The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-22 00:00:00

DOWNING-STREET, Aua. 20.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Lord Viscount
Falkland to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Nova
Scotia.

Quarterly Average of the Weei
Bank of England, from the
August, 1840, both inclusive,
3 and 4 W. IV., cap. 98.
LIABILITIES, ASSETS.
Circulation ..£17,128,000 Securities ........£23,152,000
Deposits ... 7,701,000 Bullion 4,560,000

Liabilities and Assets of the
e 26th of May to the 18th of
published pursuant to the Act,

£24,829,000 I
Downing-street, August 20,

1840.

£27,712,000

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
JOHN HEARN the younger, bookseller, Salisbury.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

THOMAS ATKINSON, salt-manufacturer, Northwich.

BANKRUPTS.

HORATIO WYER, tailor, Newington-causeway, to sur-
render Aug. 28, at eleven, and Oct. 2, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Copiball-build-
ings; Dickson and Overbury, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
HENRY SIIUTE, and WILLIAM SHUTE, cabinet-
makers, Leeds, Sept. 8, at two, and Oct. 2, at ten, at the
Commissioners'-rooms, Leeds. Battye, Fisher, and Sudlow,
Chancery-lane, and Walker, Furnival's-inn, London; Naylor,
or Blackburn, Leeds.
EDWARD FOSTER, grocer, Sheffield, Sept. 2, and Oct.
2, at eleven, at the Town-hall. Sheffield. Murray, Fenchurch-
street, London ; Badger, Sheffield.
JOHN SOMERVILLE, and JOHN EADIE, wine and
spirit merchants, Liverpool, Sept. 3, and Oct. 2, at one, at
the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Johnson, Son, and Wea.
therall, Temple, London ; Blair, Manchester.
WILLIAM STEAD, corn-miller, Boroughbridge, York-
shire, Aug. 31, and Oct. 2, at eleven, at the Falcon Inn,
Micklegate, York. Douglass and Cragg, Verulam-buildings,
Gray's Inn, London ; Holmes, Boroughbridge.
NOAH HINGLEY, cable-manufacturer, Liverpool, Sept.
3, and Oct. 2, at twelve, at the New Royal Hotel, Bir-
mingham. Clowes and \Vedlake, King's Bench-walk, Tem-
ple, London ; Collis, Stourbridge.
ROBERT BUTLER, cabinet-maker, Chester, Aug. 27,
and Oct 2, at ten, at the Green Dragon lan, Chester. New-
bon and Evans, Wardrobe-place, Doctors'-commons, London ;
Roberts, Chester.
JAMES WARNER, linen draper, Bedford, Aug. 28, and
Oct. 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gibson,
Basinghall-street, official assignee; Jones and Son, Sise-lane.
SAMUEL QUICKFALL, draper, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Sept. 14, at eleven, and Oct. 2, at one, at the Bankrupt Com-
mission-room, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Bell, Brodrick, and
Bell, Bow Church-yard, London ; Chater, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne.
EDWARD BLAKE, draper, Devonport, Sept. 8, and Oct.
2, at eleven, at Wheatley's Hotel, Devonpott. Hooker, Bart-
lett's-buildings, London ; Sole, Devonport.
JAMES ASH, bookseller, Taunton, Aug. 25, and Oct.
2, at ten, at the London Hotel, 'Taunton. Birkett and Son,
Cloak-lane, London; Hancock, Taunton.
BENJAMIN WRIGHT, dealer in paint, Liverpool, Sept.
3, and Oct. 2, at twelve, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool.
Dean, Essex-street, Strand, London ; Houghton, Liverpool.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
J. Hay, surgeon, Newgate-street, Sept. 12, at eleven—J. J.
Coulter and J. May, glass cutters, Liverpool-street, City, Sept.
12, at twelve—W. B. Perry, linen draper, Croydon, Sept. 12,
at half-past twelve.

