The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-17 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

THE WEATHER.

At about four o'clock this afternoon the sky became
suddenly overcast, and we had a heavy fall of snow.
At first it came down in small flakes, with the rapidity
a a whirlwind, sharp and intensely cold. In about a
quarter of an hour the flakes increased in size and
density, presenting all the appearance of a regular snow
storm. The streets and houses were soon covered with
snow. Along the Strand it was rather amusing to see
the numerous omnibuses meeting each other alt
arrayedaye
in white, the drivers seeming evidently proud
new and unexpected livery. The horses, too, trotted
as if there was something smart in the wind, for the
snow was swimming in full and rapid glory all
above and around them. It was indeed a novel
and sudden change both to man ani beast. In
the course of the afternoon the sky cleared up, and this
tail of the winter season bids fair to usher in fine and
genial weather. The thermometer went down to 28.
The barometer showed no change.

EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sitting in Banco.)
'WILTS, SOMERSET, AND WEYMOUTH RAILWAY V. FOOKES.
In this case a rule had been obmined by the defendant
to set aside an award which was made on the 12th of
January, 1848, giving him 1,7C01. as compensation for
certain lands which were required for the construction
of the railway. An arbitrator was appointed by each
party, but not being able to agree, no award was made
by them, and the matter was ultimately referred to an
umpire who was appointed by the Railway Commissioners
under the power granted by a recent Act, and
Who settled the amount of compensation. The claimant,
when he applied to the Court for his rule to set aside the
award, objected to it mainly upon the grounds, first, that
the umpire was not duly appointed; secondly, that the
umpire bad not, by his award, adjudicated as to the
party or parties who were to pay the costs, and that his
award had not determined the amount of the costs; and,
thirdly, that the award was contrary to the evidence
brought before him.
Sir F. KELLY now showed cause against the rule, and
w-as heard at considerable length, but his arguments
we.-e altogether of a technical character, having reference
chiefly to the construction of the Acts of Parliament
affecting the case.
Mr. .NlAuTrs addressed the Court in support of the
rule, arid contended, that as it would be a great hardship
upon the defendant to lose his costs by an omission in
the award, t2ie rule should be made absolute.
The COURT' discharged the rule; but, inasmuch as
their Lordships thought that considerable doubt attached
to the question, it was discharged without costs.
MORTALIT Y in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1549.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases —4141
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ..• 37
Turbercular Diseases... ... ... 197
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 144
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 38
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ...•
198
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... ... .•• •••
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. •••
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &I.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the, Skin, &c. •••
Malformations... ••• •••
Premature Birth •••
Atrophy
Old Age
Sudden ... •••
Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance
Causes not specified ... •••
DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ..•

... 66
... 11
... 6

1,066

Population Average weekly Deaths
Enumerated, Deaths, 1844-8. in the
1841 Five Springs. Week.
West Districts... 300,711 . . 145 ... 142
North Districts.. 375,971 .. 185 ... 185
Central Distr.zts 373,653 ... 168 ... 203
East Div riots ... 392,444 ... 207 ... 260
South Dlstricts.. 501,190 ... 258 ... 276

Totals... ~....1,948,369
Males ..• •••
Females ~. •••

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males ...
Females ...

... 1,066
... 512
... 554

... 707
... 639

Total ... ... 1,346
*ln this number are included 2 cases of death by
Cholera, 48 by Scarlatina, and 43 by Typhus Fever.

COURSE OF EXCHA
Llon4toruarn ........ •• 12 2%
Ditto, at sight • • .... 12 1
Rotterdam .... ••.. •• 12 3
Antwerp • ..... • • ...... 25 75
II =burgh .... • •11.13. 13 12N,
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 40
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 6;1
Marseilles • • • • ...... 25 65
80urdeaux......... • 25 65
Frankfort on Maine.... 1213(
Retersburgh, Sil.ltble••• 36
Vienna, effec. do— 11 33
Trieste, 34
Madrid •• •• .... •• •• 48%
Bilbao • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • •
Barcelona „ ,„

lv LiE.--(THIS DAY.]
Gibraltar.. ••
Leghorn ........ • • .. • •
ilenoa • • • • •• • • • • • •
Venice .. .. • • • •
es.lermo, perm;
Messina ..............
Oporto • • . • ..... • • • . • •
Rio Janeiro • • ...... • .
Buenos Ayres .. ••.. . •
Yew York, 2I dayesight
Philadelphia .... • • ....

seVillee • •• O. v. •. ••

33 50
26 2

41%
11:Pi
L 31,4
535

?BIM OF BULLION, FEZ Of
irorelgn Gold in bars ...£3 17 9
eortugal Gold Coin • . 0 0 0
ipanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars •• .. 0 4 10
illver in bars 0 4 11 h

AUSTRIA.

