The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-07 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1854.

The Financial Statement just delivered in the
Rouse of Commons is in some parts eminently
satisfactory, but there is, unfortunately, an alloy
which materially detracts from the gratification
we might otherwise experience. We should in-
deed rejoice at finding such powerful corroboration
of the principle on which we have so frequently
insisted, viz., that reductions of taxation do not
lead to corresponding or proportionate reductions
in the revenue as that afforded by the excess of
the receipts over the estimates, which amounted
to no less than 1,035,0001., another strong illus-
tration of the buoyancy of our national resources.
A nearly equal sum, or 1,012,0001., also appeared
on the credit side of the national balance sh eet—
money saved by the economical management of
the money allocated by Parliament for the year's
expenditure. Here, then, was an unexpected wind-
fall of 2,047,000/., a vary nice nest egg with
which to begin operatiois for the approaching
sear. But, unfortunately, there was a serious
item on the opposite side of the ledger. The move-
ment for the conversion of certain portions of the
public debt had proved a complete failure, result-
ing in a loss of about 800,0001. sterling, and
stripping the xachequer of the handsome balances
which would have been so peculiarly valuable at
an emergency like the
present. We may possibly
*
have to borrow equal sums at an expense
very far
exceeding the benefits
derived from their use.
And for all this, the nation
gains some 15,0001.
per annum, taken from the incomes of persons
who confided in the prescience
of the Financial
Minister ; and thereby lost about 15 per cent.
of their entire capital. But even that large
amount by no means represents the total losses
occasioned by the tampering of the Right Hon.
Gentleman with the public debt. The interest
of money was increased, and monetary accommo-
dation restricted, serious difficulties imposed on
our merchants, traders, and manufacturers, while
landholders and shareholders of every species of
stock saw their property depreciated some ten or
twelve per cent. It is true that a great portion
of that depreciation was occasioned by the unwar-
rantable conduct of the AUTOCRAT—conduct that
has already cost us, or is estimated to cost us,
within a short time, more than four and a half
millions of direct expenditure, and which has
indirectly occasioned damage to a much larger
amount by the depreciation of every description
of property. But the evil was materially en-
hanced, ao far as the indirect losses by depreciation

were concerned, by the imprudent dealing ,g Mr.
GLADSTONE with the public funds. ' ' '
It may be said that lie could not have possibly
foreseen that the CZAR would have persisted in his'
unjust and impolitic aggression with such unpa-
ralleled perversity, or that he should so obstinately
and unwisely have refused to avail himself of the
numerous loop-holes allowed for him to slip out of
and evade the consequences of the formidable
blunder he had committed. Bat even at the time
when Mr. GLADSTONE brought forward his propo-
sition, the cloud in the East was distinctly per-
ceptible, and it required no extraordinary degree
of political foresight to see that extensive specula-
tive experiments should have been avoided at
such a time. The loss has entirely arisen
from Mr. GLADSTONE's ambition to found
a high financial reputation at the very
commencement of his career in that important de.
partment, and he must not be chary of his labour
in attempting to repair the damage he has
created.

