The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1844

engaged for several days in discussing tire Chune-Bill
in Committee, when the Government was beaten in
a division on a rather important clause. One of the
clauses exempted from the provisions of the Bill the
Crown property, though the penalties enacted by it
were to be enforced against trespassers on the royal
domains. Against this privilege the Opposition de-
clared, and the article was rejected by a considerable
majority. Upon this, Ministers are stated to have
retired from the hall, leading away a large number
of their voters, and the consequence was that the
ballot on the whole Bill could not take place, and the
House adjourned.
Queen MARIA CHRISTINA arrived on Saturday at
Chalons, where she slept. She embarked next day
for Lyons, receiving royal honours throughout her
journey.
THE BOURSE—TuEsnmr, FEB. 20.
First. Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. • • 125 65 .. 125 65 .. 125 55 .. 125 55
Four-and.a-lialf— • • 112 50 112 50 .. 112 50 .. 112 50
Four per Cents. •• • • 106 50 .. 106 50 .. 106 50 .. 106 50
Three per Cents.• •• • 82 35 .. 82 35 .. 82 35 • • 82 35
Bank of France • 3280 ..3280 —3280 •.3280
•Lafiltte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesllo2 50 • • 1105 .. 1102 50 .. 1105
5,000 f. Sharesso72 50 ..5072 50 ..5072 50 ..5072 50
Belgian Rank ..• •••• • **
Belgian Fives . •
1840 ..... •• • 104 • • 109 f .. 109 t .. 109 f
1842 ..
Dutch:Two-and-a-Half :•• • • 561 • • 56/ .. 56/ .. 561
Spanish Active •••••• • • • • • • 311 • • 311 • . 31i .. 311
Passive .••••• • • • • • • 5f .. 5f .. 5f .. 5f
Old Deferred• ••• .• • 7/ 7t 7t
New Deferred
Portuguese Five per Cents .• 451 .. 45/ .. 454 .. 45i
Neapolitan ......••....•.•• 105 - .. 105 .. 105 .. 105
Roman .• ••• • • 106 •• 106 .. 106 .. 106

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
805 • • 805 805 805
Versailles, 340 340 .. 340 .. 340 .. 340
L. 8.•
817 50 .. 817 50 .. 817 50 .. 817 50
Rouen to Havre •••• • • •
Orleans ...... .••.• • • • • 833 •75 • • 836 25 .. 832 .50 .. 836 25
Strasburg to Bale •••• • • • • 237 50 .. 240 .. 237 50 .. 240
Montpellier to Cette .••• • • • • 455 . • 455 .. 455 .. 4b5
Avignon to Marseilles ..
RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
St. Germain .......
Versailles, R. 8.• •••••• • • • • • 340 • • 340 .. 340 .. 340
L. 8.... • • • •• • • • • 170 . • )70 .. 170 .. 170
Rouen ...... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 820 • • 820 .. 817 50 .. 817 50

Rouen to.11avre••••• •
Orleans • • ••.• • • • • • •• •• 835 • • 838 75 .. 832 50 •• 837 50

Strasburg to Bale • • ••• • • • • • 238 75 . • •• 240
Montpellier to Cette•••••••• 455 .. 455 .. 455 .• 455
Avignon to Marseilles • • • • • • ,735 .. 735 730 .. 732 50

KICKING UP A DUST !—Whether this adage derives
its origin from all London going to Epsom on the Derby
day, or from a brisk gale on the Holyhead-road at noon-
day in July, we cannot say; but out ofdoors or in doors there
never was such a dust kicked up as that at Covent-gar-
den Theatre on Wednesday. Verily, such was the vehe-
mence with which the dense mass in the pit kicked and
stamped, that the dust rose up to the ceiling of the house,
and, after hovering in clouds for some minutes, slowly
descended, but the bursts of cheers sent it in eddying
currents over boxes, stage, slips, and galleries, while
the heads of those ifi the pit were actually powdered
with their own dust !

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The number of
deaths during the week ending Saturday, Feb 17,
was 1,146, making an increase on the previous week
of 70, and on the average of 137. The increase is
caused chiefly from diseases of the lungs. The aver-
age is 330, while last week the number was 448 ; of
these 47 were carried off by bronchitis (inflamma-
tion of the throat), average 19 ; by pneumonia (in-
flammation of the lungs) 133, average 91;
consumption 170, average 146. In epidemic
diseases, also, there is a considerable in-
crease. The total number during the
week being 207, and the average 170. The excess in
the deaths under this head is chiefly from small-pox
29, average 21; measles 28, average 19 ; scarlatina
43, average 25. Deaths from hooping-cough are on
the decrease. Of the 29 persons who died of small-
pox, 19 had not been vaccinated. The number of
violent deaths is 27, and of these only two are suicides,
the greater proportion arising from accident, and
chiefly from burns. According to the meteorological
observations taken at the Greenwich Observatory, the
thermometer was lowest on the 14th, 21.2 degrees,
and highest on the 17th, 47 degrees.

FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, FEB. 18.—M. Van de Weyer, Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Belgium at
London, accompanied by his lady, arrived yesterday at
Brussels.
Count Duval de Beaulieu, one of the most distin-
guished members of the Senate, died yesterday.
A letter from Cologne, of the 14th, announces that
the railway from that city to Bonne was opened on
that day.
The general debate on the budget of the department
of public works was closed yesterday.
The King, who was expected at the Palace of Lacken
to-day, will not return till some day next week. His
Majesty is induced by the fine weather to prolong his
visit to St. Hubert.

BRUSSELS, FEB. W. Ross, painter to her
Majesty the Queen of England. arrived here from Lon-
don. This celebrated artist went the day before yester-
day to the Palace of Lacken, %lore he obtained the
honour of a first sitting of the Queen, whose portrait in
miniature, and that of the young Princess Charlotte, he
is to paint for the Queen of England.
'There-is to be a general exhibition of the productions
of the arts and manufactures of the States' composing
the Customs' Union, this year, at Berlin. It is to open
on the 15th of August, and to continue eight weeks.
FEB. 20.—There are now four ships in lading in our
ports for the Belgian Colonization Company, viz., two at
Antwerp, one at Bruges, and one at Ostend. All these
vessels will shortly sail for the Belgian colony at St.
Thomas's, in Guatitmala.
We find in the Gazette of Aix-la-Chapelle a new
symptom of those germs of distrust and uneasiness which
appears from time to' time in Prussia, especially in those
towns in which there are universities. The above-men-
tioned journal contains the following letter :
" HALLE, FEB. 12.—Our town is in the greatest alarm ;
for reasons which are unknown, and which we can only
guess at from recent events, the most rigorous domici-
liary visits have been made since six o'clock this morn-
ing in -She lodFings of, many students, all of whose papers
have been seized. Some have already been arrested.
It is reported that nothing important has yet been dis-
covered."

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—Her Majesty and Ma Royal
Highness Prince Albert promenaded, this afternoon, in the
grounds adjoining the Castle.
The unfavourable state ofthe weather, during the day, has
prevented the Prince of Wales and the Princesses from being
taken their accustomed daily airings in the park.

Baron Brunnow, the Russian Minister, transacted business
yesterday, at the Foreign-office.
The Commission for Metropolitan Improvements had a
meeting on IVednesday, at the office in Whitehall-place.
The Earl of Aberdeen and Sir James Graham had inter-
views with' Sir Robert Peel yesterday. Sir George Clark,
Mr. Wickham, Commissioner of Stamps awl Taxes, had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester-
day, at his official residence in Downing-street.
andßar othernete os
t ffie
rc
diala gentlemen, also visited the Right Hon.
yesteray.
Major Jebb transacted business yesterday, at the Home-
office.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALVS--YESTERDAY.
CHESTER CUP.
13 to 1 agst Mr. Sharratt's The Prior—taken
14 to 1 agst Mr. T. A. Milbank's Sir Robert—t. and off.
20 to 1 agst Mr. Stephenson's Freedom--do.
20 to 1 agst Mr. W. Dawson's Merry Andrew
30 to 1 agst Mr. Parr's Young Lochinvar
ent
30 to 1 agst Mr. Plummer's Alice Hawthorn
a proof The boeft
at
Ro-
bert, and a very palpable decline in Merry Andrew, possessed
very little interest. Cattonite was not mentioned at a defi-
niteeimxtprroemveelmy fiat, and except as affording
in the Prior and Sir
price.
DERBY.
6 to 1 agst Mr. John Day's The Ugly Buck—taken
nmga wasrked
- 7to 1 agst Mr. Crockford's Rattan—taken
16 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Orlando-18 to 1 laid once
17 to 1 agst Mr. Lichtwald's Leander—take 20 to 1
18 to 1 agst Lord Maidstone's Cockamaroo
" 25 to 1 agst Mr. Quin's Loadstone
30 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lonian
30 to r agst Mr. A. Wood's Running Rein
. 33 to 1 agst Mr. Watts's Voltri
35 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Campunero—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Quin's Foig-a-Ballagh—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Saddle-Bow—taken and aft. off.
40 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Vat colt
66 to 1 agst Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Bebington
300 to 100 agst The Ugly Buck and Rattan—taken
1000 to 50 agst Forth's lot, bar Leander—taken.
Business, on the whole was nearly as dull on this race as
on the Chester Cup, and, with a few exceptions, scarcely
more important. The exceptions
.were The Ugly Buck,
Rattan, and Loadstone. The first two were backed freely at
the odds quoted above. The Buck recovering his lead, and
his party apparently as fond as ever. Loadstone was intro-
duced at 30 to 1, and, on a moderate outlay, improved five
points. A disposition to lay against Orlando, and a con-
sequent decline, is the only other noticeable movement.
OAKS.
10 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's The Bee
10 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Barricade
12 to 1 agst Col. Anson's The Princess
We did not hear a bet on this race.