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

MISCELLANEOUS.

Sharpe's Magazine contains, as usual, two fine
steel engravings—the one a portrait of Nana Narain,
and the other a very beautiful view of Batnborough
Castle and the surrounding landscape. Among the
literary contents are continuations of the three in-
teresting serials, " Lewis Arundel," by the Editor ;
" Henry Sumner's Revenge," and the " Story of a
Family;" a description of l3amborough Castle, i
narrative of the youth of Goethe, a tale by Mrs.
Bunbury, " Keeping up Appeaiances," and other
attractive articles. The engravings in the People's
Journal are not so well executed as usual, and do
very inadequate justice to the subjects selected,
namely, " The Holy Family," of Reynolds; Paul
Potter's studio, " The Refugee Family ;" and Claude
Lorraine's " Annunciation." The literary contents
of the People's Journal form, as usual, a happy
combination of the duke et utile. " The Go-
verness's Day Out" contains some very useful
practical suggestions worthy of the considera-
tion of teachers and learners. A poem by Marie
exquisitely entitled " We've all our Angel Side" con-
tents many beautiful sentiments, always appropriate,
but more especially so at this season ; the refrain at
the end of each verse comes in with excellent effect,
as the two last verses may testify :
" Groping about in utmost night,
Poor prisoned souls there are,
Who guess not what lire's meaning is,
And dream of heaven afar :
Oh I that some gentle hand of love
Their stumbling steps would guide,
And show them that amidst it all
Life has its angel side!
" Our cruse of oil' will not grow less
If shared with hearty hand;
And words of peace, and looks of love,
No nature can withstand.
Love is the mighty conqueror—
Love is the beauteous guide;
Love with her beaming eyes can see
We've all our angel side!"
The Belle Assembles is adorned with a portrait of
" Miss Vere," the heroine of the "Black Dwarf;" it
contains besides a view of Selby Abbey Church and
the ordinary plates of fashions. The literary con-
tents, as usual, consist of poems, tales, and sketches of
various and attractive character. Among the con-
tributions to the Belle Assemblee we are glad to find
again the editress, Camilla Toulmin (Mrs. Newton
Crosland). The three graceful plates, well drawn
and exquisitely coloured, which adorn Le Follet are,
as usual, calculated to serve as patterns to the
mantua-maker or as embellishments to the album.
The Sporting Review has an engraving of " Surplice
and Canezou" in the "set-to for the St. Leger, 1848."
The representation is most animated. "The moon
for mischief" is the suggestive title of a very well
executed engraving of duck shooting by moonlight.
The Farmers' Magazine contains its ordinary collec-
tion of valuable agricultural information. A fine
portrait of Earl Talbot graces the Farmers' Maga-
zine. The most interesting article in The London
Journal, and Repertory of New Patent Inventions is
an account of Staite's apparatus for producing electric
light, which apparatus is illustrated by an engraving.
The Patent Journal, a weekly periodical of a similar
character to that just mentioned, also contains an ac-
count of this most important invention. The Church
of England Magazine begins the new year well. Its
contents are of a more generally interesting character
than usual. The Englishwoman's Magazine has, to
our thinking, a most misappropriate title. Its articles
are in many instances of too deep and controversial a
nature to be well suited to the class for whom they
are intended. The Colonial Chronicle and Missionary
Journal is as usual occupied with the ecclesiastical
history of the colonies. Maephail's Edinburgh
Journal generally reaches us too late to be numbered
with its conjWres. It must, therefore, be contented
with a retrospective glance. The number for De-
cember contained, among several interesting papers,
a very excellent article upon the writings of Keats.

Parties should be aware that any one who pur-
chases a share in a Derby Sweep is liable to a penalty
of 40s.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, MONDAY.

The Queen, accompanied by the Prince and the
younger members of the Royal Family, took early
walking exercise in the Home Park and Slopes this
morning.

His iioyal Highness, attended by Lord Byron, Sir
Frederick Stovin, the Hon. Col. Phipps, and the Hon.
Capt. Gordon, shot in Windsor Forest.