It is said that Count Stadion has resigned.
The Magyars have again taken St. Tomas, which
was last year so obstinately defended by the Servians.
The Servian Patriarch has been forced to fly from
Becskerek to Panesora.
The command of the besieging army at Comorn,
which has lately been in a state of mutiny, as most
troops are when unsuccessful, has been entrusted to
General Wohigemuth.
According to the Ostdeutsche Post of the 14th
'instant the paper circulation of the Austrian State
amounts to no less than 232 millions of florins, while
the metallic currency, gold, silver, and copper, shows
as low a figure as 32 millions. " A pennyworth of
bread to such an enormous quantity of sack." As
the public is only concerned to the amount of 41
millions of notes, the Austrian Government must
have taken advantage of the credit of the bank, to
the amount of no less than 190 millions.
The Vienna Gazette (the official journal) publishes
in its number of the 12th instant the following com-
munication of the Imperial Cabinet to the Baron
von Prokesch, the Austrian Plenipotentiary in Berlin,
under date April 8,1849 :
_

" The Count Von Bernstoff has communicated to me
a circular, forwarded at the same time to all the Pills-
sian Ambassadors et German Courts, in which his
Majesty the King, in consequence of the expressed
intention of the Regent of the Empire to resign his post,
has set forth his readiness to accept, on the proposition
of the German Governments, and with the consent of the
German National Assembly, the provisional direction of
dr.) affairs of Germany; to respond to the call made
on him, and to place himself at the head of a Ger-
man confederate state, to be composed of such states as
are inclined to connect themselves voluntarily with it.
" Besides these declarations, all the Governments re-
ceived the invitation to appoint, without delay, special
plenipotentiaries in Frankfort-on-the-Maine, for the
purpose of making explicit declarations-1. As to
the admission into the confederate state, and the con-
ditions under which such admission is to take
place. 2. As to the position which the Governments
which shall join such a confederate state will oc-
cupy with respect to the German National Assembly
and its decisions already agreed to, with the understand-
ing that the arriving at an agreement with relation to
the Constitution shall be without delay commenced. 3.
As to the relations to those German states which hesi-
tate to join the Confederate one, whereby it is desirable
that the attempt be made to adjust the affairs of the still
existing Confederation to the new form of state.
" Our readiness to meet the propositions, if such were
made on the part of Prussia in its capacity as a fellow-
member of the Germanic Confederation (a confedera-
tion which is based on a stipulation, and which de facto
still exists), for the purpose of coming, in a legal way,
to an arrangement respecting reforms in Germany, in
accordance with the spirit of the age, on the basis of
the project of constitution discussed by the National
Assembly, our readiness, we repeat it, is proved by our
positive declarations and the repeated and decisive steps
which we have taken to that effect in Berlin.
"On the other hand, however, we cannot agree to,
much less demand the execution of; the views expressed
by the Prussian Cabinet in its circular dispatch of the 3d
instant. The National Assem blywhich was solely con-
voked, in order to complete,- 'in common with the
Princes of Germany, the work of the
im-
posed a limit on its labours
was ended. The Assembly,Constitution,
by declaring that its task
however, exceeding the pri-
vileges allotted to it, not only arbitrarily completed and
carried out the Constitution, eod
but oven sought, without beingpir possession it as law,
powers, to bestow on Germany
Not only has the National Asitembly
an hereditary of full
acteadrywrhh Emperor.
is
this matter, it has also completely left the path of law
by arbitrarily declaring itself en permanence. Upon
these grounds we cannot acknowledge the validity
of the decisions arrived at by the National Assembly,
beyond the extent of its privileges, any more than
we can admit of the prosecution of its labours. For us
the National Assembly no longer exists; and on that
account it can neither exercise any influence on ordon-
DaIiCES respecting the formation of a new provisional
central power, nor take any part in negotiations respect-
ing the coming to an agreement with regard to the work
of the Constitution—a work set down by the Assembly
itself as finished.
"Should, therefore, the Regent of the Empire, through
unforeseen circumstances, not accede to the urgent re-
quest of the Emperor, and decline to remain in his post
until, in a legal way, provision has been made for the
management of German affairs, we must energetically
protest against the acceptation and exercise of this power
by one of the German Governments alone, and we must
insist upon its being organized in a way which shall
enable all the governments to be duly represented therein.
" As under these circumstances no further negotiations

respecting the work of the Constitution can be carried on 1
without the National Assembly—as the central power, a
purely executive authority, is not called to take•part in the
negotiations, and his Imperial Majesty must adhere to
the already expressed principle of not subjecting him-
self and his states to the central power exercised
by:another German Prince, we cannot treat, at Frank-
fort,
according to the plan proposed by Prussia, with its
plenipotentiary, or with those of any other Prince. We
cannot, therefore, avail ourselves of the invitation ad-
dressed to us, to send a plenipotentiary to the negotia-
tions proposed to be carried on there.
" Our Gracious Sovereign is, on the contrary, corn •
pelted to add that he solemnly protests against all the
decisions arising from such negotiations, as well as
against their consequences, and he does so with fall re-
servation of all the claims and rights of himself, his Go-
vernment, and his German provinces, claims and rights
based on treaties still in force. _

" You will hand to the Prussian Cabinet a copy of the
resent dispatch, in answer to the communication which
t addressed to us through Count von Bernstorff."

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

We learn from our Hamburgh correspondence of
the 14th inst. that a bill was on that day posted on
the Hamburgh Exchange, stating the Danish en-
trenchments near Diippel bad been attacked and
carried by the Saxon and Bavarian troops. We ex-
pect to have the details of this action in the next
numbers of our Hamburgh papers.