The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi.` MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1875.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1903, 8 February 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi.` MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1875.

The 'arrival of the steamers Hero and Wonga Wonga this- morning has placed us in possession of later European and Australian news, but there is not a single item of paramourt importance, nor is there anything of unusual interest. Mr Bright, in addressing his constituents, has spoken in favor of the disestablishment, bt the English Church. Since this course was adopted in; Ireland many persons have expressed concurrence in a. similar measure for England,* and it is regarded only as a matter of time to gain the desired end—the dissociation of Church and State. The continental news is not !by any means exciting. " The iquabbles in the French Assembly continue, with apparently little show of any satisfactory • settlement. which will tend to place the Eopublic on a firm and popular basis. The obituary notice includes., the Emperor of China and Lord "St. Leonards. Of the former we know little,. except that he is a young man—only twenty years of age —and that during his brief reign many .reforms have been introduced into the

celestial empire, and intercourse with the barbarians has been extended. Lord St.

Leonards is best known as the author of several treatises on different subjects, including "Handy Book on Property Law." The son of a Westminster tradesman, (born in 1871), he was educated to the law, practised some time as a conveyancer, was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, and was subsequently* made a King's Counsel and a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn. He was at different times returned to the House of Commons; and was Solicitor General tinder the Duke of Wellington's administration. He was afterwards Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and, in 1852, Lord .Chancellor of England unde.r Lord Derby's 4 prst administration, which office, was again offered to him, in 1858, but declined on the ground of advanced age. Lord St. Leonards has continued to take an active part in parliamentary Jjusi-r ness, and has exerted himself to keep up the character and efficiency of the House of Lords as a judicial tribunal. At the time of his death Lord St. Leonards was in his uinety-fourtH year. ..... '