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The Morning Chronicle has this somewhat incongruous notice of mourning and decoration-
" We bear that, in consequence of the recent bereavement in the Royal
Family, namely, the demise of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, her Majesty and her Royal Consort and Illustrious Family are not expected at Buckingham Palace for the season until after the Easter recess, the second week in April. The fresco paintings by Stanfield, Uwins, &c., to decorate the new private Chapel Royal at Buckingham Palace, are to be ready in the course of the ensuing week."
The death of Viscount Sidmouth will surprise many of the younger generation, who scarcely remembered that the venerable statesman still lived. He died on Thursday, at White Lodge, Richmond Park, in the eighty-seventh year of his age. Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth, was twice married,—to Ursula Mary, daughter of Mr. Leonard Hamil- ton, by whom he had five children ; and to Marianne, daughter of Lord Stowell, by whom he had no issue. Lord Sidmouth was Speaker of the House of Commons from May 1789 to March 1801; First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer from March 1801 to May 1804; Lord President of the Council, 1805; Lord Privy Seal, 1806; and Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1812 to 1822. He resigned a pension of 3,0001. about twelve years since. Mr. Adding- ton's name and his subsequent title belong to the history of England ; but he was the servant rather than the master of events, and personally remarkable more for probity and amiable qualities than for command- ing powers. Be is succeeded in the Peerage by his only son, William Leonard ; married to Mary, daughter of the Reverend John Young, by 'Whom he has a numerous family.
Lord William Paget has published a correspondence respecting his quarrel with the Earl of Cardigan. In one letter he asks the Duke of Wellington to cause a military inquiry to be made into the affair (the Earl being a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army); in another, being him- self a Captain in the Navy, he asks the Earl of Haddington, as First Lord of the Admiralty, to procure a similar inquiry : both the Military and Naval Ministers decline to interfere in the personal dispute. In a third letter, Lord William "dares" the Earl to take such legal proceed- ings as shall bring the dispute between them to the test of truth.
Letters from Stockholm, of February the 2d, announce that the Malady of the Swedish King had taken so favourable a turn that his recovery was hoped.
A letter from Dr. Wolff, dated from Ashiralah, in Armenia, on the 8th December, states that he had met three dervishes who had left Bokhara four months previously. They reported that two Englishmen, a short and a tall one, (supposed to be Conolly and Stoddart,) who had been kept in prison for some time, had been released by the King, and were engaged in teaching his soldiers European exercises.
The Brazil packet, which left Rio de Janeiro on the 24th December, brings the report of a Royal Commission, deprecating protective and discriminating import-duties on articles admitted into Brazil, and re- commending that all foreign countries be placed on an equal footing. This is at variance with the policy that prevailed at the time of Mr. Ellis's visit.
In a menagerie, at Bolton on Sunday, Matthew Ferguson, a keeper, was found dead in a den occupied by a pair of leopards, one of whom seemed to have worried him to death. It is conjectured that the man, although forbidden by the master of the menagerie, had entered the cage to practise some feat of taming, after the manner of Van Amburgh ; as he had a whip in his hand and had carefully fastened the cage-door. A Coroner's Jury have returned a verdict of "Accidental Death."
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