The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-05 00:00:00

THE KING OF PRUSSIA.

His Majesty the King of Prussia took leave yesterday
morning of the Queen, at Buckingham Palace, and left,
accompanied by Prince Albert, with an escort of the
Life Guards, at half-past nine o'clock for Woolwich, to
review the Royal Artillery. After the review his Ma-
jesty embarked- in the Firebrand steam-packet for the
Continent, accompanied by the Baron de Humboldt and
all his suite. The dejeuner which it was expected the
King would have partaken of with the officers of the gar-
rison, was countermanded, and the King lunched on board.
The Queen and Prince Albert are expected to leave
town to-day for Windsor Castle.

MONEY MARKET-and CITY NEWS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
POST.—There was to-day an improvement of h per cent.
in the value of the English securities. Money was worth 3
to 4 per cent., but there was very little doing either in Stock
transactions or in Loans, the general suspension of business
being caused, to a great extent, by the points mooted as to
what would, in AI probability, be the leading features of the
Queen's Speech in Parliament on the opening of the Session,
although, on this subject, the anticipations of the moneyed
interest seem to have been very fully borne out by the result.
The principal bearings of. the Speech are more than ordinarily
economical, or commercial, and they certainly convey the as-
surance that mea'ures calculated to mitigate the pressure
which is just now found to rest so heavily upon the mercantile
energies of the community will be brought forward, yet not
without a due regard to the deranged condition of the national
financies as bequeathed to the present Government by the an-
tecedent one.
CHRONICLE.-The Royal Speech possesses one merit,
however, which we willingly award it. It is an assurance to
the friends of free trade that their opinions are triumphant.
No sophistry, can destroy that fact, and we rejoice at the tri-
bute of praise which the principles of free international inter-
course have thus extorted from their foes. There can be no
more attempts to dispute the great extent of misfortune and
decay which pervade all classes of our manufacturing popula-
tion—no more references to savings' bank figures and statistics
to prove that the country was really prosperous if the people
only would believe it. Truth has come out at last. The ex-
tent and danger of the national malady are at length avowed.
It is earnestly desired that the revision of the tariff on im-
ports may be vigorously proceeded with, and that the Macgregor
scale of consolidation will be adopted. All depends on the extent
to which the change in the Corn and Provision-laws is carried
out by Parliament. Nothing short of a moderate fixed duty
can afford safety to the Bank of England against sudden de-
mands on her specie ',Auks, and until that object be attained
the manufacturing interests must be exposed to sudden con-
vulsions and panics in the Money Market, accompanied with
violent contractions in the currency, which depress prices and
produce general insolvency and national distress.
It is impossible to obtain a steady supply of foreign corn
under any fluctuating scale of duty. While the duty fluctuates
no foreign merchant can send corn for sale to this country in
exchange for British goods; because, although he can ascertain
what the cost of the goods will be, he cannot know how much
corn will be taken for it. Any calculations which he can
make are subjected to the influence of a varying duty, which
renders all his attempts to bring the transaction to a certain
result impossible.
TIMES.—The Speech from the Throne has had no very
material effect on the public securities, but the effect, such as
it was, was rather favourable than otherwise. The recommen-
dation that the laws relaiing to imports should be reconsidered
is thought to augur well for the commercial intere:ts of the
country, now that the Government is in the hands of those in
whom a general confidence is felt. It is evident, likewise,
that a permanent revenue is contemplated for equalizing the
income of the country with the expenditure, and as that is
opposed to the notion of any fresh creation of stock, it naturally
tends to produce a firmness in the public securities, especially
as there is no corroboration of the report concerning an income-
tax in the Speech.
Under these circumstances, the Consul market has remained
steady throughout the day, being moreover sustained by the
arrival of better prices from Paris, and a few purchases in the
early part of business. I 1

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in the ,week ending Jan. 29, 1842." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General :

Weekly
Average
1838-9-40.1
CAITSICS OF MEATH. Total.
Four I Four
Winters Year s
Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 169 199 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 176 160 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
Diseases of the Heat and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other

'Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 7 5 4
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &e lO 11 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Museles 0 7 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c...., 1 1 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat 142 115 104
01. d Age, or Natural Decay lO9 90 69
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intern-

perance
Causes not specified
Deaths from all tenses. 1116
Average Weekly Deaths lOl7 912

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Population Average Deaths
elm- Weekly in
merated Deaths the
1041. 183,-1,4 '-1. Reek.