I After taking into account the saving of expen-
diture and the excess of income over the estimates
already referred to, the Chancellor of tke Ex-
chequer calculated that he would be obliged to
discover new sources from whence no less that'
2,810,0001. might be obtained, the additional
war expenditure (according to present estimates)
being 4,506,0001. The Right Honourable Gentle-
man very judiciously refuses to retrace our foot-
steps by the re-imposition of indirect taxes which
have been abolished or reduced. He is too well
acquainted with the state of public opinion' on
fiscal matters to venture on such a proposition.
He could, therefore, only obtain the necessary
sum by borrowing, or resorting to increased direct
taxation. He has selected, and, in the
present stage of the: case, perhaps not
unwisely, the latter branch of the alternative,
thinking that in the first instance, at least, we
should endeavour to defray the expenditure our-
selves rather than cast any portion of it on pos-
terity. We do not say that he is wrong in so
doing. For the present we abstain from expressing
an opinion on that part of the case, but this we
will say, that if he is now right, he was decidedly
wrong in his conversion project, when at a time
of profound peace, and when the nation was in
the enjoyment of almost unexampled prosperity,
he endeavoured to effect a temporary saving of
interest at the expense of that very posterit y
about which he is now so solicitous, coolly
increasing by the flourish of a pen the nominal
capital of the debt no les3 than ten per cent., all
of which would eventually have to be liquidated
at par. How the admirers of the Right
Honourable Gentleman can reconcile the
two projects, or henceforward vindicate his
consistency, is more than we can even
guess. We, therefore, leave the arduous task to
those who are willing to undertake it.
The mode by which he contemplates raising the
additional sum is by DOUBLING THE INCOME TAX ! !
Doubling it, with all its glaring inconsistencies
and intolerable grievances flourishing in unabated
strength. Yes, the Income Tax, the days of
which were numbered, as we fondly imagined—
at least such of us as believed the flattering pro-
mises of the Right Hon. Gentleman. We our-
selves never indulged in such brilliant but decep-
tive visions. And now it is to be doubled, and
that without modification or amendment of any
kind. Our gloomy vaticinations have been thus
too speedily verified ; and we have received un-
exceptionable evidence that in any emergency the
Income Tax is the first source of revenue that will
be resorted to. We do not regret that it should
be so. On the contrary, we have invariably main-
tained that a fairly-apportioned income tax, judi-
ciously discriminating between permanent and
temporary, and also between fixed and precarious
income, is the most expedient, as it is' unques-
tionably the most equitable mode of replenishing
the national exchequer. Our objections were not
against the impost, but against the glaring injus-
tice of the assessment that charged all kinds of
income at the same rate, without regard to its
duration or fluctuating chiracter. Advantage
was taken of the pledge that it was to be 'allowed
to expire in seven years to obtain its renewal for
the prolonged period without modification. In
vain we warned our representatives of the dodge
—in vain we called on the people to speak
out temperately, but firmly, and to insist
upon the immediate discontinuance of the fiscal
atrocity. A detachment of "Marines" could
not have exhibited greater credence. It was
really an affecting instance of credulity. They
swallowed everything which the ABERDEEN organ,
with its various Gladstonite followers of the Fourth
Estate, chose blandly to put forward. Our salu-
tary cautions were received as if they had fallen
from another CASSANDRA; and we ourselves are
obliged to regret the melancholy facts that
establish, beyond the possibility of doubt, the
accuracy of our predictions.
There is, however, " balm in Gilead ;" the ad-
dition to the tax is only asked for a single half-
year. Unfortunately, the present case, for the
exigencies of the nation, " brooks not of delay."
If we feel the full weight of the burden, we may
console ourselves with the thought that Parlia-
ment must be appealed to before it can again be
demanded by the urgent collector at our doors.
That is certainly a great comfort, and there
is another also. The Right Honourable Gentle-
man, who manifestly has peculiar sources of in-
formation, not available to the community in
general, manifestly Indoks forward to a speedy ces-
sation of hostilities, and a belief that the four
and a half millions will cover the entire expense
of the war. This affords a cheering prospect,
and will materially improve thefeeling on the Stock
Exchange—a matter at which the -Right Hon.
Gentleman doubtless arrived, as he may thereby,
in some degree, diminish the losses arising from
his abortive operation of last year. Indeed, the
present may be energetically termed "THE STOCK
EXCHANGE BUDGET ;" for if it had been framed
solely to meet the views of the money-dealers, it
could not do so more effectually.
It is to be regretted that not a single word
was uttered on the all-important subject of
economising our stock of the precious metals ;
releasing some portion uselessly stored up in the
vaults at Threadneedle-street--as uselessly, in-
deed, as if it still remained buried in the bowels
of the Ural mountains, or were luring new emi-
grants, to the " digging' of Australia or California,
or of rendering some of that now in daily use avail-
able for our foreign transactions by a substitution of
small notes abundantly secured for the sovereigns
that are constantly changing hands: On this all-
important subject he preserved' a total' and un-
broken silence. We yield our full and -unmiti-
gated approbation to the plan respecting the stamp
duties on bills of exchange, rendering foreign bills
equally liable with inland. It is nearly that put
forward by Mr. PACE, to which we have already
directed attention. The Right Hon. Gentleman
thinks that this change may occasion a present
loss of about 100,0001., but that eventually the
receipts may be nearly equal to those levied under
the present system. He need not, however, think
so humbly of the project. We distinctly, delibe-
rately, and advisedly assert that, in place of loss,
large profits will result from the equitable change,
and that in this, again, it will be found that
" honesty is the best policy !"

