The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-04 00:00:00

In the Joint Stock Bank Shares no business was transacted
this morning.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities ln%li
3)4 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lO3
New 356 per Cent. Annuities 102%34i%
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 12%
Ditto 30 Years Expire sth Jan. 1860.

India 80nd5,1,006 —
Ditto under 1,0()0 B6
Consols for Account ' 97%
Exchequer Bills, I%d, I%d
1,0004
5001.
Ditto Small
. Ditto Advertised.........
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent lO3
Columbian Bonds.
Mexican Bonds, 1637, 5 per Cent. ••••
Ditto for the Account 34%%
Ditto Deferred Stock 1 %
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents.
Ditto for the Account 31% 30%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Small
Spanish Bonds. Five per Cent 1840 24% 25
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Three per Cent.
%34
85%
35 34%
Ditto for the Account
French Rentes, 5 per Cent
Dutch 2% per Cents 5 M %
Dutch 5 per Cents. lOl%
New Loan 1837, 5 per Cent 5........« ...........
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAXS. PAIL PaR Slums -
Birmingham and Derby lOO '9 to
Birmingham and Gloucester lOO 71 to 77%
Bristol and Exeter 7O 69 to
Chester and Holyhead 5 5 % ... to
Eastern. Counties
Ditto New 25 ..»..... 12%%% to --
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 58% to
Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham 2% 2% to
Great Western
Ditto 3t, Shares
London and Brighton 5O 43
London and 81ackwa11....... ..... .. . 16% ..... 6
London and Birmingham. Stock 234 .... ..... to 232
Ditto % Shares
Ditto New Thirds .. ... ........ ..... 2
London and South Western' ...... 41% '77% 77... to7B 77%
Ditto Eighths.
London and Croydon (Trunk)... h% ...... 16%%% to
Ditto Scrip
Manchester and Leeds 7O ll2 to
Ditto New 30 49 to
Ditto % Shares
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40
Norwich and Brandon
Newcastle and Darlington Junct l5 34 .....».. to ....
Northern and Eastern 45 b 7 to
North Midland _ _ ._ . ,

Ditto Thirds l3s. 4d 2O
Paris and Orleans 211 334

Parisand Rouen ----
20 ......... 32g%iii to .
South Eastern and Dover ...... ... 50 ........ 35

Ditto Scrip 25 ..... 33
York and North Midland
Ditto New Shares

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 2.—Our market
continues firm, and a fair amount-of business has been done.
London and Brighton, 434 ; Manchester and Birmingham,
40 ; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 49 ; Midland
Counties, 88 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 71i ; Paris and
Lyons, 21. 17s.

The Right Hon. the Speaker's fourth Parliamen-
tary dinner, on Saturday last, was attended by Lord Harry
Vane, Viscount Leveson, Lord Worsley, Hon. R. S. Carew,
Sir ndrew Leith Hay, Mr. P. Stewart, Mr. Edw. Buller, Mr.
Strutt, Mr. Christie, Mr. Tancred, Mr. llawes, Mr. Busfeild,
Mr. Morgan John O'Connell, Mr. Ramsbottom, Mr. Ross,
Mr. Warburton, Mr. T. S. Duncombe, Mr. Dennistoun, Cap-
tain Bernal, Mr. Aglionby, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Horsman,
and Mr. Hastie. The Right Hon. Charles T. D'Eyncourt,
Mr. Hume, Mr. Gisbome, and Sir John -M'Taggart, who
were favoured with invitations, were unavoidably absent.
The Right Hon. Gentleman subsequently held his first levee.
The Earl of Devon was among the visitors ; and the follow-
ing Members of the House of Commons attended to pay their
respects to the Speaker Robert Peel, Sir James Graham,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Sir
G. Clerk, Viscount Mahon, Colonel Rushbrooke, Lord J.
Manners, Mr. O'Brien, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Hon. H.
Corry, Mr. Cochrane, Sir H. Barron, Hon. Craven Berkeley,
Hon. Robert H. Clive, Viscount Clive, Hon. H. Manners
Sutton, &c.
THE HIGH TIDE Or YESTERDAY.—Yesterday there
was one of those high tides which appear at and near a full
moon. The offices and basement stories on the banks of the
Thames were flooded. The tide rose to such a height about
two o'clock that heavily laden barges with difficulty passed
under the side arches of the bridges. At Putney bridge one
barge was so caught in the arch, that it could not be stirred
until two horses were procured to force it forward.
THE hiss STATE TRIALS.—A public meeting
convened by the Mayor in compliance with a requisition
signed by twenty-eight town-councillors, and about seven
hundred burgesses and other inhabitants, is to be held at
Birmingham on Wednesday, on the subject of the recent
proceedings in- Ireland. Mr. O'Connell has accepted an invi-
tation to attend.

