The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-14 00:00:00

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Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Fiye per Cents. ex div 121 50 .. 121 70 .. 121 40 .• 121 70
Four per Cents. .. • • 104 50 • • 105 • • 104 50 .. 104 75
Three per Cents.• •• • 82 78 .. 82 75 .. 82 70 • • 82 75
Bank of France••.•... 3260 • • 3260 —3260 ••3260
Laffitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesllos .. 1105 ••1105 • • 1105
5,000 f. SharesboB7 50 .•5087 50 ..5087 50 ..5087 50
Belgian Bank .. ••.• • • •• • . 660 .. 660 .. 660 . • 660
Belgian Fives .••••• • • .. • . lost .. tost .. 1051 • • 105

1840
1842

Threes ..
Dutch Two-and-a-Half 57} .. 58 • • 57i • • 58
Spanish Active .•• • • • 34 • • 34 . • 34 .. 34
Pa55ive............ 61 • • 64 • . 64

Threes
Portuguese Five per Cents •
_ _ _

.. 36 • . 36
.. 47 • • 47

.. 3Gi
• . 47

Neapolitan lO2 50 • • 102 65 .. 102 50 .. 102 50
Roman 1061 • . 1061 • • 106 i .. 1061
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain ......... ..... 835 .. 83.5 .. 83.5

Versailles, R. 8....... • • • ... 380 .. 380

• 380

L. 8.•• •••• •• •••• 175 .. 175 .. 175

Rouen ........ • • • • •.. .
Rouen to Havre 687 50 .. 687 50 .. 687 50 ..

Orleans . 890 .. 891 25 •. 887 50 •.
Strastairgito Bale ..
Avignon tolplarseilles.
RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
Versailles, R. 8.• • .• • •

L. 8............. 175 .. 175 .. 175
Rouen 890 .. 896 25 .. 890

Rotten to llarre 687 50 .. 687 50

687 50 ..

Orleans • • • • • . • • 890 893 75 •• 887 50 • •
Strasburg to Bale •
Avignon to Marseilles •, • • 776 • • 780 • • 771 25 • •

835
380
175
695
687 50
891 25
246 25
775

382 50
175

687 50
822 50
248 75
771 24

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The total number
of deaths during the week ending Saturday, 9th March,
was 1,030, showing a decrease, as compared with the
previous week, of 25, and being only 23 above the ave-
rage. There has been an increase in deaths from
diseases of the lungs, the number being 375, while, in
the week ending March 2, it was 366, average 330. In
epidemic and contagious diseases, including measles,
scarlatina, small-pox, and hooping cough, there is a de-
crease, as compared with the previous week, of 24
measles 32, average 19 ; scarlatina 40, average 25 ;
hooping-cough 43, average 42 ; small-pox 16, average
21. In nearly all the rest, with the exception of diseases
in the lungs, there is a decrease. The following is the
analysis of deaths under that head:—Bronchitis 37,
average 19 ; pneumonia 113, average 91 ; consump-
tion 150, average 146—total 375, average 330. Old
age 63, average 88 ; violent deaths 12, average
25. Of the 16 persons who died of small-
pox 11 had not been vaccinated. The analysis
of deaths by violence is 4, from contusion, burns,
and scalds 4, suicide 2, suffocation by meat 1, and 1
from a wound. - The thermometer was lowest on the
6th, 24 3 degrees, and highest on the 9th, 55.6 degrees.
In the register kept at the Greenwich Observatory, the
mean height only of the barometer each day is given, so
that we have no means from this table of ascertaining
the great and rapid fluctuations which it has undergone
during the last week. It was highest on the Bth, 30.1
degrees, and lowest on the 4th 29.2.

ILLNESS of the KING of SWEDEN.
The following are the latest accounts published at Stock-
holm :

FEB. 28, 1 P.M.—His Majesty had some hours rest last
night, but no change has taken place.
FEn. 29.—His Majesty had some hours refreshing sleep
last night, and he is not so faint as for some days past. The
foot and leg are not worse.
MARCH I.—His Majesty has had a restless night, and did
not get any sleep till towards the morning. He is, however.
in the same state as yesterday. The Hereditary Prince
Charles, being now convalescent, no bulletins have been issued
since the 28th of February.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
Henry Meyer, a very fashionably dressed young man, re-
siding at No. 87, Park-street, Grosvenor-square, and whose
connexions are stated to be of the highest respectability, was
placed at the bar on the following charge :
Police-constable No. 26 of the C division, stated that be-
tween twelve and one o'clock this morning, as he was
on duty in Park-street, he saw the defendant in a very in-
toxicated state, nearly opposite to his own residence. He
was accompanied by a friend, who was endeavour-
ing to persuade him to go home. After some time
the defendant threw his hat into the carriage-way,
and on witness picking it up and returning it to
him, he struck him a blow of tremendous force on the cheek
with his clenched fist, which knocked him down. On getting
up the defendant again knocked him down, and then fell
heavily upon him ; after which he kicked him twice in a
savage and brutal manner, in a part of his person likely to
produce very serious and probably fatal consequences. Even-
tually the defendant was overpowered, and taken to the sta-
tion-house.

Two other charges of violent assault were preferred against
the defendant by police-constables who assisted in taking him
into custody.
The defendant said that he had drank to excess, and was
quite unconscious of what had occurred. He was, however,
most sincerely sorry for his misconduct.
Mr. ILutpwicic said, that in such a flagrant case an ex-
ample must be made of the evil-doer, and he should there-
fore fine the defendant 51. each for the first and second as-
saults he had committed, and 21. for the third, as it was not
of such a violent character as the preceding ones.
The defendant immediately paid the 12/. and was liberated.

QUEEN-SQUARE.-(THIS DAY.)
Dennis Coughlan, a crossing-sweeper, was charged by the
authorities of St. Margaret's parish with refusing to support
his wife and child, who thereby became chargeable to that
parish.

His wife, a quiet, subdued-looking woman, attired in the
workhouse garb, said that her husband was continually ill-
treating her, which compelled her to leave him and to reside
with her mother. He refused to allow the merest trifle for
her maintenance or that of his child. He swept a crossing
in Bridge-street, Westminster, immediately adjacent to the
law courts and the Houses of Parliament, and was in the
habit of taking a good deal of money from benevolent pe-
destrians, sometimes as much as 9s. a day. She had left him,
owing to his conduct, nine times, and each time on her re-
turn she had been obliged to leave him, so that it would be
worse than useless to make another attempt to live with him.
Coughlan, who was very decently dressed, said that the
crossing in very wet weather yielded no more than is 6d. or
2s. a day ; in fact, there was only six good months in the year,
and he had been laid up with rheumatics for five months.
He was willing to " forget and forgive" the past, or to allow
his wife is. a week.

The Clerk of the Court said, the crossing on which he
bestowed his attention was one of the best in London, and
yielded a vast deal more than Coughlan had stated.—He
spent all his earnings in drink.
Mr. BURRELL expressed his surprise at the smallness of the
sum, and intimated to Coughlan that he should commit him
for a month to the House of Correction if he did not allow
his wife more than the sum he had stated.
Coughlan said he would allow her 2s. a week.
His offer was accepted, and he was discharged.