The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-18 00:00:00

Death of Lord Manners.

We have to announce the death of Lord Manners
which occurred at Hastings on Monday. His lord-
ship had long been in a precarious state of health,
his disease being consumption. John Henry Man.
ners.Sutton, second Baron of Foston, Lincolnshire,
was eldest son of a distinguished father, the Right

Hon. Thomas Manners-Sutton, who became Solici-
tor-General in 1805, and shortly afterwards one of
the Barons of the Exchequer, and in 1807 was ap-
pointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland, when he was
raised to the peerage as Baron Manners. His mother
was a daughter of. Mr James Butler, of Fethard, a
near relative of the Earl of Glengall. He was born
in Stephen's green, Dubin, on the 17th of August,
1818, succeeded his father on the 31st of May, 1842,
and married on the 281 of September, 1848,
Lydia Sophia, third dauguter of Captain William
Bateman Dashwood,R.N., by whom he leaves issue
a youthful family—three sons and two daughters.
His successor in the title is the Hon. John Thomaa
Manners-Sutton, born on the 15th of May, 1852,
Lord Manners was a Deputy-Lieutenant of Suffolk,
and captain in the West Suffolk Ntilitie. The first
peer was fifth son of Lord George Manners-Sutton,
scn of the third Duke of Rutland (who inherited in
1762 the estates and assumed the name of his mater-
nal grandfather, Robert Sutton, Baron Lexington);
his elder brother was Charles, Archbishop of Can-
terbury, and .his nephew was the Primate's son,
Charles Alanners Sutton, G.C.8., Speaker of the
House of Commons 1817— 34, who was raised to the
peerage as Viscount Canterbury.

SEAMEN MISSTNG, Information has reached
Hartlepool of the loss of the Constellation, of that
port, on the sth insf. The master reports that she struck
upon a rock off the Niddegen Lights, in the Cattegat, and
eunk an hour afterwards. The crew, ten in number,

divided, five men getting into each boat. The poor fellows
had no oars, and they had to use their jackets for sails.
The jolly boat, in charge of the master, after drifting
about two days, cast up on Jutland, but an hour after they
landed one of her crew, Alfred English, died. There has
been no word of the other boat's crew, and there is every
reason to believe they have perished.
ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A STATION-MASTER.—
Mr Steele, station-master, Pickle Bridge, near Halifax,
was stabbed in a dreadful manner by Noah Wood, a shoe-
maker, of Norwood Green, near Halifax. on Monday after-.
noon. Steele was at one time a porter at the Victoria
Station, Manchester, and between him and Wood there
would have appeared to have been an old grievance. Wood
wee brought up before the Hai/far-West Riding tieffeb; but
in consequence of the serious illness of Steele the prisoner
was remanded till Saturday.—Shegield Telegraph.
DETERMINED SUICIDE.--This morning about 6
o'clock, Sergeant Glass, 3 C, was called to No. 24,
Peter-street, St. James's, when he found that a woman,
named Margaret Huckerefield had cut her throat in a most
frightful manner with a large table-knife. No time was
lost in conveying the poor woman in a cab to the Middlesex
Hospital, but on being attended by one of the surgeons,
life was found to be extinct. The deceased, who had only
lodged at the house a few days, is said to have been of re-
spectable appearance, and she had informed some of the
persons residing in the house that she had only lately left
service, and that she had a son residing near London. No
cause can be assigned for the act, but it is believed to have
been committed through distress.

A KING CHARGED WITH SWINDLING.—The
French attorney, Tounena, who " by the grace of
God and the will of the people" has become Sing of Arau-
cania and Patagonia. appeared on Saturday in the Correia•
Lionel Police-court at Paris, on a charge of swindling, which
was set forth in the following terms by the presiding judge:
—" In December last you alighted at one of the best hotels
in Paris. You engaged an apartment at 15ef a month. You

intimated your intention of boarding at the hotel, which is
easily understood, for you could not well board elsewhere.
You were without resources, but you had, we are told, an
excellent appetite. Your tastes were of a very refined na-
ture. You required the most sumptuous fare, and when
the dishes were not sufficiently delicate you rejected them.

When persons are in such great penury as you were they
should be much more modest, even though they may
have been Kings of Araucania and Patagonia. You
L ved in this way (nring Lur months. Now, for a man

who pellrips had worn a crown, but who had not a
farthing in his pocket, this was not over-delicate conduct.
One day you dikappeared from your hotel—you went, I
don't know where, to your family, to solicit aid. You re-
turned to your hotel, and then you spoke of resources which
would enable you to pay your debt—resources to be de-
rived from an enterprise you were about to engage in—fac•
tories in Araucania and Patagonia. You opened offices in
Paris in a little corner of the Rue Vivienne. You printed
statutes of a company, with 1.0 millions of francs capital.
Your attempt did not succeed—you did. not get a sous.
You were asked how you meant to pay your hotel expenses,
and you said you should do so when you formed your com-
pany.. How, without having a single subscriber, could yon
pay P Did you mean to pay your personal expenses with
the money of your shareholders ? In fact, you have not
been able to pay. What answer can you make F" A long
examination followed, in which the accused tried to defend
himself as beet he could. He had hopes of forming his com-
pany—he had hopes of getting back his crown—he had no
intention of swindling anybody—he had given the landlady
of the hotel an acknowledgment of hie debt, which he meant
and which ho tried to pay—but all his exertions to raise
money failed. Witnesses were called, who deposed that ho
had been tor some time King of Araucania, and that he had
been taken prisoner by the Chilians and sentenced to be
shot, and that he was saved by the French authorities,
Moreover, it was proved by a letter from the Procureur
at Perigueux, that during the time he practised there as a
lawyer he had borne an excellent character for probity. The
Procureur moreover added that he dii not believe him
capable of swindling anybody, but that his pretended royalty
of Araucania had completely upset his ideas and made him
indulge the most proposterous projects, and that he was
affected with a monomania which had completely absorbed
his intellect. The judgment of the court was to this effect :

—" Whereas, by assuming the titla of Prince and King of
Araucania, the accused may have acted under the influence
of chimerical thoughts and facts, but which, perhaps, to
him seemed true, that, consequently, the character of
swindling not appearing in the case, it decided that there
was good reason to pronounce his acquittal."—He was ac.
cordingly set at liberty.

The Ceurrier du Pas de Calais states:that as soo❑
8b it became known at Calais that M. Berryer was to arrive
on Friday by the steamer from England, the barristers of
that town and many of the principal inhabitants determined
to pay their respects to him. A great number accordingly
assembled on the quay, and greeted him with loud cheers on
landing. M. Berryer expressed himself highly gratifieil
with this manifeatation, and before leaving the station he
received all the members of the Calais bar, and thank:d
them for the honour they had done him.