The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-04 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

The Court remains at Windsor, but within the last day
or two the Queen and the Royal family have been pre-
vented from taking their habitual out-door exercises by
the inclemency of the weather. On Thursday, Prince
Albert went to London, for the purpose of witnessing the
Westminster plays.
HER MAJESTY'S ACEOUCREMENT.—The services of
Mrs. Lilley, as her Majesty's monthly nurse, have been
again retained. The interesting event, it is expected, will
not take place before the latter end of March or beginning
of April. Her Majesty will be confined at Buckingham
Palace.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived at Woburn
Abbey, Bedfordshire, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess
of Bedford, on Friday, from his seat, Hickleton Hall,
Doncaster.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF HARROWDY.—We regret to
learn the sudden death of the Earl of Harrowby, which
took place on Sunday morning week, about four, a.m., at
Sandon-hall, Staffordshire. The venerable nobleman had,
up to Friday week, appeared in his usual health, and had
passed over his birth-day on Wednesday. the 22d instant,
in cheerful spirits. On Friday morning he was assailed
by alarming symptoms, and by noon that day his illness
assumed the most dangerous aspect. He continued to
decline rapidly up to the hour of his dissolution, without
any favourable change. Viscount and Lady Frances
Sandon, the Honourable G. Dudley and Lady Georgina
Ryder, and several other members of his family, were at
the time staying at Sandon-hall. The late Dudley Ryder,
Earl of Harrowby, county Lincoln ; Viscount Sandon of
Sandon, county Stafford ; and Baron Harrowby, of county
Lincoln, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, was
eldest son of Nathaniel, first Lord Harrowby, and Eliza-
beth, co-heir of the Right Rev. Richard Terrick, Lord
Bishop of London. He was born on the 22nd of Decem-
ber, 1762, and had, therefore, completed his 85th year on
Wednesday week. In July, 1795, he married Lady Susan
Leveson Gower, sixth daughter of Granville, first Mar-
quess of Stafford, and aunt of the Duke of Sutherland.
By that estimable lady, who died in 1838, he had a large
family, four sons and five daughters—namely, the late
Viscountess Ebrington, Viscount Sandon (now Earl of
Harrowby), the Hon. Granville and Dudley Ryder, Lady
Mary Saurin, Lady Wharncliffe, the lion. Frederick Dud-
ley Ryder, the Hon. Edward (died in infancy), Lady Har-
riet Hervey, and Lady Louisa Fortescue. In politics the
late earl was a Tory of the old school. The deceased
earl entered on public life soon after attaining his ma-
jority. He represented for several years prior to his
elevation to the peerage by the death of his father, in
1803, the borough of Tiverton, in the House of Com-
mons. In 1800, he was appointed Treasurer to the
Navy by Pitt. He held that appointment up to Viscount
Sidmouth's advent to power, and after Pitt's return to
take the helm of the government, in 1804. be was ap-
pointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, but pre-
sided over that department little more than twelve
months. On the Earl of Liverpool's accession to office,
in 1812, the noble lord (who had been created Viscount
and Earl in 1809) was appointed Lord President of the
Council, which he held up to the formation of the Can-
ning administration, in 1827—a case unparalleled on
record. In February, 1820, the noble earl, then residing
in Mansfield-street, gave a cabinet dinner, and it was at
that particular meeting that the Cato-street conspirators
thought pf carrying out their bloody scheme. The dis-
covery of the plot, and the eventual execution of the
ringleaders, our readers are familiar with. Of late years,
the deceased earl had avoided all interference in political
matters. He was nominated to the privy council as far
back as 1790 ; was a Governor of the Charter House, a
Doctor of Civil Law, a Trustee of the British Museum, a
Commissioner for Building Churches, a Fellow of the
Society of Arts, and High Steward of Tiverton. The
late earl is succeeded in the title and family estates by
Dudley Viscount Sandon, who was born the 23d of May,
1798, and married the 15th of September, 1823, Lady
Frances Stuart, fourth daughter of John, first Marquis of
Bute, by whom he has a numerous family.

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