The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-28 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF NORFOLK.

We have to announce that the recent illness of the
Duke of Norkfolk has at last, as was anticipated for
some weeks previously, had a fatal termination, and
that his Grace died on Sunday at Arundal astle,
whither he had been removed from his villa at Little-
hampton shortly before his death, after having received
the last rites and sacraments of the Roman Catholic
Church, of which he was through life a firm and devoted.
adherent. The Duke had been ailing for some months
past, but the immediate cause of his dissolution was
an enlargement of the liver, under which he sank,
as we have said above. The Duke had just completed
the 45th year of his age, and his Duchess and other
members of the esJuity were present at his dissolution.
The deceased Peer, the Most Noble Henry Granville
Fitz-Alan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk, Premier
Duke and Earl in the Peerage of England, Earl of
Arundel, Surrey, and Norfolk, and Baron Fitz-Alan,
Chin, Oswaldestre, and Maltravers, Hereditary Earl-
Marshal and Chief Butler of England, was the eldest
son of Henry Charles, 13th Duke of Norfolk, K.G., by
the Lady Charlotte Leveson-Gower, eldest daughter of
George Granville, Marquis of Stafford, who was even-
tually raised in 1833 to the Dukedom of Sutherland,
and died the same yeaT. He was born in Great Stanhope-
street, London, on the 7th of November, 1815. Although
a Roman Catholic by profession, he was sent to Eton,
and passed thence to Trinity College, Cambridge, where
he completed his education. He entered the army as
cornet in the Royal Horse Guards, but retired soon.
after attaining the rank of captain. He entered Parlia-
ment at the general election consequent on the death of
the late Ding in July, 1837, as M.P. in the Liberal
interest for the family borough of Arundel, which he
represented without intermission (while bearing the
courtesy titles of Lord Fitz Alan and Earl of Arundel
and Surrey) down to the middle of the year 1851, when,
finding that his sentiments on the Ecclesiastical Titles
Bill were not in accordance with those of the "patron"
of the constituency—his father, the late Duke—he
accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and was immediately
returned by the electors of Limerick, Mr. John O'Con-
nell getiring in his favour. He left the House of Com-
mons at the dissolution of 1852.
The Earl of Arundel and Surrey succeeded to the
honours and representation of the noble house of Howard
on the death of his father, the late Duke, on the 18th
of February, 1856, so that his Grace had held the duke-
dom for a period of somewhat less than five years. The
late Duke was a magistrate for the counties of Middle-
sex and Sussex, and enjoyed the entire patronage of
the College of Arms, (better known to the public under
the name of the Heralds' College), and also of seven-
teen livings in the Established Church. He was a
large and liberal supporter of Roman Catholic charities,
and took a warm interest in all public affairs which
affected the interests of his religion, both in his place its
peer of Parliament and in his private capacity. He
published one or two pamphlets on the various Roman
Catholic questions which have risen to the surface of
current events during the last twelve or fifteen years.
He also edited the Lives of Philip, Earl of Arundel, and
Anne Dacre, his wife. He seldom or never addressed
either the Upper or the Lower House, excepting upon
topics of this nature ; and whenever he spoke on these
subjects his moderation and courtesy uniformly com-
manded the respect even of those whose religious
opinions differed most widely from his own.
The late Duke married in June, 1839, Augusta Mary
Minna Catharine, second daughter of the late Admiral
Lord Lyons, G.C.8., by whom, who survives him, he
'has left a family of two sons and six daughters, besides
two children who died in infancy. It was his Grace's
younger son, Lord Edmund Bernard Howard, in favour
of whom Bertram Arthur, late Earl of Shrewsbury,
made his will, bequeathing to him the magnificent
estate of Alton Towers, out of which bequest arose the
long and costly suit which will he known to our distant
posterity as "The Great Shrewsbury Case." The elder,
son, Henry Fitz-Alan Howard, Earl of Arundel and
Surrey, who now succeeds his father, was born on the
27th of December, 1847, so that he is now on the eve
of completing his 13th year. The Duke also leaves two
sisters, Lady Foley and Lady Adeliza Manners, and
also a brother, Lord Edward Howard, M.P. for Arundel,
formerly Vice-Chamberlain of Her Majesty's House-
hold, who is married to Miss Augusta Talbot, consin of
the late Earl of Shrewsbury.
The Ducal House of Norfolk is one whose fate it has
been beyond all others among the English nobility, to
find its name interwoven with the thread of English
history, and not rarely in colours of blood. The accom-
plished but unfortunate Surrey, and his scarcely less
unhappy father, Thomas Howard—whose head was only
saved from the block on which his son .so nobly suffered
by the death of the Royal tyrant Henry—are "house-
hold words" in the pages of English history ; and readers
of Shakspeare will have other recollections of the same
name allied with other historical events ; while those
who are familiar with the writings of Pope will not have
forgotten how tersely and pointedly he typifies the glory
of ancestral pedigrees, by
"All the blood of all the Howards."
Neither must the words " all the 'Towards " be taken
in a mere vague and poetical sense. They represent a
fact, and a remarkable one. In the British peerage
there are no less than four different branches and off-
shoots of the ducal House of Norfolk who have attained
the dignity of the coronet—viz., the Earls of.Carlisle,
Effingham, Wicklow, and Suffolk, to say nothing of
Lord Howard de Walden (who descends from them
maternally), or of Sir Ralph Howard, of Bushy-park,
Wicklow, or of the untitled but scarcely less noble
scions of the house, the 'Towards of Corby Castle and of
Greystock, in Cumberland, both of whom are in
remainder to the dukedom in the event of the failure of
the present line.
The death of the Duke will be a heavy loss to the
Roman Catholic churches and charitable associations
connected with the metropolis and the south of Eng-
land, and more especially to the Oratorians of St. Philip
Neri, at Brompton, of whom he was a most steady and
munificent supporter.—Tines.
.

