The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-01 00:00:00

Total 1,870,727 903

It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon-
don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality—
and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,
Fulham, Hammersmith(Claapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad-
dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard ( Brom-
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890; and in June 1841, was
1,870,727. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, 1840, and
1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four years by
208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52.
General Register Office, Dec. 28, 1843.

PASSENGER DUTIES ON RAILWATS.—From a re-
turn made to the House of Commons in the course of
last session it appears that the railroads in England and
Wales, 56 in number, have paid in the year ending Ja-
nuary, 5, 1843, no less than 152,6631. 13s. Oid., as pas-
senger duty. The amazing increase of railway traffic
within the last ten years may be gathered from the fact,
that in the year ending January, 1833, the whole sum
paid to Government as passenger duty was 6391. 16s.
10d. The amount paid in the year ending January,
1842, was 148,204/. 13s. 10Id, In Scotland, in the year
ending January last, 20 railroads paid 15,1251. ls. 6fd.,
being an increase of 3,4681. Os. lid. over the preceding
year. The gross amount paid by all the railroads in the
kingdom during the last year was 167,7881. 14s. 7kd.
The amount paid in the previous year was 159,861/. 14s.
6d., showing an increase in 1843 of 7,9271. Os. lid. The
ten railroads having termini in London paid 82,4471. 4s.
ed.: the three largest amounts being paid by the Lon-
don and Birmingham, the Great Western, and the South
Western, which paid respectively 25,940/., 14s. Id.,
25,8041. ss. 2d., and 12,0481 19s. 7d., or more than two-
fifths of the whole amount.

THE LOGIC OF A SMUGGLER.—Wherefore is a poor
widow woman like myself to abide by the juggling of
princes and their ministers,—who deal with nations and
languages as with flocks and herds; creating as it were
a line in the air, which they advance or retrograde at
will, and which is to make me French or Fleming,
according to their whims and fancies ? My old grand-
father used to boast of having spoken with those who
remembered the time when Flanders extended half way
into the France of to-day,—the time when Marlbrook
came soldiering here, and for all the great victories we
hear so much of, left the Grand Monarque in posses-
sion of our fwaest provinces I Even Lottje Van
Kerckx, who am speaking to you,—recollect the period
when the French eagle was the imperial standard for our
stamps ; when Brussels, which now calls itself a capital,
was but a country town like the rest of us ; and all was
France, France, France, from Rouen to Hamburgh ;
paying toll and tax to the same Parisian seat of Govern-
ment And why, pray—because it pleased the crowned
heads of Europe to knock themselves together at Aix-
la-Chapelle, and decide that this patch of ground should
be called Prussia, and t'other patch of ground be called
France—is a poor widow woman to pay mulct and fine
to this new King of ours, for liberty to drink and retail
the French liquors, which in my youth I bought and sold
at prime cost ? I had no hand in their rubbishing
Congress I My opihion wasn't asked ? And so, without
further ceremony—feeling myself guiltless in the sight
of Almighty God for violating a law which is none of
his making--I make bold to catch the gendarmes of the
frontier napping, whenever they are fools enough to let
me 1-7 cat's Magazine.
ASTONISHING INSTINCT OF A CAT.—A family in
Swansea, having a favourite cat, but in consequence of
its thieving propensities, they were determined to part
with. Poor Tom was given to the care of a captain of a
vessel who was about to sail for Cuba. After a voyage
of four or five months, the vessel returned to this port,
about a month since. In a few days after the arrival of
the ship, Tom decamped, and the vessel was about to go
to sea without him. About three weeks since a cat was
heard by the members of the above family about their
premises, mewing most pitifully, and could not be kept
away, despite the threatenings of the servants ; when,
10, to the astonishment of its old mistress, her old friend
came up to her, rubbing against her with all the affection
imaginable. What is most extraordinary, the cat had
to cross the river and pass through the most dense part
of the town to find its old habitation, after a voyage to
Cuba, and an absence of five or six months.—Cumbrian.
RECAL OF LORD DE GREY.--Thy recal of Lord
De Grey from the Lord Lieutenantcy of Ireland is re-
ported to have been decided on by the Cabinet.
The necessity of a more cordial union, a more
perfect agreement in opinion, and consequent de-
cision of purpose and act than have characterised
the present executive of Ireland, in order to creat-
ing and maintaining confidence in the govern-
ment, has been long seen and felt. The return of
Lord De Grey may not take place till early in the
ensuing spring ; but that his Lordship's recal has been
determined on, is—we are assured from a quarter on
which we place full reliance—now settled. The Duke
of Richmond is mentioned as the now Viceroy.—AVii7ls
Parr