The Press.
London, England, 1857-07-18 00:00:00

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THE GREAT SHREWSBURY PEERAGE CASE has
been opened this week before the House of Lords.
The claim to the title is disputed by the Right Hon.
Henry John Chetwynd Earl Talbot, and Major Talbot,
of Castle Talbot, county Wexford, Ireland; and the
fortune attached to the title by Lord Edward
Howard and by the Princess Doria Pamphili,
of Rome, daughter of John, sixteenth earl. Lord
Talbot first preferred his claim, and his case was
opened by Sir Frederic Thesiger on Monday last,
who, after briefly stating the descent of the noble
earl, proceeded to give the proofs he should offer in
support of his case, which consisted mainly of inqui-
sitions on the death of the different members up to
the time of the death of Charles 11., after which they
ceased, and of heralds' visitations up to the time of
James 11., when they ceased. In 187 a bill was in-
troduced, to settle the Shrewsbury estates, and John,
afterwards sixth earl, addressed a lett.er to the late
Earl Talbot on the 15th February, 1827, in which he
spoke of the object of the bill being to reduce the
income attached to the title of Shrewsbury from
45,0001. to 5,0001. a year, and supposing in the course
of time that " Earl Talbot's family came to the earl-
dom of Shrewsbury ;" it also stated that if he bad no
issue male his brother would take advantage of the
Act of Parliament, and make the property his own ;
and he asked the assistance of Earl Talbot in order
that the estates might be so resettled that at least
25,0001. a year should go with the title. Lord Talbot
appeared to have replied to that letter, which pro-
duced another from John, sixteenth earl, in which he
said :

With reference to the succession in the immediate
branch of our family, it stands thus George, who is un-

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likely to marry ; James, who is in very delicate health ;
and Colonel George Talbot, of the Guards, who is firty-five
years of age, and unlikely to marry. You will see that you
are heir after the failure of the Catholic line. I never
hoard of any other claim.
This was a most important admission of the rights of
the petitioner.—The committee sat again on Tues-
day and Thursday, and were chiefly occupied with
the reception of documentary evidence in support of
the petitioner.
CHARLES FINCH, a Chelmsford man, bas been found
guilty of the wilful murder of Harriet Freeborn, by
cutting her throat, at the parish of Rivenhall, on the
24th of Nifty. The prisoner was sentenced to death
by the Chief Baron.

Obituarg.

GENERAL ANSON.

IT is with the deepest regret that we have to an-
nounce the death of General the Hon. George
Anson, which took place at Kurnaul on the 27th of
June. The immediate cause of death was, as in the
case of the late Lord Raglan, the want of strength
to rally from the exhaustion and debility which
supervened upon an attack of Asiatic cholera. This
melancholy event, at such a moment, must be
considered not as a subject only for private m9urning,
hut also a public loss. Although it is true that
General Anson had of late years taken no part in
active service, yet his qualities were such as to
inspire the greatest confidence in his success.
Courage, detetmination, and judgment were conspi-
cuous in his character ; and it is indeed to be deplored
that this gallant officer should have been swept
away at the very moment when success and triumphs
seemed almost within his grasp. His private virtues
were such as justly to endear him to a large circle of
sorrowing relations and friends. General Anson was
the second son of the first Viscount Anson, and
brother of the first Earl of Lichfield. Born on the 13th
of October, 1797, he entered the army at an early
age in the 3rd or Scots Fusilier Guards, with which
regiment he served at the battle of Waterloo. He
continued in the Guards until he obtained the rank
of Lieutenant-Colonel in May, 1825, when he was
placed on half-pay. He was for many years a
member of the House of Commons, having been
returned to that assembly in 1818 for Great Yar-
mouth, which he represented in several Parliaments
before and after the passing of the Reform Bill. In
February, 1836, he was elected, on the death of Mr.
Heathcote, for Stoke-on Trent, and sat for the
Southern Division of Staffordshire from 1837 to
1853, in the August of which year he accepted the
Chiltern Hundreds on being appointed to his high
command in India; General Anson served the
office of Priucipai Storekeeper of the Ordnance under
the administration of Viscount Melbourne, and also
that of Clei k of the Ordnance from July, 1846, to
February, 1852. He was by hereditary dese‘mt and
by personal convictions a Liberal in politics, and
invariably sided with the leaders of the Whig party.

Tun MARQUIS OF ELY died suddenly on Wednes-
day afternoon at five o'clock, at his residence in
Eaton .square. The noble marquis had lately been
in delicate health, but nothing serious was in the
slightest degree apprehended. The deceased, John
Henry Loftus, Marquis and Earl of Ely, County Wick-
low,Viscount Loftus of Ely and Baron Loftus of Loftus-
hall, County Wexford, in the peerage of Ireland, also
Baron Loftus of Lo•ig Loftus, County York, in that
part of the United Kingdom, and a baronet of Ire-
land, was born January 19, 1814, and married, 1844,
Miss Hope-Were, daughter of the late Mr. Jas. J.
Hope Vere and Lady Elizabeth Hope• Vere, by whom
he leaves issue a daughter, Lady Marian, born in
1846, and a son, Viscount Loftus, born in 1649.