The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-25 00:00:00

THE SHREWSBURY EARLDOM AND
ESTATES.

In proof of the serious intention of the Ingestre
family to assert the claim of Earl Talbot to the Earldom
of Shrewsbury, it may be stated that on Monday last
Viscount Ingestre, in the name and on behalf of his
father, who is abroad, went, accompanied by the solicitor
of the family and a friend, to Alton Towers, and made
a formal demand of possession of the mansion and estates,
alleging that Lord Talbot is the legal heir. Lord Ines
tre was informed that the trustees under the will of the
late Earl had taken possession, and he was accordingly
refused admission into the house. Should his Lordship
establish his claim, the disentailment by the late Earl
would be nugatory, and the valuable estates attached to
the Earldom in Staffordshire, Shropshire, Cheshire, Ox-
fordshire, and Worcestershire, of the value of 35,000/. a
year, as well as .the high honours connected with this
most ancient and distinguished house, would become the
inheritance of the Taibuts. Had the earldom been ex-
tinct, the Earl of Derby would have been the Premier
Earl of England, and the Earl of Cork the Premier Earl
of Ireland. The solicitor referred to (Mr. R. W. Hand,
of Stafford) inserted in the Stafford county paper on
Saturday the following notice to the tenantry of the late
Earl of Shrewsbury :
Gentlemen,—The agents of the late Earl of Shrews.
bury have circulate] among you a letter, signed by Mr.
Sergeant Bellasis, one of the late Earl's trustees and
executors, in which it is stated, That his Lcrdship hav-
ing executed a disentailing deed of the Shrewsbury
estates, and so placed them at his own disposal, has, by
his will, devised them in trust for Lord Edward Ber-
nard Howard, the second son of his Grace the Duke of
Norfolk.'

" The °Shrewsbury estates' by act of Parliament were
annexed to the Earldom of Shrewsbury, and entailed on
the heirs male of the first Earl of Shrewsbury, and by
the same act every person succeeding to the earldom is
restricted from alienating or disentailing the estates.
The late Earl of Shrewsbury had no power to disentail
the estates annexed to the title by act of Parliament.
That entail could only be destroyed by another act of
Parliament, and none such has ever been passed. By
the numerous deaths of the Earls of Shrewsbury and the
failure of their issue male, Earl Talbot, of Ingestre, in
the county of Stafford, has succeeded to the earldom of
Shrewsbury and the estates annexed to it, and so soon
as Parliament shall meet his lordship will establish his
claim to that title.

"It is my dutz on behalf of Lord Talbot, to warn all
the tenants of the Shrewsbury estates' not to pay any
rent to Loid Bernard Edward Howard, or any of his
agents, or otherwise to acknowledge his claim to the
estates, as the successor to the earldom is entitled to the
rents from the day of the death of the late Earl.
"Had I known the names and addresses of the tenants
of the `Shrewsbury estates' I should not have adopted
this public mode of giving them the above notice."

DIMTH OF THE HON. SIR TV. TEMPLE,
1f.C.8.

We regret to announce the death of the Hon. Sir W.
Temple, brother of Viscount Palmerston, the late Mini

ster Plenipotentiary at the Court of Naples. The me
lancholy event took place at 9 o'clock a.m. yesterday;
at his temporary residence in Do ver•street, Piccadilly.
To say that Sir William's death was sudden would be
scarcely true, for when he left his diplomatic post at the
close of the past month his health was in a very pre
carious state, and since his arrival in London, a fort-
night back, from Naples, no perceptible change had
taken place. On Thursday evening last he was able to
take his accustomed carriage drive, and was able to re-
ceive a visit from Lady Palmerston on Saturday after-
noon, previous to her leaving town for Brocket-ball,
and late in the evening Viscount Palmerston also
called on him, and remained until an advanced
hour. -Until half an hour before his death, at the
hour before named, the deceased was in full possession
of all his faculties, and then expired in perfect calm-
ness, without the least apparent pain. Viscount Pal-
merston was immediately apprised of the mournful
news, and instantly afterwards repaired to his brother's
lodgings.

The deceased, the Hon. Sir William Temple, was
second son of Henry, second Viscount Palmerston, by
Mary, only daughter of Mr. Benjamin Mee. He was
born the 19th of January, 1788. He was unmarried.
He was brought up to the diplomatic service, and was
first attached to the embassy at the Hague in 1814.
The deceased, in September the same year, went in an
official capacity to the Congress of Vienna, and shortly
afterwards was appointed Secretary of Legation at
Stockholm. He filled, the same position at Frankfort
from July, 1817, until November, 1823, when he went
as Secretary of Legation to Berlin. In January, 1828,
hePwas appointed Secretary of Embassy to St. Peters.
burg, and afterwards was precis writer to his brother,
Viscount Palmerston, from January, 1831, to Sep-
tember, 1832. On the 18th of that month, in the same
year, he was appointed Minister to the Court of Dres-
den, and in the following Nov. Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Naples, the
duties of which high office he discharged up to the last
week of last mouth, when ill health corapelled him to
relinquish his diplomatic functions, and return to his
native country. His departure from Naples was uni-
versally regretted, more especially as it was feared his
shattered constitution would not permit his return.
Sir Wm. Temple was nominated a Civil Knight Grand
Cross of the Bath in March, 1852, for his diplomatic
serrim

in an instant locked the door, the key being outside,
and the officer was imrriionei for two hours. had
the door not been locked, the officer, on leaving the
cabin, would have stepped into the centre of the harem.

