The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 29, 1844.

jUST I C E T 0 IRELA N D. I prejudices, the forces, the influence, which layclearly
DINNER TO MR. O'CONNELL. 1 n prospect before them when the active spirits of the
This Dinner will take place at COVENT-GAR i
DEN THEATRE
on TUESDAY, the 12th of March, at Six o'Clock precisely. League commenced their arduous crusade—what-
Every attention will be paid to make the arrangements worthy of '
1
the occasion. The pit and stage of the theatre will be laid together, ever the ignorance or fatuity with which, SS their
and the tables spread over the whole area. The boxes will be en- labours were advanced, they had to contend—they
tirely reserved for ladles. The galleries will be opened, and admit-
tance to the boxes and galleries by tickets, which will be issned to the
stewards. brought to their mighty task faculties of mind and
Dinner Tickets, One Guinea each, to be had from the Stewards body which have proved more than equal to the de-
only. In consequence of the number to each Steward being limited, mands of each successive exigency. They have made
an early application Is requested.
The Tickets will be ready on Friday next. proselytes, by the force of argument and illustra•
3, Cleveland-row, St. James's, Feb. 26,1844. JAMES COPPOCK. tion alone, in every rank of society. From the
highest order of our long-descended and opulent
nobility, to the humblest, and poorest, and the
hardest-working sections of our working population,
they have equally recruited the ranks of their adhe-
rents. In every portion of the empire they have
pushed their cause with the same indomitable
activity and spirit—with the same average success.
The popularity and influence of the League are in-
creased and consolidated, in place of being exhausted
or endangered by these constant appeals to public
opinion. It carries about it a self-maintaining
excitement. The crowded attendance of last evening
demonstrates that the sympathy it has aroused in
all classes, on behalf of its great cause, is inex-
haustible—

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IJER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
SEASON 1844.
The following outline of the arrangements for the ensuing season
is respectfully presented to the Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public.

" Age cannot wither it,
Nor custom sate its infinite variety."
And, in truth, the merits of that cause are of a
magnitude and character, intrinsically, which out-
weigh all the splendour of the brilliant success that
has hitherto attended its advocacy, and are a more
eloquent testimony to the merits of its champions
than twenty such demonstrations as that, even,
of last night. For what is the constitu-
tional fight in which the League have en-
gaged ? It is a struggle on their part for
the abolition of a grinding monopoly, vested by an
improvident and iniquitous Legislature in one " class"
of the nation. On the part of that class it is a des-
perate struggle to retain what they fondly imagine a
privilege, which it must, now and permanently, be for
their signal benefit to retain. The poor feel that
' from this contest one of two alternatives must inevita-
bly result to them. The success of the League will
secure for their working hands, and for their half-
starved children, an abundant and cheap supply of
the first necessary of life at all times, and under any
of those often recurring fluctuations of trade and
de-
rangements of the currency to which they have been
made the first and most certain victims. The failure
of the League must hand them over to the tender
mercies of that Legislature, which, after cheering
them on through all the sufferings and burdens of a
wasting war of twelve years (reckoning from the
peace of Amiens) by their repeated pledges to relieve
them from their unnatural load of taxation on the
return of peace, profaned that auspicious event by
taxing more heavily than ever, from that moment,
the millions of bread consumers, for the palpable,
sordid, disgraceful, and fraudulent purpose of en-
hancing the rentals of themselves and some few
thousands of other bread growers. The in-
dustrious but ill remunerated mechanic and journey-
man—the struggling tradesman—the reduced or in-
digent pensioner—they who struggle " to maintain
appearances," or the class with which they are un-
fortunately connected by family or other relations, in
the hopeless effort to obtain an adequate measure of
monopoly-taxed subsistence out of their currency-
taxed pittances of income—these look forward
with intense solicitude to a consummation which may
enable them, at last, to participate in the bounties of
natural production from the enjoyment which the
iron hand of the monopolist has for nine-and-twenty
years rudely thrust them forth to pine in sickness or
perish in despair. The pro-corn-law landlords—
neither satisfied with the excessive rentals they have
long derived in virtue of the excessive prices which
the working of that law has obtained for the produce
of their acres, nor content to contribute their volun-
tary sacrifice to the mass of those compulsory ones
which the circumstances of the times and the " de-
mands of Parliament" have so largely exacted from
every other class of the people—are mad enough to
protract that which would, even now, be accepted as
a concession by those who will, ere long, indignantly
extort it as a just, but contumaciously withheld,
debt to the nation at large. The:final triumph of the
League is certain. The ultimate consequences of
such impracticability in their opponents no man can
venture to predict.

ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE OPERA.
Madame Grisi, Madlle. M. Favanti (her first appearance at this
Theatre), Madame Bellini, Madame Dal Fiori, and Madame Persian!.
Signor Mario, Sig. Correlli (his first appearance at this Theatre),
SL:. Dai Fiori, Sig. Felice (his first appearance at this Theatre), Sig.
Fornasari, Sig. F. Lablache, and Sig. Lab!ache.
Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor, Sig. Costa.
THE BALLET.
3fadlle. Carlotta Grisi, Madlle. Adelaide Frasi, of the Teatro di
Pergola, Florence (her first appearance at this theatre) ; Mad. Guy
Stephan ; Madlle. Scheffre, Madlle. Ferdinand, Madlle. Planquet,
Madlle. Barville (their first appearance at this theatre) ; Madlle.
Fanny Elssler, and Madlle. Cerito ; M. St. Leon, M. Montassu (his
first appearance in this country), M. Coulon, M. Gosselin, M.
Gouriet, M. Venafra, M. Bertram, and M. Perrot, and a numerous
and efficient Corps de Ballet.
Arrangements arc also pending with Madlle. Taglionl, and there is.
every probability that the talent of this eminent artiste will be se-
cured for a limited number of representations.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 29,
Will be repeated a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, called THE
BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Mr. Borrani •' Thaddeus,
Mr. W. Harrison; Arline, Miss Rainforth; Queen of the Gipsies,
Miss Betts. After which,
Will be repeated Albert's celebrated Ballet of THE BEAUTY
OF GHENT. Marquis de San Lucar, M. Albert; Benedict, M.
Hoguet Vestris; Beatrix, Mdlle. Fleury ; Agnes, Mdlle. Clara
Webster; Julia, Madame Petit Stephan • Diana, Mdlle. O'Bryan.
Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. (id. ;' Upper Circles of Boxes 55,,
second Price 3s. ; Pit 38 , Second Price 25.; Middle Gallery
8 'cond Price Is.; Upper Gallery le., Second Price 6d.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
11. M. ' CONCER&
JULLIEN has theJULLIEN honourS to announceas nouncce that his ANNUAL
BENEFIT will take place THIS EVENIN6, February 29.
PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING—PARP L
Overture, Anacreon—Cherubini.
Scotch Quadrille, with the imitation of the Highland Pipe—Jullien.
Solo, Cornet-a-P;ton, Herr Koenig.
Grand Symphony (first movement), entitled The Power of Sound—
Spohr.
Solo, Flute, Mr. Richardson.
I alse I.a Cal le—Jullien.
The Destruction of Pompeii— RochAlhert.

PART
The Nightingale Waltz—Jullien. 11.
Opera, Robert le Diable, Grand Fantasia, with Solos—Meyerbeer.
10, Violoncello, M. Filet.
Selections from Stabat Mater—Rossini.
Valse, La Valse a Deux Tems—Jullien.
The English Quadrille—Jullien.
Doors Open at Halt-past Seven, commence at tight o'Clock.
Promenade, Is , Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle, Qs. dd. ; Private
Boxes, It. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-office of the
Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New
Rind-street ; Mr. Sams, St. James's
-street; and M. Jullien's Office,
Maddo x-st eet, Bond-street.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
MIL BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 29,
Will lac performed a New Comic Drama, entitled GRIST TO THE
MILL. Marquis de Richeville, Mr. Charles Mathews; Francine,
Madame Vestris.
After which, a New Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir
Charles Coldstream, Bart., Mr. Charles Mathews; Sir Adonus
Leech, Mr Tilbury; Wurzle, Mr. James Bland; Mary, Miss Julia
Bennett; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs. Humby.
To conclude with a New I airy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR
ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr.
J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora,
Mks Julia Bennett.

Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, 58. ' • Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 25.; Upper
Gallery, Is. Half-price—Boxes 38. ; Pit 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper
gallery, Cxl. Doors opened at half.past Six, and the Performance
commence at Seven.

......
Tickets and- Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box.
office, from Ten till Five.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 29,
Will be performed Bellini's Opera Seria, NORMA. Polio, Mr.
Wood ; Oroveso, Mr. Wei s ; Norma, Mts. Weod ; Adel_isa, Miss
Grant; CloWda, Miss Floyd.
After which, a New Petite Comedy, called AGED FORTY. Sir
Harry Wilder, Mr. Walter Lacy; Mr. Dapper, Mr. Oxberty; Lady
Clifton, Miss Fortescue.
To conclude with a New Farce, called BOUNCE; or, The
Ojibbeway Indians.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHT,
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 29,
Will be repeated, by permission of Charles Dickens, Esq., THE
CHRISTMAS CAROL. Principal Characters—Messrs. 0. Smith,
Wright, Lyon, Maynard, Forman, Miss Woolgar. Mrs. F. Ma'hews,
Miss Chaplin, and Miss Lee.
To be followed by ANTONY AND CLEOPAT/tA MARRIED
AND SETTLED. Antony, Ms. Wright; Cleopatra, Miss Woolgar.
After which, the Tragedy of RICHARD I'HE THIRD. Ri-
chard, Mr. Wright; Lady Anne, Miss E. Stanley.
To conclude with THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY .29,
Will be performed a New Drama, entitled THE LAST SHIL-
LING, supported by all the Company.
After which, The Armenian Prodigy, or Wonderful Ariel Pole
Dancer.
To be followed by A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by "Boz," with
splendid Appointments.
To conclude with THE PLEDGE OF LOVE.

That insurrectionary movements and revolts, which
have so incessantly agitated the Southern States of
Europe within the last ten or twelve years, should
still, even after that lapse of time, have lost so little of
their activity as, at this moment, to convulse both
Spain and Portugal, is rather a moral necessity than
any political phenomenon. It is the result—more to
he deplored than marvelled at—of a reaction, excited
by a recent experience of free institutions, which is
still warring against the Governments and prejudices
of many past centuries—against the moral and social
habits, the tone of thought, and the bent of feeling
engendered by them. We must not too nar-
rowly scan the political errors of parties whom
we assume to be in earnest in their efforts
to consolidate their newly-achieved liberties, if
they become somewhat reckless in the pursuit
of so favourite an object ; or if, distracted by
the various courses of action which present them-
selves for their adoption, they dally with the means
till they lose the end. Considerations of this kind
especially apply to the position of Portugal,
as contradistinguished from that of Spain, at
the present day. In Spain, all the elements of
feverish excitement appear to have recombined
of late, for the sole purpose of working out, in a war of
partisans, and amidst the public ruin which has been
thereby entailed upon the country, a 'fierce and
grinding military despotism. In Portugal, not-
withstanding the strife of parties, and the
interruptions of unprincipled intrigue, the
advance of the people has been more gradual, but
more steady, and further, in the direction of ultimate
freedom. Yet it cannot be denied that the existing
Government of her Most Faithful MAJESTY has not
abstained from serious violations of what may be
considered the fundamental constitution of the
kingdom, namely, that of 1829, and her Most
Faithful MAJESTY'S decree of February 1842. It
is as little to be- doubted that during the last
two years instances have occurred in which
her MAJESTY'S Ministers must be held to have
exercised an undue constraint and control over
the spontaneous acts of their Royal Mistress. This
species of virtual coercion, on the part of COSTA
CAnRAL and others, and the delinquencies and de

THE WEATIIER.---SuN OFFICE, FEB. 29.
THER3IOMETER, Lowest, 32 ; Highest, 452- Noon, 45.
BAROMETER, 29.7.—W1ND, S.V.
NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TINS DAY.
Morning .• 49 minutes after 9 I Evening 33 minutes after 10.

ficiences of their administration of foreign and do

mestic affairs, appear to have induced the recent hostile
movement of Count BOMFIM, ex-Minister of War.
His proclamation, addressed " to Portuguese citizens
and soldiers," breathes the same fervent and devoted
loyalty towards the person and authority of the Queen
of PORTUGAL as he unquestionably manifested
throughout the whole of his career, after the death
of the Regent JoAo VI. to her Most Faithful MA-

