The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-11 00:00:00

WINDSOR-FRIDAY.

The greatest possible excitement prevailed yesterday
evening in the Castle in consequence of a packet of im-
portant letters addressed to the King of Bel lium, and a
box of valuable jewellery belonging to the Duchess of
Kent, having been lost by one of her Royal Highness's
servants. Is is said that the servant was dispatched from
the Castle in the early part of the evening to cot.-
vey the packet to London, but before he had ar-
rived at Slough he made the unpleasant discovery that the
parcel with which he had been entrusted was lost. He im-
mediately returned to Windsor, making anxious inquiriess
as he proceeded for the lost packet, of which un-
fortunately he could collect no tidings. Supposing that
the property had fallen into the hands of some dishonest
person, ha at once determined on making his misfortune
known to his Royal mistress, and her Royal Highness was
forthwith acquainted with Vie loss of her jewellery and
letters. The information was soon spread over tho castle.
Without the delay of a moment, a number of servants, by
order of the Duchess of Kent, were despatched in the direc-
tion of Slough, with instructions to institute the most
diligent inquiries for the recovery of the property. Her
Royal Highness seemed greatly annoyed at the unfortunate
occurrence, and evinced the utmost anxiety for the safety
of her letters. The uneasiness of her Royal Highness,
however, was not permitted to continue for any length
of time, for shortly after the servants had left the
Castle a servant of Captain Sidwell, of the Ist Life
Guards, arrived with the missing packet in his possession.
The man stated that as lie had been walking through Eton
he found it, and supposing from its appearance that it be-
longed to some of the distinguished party at the Castle,
he immediately proceeded thither in search of its owner.
When the intelligence of its recovery was conveyed to the
Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness expressed herself
highly delighted at its restoration. A reward of ouc so-
vereign was given to the man for his honesty !.
The frost has ben most intense here for some days past,
so much so that the Thames is frozen across at Windsor-
bridge, a circumstance which has not been known before
for several years.— Times Correspondent.

A Silesian Chronicle states that the winter of
1740 was so severe in that part of Europe, that whilst the
stove in one part of a room was red hot, water placed near
the window was frozen, and water thrown from a third
floor became ice before it reached the ground I It was
impossible, says the chronicler, to walk a hundred yards
in the open air against the wind without the face being
frozen. In Bohemia and Moravia all the ponds were
frozen to the bottom, and the fish died ; domestic animals
were frozen to death in their stables, as were the birds in
the woods and the game in the forests. Three thousand
persona arc said to have died of cold in Sweden, d
80,000 head of horned cattle were frozen to death in Ilaunn
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was proceeding from
METRE.—On
Sunday night last, Miss Petro
the library to the dining room, in her
hand, when the draught from the do
which immediately or blew her muslin
dre4s into the flame,
her Ladyship, who was in the drawi set it on fire.
and wrapped
immediately
rolled the young lady on the floor,
which extinguished
tug round her,wrapped the hearth.
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