The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-18 00:00:00

DEATH

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The following official letter is from the Lord Mayon--
"T 3 THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMAN'S JOURNAL.'
" Mansion-house, Sunday Night,
May 16, Twelve o'clock•

" Sir,—l have just received the following communica-
tion, announcing the melancholy intelligence of the
death of his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant.
" I have the honour to be your faithful servant,
" MICHAEL STAUNTON."

" ' Dublin Castle, Half•past Eleven P.M., May 16.

" My Lord,—lt becomes my painful duty to inform
you that his Excellency the Earl of Besborough de-
parted this life at the hour of eleven o'clock P.N., at the
Castle of Dublin.—l have the honour to be, my Lord,
your obedient servant, " N. REDDINGTON.
" The Right Hon. Lord Mayor.' "

Cbtrt# 12-ZittOn

EPSOM RACES.

(THIS DAY-By EXPRESS.

The CRAVEN STARES of 10 soy& each, for three yrs old,
6st 81b ; four, Bst 101 b ; five, 9st 41b ; six and aged,
9st 101 b. The last mile and a quarter of the New
i)erby Course. (10 Subs.)
Crozier
Spider
Wintonia

1

3

Eight ran. Won by a length.
The WOODCOTE STAKES of 10 SOW,. each, for two yrs
old. T.Y.C.

Flatcatcher
Woodcraft 2
Dover .. 3
Fifteen ran. Won by three lengths.

In the division on the Irish Poor-law Bill, in the
coHouunste
coofmLboerrdrase, onraw
Friday
mistake amongst the
contents, his Lordship having paired with the Earl of Rose-
iaysenrtigedhtb, the name of the Vis-
count
Rose-
bery.
FALMOUTH, MAY 15.—The Prussian barque Leo-
pold, Holtz master, arrived off this port to• day from Monte
Video, and proceeded without anchoring for Rotterdam. She
sailed on the 27th of February, but it does not transpire that
she brings any intelligence of moment.
Mr. Thomas Moore, of poetical celebrity, we ob-
serve, has arrived at 7, Montpelier Spa-buildings, the resi-
dence of Mr. James Cony, who collected a party of his
friends to welcome the bard of Erin.—Cheltenham Looker-on.

BIRTHS.
On the 14th inst., at Babraham, Cambridgeshire, the lady
of the late Henry John Adeane, Esq., of a son.
On the 14th inst., at Eastbourne-terrace, Sussex-gardens,
the wife of Charles Pemberton, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 15th inst., at Clapton-square, Mrs. F. Engelhardt,
of a daughter.
On the 17th inst., at Highbury-grange, Mrs. James E.
Scott, of a son.
On the 15th inst., Mrs. Joseph Ludlam, of a daughter.

ED.
On Monday last, at theMARRI
Unitarian Chapel, Park-fields,
Diss, Norfolk, by the Rev. Thomas Hunter, Mr. S. R. John-
son, one of the representatives of Mr. Henry Cuthbert, wine
and spirit merchant, to Catherine Elizabeth, youngest
daughter of Mr. John Mellott, all of Diss.
On the 11th inst , in Paris, at the Catholic Church of Notre
Dame de Lorette, and afterwards at the Protestant Church
of the Oratoire, Flora Frances Rebecca Davison, eldest daugh-
ter of Major-General Davison, of Northumberland, to the
Vicomte Henri de Milhau, of the Chateau de la Baulb4ne,
Toulouse, Haute Garonne, France.

DIED.
On the 17th inst., at 27, Polygon, Somers-town, William
Miller Whitehead, aged 60, for upwards of 30 years employed
on " The Sun" newspaper.
On the 13th inst., at Harrogate, Roger Kynaston, Esq.
On the 14th inst., at Trinity-terrace, Borough, Mr. John
Beard Oram, aged 28.
On the 14th inst., in Aldermanbury, Mr. Edward Edwards.
On the 14th inst., at Dulwich, John H. Gowan, Esq.
On the 14th inst., at Clifton, Rebecca, relict 9f the Rev.
William Lowder Glover.
On the 14th inst., at Stoke Newington, Jean Pirie, wife of
Mr. Patrick C. Leckie, of Old Broad-street.
On the 15th inst., at Brighton, Isabella, the daughter of
the Rev. Richard Smith, of Sutton Rectory, Petworth.

London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 114
Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, N 0.112, Strand, in the Prechtet
of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex, MendaYr M4YI la

1847.

THE LORD-LIEUTENANT
OF IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SUNDAY NIGHT.
His Excellency Earl Besborough, Lord-Lieutenant of
Ireland, breathed bis last at eleven o'clock to-night.
His Excellency continued to sink from nightfal, and
he was quite aware of his approaching dissolution.
Shortly after ten o'clock he sent for the several members
of his family, who were for some time in constant and
close attendance upon him, and severally took leave of
them. His Excellency continued in perfect possession
cf his senses up to the fatal moment that death separated
him from all he loved so dearly.
The melancholy event, notwithstanding that it has
been tong expected, will be received with deep concern
by all classes of the population of this unhappy land,
whose sufferings his Excellency struggled to mitigsta
with heartfelt zeal.

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