The Marchioness of Waterford is expected to arrive
at the Castle this day.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert inspected on Saturday a finished etching, by
Samuel Cousins, A.R A., of the forthcoming engrav-
ing from \Vinterhalter's picture of the Royal Family,
which was submitted by Mr. Moon.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge at-
tended a meeting at the Middlesex Hospital yesterday.
The Earl of Auckland, First Lord of the Admiralty,
and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath,
expired at seven o'clock yesterday morning, at the
Grange, Hampshire, the seat of Lord Ashburton.

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Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial-office, for the Governors of the West
India Colonies, and also for the Governor of New
South Wales.

THE QUEEN'S NEW-YEAR'S GIFTS

AT WINDSOR.

The distribution of her Majesty's New-year's gifts
to 600 poor families of Windsor and Clewer took
place yesterday morning in the presence of the Queen,
Prince Albert, the juvenile branches of the royal
family, and the ladies and gentlemen of the royal
household, in the new Riding-school in the Home-
park. The interior of the spacious edifice (at the
upper end of which, close to the royal closet, were
displayed the royal standard of England and a fig;
bearing the arms of Saxe Coburg and Gotha) was
decorated with holly, as were also the tables ranged
along the centre and sides of the Riding school, upon
which were placed the various gifts to be presented
to the poor of Windsor and Clewer. These consisted
of 500 41b. loaves, and 7201 b. of plum pudding, sup-
plied by Messrs. Tull and Phillips ; 1,3001 b. of beef,
supplied by Messrs. Hughes and Adams ; 161
blankets and three scarlet cloaks, supplied by Mr.
Cayley ; and 1,222 yards of calico and 628 yards of
flannel, supplied by Messrs. Bird and Allen.
Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Albert, the
Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred,
and Princesses Alice and Helena, left the Castle at 9
o'clock, by the York and Lancaster gateway, walking
across the Home-park to the Riding-school; her
Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family sta-
tioning themselves in the Queen's closet, which com-
manded an uninterrupted view of the gratifying scene
below.

Her Majesty was attended by the Lady and
Maids of Honour in Waiting, the Lord and Equer-
ries in 'Waiting, the Hon. Colonel Phipps, the Dow-
ager Lady Lyttelton, Major-General Bowles, Mr.
G. E. Anson, Major-General Wemysa, and the
other members of the Royal Household. Among
those who were invited to witness the interesting
ceremony were the Hon. and Rev. tha Dean of
Windsor, Lady Charlotte Neville Grenville, and the
Misses Neville, the Rev. Isaac Gosset, the Rev.
Stephen Hawtrey, the Rev. R. J. Gould, the Hon.
and Rev. C. L. Courtenay, the Mayor of Windsor,
and the magistrates for the borough, the visiting
ladies of the district charities, &e.

The recipients 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 gifts, which commenced immediately
upon her Majesty and the Royal Family making their
appearance in the Queen's closet, occupied upwards
of an hour; at the conclusion of which the Queen
z.n2 the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Royal
Family, and attended by tie members of the house-
hold, retired, and returned across the Home Park to
the Castle.

Her Majesty, who looked remarkably well, and in
excellent health, appeared greatly delighted with the
proceedings.
At the early hour of half•past six yesterday morn-
ing the band of the 2d Regiment of Life Guards as-
sembled in the Home Park, and stationed themselves
beneath the bed-room window of her Majesty in the
Augusta Tower, serenading
.the Queen and the
Prince Consort with the following music :—Reveille,
by Welch ; Quick Step, by Kuhner ; and the Na-
tional Anthem. Mr. Weitzel', the leader, and the
whole of the band, afterwards partook of breakfast in
the Castle.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF AUCKLAND.

The Earl of Auckland (a brief report of whose
death appeared in The Sun of yesterday) left town
on Thursday last, to visit Lord and Lady Ashburton,
at the Grange, in Hampshire, where a select circle
had assembled to pass a few days in shooting over the
demesne, and at the time of his departure the Noble
Earl was, to all appearance, in the possession of his
usual health.

On Saturday afternoon the Noble Earl, with Lord
Ashburton and a party of gentlemen, were out shoot-
ing, and on a sudden the Noble Earl staggered and
complained of severe illness, but before he could be
conveyed to Lord Ashburton's residence he was taken
with a fit of apoplexy.
An express was instantly dispatched to the Admi-
ralty, to apprise his Lordship's sisters of the alarming
illness of the Noble Earl.