Another masterly State paper has recently been
penned by M. DROUYN DE L'Huvs, and officially
published in the columns of the Moniteur, in the
name of the French Imperial Government. It
is an epitome of the whole of the arguments com-
prised in a recent and memorable correspondence.
The monstrous mis statements of the CZAR are
therein again exposted and refuted beyond the
possibility of misapprehension. Referring to the
disingenuous manner in which the Russian AUTO-
CRAT is endeavouring to prove that throughout these
occurrences he has been the victim of a systematic
and preconceived hostility, the French Minister
contents himself with observing, It is not my
voice, it is that of Europe, that replies that never
did an imprudent and haughty policy meet in any
age with calmer ad versaries." It is true. ' True,
indeed, to an eater nt we have sometimes thought
absolutely deploy. able. " Calmer Adversaries"
surely man. never had than the Emperor STieso-
I" has had, frog n first to last...adversairi;es who

have perrjtte4 him cropp the for,l)4l4eurel4rKe9;
of the Pruth, to '00044 the twid isrovinees cif
Moldo-Walrachia, to ravage the Ukiiicisus, tQ mas-
sacre
the unfortunate Turks at Sinope, and to
threaten, any time these last twelve months, an
advance upon the city of Constantinople. Calmer ?
Could adversaries be calmer in any quarrel, than
those who have tolerated so long these monstrous
and most unjustifiable acts of aggression ? Meet-
ing the assailant, of the Ottoman Empire up to
the last moment with no more formidable weapons
than those wielded by an effete diplomacy ! ,Meet-
ing him, not with grapeshot and cannon-balls, not
with sword and bayonet, but with Notes, and
projects, and quiet little drafts of agreement; and
most pacific and conciliatory, though utterly futile
and abortive, attempts at negotiation ! Happily the
carnival time has passed by for our ambassadors
and plenipotentiaries. We are no longer to be
restricted to the amusement of pelting each other
with the sugar plums of diplomacy—the comfits
of official etiquette—the paper pellets of modern
statesmanship. The grim game of war is to be
played instead of the miserable pastime which
ended the other day, in anything but child's play,
in that terrible Sinope catastrophe. War is
at last to begin in earnest -- a war for
•he payment of the expenses of which France
is o raise a loan of two hundred and fifty
millions of francs, 10,000,0001., and for
the liqui3ation of which England was asked
last evening :ill the House of Commons to consent
to an increase Of the Income Tax during the next
half-year, from 7d. to lop., (Yielding an increase
of 3,307,000/.) ae,"ordiug to the ingenious
Budget for the year ?.$54-5, prepared by her
MAJESTY'S Chancellor of ti Exchequer. Upon
that war, indeed, we are now' adventuring with
,a
perfect accord and enthusiasm tiNlong Frenchmen.
and Englishmen. '

