hannay, Esq. • . • -
_ Lewis Heymann, Esq. • ,
• .•, Cetpt. Adamson George Parker, _
Thomas Wakefield, Esq.
ENGINEER-IN-ClllEY—Charles Hutton Gregory, Esq., C.E.
ACTING ENGINEERS.
T. Hawkesley, Esq. C.E.
Nathaniel Briant, Esq., C.E.
STANDINA 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, Esq., Chesterfield
William Latham, Esq., Melton Mowbray.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Gregory, Faulkner, and Co., 11, Parliament-street
BANKERS.
Messrs. Roberts, Curtis, and Co., 15, Lombard-street, London
Messrs. Moore and Robinson, Nottinghamshire Banking Company,
Nottingham
The Sheffield and llallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield.
The Directors have pleasure in informing 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 oast of the works, and the absence of engineering
difficulties, whilst it admits of gradients of a very favourable cha-
ratter ; and that the plans, sections, and books of reference are duly
lodged in compliance with the standing orders of the Rousse 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 C. atract and Subscribers' Agreement will lie
for signature at the undermentioned places, at the days and times
stated, between the hours of eleven and four o'clock each day :
At the Offices of the Company, 8, Warnford-court, London, on and
after this day.
And Counterparts,—
At the Offices of Messrs. Freeth and Rawson, Nottingham, from
Wednesday, the 3d instant, until Wednesday, the 10th instant.
At the Codices of Messrs. Parker and Smith, Sheffield, on Thursday,
the 11th instant, until Saturday, the 13th instant.
At the Queen's Hotel, Manchester, on Monday, the 15th Instant.
At the White Hart Hotel, Leeds, on Tuesday, the 16th instant.
At the Kingston Hotel, Bull, en 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.
8, Warnford-court, London, Ist Dec., 1845.

EXETER GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Being a Line between Yeovil and Exeter, and between
Bridport and Exeter, with Branches n
Share
Sidmouth and Chard.
Capital, 1,300,0001., ihares of 501. each.
On which 4 per cent. is guaranteed by the Great Western Railway
Company.
Deposit, Si. per Shari.
(Provisionally Registered pursuant te Act 7th and ith victoria,
cap. 110.)

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
I Parliament.
1 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
BIRRIZNIIEAD 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‘edge they resolve on going to parliament in the ensuing
session. By order,
C. W. JACKSON, Secretary, pro tem.

THE DIRECT LINCOLN, EAST RETFORD,
AND SHEFFIELD JUNCTION RAILWAY.
'The Committee of Management, in accordance with their Resolu-
tion of the 14th Noventher 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, Reeretary pro tens.

BOSTON, GRANTHAM, L EICESTER, AND
MIDLAND COUNTIES JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Offices, 5, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street.
Capital. 800,000/., in 40,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 11. 2s. per Share.
The Committee of Management hare now the satisfaction to state
that the Plans, Stations, Books of Reference, &c., have been duly de-
posited with the Clerks of the Peace for the counties through which
the line runs, and with the Board of Trade, and they invite the
strictest investigation to ascertain that this Company has fully com-
plied with the standing orders of Parliament.
GEORGE EARRER, Secretary.

HREW SBURY and LEICESTER DIRECT
RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management have much satisfactioa in an-
nouncing that the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference have
this day all been duly deposited with the Board of Trade, Clerks of
the Peace, &c., pursuant to the Standing Orders.
By order,
J. W. JELLICOR&E, Secretary,
18, Finsbury-place.

Nov. 29, 1845

-Nvir IDLAND UNION and BURTON-UPON-
-1.17: TRENT, ASIIST-DE-LA-ZOIJCH, 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 amounting
to the Shareholders in this important undertaking, that the Plans,
Sections, and Books of Reference have been, duiLdeposited with the
several Clerks of the Peace, and at the Board of Trade, in coiniill-1
ance with the standing.orders of Parliament.
By order, " WILLIAM KNIGHT, Secretary.
IS, Abingdon-street,"Arastrainster, Dec. 1, 1845.

TIIE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
RAILWAY.
ClIAIRMAX—Thornas Dowgiasse, Esq.
EnciNkan-in-Cnine--Samuel Charles Bross, Esq.
Ser.icrroas—Messrs. Elamite and Preston, 47, Moorgate- street.
WI/TA/LT—Z. Hubbersty, Req.
The Committee of Management have the satisfaction to announce
that the proper Notices have bee* 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 Lice have been
most numerously signed by the 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
much lees expense than he originally contemplated.
By order of the Beard,
Z. HUBBERSTY, Secretary.
Moergate Climbers, Moorgate-street, Dec. 1, 1845.

S lIREWSBURY and HEREFORD RAIL-
WAY.
The Committee it 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.
449, West Strand, London, Dec. 3, 1845.