Lord and Lady John Russell, Earl and Countess
of Shelburne, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn, Hon. F.
Leveson, Hon. Wm. Cowper, Right Hon. B. Macaulay, Mr.
Sullivan, and a distinguished circle, were entertained at din-
ner, on Saturday last, by Viscount and Viscountess Palmer-
ston, at their residence on Carlton House Terrace. Her Lady-
ship afterwards had a soirée, which was attended by many
persons of rank and fashion.

They who prefess to have accurate intelligence with
regard to Court secrets, state that her Majesty's accouche-
ment may be confidently looked for about the beginning of
next July. It is said, indeed, that all the necessary prepara-
tions for the interesting event at that period have been duly
made. This, at least, is the gossip of gossips, and in such
matters we do not know that we have any right to wish for
better authority.—John Bull.
DISEASE IN THE METEOPOLIS.—The number of
deaths has been much above the usual average. There is an
epidemic of no very striking character prevalent, but it has
been in many instances rendered fatal by injudicious bleeding.
We had hoped that this system had been abandoned by the
greater number of medical men, unless when it is absolutely
necessary. Inflammation has ceased to be so common in this
country. The habits of life render the constitution of the
people, especially in large cities, below rather than above the
ordinary standard of strength.—Polytechnic Review.
BELLS IN FRANCE.—The Archbishop of Bordeaux
has published a long and interesting pastoral letter on church
bells, from which we extract the following passage :
" There is a diocese of France, that of Belley, in which
200 steeples have been rebuilt or newly constructed, and pro-
vided with bells of all sizes there is not a village in Lor-
raine that has not recovered its former peal of bells ; and in
the towers of the cathedrals of Paris, Lyons, Rheims, Poi-

- -
tiers, Strasbourg, Nancy, Rouen, Aniiens Sens, and Ven-
dome, are still to be seen the celebrated bourdons which added
so much to their renown. The steeples of the cathedrals of
Nantes, Chartres, and Rodez have been lately furnished with
peals of bells far superior to those of which they had been
despoiled."
We have reason to believe that her Majesty con-
templates, during the ensuing season, a prolonged residence
in the Isle of Wight. Negotiations have, we are informed,
been for some time in progress to secure for her Majesty's
use an appropriate residence upon the coast, so situate that
it might afford [the means of rapid communication by rail-
way with the metropolis, and at the same time possess those
facilities for yachting and aquatic amusements in which
Brighton is so eminently deficient. Within the last few days,
we believe, Osborne House, near Cowes, the seat of Lady
Isabella Blachford, has been selected for the Royal accommo-
tion ; and should it be found sufficiently commodious, it will
probably be taken at first only for a limited period, but with
the right to purchase at a fixed price at the expiration of
the term. It is hinted that inthis case a Bill will be brought
forward in Parliament, to enable the Crown to dispose of
that costly but unsightly fabric, the Brighton Pavilion.—
Times.

