The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-09 00:00:00

DEATH OP THE EARL OP LIMERICK.

We have to announce the death of the Earl of
Limerick,who died on Friday last suddenly, from bronchitis.
The late William Tennison Pery, second E►rl of Limerick,
Viscount Limerick, and Baron Glentworth in the Irish
peerage, and Baron Foxford in that of the United
kingdom, was the almond son of Henry Hartetrongs, Lord
Glentwortli, eldest eon of Edmund Henry, first Earl of
Limerick, and Alice Mary, the only daughter and heir of
Henry Ormsby, of Cloghan, county Mayo, by Annabelle
Tennison, second daughter of Mr. Tennison Edwards, of
Old Court, county Wicklow. The deceased Earl
was born 9th October, 1812, and married, first, 16th April,
1838, Susannah, daughter of Mr. Wm. Sheaf, and niece
of the late Sir Roger Hall Shea', Bark, which lady died
Mat August, 1841. His lordship married, secondly, 6th
April, 1842, Margaret Jane, only daughter of Captain
Nicholas Hanley. By his first man lege he had surviving issue
an only sou, William Hale John Charles Lord Glentwortb,
bon 17th Jan., 1840. By his meond marriage, which wee
dissolved in 1862, the late earl leaves a family of six eons
and one daughter. He succeeded to the family honours on
the death of his grandfather in Den, 1844. Lord Giant.
worth before mentioned, succeeds his father as third earl.
He married in 1862, his cousin Miss Gray, daughter of the
Rev. Henry Gray, vicar of Almoudsbnry, Gloucestershire,
and Lady Emily Caroline Gray. The present earl was
formerly in the Rifle Brigade, but retired from the army in
1862.

The Queen has conferred a baronetcy upon Pro-
fessor Simpson, this being, it is said, the first time a
baronetcy has been given to a Scottish professor or to a
medical practitioner in Scotland.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
arrived at Gloucester House, Park-lane, on Saturday even-
ing, from a visit to Lord and Lady Londesborough at Grim.
stop Park, Yorkshire.
His Excellency the Austrian ambassador has
returned to Chandos House from visiting the Marquis and
Marchioness of Lansdowne, at Bowood Park, Wilts.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne
have been entertaining a distinguished circle of guests at
Bowood Park, Wilts.
The Marquis and Marchionees Townahend
arrived in Loudon on Saturday from Raynham Hall, Nor-
folk. .

The Earl Russell, accompanied by the countess
and family, is expected to remove to town about the 25th
inst., from Pembroke Lodge, Richmond-park, for the season.
Lord Stanley of Alderley is expected to arrive in
town to-day from his seat, Alderley Park, Cheshire.
Lord Dunkellin, M.P., who is at present on a
tour in Italy, will arrive home early in the ensuing mouth
for the meeting of parl;ameet.
It is stated that a vacancy will shortly be created
in the Admiralty by the retirement of Rear-Admiral the
Ron. James Robert Drummond, one of the junior lords.
Sir William Hoste, Bart., the second senior cap-
tain in the fleet, and groom-in-waiting on her Majesty, is
dangerously iIL Sir William was born in 1818, and has one
son, born in 1860.
Captain Robert Hall, R.N., at present private
secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, will, it is
thought, succeed Captain William Loring, C. 8., as Cap-
tain Saperintendent of the Pembroke Dockyard. Captain
Loring, who is now senior captain in the fleet, sod also
aide-de-camp to the Queen, will vacate both appointments
on promotion.
Dr. Johann Jacoby, a distinguished member of
the democratic party in the second Chamber of Prussia, is
at present in prison. The six months to which he was eon-
demned do not expire till February 26, or about six weeks
after the opening of the Chambers. The right of the
Chamber to demand his temporary release will probably
be brought before the house at a very early period.
A letter from Naples of the let says :—" In the
townships under Vesuvius I find an uneasy feeling pre-1
veiling, and a general expectation of an earthquake. The
less educated classes say that as the cholera in 1856 was'
followed by an earthquake, so we may look out for another
now. Among persons better educated, one said, ' I never
go to bed without spprehension, and sleep with my door
open; The reasons for snob apprehensions, when they
ere adduce 1, are these :—Vesuvius has long been dormant.
Of late it has been making some ineffectual efforts to re-
Hive itself, but nothing beyond a line of smoke by
day and an occasional tongue of fire by night is perceptible.
Then, all round Vesuvius, extending even to autotimer.,
there is a perfect dearth of water, so much so that the
arsenal of that plaos, which has always derived its water
from mountain springs that have never failed even in
summer, is now compelled to send to a considerable dis-
tance for water. Perhaps the most startling fact is the
depression of the sea all round the bay. I have examined
it at Tarims places, and find that this depression is at least
ten palms beneath the ordinary level. We have certainly
had a month's calm weather, but, still, this is scarcely suffi-
cient to account for the fact now stated."

The following curious case has come before the
Fontainebleau tribunal Last October a poor woman was
taken up by one of the foresters for having carried away
quantities of ant"' eggs from a formicary. Ants abound in
the Fontainebleau forest, and instead of wishing to get
rid of them, the administration of the woods and forest
preserve them carefully on account of their value am food
for all species of game, but more especially for young par-
tridges, as well a/ their utility as manure. Many
varieties of seeds, &c., have bees tried as a sub-
stitute, but nothing has proved so nutritious to the
5,000 or 6,000 pheasants preserved in the imperial shooting
grounds am the ant. A proof of the value of ante' eggs is
the frequent attempts made by all the poor residing in the
neighbourhood to carry off supplies of this strange edible, in
order to sell them to the proprietors of private pheasanUiew.
The forest laws therefore have constituted into a fraud the
act of rifling an ant-hill of its store of eggs. The poor
woman cited before the tribunal as guilty of this act has
been fined 2fr., a penny-halfpenny reetitation, and • further
sum of 2fr. costs.

The P rogres de Lyon gives the following details as
to the Lincoln memorial flag which the Lyons workmen
have subscribed to send to the United States, in memory
of President Lincoln :—Thirteen bands of gros de Tours
silk, of which seven are red and six white, each band a foot
in width, and embroidered with 35 silver etas on a rich
blue silk ground ; the 33 stars typifying the 35 states of
the Union. The inscription is worked in gold thread, and
runs than :—" Souscription populaire i la lUpublique des
Etats Usti.. °Harte en memoirs d'Abraham Lincoln.
Lyon, 1863."
A Madrid letter of the sth says :—" We are here
in a stnte of siege, and in every probability soon to be
blockaded. It is difficult to collect trustworthy intelli-
gence—next to impossible to transmit it. The government
papers only write to conceal and disguise the truth. The
other journals, even the most moderate and most devoted
to the canoe of order, such as the Zpoca—even the parti-
sans of the O'Donnell ministry, such as the Beim; are
seized day by day, come out sadly mutilated, and can only
obtain peace by pledging themselves not to publish one line
on the only topic of peewit interest, except at the dictation
of the men in power. The Puerta del Sol and the top of the
Carrera de San Giresun° are crowded at some hours of the
day, especially late in the afternoon. This is the usual
battle-field of Madrid rioters."

The Paris Moniteur publishes the following

notice :—" A number of agencies and journals have been
founded in view of the Exhibition of 1867, nod the imperial
commission is informed that the representatives of some of
them affirm or give reason to suppose that they are its
offioial organs. The imperial commission informs the public
that it is entirely unconnected with any undertakings of
that Idea, nod that in its relations with exhibitors it
recognises no other intermediary than the committees in.
etituted by the general regulations.'