The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-12 00:00:00

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The Duke and Duchess d'Aumale and the Prince de
Joinville reached Marseilles on the sth instant. A tri-
umphal arch had been crested near that part of the port
which touches the Canebiere. Its summit was on either
side blazoned with the arms and initials of the Duke and
Duchess d'Aumale, and the sides and front were deco-
rated with trophies representing the battles of Tangiers,
Mogadore, the Sniala, and Biscora. They landed at the
triumphal arch, traversed the Canebiere, the rue de St.
Feriol, to the Hotel d'Orient, in the rue Grignon, the
air resounding with the firing of guns, the ringing of
bells, and the voices of thousands of persons shouting,
" Vive le Duke d'Aumale," " Vive la Duchess," " Vive
le Prince de Joinville," " Vive le Roi," &c. At ten

o'clock the royal party went to the theatre ; their recep
tion was most enthusiastic.

The cold is still increasing at Paris. On Monday
morning, at six o'clock, the centigrade thermometer
marked 9.4 degrees below zero (15 Fahrenheit). The
last severe winter felt at Paris was in 1838, the thermo.
meter at the Observatory being down to 19 degrees cen-
tigrade (2 below zero of Fahrenheit). At 9 degrees
centigrade (16 Fahrenheit), if.continued for two or three
days, the Seine freezes over.
The Courrier Francais says:—" Since 1890 the Halle
Au Bld has never been so bare of flour as at present.
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The official returns of Friday show only 6,976' quintals

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in store. The consumption per day is 1,588 quintals, so
that there remained at that time not more than two days'
provision. This circumstance has caused an advance in
price. The late severe weather has, by the freezing of
the canals, been a main cause of the present small
supply.
The number of pupils at the Royal and Communal
Colleges of France is at present not less than 57,278.
Last year, at the same period, they were only 53,864,
which shows an increase of 3,414 pupils.
The Memorial des Pyrenees states that a French sloop,
having fifteen men on board, went down on Thursday
last in the Bay of Saint Jean de Luz, and every soul
perished. The name of the vessel is not given.
The Academie de Misdkine having received several
very interesting works on the plague, and being charged
by an express ordonnance to make a report to the Go-
vernment on the subject, has appointed a committee of
eleven of its members to take into consideration the
above, and all other documents that are likely to throw
light on all the questions which have arisen on this
important matter.
The Constitutionnel states that at Saragossa, on the
26th ult., all the persons found in the streets wearing
cloaks, 400 in number, were arrested by the authorities,
but only 80 of them were retained in custody. The
wives of several of the prisoners having assembled, and
demanded the release of their husbands, tke Captain-Ge-
neral threatened to employ force if they did not retire.
The motive of these arrests is not stated. Similar pro-
ceedings have taken place at Almeria and Alicant, and
the whole of the province of Teruel has been declared in
a state of siege.
The Verdad of Barcelona, of the Ist, says :—" We
have just learned, by a letter from General Prim him-
self, that he is on his way to Cadiz, where he is to em-
bark immediately fur the Philippine Islands to undergo
his sentence. lie says in his letter that whit gives him
most pain is being compelled to abandon his aged
mother, without being able to leave her any reiources
for 11,,r support."
Some time ago, at Munich, a girl six years of age
was placed as dead in an open coffin, in what is called in
that country the hall of death, preparatory to interment.
On the following day she was found playing with the
white roses which had been strewed over her. The
keeper of the hall took her in his arms, and carried her
to her mother. In France (says the Presse, which men-
tions this fact), where there is no precautionary measure
of this kind, the child would have been buried alive.