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TO THE. EDITOR ov, THE Still.' •
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SlR,—Having heard thet ,my 'eon attelniance at
~,-.11,&,- ,- kt'P• ,
. ,-.:,.-- , , ,-,:, the funeral of the late Lord Fitzbardiog-e, altholl'h
i,
I arrived at the Castle for that purpose, " hee boon
the subject of general remark," and found that tie
Most diStorted rumours have purposely been raised
in the county regarding that Matter, it becones
my most painful duty thus to Bet myself right With
VTELLIGENCE. .
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the public.. - . .
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O.
•
Shortly after the
.death of Lord Fitzhardinge 1
received a civil note from Sir
aurice Berkeley,
who had not eeoken to me for 'many years, asking
--`.
me t.. the Castle on the Friday, and to attend the
3.1;
rioted to try Sig,
I Yule, Royal stantly in
ad iu hearing of the ]siloll
literal on the following day. The nilte beieg ;:d.
'e preferred some anxiet dressed to me in the usual style of brothere, wiieu
conduct, section of tl,
on good terms, I took the opportunity, in accepting •
a gentle- which convey, the invitation, to say, that it pleased me much to
out all present momei
come and to think no more of past hostility. It was
could past experience
t
oat urea to suppose that those who attended for
,
mby obedient serv3n. months around the death-bed of -a man who had
tom asked my forgiveness, and who was said to have
red Eastern Steam repentedof his hostility, persecutions, and pecuniary
lie 13, Greshan oppre'sions towards me, would have been glad to
have buried all family feud in the grave'; but lam
e
compelled to say that neither, in the tiring nor the
"Is, Duke-i
dead were .the behests of St. Paul -attended to.
" Gentlemeno-e-T. Impenitenee. of a desire to injure rue and in.
?De was
numerous inquiries i
still rife; and the greeting I received in the Castle
hich the ship will be was but the echo of the words engraved upou the
hirable that some m et flin plate.
the information gek On proceeding to the Castle on Friday, Thomas
up to the end of ne. Moreton, Earl of Berkeley, who does not choose to
s launched on the;. call himself a. peer, met me on the railway, and we
', and also of con proceeded to the Castle together. He had never
a which exist as t beenethere since his father's death, as from that time
'eli can.Ouly lead \ to the preeent he has maintained that privecy which
anticipate a dit it. was intended. he should keep from the earliest
of that which
f Ordinar dim et ige ef manhood. When we were alone together it
!s' ihe.pery
iod e.
occurred_ ome to remind him " not to put his sig, a- '
of
t calculated up tare to any
.plpers thtt might be set b.:fore him the
i
tet month ; ant full purport of wiii .h be did not know, and which
ee on whose a might be supposed to affect my interests and those
advantage of of ray sons in regard to the entailed eaatee." His
works sego;, reply was much the same as he had ever made to
lea's every pi me—" Oh, you may be perfectly at rest in that
he weather is matter ; they won't ask me to sign anything, and,
(Iv, and col ac I have told you before, it will be all right at my
,
delay as tole, to ost
death, for I have only dealt with it for my life."
With this assurance I. was content ; it was; in tact,
ab
available
the belief of his life ; although in later years I kid
g e
deeir become painfully aware that although he never had
een
mer
fixed e an ilea of what it was they male him do, on the
ch itupor, face of certein docu iients to which I could gain
i
ful and de access, as far as mere signature went, he had gone
of the art through the form of cutting riff an entail. I had
•
F preper long ago told him of my discovery, and asked him
,
uch poufwho had been his lawyer in that important matter,.
i from i and if he had had a receipt when he handed over
wed, th to Lord Fitzhardinge the large ac: imulatiOn of his
As reg, minority ; but he answered, ."
No, be did not
•
-equent know who his lawyer was, and he had not any
et it, t, receipts nor papers ; they did it among: them."
d.inary On the morning of the funeral, about ten minutes
vie do before the ceremony was to take place, Sir Maurice
by a Berle ley asked me "to come into a private ro an
'
and to meet all our relations, for he had a few words to
di
addrese to us colle:ctively." lat once accompanied
rt
eoh him to the room, and there found aseintiled my
1e brother, the Earl of Berkeley, Mr. Augustus Ber-
,y
keley, Mr. Henry Berkeley, the member for Bria-
-1 ii
0 tol,- my- hrothers-iu-law, Mr. M-.xse and Major
ins Cassell, Mr.. Boodle, the auditor of rents—un-
