The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-06 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Vubitt Optitton.

" Who runs may read"

FOREIGN.

The French funds again declined on Saturday. The Three
per Cents, closing at 81f. 75c., and the Fives at 124 f. 55c.
Orleans Railroad shares closed at 852 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 840 f. ;
Havre, 680 f. ; Avignon, 660 f. ; Spanish Actives, 301.
In consequence of the death of the Duke of Saxe Coburg,
the concert Which was to have been given at Court on Friday
night, was put off, notices haying been sent in the morning
to all the personages who had been invited. The deceased
• Duke was father of Prince Albert, of England ;• brother of the
King of the Belgians ; uncle of the King of Portugal, the
Duchess de Nemours, and Duke Augustus of Saxe Coburg,
son-in-law of the King of the French.
.General Bertrand, the faithful adherent of Napoleon, died
at Chateauroux on the Ist inst. •

Donna Carlotta, wife of Don FranCisco de Paula, died -a
Madrid on the 29th ult. This event will probably lead to a
marriage between the Queen and their son, the Duke of Cadiz.

M. Ancrellis, a distinguished Member of the Belgian
Cham-
ber of Representatives, died, on Tuesday last, from a sudden
stroke of apoplexy. •
The boiler of a steam-engine, at the paper-manufactory of
Messrs. Callaud, Bellisle, and Co., at Areuze, in the Charente,
burst a few days ago; one-'man .and a boy were 'killed, and
another man was so severely injured:that his life is in danger.
The roof of the engine-house was blown.off:
On Tuesday and Wednesday, at Paris, the weather was
most tempestous, and on Friday there was the heaviest and
most,contiriuous fall of snow that hail occurred in France
during thirty Years.- •
The Courrier de Rhone states that the works of the rail-
road from Avignon to Marseilles are prosecuted with inces-
sant activity along the entire line 'from Barbentanne •to Ta-
rascon .Six himdred operatives are emplOyeld on the road,
and the expense of extracting one part of the rocks which
impede. the line has been estimated at 83,000 f.
The Coinmerce says that the Cabinet has at length deter.;
mined to bring forward the dotation question. It adds, .that
the King considers the question as one of vital iiuportance
to his dynasty, and that, should it be rejected, *he will dis-
solve the Chamber and appeal to the country.
On ThurSday, about five hundred students of the various
schools waited on M. de Chateaubriand, and presented to him
an address expressive of their admiration and sympathy.

• cotnam.--rasuxoNA.smil.
A Court. mourning for his late Royal Highness the Duke
of Saxe Coburg Gotha, will, it is expected, be published in
the Gazette this evening.
The State apartments at Windsor Castle were closed to the
public by command of her Majesty, in consequence of the
lamented demise of his Serene Highness the reigning Duke
of Saxe Coburg and Gotha.
Viscount Melbourne, since his return to town-from Brockett
Hall, has been suffering from indisposition arising from a cold.
The Noble Viscount was considerably better yesterday.
Lord and Lady Beauvale arrived in town on Saturday,
from Panshanger.
Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn continue at Panshanger,
with Earl and Countess Cowper, till the 12th inst., when the
Viscountess comes to town to enter on her duties as Lady in
-Waiting on her Majesty.
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, accompanied by Lord
Bernard and Lady Mary Howard, leave town on their return
to Arundel Castle, at the close of the week.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and Lady Emma Camp-
bell, who are passing the winter at Rome, intend to leave
that city at the close of the month, for Naples, and to return
to England early in May. The Marquis of Lorn, his Grace's
only son, comes of age on the 30th April.
cord and Lady Stanley entertained his Excellency the
French Ambassador and Countess de St. Aulaire, Duke of
Buccleuch, Baron and Baroness de Langsdortf, Earl and
Countess of Wilton, Duke of Richmond, Viscount and Vis-
countess Canning, Lord Ossulston, Lord George Bentinck,
his Excellency M. Dedel, Honourable Sydney Herbert, &c.,
at dinner on Saturday last, at their mansion in St. James's-
square.

The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons
commences his Parliamentary dinners for the season on Satur-
day next. The levees of the Right Hon. Gentleman are not
as yet appointed. .
Sir Frederick Trench entertained his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge and a select party at dinner on Saturday,
at his residence in Pall-mall.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr. Sotheron, late Member for Devizes, has announced
himself a candidate for North Wilts, in the room of the late •
Sir F. Burdett, and Mr. Ludlow Bridges, in the same :in-
terest has issued an address to the electors of the borough,
claiming their suffrages. They are not, however, to be
allowed to walk over the ground, as Mr. Sotheron is to be
opposed for the county by Mr. Edridge, of Bath, and Mr.
Bridges, by, Mr. C. Temple, Q.C., on the part of the Liberals.
The nomination for the borough is fixed for Tuesday, the 6th
inst., and that for the county for Monday the 12th.
The heavy falls of snow in different parts of the country
appear to have thrown considerable impediments in the way
of railroad travelling in some instances : but the application
of the plough and brooms have been found remarkably
efficient in clearing off the snow so as to enable the trains to
proceed.
At an early hour on Thursday morning, the cutlery works
kiown as the Soho-wheel, Sheffield, were destroyed by fire
The estimated loss is 800/., and there is too much reason to
fear that it has been caused by an incendiary.
The Government, it is said, has appointed Mr. Carr, solici-
tor of Excise in Scotland, to be solicitor of Excise in Eng-
land, in the place of Mr. Dehany, who has been compelled to
resign that lucrative office from ill health. This office had
been filled for many years by the father of Mr. Carr.•
The organisation of the pensioners in Ireland is rapidly
going forward. More than 8,000 are already enrolled.
The Royal Asiatic Society met on Saturday, at their rooms
in Grafton-street, Professor Wilson in the Chair. There
were present the Earl of Auckland; Sir E. Colebrooke, Bart.,
Hon. -Holt Mackenzie, Major Oliphant, Dr. Phillimere, and
others.

The annual meeting of the Agricultural Association of
Buckinghamshire was held at Aylesbury on Saturday. The
members afterwards dined together, the Duke of Buckingham
in
.the chair. About eighty sat down to dinner. The Duke,
in returning thanks for his health being drunk, said, in refe-
rence to the corn-laws, " If gentlemen would only carefully
peruse what Sir Robert Peel, as the head of the Government,
had said upon the subject, there would be no difficutly in
ascertaining what Ministers really meant."—(Cheers.)
Rumour says it is the immediate intention of the Duke of
Richmond, Viscount Ingestre, M.P. ; Philip Pusey, Esq.,
M.P., and others, to form a metropolitan Society for the Pro-
tection of British Agriculture, in order to rival the League.
In the course of last week Anti-League meetings were
held at Lincoln, Amersham, Bucks, Cambridge, Wetherbv,
Yorkshire, and Peebles, Scotland.

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have promul-
gated an order that no tobacco is to be issued to seamen or
marines on board ship, while in port, in consequence of the
enormous extent to which smuggling in that article has
lately been carried on.