Yesterday, another of the distinguished sur-
vivors of the last war,.the last war of the gian%
the war carried on by all the nations of Europe
in succession, and at length combined, against
NAPOLEON, passed away from the public scene in
the person-of the Marquis of LONDONDERRY. Be-
tween the date of his birth in 1778, and of his
denth on the 6th March, 1854=a long career
was developed, of eminence in arms, and skill in
diploma p— of publicsintegrity and private munifi-
cence -- a career which has now been ab-
ruptly corapileted, though not without leav-
ing behind tho brave soldier who is gone the
memory of an ';honourable reputation. It is
by a curious and not altogether unaffecting
coincidence that this sarvivor (until to-day) of the
last war, after the lapse of the principal portion
of half a century of European quietude, disap-
pears' from amongst us on the eve of another
gigantic struggle amongst the great races of Chris-
tendom. It is worthy of note, moreover, that
whereas in the previous contest England and
France opposed each other with implacable ani-
mosity, as the chief among the belligerents,
those two countries are now firmly allied as
the opponents of Russian Barbarism, and as
the champions of European Civilisation. At
the commencement of this new contest it is
impossible, with all our regard to its vital
portance and its vast magnitude—it is impossible,
we say, even at this supreme moment, not to
pause with considerable emotion before the death-
bed of that gallant veteran, whose fame for prowess
was won at the point of his keen sword as Sir
CHARLES STEWART, and whose civic enterprise
and magnanimity have been so frequently
attested since his elevation to the Earldom
of Vane and his earlier succession to the
peerage as Marquis of LONDONDERRY. His-
tory has already long since recorded the deeds of
daring which marked, by many a notable passage
of arms, the track of Sir CHARLES STEWART over
the battle-fields of the Peninsula. Recognised
ever since then as among the most dashing of our
cavalry officers, he achieved the privilege of that
distinction at Ba;dajoz, Busaco, Fuentes-d'Onor,
and Talavera, by,a display of personal heroism
subsequently rewarded at different, but some Of
them, it is true, protracted intervals, with the
ribbons And badges of many orders of knighthood,
including the highest grade of the order of the Bath,
and a portion of the insignia of the Garter worn dur-
ing so many years by the late Duke Of WELLING-
TON. The deceased nobleman, it is still remem-
bered, did good service to England during the
last war, as well by his diplomacy as by his
prowess—not the least of his successes in the
former instance being his adroit triumph at a
moment of singular emergency over the wiles and
trickeries of BERNADOTTE. Superiors though the
late Lord LONDONDERRY unquestionably may have
had elsewhere, as in the Senate or the Council
Chamber a braver soldier never bestrOde
his war horse. His heart true as the steel
that clanked in his scabbard. It was one, more-
over—we all remember that—sensitive to every
dictate of magnanimity. No one has lost the
recollection of hiS generous appeal, sesterill years
since, to the late KING of the FRENCH in behalf
of Louis NAPOLEON, then a prisoner in the
Fortress of Ham. Neither has any one forgotten
his more recent intercesion with. the reigning EM-
PEROR of the FRENCH with a view to effect, as was
indeed ultimately thereby accomplished the libera-
tion from the Chateau at Amboise of the heroic
Emir ABD -EL .KADER. Incidents—those—which
must henceforth be touchingly associated with the
memory of CHARLES WILLIAM, Earl VANE and
Marquis of LONDONDERRY. Peace to the gentle
heart ! Honour to as brave a soldier as ever
fought under the banners of England, or drew
his sword in the name of his country and his
Sovereign !

DRURY LANE TREATRE.

GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE.

At the morning performance to be given here to-morrow
in aid of the fund for the support of the wives and chil-
dren now on their way to the East, the play of Virginius
will, by special desire, be substituted for the Corsican
Brothers• As we stated a few days ago, the lessee has
placed the theatre at the disposal of the managers of the
fund free of expense, and Mr. G. V. Brooke will render his
services on the occasion gratuitously. The IJord Mayor,
the Sheriffs, and other civic authorities, under whose pa-
tronage the demonstration takes place, ' are 'to attend in
state ; and we may mention that in order to increase the
attractions, the'colonel and officers of the( Royal Household
Cavalry have given permission to their band to be present;
and Madame Favanti, Miss Stabbach, Miss Poole, Mrs.
Alexander Newton, Miss Featherstone, and the Distin
family_ have volunteered Itheir assistance. The praise-
worthy object to which the, proceeds are to be devoted is
alone, we hope, in the present state of affairs sufficient to
draw together a large concourse of those who have so en-.
thusiastically cheered our departing wadies; but when we
consider the interesting and almostunnprecedenti3d nature
of the entertainments, we have no doubt the house will be
overflowing to-morrow, and the coffers of the' treasurer.
likewise.

