The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-04 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock,

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 29thult. have reached
us. The Queen and King, on the previous evening,
went with great military pomp to the Chu; ch
of Atocha to attend the prayers to be
offered up for the safe delivery of her Ma-
jesty. The diplomatic body, the minister,
and the great dignitaries of state were present
in the church. The permanent deputation of
the Grandees of Spain and that of the Hidalgos
of Madrid had presented addresses to the
Queen, congratulating her on her " interesting
situation." The Espana says :—" The Count de
Lucena (O'Donnell) and several of his poli-
tical friends have resolved to go abroad ; a good
deal of comment is made on this resolution." The
Order of Sr. Catherine of Russia had been conferred
on the Queen of Spain. The Chamber of Deputies
on the 29th was occupied in discussing reports on
railway bills, and particularly that on the line from
Tudela to Bilboa.

DEATH OF TUE EARL OF 3101?,NINGTON.

It is not a little singular that within the brief
space of three days we should have to record the.
deaths of the heads of the two families of Churchill
and Wellesley—those twin-houses which hitve re-
spectively given birth to a Marlborough and a
Wellington. Yet so it is ; the Earl of Murnington
died on Thursday, the 2d inst., at his residence in
London, after a short illness.

The Right Hon. William Pole-Tylney-Long-
Wellesley, fifth Earl of Mornington, only son of
William, fourth Earl, was born June 22, 1788,
and, consequently, at his death, had recently
entered upon the 70th year of his age. He
married first, in 1812, Catherine, eldest daughter
and eventually heir of the late Sir James Tylney
Long, Bart., of Draycot, Wilts, by his wife Catha-
rine, daughter of Otho Windsor, fourth Earl of
Plymouth, and assumed on his marriage the name
and arms of that lady, who brought with her a
noble fortune as a dowry. The marriage, as our
readers are doubtless aware, was anything rather
than happy in its consequences to the lady, who died
in 1825, leaving her husband with two sons and a
daughter. In 1828 Mr. Wellesley Pole re-married,
his second wife being the daughter of Colonel
Paterson, and widow of Captain T. Bligh, of the
Coldstream Guards. This second union would
appear to have been no better assorted than the first,
to judge from the fact that since her husband's
accession to the title • Lady Mornington has re-
peatedly appeared in our columns as an applicant
for relief at the metropolitan police-courts in con-
sequence of having been left destitute by her hus-
band and chargeable to the parish. In the Parlia-
ment of 1831-32, which passed the Reform Bill,
Mr. Long Wellesley was elected in the Liberal in-
terest for Essex, in which he formerly owned the
magnificent estate of Wanstead-house.

His father, who was better known to the public,
first as the Right Hon. William Wellesley Pole,
and afterwards as Lord Maryborough (by which
title he was raised to the English peerage in 1821,
on the coronation of George IV.) became Earl of
Mornington in September, 1842, on the decease of
his eldest brother, the Marquis Wellesley, K. G.,
and head of the representative of the Wellesley
family, and these honours he transmitted to his
son, the peer just deceased, at his death in 1845.
The deceased peer is succeeded in his titles by
his eldest son, Viscount Wellesley, now Earl of
Mornington. His lordship was born in 1813, and
is unmarried.