The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-11 00:00:00

THE LATE SIR HENRY HALFORD.
Sir Henry Halford, Bart., whose decease on Saturday last
is recorded in this day's paper, so long occupied a dis-
tinguished position in society, that some few particulars of
his life will probably be acceptable to our-readers.
He was born on the 2d-of October, 1766, and received his
early education at Rugby School, and at Christchurch, Oxford.
He afterwards studied medicine at Edinburgh; and com-
menced practice,, in conjunction with his father, Dr, Vaughan,
el physician of high reputation, at Leicester. In 1792 or 1793
he settled in London, and rose with wonderfully rapid steps
to the very first practice. After the death of Dr. Baillie' in
1823, he was left absolutely without a rival: In 1820 he
was elected President -of the College of Physicians,' and re-
mained in that offite until his death, 'having been re-elected
every year for nearly a quarter of a century:
Sir Henry Halford was Physician to four successive Sove-
reigns, three of whom he attended "in their last, illnesses, as
well as many other branches of the Royal Family, for he
waaheld in the highest regard by every member of the family
of George 111. So great was his celebrity, that it occurred
to him, in the course of his practice, to be consulted by several
Sovereigns of other States, as well as by a great many
foreigners Of the very first distinction.
As a physician Sir Henry Halford was a favourite with
classes, and enjoyed in a remarkable degree the confidence of
his patients. In consultation he was much regarded by his
professional brethren on account of the quickness of his per-
ception, the soundness of his judgment, and the readiness and
abundance of his resources. In society he was prized, for to
Wong natural sagacity and good sense he added the charm
of a highly classical taste, and considerable literary attain-
ments. In temper and disposition he was remarkably socia-
ble and kind-hearted ; and his enemies (for a man so success-
ful could not but have enemies) will not deny that no man
on earth was more placable or forgiving.
Sir Henry Halford was created a Baronet by George 111.,
and changed his name from ;Vaughan to Halford, in compli-
ance with the will of his maternal great uncle, the last Sir
Charles Halford, of Wistow, in Leicestershire, whose estates
he inherited. He was Knight Grand Cross of Hanover, a
member of the Royal Society, and of several other literary
and scientific bodies, trustee of. Rugby school, &c. Re mar-
ried a daughter ofJohn, eleve.44,Lord St. John, of Bletsoe,
by whom he has left,4me soilllnd one daughter. His son,
who succeeds to hi title and estates, has been for some years
member for South Leicestershire. Of his brothers (many of
whom have earned distinction by their talents, amongst them
the late Right Hon. Sir John Vaughan, the late Warden of
Merton and Dean Of Chester), one only survives him—viz.,
the Right Hon. Sir Charles Richard Vaughan, formerly our, ,
hig ly popular Minister in the United States.

THE KING OF SWEDEN.
Extract of a private letter received on Saturday from
Stockholm :

" I shall send you a copy of an interesting letter which the
King dictated himself from his bed to the Duke of Welling-
ton, in answer to one his Grace had addressed to his Ma-
jesty. The King, in this letter, expresses his profound es-
teem for your great hero, and his gratitude for the sympathy
and solicitude his Grace has constantly evinced during the
severe malady of the august patient. Since I last wrote the
King has undergone a severe ordeal. On the 18th a tendency
to suppuration showed itself in the discoloured part of the
foot; the King had a good night's rest, and his strength on
waking was manifest'y increased. On the 22d the black
gangrenous spot became enlarged, the suppuration ceased,
and the strength of the patient declined. On the 22d and
23d another favourable crisis occurred, the King slept
soundly, his appetite returned, and the suppuration, a re-
storative process of nature, began once more. This improve-
ment lasted until the 24th ; but on the 25th his weakness .in-
creased, his appetite and his strength failed him once more.
This improvement lasted until the 24th ; but on the 25th his
weakness increased, his appetite and his strength failed him
once more. He experienced no fever, but was a prey to mor-
bid jactitation, and was sleepless during the nights of the
26th and 27th. On the latter day the leg on the gangrenous
side became discoloured, showing that the mortification was
extending, although the suppuration had not ceased.