JESTY'S Illustrious:father, Dom PEDRO IV., the Duke
of BRAGANZA. The Count declares that his move-
ment is against the present Ministry of the QUEEN,
who, in consequence of the violent restraint in which
they hold their Royal Mistress, "prevent her from
fulfilling her gracious promises on promulgating the
decree referred to, and from attending to the desires
and petitions of her people."
The Count's proclamation thus designates the pre-
sent Minister of Portugal:"—
" This Ministry, guided by a man who has no creed, and
has no love of country, who looks to nothing but his own in-
terest, and who is blinded by the unbounded ambition which
rules him, ready to alter his system or political opinions ac-
cording to the profit which may result to him, always ready
to sacrifice those with whom lie may have been most inti-
mately connected, and even to pronounce as enemies of the
State, those who will not lend themselves to become tools of
his caprices, or who do not aid in his brutal despotism. This
Ministry has placed us on the frightful abyss which threatens
to engulf us.'

Ti-ie proclamation, after eulogizing the unalterable
loyalty of the people and the army to the Sovereign,

describes the grievances under which they labour,
" which have caused the disappearance of 'public
rights, and of individual security, and the overbur-
dening of the people with taxes." The wrongs of
the army are largely detailed and insisted on.
The Count then appeals, by all the stirring recol-
lections and great names of Portuguese history, to his
fellow-citizens and soldiers to unite with him in
" saving their country, the QUEEN, and their liberty I's
The time, he says, has now arrived for so noble
an attempt.

It seems evident, both from the language of many
of these passages, and from that of a very remarkable

farewell address to its readers in the Revoluscao of the

Bth instant, that some transactions have taken place in
the communications between the Crown and its
Ministers, of which we have not yet learned the par-
ticulars. In the course of the editor's address, he de-
clares that on the morrow the whole liberties of Por-
tugal will have been trampled under foot and extin-
guished by the Ministry of the QUEEN, " who is ac-
customed," he remarks, "to be coerced." " To-
morrow there will not be even these formalities—
neither tribunal, nor Parliament ....no property, no
liberty, no press !"
As we observed in a former article, the well-known
loyalty, merits, and services of Count BoMFlM—his
past favour with the QUEEN and her Royal Consort—
his intrepidity and success in the field, and his ad-
mirable administration in the Cabinet both as Foreign
and as War Minister, leave the whole affair at pre-
sent under a painful mystery, which is not dimi-
nished by the brief announcement we have received
of the Count's arrest at Elvas.

Since the above article was written we have later
news from Portugal, which effectually discredit the
account of Count BOMFIM'S arrest, but gives us no
further intelligence of the movements of that officer.
On the 16th of February, in conformity with a com-
munication, dated on the 10th, and addressed by him
from Herdada de Torre to the commandant of the

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7th Military Division, Boamm was expected at
Lisbon. He had declared " that he would put him-
self en route as soon as possible, in order to present
himself at the capital." He adds, that he had been
at the residence of his friend the Count D'AvuEz,
where he received the orders of the Minister of War,
and that when his state of health permitted he would
not fail to earry his purpose into effect.
On the I9th, the intelligence reached Lisbon that
Bosinac had placed himself at the head of the insur-
gents, and that Count D'Avu.Ez, a general officer, had
also joined them; but the latter part of the intelli-
gence, with respect to Avuzz, has been subsequently
contradicted.

A proclamation of the Count, on his joining the
insurgents, was issued on the 14th inst., from which
the following are extracts
" Inhabitants of Lisbon, and soldiers of the garrison !—I
have taken command of a division, which, in a short time,
will present itself before the capital, firmly resolved to make
a reality of the sacred promise which was given to us on the
10th of February, 1842.
" Portuguese ! the brave men who accompany me are your
friends, your companions in arms. All of them respect and
desire the Constitutional Charter of 1826, but all of them
have been betrayed as you have been : to all a promise was
made and has been broken.

