iscellaneous.
Colonel Sir Robert Gardiner, K.C.B., of the Royal Artillery,. formerly Equerry to King, Leopold, has been appointed first and prin- cipal Aide-de-Camp to the Queen. Mr. More OTerrall has at length received his appointment to the office of Secretary to the Admiralty, vice Mr. C. Wood. By the death of Lieutenant-General Sir Joseph Maclean, which oc- curred on Tlmrsday, at Woolwich, the valuable appointment of In- spector-General of the Field-train Department of Royal Artillery and. Inspector-General of the Brass-fonndin e Establishment, becomes vacant.
On Friday the 13th of September, at Dunbar, died James Earl of Lauderdale, in the eighty-first year of Lis age. Never was a warmer friend or more kind-hearted man. Ills long life was passed in rendering services to his friends. Was there a difference ye be reconciled—a dif- ficulty to be surmounted—a provision to be found for merit struggling with adversity—Lord Lauderdale was the person applied to ; and never did any one listen with greater kindness to such applications, or use more active or successful exertions to carry into effect the wishes of his friends. As a public man, he was one of the most distinguished of his day. Educated in Whig principles by Professor Millar of Glasgow, he attached himself at an early age to the party of Mr. Fox, and soon became one of his most intimate and confidential friends. His attachment to Mr. Fox continued unabated to the death of that great statesman, whose private qualities and warm affec- tions so much resembled his own : and for many years afterwards. he was un active and zealous supporter in Parliament of the principles Mr, Fox had maintained. For the hest in years he has lived iu retire- ment, devoted to agricultural pursuits.—Morning Chronicle. [Who would guess from this notice, that Lord Lauderdale's polities for many years had been any thing but steadily. Whigs' His Lordship had not acted with his old party for a long period before his death. lie jobbed actively for his own, and for Tory purposes—managing the elections of Scottish Peers ; and everybody knows how they have gone under his direction.]
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