" On the 26th, the King commanded that aTnew proclama-
tion to the subjects of his two kingdoms should be drawn out
for him to sign; saying that he could not foresee in what
state he shoUld be on the Ist of March, the day on which the
former proclaMation, and the duration of the Regency which
it established, would expire. He had the dispatches of the
dayread to him as in general, likened with profound atten-
tion and interest to their tenor, and had read over to him
again those passages which he deemed most interesting. It
was on the 27th he wrote to. the Duke of. Wellington, and on
that day he ordered a distribution of wood to the poor suffer-
ing from the inclemency of the season. He still preserved all
his faculties, the goodness of his heart and the elevation of
his thoughts and views_; .whilst his kindness betrayed itself
in a thousand minute details.
" His grandson, the Prince Charles, the eldest born of his
son, • the Prince Oscar, has recently keen labouring under a
most serious attack of illness ; but all danger is over at this
moment, when the post is on'the point of leaving."—Post.

THE RIGHT HON. THE SPEAKER'S LEVEB.-011
Saturday night the Speaker of the House of Commons -held
his second sessional levee, at his residence, in Eaton-square.
The reception of the Right Hon. Gentleman was rather nu-
merous, and the Duke of Wellington, Earl of Shaftesbury,
Lord Lowther, and Sir Augustus Clifford, were among the
visitors. The following Members of. the House of Commons
paid their respects to the Right Hon. Cr entleman :—The
Marquis of Douro, Lord Stanley' the Right Hon. W. E.
Gladstone, the Judge Advocate-Cleneral, the Lord Advocate,
Lord Charles Wellesley, Viscount Duncan, Viscount Jocelyn,
Earl Jermyn, Lord Eliot, Sir William Jolliffe, Sir John
Walsh, Colonel. Wood, Colonel Thomas Wood, the Right
Hon. Frederick Shaw, Captain Boldero, Mr. Maunsell, Mr.
Prothereb, Mr. Lindsey, , Mr. John Round, Mr. Botfield,
Mr, Forger, Mr. Divett, Mr. V. Smith, Mr. John Young,
Mr. Lefroy, Mr. Towneley, Mr. Dunn Gardener, Mr. John
Lowther, Mr. Bailey (Herefordshire), Mr. Tollemache
(Cheshire), Sir George Staunton, Mr. Antrobus, Lord
James Stuart, • Mr. Mice, Mr. Scholefield, Dr. Bowring, the
Hoh. Octavius Duncombe, Mr. Collett (Athlone), Mr.
Hindle y, Mr. Blackstone, Captain Taylor, Mr. B. Wilbra-
ham, Mr. Pakington, Mr. James (Cumberland), Mr. Elphin-
stone, Sir Charles Burrell, Sir John Cain Hobhouse, Mr,
Wyse, Mr. Waddington, Mr. Wrightson, Mr. L. Fox, Mr.
Villiers Stuart, Sir Edward, Colebrook°, Mr. Kemble,
Sir Stephen Glynne, Mr. Barclay, Mr. Gill, Mr. Stanton,
Right Hon. B. Macaulay, Mr. B. Hughes, Mr. C. Leigh, Mr.
W. Collett, Colonel Powell, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Allix, Hon. E.
Yorke, Mr. Trelawney, Mr. S. Davis, Mr. Ross (Rosstrevor),
Mr. G. Craig,' Mr. J. 11. Vivian, Viscount Ebrington, Mr.
Tufnell, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Wawn, Mr. C. Douglas, Mr.
Estcourt, Mr. Shirley (Warwickshire), Mr. Ward, Mr.
thistle, Lord Wortley, Lord Acheson, Hon. Colonel D.
Dainer, Viscount Howick, Mr. Martin, Colonel Fox, Sir G.'
