The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-27 00:00:00

DEPAIZTLTRES.

Colonel England, 40th Regiment, and Mrs. England, from
the Sackville Hotel, Sackville.street ; Stuart, Esq., and
Hamilton, Esq., from ditto ; the Hon. Captain Blackwood
and son, from ditto, for Ireland; Colonel Sir Ralph Howard,
from the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn.street ; Lord Stradbroke,
from ditto, for Henham Hall ; Mr. and Mrs. Buttenshaw and
Miss Edmeads, from ditto, for Foot's Cray ; Talbot Patteson,
Esq., from Bushey, Herts, for Malahide Castle, Ireland.

BEI.VOIR CASTLE, DEC. 24.—A family party are
assembled. The Duke of Rutland commences receiving
company on the Ist of January ; on the 4th, the grand state
party will be given, to which all the elite of the district are
invited. The Dukes of Cambridge and Wellington will
be amongst the guests, with Sir Robert Peel and a brilliant
circle of the Nobility.
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The Duke and Duchess of Montrose are displaying
their usual hospitality at Buchanan House, Dumbartonshire.
The Marquis of Hendon left town yesterday for
Brighton.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster gave
their annual entertainment to the children educated at the
Grosvenor schools in Cheshire the latter end of last week.
These schools, established by the Noble Marquis, have
been founded upwards of twenty years, and have contri-
buted lirgely to the present prosperous condition of the fa-
mily tenantry in that district. The bays were examined by
the Marquis of Westminster, in the presence of the Mar-
chioness, Earl and Countess Grosvenor, Lord Belgrave,
Ladies Grosvenor, &c., staying at Eaton. Hall, when prizes
adequate to their deserts were awarded by their liberal be-
nefactor. One hundred and thirty boys and one hundred
girls were recipients of books, fine gowns, &c. At the
termination of their examination a substan.tial dinner of
roast beef, plum pudding, and ale, was given to the children.
The Earl and Countess of Cadogan and their
daughters, the Ladies Augusta and Honoria Cadogan,
left
Rome on the 24th of last month, for Naples, where they
are at present residing with Viscount and Viscountess
Chelsea. The family are expected to return to this cool'
try early in February.
The Earl of Surrey entertained a family party at
Little Hampton on Christmas Day.
The Earl of Plymouth displayed his usual hospita-
lityon Christmas flay at Knowle Park.near Strycnooks ; and
at Broomsgrove, Worcestershire.

Lady Dover and her sons, Viscount Clifden and
Lord Dover, are expected in town early in the ensuing
week from Dublin Castle, where they are passing the
Christmas with Viscount Morpeth, M.P.

Lord William Hervey has arrived at Paris, where
he joined the Earl and Countess of Jermyn, the Hon. Mr.-
and Lady Georgiana Grey, from the British Embassy at
Madrid. _

The Honourable General William Maitland is now
on a visit to his brother, the Earl of Lauderdale, in Scotland.

LATIMERS.—The Hon. C. C. Cavendish enter-
tained a family party on Christmas Day, among whom were
Lord and Lady Charles Cavendish.
The Hon. William Bingham Baring and Lady
Harriet are passing the season at the Grange, in Hamp-
shire, the seat of Lord Ashburton.
DEATH OF THE EARL OF CLARENDON.--We
regret to announce the death of the venerable Earl of Cla-
rendon. His Lordship expired at his residence, Waimger..
terrace, Deal, at five minutes past one o'clock, P.M., op
turday last, the 22d ii.stant. The death of the Noble l'er
d
was sudden. In the morning he had been well enough to
frank a number of letters. The late John Charles Villiers,
Earl of Clarendon, and Baron Hyde, of Hindon, in the
Peerage of Great Britain ; Chief Justice in Eyre
of Trent ; Prothonotary of the County Palatine Eyre, North
f Lan
caster, and P.C., and also a Count in the kingdom of
Prussia, was born on the 14th of November, 1757, and sue.-
seeded to the title on the death of his brother, Thomas, se-
cond Earl, on the 7th of March, 1824. His Lordship bag
left no children, his only daughter, Lady Harriet Maria
Villiers, having died in 1835. The late 'Earl is succeeded
in his titles and estates by his nephew, Sir George
Frederick Villiers (now Earl of Clarendon), our Ambassa-
dor at Madrid. The present Earl was born on the 12th of
January, 1800, and is unmarried.

The seat of Sir Robert Sheffield, Bart., at Nor-
manby, was the scene of a most cold-blooded murder, early
in the morning of Thursday, the 13th inst. The unfor-
tunate victim was Storey Jackson, a watcher, emploYed
the game preserves at Normanby. The perpetrator of th.e
sanguinary deed was a poacher, who, we regret to soh 19
yet at large. The Police Gazette of yesterday offers a.re"
ward of 1001. to any person who will give such informatl°ll
as shall lead to the conviction of the murderer or mu"
derers.

Lady William Gordon, who succeeded to the large
estates of the Marchioness of Hertford, at Temple Nevi,;
ham, has benevolently reduced the whole of the rents

per cent.--Worcester Herald.
THE WEATHER.—The changes in the temperaltld•
re
within the last three or four days have been ronstrdaPple:
On Sunday last the weather was mild for the advane
as
riod of the season, the mercury in the open air stajicl
shifted
high as 46 degrees ; but during the night the Wild:
towards the east, accompanied by a cold driz"l'',' rain,
the
which continued during the whole of Monday:
evening the wind veered round to the north, and
morning on Christmas-day the dense clouds whic"
the sun
days covered the sky suddenly cleared away, od
rose in all his majesty. As early as seven o'clock
began to freeze with a cutting wind, and by noon tne
ponds and pools in the environs of town were frozen overt
the thermometer standing at 24 degrees, or 8 degrees below
freezing point. At. three o'clock in the afternoon the °ler-
cury had sunk to 20 degrees, and after the shades of the
had
u towards
for
evening had closed in the severity of the frost so much in-
creased that at twelve o'clock the mercury had fallen to
16 degrees. Towards morning yesterday,
wind shifted to the west, and about nine o'clock to the
south, soon after which clouds again obscured the heavens,
and as the day advanced all symptoms of the frost gradually
passed away, and last evening the thermometer had risen to
32 degrees, with, a strong wind alul driving sleet.
BENTLEY 's MISCLLANY FOR JANUARY, in ad-
dition to its usual variety, will contain the commencement of
Mr. HarrisonAi ,
. • nsuorth s " Jack Shepherd," Mr. Lover's
however, the
Handy Andy," and Mr. Dickens's celebrated " Oliver
Twist."

MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL, " THE WIDOW
4V,, are requested to state that the new novel
entitled " The Widow Barnaby," by Mrs. Trollope, author
of " The Vicar of Wrexhill," scc, in three vols., post Svo.,
price Twenty-four Shillings), is published this day, by Mr.
Bentley, Newßurlington. street, and may now be had of all
Booksellers, and at all the Libraries. Mr. Bentley has also
just published the second edition of " Oliver Twist," by,
C;;ari.!:; Dick EFII., 0,17f,11er of " Th,
to zi vols., small tivo., bound, price Twenty-five Shillings,
with Twenty-four illustrations by George Cruikabank.