The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-02 00:00:00

Edinburgh ; John, it colonel in the Coldstream
Guards, who was killed at Talavera ; Robert, lieu-
tenant-celonel of the 4th Royal lti4l Dragoon Gnarls.
Lady Ross Baill:e iit,i in 1819. On her death the
representation of the fanoly if Bz(illie, of Leateington
and of the (iruat%';,a,a lii!,-, yernailieo for ,oil;te
time uncertain, till her grandson, ihe present
Charles Russ, of BAnagown, come of age, when he
had in his option either the succession to his paternal
estates in Ross-shire, or his grandmother's extensive
estates of Lamington, Hoprig, and Penstoun. The
succession, and we preume, therefore, the representa-
tion of the subject of this memoir ultimately devolved
on the present head of this ancient family, Alexander-
D uncles Ross-Cochranc-Wisheart-Baillie of Laming-
ton, M.P., in right of his mother Matilda (who
married Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane in 1812),
daughter of General Sir Charles Ross by his first
marriage with Maria Teresa, daughter of James
Lockhart, of Lee and Carnwath, Count of the Holy
Roman Empire. The present Sir Charles William
August Ross, of B Inagown, Bart., by whose prefe-
rence of the Ross. shire estates the succession of La-
inington devolved on his cousin, is the only tnale
is. ue of the late General Sir Charles Russ by his
second wife, Lady Mary Rebecca Fitzgerald, eldest
daughter of William Robert, second Duke of Leinster,
besides the present baronet, the late Sir Charles left
four surviving daughters.
"The representation of the family of Sir William
Wallace has now, therefore, devolve:l on either the
present proprietor of Lamington, or his cousin, Sir
Charles 11. A. Ross, of Balnagown. As Sir C. Ross
has formally resigned his claims to the property of
Laming ton, in favour of Mr. Cochrane Baillie, it is
presumed that the present head of the Lamington
family is properly the representative of the Regent of
Scotland.

" This point, however, is one of a strictly genealo-
gical nature, which it is not our province to deter-
mine. The representation of the Guardian of Scot-
land certainly belongs to the family of the late Lady
Ross Baillie, of Latnington ; but whether Mr. Baillie,
the present proprietor of that property, or Sir Charles
Ross, Bart., of Balnagown, more properly represents
the subject of this memoir, we do not undertake to
decide. That all the existing members, however, of
this ancient family, on whom the representation of
Wallace has devolved, through a long line of distin-
guished progenitors, may emulate the virtues of their
illustrious ancestor, should form their proud and
laudable ambition, as it must surely form the ardent
hope and desire of every admirer of the Scottish
Patriot—of every true, loyal, and Scottish heart."

COURT CIRCULAR.
BALMORAL, SEPT. 29.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert attended Divine service this morning at the
parish church of Crathie.
The ladies and gentlemen of the household were in
attenlince on her Majesty and his Royal Highness.
The service was performed by the Rev. Archibald
Anderson.

In the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal High-
ness went out walking, accompanied by the Prince of
Wales and Prince Alfred.

The dinner party this evening will include her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Augusta
Bruce, Baroness Speth, and Sir George Couper.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left
;own yesterday evening for the Continent.

DEATH OF LORD LEIGH.

We regret to announce the death of the Right Hon.
Lord Leigh, which took place at Bonn, on the Rhine,
on Friday last, at a quarter before 10 A.M. It appears
that some weeks ago his Lordship had left England
tor the benefit of his health, which had been seriously
impaired. On Thursday last he was pronounced to
be progressing se favourably towards recovery, that
he had resolved to return home. On the same night,
however, at 10 o'clock, his Lordship was seized with
an apoplectic fit, and from that hour he continued
senseless until the following morning, when he died.
Lady Leigh and her family were with his Lordship
at the time of his death. Lord Leigh was the author
of a volume of poems, which obtained some
favour at the time of their publication, and
his name has since been rendered somewhat
conspicuous in certain legal proceedings,
through which a fruitless attempt was made to
question his Lordship's title to the estates he enjoyed.
The late Lord Leigh was the first baron of that
name, and was created in the year 1839. Ile was
the son of James Henry Leigh, Esq., by the eldest
daughter of the tenth Lord Saye and Sele. He was
married in the month of March, 1819, to the eldest
daughter of the Rev. Wm. Shippen Willes, of
Astrop House, Northamptonshire. His Lordship
was descended from Sir Thomas Leigh, Knt., Lord
Mayor of London in 1558, and was great grandson
of Sir Peter Leigh, Knight-Baronet., who fell
at Agincourt. Lord Leigh was in his 60th
year when he died. He will be succeeded in
the title by his eldest son, the Honourable William
Henry Leigh. The principal estate of the family is
Stoneleigh Abbey, in Warwickshire, and there is
also property appertaining to the title in six other
counties of England. The body of the deceased
peer is expected to arrive in London on Sunday
morning, on its way to Stoneleigh Abbey, for inter-
ment in the family vault.