CABIN= COUNCIL.—A Cabinet Council was held at the
Foreign-office, Downing-street, yesterday afternoon.
The Ministers present were the Earl of Aberdeen, .Lord
John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Lord
Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Vii.
count Palmerston; the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke,of
' Newcastle the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Janice
Graham, Sir- Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth, The Council
sat two hours and half

MANSION HOUSE.—A grand dinner was given at the
Mansion House last evening, in the !Egyptian Hall.;
covers were laid far 125. Among the; guests were H.
Brown, Esq., M,P., Mr. Pugh, M.P., and Mrs. P_ugh,
H. B. Coles, Esq., M.P., and Mrs. Coles, George War-
ner, Esq., M.P., and Mrs. Warner, Mr. and Mr. W.
C. Plowden, Colonel and Mrs. Chatterton, Dr. Reid,
and Mrs. Reid, Mr. S. Hare, Mr.: M‘Garrett, Dr.
Daniel, Mr. Frith, Captain and Mrs. Astbridge, Mr.
and the Misses Curling, Mr. Golding, Major Barnard,
Captain Jay, Mr. A. F. Chamberlayne, Mr. and Mrs.
W. James, Mr. Alderman Hunter, Mr. Alderman
Moon, Mr. Alderman and Mrs. Finnis, Mr. Deputy
Unwin and Mrs. Unwin, Mr. Deputy Christie and Mrs.
and Miss Christie, Mr. Deputy and Mrs. Archer, Mr.
and Mrs. T. H. Hall, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Valiance,
Mr. and Mrs. Perkins, Mr. and Mrs. John Clark, Mr.
and Mrs. Venables, Mr. and Mrs. Vile, Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond, Mr. and Mrs. Rathbone, Mr. R. N. Phillips,
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Rose, Mr. and Mrs. Aitchison, &c!
RUSSIAN PRODUCE.—The markets for Russian pro-
duce continue to experience extensive movements, and
hemp yesterday.advanced 31. per ton. On Saturday 471.
was accepted, and yesterday 501. was offered.
FALL IN THE. PRICE OF BREAD.—Yesterday another
fall in the price of the 41b. loaf of one-halfpenny took
place. The bakers at the west-end and other parts of
the metropolis (what are called first-rate bakers), now
charge for the best wheaten bread 104 d. and lid.,
second-rate, 9d. to 9/d. ' • and some only 84d., weighed
on delivery. Good wholesome bread in the populated
districts of Whitechapel, Spitalfields, the Borough,
Westminster, Tottenhanvoeurt-road, may be pro.
cured for ed. the loaf.

EVENING, MARCH 7, 1854.
THE SUN, LONDO:

DEATH- of the M. 4.
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RQUIS of-LONDONDERRY.
•