THE TRADE OP HULL SINCE THE RES
TORATION OP PEACE.

(From the Hull Advertiser of Saturday )
To look at our docks now, and to have looked at
them but a few short months ago, will be enough to
satisfy everybody that a wonderful, and, Indeed, an
almost miraculous, change has taken place in the town
since the news of the withdrawal of the British fleet from
the Black and the Baltic Seas first reached our shores.
We were wont to lament, in the time of war, over the
depressed and barren appearance of trade. . Our docks
were nearly empty—our quays ,almost unoccupied and
unused—and people everywhere were indulging gloomily
in the poverty and wretchedness of the times. Poor
labourers hankered, and pined, and sickened at the
leanness of trade, and scarcely knew -how to obtain
needful support for themselves and their own. Now,
however, a brighter day has dawned upon us. Peace
prevails, and in her train follow the richest
blessings of our land. The ill omens of the past have
given place to prospects which grow more and yet more
cheering, and to those practical and unmistakeable bene-
fits which time alone can prove. And few towns
there are, we feel convinced, who are better able
to appreciate the advantages of the return of peace than
the trading community of this populous and flourishing
port. Peculiarly privileged as it is by its contiguity to
the ports in the Baltic, the stoppage of that important
source of commercial revenue exercises one of the most
powerful influences upon the whole of the trade of the
northern counties. Now it is again thrown open, and
the ships and the steamboats ply in swift succession to
renew their relations with an old friend, and to engage
once more in that kind of speculative industry which re.
quires extraordinary aid, not only in ships, but in labour
add in capital, whereby we perceive in the strengthening
of those bonds of amity and commerce the foundation of
that which will untimately tend to the well-being and
prosperity of both nations. Apart from•all this, how-
ever, should we be inclined to form merely a mean and
selfish estimate of the advantages which accrue from our
foreign relations in this respect, we need only look abroad
in the town, and on every hand we perceive the fruits.
Whether it be in the minor improvements of property,
or in the general and consequent revivals of trade, and
the decrease in the price of provisions, we will not
goy to inquire. But in directing attention to the
subject we will regard the shipping interest as of pri-
mary importance in this matter, and will, therefore,
confine our attention to it. As we have just observed
there has been,a remarkable increase in the number of
home arrivals, the number of vessels which have
entered our port during last week from foreign ports
being 143, with a total registered tonnage of 34,916.
These have arrived chiefly from ports in the Baltic,
and the cargoes which they have brought have been of
the .most useful and valuable description, consisting of
linseed, wheat, oats, flax, bones, timber, rape cake,
&e., to the extent of about 3000 tons. On Sunday last
there was a large increase in the arrivals, no less than
31 vessels from foreign ports having entered this port
during the day, bringing their cargoes from St. Peters-
burg, Constaetieople, Uleaborg, %Vyborg, Rta, Arch-
angel, &c., with au immense quantity of linseed, barley,
timber, and b, net=, wool, deals, and iron ; in all, about
9000 toes. On Monday, between 20 and 30 vessels
arrived, principally from the before-named foreign ports,
with similar cargoes, to the extent of about 5000 tons.
On Tuesday 37 vessels arrived ; eight were from St.
Petersburg, and the remainder from other Baltic ports,
with linseed, cast iron, and timber, &c. On Wednes-
day there were about 40 foreign arrivals from Peters-
burg, Wyborg, Christiania, Riga, Corsoer ; and Dant-
zic, &c., with wheat, barley, linseed, timber, deals, and
iron ; and on Thursday and yesterday the number was
considerably augmented. Or, if we take the article of
linseed alone, we shall find that during the past month,
from July 30th to August 19th, there has been ime
ported- into Hull no less than 132,984 qrs. and 1858
bags from the ports of St. Petersburg, Konigsburg,
Dantzie, Riga, &c., the quantity entered from the ship
on Wednesday last being 14,201 quarters. The quan-
tity of linseed irnported,during the quarter ending June
30th was 68,156 qrs., and of other seeds, including
cloverseed, mustardseed, rapeseed, and tares, 9,831 cwt.
and 6,637 qrs. So that, taking the quantity of linseed
for the quarter, we have an average fur each of the threw
preceding months of 22,652 qrs., and a return for the
month just passed of 123.984 qrs. and 1,833 bags; thus
showing an increase of 110,332 qrs. and 1,851 bags in
the importation of linseed alone. This must, indeed, be
a very gratifying circumstance, and, moreover than this,
we find that the north-eastern ports of Newcastle, Sun-
derland, Hartlepool, and Middlesborough present highly
encouraging returns of the increase of exported and im-
ported merchandi,e. There can, indeed, be no doubt
but that the reeopeeing of the Baltic ports especially has
been to the northern ports a subject of momentous ime
portence, and that since the time of peace an increased
and largely' increasing trade has been the result.