Dr. Lushington, so long the Judge of the Court of
Arches andthe Admiralty Court, died on Monday morning, in his ninety- second year, at his seat near Oakham. He was born seven years before the great French Revolution, and only a month or so agp went to Oxford to vote for the Dean of Westminster, so that a longer life of full intellectual activity has been granted to few men. He was a colleague of Lord Brougham's in the defence of Queen Caroline, and his speech produced, it is said, a very great effect on the House of Lords. As Judge of the Admiralty Court he gained credit for the fairness and moderation of England during the Crimean war, when he reversed a great number of Lord Stowell's precedents for condemning prize ships. In the Court of Arches, his judgment in the ease of " Essays and Reviews," though enlarged on appeal, was justly admired for its lucidity and strength. Dr. Lushington was a great converser, and it is said that if reported his table-talk would be almost as popular as that of Selden or Coleridge. But for the most part it is to be feared he will live chiefly in the memory of his friends, and not be known, as he might have been, outside their circle, and when the friends who knew him have passed away. But by all who knew him he was loved as well as honoured, and no lite- rary fame is worth so much as that. He did not put his harness off till 1867, when he was already eighty-five years old.
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