In the Country.
D. Crane, publican, Wolverhampton, Sept. 13, at three, at
the Swan Hotel, Wolverhampton—W. Cooper, carpet manu-
facturer, Kidderminster, Sept. 11, at one, at the Black Horse
Inn, Kidderminster—B. Law, biscuit maker, Northampton,
Sept. 12, at twelve, at the Office of S. C. Chasse, Northamp-
ton —W. C. and J. Daughtrey, carpet manufacturcrs, Kidder-
minster, Sept. 11, at eleven, at the Black Horse Inn, Kidder-
minster—R. Hickman, timber merchant, Bilston, Staffordshire,
Sept. 14, a* two, at the Swan Hotel, Wolverhampton—J. and
B. Brown, grocers, Birmingham, Sept. 11, at ote at the Swan
Hotel, Wolverhampton—H. Blackburn, grocer Ifalifax, Sept.
12, at nine, at the Shakespeare Tavern, Halifax—J. Sykes,
woollen cloth manufacturer, Netherton, Yorkshire, Sept. 12, at
eleven, at the Geor.ge Hotel, Huddersfield—R. Winterbottom,
woollen manufacturer, Furlane-within-Saddleworth, Sept. 16,
at two, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester.
CERTIFICATES—Stn. 11.

J. Dawson, corn dealer, Hanley, Staffordshire—G. Woolcott,
builder, Brownlow-mews, Gray's Inn-lane—W. 111' Cheane and
C. Bartlett, merchants, Gloucester—T. Paten, lodging-house-
keeper, Worthing—G. F. Bloxam, wine merchant, Broad-
street, City—J. IL Dowling, scrivener, Gloucester.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Hanks and J. Muscroft, nurserymen, Pontefract, York-
shire—S. Gillingham and J. Roberts, flymen, Salisbury—J.
Ellis and T. Oates, worsted manufacturers, Bowling, York-
shire—F. G. Prideaux and G. Shapland, general warehouse-
men, Bristol—J. Owen and J. Rowland, joiners, Salford, Lan-
cashire—H. Hinton and H. L. Taylor, fire iron warehousemen,
Queen-street, Cheapside—J. Caldweil and T. Knight, hide
salesmen, Bermondsey—W. S. Chalkley and S. Roberts,
bakers, Liverpool—E. Hardman and J. Griffin, printed calico
dealers, Manchester—W. J. Shepheard and T. M. Whiteley,
hat manufacturers, Bruton-street, Hanover-square—R. G. Ed-
wards and 'l'. Wormald, attorneys, Great James-street, Bed-
ford-row—H. Carson and H. Miller, iron founders, Warminster
—T. Tranter, E. Guy, J. Deakin, and J. Roden, coach mas-
ters, Dawley, Salop (so far as regards J. Deakin)—G. and J.
Foster, tea dealers, Godalming, Surrey—G. and C. Foster, tea
dealers, Guildford, Surrey—R. Evans and J. Walrond, market
gardeners, East Ham, Essex—W. Knott and H. Taylor, hat
manufacturers, Oldham, Lancashire—W. Whitley and J. Simp-
son, wool staplers, Bradford, Yorkshire—R. and J. Caldecott,
linen drapers, Chester—R. M'Cabe and R. A. Jones, linen
warehousemen, Friday-street, Cheapside—J. Anderton, J.
Turner, and J. Anderton, cotton manufacturers, Whitefield,
near Bury—W. Thurman and C. Houghton, hosiers, Notting-
ham—H. Newark and J. B. D. Dearberg, warehousemen,
Bread-street, Cheapside—R. Gladstone, J. Whitehead, and W.
Gladstone, merchants, Archangel, in Russia (so far as regards
R. Gladstone.)

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
15th of August, 1840." The Table is issued from the Office
of the Registrar-General:—

Weekly
Total. Average

CAUSES OF DEATH.