- - Inexorable death has removed another of the few remain-
ing men whose lives illustrato the most brilliant epoch of our
history. On Thursday last the Marquis of Londonderry, who
had only recently recovered from the effects of an accident,
serious.at his age, was walking down Piccadilly, apparently
in his usual health. Yesterday, his earthly career had
closed.
Few public men have occupied a more honourable posi-
tion than that which, notwithstanding the .occasional sneer
of an opponent, has, by common assent, been assigned to
Charles Stewart, third Marquis of Londonderry. At a very
early age he entered that branch of the service of his country
in which he was destined to acquire eminent distinction, and
during lie hottest period of our struggle with the prodigious
'power of Napoleon, he shone as one of the most brilliant and
daring officers of the British army. It would be superfluous
to recount the almost innumerable instances of gallantry exhi-
bited by Sir Charles Stewart during the Peninsular campaigns.
His history is, in fact, a portion of the military history of
our country ; and when the lapse of time shall have awarded
to each his due meed of praise, no name, we venture to
nay, will be more honoured by those who can appreciate
unostentatious bravery when combiied with the humanity
and generosity which complete the character of a good
and gallant soldier. By his military contemporaries the
marquis has always been regarded as the beau ideal of a
dashing cavalry officer, and his; title to that distinction has
been proved on many a hard-fought field. During the most
active period of his career his talents as a military diploma-
tist were frequently made available at the most critical
junctures by the groat Captain, for whom, all through his
life, and in every vicissitude of party and personal relations,
he continued to cherish and to express an affectionate re-
verence. At a subsequent period Lord Londonderry repre-
sented his Sovereign as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Courts
of Berlin and Vienna, where he acquitted himself of the high
charge entrusted to him with so much tact and ability as to
render important services to Great Britain, at the same time that
he secured the personal friendship and esteem of the highest .
personages at the Courts to which he was accredited.
In 1814, Sir Charles. Stewart (who had married, 10 years
previously, Lady Catherine Bligh, daughter of the third Earl
of Darnley) was, in recognition of his distinguished services,
called to the peerage of the United Kingdom, by the title of
Baron Stewart. His lordship's first wife having died in 1812,
he married, secondly, in 1819, Lady Francess Anne, only
daughter of Sir Harry Vane Tempest, by' Anne; Countess of
Antrim.. The immense possessions to which this lady was
heiress, together with the fact of her being a ward in Chan-
cery, attracted, at the time, a great degree of public interest.
The responsibilities devolved upon Lord .Londonderry by the
management of the property of his bride, embracing a consider-
able portion of the county 'of Durham, and including some of
the most important coal, mines in the country, opened a new
field for the exercise. of energies-vrhieb the cessation of war
had thrown into temporary inaction. His lordship applied
himself with a vigorous activity, which formed one of his
characteristics, to the development of the vast resources of
the estates; and. iu this sphere of exertion exhibited an en-
terprise and sound judgment, the fruits of which will be per-
manently enjoyed by his successors. Among the great works of
improvement which Lord Londonden7 planned and carried out
to completion was the construction of Seaham Harbour, an un-
dertaking almost unprecedented as au instance of private
enterprise, arid justly accounted amongst the wonders of engi-
neering achievements. The successful completion of this
harbour elicited from the late Sir Robert Peel, on the occasion
of its opening in 1847, a graceful tribute to the wise and un-
selfish courage of the mind which had conceived it. Sir Robert
said :

" in the district where he addressed them, they knew more
than he could tell them of the noble marquis's public and pri-
vate virtues, but he must be allowed to remark that not even
the calamity which had befallen him five years since, when
his neighbouring mansion was razed to the ground by fire, had
deterred him from the prosecution of that great work, the
successful completion of which they had now the pleasure
of witnessing. The poet had described undertakings of this
character as

' Imperial works, and worthy kings.'
_ _

What, then, should tllley say of works like these, when under-
taken by a private individual? He hoped the noble marquis
would ultimately reap the. just reward of his labours. Under
any circumstances it could not fail to prOve a proud reflec-
tion to his lordship; and Lady Londonderry, at the close
of life, that they had appropriated their property so as to be
the founders of a port ou the eastern coast of England ; that
they had added to the maritime strength of the country, and
the employment and industry of its inhabitants ; and that
they had established every institution connected with the
well-being of the people, provided for their religious worship,
administered consolation in sickness and suffering, and re-
membered all those moral obligations which the possession of
property imposed."

An the calamitous death of his elder brother, the second
marquis— better known to history as Viscount Castlereagh—
the late peer succeeded' to the Irish honours of his family.
In 1823, his lordship was ' crea.tdd Earl Vane and Viscount
&Islam in the British peerage, with reniainder to his issue by
his second wife.

