The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-26 00:00:00

WITH THE BODY ON BOARD.

SEPT. 25.—At two o'clock the report of a cannon from the
Vice-Commodore's yacht announced the arrival of the Kes-
trel, and it was followed by minute guns from the Reindeer,
the Royal Yacht Squadron battery, Mr. Pigott's yacht Gany-
mede, and Sir C. Ibbetson's yacht Anaconda, each firing
sixty. five guns, the number of years the deceased nobleman
had lived. All the shops and houses in the town were closed.
All yachts, Government vessels, and merchant shipping had
their flags half-mast, as were the flags on the different castles
and on the flagstaffs along the harbour, and will continue so
till the departure of the yacht, which is fixed to take place
at one o'clock on Saturday. The Government have ordered
the Myrtle steamer to attend her to the Downs, and the
Lightning from thence to Grimsby, on the Humber, where
the body will be landed on his Lordship's Lincolnshire estate,
and conveyed to its last resting-place at Brocklesbury, in
the most private and unostentatious manner, and, by his
Lordship's request, only one mourning coach will attend the
hearse. He will be borne to the grave by the crew of his
yacht. He was a sailor from choice, and an admirer and
supporter of everything nautical. Some men would wish to
die at home, that is all their anxiety—he died happy in his
favourite yacht, and at sea. His last moments were those of
the man who dies in peace with all the world, and who is
not conscious of ever having done an injury to his fellow
man. Dr. Queede, Captain Johnston, Mr. Denham, and Mr.
Murray were by his bed when he expired, without a groan
or a sigh, nor was there any alteration in his countenance.
"We ne'er shall look upon his like again." The differences in
the Royal Yacht Squadron were always amicably settled by
him; he was, in fact, the cord that bound the club together.
Another Commodore will have to be elected at the annual
general meeting in May next. The present Earl and Lady
Charlotte Copley arrived at their brother's, the Hon. Dudley
Pelham, at St. Lawrence, on Tuesday last. Soon after the
arrival of the yacht, Captain the Hon. D. Pelham, R.N., at-
tended by Captain H. Love, R.N., and John Bates, Esq.,
R.N., Secretary to the Royal Yacht Squadron, went on
board, remaining a short time to give some directions. The
captain appeared in a very weak state. The Kestrel has her
yards topped in opposite directions, her flags half-mast, and
to the eye of the landsman, as well as the sailor, appears in
disorder, and as if the master was no more. On her depar-
ture the same number of guns will be discharged from the
Royal 'Yacht Squadron House and the yachts. The Hon.
D. Pelham and, it is believed, Sir Joseph Copley, goes round
in the Kestrel. The funeral is expected to take place on
Thursday next.

APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN

HIGH LIFE.

We have to announce a marriage, stated to be on the
Lapis, between Lady Elizabeth Grosvenor, daughter of
the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, and sister
of Lady Prudhoe and Lady Parker, with the Hon. Mr.
Lawley, son of Lord and Lady Wenlock.
We have reason to believe that a matrimonial alliance
is positively determined between the Marquis of Sligo
and the lion. Miss Smythe, daughter of Viscount Strang-
ford.

Among the marriages in high society on the eve of
taking place, we can announce that of Mr. Hugh Horatio
Seymour; only son of the late Lieut.-Colonel Hugh H. I.
and Lady Charlotte Seymour, and nephew of the Mar-
quis of Cholmondeley, and Miss Ellice, daughter of
Lieut.-General Robert Ellice.

The day is not yet appointed for the marriage of Miss
Drummond, daughter of Mr. Andrew and Lady Eliza-
beth Drummond, and granddaughter of the Duke of
Rutland, and Mr. Lumley, who has inherited the valu-
able property of the Dowager Countess of Scarborough.
Lady Margaret Grey, sister to the Earl of Stamford
and Warrington, who, it has been stated, is to be married
to Mr. Milbanke, second son of Mr. Idark and Lady
Augusta Milbanke, and nephew of the Duke of Cleve-
land, is staying with Sir John and Lady Jane Walsh,
and at present no precise day is appointed for their union.
There is not any day appointed for the nuptials of
Lady Charlotte Herbert, second daughter of the Earl
and Countess of Powis, and Mr. H. Montgomery, of
Grey Abbey, county Antrim.