The Hon. Miss Eden and Dr. Locock, after as
little delay as possible, proceeded by special train to
Basingstoke, and at once proceeded direct to the
Grange, where the Noble Earl was found to be
speechless and totally unconscious of what passed
around him. Other symptoms were perceptible, and
Dr. Locock gave it as his opinion that the case was a
hopeless one.
The Earl continued in the same dangerous con-
dition up to half-past seven o'clock yesterday morn-
ing, when he expired, without having rallied or ex-
hibiting 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 Auck-
land in Ireland, was the second son of William, first
Lord Auckland, and Eleanor, second daughter of the
Right Hon. Sir Gilbert Elliot, Bart., and sister of
the late Earl of Minto. He was born Aug. 25,
1784, and was therefore in the 65th year of his age.
The late Earl succeeded to the family honours on
the death of his father, in May, 1814, his elder bro-
ther, the Hon. Wm. Eden, having died in. 1810, at
the age of 28 years.
The late Earl is succeeded in the Barony of Auck-
land—the original family title—by his only brother,
the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Robert Eden, the Bishop of
Sodor and Man, now in his 49th year. His Lordship
married, in September, 1825, Miss Mary Hunt, eldest
daughter of Mr. Francis Edward Hunt, by whom he
has a numerous family.
The deceased was possessed of considerable abili-
ties, and his habits of business rendered him a valu-
able public servant; but as a political character he
was inferior to his father, who earned his title for his
eminent diplomatic and official services, and was one
of the ablest debaters of his day. The late Earl had
no opportunity to distinguish himself in the House of
Commons, as at the age of 82 he inherited his father's
peerage, In 1830, when the late Earl Grey took
office, Lord Auckland, as one of the leading members
of the Whig party, was offered the appointment of
President of the Board of Trade and Master of the
Mint, with a seat in the Cabinet, and was, on
accepting office, sworn of the Privy Council. His
Lordship continued to discharge the functions of
that department until the secession of Sir James
Graham, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Richmond,
and the Earl of Ripon, from Earl Grey's Admi-
nistration, in 1834, when his Lordship, at the re-
y, vacant by Sir James
G
quest of his colleagues in the Cabinet, consented to
remove
mtoretthireemAednmt, and he filled that office up to
Admiralty
the dismissal of the late Viscount Melbourne, when
he retired with his colleagues, On Viscount Mel•
bourne's return to power in April, 1835, he was again
appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, which he held
up to September that year, when he was selected to
fill the important post of Governor-General of India,
Lord Heytesbury s appointment by Sir Robert Peel
having been cancelled. He remained in India until
1842, when he was succeeded by the Earl of Ellen-
borough. While in that Country (namely, in De-
cember, 1839) he was created an Earl, as a mark of
regard for his public services. On Lord John Rus-
sell succeeding to the helm of affairs, his Lordship was
appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, which he held
at his death.
We hear that the mortal remains of his Lordshipwill be removed to the Admiralty to-morrow or fol-
lowing day, prior to interment.

SHOCKING OCCURRENCE. -- DEATH OF A MOST
ECCENTRIC CHARACTER.—A considerable deal of excite-
ment has been caused in Lisson-grove, Marylebone, in
consequence of the following discovery. For many years
past an elderly man, named Archibald Nichols, a retired
surgeon, had resided at 18, Earl-street East, Lisson•
grove, and his habits of life were of a most singular and
eccentric nature ; his shutters having been closed for
several days, some of his neighbours felt convinced
that something was the matter, and they accordingly
made known their suspicions to the police. Inspector
Porter and Sergeant Bennet, of the D division, repaired
to the house. An entrance was effected by them through
a staircase-window, and on entering the back parlour
they found the inmate above alluded to lying upon his
back in front of the fire-place, dead. There were two
dogs in the room, and the greater portion of his flesh
was eaten from his face by the animals, who bad evi-.
dently nothing else in the place upon which they could
feed. The proprietor has communicated the facts to
the Coroner, and an inquest will be held upon the body.
THE TEA TRADE, JAN. I.—The deliveries of tea
last week were small, being 310,5261 b. The market has
been quiet.