" The Constitutional Charter does not exist ; Costa Cabral
is the only Power of the State.
" To arms, brave companions of glory !
"The Constitutional Charter 1 And the Queen free from
restraint ! The faithful execution of the sacred promise of
the 10th of November, 1842. " COUNT BOMFIM.
" Head-quarters, in Alcaia, Feb. 14, 1844."

The intelligence from Madrid, which is to the 21st
instant, is of the same painful character. According
to a dispatch from General RONCALI, he opened his
fire against Alicant on the 17th, at one o'clock in the
morning, and had thrown a great number of shells
into the town. The insurgents made a sortie, but
were driven back. The horrible butcheries on both
sides continued unabated, and scenes of a still more
horrid description are anticipated on the fall of Alicant,
which cannot hold out long. According to one report,
RONCALI had already shot one in every five of his
prisoners, who amounted to more than two hundred
and all the insurgents, taken in two Custom-house
sloops, were ordered to be shot on deck.

The Gazette publishes a decree, re-establishing the
Papal tribunal of the Rota, suppressed by a decree
of the Provisional Regency of the 29th of Decem-
ber, 1840.

The Three per Cents. were done at 29i for cash
and 30f at sixty days ; and the Five per Cents. al
21f for cash, and 22} at sixty days.

'We are agreeably disappointed in the articles
which appear in the French Opposition Journals of
Tuesday, on the announcement respecting Otaheite,
given in the Moniteur of the previous day. From
the strong attacks which they have for ten days been
aiming at M. GUIZOT, and the friends of peace in
France, a terrible explosion might have been ex-
pected, but fortunately we have only a subdued mur-
mur, a sort of lamentation, that the dignity of
France had not been better maintained ; and that the
KING in Council had not, on the receipt of the in-
' telligence, proclaimed their intention, without
waiting for the opinions of Lord ABERDEEN
and Sir ROBERT PEEL. One of the most
violent of the journals belonging to this class,
the National, calmly observes :—" The:proceeding of
the Government was foreseen. When we read in
the English journals and in the report of the sittings
of Parliament, what interest England took in driving
us from Otaheite, we could easily foresee that
Otaheite would be given up. But M. GUIZOT, Who
is aware of the jealous avidity of our neighbours,
and who also knows how incapable he is of keeping
up any dignity with them, ought not to have waited
for their demands, but to have re-established Queen
POMARE before an order came from London. But
no ; he waited a fortnight, in order that the humilia-
tion might be complete—in order that it might be
clearly proved in the face of the world—that his
Cabinet is the very humble servant of Sir ROBERT
PEEL and Lord ABERDEEN." M. TRIERS' journal
takes nearly the same view. " When," it says,
" the English journals and the Houses of Parliament
call our Government to account for the resolute act
of Admiral DUPETIT TIIOUARS, an act of weakness
was naturally expected from our Cabinet. We, for
our part, fully looked for this, and said that we did
so. But since it resigned itself to making this new
concession to the entente cordiale, how can it have so
far failed in management as not to preserve appear-
ances ? As soon as the Ministry was in possession of
the Admiral's dispatches, it certainly must have com-
prehended that the news would be badly received in
London, and that strong remonstrances would be
made. Why did it not therefore at the first moment
gather courage from its weakness ? Why, resigned
as it was to the granting of everything that could be
asked, did it not take the initiative, and act with re-
solution before any demand was made upon it ? It is
possible, and we hope, for the honour of the coun-
try, it has been so, that there was a division in the
Council, and that some of its members have placed a
higher value on the feelings of the nation than on the
notes of Lord ABERDEEN. We willingly believe
that the Minister of Marine has not abandoned with-
out defence to the timorous rancour of M. GUIZOT
the work of a brave and loyal sailor, who in distant
seas has upheld the dignity of our flag. But these
oppositions, honourable as they unquestionably have
been, have only made The matter worse."
The France is very brief, but poetically eloquent.
It could not have described in a more heroic strain

the destruction of all the islands in the Pacific :
" The new and deplorable concession to England, in
the disavowal of Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS, has
outraged public opinion. The Chamber of Deputies
thrilled with agitation ; the Stock Exchange itself
experienced its effects, and the Funds felt the recoil of
this act of shame."