THE EARLY CLospra MOVEMENT.—John Edgar,
aged 18, of 70. Lisson-grove, was charged, in con-
junction with Thomas Bamford and William Gayfer,
drapers' assistants, with being disorderly, by causing a
crowd to assemble ; also obstructing the public footway
by distributing handbills in front of the premises, No.
76, Edgware-road, London. It appeared that the
Messrs. Thompson, whose shop was at this address, had
not joined the early closing movement, and that the
defendants had made a practice of endeavouring to dis-
suade customers from entering on Saturday evenings.
After a great deal of evidence, Mr. Mansfield said that
Mr. Thompson might, if he pleased, proceed against the
defendants in a County Court for loss of custom, but
that he could do nothing.

THE COURT.

WINDSOR CASTLE, N6v. G.

The.atteen; w)th the Princess Alioe, walked in the
~..troulrette of thO Castle this morning, and visited the
Eftfchess lent frognleft.
The i'fince &doff, trinec Aga-0
and Prince Louis of Ilesse; Weilt ogi alileicit .atifficted
colohot the Hon. A. Hardinge andl3arott fgh *estef-
wefier, .e • • - •
The Price i; f Wares left WirielS'or fox: o.ifOrdl.6
sity, attended by Maittf-Cfenetai the Hon. R.' Rime° and
Lieutenant Colonel Keppel.
The Portuguese Minister, Count de Lavradio, did Cap-
tain Tarlton, R.N., have left the Castle.
The Duchess of Kent visited her. Majesty, and took
luncheon.
The Itev. F, Temple had the honour of being invited
fo cUne vtith the Queen yesterday.
The Hereditary Friuce and Princess of Holstein
Angustenbourg left LOntion tm Stiuday evening for the
Continent.

fAThi RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT LEIGH.

`... • • •
poit'dq•
.;pfter.lt,Moii,,a karftil cctdent occured on
the Bolton/ I.Jeigli; and; Venyori-l#arich Of the London
and North-Western Railway. The goods Valhi Which
should have left the Atherton Stfttion for LiierPoel at
2.50 was detained until about 3.55. After die PlY.Sfiertrei
train, which leaves Atherton about 3.40, had passed, a
number of -platelayers'repairing
engaged in the perma-
nent way about a quarter
of a mile from Leigh took up
a All; hot being aware that the goods train was behind
time: before they bad time to replace it they saw the
goods train destending the incline, The gauger (Samuel
iridley) at once destiattlied the signal man to warn
ittds6 lithe of the train of the danger of approach-
ieg: gods &din vial a t ety heavy one, consisting
of upwards of forty waggons, afid Braid* hy tidy engines.
Five persons conducted it, nanielY, gwe ensitie &Liters,
two stokers, and one breaksinari. They immediately
put on the breaks and redersed the engines, but, owing
to the srikpeirstate of the rails from the recent rain,
the deep inenrig, rind the *ei'ght„of the train; it was
found impossible to stop ft: . The result was, that
the first engine, lid -A
on reaching the *scre the rail
was displaced, was turned over, the second °fit tqin-
ing partially upon it, and the waggons piling them-
selves one over the other into a complete and enormous
pyramid. Richard Higginson, driver of the second
engine, was killed on the spot, his body being fearfully
mutilated, and lying for several hours under the boiler
of the engine, with the water and steam playing on it.
John Elliott and John Valentine, driver and stoker of
the ,first engine, finding that there was no chance of
escape, leaped from their engine, the former sustaining
deep laceration of the upper portion of the thigh. and
the latter severe contusions. The other stoker and the
breaksman escaped with very little injury. Messrs.
Bridoake, Anderton, and Evans, surgeons, of Leigh,
were promptly in attendance.