PROPOSED SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH
BETWEEN ENGLAND AND IRELAND.

Negotiations are being entered into with the Lords
of the Admiralty and Government authorities for the
establishment across St. George's Channel of a suba-
queous telegraph, upon a similar though much more
extensive scale to that now being undertaken between
England and France, the promoters of which have, it
is understood, after considerable interviews and
treaty, come to terms this week with the French
Government for the exclusive possession of
the proposed electric line from the French coast to
Calais. Preliminary surveys have been made for this
proposed oceanic communication across the Irish
Channel, and the coasts on either side, combined with
the submarine site ascertained by soundings for the
sinking of the wires, are found, owing to the founda-
tion being comparatively free from rocks and shoals
as compared with the Straits of Dover, and with treble
the extent of channel, to be favourable. Notices of
the intention of the promoters-to apply to Parliament
next session for an authorization to lay down the line
will be given. The precise points at which telegra-
phic stations on the English and Irish coasts will be
established, will depend on the result of the Govern-
ment Commission now pursuing its inquiry into the
best place for the establishment on the west of Ireland
of a great Transatlantic packet station. At present two
telegraphic routes are proposed; the one of 64 miles
across the Channel, from Holyhead to Kingstown
and Dublin, and thence by the Great Southern and
Western Railway on to Cork and Galway—the other
from St. David's Head, on the Welsh coast, and on to
Wexford, Waterford, and the extreme western points
of Ireland to Berehaven and Crookhaven, the latter
being the last points touched at by vessels outward-
bound for the Atlantic. From this point, on the ex-
treme western coast of Ireland to Halifax, the nearest
telegraphic station on the American side, the distance
is 2,155 miles, and as this might be accomplished by
the steamers in five or six days, England, by means of
the net-work of telegraphic communication in exist-
ence on the Atlantic sea-board en the one side, and
the Lake Frontiers on the other, may be put in
possession of all political and commercial intelligence
from the American and European continents in six
days instead of as now in 12 or 14. The project,
though it is asserted it might be done with safety,
does not contemplate anything like the immense en-
terprise of a wire under the Atlantic.

ENROLLED PENSIONERS.
The following circular, authorizing staff-officers of
pensioners to call out the enrolled force for drill
during this month, has been issued from the Horse-
Guards

" War-office, September 27, 1850.
" Sir,—l am directed to request that you will forth-
with make the necessary arrangements for calling out
the enrolled pensioners under your command for four
days exercise in the course of the ensuing month. In
the event, however, of your men having already been
out, either for drill or in aid of the civil power, for more
than six days, you will only assemble them on the pre-
sent occasion for so many as will complete ten days in
all, which number is on no account to be exceeded during
the present year; and if you have not already done so,
you may forward an estimate of the money required for
this service.

" You will report the days on which your drill is to
commence and terminate to the commanding officer of
the garrison and the general officer of the district, in
case they have auy orders or instructions to issue for
your guidance, or in case they should wish to see your
men under arms; and you will also report the days of
exercise to this office.

"I am further to request that you will not fail imme-
diately on the dismissal of the men, when assembled
either for drill or in aid of the civil power, to forward to
this office a parade state in the usual form, as required
by the regulations.
" I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
" L. SULIVAN."

MASONS' AND SCULPTORS' PROVIDENT INSTITU-
Txow.—Last night a meeting of the subscribers to the above
institution was held in the Mechanics' Institution, Great
Smith-street, Westminster, to receive the report and for the
first election of pensioners; Mr. William Tite, F.R.S., presi-
dent, in the chair. The funded capital at present amounts to
350/. in Three per Cent. Consols. The institution, which is
yet in its infancy, has met with the support of many of the
employers, who have liberally subscribed to its funds, and
signified their intention of further encouragement, provided
a disposition is shown on the part of the operatives to sup-
port it. It is calculated that of the operative classes there
are about 4,000 in London and the suburbs, and above
26,00 J in the -United Kingdom The object of? the institu-
tion is the granting yearly pensions to aged and necessitous
members of the trade, their widows or orphans, and the erec-
tion and maintenance of an asylum. The report was adopted,
and two candidates were placed on the pension fund at 7s.
each per week.