The Press.
London, England, 1855-07-28 00:00:00

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The Emu. OF ANTRIM died at Glenarrn Castle on
Wednesday night, the 18th inst. His lordship, who
was only in his forty-third year, is succeeded in his
title and estates by his brother, the Hon. Mark Ker,
Commander R.N., who was born in 1814, and in 1843
married Miss M'Cann, by whom he has several sons.
The deceased earl was much esteemed and beloved
by his numerous tenantry over the whole of his large
estates, which cover the lower portion of four baronies
in the northern part of the county of Antrim.
JAMES CHEVALIER DE COLQUHOUN, who died on
Tuesday last, was the only son of Dr. Patrick Col-
quhoun, at one time Lord Provost of Glasgow, and
one of the first authors who applied himself to the
statistics of the British empire. He founded and
carried out gratuitously the present system of
Thames police, and suggested in his work on the
metropolitan police the adoption of an improved sys-
tem for the protection of public property, subsequently
carried out by the late Sir Robert l'eel as an original
idea. In addition to this, he was one of the founders
of the present savingshanks. His son, the death of
whom we have now to announce, was born on the 7th
June, 1780, at his father's estate of Kelvin-grove, in
Lanarkshire, and was entered a student of St. John's
College, Cambridge, in 1797. In 1800 he became
the private secretary of Mr. Dundee, then Secretary
of State for the War Department; three years later
he received the appointment of deputy-agent-general
for the payment of volunteers. In 1817 the Han-
seatic Republics constituted him their representative
in England, and the legislatures of St. Vincent,
Dominica, St. Christopher's, Tortola, Tobago, Nevis,
and the Virgin Islands, at different times nominated
him to watch over their interests, in consequence of
the great benefits his father had conferred on the
West Indies by his powerful advocacy. His valuable
services to these islands were acknowledged by several
handsome donations of plate. In 1827 he was ap-
pointed Consul-General of his Saxon Majesty, at
whose legation here he bad the charge during fre-
quent and long periods. In 1848 the late Grand
Duke of Oldenburg, in recognition of his services to
the neighbouring Hanseatic Republics, appointed
him his chargé d'affairs. Two successive Kings of
Saxony conferred upon him the knighthood corn-
commandery and star of a commander of the first
class of the Royal Saxon Order of Civil Merit con-
tinued by royal license. On the signature with
Reachid Pasha of a treaty of recognition between the
Hanseatic Republics, as their plenipotentiary, he
received the Order of Iptihar of the first class; in
brilliants from his Imperial Highness the Sultan ;
the Hanseatic Republics, in token of their apprecia-
tion of his long and faithful services, conferred by
special decree of the respective senates the honorary
diploma of citizenship, the first ever granted, to
which the senates of Lubeck and Hamburg added
their honorary medal. The University of Glasgow
also conferred on him an honorary diploma of LLD.,
and the Royal Antiquarian Society of Athens con-
stituted him an honorary fellow of that society. As
llanseatic plenipotentiary he signed commercial
treaties with Great Britain, the Ottoman Porte,
Mexico, and Liberia, and negotiated several others;
he also signed a treaty as Saxon plenipotentiary with
Mexico. He leaves a family of two daughters and
three 80138, the elder of whom, Dr. Patrick, the author
of a voluminous work on Roman Civil Law, lately
signed, as Hanseatic plenipotentiary, at Constanti-
nople and Athens, commercial treaties with the Sub-
blime Porte, Persia, and Greece.

A Raz broke out a few nights ago in the stables of the
Hotel de la Poste at Emus lionnes. The stables were
consumed, and unfortunately a young man was burned to
death. The Empress Eugenie, though in delicate health,
arrived shortly after the commencement of the conflagra-
tion, and by her presence encouraged the inhabitants in
their efforts to extinguish it.
A LETTER TROY Moms, in the PielllolllB of Turin, states
that Father Becks, the General of the Jesuits, has had a
narrow escape from the hands of an assassin. The
writer says that the whole matter has been kept as secret
as possible, but that it is a general topic of converse-
tion at Rome, and that the culprit is believed to belong to
the order.
Tun LARGE ELEPHANT, 120 years of age, late the pro-
perty of Mr. Wombwell, being incapable of locomotion
from diseased feet, the present owner gave directions for
its destruction in the easiest manner possible. This opera-
tion was performed in Birmingham last week. At first
chloroform was administered to make the animal inland.
ble, and in this condition large doses of prussic acid sad
strychnine were given, but without producing_ %Asst.
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