The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-20 00:00:00

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WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prinoe Albert
walked in the vicinity of the Castle precincts for some
time this morning.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken
an airing for a short time this afternoon.
The Vice-Chancellor of England, Sir Francis Simp-
kinson, and Mr. William Selwyn, Queen's Counsel,
forming a deputation from Lincoln's Inn, had an au-
dience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and were
most graciously received.
The Earl of Liverpool, G.C.8., is expected to arrive
this evening, on a visit to her Majesty.
The band of the Grenadier Guards will attend during
dinner at fie Castle, and her Majesty's private band will
afterwards attend.

The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester on Thursday, at Gloucester
House.

A meeting was held yesterday morning at Lord John
Russell's residence in Chesham-place, Belgravt -square.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Grey, Earl of Claren-
don, Earl of Auckland, Viscount Palmerston, Sir George
Grey, the Right Honourable Francis T. Baring, the
Right Honourable Henry Labouchere, Right Hon.
T. B. Macaulay, and the Right Honourable Edward
Ellice, attended.
The meeting broke up shortly before three o'clock.
Mr. H. Tufnell, M.P., visited Lord John Russell
yesterday.
Mr. M‘Lane, the American Minister, arrived in town,
from Paris, yesterday morning.
A handsome piece of plate, manufactured by Messrs.
Garrard, has just been presented, on the part of her
Majesty the Queen Dowager, to the Baron de Gersdorff,
his Saxon Majesty's late Resident Minister in this
country.
Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President of the Queen's
Most Honourable Privy Council, expired at half-past
ten o'clock yesterday morning, at his residence in
Curzon-street. His Lordship had been ill for some
days past.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governor of Gibraltar.

THE LATE LORD WHARNCLIFFE.
The deceased Lord was the second son of James Archi-
bald Stuart, second son of John third Earl of Bute, K.G.,
who married, in 1736, Mary, only daughter of Edward Wort-
ley Montague. Colonel Stuart, on the decease of his mother
(Bareness Mountstuart in her own right), succeeded to her
.Ladyship's grelt Yorkshire and Cornwall estates, and as-
sumed in January, 1795, by sign-manual, the additional sur-
name of Wortley, and subequently inheriting the extensive
landed property in Scotland, of his uncle, the Right Hon.
James Stuart Mackenzie, asAimed, in 1803, the name and
arms of Mackenzie, of Rosehaugh. Mr. Wortley in early
life entered the army, and served in Canada and the Cape,
but having little relish for a military life he sold out
in his twenty-sixth year. In the year 1802 Mr. Stuart
Wortley was returned to Parliament, by means of • his
family influence, for tl.e borough of Bossiney, in Cornwall ;
but it WAS not until the year 1812 that he rose to any de-
gree of political notoriety. In the spring of that year
Mr. Perceval was assassinated, and the lengthened nego-

tiations, not very disimilar from those now on the taxis re-
specting the formation of a Cabinet, so utterly exhausted the
patience of the public, that the opportunity was thought a
good one for a rising young man like Mr. Stuart Wortley to
move an address to the Prince Regent. praying that he
" would form a strong and efficient Ministry." This motion
was introduced by a speech which every one acknowledged
to have been remarkable for its tone of honest independence
and high public spirit. Mr. S. Wortley continued to repre-
sent Bossiner till 1818. On the Ist of March in that year
Col. Stuart i'Vortley Mackenzie, the father of Lord Wharn-
cliffe, ended his days, and his son, the late Lord, succeeded
to his large inheritance. For Yorkshire, therefore, he wa
returned jointly with Lord Milton, now Earl Fitzwilliam, at
the general election in the year 1818. In two years fr.=
that period the demise of George 111. led to another election,
at which Mr. Stuart Wortley and Lord Milton were again
returned for the great county of York, and the subject of
this memoir continued to sit far that important elec-
toral district till the Parliament died almost a natural
death, on the 2d of June, 1825. In 1826 he was
raised to the peerage. In 1828, when the Duke of Wellington
succeeded Lord Goderich, Lord Wharncliffe took office under
the Noble Duke, and displayed muchlact in business. On the
introduction of the Reform Bill, by Lord Grey, in 1831, his
Lordship strenuously opposed that measure on various grounds,
which he stated with great force and eloquence, and moved
an ametdment for the purpose of throwing it out, but the Bill
was carried by a majority of 41. In 1834, during Sir Robert
Peel's short tenure of office, Lerd Wharncliffe took the office
of Lord Privy Seal. In 1841, when Sir Robert Peel suc-
ceeded Lord Melbourne, the Noble Baron became Lord Presi-
dent of the Council, and continued in that office up to the
recent resignation.
On the formation of the Peel Cabinet in 1841 Lord Wharn-
cliffs secured the representation of that district for his eldest
son, defeating Lords Milton and Morpeth, the numbers on
that memorable occasion being as follows :—Hon. John Stuart
Wortley, 13,165 ; E. Denison, Esq., 12,780 ; Lord Milton,
12,080 ; Lord Morpeth, 12,031. •
His Lordship is succeeded by his eldest son, the Hon. John
Stuart Wortley, who has represented the West Riding of
Yorkshire in Parliament for the last four years, and whose
succession to the peerage will therefore lead immediately to a
new election in that county. The present Lord Wharncliffe
is in the 45th year of his age. He graduated B.A. at Christ
Church, Oxford, in 1821, when he was in the first class ma-
thematics, and second class in classics. About twenty years
ago he married the third daughter of the Earl of Harrowby,
by whom lie has three sons and two daughters. His Lord-
ship is Lieutenant Colonel of the South-West Regiment of
Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry.