BRIGHTON, MARCH 2.—Lord Suffield is occupying
a house in Norfolk-square, where Lady Suffield is in a very
delicate state of health. Lord and Lady Portman have been
sojourning at 6, Eastern-terrace. Lady Portman took her
departure yesterday to resume her duties as Lady in Waiting
on her Majesty. Mr. Justice Tindal has arrived at the
Albion, and the Earl and Countess of Ashbumham and Lord
Duncannon at the Bedford.
EXTRAORDINARY ROPE.—We are informed by Mr.
J. T. Tregellas, of Truro, the agent for Cornwall for the pa-
tent wire-rope, that Mr. Andrew Smith, the patentee at
Mill-wall, near London, has just completed a galvanised
wire. rope of the astonishing length of 123 miles, which is
intended for electrical communication on one of the rail-
roads. We presume this may
_confidently be designated the
longest rope in the world.— West Briton.
THE STATE APARTMENTS AT WINDSOR CASTLE.
—Orders have been issued from the office of the Lord Cham-
berlain for the State apartments to be re-opened for the ad-
mission of the public as usual. If the public were to bear in
mind that the state apartments are invariably closed every
Friday throughout the year, it would be the means of saving
many a lost journey to Windsor.
DEATH OF THE DOWAGER COUNTESS BEAUCHAMP.
—Her Ladyship died on Saturday morning, at her mansion
in St. James's-square, at an advanced age. She was relict
of William Lygon, first Earl Beauchamp, and only daughter
of James Denn, Esq., and by that Noble Earl, who died 21st
October, 1816, her Ladyship had issue nine children, including
the late and present Earl Beauchamp, the Hon. Major-General
Henry B. Lygon, the lion. Major-General Edward B. Lygon,
the Countess of Longford, and Lady Louisa Lygon.

Tun CASE or SUPPOSED TRANcE.---During the
past week several professional gentlemen from the London
hospitals, &c., have been down to Deptford, to watch this
extraordinary case ; and on Saturday Mr. B. Cooper and
other gentlemen pronounced that decomposition had taken
place. On Friday, one of the family told Mr. Hope, of Dept-
ford-bridge, that perspiration had been felt at the back of the
heed ; and the report becoming current, great anxiety was
mehiifested in the neighbourhood. Shortly afterwards, how-
ever, Mr. Langley, of Upper Montague-street, Montague-
square, arrived, and expressed an unqualified opinion that
decomposition was going on ; but there was not the slightest
effluvium from the body. On Saturday it was further appa-
rent. There appears, however, to be a variety of opinions
amongst the medical men. It has been stated by a brother
of the deceased, that Mr. Callaway had said that there had
been paralysis of the brain, and if the medical gentleman
first called in had proceeded to bleed the patient in the jugular
vein, there was a strong probability that life would have
been restored. Mr. Langley was decidedly of opinion that
deceased died instantaneously from enlargement of the heart.
The case, however, was extraordinary. He had had one
case within his own practice where a man who had died from
intoxication lay 24 days without change. The deceased,
Francis, has lain 28 days. All the medical men agreed that
it was a most remarkable case, and urged that a post mortem
examination should take place, to satisfy the relations, and
remove the impression which has been existing against the
medical gentleman who was called in. On Friday the Coro-
ner had a conversation with Mr. Francis, sen., on the subject.
Mr. Hope has requested the reporter to explain that his ob-
ject in having a pillow placed under the head was not to pre-
vent II
an effusion of blood on the head, but to elevate it suffi-
ciently to admit of a free circulation. A post mortem exami-
nation will take place on Wednesday next.
SINGULAR CASE OF SUDDEN DEATH.—On
Sa-
turday a young woman, named Jane How, expired under
the following circumstances :—She resided at Stratford, and
having an affection of the chest, left home in the morning,
and with her mother rode in an omnibus to the London Hos-
pital for medical relief. She bad got out of the omnibus; and
was walking to the door of the hospital, when a sudden gust
of wind blew in her face, and she appeared at that moment to
be deprived of breath. Her mother carried her into the
waiting-room, but she was then quite dead. Strange to say,
the inquest was held in little more than half an hour after
her death, and before the body was cold, as Mr. Baker, the
Coroner, being there at the time investigating another case,
made use of the same jury. A verdict of " Died by the visi-
tation of God" was returned.
IMMENSE PORPOISE FOUND AT SALT MARSH.—On
Monday last, two young men of the name of Roberts were
surprised at finding on the marsh a large porpoise, which
had been left by the tide. It was conveyed to Woolbank,
and found to measure eight feet seven inches in length, four
feet four inches in circumference, and supposed to weigh up-
, wards of 5001bs.—Chester Chronicle.