ay trusted, I believe, with the will—Colonel Kingscote,
, and Mr. Morton Brown, a dissenting minister.
r i Sir Maurice Berkeley then addressed us in an angry
manner, when, having said, "it should be no fault
of his if the disunited family which we had been
did not become a united one," to my astonishment,
as well as sorrow and indigitat ion, he immediately
charged me with having 'attacked him. anony-
mously in the papers," and wi h falsehood, and
concluded by asking the Earl of 13,rkeley "if it
was true that he had been 'eajol.d and cheated' in
ieeard to the matter of the peerage ?"- Lord Ber- •
keley replied "that he had not."
Astonished and outraged as I was at this sudden
and unexpected attack at such a moment, and
when I was prepared to have seen the grave close
over all past animosity and oppression—all unre-
pented of as I feared them to be--I immedi-
ately cast from me with disdain the false charges
of which I had been accused, and, turning my at-
tention simply to the fact which was so evident,
namely, an attempt to overreach us in the presence
of witnesses, I addressed Lord Berkeley and ,
said, " Now answer me this simple question—Have
you not all your life told me, and did you not toll
me so late as yesterday, that I might set my heart
at rest, for that nothing you had done in the mat-
ter of the peerage could affect my future interests
and those of my sons—that all you had done was
but for your life I"
Lord Berkeley distinctly and without hesitation,
replied, "I have, and did tell you so."
I then turned round on what at once assumed
the appearance of a packed meeting for an especial
purpose, and mid, " What moro, gentlemen, do
you require 2" Then arose a Babel of voices,
for
distatlst
tee
freu
ipltyo omf a
nLordyof
theß erbkyesl
teayn
ds eeerisn. e divit
ro. bAounriuo
is
..t
tus Berkeley and Mr. Henry Berkeley exclaimed
together, addressing me, " We deny that you
re
the heir-presumptive," &c.' &c., while Colonel
Kingscote • inquired of Mr. Boodle "if Moreton
Berkeley (the present earl) bad power to cut ofrthe
eat til, and if he had done so." Mr. Boodle replied
that he had, and that he had done so.
On this, I arid to Lord Berkeley, "just answer
me another simple question. Had you ever a deed
pladed before you and explained to you for that
purpose ? Have you ever hail in your possession
any such deeds, or copies of this deed, or any other
papers whatever relating to it in your possession 1"
His reply to this was—" No, I don't know, I am
no lawyer,.l know of no deeds nor papers."
Mr. Henry Berkeley then, among the confusion
of voices, put a question so dictatorisl and so ridicu-
bais that I theright it needed no notice from me ;
he slid, addressing the Earl of Berkeley, "That is,
Moreton, you know when you said you did not
worn to affect your brother Grantley's interests
you meant, of course, his intereets as a younger
brother." The earl replied "Yes," and then added,
as if recollecting some lesson, "Oh ! 3 es, I believe
what my mother told me in preference to anybody,"
or words to that effect.. -
17t,elly false as these gross charges made against
me by Sr Maurice were—for I had never attacked
him in any way, nor been guill of one tic- towards
him which was not. iris kindness and affection--and
enraged by the fact that the words " cajoled and
cheated" had been furnishe.l him from a it.tor of
mine, marked "private and confid, 'Vial," to
Colonel Kingscote, I address-cl the assembly to the
following effect. I told theta I had. come to Berke-
ley Castle under the most friendly and affectionate
feelings, and on a civil invitation from Sir Maurice
Berkeley, and that I little expected to find myself
and to see my brother, Lord Berkeley, on so -
solemn an occasion, disgracefully and indecently
entrapped, to aid the continuous designs on the
inliri ance of the earldom, myself, and my slid-
diem Time, place, and persons were equally im-
proper. I know that I stood aUne among them,
and bad not a friend present, and that under feel-
ings a r indecently outraged as mine wore I would
not stay one moment longer there than I could
help. I should decline the funeral and retire to
iny- room till the ceremony was over, and then
order my carriage and return 'ionic, leaving them
b attend the. House of God, and to reconcile
prayer with their recent act, if their ConEeienc.es
would permit them to do so. Alas ! I was now
no longer surprised that my sons were not asked
to attend the funeral, for it was too evident but
one class of witnesses were desired. The public and
the county of Gloucester will now know why I felt
myself forced to take a painful step, and the false
rumours that seem to have been purposely set
abroad to my injury will receive theirrefutation,

