The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-03 00:00:00

DEATH OF EARL SPENCER.

It is our painful duty to announce the demise of Earl
Spencer, on Wednesday last, at his seat Wiseton Hall,
Nottinghamshire. The Noble Earl was ill only a fort-
night. His disease is understood to have been gout in
the stomach. His medical advisers in the neighbour-
hood bad called in Mr. Keate and under their united
care the Noble Earl was progressing, it was hoped,
towards recovery, when on Tuesday unfavourable
symptoms again manifested themselves, and on Wed-
nesday the Noble Earl breathed his last. Earl
Spencer was born on the 30th May, 1782, and,
after the usual course of preliminary study, he entered at
Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of
M.A. At the age of twenty-one he, as Lard Althorp,
entered the House of Commons, being returned for
Okehampton ; and in 1806, on the death of Mr. Pitt,
started as a candidate for the representation of Cam-
bridge University, in opposition to Lord Henry Petty
(the present Marquis of Lansdowne) and Lord Palmers-
ton, on which occasion he was defeated by Lord Henry
Petty by a large majority. In the same year he
contested the county of Northampton, and was returned
at the head of th.. rat, —Lt.!.
represent until called to the Upper House by the death
of his father, in 1834, During the Fox and Grenville
Administration Lord Althorp was a Lord of the Treasury;
he resigned his office when that Ministry was broken
up, and continued steadily in opposition until 1830.
During this period Lord Althorp had acquired a high
character in the House of Commons as a sound, steady,
practical man of business. A statesman, rather than
orator, he spoke seldom, but when he did
speak he was always listened to with great attention.
On financial subjects and on matters connected with
agriculture Lord Althorp was always looked up to as
an authority, and whenever questions on either of those
subjects were under discussion, Lord Althorp always
spoke, and be always spoke well. Kind-hearted,
benevolent,' tolerant, and humane, his private cha-
racter was excellent, and this gave him a weight
and an authority which even the most trim-
scendant abilities fail to bestow, unless joined
with honesty of intention and kindness of man-
ner. When Earl Grey came into power in Novem-
ber, 1830, Lord Althorp received the appointment
of Chancellor of the Exchequer, and at the Same' time
officiated as Ministerial leader in the House of Com-
mons. The death of his father, on the 2d of November,
1834, called him to the Upper House, and this removal
was made the excuse for breaking up the Ministry, of
which Lord Althorp was at that time the
most idluential member. From the time he
became Earl Spencer he retired altogether from the
political world, appearing only at agricultural meetings,
and then in general cautiously eschewing all allusions to
party politics. About two years since, however, Earl
Spencer, who had previously been in favour of a pro-
tecting duty on corn, announced that he had seen reason
to change his views on that subject, and from that time
he has advocated free-trade principles. Although during
late years Earl Spencer mingled not in the busy affairs
of life, he was not idle. His agricultural pursuits afforded
him amusing, mad healthful, and useful recreation, and his
mind was employed in the study of "Divine philosophy."
That these studies produced good fruit, we have ample
proof in the very interesting conversations between him-
self and Lord Brougham, which have been so minutely
recorded by the latter Noble Lord.
The deceased Nobleman is thus,described in Lodge's
Peerage :—" John Charles Spencer, Earl Spencer, Vis-
count Althorp, county of Nottingham, and Viscount and
Baron Spencer, of Althorp, in the same county, in the
Peerage of Great Britain ; P.C. ; a Commissioner for
the Duchy of Cornwall ; and M.A. ; was born on the
30th of May, 1782, and succeeded on the 10th of No-
vember, 1834. His Lordship married on the 14th of
April, 1814, Esther, only daughter and heir of the late
Richard Acklom, Esq., of Wiseton Hall, in the county
of Nottingham, by Elizabeth Bernard, sister of the first
Earl of Bandon, but her Ladyship died without issue on
the 11th of June, 1818."
His Lordship is succeeded by his brother, the Hon.
Captain Frederick Spencer, R.N., C. 8., Cross of St.
Louis of France, Knight of St. Anne of Russia second
class, and of the Redeemer of Greece, Equerry to her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, who was born on
the 14th of April, 1798, and married on the 23d of Sep-
tember, 1830, Elizabeth Georgians, second daughter of
the late William Stephen Poyntz, Esq., of Cowdray
House, Sussex, M.P., by whom he has issue three chil-
pdroeynn,tzGe(ourogwianavFisrcaunucnets,AbiotrnhorpA)p, April
02r5n,
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1835 ; and Sarah Isabella, born April 7, 1838.

The mortal remains of the late Marquis of Ely
will be interred at Kenmore churchyard, about four miles
from Ely Lodge, but the precise day for the funeral will not
be fixed until the arrival of the present Marquis, who was
expo cted on Wednesday, from Scotland.
WILL OF THE LATE MARQUIS OF DOWNSUTUE.—
Probate has been granted by the Prerogative Court to the
Marquis of Downshire, on the property of the late Marquis,
who died intestate, and the personalty sworn under 200,0001.
The duty on taking out probate was 4,0501., the largest sum
ever paid in any single case in this country. So highly
esteemed was the late Marquis in King's County and neigh-
bourhood, where he had property, and always acted as a kind
and considerate landlord, that both Protestants and Catholics
are uniting to raise a fund for the erection of a monument to
his memory.
GLASGOW PIG-IRON TRADEr--SEPT. 30.—Much
inquiry and large purchases have been made these few days
past, at advancing prices ; 3,000 tons have to-day been sold
at 90s. nett cash. The trade have been surprised at several
extensive Liverpool firms becom:ing purchasers at tos. nett,
some of whom had Patel been sellers at 60s. to 70s. These
transactions are nowlooked on as (lone with aview to " bear"
the market. We quote the price. at 90.5., with an upward
tendency.—Glasgow National.