The Sun. — 1839-11-02 (London, England)

DEATH OF LORD GEORGE BERESFORD.— Lord George Bcresford, who had been for some time previously on a visit with his distinguished relative, his Grace the Lord Primate, expired at the palace, Armagh, on the morning of Saturday last. The Lord Primate, accompanied by his nephew, Lord John Beresford, has been passing the last week at Newcastle, in this county.—Newry Telegraph. [Lord George was in his 59th year ; he was a Lieutenant-General in the army and Colonel of the 3d Dragoons, a Privy Councillor, Custos Rotulorum of the County of Waterford, and Colonel of its Militia, He married in 1808, Harriet, daughter of a gentleman named Schutz, by whom ha has left three surviving children, the eldest a daughter in her 30th year. His Lordship was a son of the first and uncle to the present Marquis of Waterford. He represented for a long time the county of Waterford in Parliament on the Tory interest until he was ejected from it by Mr. Villiers Stuart (now Lord Stuart de Decies), aided by the influence of the Catholic Association. This was the first great blow struck at Toryism in Ireland, and laid the foundation of the series of victories which soon ended in the attainment of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill.] UNITED SERVICE BENEVOLENT INSTITUToN.—On Thursday afternoon the adjourned goner al meeting of the members of this association was held at their rooms, Carlton Chambers, Regent-street, for the purpose of discussing a code of rules and regulations for the government of the institution passed at the former meeting. Admiral the Right Hon. Sir G. Cockburn, G.C.8., was called to the chair. One of the members is reported to have said that her Majesty had been applied to through a certain channel to become patroness of this Society. Her answer was that, before she could become patroness of the institution, her Majesty should obtain the leave of her Ministers to do so ; but as her Majesty was of opinion that her Ministers might throw cold water on the proposition, she begged them not to press her to become patroness. (The announcement was received with great apparent astonishment—[We don't believe a word of the story]—and evidently created a feeling of disappointment, if not of deep regret.) Her Majesty was also stated to have expressed her conviction that the institution would go on very well by itself.  The number of prisoners under 17 years of age confined ir, the prisons of England and Wales, in the course of the last year, was 11,441 males, and 2,1.56 females.  Her Majesty's stag hounds will commence hunting for the season on Monday next. They will throw off at Salt Hill at eleven o'clock ; but in the event of the weather proving unfavourable' the " meet" will then take place at the same hour, and in the same locality, on the following day. A similar arrangement, in this respect will be adopted throughout the season. The hounds will throw off on Wednesday at Winkfield Church, and on the following Friday at Willingdon. It is arranged that the hunting shall take place three times a week. Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg, and several of her Majesty's distinguished visitors at the Castle, and suite, are expected to be present at Salt Hi l on Monday. _ _  A woman of Priziac, in Morbihan, lies in the prison of Pontivy, waiting her trial for the murder of her stepson, a child only ten years old, whose skull she first fractured by beating him with her iron-shod sabots, then hung him up to a tree, and afterwards tore out his nails by the roots!