The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-21 00:00:00

DEATH OF EARL GREY

leis our melancholy duty to announce to our readers
!hat the amiable, the venerated Earl Grey expired at
Howick on Thursday evening last, at twenty minutes
past eight o'clock. He was the last of that glorious
band which, headed by Fox and Sheridan, uphtld the
cause of the people in those dark and gloomy days when
the service of the people was a service of danger. He
was the last of the historical statesmen. His name is
associated with that of' great men—Burke, Pitt, Fox,
Sheridan ; it is associated, also, with great principles.
He was no expediency man ; he sacrificed, for upwards
of thirty years, all hopes of office—at a time, too, when
the emoluments of office would have been most acceptable
to him—rather than sacrifice for an instant the cause of
Parliamentary reform to which be had devoted his life ;
and, at last, when no did accept office, his first great
measure was. the Reform Bill. The character of Earl
Grey, its a statesman, will best appear from the following
;Ketch of his eventful career :

Charles Grey, son of General Sir Charles Grey, was
born 1764, and educated at Eton and at Cambridge. In
1786 he was returned to Parliament for the county of
Northumberland, and immediately joined the Whig
party, then in opposition, under Fox. His first speech
was delivered in the debate on Mr. Pitt's Commercial
Treaty with France. The oratorical talents which he
displayed on this occasion secured to him a foremost
position in the House. During the same session, which
was his first, he was named one of the managers of the
impeachment of Warren Hastings ; and from that time
we find him always taking a leading part in the debates.
In the debates on the Regency Question, in 1789, Mr,
Grey took an active part in opposing the proposed re-
strictions on the authority of the Prince of Wales. He
was not, however, on all occasions quite so devoted a
courtier to his Royal Highness as others of his party„
In 1795 he moved a reduction of the allowance to him
proposed by the Ministry. But the most brilliant period
of his exertions was at the commencement of the French
Revolution. On this occasion Mr. Grey showed himself
superior to those alarms which induced so many of the
Whig party to desert their principles and party con-
nexions, and to oppose the progress of liberal views of
Government. Throughout the whole period of his loug
and hopeless opposition to the war, he firmly adhered to
Mr. Fox, and at the, very period in which others
thought it necessary to take a determined stand against
what was regarded as a democratic spirit of encroach-
ment, Mr. Grey thought that the interests of order•
as well as freedom, required further concession of power
to the people. In 1792 he took a prominent part
in the formation of the Association of the Friends
of the People, and was commissioned by that
body to be the organ in the House of Com-
mons of its views of Parliamentary Reform. These
he supported in the speech in which, on the 6th of May,
1793, be moved to refer the petition of that Association
to a Committee. This speech contained a detailed and
clear view of the history of Parliamentary Reform, and
a forcible statement of the grounds that rendered its
adoption necessary. His eloquence was, however, of
little avail, and, after an adjourned debate, the motion
was negatived by 282 to 41. It was not until the 20th
of May, 1797, that Mr. Grey, who during the last few
years of the eighteenth century imitated Mr. Fox's se-
cession from the ineffectual labours of opposition, again
brought forward the subject of Parliamentary Reform,
and propounded his own plan. This plan is remarkable
for the large measures of change which the Whig leaders
did not at that time think it dangerous to urge. He
proposed the division of the country into electoral di►-
tricts of pretty nearly equal extent, and returning only
one Member each, with Household Suffrage, and Tri•
ennial Parliaments. The motion for leave to bring in a
Biil emtodying this plan was rejected by a majority
of 165.

In 1801, during the winter of which year his father
was raised to the peerage as Lord Grey of Howick, he
distinguished himself in Parliament by his opposition to
the union with Ireland. In 1806 Mr. Grey, who by the
elevation of his father to the earldom was become Lord
Howick, for the first time took office as a member of the
Ministry which was formed by the coalition of Mr. Fox
and Lord Grenville. He was made First Lord of the
Admiralty; and on the death of Mr. Fox, in the autumn
of the same year, succeeded him as Secretary for Foreign
Affairs, and leader of the House of Commons.
In this distinguished position Lord Howick remained
j but a very few months, during which, however, he had
the good fortune to associate his name with the Aboli-
tion of the Slave Trade, by introducing, on the part of
the Government, the Act vt hich put an end to that J
traffic. Having proposed a Bill for the authorising the
promotion of English Catholics in the navy and army,
the bigotry of George 111. took alarm at this encroach-
ment on the principle of intoleramee, and he not only
compelled the Ministers to drop the Bill, but insisted on
their pledging themselves never again in any form to
moot the question of conceding privileges to the Catho-
lics. This Lords Grenville and Howick, to their honour,
refused to do, and the Ministry was in consequence dis-
missed.

