The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-16 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE MARQUIS CAMDEN,

On Wednesday week, about noon, his lordship was seized
with an apoplectic attaek, from which he never rallied ; and
at twenty minutes past ten on Thursday night he expired at
his seat, the Wilderness, near Sevenoaks. The Earl and
Countess of Brecknock and Lady Georgiana Pratt were with
the marquis during his last moments. The noble lord had
been in a declining state of health for nearly a year, and he
gradually became more debilitated in the course of the last
two mouths.

The deceased marquis, John Jeffreys Pratt, Marquis and
Earl Camden, of Brecknock, in Wales, Viscount Bayham,
of Bayham Abbey, in the county of Sussex, and Baron Cam-
den, of Camden Place, in the county of Kent, in the Peerage
of the United Kingdom, was born on the 11th of February,
1759, and succeeded his father, Charles first Earl Camden,
for some time Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, and Lord
President of the Council, April 18, 1794. In December, 1785,
his lordship married Frances, sole heiress of the late William
Molesworth, by whom, who died in August, 1829, his lord-
ship had issue Lady Frances Ann Pratt, born November,
1787, who died in 1822; Lady Georgiana Elizabeth, born
July, 1791 ; Lady Caroline Ann, born July, 1794, who died
in 1827, (having married, in 1825, Mr. Alexander 8.. Stewart,
cousin of the Marquis of Londonderry) ; and George Charles,
Earl of Brecknock, now Marquis Camden.
The late marquis was a strict conservative in politics, and
from 1782 until 1807 filled several high offices in the govern-
ment. He was President of the Council in the years 1782,
1784, 1796, 1805, and 1807, and was Lord Lieutenant of Ire-
land from the year 1796 to 1798, at the time when the rebel-
lion was raging. Subsequently his lordship was Secretary
for the Colonies in 1804, and Lord Privy Seal from 1784 to
1794, and in 1805.

With the exception of the Earl of Westmoreland, the de-
ceased marquis was the oldest Knight of the Garter. In
1834 his lordship was elected Chancellor of the University of
Cambridge, and for some years was Master of the Trinity
House, which distinguished post his lordship resigned to
his friend the Duke of Wellington, we believe, in 1837. He
He was Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county
of Kent and the city of Canterbury, Vice-Admiral of the
Kentish coast, Colonel of the West Kent Militia, Recorder
of Bath, a Privy Councillor, Governor of King's College,
London, and of the Charter House, Trustee

CONVICTION UNDER THE VACCINATION ACT.—At the
Marlborough petty sessions, nine persons were summoned
for unlawfully attempting to produce small-pox by inocula-
tion. As this was the first instance of a prosccution under
the act, the parties were dismissed on paying costs only. The
public ought also to know that exposure of a patient labouring
under the small-pox will subject the persons so offending to
imprisonment for three months.
Since the opening of the railway between Lancaster and
Preston, and the competition between the railway and the
canal, traffic has been so much diverted from the turnpike-
road that grass is growing upon it in some places. The road
between the two towns of Lancaster and Preston, one of the
straightest and best in England, was altered and improved
under a recent act of parliament obtained a few years ago.
The public were so much the gainers by the improvement in
the road, that we cannot but sympathize with those who lent
their money to effect it, and are now suffering from the di-
minished value of the tolls.—Lancaster Guardian.

'We are happy to congratulate the adventurers of the diffe-
rent mines in this neighbourhood on the prosperous and flou-
rishing state of the mines, as well as on the recent advance
in the price of lead ore. We understand that several steam-
engines are about being erectea in the neighbourhood, for the
purpose of facilitating the working of the mines.—Aberystwith
Mirror.

CAPT. R. A. REYNOLDS.—Nothing can more strongly
mark the light in which the court-martial upon this gentle-
man is viewed by the public than the numerous calls of the
gentry, visitors as well as residents, at the Gloucester Hotel,
where he has lived since he was put under arrest by Lord
Cardigan.—Brighton Guardian.

We understand that the right hon. J. A. S. Mackenzie, of
Seaforth, will be at home in the month of June next, from
Ceylon, which government he resigns, on account of the cli-
mate not agreeing with his health ; but Lord John Russell
has written to him, offering the government of the lonian Is-
lands, which flattering appointment, his friends hope he will
accept.—lnverness Courier.

THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA.—His majesty, through his
consul, General Benkhausen, has given another extensive
order to the manufacturers of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, and
the utmost expedition is now being used to complete it. The
imperial annual expenditure in this country for thorough-
bred horses, equipage, harness, &c, is estimated to be little
short of £lOO,OOO, and several ships are freighted at Hull for
the purpose of conveying his majesty's purchases to St. Pe-
tersburg!).
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A LARGE MIRROR.—Last week there was landed at the
New Shore, from one of the lighters which convey goods
from Dundee and London steamers, a mirror—consisting of
one sheet of plate glass, measuring 16 feet by 9. The pack-
age weighed 16 cwt. We understand its destination was
Dupplin Castle.—Montrose Standard.

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A specimen of the Hoopoe, a somewhat rare bird in this
district, was last week shot at Aycliffe, near Darlington, by
Mr. Wetherell, and being preserved is now in the possession
of Mr. Lax, of Aycliffe. But one species of this bird is
known in Europe ; there is another in Madagascar, and a
third in South America and the Southern parts of India.

The approaching sporting season at Melton Mowbray is
expected to be very brilliant. The Earl and Countess of
Wilton will reside, during a great part of the hunting season,
at Egerton Lodge, where, among other distinguished parties,
the Earl and Countess of Rosslyn, Lord Macdonald, and
others, are expected on a ',bit.