The morning papers announce the death.of Lord Rancliffe, at his
seat, Bunny Hall, Nottinghamshire, yesterday morning. George Augustus Henry Anne Parkins, Baron Rancliffe in the Irish Peerage, and an English Baronet, was born in 1785 ; lie became Baron in 1800 ; and married Lady Elizabeth Mary Forbes, daughter of the Earl of Granrad, in 1807. Lord and Lady Ranch& separated some years ago, and her Ladyship has lived in France. Lord Rancliffe has left most of his large personal property to Mrs. Burt, "who for about twenty years has been living upon very intimate terms with him." The barony is extinct ; the baronetcy falls to Mr. Thomas Parkins, of Bud- , din6 n, near Nottingham ; the entailed property goes to Lord Banditry's ne new, Sir Richard Lesinge, of Knockdrin Castle, Ireland. In early life Lord Rancliffe was a "Whig and something more " ; but in the seclusion of hislatter years it is said that he became a Protectionist.
The house of the West Surrey Bank at Epsom—that of Messrs. Maaglesi brothers—was broken into on Thursday night by burglars. A next-door neighbour raised an alarm at two. in the morning, and the burglars escaped: but within two hours a constable of the regular Police-force had. captured
' them at the outskirts of Epsom, on his own suspicion of their appearance, ' and-had safely lodged them at his station. Their names are George Roberts and Charles Dowe. They got nothing of value from the bank.
The Guildford Magistrates yesterday committed Smith, Levi Harwood, and Tones, for trial as burglars and. murderers in the Frimley case: Samuel liar- wood, against whom there was a. tittle of additionale ..vidente_ yesterday, was remanded.
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