The late Henry Iltifl Nicholl, D.C.L., of the Col
lege, Doctors' Commons, and of Upper Clapton, whose sudden
death on the 24th ultimo, at the early age of thirty-six, it
was our painful duty lately to have recorded, has died in-
testate, leaving personal property in England estimated at
90,0001., besides freehold and other property in Wales. Letters
of administration of his effects have been granted to his re-
lict, who, with his children divide the personalty, one-thiri
to the widow, and two-thirds among the children. The
freeholds to the heir-at-law. The deceased was cousin to
the. Judge-Advocate, the Right I.lonourable John Nicholl
D.C.L., P.C. and M.P. for Cardiff.—Post.
LICENSED VICTUALLERS' PROTECTION SOCIETY.—
At a Special Committee Meeting of this Society, held at the
oa. ce, New Bridge-street, on Friday, the 19th inst., Mr.
R. Elt in the chair, upon the motion of Mr. Edwards,
seconded by Mr. Hughes, it was resolved unanimously—
" That the thanks of this Committee are justly due, and be
hereby given to the late Chairman, Mr. Lewis Jones, for
the able and efficient manner in which he discharged the
important duties appertaining to that office, during the past
year." At this and a previous meeting the following sums
were awarded—to Richard Walker, 33 G, one guinea, for
apprehending Edwin Spencer for robbing Mr. Major, White
Lion, Fiuchley, of a barometer; to Sergeant Thompson,
12 R, one guinea, for apprehending Michael Kerrigan, for
robbing Mr. Avery, Gibraltar, Deptford, of a watch ; to
William Humphreys, half-a-guinea, for apprehending Wil-
liam Colcham, for robbing Mr. Hobbs, Spanish Patriot,
White Conduit-fields, of two pewter pots ; to Timothy
Wells, 83 V, one guinea, for apprehending Joseph Allen, for
robbing Mr. King, Cadogan Arms, King's-road, Chelsea,. of
two pewter pots; to William Ling, 77 D, one guinea, for
apprehending George Thompson, for robbing Mr. Stanton,
Victory, Oxford-street, of a pewter pot; to C. H. Rennoldon,
half-a-guinea, for apprehending Elizabeth Robinson, for
robbing Mr. Rennoldson, Coach and Horses, Ray-street,
Clerkenwell, of a glass mug; to W. Millerman, 95 B, two
guineas, for apprsliending William Davis, for robbing Mr.
Chandler, Ship, Milbank, Westminster, of two glasses • and
Sarah Ponsferd, for robbing Mr. King, Coachmakers' Arms,
Belgrave-mews, Pimlico, of two pewter pots; to Inspector
Frond, 11 division, Samuel Brown, and Thomas Towerey,
237, one guinea each, for apprehending two men, for robbing
Mr. Wickens, Old Justice, Bermondsey-wall, of a cash -box
—through the exertions of the above-Lamed individuals, the
whole of the property, nearly sixty pounds, was recovered,
and the thieves sentenced for ten Tears transportation ; and
• to Henry Todd, 221 G, ene guinea, for apprehending Elizabeth
Taylor, for robbing Mr. Hart, Duke of York,. Liquorpond-
street, of a glass
RAILWAY PENALTIES.—We understand that the
validity of the 7 and 8 Victoria it now on the point of being
tested. It is perfectly clear that the Registration Act has
not been complied with in many of its clauses. We hear that
men of high standing and respectability, being promoters of
companies themselves, have instructed their solicitors to sue
for penalties under the Act. We are prepared to state, that
in several companies the provisional committees have ren-
dered themselves liable under the 76th and 77th sec.—Rail-
way Telegraph and Merchant's Advocate.
The Duke of Buccleuch will leave Montague
House early in the following week for Dalkeith Palace, near
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