GREAT WESTERN, SOUTHERN, AND
EASTERN COUNTIES, OR IPSWICII AND SOUTH-
A NIPTON RAILWAY.
The Committee of Direction have the satisfaction to announce that
the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference of the portions of the line
from Colchester to llertford (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 counties through which the proposed
railway will pass. The notices of application to Parliament for a
ill hare also been given in the London 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.
NOTlCE.—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, ars In progress, and will be perfected in a few days, of
which due notice will be given.
GEORGE WELLER, / Solicitors of the
GEORGE FELL, jun., 3 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 December ;1845.
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 effices 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 COXHEAD, Secretary,
Offices, 6, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street, Nov. 29, 1845.

NIVARWICK 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 shertly be published ;
All persons having claims upon the Warwick and Cheltenham
Company, are hereby requested to send in such claims to the Office
of the Company, on or before the Bth instant, that they may be ex-
amined, and, if found to be correct, discharged.
'By order, H. CASSIN, Secretary.
3, Church-court, Old Jewry, London, Dec. 1, 1845.

;OSTON, NEWARK,AY. AND SHEFFIELD
RAILW
The Committee of Direction beg to Inform the shareholders that
the Plans and Books of Reference of the line were duly lodged 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 ; they were, however, deposited before office hours on the
foll owing. moniing.
The Committee feel confident that no impediment to the progress
of the Bill will arise from this delay, the case of the Sheffield and
Lincolnshire Railwaylast session affording, from the exact similarity,
a decisive president for insuring the safety of the Bill hi the standing
orders.
With the exception of about 500 reserved shares, the full deposit
of 10 per cent. has been paid on the capital, of which 100,0001. has
been invested at .3% per cent. interest, and 19,0001. at 3 per cent.
The Sections will 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 unanimously favourable, and the
Committee feel undiminished confidence in the ultimate success of the
undertaking. By order,
JOHN DENNISTON, Secretary.
Mansfield, December 3, 1845.

MANY THOUSANDS of POUNDS STERLING to be GIVEN

TO the SUBSCRIBERS to the PICTORIAL
TIMES.

For particulars of this extraordinary undertaking apply imme-
diately to any Bookseller or Newsyender In England, Ireland, o
Scotland, or to the Publisher, Mr. C. Evans, 351, strand, London
who will be happy to forward a Prospectus.

ELEGANT PRESENT.
TOn the Ilth of December will be published, price 165.,
HE ANNALS OF HORTICULTURE,
handsomely bound in arabesque, richly gilt, containing 138
engravings, a beautifully-coloured frontispiece, and 680 pages of
original information on Gardening and Planting, including the
culture and management of all popular Flowers, and Flowering
Shrubs.

Iloniston and Stoneman, Paternoster-I'6w ; W. Whyte and Co.,
Edinburgh ; W. Curry and Co., Dublin.—Orders received by all
Booksellers.

This day, in an octavo pamphlet,
A DDRESS TO THE BRITISH PUBLIC,
ax. on the Slanderous Articles of certain Writers in " PUNCH,"
directed against the British and Foreign Institute and its Resident
Director, with a Narrative of Facts connected therewith, and a Per-
sonal Correspondence with its Publishers, Editors, and Contributors.

FOULLTEENTII EI)I TION of the SILENT FRIEND in Raman
Frailty, with Coloured Engravings.

Jest published, price 2s. 6d., free by post (in a sealed envelope) 33.6 d.,
TIIE SILENT FRIEND 4 a Medical Work on
the Infirmities of the System a both sexes ; and on the loss
of the reproductive powers, witis means of restoration. The basteftit
effects of indulga- ce, &c., are fully pointed out. Illustrated by En-
gravings; followed ty observations on Marriage.
By R. and L. PERRY and Co., Consulting Surgaens, London.
Published by the Authors, and may be had at tkeir resialenee
19, BERNERS-STREET, OXFORD-STREET.
sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Hannay and Co., 63, Ox-
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street, Soho ; and all Booksellers.
" We regard the work before us, the ' Silent Friend,' as a work
embracing most clear and practical views of a series of complaint,
hitherto little understood, and passed over by a majority of the me-
dicalprofession, for what reason we are at a loss to know. We must
kowever confess that a perusal of this work has loft such a favourable
impression on our minds, that we not only recommend, but cordially
wish every one who is the victim of past folly, or suffering front indis-
cretion, to profit lity the advice contained In its pages."—Age and Argus.
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Tke CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, a remedy
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Consultation fee, if by letter, li. Minute detail of eases necessary.

-- . —.-- --
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106, Duke-s eet, Liverpool, every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday ;
and at 10, St. Join-street, Doansgate, Manchester, on Mondavi,
Tuesdays, and Wednesdays.

