The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-02 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

The Belgian Senate on Saturday adopted, by 23
votes to 8, the Bill for putting gold money out of
circulation. Yesterday the Bill was promulgated in
the Moniteur, with the King's sanction. The Inde-
pendance of Brussels says " Notwithstanding
what was said on the subject in the Chamber of
Representatives, and notwithstanding the already
distant dde of • the measures taken for driving
English sovereigns and Dutch Williams out of
the country, there still remain so many in Bel-
gium, and there are also so many French piecei,
that the Bill has caused a certain perturbation, and led
to a loss which is not without importance. Since the
presentation of the Bill, Williams have fallen on the
Exchanges of Brussels and Antwerthat p from a
20f. 70.3 e
of
. to
20f. 50:1., and even 201. 40 is declin
from 1 to 12 per cent. Moreover, we have learned from
a very good source that in the country district, farmers
can only get rid of the pieces they have in giving them
at 201. No doubt, the Treasury is not touched by
these little sacrifices, but they are not the less real ; and
whilst it was necessary to combat the evil which
existed, the Bill has aggravated it ; it has alarmed
the public, who ought rather to have been re-assured.
En attendant the realization of the fears to which the
Bill is owing, certain loss is imposed on the country.
At the same time official accountants, taking advan-
tage of the new law, have either refused to receive
French gold pieces, or subjected them to reduction.
This, however, in only the commencement of the
trouble and embarrassment which the new law will
occasion. Soon, perhaps, the public will be able to
appreciate the lamentable consequences, and to see
that in the presentation and voting of it, there has
been a precipitation which nothing justified."

SWEDEN.
The Cologne Gazette has the following from Stock-
holm, 20th :—" What has been long forseen has taken
place. The equestrian► order has rejected, by a ma-
jority of 316 votes to 89, the Governmental project
relative to the representation of the people, and
the order of peasants has rejected it by a majo-
rity of 87 to 18. The discussion on the mea-
sure was very animated and frequently very
warm. Tne Hartmannsdorff pretended that the
Bill would undermine the constitutional mo-
narchy, formally declared that it would never admit
the principle of general elections, although it admitted
that the present representative system required re-
forms, and promised to bring in a new Bill which
would be more satisfactory. The order of peasants,
in adhering to the opinion of the clergy and of the
-*equestrian order, has completely separated itself from
its old ally the order of the bourgeoisie, and appears
to wish to prolong the rupture by proposing to revise
the privileges of the towns."

THE

CALUMNY AND INTRIGUE.
A correspondent says :—" In the south of England
there resides a family of very high rack. The lady
is a Baroness in her own right, and a Marchioness by
marriage. She was left a widow when young, and
she married secondly an amiable and accomplished
gentleman, a nephew of an Irish Duke, and who on
his marriage adopted the name of his wife's ancestors.
The noble lady and her husband took up their resi-
dence where the former (who had been left an
orphan when an infant) had resided in her youth.
Here they have lived in a style suitable to their rank,
and have been highly distinguished for their charity
and hospitality. Passionately fond of music, they
gave a series of musical soirees to the neighbouring
nobility and gentry, at which musical amateurs, even
of ducal rank, were performers. Although the family
are Liberal, almost ultra-Liberal in politics, this was
not of course thought of while dispensing hospitality,
and the whole of the Tory families of suitable rank
in the neighbourhood participated in that hcspi-
tality. From the influence which the family natu-
rally acquired in the neighbouring town, by means
of their kindness and wealth, the husband was
solicited by the inhabitants a few months ago
to become their representative in Parliamenn. This
he declined, but he recommended an intimate friend
professing similar politics as himself, who was, after'
a desperate contest, elected. In this contest both
the noble lady and her husband took an active and
conspicuous part. Now, the representation of this
town had always been in the hands of the Tory
families in the neighbourhood, and they were en-
raged beyond description to find it taken from them.
They studied what insults and slights they could
safely offer to the family that had supplanted them,
so as to annoy and drive them from the
neighbourhood. It appears that an attaché of one of
the most distinguished foreign embassies in London,
and who is intimately related to a princely family,
bad been introduced to the lady by her husband's
uncle as an eminent musical amateur, and one who
was competent and would be willing to assist her
ladyship in getting up her musical parties. He was
of course treated with the utmost kindness by the
family, and became a constant guest. About two
months since he, presuming on the noble lady's frank
and unsuspecting disposition, offered her a gross and
unmistakeable insult. Astonished at the outrage,
she summoned ber husband, who was in a distant
part of the house, to her protection, and he imme-
diately knocked the scoundrel down and kicked him
ignominiously from the mansion. The lady'a poli-
tical enemies have fAbricated shameful insinua-
tions from this circumstance, but with such
cunning as proves that their cowardice equals their
malignity, and they have just now had the audacity
to exclude the lady's name from amongst the list of
patronesses to a public ball. The great spite ball, as it
is termed, was to come off last night. In the mean-

time the inhabitants of the neighbouring town have
taken the matter up, and, one evening last week, when
the noble lady (noble by birth and by many gifts and
virtues) entered the Polytechnic Institution in the
town, an institution of which she is a munificent
patroness, the audience rose en masse, greeted her
with the most enthusiastic cheering, and spoke un-
mistakeably what they thought of har enemies."—
Daily News.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK

(From the Registrar-General's Return.)
The return for the week ending last Saturday
shows that 1,196 deaths were registered in the me-
tropolitan districts; in the first three weeks of De-
cember they 1,004, 1,090 and 1,166. Tnis increase
is considerable, and must be attributed in part to the
character of the weather, which has been unfavour-
able to the public health ; but, as in the previous
week, it is also due to some coroners' returns, which
were net completed, as regards registration, when
the inquests were held, but have been accumulating
till the end of the quarter. Po the ten corre-
sponding weeks of the years 1840-9, the returns
varied from 910 deaths in 1845, at a period of rather
higher than average temperature, to 1,403
in 1848, when scarlatina and typhus were rife, and
cholera had begun, these epidemics having succeeded
to the influenza of the former year. The following
comparative statement of deaths at particular ages
shows that while the mortality of the young was not
greater than usual in the last week there was an
excess above the average among persons of middle
age : _ _

Average of 10 Weeks
Last Week. (1840-49).
From birth to 15 years 512 514
From 15 years to 60 423 378

At 60 and upwards 232 260
Amongst children, however, hooping-cough,
diarrhoea, and small-pox appear on the increase. The
deaths from the first of these complaints were 61,
from diarrhoea (principally amongst infants) 31 ;
while 25 children and 5 adults died of the small-pox.
This direase still prevails severely in Lisson-grove,
where it was again fatal in 7 cases between the 20th
and 25th of December. °illy one of the sufferers,
six girls and one bay, had apparently been vaccinated.
With reference to a death from small-pox; without
vaccination, which occured to a boy in High-street,
S'aadw,ll, Mr. Boss observes that " four other chil-
dren are suffering from the same complaint in the
family ; the father refuses to give his children the
protection of cow-pox, and such is the result; but
the mischief does not end here, for the deadly
poison is disseminated through the neighbourhood.'
Another death from small-pox without vaccination
is recorded by the same registrar in a house at Elm-
row, Shad well, and here also " four other children are
suffering under small-pox, the father entertaining
objections to vaccination." The registrar of Hag-
gerstone West mentions a family at Hoxton, in which
the wife, son, daughter, and servant died of scarlet
fever, all within a short period. A child in Chapel-
street, Woolwich, died, according to the medical cer-
tificate, of "miasmatic poisoning."
The class of "diseases of the respiratory organs"
coinprises laryngitis, bronchitis, pleurisy, pneumonia,
asthma, and other diseases of the lungs, exclusive of
phthisis, and numbers in this return 264 deaths,
which is more than the average. From bronchitis
there were 120; from pneumonia 90; the former
showing an increase on the previous week, the latter
a decrease.

Three deaths are ascribed to privation of food or
clothing, 11 amongst children to want of breast milk,
2to neglect, and 2to intemperence. The death of a
girl aged 7 years is rep )rted by the medical a'tendant
as caused by " hydropericardium—fright produced
by a boy wearing a mask."
The births of 658 boys and 712 girls, in all 1,370
children, were registered in the week. The average
of five corresponding weeks in 1845-9 was 1,228.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NU3IIIEIt OF DE A.THS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN

THE WEEK ENDIN9. SATURDAY, DEC. 25, Irso.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*232
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 42
Tubercular Diseases ... 173
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 98
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 56
Diseases of the' Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... ...
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. •• •••
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Nfalformations...
Premature Birth ... •• •••
Atrophy
Old Age ••• ••• ••• ••• •••
Sudden ..„
Violence. Privation, Cold, and Intemperance
Causes not specified ...

... 64

... 32

... 45
... 25
... 70

DEATHS FROM ALL CA.I3BEB
Population Deaths in corn-
Enumerated, aponding week
1841. of 1849.
West Districts... 301,189 . . 155 .
North Districts.. 376,568 .. 186 .
Central Districts 374,199 ... 206 .
East Districts ... 393,067 ... 239
South Districts .. 503,346 ... 267 .

1,196
Deaths
in the
Week.
178
238
206
263

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

... 1,033

-. 1,167
-. 577
... 619