The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-31 00:00:00

Sir George Grey had not left for New Zealand.

The Finance Committee had recommended a loan
of £200,000 for the service of the present year. It
was proposed to increase the revenue by £lOO,OOO
in the following manner :—By reimposing trans-
ferred duties, by an increase of the Customs' duties,
a per tentage on Bank paper, a stamp tariff, and
legacy and succession duties.

A bill had been introduced for the establishment
of the voluntary principle in regard to Church-rates,
and for the withdrawal of the State grants for re-
ligious purposes. This measure was progressing in
public favour.
The winter, though late, had set in with great
severity. There was a frequency of stormy
weather.

Trade was unusually low. The stocks of wine
were low. The losses sustained by the wool specu-
lations in the Eastern Provinces were very consider-
able. There was a good demand for shipping.
Plans were afloat for training schools for masters
and mistresses within the colony.
Nothing further had been heard from Bishop
Mackenzie.

The barque Berenicia, which left England on the
25th of March last, was wrecked on Roeben Island
on the 16th of June. Mrs. O'Liff, Mr. Van Boork,
four children, and one sailor were drowned.

The Bishop of Cape Town held an ordination in
St. George's Cathedral last month.
An English brewing company had been esta-
blished in the colony.
The Volunteers continued to increase in pro-
ficiency.

The Norman passed her Majesty's ship Furious
at St. Helena.

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF BUCKING-

HAM.

The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos departs
this life at the age of 64. Heir to a great position,
he took no mean part in public business, and en-
joyed no small influence in the Legislature. It is
less for this, however, than for the greatness of his
misfortune that he will be longest remembered. He
lost everything but his name. Thpugh his mother
he represented one of the most noble houses in the
land, the long line of his ancestors being all famed
for their magnificence ; this one known as " The
King of Cotswold," and that as "The Princely
Chandos." Through his father he was head of that
family of Temples which, including the Grenvilles,
has given more statesmen to the nation than any
other in the land,—First Lords of the Treasury,
First Lords of the Admiralty, Chancellors of the
Exchequer, Secretaries of State without number.
The family had wealth corresponding to its renown,
and, above all, such a treasure-house in its mansion
at Stowe as could only have been created by long
generations of men exalted in station, abounding in
luxury, and accustomed to all the refinements of
life. All vanished under the hammer. All the
priceless heirlooms of an illustrious family were
scattered over the world, to be sold in shops, and to
glitter, some in the halls of hotels, others in the
drawing-rooms of self-made men. The broad acres
went with the treasures which it would be more
difficult to replace, and the Duke of Buckingham
found himself stripped of his heritage, the owner of
little more than the titles of his ancestors. He lost
even his wife, who got a divorce from him. It was
a great fall, that might in its way be compared
with the descent of another Duke of Buckingham,
to whom on a small scale he bore some resemblance,

and who,
" Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong,
Was everything by starts, and nothing long;
But in the course of one revolving moon
Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ;
Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking,
tesides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
In squandering wealth was his .Deculiar art
Nothing went unrewarded but desert.
Beggared by fools, whom still he found too late,
He had his jest, and they had his estate."
We might even add the lines in which Zimiri is
said to have laughed himself from Court, and to
have amused' himself in forming parties of which
he could never be chief.

Sir Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges
Chandos Grenville, Duke and Marquis of Buck-
ingham and Chandos, Earl Temple, Viscount and
Baron Cobham, and, in the peerage of Ireland,
Earl Nugent, was born in the house in Pall-mall
which bears his name on the 11th of February,
1797. His education as a boy was private. As he
grew up he went to Oxford. In 1819 he married
Lady Mary Campbell, daughter of the late and
sister of the present Lord Breadalbane, by whom
he had two children, the Marquis of Chandos, who
succeeds to the title, and a daughter, Lady Anne
Gore Langton. He entered the House of Commons
in 1826 as member for Bucks, which county he re-
presented till the death of his father in 1839.
There, if he showed no brilliant talents, he made a
respectable figure, and he gave his name to a pro-
vision of the Reform Bill known as the " Chandos
clause," which extends the franchise in counties to
tenancies of £5O. It is the only part of the Reform
Bill which is identified with any one man's name,
and Lord John Russell has always maintained that
it had the effect of destroying the symmetry of the
Whig measure, and frustrating Whig expectations
in the counties. The Duke—the Marquis—stood
forward as the county member and farmer's friend.
In 1836 he obtained a select committee in the House
of Commons for the consideration of the grievances
and depressed state of the agriculturists. When
Sir Robert Peel came into office he was made a
Cabinet Minister, with the office of Lord Privy
Seal, but when the Premier proposed to deal with
the Corn-laws, in 1842, the Duke, rather thr per-
mit the question to be opened, retired from the Go-
vernment. He never again held office. His troubles
overtook him and crushed him down. After this
disaster the public heard little of him save as an
author. He collected all the correspondence of his
family, and the friends of his family, which threw
light on the political intrigues of Courts and Cabi-
nets ever since George 111. began to reign, and
published it with a connecting narrative. There
may be a doubt whether some of the communica-
tions have not been published too soon, but there
can be no question as to the value of the materials
which he provided, which extend to many volumes.
The Dake was engaged in another historical work
when he died.

THE DUCHESS OF KENT'S MAUSOLEUM.—The
mausoleum which has been erected in the gardens of Frog-
more Lodge, and which is to receive the remains of the late
Duchess of Kent, was consecrated on Wednesday afternoon
`by the Bishop of Oxford. The structure, which is in sight
of the mansion, is planned after the model of a small Greek
temple, but not so elaborate in its details as the well-known
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monument of Lysicrates at Athens, which is of the Corin-
thian order. It was at the Duchess's request that the mau-
soleum was erected, and during its progress she frequently
visited it. It is circular in plan, an .I has an inner diameter
of 12ft., with provision in the centre for the erection of a
pedestal, on which ultimately will be placed a statue of the
deceased, the size of life, and executed in Carrara marble.
The circular basis of the mausoleum is surrounded by a
peristyle in the lonic order, consisting of 16 columns, 10ft.
in height, the shafts of which display beautiful monoliths,
composed of Penryn marble 10ft. 4in. high, the capitals and
bases being executed in gun-metal. The door-way is simple
in its details, consisting merely of a bounding moulded
architrave enclosing the gates, which are of bronze, and
enriched by panels containing Scriptural subjects. The
entablature of the order is embellished with heads and
vases, the latter of which are executed in granite. The
edifice is covered with a copper dome, having a balustrade at
its summit. In its consecration the Bishop of Oxford was
assisted by the Hon. and Very Rev. Dr. Gerald Wellesley,
Dean of Windsor ; the Hon. and Rev. Charles Leslie Cour-
tenay, M.A., Canon of Windsor; and one of her Majesty's
Chaplains; the Rev. J. St. John Blunt, M.A., Chaplain
to the Prince Consort, and Vicar of Old `Windsor; the Rev.
H. J. Ellison, M.A., chaplain at the Castle, and Vicar of
Windsor ; and the Rev. Charles Lloyd, M.A., Rector of
Great Hampden.
THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1862.
Her Majesty's Commissioners for the International Exhi-
bition of 1562 held a meeting at their offices, in the Strand,
yesterday. The building committee held a meeting att
South Kensington yesterday,