it must be confessed that he pushed his way in a manner the most original. Between 1809 and 1816 he published a series of reports at Nisi Prius extending to four volumes, which are most valuable in themselves, but which were of especial interest to the attorneys who had been engaged in any of the cases recorded, inasmuch as for the first time in the history of such reporting he had at the end of each decision stated the names of those attorneys who had to do with the trials. He soon established a connection with the leading solicitors, obtained a large practice, and was retained, as a matter of course, in shipping cases, and nearly every important cause tried before a special jury at the Guildhall sittings. Apart, however, from the popularity of these volumes among the attorneys, they were held in still wider estimation as the admirably-reported decisions of Lord Ellenborough; and Campbell took credit to himself for having in some degree created the reputation of that lawyer.

In 1821 he married Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir James Scarlett, afterwards Lord Abinger, and in 1827 he obtained the honour of a silk gown and a seat within the bar. He represented Stafford during 1830 and 1831. In November, 1832, he was appointed SolicitorGeneral, and in the following month was returned by Dudley in the Reformed Parliament. Sir John Campbell was appointed Attorney-General in February, 1834, on the retirement of Sir William Horne; but on presenting himself, in the same month, to his constituents at Dudley for re-election, he was unseated. He, however, obtained a seat for Edinburgh, which he retained until he was elevated to a peerage.

He was rather strangely passed over in the legal changes consequent on the retirement of the Whig Chancellor Brougham, but by way of amends his wife was raised to the peerage as Baroness Stratheden. This was in January, 1836, and for five years more Sir John Campbell waited apparently without the prospect of a rise, but at last the Irish Chancellor was consulted, and Lord Plunkett

was persuaded to retire; and towards the end of June, 1841, Campbell was raised to the peerage and to the Irish Chancellorship. He did not retain his office long, but left Ireland before the month was out, and in the September following he resigned with the Melbourne Ministry. He retained the title and a pension of £4,000 a year, but he declined the pecuniary reward, and lived for the next five years without office, profession, salary, or pension. Revelling in the resumption of classical studies and in the perusal of modern authors, "By degrees I began to perceive the want of a definite object," he says, and he resolved to write the "Lives of the Chancellors." The first series of these biographies was published early in 1846, and the work became immediately popular, though it is now known to be a very superficial and partisan production, and not at all to be trusted on matters of fact. These were succeeded by a series of "Lives of the Chief Justices," to which a similar character applies. Their temporary popularity is well accounted for by a writer in the "Edinburgh Courant:"

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"These works acquired a greater popularity than might have been expected; and, indeed, they are written in a sufficiently flowing and readable style. Lord Campbell was not only fond of literature, but he had a keen relish for popularity. He did his best to accumulate anecdotes, and dash off 'graphic' sketches, like the regular light writers' of his time, and he achieved considerable success in this new sphere. But accuracy is not by any means a characteristic of these 'Lives;' and there are other faults in them which detract from their merit. The style, though lively, is loose, and sometimes even vulgar; and the gossip of each period about the great men of whom Lord Campbell is writing is reproduced with a gusto which says little for his delicacy of taste, -and argues perhaps some want of real kindness and generosity."

On the return of the Whig party to office in June, 1846, after the resignation of the late Sir Robert Peel, Lord Campbell joined the Cabinet, and was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the succeeding month. In 1850 his lordship was appointed Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, which became vacant

on the death of Lord Denman. He held that post until Lord Palmerston's accession to power in 1859, when he was selected to fill the office of Lord Chancellor-an appointment which gave general satisfaction.

The death of his lordship was very sudden. On the preceding day (Saturday) he was engaged in his ordinary pursuits, and in the afternoon he attended the cabinet council held at the Premier's official residence in Downing-street. To his colleagues he appeared cheerful, and full of mental vigour. In the evening he entertained a party of eighteen at dinner, and while with his friends was full of lively converse and shewed no symptoms of illness. At one o'clock he bade his daughters good-night in the drawingroom and retired to rest. On Sunday morning, shortly before eight o'clock, his lordship's butler entered his master's bedroom, and was greatly alarmed to find him seated in a chair, motionless, with his head thrown back and blood oozing from his mouth, and insensible. The impression of the medical men was that his death was the result of a rupture of one of the principal arteries in the region of the heart, internal bleeding causing suffocation.

