The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-29 00:00:00

ELEVATION OPMR. MONCKTON MILNES TO

THE PEERAGE.

Mr. Monokton Milnes is about to be removed to
the House of Lords, where he will sit so Baron Houghton,
of Houghton. He hes issued the following farewell address
to the elisions of Poutefract :

"Gentlemen,—Her Idajeety haying been graciously
',lamed to offer me a seat in the Upper House of Parlia-
ment, I resign into your hands the representation of your
ancient borough, which I have held contiguously, and with
so much satisfaction, for lit years.

"No man could close so long and intimate a connexion
without emotion, and there has been much in our relations
to excite peculiar feelings of gratitude on my Fart and, it
may be, of interest on yours.
" I have been, in more than a constitutional sense, the
nipmeentative of all of you, without distinction of political
parties; and I have endeavoured, by moderation in my
views and by discretion in my public conduct, to express
what I believed to be the sound convictions of the large
majority of my constituents sad the general opinion of the
inhabitants of your district.
" In so doing I have been able to contribute by my vote
and voice to the success of every serious measure of politionl
improvement, of religious toleration, of public utility, and
of social progress, that has engaged the attention of parlia-
ment during a quarter of a century. I have owed to your
generous coefldence and your kind appreciation of my
motives a position of personal independence rarely conceded
to a parliamentary representative ; but I must not forget
that I have acted in conjunction with men whose principles
and services 1 highly value, and that I have long followed
the lead of an illustrious statesman whose name is a watch-
word of liberty throughout the world, and the continuance
of whose wise and temperate government at home I believe
to be the best security for the prosperity of our country.
"To all and each of you I now bid • grateful and affec-
tionate farewell. As your neighbour and personal friend I
shall error maintain a lively interest in all that concerns
your individual fortunes and your common welfare. Aod
if I leave on your minds the impression that I have done
my best io your service, I bare all that I desire.
•'I remain, gentlemen. your obedient servant and faith-
ful friend, " Menem) tioscrrox ?Cum."

It is stated that Colonel White, of Woodlands,
will shortly be raised to the pomp.

DELTH OF LORD DOWNER—We regret to an-
nouooe the death of General Lord Gonna, a.C.8., which
took place at his seat, Bert.bouae, Kildare, on Sunday
morning hut, in the 75th year of his age. The deceased
lord entered the army at an early age, and served as aide-
decamp to Sir John Cradock in Portugal, and sal:eminently
in the same capacity and se assistant military secretary to
the Duke of Wellington during the whole of the Peninsular
war. Few men were then better known than Sir Ulysses
Burgh. He was present at the battles of Talavera (wounded),
Banco, Fuentes d'Ouor, El Rodeo. Salamanca (wounded),
Vittoria. Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nine. Toulouse, and the sieges
of Badajor, Ciudad Rodrigo, and San Sebastian. In 1826
he succeeded his cousin as second baron, moon after which
he was elected a representative peer, and %Ma clerk to the
Ordnance during the Wellington administration. Lord
Downes was twice married, and by his first roan*e learns
an only surviving daughter, the C.ountess of Clonmel. The
death of his second, Lady Seaton, whom be outlived exactly
three months, it was our duty to record • short time since.
The title is now extinct, sod the colonelcy of the 29th Regi-
ment vacant.

DEATH OF CAPTAIN J. S. WILIS9 JOHNSON, M. P.
A vacancy ban occurred in the representation of the Mont-
gomery district of boroughs in the Horne of Common'', by
the death of Captain John &meet Willes Johnson, R.N.,
Y.P. The hoe. sod gallant member died on Saturday lest,
at Hansingtee Hall, High worth. Wilts, after • protracted
Maus, from which mum he had absented himself from the
Lower House during the late session.
DZATH OF CAPTAIN GRATTAN BRUNT,. —We
reynst to have to announce the death of Captain T. A.
Grattan Bellew, which occurred at en early hour at Mount-
bellow on Friday morning. Captain Bellew and family had
bat • abort time returned to his residence, having been
absent at Madeira end elsewhere for the benefit of his
health. The deceased, the second son of the late Sir M. D.
Bellow, was born in 1824, and was coosequsatly only 39
yeses of age. From 1852 to 1857 he represented the county
of Galway in parliament. In 1858 he married Pauline, se-
cond daughter of the late Henry Grattan, Esq., M.P.. when
he assumed the additional Dame of Grattan. He will be
mooesd•ri is his 'Amain estates by hie nos,