1831:

Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases lB5 265
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l6O IL6
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 ............... 115 b 7
Diseases of the Kidnoys, Ex. . ........10
.. ... ...... 4 5
Childbed, Diseases of tke Uterus, Ice. ......... 3
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 2 a
0
Diseases of the Skin, Rzc ........................... 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ........................ 108 102
Old Age, or Natural Decay ........................ 46 79
Deaths byViolence, Privation, or Intemperance 29 26
Causes not specified .............................. ... 1 13
Deathsfrom all causes... .......................... 888
Average Weekly Deaths ............... ... 1,013
Deaths in tho Average Weekly
Week.
Deaths, 1838.
Western Districts .........129 ...... 156
......
,1)702.
Central Nor th DDi Districts s ........................ 17702
East Di5trict5............... Ih9 ...... 23,:,
South Districts :.•• ... 228
-

Total
It is stated that under the term Metropolis are com-
prised the 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the
-Cty of London within and without the walls, the City and
Liberties Westminster, the out parishes within the
bills ofmortality—and the parishes el st. Marylebone ;
St. Pancras ; Kensington; Fulham ; Hammersmith
(Chapelry) ; St. Luke, Chelsea; Paddington • St. Mary,
Stoke Newington ; St. Leonard, Bromley ; St. Mary. le-
how ; Camberwell ; Greenwich ; St. Nicholas and St.
Paul, Deptford; 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
1840, it must be borne in mind that the metropolis in-
creases nearly two per cent. annually ; and that, if the
population had been the same in 1838 as in 1840, the deaths
would have been 1-27th part more numerlus.
General Register-office, August 20, 1840.

The Right Hon. the Lord Chancellor, Lady
Cottenham and family, arrived at the Adelphi Hotel on
Wednesday evening, from London. They will embark
this morning, at ten o'clock, on board the Queen of the
Isle steamer, for Douglas, on a visit to the Lord Bishop
of Sodor and Man.—Liverpool Mercury.