By Baroness Stratheden, who died about fifteen months since, the deceased leaves issue three sons and four daughters, viz., William Frederick Lord Stratheden, the Hon. Hallyburton, and Hon. Dudley Campbell; the Hon. Louisa, married to the Rev. W. S. White; the Hon. Mary, the Hon. Cecilia, and the Hon. Edina.

LORD ABINGER.

June 24. At Abinger-hall, near Dorking, aged 66, Robert Campbell Scarlett, second Lord Abinger, and brother-in-law of Lord Chancellor Campbell, whom he survived but one day.

The deceased peer, who was the eldest of the three sons of Sir James Scarlett, first Lord Abinger, was born in London in 1794, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1818 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. He sat in Parliament for Norwich from

1835 to 1837, and for Horsham from 1841 till 1844, when he succeeded to the title. In 1824 he married Sarah, the second daughter of Mr. Chief Justice Smith, of the Mauritius, who survives him, and by whom he leaves issue Lieut.-Col. the Hon. William Frederick (now Lord Abinger), who served in the Scots Fusilier Guards in the Crimea, and received the order of Medjidie; the Hon. Henrietta Elizabeth, who is married to the Hon. Otway Fortescue Toler, heir presumptive to his brother, the Earl of Norbury; and the Hon. Frances Mary, wife of the Rev. Sidney L. Smith, Rector of Brampton Ash, Northamptonshire.

PRINCE ADAM CZARTORYSKI.

July 15. At Paris, aged 90, Prince Adam Czartoryski, a very prominent actor in the Polish revolution of 1830.

The deceased, who was born at Warsaw, Jan. 14, 1770, was the son of Prince Adam Casimir, who was a field-marshal in the Austrian service, and who died in 1823. He passed several of his early years in England and at the University of Edinburgh for the purpose of education, and on returning to Poland he in 1793 joined the force of Kosciusko against the Russians. That effort, as is well known, failed, and after the partition of the country, the young count was sent with one of his brothers as a hostage into Russia. Here the Grand Duke Alexander (afterwards emperor) was so charmed with the noble and mauly character of the young Pole that he became his intimate friend, and upon his accession to the throne appointed him Minister of Foreign Affairs, in which capacity Czartoryski in 1805 subscribed, in the name of Russia, the treaty with Great Britain. He then demanded his dismissal, but, nevertheless, accompanied Alexander in the campaign of 1807, having previously been present at the battle of Austerlitz.

After the peace of Tilsit, he retired almost entirely from public life, declaring that his connection with Russia was only as a personal friend of the Emperor. For this reason, when the war broke out in

1812, he was again by the side of Alexander, whom he accompanied to Paris in 1814.

In 1815 he was appointed Senator Palatine of the kingdom, and in 1817 married the Princess Anna Sapieha. He attended the first Diet, and spoke boldly in favour of a Constitution, but all his hopes were disappointed. In 1821 some students of the University of Wilna, of which he was curator, were accused of revolutionary movements, and in spite of his efforts sixty of them were imprisoned without trial. Many of the sons of the first families were drafted as soldiers into the Russian regiments, and others were banished to Siberia and the military colonies. Czartoryski thereupon resigned his post. When the revolution of 1830 broke out, he devoted all his energies to the service of his country. He was appointed President of the Provisional Government, and summoned the Diet to meet on the 18th of December, 1830. On the 30th of January, 1831, he was placed at the head of the national Government, and offered half his property for the service of his country. After the terrible days of August 15th and 16th, he resigned his post, but he served as a common soldier in the corps of General Romarino during the last fruitless struggles. When all was lost he made his escape, and reached Paris. He was expressly excluded from the amnesty of 1831, and his estates in Poland were confiscated.

During the Polish insurrection of 1846 the Prince's Gallician estates were put under sequestration by the Austrian Government, but this was removed in the spring of 1848. In March of that year he issued a proclamation urging the German representatives to unite with those of France to demand the restoration of Poland. In April, 1848, he enfranchised the peasants upon his estates of Siendaiwa, in Gallicia, and gave them their possessions

in fee.

During the many years of his residence in Paris, Prince Czartoryski was the acknowledged head of the Polish society in that capital, and was universally respected for his political integrity and high-minded

patriotism. He leaves a daughter and two sons, one of whom is married to a daughter of Queen Christina of Spain.

RICHARD BLAGDEN, ESQ.

March 31. At Percy-place, Bath, aged 72, Richard Blagden, Esq., F.R.C.S. (England), late of Albemarle-street, London.

