The Sun.
London, England, 1833-07-11 00:00:00

DEATH OF LORD DOVER.

The dissolution of Lord Dover, at his residenc', D,,v.
Home, Whitehall, yesterday morning, Las plunged sever
noble and distinguished families into deep afflictio,
George James Welbore Agar Ellis Baron Dover, .
Dover, county of Kent, a Trustee of the British Museun
and of the National Gallery, P.C., F.11.S , and F.S. A
horn 14th Jan. 1797; married, March 7, 1822, La
Georgiaua Howard, second daughter of the Earl
Carlisle, and niece of the Duke of Devonshire an
Countess Granville. His Lordship was created a Pee,
under the present Administration, and was the only son
the present Viscount Clifden by Lady Caroline Spence
daughter of the late Duke of Marlborough. By his lad,
he has left an infant family of six children. The presen
Lord is only in his ninth year. On the change of Govern
ment in November, 1820, his Lordship was selected t.
succeed Viscount Lowther as Chief Commissioner o
Woods and Forests, which office, however, he resigned
few weeks afterwards, on account of his delicate health
Lord Dover was warmly attached to literary pursuit,.
Ind an author of reputation. His last work was " Cor
respondence of Horace Walpole with Sir Horace Mann.
Published from the Original in the Possession of Ear.
Waldegrave."

With great regret we announce the death of Lord
Dover; if length of days were to be commensurate with
personal merit, his life would have been one of no ordi-
nary duration. Amiable and exemplary in all his private
relations, an upright, zealous, and intrepid supporter of his
political opinions, he will long be regretted by his family
and his party. Add to this his elegant accomplishmen,
as a man of society, and his various and extensive attain-
ments as a man of letters, and it would be difficult to find
in the whole range of English gentry and nobility a
personage who will be so severely missed. He possessed
in his family, and fortune, and character, every motiv
which can make lite desirable; but he had discharged his
various duties, both domestic and social, so conscien-
tiously and honourably, that, short as his life has been, it
has been long enough to establish a reputation whicl,
there are few men, past or present, who having lived to
the greatest age would not he proud to enjoy.— Times.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

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and bulk of the French ; atte ,forcast' FrencriOuro
despatched to England, ten Engliali would dntithOr--fray
a France. The high value of in: Gin'airlt4i's
'iewspaper is a sufficient proof of the number of persons
upon whom the postage on English papers acts as an in.
terdiction ; and the liberal interchange proposed would
conduce to the comfort of about eight thousand individual.,
resident in France, as well as promote a better under.
,:tanding between the two countries, and a general circu-
lation of intelligence.-- Court Journal.

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It is reported that the Stafford Committee has
agreed on its report, and that extinction is the sentence
passed on the venal and infamous constituency. We trust
that the rumour will be confirmed when the report is made
to the House of Commons. No extension of the boundary
of this abominable borough could redeem it, while the
rotten core of the town remained as the heart of an elec-
toral body. The whole franchise of Stafford, except about
two per cent., has been proved to be steeped in corruption ;
Ind though the majority of the master manufacturers might
not personally accept bribes, yet they are proved to have
dealt wholesale in the votes of their workmen—the free.,
men. It is greatly to be desired that the franchise of
Stafford, instead of being transferred, should be wholly
extinguished. One of the best portions of the origi-
lel Reform Bills was the reduction of the numbers
of the House of Commons. It is the limited number of
the electoral departments with the old chronic sore of class
voting, and the excessive number of the representative
body in the House of Commons, which are the roots of
nearly all the evils in our representative system. We hope,
therefore, that the Legislature will avail themselves of the
present opportunity to blot the boroughs of Stafford and
Carrickfergus front the constitution of Parliament. Four
Members will be then equitably exterminated, and at the
end of the Parliament die a natural death.

WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL.—AS we quit
the splendour of the choir, and advance into the chancel,
we exchange the multiplicity and exuberance of its archi-
tectural ornament for the simplicity of the thin narrow
windows and slim pilasters which were in use when Bishop
DE Lucr rebuilt this part of the church, towards the
close of the 12th century. The feeling *wakened by the
English architecture of this period is recognised, by those
who have visited the eastern world, to be correspondent tel
the prevailing impressions received from the general forms-
oof its building. If the origin of this pointed arch and
-lender pilaster be sought in the character of the period
in which it arose, it would seem to be a true and natural
picture of the growing taste, and change of feeling, which
is always going on in a nation, but which bas always very
many and hidden causes at work to bring it about. PP...
gritnages to the Hooly Land, Norman wars, and establish-
ments in Magna Griecia, and more especially the commu-
nication, through Sp sin, with Arabic art and literature,
•eem sufficiently to account for the change in the architec-
ture of this period. An idea of the tenuity of eastern forms
had been caught hold of and received ; their airy graceful-
ness was substituted for the former solid grandeur and sub-
stantial strength ; and learning coming new into Europe,
through the same communication with the East, brought
with it the sharpening influences of Aristotelian studies in
the divinity of the clergy (who, directly or indirectly, were
the architects), and they would naturally throw over the
edifices they constructed the effect of the refinement, sub•
tility, and astuteness from which the mind was now re-
ceiving such delight and discipline.—BritishMagazine.
We have never placed any firm reliance opcm
the financial statements which are quarterly sent forth
by Government, well remembering the fable of the licto
and the sculptor; and that those who have the sole con-
trol of figures of arithmetic, can always mould them to
any required purpose. Whenever, therefore, we discover
any error or tnisstatements which may delude or mislead
the public, we always feel it our duty, as independent
Journalists, to give our readers such an explanation as
may set the matter right. It certainly struck us with
considerable surprise to find, in the last quarter's state-
ment of the revenue, there should be so large a surplus,
in comps' ison with a corresponding quarter, as upwards
of 40,000/. in the department of the Post-office, when
we recollected the general depression in agriculture and
commerce, foreign and domestic, and that the whole
quarter's receipt does not exceed 500,000/. Upon looking
into the matter, we are led to believe no such excess did,
in point of fact, exist ; but the increase, so stated, is
merely the withholding, until after the statement was
published, certain sums due to the Ordnance and other
Departments of Government, for postage, paid by them,
and returned by Treasury warrants in the General Post-
office. If all those sums had been repaid and deducted,
as well as the enormous sinecures of 3,968/. 15s. paid to
the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, 3,730/. 12•. 6,1. to the
Duke of Gaarrox, and 3,175/. paid to the heirs of his
Grace the Duke of SCHOMBERO (who are they?) out of
the Post-office revenues, the quarter's amount would have
shown a very different aspect.—Morning Herald.

We believe the following is not generally
known. His MaJitsxr a short time ago gave a grand
dinner at St. James's Palace to a number of the most
distinguished officers of the militia, amongst whom were
the Colonels who have lately been specially appointed by
the KING as his Aides-de-Camp for that service. His
MAJESTY expressed, we understand, his high estima,ion
of this tru'y constitutional arm of his forces, knowing
that he can, whenever occasion requires it, immediately
c ill out, arm, and array from 70,000 to 80,000 fine
able-bodied active young fellows, without even one far-
thing charge to the country for either bounty or enlist-
ment money. On the occasion of giving this splendid
banquet to the beads of that service, the precedency of the
different regiments was settled ; this was considered a
point of some importance to have determined, and had
been long wished for. It was done by ballot. The
names of the regiments were put into ballotting glasses in
three divisions, and drawn in that order. The first divi-
sion contained the 47 regiments raised before the peace of
1763, the second contained the 22 regiments raised be-
tween the peace of 1763 and the peace of 1783 ; and the
third contained the 60 regiments raised for the revolu-
tionary war—the whole making 129 regiments, including
the English, Irish, and Scotch. The first regiment
drawn was the 3d West York, which is therefore the
senior regiment of militia. The East Essex stands as
No. 14, and the West Essex as No. 19. The list of the
whole is made out, and only waits for some formal cor-
rections, when it will appear in the Gazette. His MA-
JESTY bas also expressly ordered that the officers of all
militia regiments shall wear silver lace, and that those
regiments which are Royal shall only be distinguished by
blue facings.—Essex Herald. _ _

A report has reached us, founded upon
somewhat dubious authority, that Lord HILL, Lord
GREY'S Commander of the forces, who was in the House
of Lords in the early part of the evening on Tuesday,
left the House without voting on the CN4NCELLOIS
Bill. We had no opportunity of tracing correctly the
source of this rumour; but if it should be true, and Lord
HILL remains Commander of the forces for four-and-
twenty hours longer, the bitterest enemy of the Govern-
(mivegnratdcaatniondeasnidrednisogrmaceor—e
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of
unobservingtheir
of the temporising politicians of the day, no more visible
or evident symptoms of the determination of the House of
Lords to destroy this Administration at any risk of the
consequences which may be entailed by its fall. We have
said before, that we shall almost doubt this statement.
Lord HILL is a Tory and soldier. If he has abstained
from voting in favour of the Local Courts Bill on this
occasion, he must have deferred to the legal judgment of
his old political associates. He could scarcely have taken
sufficiently personal interest in such a question, to
have induced him on that account to desert the ranks
of a Government who have, in deference to his pro-
fessional qualifications, and contrary to the wishes and
the remonstrances of their friends, retained him with
his more obnoxious (on political grounds) Secretary, Lord
FITZ ROY SOMERSET, in his influential situation at the Horse
Guards. It is right that we should add that the report
originated, it, the quarter from which it has reached us,
in the boastings of the Tory faction, who point to this
instance of neutrality as a proof of the instability of the
Administration, and the insincerity of the support on
which they rely from the Court. We shall be too happy
to disabuse the public, if the scouts of the Carlton Club
have circulated this rumour without foundation. Should
it, however, turn out to be true, and the Commander-in-
Chief be continued in office, we pity the Chancellor sin-
, erely. According to the French proverb, be is truly
" digne de pitie," to be obliged to submit to such treat-
ment from an officer of the Government. His Lordship
declared more than once that the measure was a Government
measure. Sir HENRY PARNELL was dismissed in the House
(if Commons for not voting on the Dutch Loan Bill. Is
the Commander-in-Chief to escape a similar fate—sup-
posing always that the report (which we still
disbelCoievuer)tl
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