The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-23 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

Market opens firmer. Sales probably about
6,000 bales.

DEATH OF LORD WILLOUGHBY D'ERESBY.—We
have to announce the death of Lord Willoughby
D'Eresby, who, after a protracted illness, expired between
9 and 10 o'clock last night at the family residence on the
Terrace, Piccadilly. Lady Carington and other members
of his family were present at his death-bed. Lady Wil-
loughby, to whom ho was most tenderly attached, had only
pre-deceased him by a few weeks. The late Peter Robert
Drummond-Willoughby was the eldest son of Peter Burrell,
the first Lord Gwydyr, by Priscilla, 19th Baroness Wil-
loughby D'Eresby. He was born the 19th of March, 1782,
and succeeded his father as Baron Gwydyr the 9th of June,
1820, and his mother as Baron Willoughby the 29th of
December, 1828. The deceased lord married, on the 20th
of October, 1807, the Hon. Clementina Sarah Drummond,
the only surviving child and heir of James, Lord Perth,
whese death we had occasion to mention only a few weeks
back. He leaves as surviving issue Clementine. Elizabeth,
married to Lord Aveland, Charlotte Augusta, married to
Lord Carington, and the Hon. Alberic (his only son), born
the 23d of December, 1821, who succeeds to the family
honours. The late Baron Willoughby D'Eresby, and
Gwydyr of Gwydyr, county Carnarvon, in the Peerage of
England, was joint Hereditary Great Chamberlain of Eng-
land with the present Marquis Cholmondeley, who will
now assume that hereditary appointment. He has a sur-
viving sister, the Dowager Countess of Clare. The mother
of the late lord was the sister and co-heir of the last Duke
of Ancaster, who died in 1779. Lord and Lady Willoughby
were almost the last survivors of that great society which
had adorned the early years of the present century. They
had both been distinguished as leaders of fashion, and were
renowned not only for a splendid hospitality, which in-
cluded almost every personage of distinction in Europe,
but -for a certain genial courtliness of manner, combined
with the most unaffected kindliness of which there aro few
examples. Of all the 'many deaths which this inclement
season has caused none will leave a wider gap than those
of Lord and Lady Willoughby.

THE LATE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND. —We
body of the late Duke of Northumberland was brought to
Northumberland-house about 9 o'clock last evening, from
Alnwick Castle. The lying in state will take place to-
mon ow, from 10 to 4, and admission is confined to the per-
sonal friends of the deceased, his tenants, and tradespeople.
The body of the deceased, on reaching Northumberland-
house, was placed in the dining room, which had been pre-
pared as a mortuary chamber, being hung throughout with
black draperies.

We are informed that Lord Enfield, M.P. for
Middlesex, and eldest son of Lord Strafford, has con-
sented to accept the office of Secretary of the Poor Law
Board, just vacated by the resignation of Mr. Gilpin,
M.P. for Nottingham.

TIIE YORKSHIRE COAST.—Up to Tuesday night
there was no intelligence of three missing Yorkshire
fishing vessels, the True Love, the Rose of England, and
the Blue Jacket, belonging to Staithes, and it is greatly to
be feared that they and their crews, in all 27 persons, are
lost. One fishing vessel was seen to be in distress off
Redcar on Sunday night, and after a fall of snow it was
noticed she had disappeared. Some wreck has come ashore
at Saltburn. The snow squalls of Sunday were the se-
verest that have been observed this winter upon the north
east coast, and the sea rose with great rapidity when the
wind got round to the northward.

POOR RATES AND PAUPERISM.—Mr. Purdy's
quarterly return, completing the series for 1864, was issued
yesterday. It shows that there has been a continuous in-
crease in the number of paupers from the beginning to the
end of the quarter, there being 63,674 more paupers at the
latter time than at the former. Nevertheless the paupers
in the whole year (1864), as compared with those of 1863,
have decreased 32,174, or 3.35 per cent. ; but compared
with 1862, the decrease was 178,142, or 16.12 per cent. The
actual numbers for the three years are as follows :-1863,
1,105,234; 1863, 959,266; and 1864, 927,092.
QUEEN'S SHIPS.—The usual annual return made
by the Controller of the Navy shows that on the Ist
February there were in the Royal Navy 445 steamships
afloat, 357 of them screws and 26 screw steamers building ;
there were also 69 effective sailing ships afloat, 54 of them
mortar vessels and floats. These numbers make 540 in all.
Of the steamvessels afloat 27 are armour-plated screw ships,
namely, six third-rate iron ships and six wood, two fourth-
rate iron ships and one wood; four cupola ships, fourth-rates;
one wood corvette, sixth-rate ; two sloops, three iron floating
batteries and two of wood. There are 55 ships of the line,
screws, and 43 frigates, 37 of them screws. There are also
37 gun vessels and 105 gunboats, all screws. The rest are
block ships, corvettes, sloops, mortar ships, small vessels,
tenders, &c. Of the 26 steamships building, eight are armour-
plated—namely, three third-rate iron ships and one of wood;
one wood corvette, sixth-rate ; and three iron gunboats.
Of the other 18 steam-vessels building, the building of 12
is suspended, and only a frigate, three sloops, and two gun-
boats, all screws, aro proceeding. The return of the Ist of
February, 1864, showed 593 vessels afloat and 38 building.
There are seven more armour-plated vessels afloat now
than there were then, but fewer - paddle-ships, fewer gun-
boats, and fewer sailing ships.