p Oil. TA.Mk•ED 5a .]

(JBEAT EASTERN STEAMSEMP.

TO THE EDITOR OF TUB SUN.

Sn,—The directors of this company being con.
stantly in the receipt of applicaCous on the•subject
of the latinchof their great ship, and b li• viug th%t
some anxiety exis's on the matter, reque t the in-
sertion of the following letter fnin Mr. Brunel,
which conveys all -the inforulation possible at the
present moment to imp Art on a übk.ct for which
past experience affords no guide.—l am, Sir, your
obedient serv3nt,

JOHN YATES, Sec.
Eastern Steam Navigation Company,
13, Gresh3m-street, Oct. 23.

"18, Duke-street, Wnstmiastr, Oct. 23.
" Gentlemen,-=The difficulty of replying to the
numerous inquiries made respecting the t cried at
which the ship will ba launchei seems to render it
desirable that some means should he token of giv-
ing the information generally that it may he:ticer-
lain up to the end of next week whether the ship
will be launched on the 3d-proximo or the 2d of De-
cember, and also of correcting the erroneous im-
pressions which exist as to the nature of the opera-
tien, which can.Ouly lead to this disappointment of
those who anticipate a display on an unusually
large scale of that which is a beautiful spectacle
with ships of Ordinary dimensions.
"As regards' t he.period of the launch, I have fur
tome time pest calculated upon being reit'iy by the
first tides of next month ; and, by the -unwearied
exertions of those on whose agssistance I have de-
pended, with the advantage of unusually fine wea
ther, the principal works acquired are s s far ad-
vanced that-the -e seems every prospect of success ;
but a change in the weather is threatening, the
time remaining is shirt, and comparatively small
causes may creite such delay as to render it more
prudent, if not unavoidable, to post p sne the opera-
tion until the fellowing available tide—nanely.
that of D. ember 2, as no mere &etre so launch on
the day supposed to have been fixed will induce me
to hurry an operation. -of such importance, or to
omit the precaution of a careful and deliberate ex-
amination of all the parts of the arrangements,
after all the principal works of preperetion shall
have been completed. Should such postponement
prove necessary, or be adopted from prudence,
everything having been now prepared, the launch
would be on the 2d of December. As regards the
nature of the operation, it has frequently been
stated, but it seems necessary torepest it, that the
ship will not be "launched" in the ordinary sense
of the term, but merely lowered or drawn down to
low water wark, to be thence floated off by a stow
and laborious operation,- requiring two and pos-
sibly three tides, and very pribable effected
partly in the night, and at
,no one time offer-
ing any particularly in eresting spectacle, or
even the excitement of risk, as I am happy to
feel that, even assuming accidents to • occur, or
miscalculations to have been made rendering
the operation unsucceeeful, the ship may
stop h 3:f-way down, or not move at ail, more power
or other remedies may have to be applied, bet no
injury to the ship can result from any failure in the
course of proceeding in this mode of launching.
"Cam, Gentlemen,
.your obedient servant,

"I. K. BRUNEL.
"To the Directors of the Easteru Steam.
Navigation Company."

ENCUMBERED ESTATES COURT.

The following is the seventh annual report and
summary of proceedings in the Encumbered Estat, s
Court, from the filing of the first petition, viz., the
25th Out., 1849, to the 31st Aug., 1857, being the
concluding day of the seventh session.of the Corn
mission, arranged in 14 tables :-
1. Number of petitions presented, including
those for partition and exchange as well as
for sale
(Of the above about 800 were supplemental,
withdrawn. and dismissed petitions.)
2. Number of absolute orders for sale
3. Number of matters in which owners pre-
sented petitions
(Of the first 100 petitions six wore presented
by owners. Of the last 100 petitions the
owners of estates presented 53.)
4. Number of matters in which owners wera
bankrupts or insolvents
(In very many other cases the ownersof estates
became bankrupts or insolvents after the
petitions were presented, and the proceed.
legs ►ere subsequently carried on in the
name of their assignees.)
t. Number of conveyances executed by the
Commissioners
6. Number of estates or parts of estates sold by
provincial auction, subsequently confirmed
by the Commissioners
By private private proposal, accepted by the
Commissioners
The remainder of the premises comprised in
the above 7,283 conveyances wore all sold
by public auction, in court, before the Cotn•missioners.
7. Number of lots, sold, viz. :
By public auction iu court
By provincial auction
By private contraot

4,16

1,245

7,283

10,327
When the same person became the purchaser
of several lots he generally had them in-
cluded in the same evening.
8. Number of boxes containing upwards of
250.000 documents and muniments of title,
deposited in the Record-office
9. Number of cam% which had been pending in
the Court of Chancery before being brought
into the Encumbered Estates Court
10. Number of Irish purchasers
11. Number of English, Scotch, and foreign pur-
chases
12. Amount of purchase-money paid by English,
Scotch, end foreign purchasers... £ !,83 i,295 10 0
13. Cross proceeds of sale to 31st August, 1857 :
By public auction, in c0urt...... £13,941,07 10 0
By provincial auction
By private contract

