The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-02 00:00:00

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aw Wisssem—The distribuidas el her now yews
we le - peer fmiuee of Wisher and Mower took Noes
sisesistamstirszetere ef que Qemseadi, Prins
eau gursdesmen of the royal liesmbeinike sew rieiss
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school in the Hessoperb. She interior Mae speaks, edi-
fice (at the upper end of which, elan le the revel skeet,
were di-played the royal standard of Ileglisd, end a Sag
bearing the arms of Sme-Cabourg and Make) was dessrated
with Maelstrom and holly; ae were eke tke tables maim
along the centre and sides of the apse which
were placed the Tolima gifts to be Pesewtad to the poor of
Windsor and Clymer. Them seehieted of 500 41b. loaves
and 7201 be of plumpudding,Milolba. of beef, 161
blankets, 9 leaflet cloaks, 1,1111 yards of calico, and
6.28 yards of flmnel. Het llajeety, accompanied by
Prints Albert, the Prince of Weise, -the Princess Royal,
Prince Alfred, and the Primmer Alice and Helena,
stationed themselves in the Qems's closet, which elm-
mended an uninterrupted view d the sea ne below.
Boon alter nine o'clock the recdpients of the royal
bounty were stationed at the western end of the
Riding-school, where they awaited the arrival of the court.
The distribution of the new-year's gibs, which cosamartod
inunediately upon her Majesty sad the royal family mating
their appearance in the Queen's dont, occupied upwards of
an hour. At the conclusion the Queen sad the Prince Con- I
sort, accompanied by the royal fam4y, and attended by the
members nt the household, retired, and retsina across the
Home-r-rk to the castle.

DEATH OF LORD AUCKLAND.
The elms of the old year bas been signalised by
the sudden death of a leading member of the cabinet. The
Earl of Auckland row on Saturday siessing, apparently in
good health, at the Grange, in Hampshire, where ha was
spending his Christmas holidays wins Lord Ashburton. He
seemed to be in high health and spirits, end went oat to
enjoy the amusement of shooting. Oa a sudden the noble
earl staggered and complaimed of severe illness, and beton
he could he conveyed to Lord Ashberton's residence, be was
taken with a fit of apoplexy. An express was in•tantly de.
spatehed to the Admiralty, to apprise his loidenip's sister,
of the alarming fact. The Hon. Mies Eden and Dr.
Lncock, after as little delay as potable, proceeded by
alg• ae train to Baeingstoke, and hastened to the
, where the noble earl was found to be speechless and
totally unconscious of what passed around him. Other
symptoms were perceptible, and Dr. Loeock gave it as his
opinion that the cam was a hopeless one. The doctor re-
turnri to town by the Drill train on Sunday night, the Hon.
Miss Frances Eden remaining at the Grange. The lamented
earl continued in the same danger.us condition up to half-
poet seven o'clock yesterday morning, when he expired
without having rallied or exhibiting the least consciousness
of his alarming state.
The deceased George Eden, Earl of Auckland, Baron
Auckland of West Auckland, county Durham, in the
peerage of Great Britain, and Baron Auckland in Ire-
land, was the second son of William, first Lord Auckland,
and Eleanor, second daughter of the Right lion. Sir Gilbert
Elliot, Bart., and slat. rof the late Earl of hlinto. He was
born 24th August, 1784, and was therefore in the 6.5 th year
of his age. The late earl succeeded to the family
honours on the death of his father. in May,
1814. his elder brother the Hon. Wm. Eden having died
in 1810. He is succeeded in the barony of Aucklanu—the
original family title—by his only brother, the present
Bishop of Soder and Man, and late Vicar of Battersea, better
knowa by his name of the Hon. and Roy. Robert Eden, and
who was barn in 1799. The Right Rev. Prelate is in his
49th year, and married in September 1825 Miss Mary Hurt,
eldest daughter or Mr. Fraries Edward Hurt, by whom he
has a numerous family. The decrepit(' was more remark-
able for diligent habits of business—which however ren-
dered him a valuable pubic servant—than for the more
brilliant. qualities of a statesman. Although bred to the
tier, having been called to it at Lincoln's inn in 1609, the
late lord was not en eloquent debater. unlike his father, woo
was one of the ablest parliamentary debaters of his day. He
had iod ed no opportunity of distinguishing himself in the
House of Commons, for at the age or 32, he inherited his
father', permits. In 1430 when the late Earl Grey took
office Lori Auckland as ono of the leading members
of the whig party, was offered the appointment of
President of the Board of Trade end Master of
the Mint, with a seat in the Cabinet, and was
on accepting office, sworn of the privy council. His
lordsh-p eniteinued to discharge the functions of that depart-
ment until the wend- n of Sir Jain, s Graham, Lord Stanley,
the Duke or Richmond, and the Earl of Ripon hem Earl
Grey's administration in 1834, *het, his lordship, at the re-
quest of his colleague in the cahinet, consented to remove
to the Admiralty, vacant by Sir J -ones Graham's retire-
ment, end he fined that eM •op to the dismissal t the late
Viscount Melbourne, n he retired with his coil- SINN,
On Via-ow t Melbounit's return to power in April, 183 he
was again appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, which he
held tap to September In that year, when he was
selects° to fill the important pat of GtivernOT-
Gereral of India, Lord ytesbury's appointment by
Sir Robert Peel having been cancelled. He went to boils
at a in riod when that country was enjoying the greatest
tranquillity, but at the close of the first two years of his ad-
ministration of the government of that empire events °c-
entred of too momentous and disastrous a &meet. r not to be
fresh in the recoil. etion of all. It was while his lordship
presided over the government of India that the invasion of
Affghanistan took place, but to what extent his lordship was
wiser( table for that invasion is unc:r.ain. It resulted in
rev. nes which eventually led to its evacuation by the Eng.
bah forces. Lord Auckland remained in Indite till 1842,
when he was succeeded by the Earl of Ellenborough. While
in India—namely, in December, le3o, be was created an
earl as a ma- kof regard .or his public services. Whoa Lord
John Russell succeeded to the holm of affair., his lordship
was appoint. d First Lord of the Admiralty, which ()Mee
be held at the rime of his death.
The late earl was nominated a civil knight grand cross of
the order at •he Bath, in ennsiekrat.on of his public servigge
in 1835. He was also an e Mcial trustee of the British Mu-
seum, governor of the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth ;
one of the committee of council oa education ; president of
the Asiaie Society (to which he was gloried in 1843); vice-
pr. sident and president ee the ',mate of University College,
London ; eke-president of the Horticultural Society, and
vice.president of toe Z sologiral Society.
By the .1-mite of this much reap. erect nobleman the fami-
lies of the Earl andCountns of !Quito. the Earl and Countess
of Ripon, the Countess (dowager) of Buckinghamshire, the
Hon. Admiral end Mrs. /Gibe, Lady Anna Maria Deakin
Lord and Ley Brougham, Lord Godolphin, lion. C. and
the Hon. Mrs. Drummond, Sit J. and Lady: Catherine
Boileau, &a., are placed in meutnieg.
We brat that the mortal remains of his lordship will be
removed to the Admiralty to-morrow or the following day,
prior to interment.