Mr. Blagden held the appointments of Surgeon Accoucheur to her present gracious Majesty, and of Surgeon in Ordinary to her late Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. For nearly forty years he discharged with the utmost integrity, perseverance, and ability, the duties of a medical man in London. Among men eminent in his profession his name was always spoken of with extreme respect and deference, while he held an equally high reputation both with personal friends and patients. The latter included many of the nobility, and persons of distinction in society. In earlier life he lectured, in conjunction with the late Sir Charles M. Clarke, on midwifery, and was for many years connected with Queen Charlotte's Hospital,-always, even in the midst of a large and pressing practice, displaying an active interest in that and other medical

and benevolent institutions. He was considered to be peculiarly skilful in, and gained a celebrity for, the management and treatment of female and children's complaints. Throughout his career he made that branch of medical science his spécialité.

Nearly seven years ago Mr. Blagden, feeling himself, through age and failing health, to be unequal to his former laborious habits, retired from his practice in London. From that period, up to the time of his death, he resided in Bath. There, though he declined all professional engagements, the same courteous manners, unobtrusive goodness, and consistent character endeared him to many.

Those

who knew him well could see almost a significance in his well-spent, exemplary life's closing, as if in rest, on the evening of Easter-day.

He was the youngest son of the late Richard Bragg Blagden, Esq., of Pet

worth, Sussex, himself, in his day, a medical man of some local repute. There survive him a widow, and seven children by a former marriage, three daughters and four sons, one of whom now follows the medical profession.

MISS BAKER.

April 22. At her house in Gold-street, Northampton, aged 74, Miss Anne Elizabeth Baker.

She was the youngest of three children, of whom one, Mrs. Wilson, still survives. Miss Baker was the sister of Mr. George Baker, the historian of Northamptonshire, and to her the excellent but incomplete work on the "History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire" owes its geology and botany. "She had been," says the Quarterly Reviewer, in January 1857, "the companion of her brother's journeys, his amanuensis, his fellowlabourer, especially in the natural history, and had made drawings for, and even engraved, some of the plates for his great work." Indeed it would be hard to overrate her share of the book; her accurate and minute turn of mind being of the greatest value to Mr. Baker in the collection and preservation of those details, so inconsiderable when viewed separately, but which in combination make up the chief value of a county history. Besides the assistance given to her brother, Miss Baker was employed, during the greater part of the time in which she accompanied him from village to village, in compiling, from the mouths of the common people, the collection of provincialisms which she afterwards embodied in her "Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases," published in 1854 in 2 vols. This was indeed a labour of love with her; and is one of the most full and satisfactory of all our local lexicons, the Anglo-Saxonism of the county giving it a range and a value beyond its immediate district. Miss Baker devoted herself to antiquarian subjects from her earliest years, and her retentive memory enabled her to connect the present with the past with remarkable accuracy. She remembered John

Wesley preaching on "the Green" at Northampton, the cavalry galloping down Gold-street on their way to quell the Birmingham riots in 1791, and a woman being dipped in "the watering," in Bridgestreet, for reputed witchcraft. She was one of the first to call attention to the neglected beauty of our old architecture, and in 1812 commenced removing the whitewash from the Norman arch of St. Peter's, which subsequently led to the perfect restoration of that church by Mr. G. G. Scott.

But her energies were not confined to antiquarian pursuits. There was no one more active than herself in establishing and fostering charitable and educational institutions in her native town. As a visitor of the schools and prisons she was heartily engaged almost to the very close of her life, and was ever ready to give her patronage and personal assistance to every well-conducted plan for advancing the social, educational, and moral condition of her townsfolk of whatever class.

Miss Baker was born on June 16, 1786, and by her death has left a gap in the society of Northampton which the present generation, little appreciative of literary and antiquarian pursuits, can hardly be expected to supply.

REV. DR. CARDWELL.

May 23. At the Principal's Lodge, aged 73, the Rev. Edward Cardwell, D.D., Principal of St. Alban's Hall, Oxford.

The deceased was the son of Richard Cardwell, Esq., of Blackburn, Lancaster, and was born in 1787. In 1806 he entered as a commoner at Brasenose. He gained a first class in classics and a second class in mathematics, took the degree of B.A. and became a fellow of his college in 1809; he afterwards acted for several years as tutor and lecturer, and in 1814 he was appointed one of the University Examiners. He was elected Camden Professor of Ancient History in 1826, and in 1831 he was appointed Principal of St. Alban's Hall, in succession to Archbishop Whately. For a time he held the College living of StokeBruerne, which he resigned soon after his appointment to St. Alban's Hall.