(From the Times.)
There cannot be a stronger proof of the wholesome
deference to the main principle on which the executive
Government of this country rests, than the manner in
which the intelligence of Lord Palmerston's arrangw-
tnent for settling the affairs of the East was received by
all parties. Unconvinced by innumerable proofs of the
slovenly and ruinous Administration of the Queen's ad-
visers, unwarned by the unparalleled examples of re-
missness and dissimulation by which Lord Palmer-
ston's department has earned for itself a peculiar no-
toriety, the people of England still seemed inclined
to give the Government credit for some of that energy,
wisdom, and patriotism which is most especially re-
quired in the management of our relations with foreign
states. Accordingly, on waking one morning in the latter
part of last month, we all found ourselves exposed to the
most acrimonious imputations of hostility to France,and
to still more odious and incomprehensible imputations of
subserviency to the policy of Russia. The nation has
scarcely yet recovered from its surprise ; and, in order
to reduce the startsing effect of this intelligence, Lord
Palmerston gets up in the House of Commons to renew
the assurances of his amicable intentions and open
straightforward conduct to France—assurances which
did very well until the arrival of the next mail
from Paris confuted and contradicted them. It is
not then true that these measures, and all the modes
of operation they involve, have. been ratified by
the British people. It is not true, as some of the
French Journals have rashly asserted, that in ceasing
to move in entire union with France, this country has
consented to move or to be moved in union with Russia.
The only policy which can claim the support of the
people of England is an English policy. We may have
a point of difference with France, but the real question
is, what point of agreement have we with Russia? Al-
ready we may repudiate the notion, that because we
have joined Russia to maintain that principle of the
integrity of the Turkish empire, in which we at least
are sincere, we have therefore pledged ourselves to
adopt or to assent to the means Russia may offer for
that purpose, and for her own purposes at the same
time. Those means, on the contrary, require a triple
scrutiny : there is poison in the very handles of such
weapon.—there is the blood of Poland on the blade.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
We are not now at issue with France on a question of
principles, as in 1793, when thirty millions of people on
one side of the channel thought that they were in the
right, and twenty millions on the other side thought that
they were in the wrong. Our present difference is one
regarding facts. Those facts are before the world as
arbiter, and the world will judge from them upon whom
win fall the guilt of disturbing its peace, should France
persist in its present warlike.. course ; for it is not
permitted to Lotions more than to individuals to
emancipate themselves with impunity from the moral
law which all are equally bound to respect and . obey.
Aware of the bias of the national feeling on the sub-
ject of Egypt, the French Government have evinced tole
utmost anxiety to vindicate their policy in the eyes of
the public with a mistaken, but perhaps earnest, con-
viction that the cogency of their arguments might staid
influence parties who profess to have the same (sad in
common. M. Mignet, the republican historian of the
French revolution, wrote, at the dictation of his friend,
M. Thiers, the French version of the negotiations of
the London Conference, which we printed yesteaday,
containing a reply to the arguments and facts stated by
Lord Palmerston in his speech in Parliament at the
close of the Session. The very first paragraph of this
official document is sufficent to prove that there could
have been no cordial co-operation between Englaad
and France throughout the whole negotiation, since it
appears that the latter was resolved at all baz.ads to
support the indefensible right of the usurper Mehemet
Ali to be treated as an independent and legitimate
Sovereign of the countries he had conquered from his
master. Why, let us ask, should England concede this
assumption ? Upon what grounds does the French
Cabinet term it an act of barbarian injustice " to take
away half his possessionsfrom the Viceroy as the price or
the victory of Nezib ?" We know of none. On the
contrary, we are disposed to assume that the European
powers would have been perfectly justified, had the
balance of power and the peace of the world exacted
it, in aiding the Sultan to recover his undoubted do-
minions, and in reducing the Governor of Egypt to his
original insignificance by every means in their power.
They had the right, and they bad the might.
(From the Morning Herald.)
A man has lately been convicted of a capital offence,
and received judgment to die according to law, whose
case presents features of touching, we may say terrible
interest, such as, while one shudders at the crime, can-
not but awaken in every heart which has a spark of hu-
manity the deepest compassion for the criminal. The
crime is in itself most horrid and unnatural—the deli-
berate destruction of offspring by a father's hand
—among murders a crime most murderous. But
when the circumstances under which it was com-
mitted, and the motive which actuated a father in de-
stroying the life of the child whom he dearly loved,
are taken into the account, the character of the act is
changed. We look no longer on the condemned cri-
minal as the cold-blooded malignant murderer of his
offspring, whom the lbws of God and man bound him
to cherish and protect. We see in him a sufferer who
has undergone the pangg of punishment -more terrible
than any which the law can inflict—a being who is
more of a victim than a culprit—a victim to a state
of society in which, amid overflowing opulence and
plenty, man perishes of want, from whose maddening
agonies no merit can save—no industry can secure him.
The case to which we allude, and which affords a
melancholy illustration of the cruelty and impolicy of
the existing state of the law in relation to the desti-
tute poor, is that of Edward Garrett, tried and con-
victed before Mr. Justice Coleridge, at the Wells
Ass zcs, for the murder of his son Edwin, a child of
tender years. To explain the merits of the case we
which
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brought
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whichrte r
will quote the pathetic account prefixed to the evi-
the
sdnritecielneei
theof tfleletaltreiaelt,
woafs tleieemcnirlictutemd:
efroetd
rieffaatlhieerietvo the
edehbiladr, criminaleoeldhas
dee jus-
tice
him to the scaffold, unless the merciful prerogative of
the Crown interpose between him and death. The
following is the short and expressive outline of this tale
of suffering, despair, and crime :
" The talc, as stated by the witnesses, was one of woe
and misery ; the man was peaceable, honest, industrious,
but bent to the very earth by want and indigence. He
was a shoemaker, and had a wife and three young chil-
di en, all of whom he tenderly loved. He saw his children
go crying to bed, because he had no food to give them ;
and this taking place night after night, drove him to dis-
traction ; it tore from him his better feelings, or rather, we
should say, plunged him into such a gulf of miseryi and
i
n th
despair as to rob him of his senses ; and, , •
moment of oppression and perplexity. too- ranch
for
r humann weakness
his reach—a bottle of laudanum—poured part of it
down the throats of his darling infants, and then swallowed
the means of destruction to
thatbear happened ep against, o be within
he seized
the remainder himself, not having the forti,ude to die him..
self alone without taking with him the wretched beings who
owed their birth to him. He was a kind and most affec-
tionate father. The world had gone wrong with him. lie
had written to his friends to assist him ; his application =et
with a cold refusal ; he was pressed by his creditors, whom
he could not pay ; be was goaded to madness by the starv-
ing cries of his children, whose mouths he could not MI;
he had only one resource before him—a poor law union—.
to place himself, his wife and children in that prison—to
live, not together, but, as if estranged from each other, asps-
tate and apart,—to this death seemed far preferable ;'de-
spair took firm possession of his mind, and brought him to
that bar where be now stood charged with being the mar-
dervr of his own offspring. The whole scene was distress.
ir6sbeyond what any description can convey."
Let those who hare hearts to feel and tears to shed
fictitious woe in legends of sentimental romance, turn