The Journal des Debats has no article on the sub-
ject; but another Ministerial paper, the Globe, con-
cludes a long argument with the following judicious
remarks :—" Speaking seriously, what difference is
there at bottom, between protecting and occupying.
As to what relates to the use which the Opposition
journals will make of the humiliation of France to
England, it is a piece of silliness, which men of sense
no longer think of. It is scarcely three months

since the English Government disavowed Commodore
PAULET when he took possession of the Sandwich
Islands. Great nations are like men of tried honour—
they can acknowledge their errors without being
afraid of an accusation of weakness."

The documents moved for in the Chamber, on Mon.
day, amount to nine, and extend over a period from
September, 1842, to November, 9, 1843. One of
these is the Report of Admiral DUPETIT THou.sats, to
which are attached two letters from Admiral THOUARS
to Queen PODIARE and the Great Chiefs, dated re-
spectively the Ist and 3d of November, 1843 ; and
another a letter from Queen POMARE to LOUIS
PHILIPPE, King of the French, also of the same date.
The debate on this is looked forward to with much
interest. Some surprise has been excited at Paris by
the departure of the KING, at this season, to the
Chateau d'Eu, and various causes are assigned.
Queen CHRISTINA arrived at Nimes'on the morning
of the 23d inst. The steam-boat in which her
MA-
JESTY passed along the Rhone being overtaken by the
night, she was obliged to land on the Ile de la Bar-
thelasse, which she crossed by torchlight. The Pre-
fect of Vaucluse offered her MAUS= his carriage, in

which she arrived safely at Nimes. The QUEEN went
the same day to Montpellier, whence she was to pro-
ceed direct to Narbonne, in which town she proposed
to rest on Sunday last, and on Monday to cross the
Spanish frontier.
On Tuesday the Three per Cents. closed at 82
20c. ; and the Fives at 125 f. 60c.
THE BOURSE—MONDAY, FEB. 26.
First Highest Lowest
Price. Prise. Price.
French Five per Cents. •• • • 125 60 • • 125 70 • • 125 60 •
Four per Cents. •• • • 106 25 • • 106 25 .. 106 25 .
Three per Cents.... • 82 20 .. 82 30 82 20 •
Bank of France. •. ••••• • .• • 3260 ..3260 •.3260 •
Laflitte Bank, 1,000. f. Sharesllo7 50 —llO7 50 ..1107 50 •
5,000 f. Sharesso77 50 • • 5077 50 • •5077 50 •
Belgian Bank .
Belgian Fives .•••••• • • . • • • • 106 .. 106 .. 105#
1840 •• •• •••• 108# .. 108 j .. 1081 .•
1842
Spanish Passive .•..••• • • • • • 51 .. .. ..
Old Deferred . • ..... 71 71 71
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 46 .. 461 • • 46# •
Neapolitan lO3 90 .. 103 90 .. 103 75 •
Roman lO6l • . 1061 • • 1061 •
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, R. 8.• • • • • • • • • • • • 345 73 .. 343 75 .. 343 75 •

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MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—III the week
ending February 27, there has been a decrease of 31
in the deaths, as compared with those of the previous
week ; but the excess over the average is still great,
amounting to 137. This arises chiefly from diseases
of the lungs. The average is 330, while last week
the number was 428. The deaths from bronchitis
were 63, average 19 ; from pneumonia 111, average
91 ; consumption 165, average 146 ; diseases of the
heart 41, average 21; dropsy 32, average 9. There
is a considerable decrease in violent deaths, the ave-
rage being 25, while last week the number was only
15, and of these 10 were from burns and scalds,
one was from drowning; no case of suicide is stated.
Of the 19 persons who died of small•pox, 12 had not
been vaccinated. The thermometer, according to
observations made at the Greenwich Observatory,
was lowest on the night of the 23d, marking 23.5
degrees (of Fahrenheit), and highest on the 24th;
being 48.3 degrees. In a note it is stated that the
changes in the height of the barometer have been
considerable. On Feb. 22d it stood at 29.1, on the
23d it had risen to 29.7, and on the 24th it had fallen
to 28.6, and at midnight rose to 29.5.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY).
The House sat to• day to hear appeals. The Peers present
were, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, Lord Abinger, and
Lord Campbell.

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