FATAL Aceinesm.-00 Friday week last a man
named Thomas Keenan, was injured by a fall from
some building in the locality of Faulkner-square, and
died yesterday at his residence from the effects.
Monte Aloe. OF THE NEXT FREE ASSEME-m—The
Scodisk Otiartlidn states that at the private conference
of the Commission of the general Assembly of the
Free Church, held on Wednesday afternoon, imme-
diately after the public business had been disposed of,
the Rev. Dr. Candlish was unanimously nominated for
the Moderatorship of the General Assembly of 1861.
CHICAGO TO LIVERPOOL.—The following paragraph
from the Chicago Tribune is interesting :—George Little,
Esq., in Septerriber last, purchased and shipped a cargo
of wheat from this port direct to Liverpool, by way of
St.. Lawrence River ; and on Monday he received a letter
informing him that the grain had arrived at Liverpool
in twenty-five days from the date of its shipment at this
city. The route of shipment was as follows :—From
Chicago to Port Colborne; from Port Colborne to Port
Dalhousie over the Welland Railway ; from Port Dal-
housie to. Quebec by propeller; and from Quebec to
Liverpool by steamer.
THE EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH.—The Empress
Eugenie arrived at Birnam- Hotel, Dunkeld, at two
o'clock, on Friday afternoon. A Dunkeld correspondent
writes that her Majesty intended to have proceeded to
the west on Saturday morning, but that she was so de-
lighted with the locality that she intended to remain
there till Monday. A telegram received on Saturday
evening, however, states that the Empress was on that
day at Taymouth Castle, visiting the Marquis of
Breadalbane. At a meeting of the. Glasgow Town
Council held on Saturday, it was resolved that an
address should be presented by the Council to the
Empress of the French on the occasion of her approach-
ing visit to Glasgow. The Empress is expected to be in
Glasgow very early during the present week, and we
hear it is not her intention to remain at, present at
Hamilton Palace.—Sotsman.
MR. IippWORTH DIXON'S VINDICATION OF BACON.
—We must noW take leave of Mr. Dixon. With that
generous sympathy for noble deeds and men which has
inspired him in his literary career to teach us how
rightly to admire Howard, Blake, and Penn, he has
again performed a manly and noble task. The dragon
he has cloven down is no more. The lie no longer
lives. Henceforth Bacon's fame is no matter for anxious
gloom or ingenious speculation. The ground where he
lies enshrouded is for ever closed to contest. The case
has at last been so stated that discussion on it can never
again be reopened with any chance of altering the pub-
lic verdict. No longer will good men fear to love him.
Looking on his virtues, eternal in their dazzling beauty,
even as his intellect is imperishable in power, no longer
can the licking boast of him as a familiar and a compeer.
—From " Temple Bar," No. I.
THE GALE IN THE NORTH SEA.—SHIELDS' Satur-
day night.—The weather has so far moderated on the
north-east coast that some of the steamships have got
to sea, though it looks far from settled. The barque
Arno is a complete wreck. The barque Pet, of
Shields, is ashore on Whitburn Sands, and the Susan-
, nah, of Whitstable, is stranded near the same place.
Small vessels are also stranded near Holy Island. A
Spanish vessel, which came ashore a few days ago near
Newbiggin Point, on the Northumberland coast, laden
with dried cod from Norway, it is reported, has been
shamefully plundered by the natives—fishermen, belong-
ing to the neighbouring villages. The ships that have
arrived here to-day describe the weather at sea on
Thursday night and yesterday as very fearful, and it is
to be feared that the loss of shipping will be very serious.
AN UNPLEASANT RETREAT.-2011 Saturday night
last, two soldiers belonging ter the Infantr Depot,
quartered at Canterbury, were pambulating the streets
somewhat inebriated, and disposed to create,a disturb-
ance in Rosemary-lane, avowing themselves determined
to have more drink or smash the windows of those
who refused them, althoUgh, as was subsequently
proved, they had not the money wherewith to pay
for it. The police-officer on duty in that district
accosted them and advised them to go peaceably
home to their barracks, for which advice he was treated
with abuse ; lie then asked them if they had a pass,
as, if they had not, it was his duty to take them
into custody, and give them up to the military autho-
rities. This appeared to alarm the heroes, and they
made a hasty retreat, as they thought to the
fields leading towards Whitehall, by running down an
opening between Stour-street and Church-lane, at the
bottom of which passes the river Stour, which was at
the time by the effect of the recent heavy rains, swollen
above the dipping bridge. Into the water they plunged
