The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-11 00:00:00

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Match.—Malmesbury anti Clerk of the Council ran a
dead heat.

Among the fair debutantes at her Majesty's next
drawing-room will be Miss Peel, the be.tuttful and ac-
complished daughter of Sir Robert and Lady Peel.
BARK OF ENGLAND.—Yesterday a ballot was
taken at the Bank for the election of governor and
deputy-governor for the ensuing year. The balloting
was opened at ten o'clock in the morning and closed at
four in the afternoon, when the votes were summed up
by the scrutineers, who declared the unanimous choice
of the proprietors to have fallen upon Henry J. Prescott,
Esq , for governor, and Thomson Ilankey, jun., Esq., for
deputy-governor; and those gentlemen wero sworn into
office accordingly. It may be added that Mr. Prescott
and Mr. Flankey were the individuals recommended by
the directors. We believe not above fifty proprietors
recorded their votes on this occasion.

MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 7 per milk, which, at the English Mint price of
3/, 17s. 101 d. per ounce tor standard gold, gives an ex•
change of 25.32 i; and the exchange at Paris on London
at short being 25.30, it follows that gold is 0.10 per
cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from
Hamburgh the price of gold is 437 per mark, which, at
the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.11; and the
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.11,
it follows that gold is the same price at Hamburgh and
London.

Lieutenant Dunsteville, Royal Navy, has been pre-
sented with a handsome medal, graciously awarded him
by her Majesty for services rendered on the coast of
Syria, in 1840, and we should have much pleasure in
being able to announce this deserving officer's promo-
tion, he having seen no mean period of servitude, and
lseing the son of a deceased old and meritorious servant
of the Crown, John William Dunsteville, Esq., who for
thirty years was agent to IL M. Victualling Board at
liaulbowline.

A MOTHER'S LOOK.—Our mothers look is a por-
tion of our soul which penetrates into our being through
the portals of our eyes. Which among us is there, who,
On seeing that look again merely in a dream or in thought,
does not feel a something descending on his soul, which
sooths its trouble and diffuses serenity around it Y
Lanzartine's" Memoirs of my Youth."
HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION IN LONDON.—It is a
remarkable fact, that in this densely populated metro-
polis, with its constant thousands of disabled and ailing
p'Jor, the hospital accommodation only comprises 3,500
beds. One-half of that number are engrossed by surgi-
cal eases, a great proportion by acute cases of frightful
accidents, fractures, broken bones, &c.; and but a small
and inadequate portion by chronic cases, since one-third
of the deaths every year are from diseases of the heart
and lungs. We may well exclaim, in the words of the
Earl of Carlisle, " What does not the term a chronic
cor
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that
become incurable if any delay take place in the applica-
tion
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es usualisremedies. The hospital accommoda-
tion of London in respect to beds, inotwithstanding the
great wealth possessed by some of the institutions, is not
sufficient to meet one-halt of the demands of the indi-
gent. St. Mary's Hospital, in Paddington, which is not
yet completed, will, when opened (in the course of the
presetst summer), afford accommodation to districts con-
tainiug 170,000 inhabitants, and beds for 400 patients.
—7 he Reporter and Benevolent Societies Chronicle.
GERMAN EMIGRANTS.—The vessel Hercules, a
having on board ninety-two emigrants,
Bremen to New York, has put into the port
irp,considerable repairs, having been run foul
another emigrant :shipffrom the same port.
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British
port.