Grey, Mr. Rashleigh; Mr. Stewart (Lymington), Mr. Ald-
ham, Hon, J. B. Wortley, Mr. Hawes, Hon. W. B. Baring,
Lord. }reward, Sir John Mordaunt, Mr. Acland, Sir William
'lleathcote, Mr. Thornely, Mr. Greene, Mr. W. 0. Stanley,
Mr. A. Chapman, Mr. Lyall, Mr. • Beresford, Sir Charles
Lemon, Mr. Grogan, Lord Harry Vane, the Hon. W. Cowper,
COlneel Rawdon, Mr. Bellew, Mr, Raikes Currie, and Mr.
Wilshire. Previous to the levee the Right Hon. Gentletnan
entertained Viscount GriniSton, Viscount NeWport, Lord
Alfred Hervey, Sir T. Dyke Acland, Bart-, 'Mr. Beckett
Denison, Sir Charles Knig.htley, - the Hon. -Colonel Rice
Trevor, Mr. Darby, the Hon. Captain Maxwell, Mr. A.
Hodgson, the Hon. Francis Charteris, Mr. W. Beckett,
Captain Jones, Mr. B. Estcourt, Mr. Neeld (Chippenham),
Mr, J. A. Smith, Mr. Thesiger, Mr. G. A. Ham. ilton, Mr.
Motickton Milnes, Mr. W. Hamilton, Mr. Henley, Mr.
Mundy, Mr. Hope Johnstone, Mr. C. Round, and Mr. J.
Bailey (Worcester), at dinner.
Sir Robert-and Lady Peel received the Duches-s of
Excellencyßight
Ma-
hon, Lord Meadowbank, the Hon. Sydney Herbert, Sir Ben-
IBiuumecimeueclahu' eirl,isthe Mr. Everett,• M. and Madame
Hon. H. Hobhouse, Viscount
jamm Brodie, -Professor &Wen, Sir him Pelly, Mr. Sydney
Smirk, the Right Hon: John Wilson Croker, harry,
Mr. Eastlake, Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr. W.• R. Hamilton,
&c., at dinner, on Saturday last, at the family mansion in
Whitehall-gardens. -Lady Peel had a soiree after the enter-
tainment, when the splendid picture• gallery and connecting
saloons were thrown-open for the reception of a brilliant circle,
including his Excellency the French Ambassador and Countess
de St. Aulaire; the Marquis de St. Aulaire, Baroness Langs-
dorfF, Earl, and Countess of -Jeriey, Marquis and Mar
chioneSs of BlanclFord, Ladv Louisa Churchill, Sir Henry
and 'Lady Emily and Miss -liardinge, Countess of Verulam
and Lady Jane Griniston, Viscount Griinston, the Earl of
Aberdeen, his. Excellency 'Baron 'Hugel, the lion. Captain
Maxwell, M.P., Mr. Temline, M.P. Mademoiselle D'Este,
Vis Count .Castlereagh, Baron Iljornstjerna, Earl Jermyn,
Lord Alfred Hervey, -Viscount and Viscountess • Canning,
Sir James' and Lady Graham, his Excelleridy the Ball!.
rian. Minister and Baroness de • Cetto, Sir George" And
Lady Seymour and I.liis Seymour, Mr. Milnes Gaskell,
M.P., Mr. G. Hope, . the Hon.. Francis and Lady Anne
Charteris, Captain Peel, Captain A'Court, M.P., Mr. R. Ne-
ville, M.P., Mr. M. Milnes, M P., his Excellency the Vene-
zuelan Minister,' Mr, Stafford O'Brien, M.P„ the Right Hon.
George and Mrs. Dawson, his Excellency the Turkish Am-
bassador, his Excellency Prince Castelcicala, his Excellency
Count Kielmansegge, Mr. Benjamin D'lsraeli, M.P., and
Mrs. D'lsraeli, Viscount and Viscountess Hawarden, Lady
Fuller, his Excellency the Russian Minister and • Baroness
Brunnow, Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, Lady
Lyndhurst and Hon. Miss Copley, Mrs. and Misses Smith,
Mr. Stephenson, Mr A'Court, Viscountess Beresford, Mr. A.
and Lady Mildred Hope, his -Excellency Chevalier Bunsen,
Sir George Murray, Lord Redesdale and Hon. Miss Mitford,
Ladies Murray, -Sir George and Lady Clerk and Miss Clerk,
Baron Koller,
.Earl of Lincoln, Mr. W. Beckett, M P., Mr.