Without referring to the circumstances attending his ap-
pointment to, and relinquishment of, the embassy to St.
Petersburg, during Sir Robert Peel's short-lived Administra-
tion, in 1834-5, it will bemuflicient to observe as connected
with the political part taken...by Lord Londonderry, that his
conduct was generally that of a moderate and independent
Conservative. Few men have more freely indulged in the
expression of uncompromising opinions upon any subject
with respect to which conviction was fairly awakened, and,
•at the same time, so generally succeeded in avoiding the in-
curral of personal enmity. Indeed, personal enemies his lord-
ship had none. His thorough goodness of heart was evidenced
by so many acts of kindness and liberality, that those who
knew him best respected and loved him most. The affection
entertained for him by his immediate relatives, and by all
who came within the sphere of domestic and personal cor-
respondence, was of a warmth which attested his sterling
.qualities of temper and disposition. Among his leading im-
pulses was a chivalrous and devoted attachment to the
memory, of his brother, whose character, 'when assailed by
ignorance, thoughtlessnOss, or =Betty, he spared no effort
to vindicate from misrepresentation. This feeling was . con-
spicuously manifested in one of the latest acts of his, life—
the publication of the " Correspondence. and Despatches of
Lord Castlereagh," a work which takes rank as one of the
mut valuable contributions to the political history of Europe.
The marquis was z Khight of the Garter, and amongst the
other honours conferred on him by his own, and by foreign
Sovereigns, was that of the highest grade of the Order, of the
Bath—the St. George of Russia, the Black and Red Eagles of
Prussia, the Tower and Sword of Portugal, the Sword of
Sweden, (ice. His lordship was a General in the army, and
Colonel of the 2d Life Guards, in his connection with which
regiment he felt much pride and interest.
His lordship died from the effects of a sudden attack of
influenza, which proved too severe for a constitution already
weakened by long service and the natural decay of age. His
death was free from pain, and his last moments were solaced
by the presence of nearly all the members of the family—in-
cluding his youngest daughter, and his sister, the wife of the
General Commanding-in-Chief.
In the titles of Earl Vane, and Viscount Seaham, and iu
the English estates, the marquis is succeeded by his second
son ; and in his other titles, and a portion of the Irish pro-
perty, by his eldest son, Viscount Castlereagh-now Marquis
of Londonderry;

The Marquis of Londonderry is dead. It was not destined
that a man who had seen so, much service during the last war
should see the commencement of the hostilities in which Eng-
land is at present.involved. Lord Londonderry was among the
now not very numerous survivors of our last great contest with
continental Europe. He entered the Simi), as an ensign in the
year 1794, and saw some service in the unfortunate expedition
to Holland, during the course of which he received a severe
wound. During the whole course of the Peniasular opera-
tions there was no more gallant cavalry officer thin Charles
Stewart. He was among the last to quit the beach at
Corunua. .During the subsequent campaigns we find his
name honourably mentioned at Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes
D'Onor' and Badajoz. It was not, however, only on the
field of battle, where he ever displayed the qualities of
a fearless and accomplished soldier, that the Marquis
of Londonderry earned honourable distinction. He
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may
be recorded in which
his personal courage and resolution rendered essential ser-
vice to the common cause. He was specially charged
with the supervision of Bernadotte, the Swedish King,
who had armed his troops by help of subsidies from ,Eng-
land, and was at the time wavering in his allegiance.
No intercession less energetic than that of Sir Charles
Stewart would have been effective to retain him in the path
of duty. The secret history of the time exists to show what
laud of remonstrance the English Envoy found it necessary to
employ at so critical a moment as that which preceded the
great battle of Leipsie. With all this, it was never pretended
that the Marquis of, Londonderry possessed the qualities
of a great military commander. He was as fearless a
soldier as ever drew sword, and as undaunted in battle.
But it cannot be said that, either as a diplomatist or states-
man, the deceased nobleman will leave behind him any great
sante. The position of his brother, and the greatness of the
country"which he represented, were enough to. add dignity to
his diplomatic services, and what can be said with truth is,
that there never was a braver soldier in the British army
than the Charles Stewart whose death it is our duty this day
to announce,—Times.