In 1807 he succeeded to the peerage, and took his seat
in the Upper House as Earl Grey. From that time
until 1830 he remained steadily in opposition.
He became Prime Minister in 1830, and during the four
years which he continued in office he had the satisfaction
of carr3ing the two great measures to which he had de-
voted his life, viz., Parliamentary Reform and the Abo-
lition of Slavery. Since his retirement from office, in
1834, ho has taken no part in politics, but has resided
principally at Howick in the bosom of his family.
It is almost impossible for us, his contemporaries,
to take a calm and dispassionate view of tho
career of Earl Grey, but his bitterest political op-
ponents admit that his was essentially a great mind,
Despising the petty minutire of details or leaving them
to be arranged by his subordinates, he at once proceeded
to great principles. An elegant orator, a conscientious
and high-minded statesman, he carries with him to his
grave the regret, the love, the veneration of his friands
—the respect and the admiration of those to whom he
was politically opposed. He is succeeded in his titles
and estates by Viscount Howie k, statesman far in
advance of his late colleagues in ,many points, and one
who will worthily support the honoured name which he
has inherited.

BrOADSTATRS.---The arrivals at this most delight.
ful little watering place are increasing daily. Among the late
arrivals we notice the Prussian Consul, Mr. and Mrs. Hebeler
and family, at Upton-house; Captain Carnac and family, No.
Chandos-place; Rev. T. B. Newell, No. 2, Chandos-place; Mrs.
Chrystie and family, No. 3, Chandos-place ; Rev. Henry Lindsey,
Nu. 4, Chandos-place ; Mr. and Mrs. M'Cabe and family, Fort-
hou4e; Mr. "and Mrs. Formeroy and family, Lawn-house ; Mr.
Gwinnell and family, 4, Nuckels-place ; Captain Drake, R.N.;
Mrs. Gla•s, Miss Darby, Mr. Scott, Mr. Maltby, Mrs, Wobb, Mrs.
Hesse, Captain Horatio Austin, R.N. ; Mrs. Sweetman, Serene
Cottage; %In. Hay, H. Goodson, Esq., Regent Cottage; Miss
Trew, Rev. J. Jackson, Prospect-house; Mr. Mackintosh, Wel •
liugtou.house; Mr. Harrington, Purmout Cottage; Edwin Bald-
win, Esq., 1, Elder-place; Mrs, Pigeon, 6,
Captain Fordyce. Nelson place; and

MONEY and COMMEn.U.IA I.
The business done ill tiottob ;11aiti,t
yettei4ilY iilliolinted to 10,000 bales, iucludi,g 2.660.
on speculation, and 1,000 for export. Shares were firm :
MANCH-UTNE STOCK EXCIIANOE, JULY 18.—The sales ate
—Belfast, Ballymena and Carrickfergus, 6 11.16 ; Blackburn,
Burnley, and Accrington; I).A 1301tbn; Wigan LiVetp66l,
261 A 20N ; Caledonian, 11; Cambridge and Lincoln, Sig ;
Churnet Valley, 5 ; Clitliero Junction, 3%; Del)) and
Crewe, 2%; Eastern Counties, New, 12%; Ditto, Perpetual,
No. 1, 8. 2s. ; Erewash Valley, 31 ; Exeter, Yeovil, and
Dorchester, 3; Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Julie-
tion, 10 pretn. ; Grand Union, 11% ; Great GI iinsby and
Sheffield Junction, 23/ 3 ; Huddersfield and Manchester Rail-
way and Canal, 8% 8%;
.Ditto, Junction, 6% Leed • and
Thirsk, 51,4 5 ;Leeds and West RidingJunction,634 ; Leicester
and Bedford, 425. 445. 6d. ; Leicester and Birmingham,
1 3A ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3 1-16; London
and York, 4% 41/4 ; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and
Midland, 5% 51/ ; Manchester and Birmingham, 61% ;
Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 71,4 ; Manchester and Birming-
ham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 325. 6d. ; Man
chester and Birkenhead Continuation and '.old, Ruabon,
and North Wales' 10s. prem. • Railway Consols,
401. Shares, ; North British. 26; Ditto. New Shares, 7 ;
North Eastern, 13/4 ; North Staffordshire, 4%; North Union,
B, 113; Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate, and Manchester,
2 7-16 214 ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter shares, 17
ex int. ; Ditto. Quarter Shares, No. 3, 7 ; Shrewsbury and
Trent Valley Union. l 7 ; South Eastern and Dover, No. 3,
8%; South Midland, 2%; Trent Valley, 16)(3; Wakefield,
Pontefract, and Goole, 1814 ; Welsh Midland, 3 5.16 ; West
Lancashire and Coast Line, 1 7-16 prem. ; West Yorkshire,
61A ; Whitehaven and Furness, 1%; Dutch Rhenish, 5%
prem.

