The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-29 00:00:00

DEATH OF VISCOUNT MELBOURNE, G. 0.8.

We regret to announce the demise of Viscount Mel-
bourne, brother of Viscountess Palmerston, long in the
diplomatic service of the State, and better known as the
Hon. Sir Frederick Lamb and Lord Beauvale. His
lordship expired at a quarter past 7 o'clock this (Satur-
day) morning, at Brockett Hall, Herts, after a short
illness, arising from gout, to which his lordship was a
great sufferer, which excited no alarm, as may be ga-
thered from the fact that none of his relatives were sum-
moned to the country, his sister Lady Palmerston being,
with the Home Secretary, at Broadlands, Hants. The
deceased Frederick James Lamb, Viscount and Baron
Melbourne, of Gilmore, county Cavan, in the peerage of
Ireland ; Baron Melbourne, of Melbourne, in the county
of Derby, and Baron Beauvale, of Beauvale, in the county
of Nottingham, in the peerage of the United Kingdom ;
was third son of Peniston, first Viscount, and Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir Ralph Milbanke, Bart. He was born
17th April, 1782, and married in 1841, previous to his
leaving Vienna for England, MaAlle. de Maltzham,
daughter of his Excellency Baron Maltzham, the Prus-
sian Minister to the Austrian Court.

The late viscount entered the diplomatic service early
in life, and in 1811 was appointed Secretary of Legation
at Palermo. In 1813 he was removed to the same rank
at the British Embassy at Vienna, where he remained
two years. He was then (in 1815) accredited Envoy to
Munich, which he held several years. In 1822 he was
appointed a Privy Councillor, and in 1827 nominated a
Civil Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, in conside-
ration of his diplomatic services. He was some years
Minister at the Court of Madrid, and, on the late Earl
Grey coming into office as Premier, he, then the Right
Hon. Sir Frederick Lamb, was appointed Ambassador
to the Court of Vienna, a post he filled up to his recal
in October, 1841, when Sir Robert Peel appointed Sir
Robert Gordon (brother of the Earl of Aberdeen) his
successor. Since then he has not held any public situa-
tion. In 1839 he was created a peer, by the title of
Baron Beauvale, and in Nov., 1848, on the death of his
brother, Viscount Melbourne, he succeeded to the supe-
rior family title. He leaves no family, consequently the
title becomes extinct.

The families of the Earl and Countess Cowper, Vis-
count and Viscountess Palmerston, the Hon. Mr. Geo.
Lamb, the Hon. W. F. Cowper, M.P., &c., are placed
in mourning by the event. An express was forwarded to
Viscountess Palmerston, in Hampshire, as early as pos-
sible after the noble viscount's dissolution.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before the Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices.)

SELFE V. HUMS-IN RE LORD HUNTINGTOWER.

Mr. Terral this morning made an application on behalf
of the defendant in this case, in which a bill had been
filed to set aside a warrant of attorney held by the
defendant from Lord Huntingtower, for permission to
inspect the minutes of evidence which he himself had
given in the Bankruptcy Court in the matter of Lord
Huntingtower on several occasions. The defendant was
now about answering the plaintiff's bill, and wished to
refer to several points in his former examination. A
similar application had been made to Mr. Commissioner
Fonblanque, and had been refused by him, and the
present was an appeal from his decision.
The Lord Chancellor said it was a most unusual appli-
cation and the Court must unhesitatingly refuse it.
Application refused with costs.

(Before the Master of the Rolls.)
CONGREVE V. PALMER.

This was a case arising out of the construction of the
codicil to a will, by which the testator left a certain sum
to his daughter, Mrs. Cole, for her life, and after her
death to go to such uses as she should appoint, and in
default of such appointment to go to such of her sisters
as should be alive at her death, or their children. Mrs.
Cole died without issue, and without making any appoint-
ment. There were three separate sets of claimants, the
children of Mrs. Cole's three sisters, Mrs. Greenway,
Mrs. Walker, who died before their sister, and of Lady
Brooke, who died previous to the making of the codicil.
His Honour this morning gave judgment deciding that
the children of Lady Brooke were excluded altogether
from the succession, and that the estate must therefore
go to the children of the two other sisters to be divided
per stirpes, and not per capita.
Decree accordingly.