The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-27 00:00:00

DEATH OF LORD OLENELO.

The death is announced this morning of Lord
Glenelg, who many years since, as Mr. Charles Grant,
held a conspicuous position amongst the statesmen of this
country. Born at Kidderpore in the Presidency of Bengal,
in 1783, he was brought to England, and was en-
tered at Magdalene College, Cambridge, having had
amongst his college contemporaries the late Vice-
Chancellor Rodwell, Mr. Robert Grant, afterwards
Governor-General of Bombay, Lord Canterbury, late
Speaker of the House of Commons, Dr. Stanley, late
Bishop of Norwich, Dr. Sumner, late Archbishop of Can-
terbury, Dr. Jackson, late Master of St. John's, and the
present Duke of Northumberland. He took his B.A. in
1801, when he was 4th wrangler, the senior wrangler
of the year being the Rev. Henry Martyn, a well-
known Indian missionary, between whom and
Mr. Grant a close intimacy existed. He was Chancellor's
medallist in 1801, and member's prizemaa in the
same year, in conjunction with Henry Martyn. Leaving
Cambridge he applied himself to the study of the law, and
in 1807 was called to the bar by the Hon. Society of Lis.
coin's Inn. In 1813 the Earl of Liverpool, who was then
Prime Minister, appointed him a lord of the treasury,
and this position he held until 1819, when Lord
Liverpool made him Chief Secretary of Ireland,
He remained at that poet until 1823, when he was trans-
ferred to the Board of Trade, and discharged the duties of
its vice-president until 1827. On Mr. Canning booming
prime minister in 1827, Mr. Grant was advanced to the
presidentship of the Board of Trade and the treasurership
of the navy, and remained there until Jan., 1828. In 1830,
under Earl G rev's administration, he became President of the
Board of Control, an office which he held until 1834, when
Lord Melbourne, who then became Prime Minister, ap.
pointed him Secretary of State for the Colonies. This ap-
pointment he held until January, 1839, when he was suc-
ceeded by Lord John Russell. It was in 1835, while War
and Colonial Secretary, that he was raised to
the peerage. In the House of Commons he
sat fur the Fortress Burghs from 1807 to 1818, and for
Inverness-shire from 1818 to 1835, when he went to the
House of Lords. By his death a pension of 2,000/. • year
falls to the government. The family is a junior branch of
the Grants of Grant N.B. springing from • second son of
that line who obtained lands in Glenurquhart from James
`V. in 1509. There is no successor to the title.

REPRESENTATION OF NOTTINGHAM.—In addition
to Lord Amberley and Mr. Handel Cossham, who are
expected to oome forward to solicit the suffrages of the
electors, Mr. Serjeant Simon, of the Temple, has just
issued an address, stating his determination to contest the
borough on liberal principle& IMr. Simon avows himself
" a member of that great liberal party whose policy
has materially advanced the cause a political and reli-
gious freedom, and promoted the commercial interests
and the social happiness of this great empire." He
" thinks that the time has arrived when the great ques-
tion of reform should be settled, and the just claims of the
working classes recognised. Having regard to the manner
in which previous governments have treated, the subject
of -reform, the present government have acted wisely
in the course they have taken • and if that course
should fail to attain an immediate success, it will
have given such an impulse to public opinion
as will secure a certain, and not distant settlement of the
question." The conservatives promise a candidate, which
will make a fourth. Mr. Acland (the agent of Mr. Serjeant
Simon) has also issued nn address to the electors, in which
he states that " he will resort to no measures inconsistent
with the principle of purity of election. In fighting the
battle of independence the electors will not seek their
rights by wrongful means. The business will be conducted
(says Mr. Acland) at my office. We need no committee-
room, for we shall have no committee. Without the means
or will to debauch the constituency, we shall have no
secrete to keep." Mr. H. Coseham addressed the electors
and non-electors in the market-place on Wednesday
evening.
THE WINDSOR ELECTION COMMITTEL.—MT.
Labouchere, writing to the Times, says :—" I may, then,
fairly state that my late colleague and I were unseated be-
cause one of our agents had been concerned months before
he became our agent in taking publichouses in undue num-
ber for Mr. Flower. Now, air, I would venture to call the
attention of the legislature to the new and strange prin-
ciple of jurisprudence on which the decision of the
\S indsor Election Committee has been based. Ido so in
the interests of all candidates, for as far as I am concerned
I have unfortunately no appeal against the decision.
It is sufficiently difficult to prevent over-sealous com-
mittee men and agents from compromising their candidate
during the election i but if he is to be retrospectively re-
sponsible for all their previous acts, I venture to say that
no candidate can expect to hold his rat against a petition.
Were this retrospective responsibility introduced into the
procedure of courts of law no man would be safe. I might,
sir, to-morrow have the advantage of making your acquaint-
ance ; some days later I might take • servant whom you
had formerly employed. Ought I to be hung if it were sub-
sequently shown that you and the servant had murdered
some one last January in London while I was in Italy ?
Were I still a member of the legislature I should myself
point out the necessity of a reform in the composition of
election committees!. As an elector of Westminster I shall,
through my tative, Captain Grosvenor, present •
petition to the Hones of Commons praying that some alter-
ation be made in the present system, and that a properly
qualified judge be added to every committee to explain the
' lelementaryIelementary principles of jurisprudence to well-intentioned
gentlemen who know nothing about them."