The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-21 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Leeds Mercury.)
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, SEPT. 18.—The present
has been a dull week for sales, prices are firm and sta-
tionary. Good blanket wools are scarce, and in mo-
derate request.
TRADE OF LEEDS.—There has been very little bu-
siness done at the Cloth Balls this week in the general
run of goods that arc brought to market, but in heavy
goods of better qualities there has been a very fair busi-
ness done, considering the short supply. The stocks
of ;Nods generally are less than they were in the spring,
and prices continue firm. There has been a decided
improvement in the warehouses during the week.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—The wetness of
the day has no doubt tended to retard business opera-
tions in the Piece! Market. The goods sold have con-
sisted principally of Figures, Orleans, and Saxony cloths,
which are very scarce in the market. Prices very firm.
Tile Yarn Market continues to be in good request,
without any alteration in prices. The wool trade con-
tinues dull, and there are no symptoms of any improve-
ment in prices, as the consumers still buy very spa-
ringly.
TRADE or MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—
There has been a steady and continued fair inquiry for
most descriptions of power and handloom cloth since
this day se'nnight ; and all unfavourable impressions
produced by the reeent failures appear to have taken
their departure. The better qualities of handloom may
be said to be in considerable demand. In prices (Mere
cannot be noted any change. In yarns a continued
good business has to ho reported : and which will pro-
bably continue until the termination of the usual ship-
ping season. Tire inquiries to-day, however, have been
rather snore limited. In the warehouses is doing an in-
crease4l business, most buyers laying in extra stocks,
especially such as come from the farming districts, a
certain favourable omen.

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 Saturday, the
12:11 S,Ttemb. r,1840." The Table is issued from the Office
of the Registrar-General:—

Weekly
Total. Average
_ _

CAUSES OP ISZATX.

18:311:.
Epidemic, Endemic, arid Contagious Diseases. 176 -- 265
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 172 158
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
Diseases of the Hea-t and Bloodvessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion lOl 57
' Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Cisildled, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c ....4 1 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Ohl Age, or Natural Decay 42 79
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intempei ante 22 26
Causes not specified
Deaths from all causes.. -
Average Weekly Deaths ... 1,013
Deaths in the Average Weekly
Week. Deaths, 1838.
Westcra Districts ... 110 ...... 156
North Districts
Central Districts 169 ...... 208
East Districts 2ll ...... 239
South Districts ...