'---and thus their threatened "smash" became a
"splash." They lustily. called for assistance to get
them out, and were quickly relieved from their cold
bath by the policeman whom they had abused, with
other persons whom their call for aid had attracted to
the scene of their disaster. Dripping wet, and now very
tame,
they were conveyed to the station-house, where
they
Were stripped of their wet clothes and placed in a
warm room till their clothing was dried, aad thence, by
order of Superintendent Davis, they were escorted to
their barracks by a police-constable.
AN ACTOR MORTALLY STABBED IN THE PRESENCE
OF lIIS AUDIENCE.—The New Orleans Bee of the 29th
records the following tragic occurrence of the previous
night:—" At ten o'clock last night a shocking tragedy
was enacted in reality on the stage of the German
Theatre or Concert-hall in Paydras-street, between St.
Charles and Carondelet. They were playing in the
drama of the Wolf,' and at the moment were acting a
scene in a gambling-house, where a young man is
fleeced of his last dime, and, when he charges the
gamblers with cheating, is stabbed and killed. John
Kruger was playing the part of the gambler, Emile
Stener that of the ruined young man. Kruger
had not been furnished with a stage dagger bv the
property man, and borrowed a real one from officer
Berwin, who was the special policeman in Concert-
hall. In acting such scenes with real daggers on
the stage, the person who strikes the blow keeps his
elbow out further than the point of the weapon, and the
person who pretends to receive the fatal thrust leans
backwards, so that the striker's elbow coming against
his breast stops the motion. Stener was unhappily
somewhat intoxicated, and when he should have thrown
himself backward he suddenly stooped forward, and be-
fore Kruger could check the impetus of his arm the dagger
had gone into the right side of Stener's neck, opening
a gash to the back bone. The unfortunate actor was
instantly carried off the stage, and sent to the Charity
Hospital mortally wounded, while Kruger was taken to
the lock-up by officers Dalton and Berwin. The curtain
was down but a short time, the pool of blood was
washed up, and then it was announced to the audience
that the drama could not be concluded, but that a farce
would be substituted. The audience applauded, up
went the curtain, and for a whole hour the fellow-actors
of Steller exerted themselves to make fun, while' the
auditors laughed and applauded as if the spilling of a
man's life blood was a mere trifle."
DEATH OF LIEUT.-COLONEL HAMERTO:sT.—The death
of Lieut.-Colonel Hamerton took place on Friday morn-
ing, at his residence, 22, Lansdown-place, Cheltenham,
after a period of severe illness, which had confined him
to his room for many months. Deceased entered the
army in 1806, as second lieutenant in the 95th, or Rifle
Corps. Having served in that regiment for some time,
and in the best of schools, viz., Sir J. Moore's celebrated
brigade at Shorncliffe, composed of the 43d and 52d light
infantry regiments, and 95th Rifles, he was appointed
aide-de-camp to Gen. Vaughan Hart, who commanded
the northern district of Ireland at that time. In 1808 he
obtained a lieutenancy in the 7th Fusiliers, which regiment
he joined on its being ordered for active service in the
Peninsula. Ho landed at Lisbon in April, 1809 ; went
through all the campaigns of that year and 1810, in-
cluding the battles of Talavera and Busaco, but got into
such bad health the following winter, that a medical
board sent him home. He rejoined the 7th early in
1812; was present at the capture of Badajoz, and the
battle of Salamanca, where he was wounded in the
thigh, but was still able to go through the campaign of
1813, including the battle of Vittoria, and the yet more
severe one (as far as the 7th Fusiliers were cpncerned) of
Pampeluna, and in the Pyrenees, where he was very
severely wounded through the body, and was sent to
England, and remained till the return of his regiment in
1815, just two days too late for the 7th taking a part
in the battle of Waterloo. Besides the engagements
above enumerated, Colonel Hamerton was present at the
Lines of Torres Vedras, at the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo,
ant took part in the affair of Roncesvalles—in every
instance acquitting himself as a brave and gallant soldier.
He was also present at the capture of Paris ; and on
the breaking up of the army of occupation, in 1818,
gotthe rank of brevet-major; but shortly afterlo erieetisreerd.
on calf-pay; became lieutenant-colonel in succession,
and sold out altogether a few years back.
vice: briefly adverted to in the foregoing remarks, Col.
Hanerton received the silver medal with clasps. The
deceased was nephew to the late Gen. Sir W. Meadows,
and nearly connected with the family of Earl Manvers.
—Oteltenham Looker-on.