and Lady Blanche Balfour, paron Lehzeltern, Lord and Lady
Brougham, Mr. T.- Egerton, M.P., Colonel Thomas Wood,
Lord Charles Wellesley, his ; Excellency the .Brazilian. Mi-
nister and Marchioness de Lisboa, his Excellency Count Pol-
lon, 11Ir. Cochrane, M.P., Lord- and Lady Granville Somer-
set and Hon. Miss Somerset, Lord Byron, Lord Ernest Bruce,
liOn. Charles-Murray, -Mr. and . Mrs.,Anson, his 'Excellency
the Belgian Minister and Madame Van der Weyer.
NATIONAL. ANIMALS' FRIEND SOCIETY.—This So-
ciety has -been -particularly active during the-past week. Its
officers have prosecuted upwards- of thirty cases •of heart-
rending cruelty in London; Dab's?, Nottingham, Sheffield,
Leeds, Worcester, Birmingham, Coventry, Brighton, Rich-
mond, &c. Radcliffe and 138 F took into custody 'the
driver of Starkie's dust-cart for ill-treating and torturing a
horse which was overladen, and severe wounds under the
harness—fined 20s. by Mr. Twyford. Also John Wall, for a
similar offenee ; the horse- had a wound on its back, eight
inches in circumference--fined lOs by Mr. Greenwood, at
Clerkenwell. They also-charged Thomas Wilde, a cab-driver,
'with ill-treating and torturing a horse atnight—fined 20s. and
costs by Mr. Bond, at Queen-square ; he was alsci fined 20s. for
working with a false badge. Mr. Thomas G. Plume and Mr.
11. M. May Charged John Walters, before Alderman Hughes,
for cruelly torturing a horse, and working, without a badge—
he was fined 10s. Mr. Thomas Plume and Mr. H. M. May,
iinssustedthi aegainst his master (Sjr
also charged Samuel Hardwick (groomto Sir Simon Clarke,
Bart.), for cruelty, in wh pping a horse whigrcholioamd,sebvuetred wounds
under the collar. Mr. Rawlinson did not think that a case-of
tchruaetlttwo summonsesyhadbeenmadsehoolfttltdabgea
Simon), who; at the time, was driving the horse, but resisted
the officer, and escaped. Bailey, assisted by Sergeant Goss,
1 F, took into custody a man in the employ of Mr. Jones, of
Walworth, for driving a horse in an -unfit condition to work--
he was fined 40s. and costs.; and Mr. Twyford ordered the
horse to be taken care of until it was well.—(From a Cor-
respondent.)

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. EXPORTS TO BRAzir..—The following return of the
declared value of British and Irish produce and manufac-
tures, exported from the United Kingdom to Brazil in
. the years 1841, 1842, and 1843, has just been .printed.
The gross total declared value of our exports to • the em-
pire of-Brazil was, in 1841, 2,556,554/. ; in 1842, 1,756,805/. ;
and in 1843, 2,140,1271. ; showing a decisiye revival of
our trade 'with' Brazil during the past year. ' In the latter
Period (1843) cotton manufactures figured fbi 1,096,669/. (or
one-half of the total. eXports).-' haidwares and • Cutlefy, for
80,070/. ; linen manufactures, for 154,323/. ; iron and steel for
.54,996/. ; butter, for 64,294/. ; brassand copper manufactures,
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for 36,815/. ; arms. and ammunition, for 18,155/. ; apparel,
slops, and haberdashery, for 20,2821. coals, &c., for 9,396/. ;
, earthenware, for 46,461 /.; glass, for 27,4,371.:; leather, wrought
mid unwrought,r, for 23,39pL ; machinery and millwork, for
ry,-„342/. • BQap 40;.4ridIts, fir.F„Bl2l. ; silk manufactures,
Ide-30,4b3f. ; ' tifF-And 'll ' Wter iyare; &C., 'far 11;1118/.-- and
woollen manufactures, for 278,171/. The exports of cotton
manufactures increased last year by 27771391.

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