E E NING ITION.

th's picture of al,most incredible calamity in real life. If
the sufferings and even the crime of the wretched father
of this most afflicted and forlorn family do not kind!e
emotions of compassion and sympathy with the:n, we
can assure them that their sensibilities are as unreal as
the romances in which they delight, and their tenderness
and pity, exercised upon imaginary objects, the mockery
of a virtue which they do not possess.

(From the Morning Post.)
The shades of difference between members of the
Conservative party have afforded ever since the pro-
rogation of Parliament the chief topic of remark to
the Ministerial journals. It is natural that the
members of a political party rot cemented together
by the responsibilities of office, and having no
official or authoritative leaders, should occasionally
present discrepancies of opinion. With the same
important objects continually in view, there will
naturally arise occasional divergencies of thought as to
the manner in which those objects may be most judici-
ously and successfully pursued. We are persuaded
that these partial and temporary differences of opinion
among a party not responsible for the government of the
country are both natural and wholesome ; that, so far
from being- marks of dishonesty or weakness, they are
the natural manifestations of moral integrity and of
intellectual activity and vigour. Who will be so absurd
as to deny that there is, and ought to be, a wider range for
the freedom of individual opinion among the members of
a Parliamentary or popular Opposition than among
politicians who have tied themselves to the actual
possessors of power ? But, unfortunately, the facts do
not correspond with these just and rational principles.
The Ministerial party are at wider variance, and upon
points of infinitely greater importance, than the party
in opposition to the Government. What difference
can be mentioned as existing among the party in op-
position to the Government of Lord Melbourne that
can be compared in importance with the question whe-
ther Ireland shall or shall not remain an integral portion
of the British empire ? This question has been raised
as a question of practical policy. It has been raised in
the Ministerial camp, and divides that camp much more
equally than the party in opposition are divided upon
any single question.

[FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.)
(From the Globe.)
The Times and the Standard assert the French force
in the Mediterranean amounts to 18 sail of the line,
and the English force to 9 sail of the lice. We have
frequently had the ungracious task of refuting the false
statements of our Contemp'raries, and it is hardly to
be believed that Journals which profess to be well in-
formed can hazard such assertions when the daily French
Press affords the means of refutation. We have extracted
tin force of both countries for the advantage of the
readers of the Times and Standard :

Ships of the Line, English.! Ships of the Line, French.
Guns.l Guns.
Princess Char!otte ... 1041Moutebelle
Powerful
Ti.underer B4 Ocean
ARi a
B !Ile r opii on
Ganges
R:vonge . 76Noptune B6
Cambridge 7B! Sufiren
Baubow 72' Alger BO
Edinburgh 72!Genereux
Implacable 74; Trident
ki4istilige 72j Marengo BO
j inflexible 9O
Total ships, 12. I Total ships, 13.