There are not any colonial arrivals to-day of a date later
than those before received. In circles connected with New
Zealand, additional accounts are most anxiously looked for.
The general tenour of some of the private letters that have
been shown us, is that matters will be arranged.
The issue of notes by the Bank of England during the
week to Saturday last, was 29,682,650/., a decrease of
209,275/., but there were 1,210,815/. less of notes in the
banking department. The public deposits are 3,874,220/.
smaller, owing to the payment of the dividends, official sala-
ries, &e. The other deposits, however, are larger by 1,315,079/.
In the bullion there is but a slight decrease, viz., 221,8461.
The market for Consols has been rather firm to-day at
9914 % for the Account, and at 99 to IA for Money. This is
the pay-clay on the Consols Account, which was settled yes-
terday, and the differences have been well met. Exchequer-
bills are at 545. to 565. ; Indian Bonds at 71s. premium ; and
Bank Stock at 2111/4.
Very little business was in progress in the Foreign Stocks
to-day. The quotations for actual operations are annexed.
There is a pretty firm market for the Railway Shares.
The demand is good, and of, apparently, a most decided
bond fide character.

CLOSIXU
'PRICES.
211%
991 h
991%
102%

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 211%
,3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 99 %
New 31/1 per Cents ...1021A
India Bonds, 1,0004.
Ditto under 1,0001..
Cmsf.ds for Account
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., I%d 54 56 pm.. 56
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small ... 59 57 . pm. 57

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.— . — 100%
Ditto Deferred 53% 53%
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela 17% 18 18
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 .....
Ditto, Account 3714%
Ditto. Deferred
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 3314
Portuguese 5 per Cent.
Ditto, Converted 6514
Ditto, Account —
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto. Account
Ditto, Passive
'1

37%
20%
334

651 A
651/2
26/

Ditto 3 per Cent. -12
37%
Belgian 4% per Cent. 99 lit;
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 9914
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
RAILWAY SHARES
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% l%
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... 581,E 59
Caledonian
Ditto Extension 21,4...... 234
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%...... 54%
Chester and Holyhead... 10
()Unmet Valley ......... 2
Coventry, Bedworth, and
Nuneaton
Coventry and Leicester 1 i/4 ...... 1% %
Cornwall
Direct Northern
Dublin and Galway..... 2%
Dundalk & Enniskillen 2% 31%
Eastern Counties 141. 165...... 21 'xi lA%
Ditto New 4/. 16s.
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....5/. 13s. 4d l%
Ely and Bedford
Great South. and West.

371/4
99%
62%
991 X,

1%
96

(Ireland)
Great North of England 100 228
Great Western BO 214
Ditto % Shares 50
Ditto, Fifths
Hull and Selby
Lancaster and Carlisle... 20
Limerick and Waterford 2% —
London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...244

Do. 4 _ Shares
L.,ndon and Blackwall. 161. 133.4 d. 10 93/4
London and Brighton... 50
Do. New consolidated 8 ths 25 ......
!.ond.on and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 23
Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10,1 B2
Do. New
London and York . 21/2. ..... 33/ 41 4
Londonderry & Coleraine 2 ,L...... ...
!,ynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereliam l% 2%
Manchester and Leeds... 76 l7l 173.
Do. Quarters
Manchester,Luxton,and

Matlock 223....... 4%1/2 51%
nidiand 100 192 191 193
Do. New
Newcastla and Darling-
ton Junction .. 25 ...... 57 58
Do. New Brandling... 10 -
Nc woast le *tad Berwick 11/2 19%
Newry and Enniskillen. 21/2 ..... 31
North British . 121/2-- 251/2%
Do. New
North Kent
North Staffordshire 22s. ...... 3%1,4
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Do~ New
Oxford and Worcester... 21/2 7 6341/2 7l/2
Richmond and West End

