The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-30 00:00:00

Death of Viscount Sidmouth.

The Right Hon. William Leonard Addington, Viscount
Sidmouth of Sidmouth, county Devon, in the peerage of
the United Kingdom, died on Friday last at his seat,
Albury, near Guildford, Surrey. The deceased nobleman,
who was in holy orders, had been in declining health for some
months past. He was the only surviving son of the
eminent statesman, Henry, first viscount, who was for 12
years Speaker of the House of Commons, and who suc-
ceeded Pitt as Prime Minister in 1801, by that nobleman's
first wife, Ursula Mary, daughter and co-heir of Mr. Leonard
Hammond, of Cheam, Surrey. The late peer was born
Nov. 13, 1791, consequently he was in his 70th year. He
married April 20, 1820, Mary, eldest daughter of the late
Rev. John Young, by whom—who survives her husband--
he had a numerous family, three sons and five daughters
being still alive. The late peer succeeded to the title on the
death of bis venerable father, who died at a great age in
February, 1844. He is now succeeded in the House of
Lords by his eldest surviving son, the Hon. William Wells
Addington, M.P. for Devizes, born March 25, 1824, and
married Sept. 28, 1848, to his contain, Georgiana Susan,
eldest daughter of the Hon. and Very Rev. George Pellew,
Dean of Norwich, by which lady he has a youthful family.
His lordship was formerly in the navy, and obtained hie
commission as lieutenant in 1846. By his accesion to the
Upper House a vacancy will take place in the House of
Commons for the borough of Devizes, by which constituency
the hon. gentleman was elected on the death of Captain
J. N. Gladstone, R.N., brother of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, in 1862.

VISIT OF THE QUEEN TO THE METROPOLIS.—.
Her Majesty visited London this morning. The
royal party left the Windsor station of the Great Western
Railway about half-past ten o'clock, and proceeded to
town by special train, and arrived at Paddington about
eleven o'clock. Her Majesty visited the gardens of the
Horticultural Society, and will probably +return to the
Castle in the evening.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.—Their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales are
etpected to leave Windsor Castle to-day for town, whether
they will probably proceed by the Great Western Rail-
way.

PRINCE VICTOR ALBERT.—On the lith March
the infant child of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and
Princess of Wales was vaccinated. The desired effect was
produced, and the royal infant has passed through the
various stages of the process in the most satisfactory
manner.

His Excellency the Prince de La Tour d'Au-
vergne, who has been on a visit to Viscount and Vis-
countess Palmerston since Friday last, has returned to the
French Embassy at Albert-gate.

The Duke and Duchess of Argyll are passing the
Parliamentary holidays at Torquay. It is expected that
the Duke will return to town on Saturday, as his grace is
likely to be at the meeting of the members of the Cabinet
appointed for Saturday next.

The Duchess of Somerset and Lady Gwendoline
St. Maur left the First Lord's official residence at the Ad-
miralty, Whitehall, yesterday, for Paris, for a week or ten
days.

The Earl of St, Germans left town on Monday
for Port Eliot, his seat in Cornwall. The noble earl will
return to town at the close of the week.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, who are
surrounded by a select circle at Broadlands, are expected
to return to Cambridge House, Piccadilly, on Saturday
next.

Lord Henry Thynne, M.P., and Lady Ulrica
Thynne leave town to-day for Paris.

The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Bart., M.P.,
is expected to return to his house in Belgrave-square, on
Friday evening or Saturday moaning, from his country
seat.

The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer
and Mrs Gladstone arrived in town yesterday from Falcon-
hurst.

Sir Arthur Buller has arrived at the Alexandra
Hotel, St. George's-place, Hyde-park-corner.

FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the lE,et
sitting M. Flonrens, in adverting to the death of
a woman at Rome (already mentioned by us) at the age
of 122, remarked that instances of persons dying at the age
of 100 and even 110 are not rare, and that he called the
normal limit of life; but that, as to the age of 122, he con-
sidered it the extreme limit, which, however, could not be
fixed with great precision, owing to the paucity of cases on
record, A letter was received from M, Lartet, stating that
the Duo de Luynes, on his arrival at beyrouth, in the first
days of the present month, visited several caverns in the
neighbouehood in company with M. Lartet. These caverns
had been described 30 years ago by M. Botta, who had ob-
served a kind of breccia or pudding stone there, containing
bones and remains of pottery. The Duo de Luynes, having.
caused one of these caverns, from which the Dog river
(Lycus of the ancients, Nahr el Kelb of the Arabs) Soviet
to be explored, found it to contain many fossil remains of
herbivore, and a quantity of flint implements, similar to
those found in Europe.—M. Ramon de la Sagra sent
in a
curious paper on the fecundity observable in the island of
Cuba. In the town of Trinidad, counting 14,463 souls, one
married couple had 24 children, another 18, and a third,
16 ; two had 21 each, two 15 each, and ten 13 each'
all alive in one case. At Santo Espiritu (12,850 souls),
the issue of seven couples ranged between 25 end
19 children each; three had 18 each, two 17, and three
ranged between 16 and 13. At Villa-Clara (15,511) the
issue of four marriages ranged between 23 and 20 children
each; of two 18 each ;:one couple had 16, three 14, and Lc°
13. In one of the latter cases, the husband was 83, end ill°
wife 85; only five of their daughters were still alive; tie
family comprised 85 grand-children and 100 great-granud
children, Alan Cuban women become mothers at 13, "113
others continue to be fruitful until the age of 50. In
there were in the village of Banta four cases of three cb.
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own children. The delightful climate, their simple andfia.
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