The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-07 00:00:00

POPULATION, TAXATION, &c.

In :845 the population of Great Britain WO
19,572,574 ; in 1815, it was 13,322,568. In 1845 the
National Debt amounted to 768,789,2411., and the in-
terest thereon, 27,827,2651 ; in 1815 the debt WO
816,311,9401„ and the interest 31,576,074/. Tke exports
in 1845 amounted to 150,645,018/ ; and in 1815 they
were 57,420,4371. The imports in 1845 were,
83,330,6091., and in 1815 they were 31,822,0534
In 1845, 1,133,561 qrs. of wheat and flour were
imported from all parts but Ireland ; and in 1815
there were imported 194,931 qrs. In 1845, 308,493
qrs. were retained for home consumption ; and in 1815
the quantity was 116,382 qrs. The average price Per
quarter in 1845 was 565. 10d., and 635. Bd. in 1815. alie
fluctuation per cent. between 1842 and 1845 was 14.31;
and between 1815 and 1821 it was 72.59. In 1845 the
duty on the average price was 205.; and in 1815 im-
portation was prohibited. The number of acres in-
closed (as far as returned) from 1800 to 1842 Wao
1.933,049. The proportion per cent. of the population
living on foreign corn in 1841 was 5/3; in 1821 it was
3-39. Id 1841 the number of days' consumption im-
ported was 34.35; in 1821 it was 20'22. In 1845, the
quantity of wheat sold in country markets in Eng-
land and Wales was 6,666,240 quarters, and in 1822 it
was 2,191,807. The price of wheat varied from 1808 to
1815 in the principal ports of Europe after the following
rates per cent.:—ln England 92.67, Sweden 170 41, Rot-
terdam 84.40, Dordt 5000, Louvain 8942, Konigsberg
160.35, Dantzic 47.10, Mecklenberg 27.08, Oldenburg
72.15, St. Petersburg 7000, Riga 73.01, Archangel
74.91, France 13 P 36, Bordeaux 136.62, Holstein 57.05,
Christiania 260.41, Bremen 65.22, Hamburg 7P43,
Lubeck 78.47, Trieste 19-23, Roman States 9515, Bilbox
85'85, Alicante 130.00, and Lisbon 93-65. In 1844 the
declared value of British and Irish exports Was
27,253,9181., in 1828 they amounted to 17,824,309/.

DIVIDEND-DAY AT THE BANK —The July dividends
at the Bank of England will be in course of payment in the
Rotunda of the Bank of England, to- morrow. The annuities
going into new ledgers, the transfer-books of which have
been closed, will be opened as follows :—Consolidated Three
per Cents., on Friday, the 17th inst. ; Three per Cent. AO'
nuities, 174f2....0 Tuesd_y, the 14th New Five per Cent.
Annuities, on Tuesclay, the 14Th ; annuities for terms of
years, on Friday, the 17th. East India House : The transfer'
books of the East India Company's stock will be opened on
Tuesday, the 14th inst., and yesterday they commenced
paying the July dividends, under the 11th section of the
Act a and 4 William IV., cap. 85. South Sea House : The
transfer books of New South Sea Annuities and Three per
Cent. Annuities, 1757, will be opened on Friday, the 10th
inst. The July dividends will be in course Of payment to-
morrow.

MELANCUOLY OCCURRENCE AT A GENTLEMAN'S RE-
SlDENCE.—Yesterday Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest
at the London University College Hospital, on view of the
body of Sarah Whitehead, aged 60. Robert Lovell Evans,
Esq., 7, Mornington•crescent, stated that the deceased bad
been in his employ as housekeeper, and, notwithstanding
her age, she enjoyed excellent health. On the morning of
the 27th ult., about nine o'clock, witness was sitting in the
front parlour with a gentleman on a visit at his establish-
ment, when they were suddenly alarmed by the screams of
deceased, who having got near the kitchen fire, a lighted
cinder fell from the grate and ignited her dress. Before wit-
ness or any other person could get to her assistance, she WAS
so frightfully burned as to render her removal to the hospital
necessary. The house surgeon said that death was the re-
sult of the injuries; she expired on the 3d inst., and the
body presented a most appalling spectacle. Other evidence
having been adduced, the jury returned a verdict of "Acci-
dental Death."

Last night Mr. J. Payne, the Deputy Coroner, held
an inquest at the Stump and Magpie, Fetter-lane, touching
the death of John Stafford, aged 44, coachman, in the em'
ploy of Mr. Chancellor. the large omnibus proprietor. John
Hubbard, 3, Wells-street, Falconer-square, said that about
nine o'clock on Saturday night, he was passing along Hol-
born, and saw a Chelsea omnibus, numbered 2,298, travelling
down the hill towards Newgate-street, and when about mid-
way the deceased fell from the box into the road, with his
feet towards the horses' heads. He was driving at the time,
and there were several other pers,ns on the outside of the
vehicle. He was removed to Mr. Gibson's, the surgeon,
where life was pronounced to be extinct. The deceased had
complained of the hot weather, which induced a supposition
that he had been attacked by some pain in the head, which
resulted in an apoplectic fit, and thus the accident. Verilict--
" Natural death."
RELEASE OF BONDED CORN.---The deliveries of the
various descriptions of corn lying in bond at the warehouses
and granaries on the banks of the river and other parts of the
port of London, were of a very extensive nature on the first
day of the new Corn Act coming into operation. As the
average price in the market on that day was at the maximum
number of shillings, it necessarily admitted the article at the
lowest rate of duty named in the scale, viz., that of 45., and
consequently great anxiety was expressed to obtain delive-
ries of the cora iu bond and required to be delivered on that
day. Several hundreds of duty entries were passed for the
article, and in order to expedite matters, and afford every
possible facility to the parties interested, the clerks, lee., in
the particular department In question were detained until a
late hour issuing delivery orders for the release of the corn
on which duty had been paid during the day. On the next
day, the price having fallen, the duty rose to 55., and
although the pressure had in a great measure been disposed
of on the first day, the deliveries which took place were of an
extensive character.

RAILWAY AMUSEMENT.--The youngsters who haunt
about the railway crossings in and near Canterbury, amuse
thetnselves, when the policeman's back is turned, with lay-
ing small articles on the iron to be crushed by the train
passing over. Pins placed lengthways are thus curiously
flattened to an extreme degree of thinness, and bear a pre'
mium in the charity-school exchange far above the original
value. A juvenile speculator having submitted a fourpentsl
piece to the process, found that he could pass it for sispencej
elated with the discovery, he placed another, which ha had
received in change for the first, on the newly-discovered
mint, but to his astonishment the wheels of the carriage car"
ried it entirely away, and he thus remained minus twopence_
by this luckless exercise of his ingenuity... Dover 2'elegreePn.