.. ..... __ _
Junction
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2%..... 314
South Devon
South Eastern & Dover 33/ 28 4d... 48 473/4
_ _

35
ON

6%
2%
173
25

5 LA
193
30%

19%
34
25
7_li,

34
30

47%

Do., No. 1 8
Do., No. 2.
D0., No. 3
South Wales 2l/, 5 .....
Trent Valley 2 ...... .....
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 21/8 2%
York and North Midland 50 114% 114 ...... .. 114
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do. Extension l4 214% 21
FOREIGN RAILWA Y --.
Boulogne and Amiens... 6
Great North. of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2
Jamaica Junction I % 574
Do. South Midlnd. June. 1
Louvain and .Teineppe... 4 ... . 5% 4%, ......
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Vierzon ... ...... 15142:-
Orleans and Bordeaux... 4
Over Yssel 41 3s 4d —
Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 3 ...... ...... ..
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
Rouen and Havre ...... 16
Sambre and Meuse .... 4 ...... 7 V,4
Verona and Ancon i 1 1.5/i434
.„, _ ...
West Flanders
JOINT STOCK BANKS.

451%
40%
30

Australasia
London & Westminster 20

DUTCH MAIL.

THE HAGUE, JULY 18.—From the official statement
of the public revenu-, in the years 1844 and 1845, it ap-
pears that the am,unt was, in 1845, 25,705,065 florins ;
in 1844, 25,373,504 florins ; increase in 1845, 331,561f1.
THE HAGUE. JULY 16.—1 t is affirmed that his Ma-
jesty the King will go in a few days to London, and that
afterwards, on his return, he will honour the Grand
Duchy of Lux' mburg with a visit. It is reported that
his Maje,ty, in his journey to Great Britain, will be
accompanied by his Excellency M. Baud, the Minister
of Finance.

The Courrier of the Grand Duchy says that the King
will stop only six or seven days in London, and that his
Majesty wi l be accompanied by the Queen on his visit
to Luxemburg.

Mr. Hughes, v. ho has filled, for three years, the post
of charge dalluireß of the United States of North
America at oue court, left us on Sunday night, and re-
turned to his own country. The official tulle of the
public expenditure Elr the years 1846 and 1847, shows that
the expenditure for 1846 is fixed at 70,327,704 E, for
1847, 70,283,554 E 03 occasion of the reported visit of
his Majesty to England, it may not be amiss to mention
a gracious desire of his Majetity in favour of the Eng-
lish congregation in this town. It is known that an
English (Presbyterian) congregation was formed at the
Ha,rue at the end of the sixteenth century (in 1595)7
~

It consisted at that time of about 200 mem.bers and hod
some men of eminent learnine:, us A rchibald Maclaine who
greatly enriched the work of Mosbeim, Barker, and
others. The church, which was previously the chapel
of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sacrament, was small,
but sufficient for the congregation. and very neatly fitted
up. A the congr•gation declined, little was done to
keep he building in repair, so that at last it was in such
a ruinous state that it was necessary to pull it down.
On its site, on the Nordeinde, there stands now the
handsome residence of Messrs. Ruden and Weiman,
which may justly be said to be dedicated to the arts.
THE HAGUE, JULY 18.7-Prince Frederick William,
co-Regent of Hesse, with his consort, the C mntess of
Schaumburg and children, arrivi d here yesterday even-
ing. His Royal Highness has already paid a visit to his
Majesty to day.

It is rnrnottrcd in fashion Ale circles that Mr.
Jones, of Glanloran° Park, High Sheriff of Carmarthen, is shortly
about to lead to the Hymenial altar the young and beautiful niece of
Lord Campbell, and daughter of Sir George Campbell, of Eden.
wood. Bart.
Visownt and Visco.int—s Palmer-ton entertained
Dowager Countess of Morley, Dowager Lady Holland, and a select
party at dinner on Thursday, at their residence on Carlton House. i
terrace,

