The Press.
London, England, 1856-11-01 00:00:00

Obituarz

THE RIGHT HON. JOHN EARL OF SCARBOROUGH
died at his seat, Sandbeck-park, near Tickhill,
Yorkshire, on Wednesday last. The deceased noble-
man was the eighth Earl of Scarborough, and the
lineal representative of a family which traces its pe-
digree to a period considerably anterior to the Nor-
man Conquest. The deceased peer, John Lumley
Saville, Viscount Lumley, and Baron Lumley of
Lumley-castle, in the county of Durham, in the
peerage of England, and Viscount Lumley of Water-
ford in the peerage of Ireland, was born at Edwins •
towe on the 18th of July, 1788, and succeeded as the
eighth earl on the 21st of February, 1835, his father
having been killed by a fall from a horse. Prior to
his accession, the deceased nobleman represented
the county of Nottingham in the House of Commons,
having been elected by that constituency in the
years 1820, 1830,1831, and 1832. In 1839 he was
appointed Lord Lieutenant of the county of Notting •
ham, in the room of the late Duke of Newcastle,
who was summarily removed for having written an
offensive letter to the Lord Chancellor Cottenhatn.
Soon after the death of the seventh earl some litiga-

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tion took place relative to the estates at Sandhe.k •
and Rufford, which had previously been held by the
peer and the heir apparent to the title respectively.
The suit ended in favour of the deceased earl, who
rewarded his advocate, Sir W. Follett, with a service
of plate worth 3,000 guineas. At the close of this
suit the late earl cut off the entail of the estates.
Richard Lumley Saville, Esq., of Tickhill-castle, is
now the Earl of Scarborough, but in whom the es-
tates ar3 vested has not yet transpired.
THE COUNTESS DE SALTS died on the 27th inst. at
Avignon, in the south of France. Her ladyship was
at the time on her way to Rome, where she proposed
to pass the winter. By this event several families of
distinction are placed in mourning. including those
of Lord De Tabley, Right Hon. J. W. Henley, Lords
Massereene and Farnham, &c.
THE DEATH OF GENERAL GUYON, from cholera,
reported by the last mail from Constantinople, is
confirmed this week. He died of an attack of
cholera, which catri.A him off in less than
twenty-four hours. The funeral took place,
with full military honours, in the English burial-
ground at Scutari. Mr. Blakiston, the Embassy
Chaplain, performed the funeral service, at which
several members of the embassy and a good number
of his old companions in arms in the late Hungarian
war, took a share. General Guyon was the son of a
post-captain in the British navy. When scarcely
sixteen he joined the British Legion in Portugal.
After its disbandment he entered the Austrian army,
and served several years in an Hungarian hussar
regiment. He married into one of the noble families
of that country, quitted the service, and retired,
leading the life of a country gentleman. When the
Hungarian war broke out, and the great want of
officers was felt, he offered his services to the Hun-
garian Ministry, who appointed him to the command
of one of the newly organised battalions. Although
originally a cavalry• officer, he soon mastered his new
position, and at the battle of Schwehat, where he
led the avant garde of the right, he drove out the
Austrians, by a brilliant charge, from the village of
Mansfeldt. For this feat of arms be was raised to
the rank of colonel, and put in command of the
first division, which formed the avant garde of the
upper army. Here he had again an opportunity of
distinguishing himself by storming the formidable
pass of Branitzko, which was defended by General
Schlick, one of the ablest Austrian generals, thus
making the union of the upper and the Theiss army
possible. His third and most brilliant feat of arms
was at Hegzu, where be so signally defeated General
Jellachich as to force him to evacuate that part of
the country and retire behind the lines of Titel. At
the cnl of the war lie retired into Turkey, and was
taken into the Turkish army as lieutenant-general.
When the late war broken out he was sent to Kars
as chief of the staff, in which, however, owing to the
jealousies of the Turkish commanders, he was not
so successful as in his command in Hungary.
General Guyon was eminently a man of action, of
marvellous personal bravery and great daring, and
had he been put at tie head of a detached corps he
would have rendered good service to the Turks, but
his position, as a foreigner and Christian, was an
obstacle to this.