The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-11 00:00:00

We regret to announce the death of the venerable
Sir John Owen, of Orielton, M.P. for the Pembroke
district of boroughs, which took place at Taynton
House, on the 6th inst. Sir John was born in 1776,
and was therefore in his 85th year at the time of
his death. He was the son of Mr. Joseph Lord,
by Corbetta, daughter of Lieutenant-General Owen,
who was the second son of Sir Arthur Owen, third
baronet of Orielton. He was educated at Eton and
Christ Church, Oxford, B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807,
according to a book professing to give an account
of county families, but he was called to the bar un-
doubtedly in 1800, four years before this book
admits that he took a degree. He married first, at
Gretna-green, in 1800, Charlotte, daughter of the
Rev. J. L. Phillips, who died Sept. 1, 1829 ;
secondly, Oct. 21, 1830, Mary Frances, second
daughter of Mr. Edward Stephenson, of Farley
Hill, Berks. By his first wife he had issue one
son and four daughters, by his second three sons
and one daughter, of whom three sons and four
daughters survive him. His eldest son Hugh suc-
ceeds to the title and estates. Of the daughters,
Charlotte married, in 1819, Mr. John Meares, of
Eastington, Pembroke, and died July 2, 1852 ;
Maria married, in 1830, Mr. Edward Marcus White,
of Hotham, Yorkshire ; Ellen married, in 1831, Mr.
G. B. J. Jordan of Pigeonsford, Cardiganshire ; and
Eliza married, in 1831, Mr. Charles Porcher Lang,
of Sandrock, Surrey. Of the children by the second
marriage, William, born in 1831, was a lieutenant
in the 23d Welsh Fusiliers, and was killed in the
trenches before Sebastopol June 29,1855. Sir John
is one of the veterans of Parliament. He sat for
Pembroke county from 1806 to .1841, and has since
1841 represented the Pembroke boroughs. Up to
1845 he was reckoned as a Tory. In 1845,, how-
ever, he supported the Maynooth grant, arid in
1846 the repeal of the corn laws. He voted for
Lord Derby's budget in 1852, but against Lord
Derby's Reform Bill in 1859. He is now put down
by Dod as " a Liberal," and kis son and heir
contested Pembrokeshire a few weeks ago on
Liberal principles. Sir John has not taken an
active part in debates, exeept on Welsh sub-
jects ; as for instance, in 1830, when he determi-
nately opposed Sir Robert Peel in his successful
measure for amalgamating the Welsh courts of
judicature with the English—the ,opposition ema-
nating, singularly enough, from Welshmen, aided
by Lord G. Bentinck, Mr. O'Connell, Sir Charles
Wetherell, and Sir Robert Inglis. When 'he stood
in the Conservative interest for Pembroke he was
opposed not only by a Mr. J. M. Child, a Liberal,
but by his own son and heir in the Conservative
interest also. Since that year he heti been unopposed.
The Pembroke district comprises Pembroke, Tenby,,
Wiston, and Milford, the first three having formed
the " borough" from 1536 to 1832, when Milford
was added to them. Dod says t:hat the chief in-
fluence is possessed by the Owens,l who have re-
turned one member since the Restoration." At
Wiston, however, the Earl Cawdor, and at Milford
Mr. Fulke Greville, and the late Lord Milford's
family, " have influence of a secondary kind." Sir
John was lord-lieutenant of Pembrokeshire and
governor of Milford Haven. He inherited the
estates of Orielton when Mr. John Lord, a barrister-
at-law, on the death of his kinbman, Sir Hugh
Owen, Bart., August 5, 1809, and was created a
baronet, Jan. 12, 1813. The original baronetcy of
the 0 wens was conferred in 1641, and became ex-
tinct on the death, in 1851, of Sir William Owen
Barlow, who was nephew to the late Sir John's
mother. Sir Hugh Owen and the late Sir John,
who inherited his estates, were both great grand-
sons, one paternally, the other maternally, of Sir
Arthur, third baronet of 1611. The Owens are
said to trace their descent from Hwfa ap Cynddelw,
lord of Llys, Llifon, Anglesey, who was contempo-
rary with Owen Gwynedd, Prince of Wales.
Sir John Owen is succeeded by Hugh, his eldest
son, now second baronet. He was born in 1803,
and married, April 12, 1825, Angelina Cecilia,
'daughter of Sir Charles Gould Morgan, Bart.,
sister of Lord Tredegar (who died Sept. 4, 1844),
and has issue by her three sons and four daughters.
He sat as Conservative M.P. for the Pembroke
boroughs, from 1832 to 1838, when he made way
for Sir James Graham, who had been ousted from
East Cumberland ; Major Francis Aglionby and
Mr. William James, both Liberals, being returned
for the division. There is little doubt that he will
succeed his venerable father in the seat.

7HE D_EBATE IN THE PRUSSIAN
CHAMI3ERS.

By a majority of 159 to 146 the Prussian Cham-
ber has adopted the motion of M. de Vincke, that
" It is not in the interest of Prussia or Germany to
place obstacles in the way of the consolidation of

the Unity of Italy."
This vote of the Prussian Chamber has already
appeared in our columns. We now subjoin the
speech of the Prussian Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Baron von Sehleinitz, and that of M. de Vineke.
Baron von Sehleinitz gave the following explana-