The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-11 00:00:00

COWAT-PASIXIONAMLB.

The Duchess of Gloucester gives an evening party at
Gloucester House, on Monday next, in honour of the visit
of the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh
Strelitz. The cards of invitation were issued on Tuesday.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford have left Lon-
don for Hamburgh, by the General Steam Navigation Com-
pany's mail steam-ship Countess Lonsdale, Captain R. S.
Stranack.

The Earl and Countess De Grey and suite are expected to
leave the Vice-regal Lodge, Dublin, on Wednesday next, for
St. James's-square, vici Kingstown and Liverpool.

MISCELLANEOUS.

It appears there is no truth in the statement that the St.
'Vincent, 120, and the Camperdown, 104, are ordered to
Gibraltar or Tangier. The crew of the Camperdown is to be
turned over to the Queen, and the ship will be out of com-
mission. The St. Vincent has left Portsmouth, and it is un-
derstood will cruize in the chops of the channel.
On Tuesday the half-yearly meeting of the Royal Humane
Society was held in the office, Trafalgar-square, Admiral
Sir Edward Codrington in the chair. The meeting was
thinly attended. The minutes of previous meetings having
been read and confirmed, it was announced that his Impe-
rial Majesty the Emperor of Russia and the King of Saxony
had been elected honorary members of the Society. His Im-
perial Majesty, it appeared, was mainly instrumental in sav-
ing the life of an individual last season, who had well nigh
been drowned in the Wilna. Of cases which had occurred
since December last there had been 42, of these 39 had
been successful through the assistance of the Society's exer-
tions—three unhappily were beyond recovery. Several
medals were awarded, and the meeting separated.
Two new churches are about to be built in Pimlico, one in
the Belgrave-read, near Warwick-square, and the other near
the Orange Tavern.
A Correspondent of the Dublin Pilot says, the Government
has spies in every Catholic chapel in the country. The
police, it appears—the Catholic police--have been ordered to
report everything said by the priests about repeal. Several
of the police have been dismissed for refusing to become spies
and informers.
The annual festival of the Metropolitan Free Hospital took
place on Tuesday at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street,
under the most favourable auspices. The Right Honourable
the Lord Mayor took the chair. The Honorary Secre-
tary, Mr. E. F. Chance, read the report, from which
it appeared that the object contemplated by the benevolent
founders of the hospital was to afford daily medical and sur-
gical' relief gratuitously to the helpless, friendless, and
afflicted poor, without requiring from them a governor's letter
of recommendation ; and, should the funds increase, to receive
into the hospital all cases of emergency and severity. Nearly
10,000 persons. were relieved during the past year, and the
committee had resolved from henceforth to open the institu-
tion for the reception of in-door patients, in firm reliance on
the increased liberality of the public.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—There has been
a considerable decrease in the number of deaths during
the last week, the total being 871, while the average
is 900. The deaths from small-pox are still nume-
rous-36, the average being 11; of these 27 had not
been vaccinated ; and the deaths from scarlatina ex-
ceed the average by 18, the number for the last week
being 58. The following is an analysis of the list of
violent deaths :—Fracture or contusion, 5 cases, of
which 2 were by falls and 1 by a carriage; burns, 2
cases ; poison, 3 cases (suicides) ; drowning, 3 cases,
of which 2 were accidental, and 1 a suicide; hanging,
1 case (suicide) ; murder (by means not stated), 1
case ; and injury of a kind not described, 1 case.
Total, 13 males and 5 females. The thermometer
was highest on Monday, July 1-701, and lowest on
Saturday, 51.2 degree. The quantity of rain fallen
in inches was 1-28.