1,267
7,180

£20,475,956 8 4

11. ACCOUNTANT'S OFFICE.—TabIe showing the atimntit
paid on account of purchase-money of properties sold, and
funds distributed, and of credits allowed to enetunbranceis
who became purchaicrs, and funds at present in court, and
purchase-money of recent sales nct yet lodged :
Total amount of purchase-money, as
above, from 25th of October, 1849, to
31st of August, 1857, both days in-
clusive ' •••

£20,475,956 3 4

Amount distributed by order of the
Commissioners, in cash 11,688,233 14 3
Ditto in stock
Amount ofabsolutecradi ts to purchasers
on foot of encumbrances vested in
them and applied without consent of
Commissioners in payment of their
purchase-money

2,822.589 3 5

Total amount of fund distributed £18,734,227 9 9
Funds on hands
Cush in bank £366,988 18 0
Now 3 per Cent. Stock 96 t,236 19 3
ThreeperCent. Consols 115,343 13 7

£1,446,571 10 10

£20,180,799 0 7

THOMSON SEED, Accountant.
Note.--The funds here returned as on
bands are subject to be still further
reduced by—
First. The amount of sums already allo-
cated to parties, and to trustees of set-
tlements and the like, but whore,
from the deaths of the parties, or
some of them, entitled thereto, or
from some other cause, those sums
cannot at present be paid outof court.
Second. By amount set apart by the
Commissioners' fiats, on account of
conflicting claims (the subject of liti-
gation in the Court of Chancery, or
elsewhere, and not yet decided on)
respecting the sums comprised in
such fiats.
Difference between the amount realised'
by the sales and the amount accounted
for below

£20,475,956 8 4

This difference arises from
First. Certain provisional credits having been condition-
ally allowed to encumbrancere who became purchasers,
but which credits, not having yet been made absolute,
aro not returned as payments, or as credits absolutely
allowed in the books of the accountant; and

TZIE RERRECEY PE

Secondly. From the non-lodgment in court of the amount
of ceitsin.of the Pales recently had.
Statistics-office, Oct. 24.

C• M. ORMSBY.

Yours-, d 1,5., -
GRAN TLEY F. BERKELEY.
Bacon Lodge, Oct. 23.

EXTRAORDINARY FREAK OF A COW.—The vicinity of
the "Town Clock" and Market-arcade was suddenly
startled from the more than ordinary quiet and pro-
priety it observed on Saturday last, on the occasion of
the funeral obsequies of the late Earl Fitzbardinge, by a
singular and almost unexampled occurrence in the his-
tory of le bceuf gras. About 2 o'clock in the afternoon,
as a couple of fat cows, belonging to Mr. Page, butcher,
were being driven up the High-street, one of them made
4 precipitate bolt into the shop of Mr. Witherspoon,
draper, next door to the Market-arcade. Mr. Wither
spoon's dausAter was behind the counter at the time,
and two of the younger children ware at the backap !
of the shop, which is very narrow. The animal walked
deliberately to the further end of the y,_.nniliar;
its progress was arrested by a counter r
flannels, sheetings, &c., and behind which Wag 114
aCrOBP, and on which was piled a
no other
win-
dow looking into the back garrden F
fore. feet on the counter
mode of egress, the cow goth
piled thereon, she took A
and pushing doWn the articles
o large
_c. qviu_a_natityo
h the
down a heavy iron
back window, smashing the
lower frame to pieces
and andthence knocking down another
balcony outside,'
made her way into the garden, having,
flying leap throng
iron fence, she
ed severely injured herself in the extra.
as may be 20131,n-re' •
roe escape of'Mr. Witherspoon%
ordinary adventa .
quite providential. One of them was
tending
two children was
small desk where there was but just room
Bat a
for the unwieldy animal to push by, while the other had
actually in her fright crouched down beneaththe counter
over which the creature scrambled in her frantic efforts
to reach _
the window, and, strange to say, both of thus
escaped injury.—Che/tenhant, Examiner..

THE LAST OVERLAND Mons.—lt will be recollected
that the last B wohay mail arrived at Suez on the 2d
inst., three days before the Calcutta mail. Great efforts
were made to convey this mail rapidly through Egypt,
but owing to the obstacles thrown in the way by the
Egyptian authorities, a considerable delay took place.
In consequence of this delay there was only just time to
put the mail on board her Majesty's iiteamship Caradco,
waiting at Alexandria for the Siamese Princes. The
conduct of the Egyptian authorities is to be brought to
the notice of the English government. The Pacha of
Egypt happened to be at Suez when the Bombay mail
arrived there. As it happened the Calcutta mail arrived
via Cagliari, and the Calcuttaand Bombay Mails reached
Marseilles nearly together. A considerable savingbeenol
time might have been effected, if a steamer ha
ready at Alexandria on the 3d inst., to start fur Malta
and Cagliari, and the Bombay mail had not beeudelaYed
in Egypt.