C.; 70:17.-,
•
lie Anti Alberi. Ancompni: d by the Pang
of Wales and the left town in a carriage an
four at ten minutes before two 04eirwit fit, Saturday afternoon:
for os:-orne House, Isle of Wight. Lady Poi-email, Lady 11.,.
Waiting, was in attendance on her Majesty.
Their 141)11 Highnesses Prince Alfred, and the Princest.
Alice, accompanied by the Dowager L&dy Lyttelton, were
the next carriage and four, and tho Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie:
Courtenay, Colonel Bowles, Colonel Buckley, and Cole"
Bouverie, occupied another carriage and four.
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort were conducted to their
carriage by the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse*
the Vice-Chamberlain, the Earl of Hardwieke, the Alarquis ,
Granby. and the Hon Captain Hind.
The royal party was escorted by a party of-Light Dragoon.
from Buckingham Palace to the terminus of the South-Westerg.
Railway at Nine Elms, and left town for Gosport by a specii
train.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prin6
of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice, arrived at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, at seven o'clock
on Saturday.
The Royal circle at dinner in the evening, included Lady
Portman, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Mr. G. E. Arsons
Hon, and Rev. C. L. Courtenay, Colonel Bowles, Colonel
Buckley, and Colonel Bouverie.
Yesterday morning the Queen and Prince Albert, and the
Ladies and Gentlenon of the Royal suite, attended DIA°
service at Osborne House. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie
Courtenay officiated,
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their usual early
walk yesterday,and the juvenile royal family were taken airings
in the grounds of o,borne House.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended diving
service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel, South Andiel
Street.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of COP
bridge, attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan and Baron Kneed'
beck, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on Sate"
day evening.
A deputation on the extension of navigation in Ireland bad
an interview with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday at his official red
sidence in Downing Street. The deputation consisted of Lor
Rossmore, Lord Lurgan, Lord Clements, M.P., Sir Thomas
E•monde. Bart., M.P., Sir A. Chichester, Bart., Mr. George
A. Hamilton, M.P., Mr. John Young, M.P., Mr. Greas,e'
M. P., Mr. Ross, M.P. Mr. F. French, M.P., Mr. B. Beene'
M. P., 11r. M. J. O'Connell, M.P., Dr. Collins, Mr. a W.;
Williams, Mr. Pierce Mahony, Mr. Baucock, and Ml. P"
Cones.
Mr. Brotherton, M.P., and the Town Clerk of Mancbee''
ter, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie on Saturday
at the office of the Board of Trade.
Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President of the Council, left tom
on Saturday, for the Isle of Wight.
Dispatches were sent off on Saturday evening from tbe
Colonial-office for the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands, and also for the Governor of Malta.
A deputation on the subject of New Zealand had an inter'.
view with SiP R. Peel on Saturday.
The Duke of Wellington and Sir Frederick Trench nt•
tended the early service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St*
James's. The Rev. J. C. Haden officiated and preached tile
sermon. The Duku of Leeds, the Duchess of Sutherland, tile
Maruuises of Anglesey and Granby, Ladies Wilton, Sydney'
and Palmerston, Lords Bandon, Zetland, Delawarr, St. Get'
mans, and Palmerston, attended the daily service yesterday is
the Chapel Royal. Prayers were read by the Rev. J.
Haden, the Lessons by the Rev. J. Povah, and the Comm'!:
nion Service by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The sermon
preached by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The anthem was Tura
thee unto me" (Boyce). Mr. Tule presided at the organ.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT LIVERPOOL—FRunr.
GOODWOOD STAKES.
9 to 1 agst Pytbia
12 to 1 agst The Libel
14 to 1 agst Queen Mab
14 to 1 agst Rowena
17 to 1 agst Venus
17 to 1 agst Lothario
18 to 1 aget Boarding School Miss
20 to 1 agst NVarp—taken
20 to 1 agst Lightning—taken
20 to 1 apt John o'Gaunt
20 to 1 apt tEgis
25 to 1 agst Europa
30 to 1 agst Una

GOODWOOD CUP.
3 to 1 agst Foigh. a-ballagh
10 to 1 agst Stomacher
12 to 1 agst Valerian—taken
DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
5 to 1 agst Merry Monarch—taken
5 to 1 agst Weatherbit—taken
8 to 1 agst Mentor
10 to 1 agst Old England—taken
12 to 1 agst Annandale
20 to 1 agst Pantasa—taken
25 to 1 aget Pam
33 to 1 agst Fitzallen
40 to 1. agst Ould Ireland
No alteration in the Goodwood Cup weights this week.