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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 371, 8 October 1868, Page 3

The Municipal Council of Cannes, specially convoked to decide whether a place of honor should be set apart in the cemetery of that commune for the remains of Lord Brougham, as the founder of the English colony of the town and its benefactor, adopted the following resolution :—" The council accepts without hesitation the proposition, convinced how grateful thecountry feels towards the noble deceased. It unanimously resolves in favor of a concession, in perpetuity, of a place of honor in the cemetery of the town, in order that a monument shall be erected therein to receive the remains of the noble lord, that his relations and friends, as well as future may for ever preserve the memory of his beneficence." The resolution was forthwith commuricnted to the present Lord Brougham, who replied as follows .—« Gentlemen,—My family and I thankyouinostcordiallyforthe donation which, by your resolution of the 10th May, you have made of a piece of of ground in the cemetery of this town, for the remains of my brother, Henry Lord Brougham and Vaux. "We accept with the most lively gratitude, this testimony of the kind feeling of the town of Cannes, towards the founder of the foreign •colony, certain as we are that, were he livinq, he would prefer that Ids remains should bt left in thecountry of his adoption. We pray of you to assure your townsmen, whom we consider as ours also, of our affection and our devotedness for them, and for this interesting and well-beloved country. Accept, I pray ' ? ou, gentlemen, the assurance of .my devoted sentiments."