The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-30 00:00:00

ablest and by far the most honest statesmen who had
been at the head of the government subsequent to the
revolution. His brother, the duke, succeeded as first
Lord of the Treasury. From a year before the acces-
sion of George L, when his ritentite terri-
torial influence, energetic intellect, and whig
education, pointed him out as a fit agent
to be employed in securing the throne for
George, and in bringing the doubtful nobles
and gentry of Nottinghamshire and the Midland
Counties to the Hanoverian side, in which services he
spent enormous sums of money up to the year of his
death, 1768, be was an ever busy bustling politician,
if not an able one. It is true he refused a pecuniary
pension, the common gift of the crown at that time
out of the public purse to all retiring ministers, and
that he made himself memorable by saying that when
he could no longer serve his country be
would not burden it ; but his high offices
and almost unlimited power, with the infe-
rior office of Keeper of Sherwood Forest, enabled
him to lay together one of the finest parks, with ap-
pendages, in the kingdom, at no cost to himself, at
little coat to the country generally, but to the serious
loss of the inhabitants dwelling around, or deriving
subsistence from Sher wot d Forest. Thom who suf-
fered most from this appropriation of public
land, pasturage and forest rights, were a
colony of Jacobites livieg about Works'p,
who, however, had seen too •uch of the
high-handed severity which fell upon catholic' of all
degrees at that time to venture a remonstrance
against the inclosure of that part of their forest and
pasturage now forming the great Park of Cluinher.
Tnis Duke of Newcastle, the third, died in 1768,
and without male heirs, but the dukedom had been
renewed in his person iu 1715 as of Newcastle-under-
Lyne, with remainder to heirs female as well as male,
so that his niece, daughter of his brother Henry, the
late prime minister, being the nearest female relation,
and she being married to the Earl of Lincoln, head
of the Clinton family, the title and estates fell to that
nobleman.

Welbeck had gone to the Beatiocks by the Caven-
dish intermarriage, and at this period had descended
to the Duke of Portland, with such restrictions, how-
ever, as gave him then little benefit from it. The
crown at that time made a grant of Inglewood Forest,
in Cumberland, to Sir James Lowther, ancestor of the
present Earl of Lonedale. This was claimed by the
Duke of Portland as having been granted to hie an-
cestor, the first Bentinck, by William 111., who came
from Holland with that prince. One of the most
famous law-suits affecting public and private rights.
ensued, which ecded unsatisfactorily to either party.
But a narrative of the matter and the issues belongs
to the history of the Portland or Lona&le estates,
rather than to those now before us.
Still it is impossible to describe Clamber properly,
or give the history of the Newcastle families, without
touching at Welbeck, now the magnificent inheritance
of the Bentiocks. And speaking of the gifts or ap-
propriation of forests, there is to be an incloeure of
three thousand acres of Sherwood Forest this
year, two-thirds of which it is said go to
the Dake of Portland, in right of the great
estates already in his possession, at a time whe he
has publicly affirmed that land of ordinary quality
cannot be cultivated at free trade prices of grain.
From what I hear of his Grace's reputation as a land-
lord, no one will regret, I think, that he is to have
this public land, if any great landlord is to have it.
But some think that people who now make a living
on that public forest have naturally, though not
legally, a prior right to it; others that it belongs to
the nation, and should be treated for the
na-
tional benefit. Some reply to this, that crown
(lands have seldom been profitable to the
public; but to this it is rejoiced that the rent of
crown lands, or national lands, might be col:ccted
with the same exectoess as the price ef postage labels,
or stamps, or any other branch of revenue in which
no jobbiog for private benefit is allowed. But of the
incloeure of such lands I may write more at length
hereafter. Fur the present, let us glance at the
Clinton., and the estates which they brought to the
dukedom ut Newcastle.
We have just seen that the dukedom passed, as
also did the title and estates of Baron Pelham, of
Staumere, in 811111 EX, to the Ertl of Lincoln, husband
of the niece of the politically long-livid duke. The
Clinton. took their name from the barony of Climp-
tor, in Oxfordshire, when it was murdered derega-
tory for a lord to be able to spell or write his own
name, soon alter the Conquest. Perhaps it was when
they learned to write that they turned it into Clinton.
This family bee.tme distinguished in various cepa-
cite* as generals, admirals, and bishops. The ninth
Lot d Clinton was Lord High Admiral of England,
and was created Esrl of Lincoln in 1572. From 'that
time Earle of Lincoln succeeded one another, fill-
ing various posts until the ninth in succession,
who, as we have seen, became Duke of New-
castle by his marriage with Miss Pelham. lie
took the name of Pelham Clintoo, and with it the
Clumber estate, which his predecessor had carved out
of the forest and common lands of Sherwood, and
enjoyed them until 1794, when he died.
Hu was succeeded by his son, Thomas Pelham
Clinton, Earl of Lincoln by courtesy, who died in
the following year, 1795.
He was succeeded by his son, Henry Pelham
Fiennes Pelham Clinton, then in his eleventh year,
who died at Clamber Hall on the 12th of January,
1851, and is now succeeded by his so', Henry Pel-
, ham Clinton, Earl of Lincoln, born 1811, who was a
Lord of the Treasury during the short administration
of Sir Hobert Peel from December, 1831, to April,
1835; and First Commissioner of Woods and Forests
under the same Premier from 1841 to February,
1816, and Chief Secretary for Ireland from February
to July, 1846. Through his father's influence, he was
one of the members to Nottinghamshire from the
earliest age at which he could be elected to parlia-
ment, in 1832, until his appointment to the Irish
secretaryship, at which time Sir Robert Peel had in-
dicated his forthcoming measure for the repeal of the
corn laws. The heir to the dukedom had by this
time proved himself an able man of business,
but he had been elected to protect the in-
terests of South Nottinghamshire, in the virtue of
which protection he was no longer a believer, and he
was defeated. No one was more earnest in opposing
his return than his father. But it is due to the tenant
fermi re to say that they still maintain that had his
father been in his lemur they would have defeated
him. And they assert that they will defeat any can-
didate which he may now, being duke, extend his
favour to at the election for their county, which will
take place early in February. But I believe that he
has intimated his desire that the Clue:thee tenantry
may hereafter be at unconditional liberty to
use their suffrage as they think b: at. There
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more
memorable as affecting his own estate than for their
public interest, I will only refer to them as I conduct
the reader over that great property which he inhe-
rited when it was so weil endowed with income,
which he has lett behind him so embarrassed with
debt, though the rent per acre is from two to three
times the amount per acre which it was in 1795,
evhen he succeeded to it.