Nothing could be better devised than N icoll's Re-
gistered Paletot to suit the ever-varied nature of our climate,
forming, as it now does, not only the sine qua non of the
railway traveller, but is equally so adapted for any gentleman
taking out-door exercise. It may be said distinctly to mark
the costume of the nineteenth century, if that is rightly
called marked which is only conspicuous for an unpretending
and graceful bearer, the wearer feeling so much at ease.
Certainly as an over-coat it is patronised highly, and is also
a general public favourite, being so peculiarly English, and
avoiding all foreign extravagance of style. It must be ac-
knowledged as a vast improvement over the old great coat,
associated in our remembrance with an uncomfortable sensa-
tion of tight buttonings, which, from its very clumsiness,
defeated its object, the warmth of the person, as interfering
with the proper circulation of the blood. The principal hues
are black, blue, brown, and olive ; also the clerical mixture
called Oxford, and can be had of the patentees, or only of
the most respectable clothiers out of London. Every winter
paletot is three guineas, and is stampted in the lining with
the words, "Registered 6 and 7 Vic., cap. 65. H. J. and D.
Nicoll, 114, Regent-street, London.
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GAME TRESPASS BY A MILITARY OFFICER.-A
case of this description came before the magistrates at
Rochester on Monday. which excited some interest. A short
time since the Crown woods at Rainham and Chatham-hill
were sold, and Mr. J. Stunt, of Rainham, and Mr. T. H. Day,
banker, of Rochester, became the purchasers. The latter
gentleman, being desirous of preserving the game there, the
men in care of the woods warned the party against whom the
charge was brought that be was trespassing. It appeared
that on the 6th of
.Navernber, Captain James, of the 84th
Regiment, accompanied by Lieut. Grantham, of the 98th
Regiment, beat the covers on the above estates, and made a
boast of having killed all the pheasants. One of the wit-
nesses stated that Lieut. Grantham, when they had been
warned off, held up his pocket, and said, " You should have
spoken before—we have got all your pheasants." The
Lieutenant told the magistrate that this was said only in
joke, and. Captain James said they had not killed a bird that
day. lie admitted that they had fired all four barrels at one
bird, but missed it. The magistrates, as there had been bad
language used by the men in care of the woods, in•
flicted the small penalty of Is. and 168. costs on Captain
James. There was a second charge against the defendant
under the Mutiny Act, subjecting him to a much higher
penalty. Mr. Day, who was in Court, stated that, although
his name had not transpired that day, and as it might
appear that he was not the person, he begged to avow him-
self as the individual who had been instrumental in bringing
the present case before them. He had no vindictive feeling
to gratify, his only design being to preserve the game. As
regarded the other complaint, he had lately heard of a
similar case, that had resulted so seriously to the officer,
that, unless the magistrates were of opinion that it ought
not to be withdrawn, he had no desire to press the case
further. The second information was consequently with-
drawn.
PET WORTII.--TLI LATE MURDEROUS AFFRAY
WITH POACHERS.—Since the inquest fresh facts have come
out. Puttick has been re-examined, and he now states that
hs was " daunted like".at one man's being shot, and did not
start so noon as Denyer, but that he saw him shoot when
near the Liver; and when he, Putticit, came up to Denyer at
the river, Denyer took from his, Puttick's hand, a large
horse-pistol which lie took out with him, and which he fired
directly at the poachers. The Coroner blames Puttick for
not stating this at the inquest.—Brighton Guardian.

THE LATE JUDGE STORY.

The llonourable 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 have, 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. Ilis 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,
vacancy
twuesy
ichosenin
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Essex,
xa,
srepresentative
Ht oe Cs
eornvgerde
isns ,
and was, in fact, their leader in Massachusetts. In 1809
this fibolldya
with 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. "
judicial life was prolonged to a period almost unex-
ampled in the annals 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 illus:rated 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
be 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 " Commen-
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 tho " Conflict of Laws ;" " Equity
Jurisprudence," " Equity Pleadings," " Bills of Ex-
change," and " Promissory Notes." "In regarding the
deceased as an author, jurisprudence mourns one 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, lie 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, be 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•

Cons 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,
held in the Circuit Court room at Boston (Chief Justice
Shaw 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 over 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 inger.uousness 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. Viva, enim, vivetque semper ; atque etiam
latius in raemoria 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 had 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,
as well as of civil liberty, we have seen, in our
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 one of his most eminently successful labours.
But all his writings, and all 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 firinandam,
et ad stabiliendas vires, et sanandum populum, omnis
ejus pergebat institutio.'
" But this is not the occasion, sir, nor is it for the 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 bis 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. Ho never forgot the
ermine which he wore. The judge, the judge, the uses
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
realisation of the beautiful conception of D'Ag9esseau,
C'est vain que l'on cherche a distinguer en lut la per-
sonne privy et la personne publique ; un meine esprit
les anime, un creme objet les reunit ; I'homme, to pore
de famine, le citoyen, tout est en lui consacre ala gloire
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 relation perceived and felt by
conscience, and confirmed by revelation, our illustrious
friend, now deceased, always acknowledged. Ho 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 rrquest 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, 1845.

" Venerable Madam,—l pray you to allow me to
present to you the brief remarks which I male before
the 16uffolk bar, on the 12th instant, at a meetin,, occa-
sioned by the sudden and afflicting death of your'distin-
guished son. I trust, dear Madam, that as you enjoyed
through his whole life constant proofs of his profound
respect, and ardent filial affiTtion, so you may yet live
loeg 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, fur the purpose of setting on foot a public
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.

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