The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-11 00:00:00

TILE LATE " LOCIIIEL."

The Inverness Courier has an interesting article
on the death of Donald Cameron, Esq., the head of
the "Lochiel" family. Some notice of the antiquity
of the clan is given. The Camerons obtained a
charter of the " Barony of Lochiel," and the lands
of Garbhdo'ch, in the 13th century, the first of
them being styled "de Knoydart." Some of the
greatest of our poets have given a more conspicuous
place in their immortal verse to the Cameron than
to any other Celtic clan. Campbell's noble lyric.
" Lochiel's Warning," Byron's "Field of Waterloo,"
and Scott's oft-repeated praises, will readily occtr
to the reader in confirmation of this remark. Sir
Ewen, or " Black Evan," as he is commonly desig-
nated, is not only an historical personage, but from
his many feats of daring and skill, is in some de-
gree a hero of romance ; and he enjoys one proud
distinction—that of being, so far as, we know, the
only man in the three kingdoms who was allowed
to make his own terms with the resistless Crom-
well. Sir Ewen's grandson—" The Gentle Loch iel
of the '4s"—is well known as the main spring of
that most remarkable enterprise, and alsb as pos-
sessing more of the chivalrous character of bygone
days than probably any of his contemporaries.
His estates, in common with those of others en-
gaged in that rising, were forfeited to the Crown in
1746, but he himself escaped to France. His gran&
son-Donald was restored to his estates, and to all
his privileges, under the General Act of Amnesty,
passed in 1784—an act which diffused universal joy
over the Highlands, and attached the clans to the
reigning dynasty as firmly and warmly as the most
loyal of their fellow subjects. He married Anne,
eldest daughter of the celebrated Sir Ralph Aber-
cromby, by whom he had several children. The
eldest was the late Lochiel, who was born on the
25th September, 1796. Selecting the army for a
profession, he obtained a commission in the Guards
in 1814, and bore his part in the decisive charge of
these gallant troops at Waterloo. He retired from
the service in 1832. During the late years of famine, ,
which pressed so sorely on the North Highlands,
he expended large sums in providing work and
food for his numerous crofters. Finding that
arrears of rent were accumulating against many of
them, instead of having recourse to the " distraint"
and " clearance" systems, he freely remitted the
whole, and by one generous act cancelled a debt of
more than £1,300. He died at Hampden-house,
Buckinghamshire, on the 4th curt., in the 63d year
of his age. Lochiel was married to Lady Vere,
youngest daughter of the Earl of Buckinghamshire.
The family consists of two sons and four daughters.
The eldest son, Donald, now chief of the Clan
Came, on, is 23 years of age, and has hitherto been
employed in the service of his country. He has
recently returned from China, where he formal one
of the staff of Lord Elgin, and was appointed to a
situation of considerable responsibility in Berlin.
The second son, George, is proprietor of the estate
of Hampden, bequeathed to him by his maternal
uncle, the late Earl of Buckinghamshire ; and re-
markable enough it is to see a Lochiel, so ardent a
supporter of the Stuart cause in the days that ate
gone, possessing the house and lands of John Hamp-
den, whose resistance to the notorious "Ship money'
was the first public manifestation of the resolution
to withstand the encroachments of Charles I.

We (Times) have much pleasure in announcing
that Sir Charles Trevelyan, Assistant-Secretary to the
Treasury, will succeed Lord Harris as Governor-General
of Madras. Mr. Hamilton, Financial Secretary to the
Treasury, will succeed Sir Charles Trevelyan in the per-
manent office which he has just resigned; and we have
reason to believe that Mr. Disraeli has appointed Sir Staf-
ford Northcote Bart., C. 8., M.P. for Stamford, to succeed
Mr. Hamilton as Financial Secretary.
SACRILEGIOUS ROBBERY AT ASHFORD CHURCH,

_ _ _DDLESEX.—Yesterday information was received at the
Chief police office, Great Scotlancl.yard, that the parish
church. of Ashford, Middlesex, was burgla-iously entered
and the vestry ransacked, the thieves ca tying off the com-
munion tah'e-cover, embroidered with
teiwlietthgso,l,
two
communionandbeating
the monogram " I. H. S." in
services, and two surplices. The burglars were disap-
pointed with respect to the booty, the valuable plate having
been removed to a place of safety on the preceding evering.
A reward has been o.ffered by Mr. Richardson, the church-
warder, for the apprehension of the thieves. .
MYSTERIOUS A FFAin..---The following mysterious
circumstances, which have proituced no smell amount of ex-
citement in the neighbourhood of Clasnevin, took place cn
Fl:day last. A fine little girl named Mary Gartland, the
daughter of a poor man residing at a short distance f:om
file seventh lock on the Royal Canal, went on Thursday
evening to fetch ccme water, and, not returning, her
brothers and sisters became almmed, and on their going to
the canal bank they saw the jug which the little girl had
carried with'her f10,.-ting on the water. Information of the
circumstance having been conveyed to the police station,
the next motning police-constable 63 D proceeded with a
drag, &c., to search for the body of the child, of whoa fate
there was very little doubt. While engaged in the search the
constable found the dmg resisted by some soil substance.
Af:ei vigorous efforts he sus ceded i r bringing to the sur-
face the body of a man. which, on being got on shore, seemed
by the dress, &c., to be that o? a genletran, and to have
been in the water about tlr:ee weeks, decomposition having
gone on extens*.vely. Around the neck of the body a red
silk hanclkerchieF was knotted by one of its ends, while to
the other end was altached a piece of brass weighing 201 b.
This mtss of metal was found afterwards to have belonged
to a force pump. Its weight was sufficient to keep the body
under water, despite of the Luoyancy consequent on de-
composition, and the remains would doubtless have re-
mained much longer submerged and undiscovered had it
not been for the circumstance of the canal being dragged
co-: the missing child. The body of the deceased ap-
peared to be that of a man about 27 years old and
whiskers
and dark hair. The clothes on the body comprised
a black cloth frock coat with outside flaps at the hips,
but -t ithout pockets, the collar and breast boundf
dark witi
black silk and black silk lining. The vest Nris The o
brown tweed, also bound with black silk.
were of the kind called " shepherd's platd ~Thtreoushseirrst
black s'lk
was of fine linen, and round tile neck wase
naignthenhari"geotsf
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George's
scarf. A pair of fashionably madceyoly
were on the feet. The body a
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the deceased encountered
some parties who had been committing a robbery, and that
he met with flout play at their hands. The piece of brass
which was used to sink the body is thought to have been
part of the plunder. Others are led to believe that it was a
case of suicide, inasmuch as the sum of ss. 9id. and abunch
of keys were found in the pockets. The detective police
are actively engaged in making inquiries for the purpose of
ascertaining the identity of the deceased. The body of the
littlagirl, Mary-Gartland,- was taken ont -of the canal, and
was conveyed to the house of her afflicted parents, where
an inquest will be held this day.—Dublin paper.