BRISTOL LOCAL MARINE BOARD.—A special meetr
irg of the Bristol Town Council was held in that city
yt sterday, the Right Worshipful the Mayor presiding, for
the purpose of memorialising the Board of Trade in refer-
ence to its recent refusal to, allow to the port of Bristol the
rivilege extended to Liverpool, Glasgow, Shields,
an examination for first-eleas certificate• It wee shown in
the course of the depute that a line being drama trams Lan-
' don to Liverpo d, about half of the kingdom was cut out
from the advantages of the elimination ; that, with the
exception of the metrPpolis, the privilege was confined to •
cornr of the kingdom ; and that Bristol, as the centre of
the parte of the west of Realm, sad u paying more
Curoas.honse duties than Glasgow and GIMIIIIHICk combined,
and infinitely more than the northern coil {tom, was entitled
to the privilege, her commerce being conducted with the
Bill and West Indies, America, Africa, and all puts of the
w.rld. It was urged that it WY aliquot to oblige the
m irinere of Bristol, Swansea, Cardifl, Newport. Bridgwater,
Gloat sssss , &c., to go to Lend in fir 11111161111M1011 for first-
class certificates when Bristol poeses.ed an ezeinin.r iqu.l to
any in the kingdom; aad a memorial embodying these
ot
arguments was agreed to, and a d• putatien apparel to
aczompany the members in parliament and :he tome clerk
to present it to the President of the Board art Trade.

EitIPPOBID RICEIIEIO TO TEE UCKFIELD BUR-
GLARII.—Jent• s Edwards and his wile, who were reminded
on 8. urday lest, charged with bowleg in their possemion a
large quantity of liner:Weeper, supposed to be tesipsonuce
of 'astral rAberies, in which Bmobt and other" of the
Uckfteld gang were concerned, war. brehglet up at the
Town bell, and again rem►nded till /Saturday sent, in con-
scrums' of a telegraphic message, string that if a rtmend
were granted, parties would be fortbooodog to NNW/
portioa of the property .—M.Oids tofu Jounimi.