(From the Carlisle Journal.)
Poor Jane Prest, of Workington, will not speedily
rorget the terrible consequences of having a Church
'stablished by law for the benefit of the poor. While
she lies on her straw bed in her narrow cell in the gaol
of Carlisle, carefully guarded by strong doors, locks,
and boite, she has plenty of time to reflect. on the tender
:nercies of that law which Bishops and Churchmen ad-
minister ; and which they uphold as necessary for the
spread of Christianity and the diffusion of the mild
doctrines of J..sus Christ throughout the land.
We Bill, as briefly as possible, recapitulate the main
uo!nts of the case. A pew in the Parish Church of
.Workinoen belonged to the g-andfather of Jane Prost ;
it descended to her mother, and lastly to herself and her
cPer sister Mary Prest. Seine property situate Kt Wins-
(tales, which belonged to the grandfather, was brought
some twenty or thirty years ago, by Mr. J. Harrison, of
Whitehaven, formerly a banker and brewer, and a magis-
trate of this county. In right of this property, Mr. Harri-
PA RIS AND ORLEANS It AnwAy.—On son claims the pew in question. This right was
Thuradsy the Duke of Orleans, the Ministers of Corn- disputed by the mother of Miss Prest. Whether
:Tierce and Justice, the Under-Secretaries of State for the Mr. Harrison's claim be well or ill founded, we
liiterier and Public Works, the Prefect of the Seine-et- pretend nut to say : nor is it of any conse-
Oise, the Marquise de Lamorclie, as representative of the
u c Miss Prest believes it is not. At the last
Prefect of the Seine, General Jacqueminot, and other per- 1 .e.n
sons of distinction, made a trip along the Paris and Or- .Visitation but one of the Bishop of the diocese, Mary
leans Railroad to Corbel). They were received there by ths Prest followed his Lordship to Whitehaven (having
Sub- Prefect, Mayor, and municipality of the town. The failed to obtain an interview with him at Workington)
passages there road back again to Paris were each made in and showed bile cc, tale documents which she conceived
three-quarters of an hour. Invitations have been sent to gave her a title to the disputed pew ; and was told by
about 1,500 persons for to-day and to-morrow, and, as we him that if he had seen these papers at Workington he
have already announced, the line will be opened to the, could have put the matter to rest ; that she could not
public on Sunday.—Paris Print of Friday. be disturbed ; and that he would see it righted when he
LONGEVITY.—One of those fine old specimens visited Workington. We name this fact only to show
of " a healthier age," named Violet Harkness, at present the ground on which Miss Prest believed that she had a
residing at Cieator, and whose venerable head has been 4 good claim to the disputed pew, without regarding it as
whitened by the mows of one hundred and two winters, invalidating the claim of Mr. Harrison. Mary Prest, the
tweed out into the harvest field last week, and cut no less elder sister, continued to use the pew occasionally, but
than fourteen stooks of grain, which at three half-pence a
:Thee Prest was not even within the Church walls from
stook, amounted to Is. 9d.-_Whitehaven Herald. January, 1836, till after she received the citation for
39, ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY,AND "perturbation" in the beginning of 1840. Mary Prest
76, KING WILLIAM-STREET, BANK OF ENGLAND.— nad, in what she conceived to be the exercise of her
Deafness, and those who are slightly dull of hear- right, once, or perhaps oftener (for of this her sister
ing, and find a difficulty to catch the sound of Jane has no knowledge), refused to allow Mr. Harri-
s distant low speaker at a public assembly, will find
son's tenant, Mr. Hoodless, to enter the pew. In con-
e most astonishing advantage from the use of the
s
Messrs. S. and B. Solomons' Newly-invented Invisible sequence of this, proceedings were instituted in the
Operative Voice Conductor, which, when fixed into the Ecclesiastical Court of Richmond, by Mr. Harrison_N.r. Peter Hodgson, •of Whitehaven.
more uncomfortable than hating a piece of wool in itsl
cavity of the ear is so small, not the least perceptible, nor
his attorney being
A "citation" was issued calling, not on Mary, who had
place. By this extraordinary and valuable invention, not been the perturbator, if perturbation there was,
only does the hearing become acute, but the Ears ate so but on Jane Prest, to answer for "perturbation of
much improved from their use, that individuals, in a great a seat in the North Aisle of the Parish Church
number of instances, can hear most distinctly without them. of Workington." The sisters are poor women, who
It will, therefore, be seen that persons do not incur any carried on a little business as dress-makers and
constant habit of being compelled at all times to make use
milliners. They had no money to employ an at-
of them, and in consequence of the numerous individuals torney ; they had no friends with whom to advise
having been altogether relieved from deafness, they have
become in general use. The Messrs. Solomons' Newly. —or who could tell them what they ought to
invented Spectacle Lenses, immediately they are placed do ; but in their simplicity and ignorance, seeing the
before imperfect eyesight, either by day or candlejight, Bishop's name in the " citation," and believing that
every object becomes clear and distinct, and the most mi- he would remember what had passed between him
nute particle is seen with exact distinctness. Their and Mary Prest at Whitehaven on the subject of
valuable improvements in the material are secrets to them- the pew, Jane wrote to him, enclosing the citation,
selves, and are solely confined to their Establishments, and reminding him of what he'had said to her sister.
39, Albemarle-street, and 76, King William-street, Bank. This step the sisters looked upon as the proper one
No connexion with persons of the same name.
to take. The Bishop
,returned the, citation ; and on
The Board of Customs, having received a report the 9th of May a constable took Jane Prest into cus-
from Falmouth that certain contraband goods had been tody, for. " contempt" of Court, and on the following
found in the mail boat of the Royal Tar steamer, on her day
hem..
return from the Peninsula, on the 30th, sent down an dec tt'''')—lo'd,„eed her in Carlisle Gaol, where she has
order to detain the boat when the steamer should' o Sunday—(" the better day the better
gcl w r
again, which the officers effected on Monday, when she remainedher days
went on shore to receive the mails. Inconsequence of
the company having been made acquainted with the ex If ever there was a case of false imprisonment, this is
tensive illegal traffic of the crew of the steamer, they were surely one ; and deep is the responsibility of every one
all discharged, and two of them were passengers to Fal- connected with this cross and cruel infringement of the
mouth in the Devonshire steamer, where, on their arrival, liberty of the subject.
they were apprehended, and remanded to prison, to wait The cruelty of this proceeding does not end with the
the decision of the Board as to a prosecution being ineti- imprisonment of this unfortunate woman. As we have
tuted.— Globe. said, she and her sister maintained themselves by carry-
THE.,VAcc/NATION ACT._moDERN ing on a little business as dress-makers. Of this busi-
LeTlON.—This Act will, in all probability, be inoperative, ness Jane had the management, and took the active
inasmuch as that no powers are given to the Poor-law part, Since her imprisonment, the sister has been un-
Guardians to pay the necessary expenses to the medical able to carry it on,
and is now almost entirely dependent
officers :rem the Poor-rates. Another difficulty has also
been started. If the payment for vaccination is defrayed on charity for her
been ; and she is dtishtiruakcitnegd
hbeyrstehle
thouht of her sister's imprisonment f
e
out of that fund, that being, so doubt, the intention of the .°
Legislatnre, then thofchildvaccinated
c parent every sothe innocent cause of it. She frequently travels on foot
will be a pauper, and become disfranchised as a Parlia-
from Workington, a distance of 35 miles, to mingle
iN he/ tears with those nztary oe municipal elector. Consequently there will ha of her imprisoned sister ; and the
another job for the law-makers next Session to pass is An s distress to which both are
mreduced is incon,ceivablet;
Act to amend an Ant," which, in these days, is nothing Thinexpanses incurred,wt"h 1e paid before
ur,common.— Yorkshire Gazette.
I his poor wool au can be relieved from prison, amount
•

Total
It it stated that under the term Metropolis are coin.
prised the 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the
City c,f London vvithin and without the walls, the City and
Liberties of Westminster, the out parishes within the
bills of m.rtality—and the parishes of St. Marylebone ;
St. Rrneras ; Kensington.; Fulham ; Hammersmith
(Chapelry) ; St. Luke., Cheliea; Paddington ; St. Mary,
Stoke Newington; St. Leonard, Bromley; St. Mary-le-
bow ; Carnherwoll ; Greenwich ; St. Nicholas and St.
Paul, Dertford; and Woolwich. The population as enu-
merated in 1831 was 1,494,890. The weekly average for
1838 was obtained by dividing the deaths registered in that
year by 52. In comparing it with the weekly deaths in
184-0, it most be borne in mind that the metropolis, in-
creases nearly two per cent. annually ; and that, if the
population had br,en the same in 1838 as in 1840, the deaths
would have been 1-27th part more numerous.
General Register-office, Sept. 17. 1840.