Th' following. venaels of both countries arc in different
states of preparation, as augmentations, or reliefs, or
e
English. Guns. French. Guns.
The V.nguard (ready The Triton (ready for

for sea) ..
The A:odney (ditto)... 92 The Scipion (not man-
Tnc Doncgal (at Lis • ned)
pon) 7B Souverain (fitting) do. 120
in:. ir3e!:ciyle (on her i Ville de Marseille (tit-
Ica" j3Cllle) 72 ting) do
Infl?xible (do.) do 9O
D:ademe (refitting) do B2

Total shiFs, 4. I Total ships, 6.
The steam forne of France consists of vessels of 160
horr.,e power, having only one of 220 horse power in the
Moditerrancan. The :team force of England consists
of 2 of 300 horse power, and none less than 220 horse
power, 07, that station. If events should render an in-
crease of force recesslry, we refer to the navy lists of
both countries to form an opinion as to who would be
the strongest ; we cannot see that it admits of contro-
versy. Boasting adds nothing to the strength of na-
t iens or of individuals—it forms no part of the character
o Englishmen, yet they have not been found wanting
in the moment of action. We have stated the utmost
present force of France. We will now state her reserve
w ordinary and building :
In ordinary.

On the stocks, building.
Guns 'First-rates
The 11•Ifi.sto- B2' Second-rates 8
Couronue

- -
Friecilane l2o\
Jernappev lOO 13
Aleesiras (in bad condi-
tion)
Total ships. 5.
aking a total of fourteen ships of the line, first And
second rates, fully manned ; five in preparation, cor-
responding, with cur demonstration ships ; five in orc'i-
tiary, and thirteen building, which might be afloat in
eighteen months or two years, making a total of thirty-
seven first and second rates. Of the fourteen at sea
several have been soine time in commission, and will re-
41eire to be refitted and replaced by others, so that
we cannot see how they can keep more than eighteen
or nineteen sail at sea for twelve months ; but even
supposing them to have thirty sail of the line
fully manned and equipped, is it a force to boast of,
compared to the force that England can equip? Even
.if the statement of the Times and Standard had been
correct, and that the proportions had been as nine to
eighteen in the Mediterranean, this is more than com-
pensated by the skill, experience, and gallantry of Bri-
tish tars. We have refuted the assertions of the Times
and the Standard as to the numerical amount of force.
We were enabled to state yesterday, that the gallant
officer in command of the fleet will remain at his post,
and that he will not be replaced by Sir Charles Adam.
(From the Standard.)
The rumour that the Russian army about to be
employed against the Circassians will very soon be
augmented to :200,000, would seem to indicate that
the Russians have an object beyond the mere sub-
jugation of that country, and is calculated, should it
prove to be authentic, to create far greater apprehen-
sion and distrust than all the war ordinances and naval
preparations of France. Despatches have, it is said,
reached the 'Foreign Office, from Constantinople and
Vienna, which will probably convey some more defi-
nite information on the subject. Another rumour is
current, that a large body of Russian troops is on its
march towards Syria. The Dublin _Evening Mail re-
ceived this morning assures us that 2,000 British troops
/lave been ordered to Syria, who are to be placed under
the command in chief of Sir Charles Smith ; Major
Gordon Higgins taking command of the artillery. We
trust that this announcement is premature; but the
tollowing list of the proposed changes of the British
troops in the Mediterihnean, which has just reached
Ms, and the recent orders for ships and traasports to
repair to Gibraltar, would lead to the inference that
some movement in that quarter is intended. It was ru-
moured in Paris on Wednesday that the treaty of the
Four Powers having been signed, the blockade of Alexan-
dria would commence on the 30th instant, should Me-
hemet Ali still remain contumacious. The following
:are the military movements to which we allude, and which
have reached us from an authentic source
PAOPOSED MOVEMENTS OF CORPS TO THE MECITER-