The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-20 00:00:00

THE ABOVE READS.

Total. Weekly Average
of Five Years.
Consumption
Scarlatina
Pneumonia .
Dropsy .. ... .. .. .......... .
Hooping Cough 33
Typhus 27 31
Small Pox 47 15
Disease of the Heart
Measles l3 28
Apoplexy
Diseases of the Brain 7 9
Diarrhoea.. .. 9 12
Sudden Deaths 4 15
DISTUICTS.

West l3l 138
North lBB 171
Central l5O 188
East 174 207
South • 232 242

Total ........ V 55

THORWALDSEN'B STATUE OF LORD BYRON.—It will
be recollected that a statement appeared in the papers a
few days since, to the effect that a statue of Lord Byron,
executed by Thorwaldsen, imported into this country
some years since, and deposited in the King's warehouse
for security, and which had never been removed by the
parties, had been allowed to go to decay, or at all events
was not forthcoming, and that the executors, having ap-
plied for it, and not having received a satisfactory re-
ply, intended to proceed against the Customs' authori-
ties in London for the same, 'which was valued at
30,000 E The facts of the case are that the statue in
question was imported about ten years in two cases, one
of them a very large one, containing, it is supposed, the
figure in a sitting posture, and were deposited in one of
the warehouses at the London Docks, and not in the
King's warehouse, in Thames-street, as has been erro-
neously stated. Very shortly after these cases were
brought over to this country, the proper duties were paid
upon the same, it being the intention of the sculptor to
present the it,o-ure to the authorities of Westminster
Abbey, to be placed there as a national monument of the
poet. It was subsequently found, however, that the
Dean refused to permit the statue of the author of Don
Juan to he deposited in that hallowed place. The con-
sequence has been that the statue was never removed
from the docks, and has remained ever since where it
was originally deposited. The statement, therefore,
about the packages being lost or destroyed is a fabrica-
tion, and, no doubt, they will be delivered up by the Com-
missioners of Customs (or, more properly speaking, by
the London Dock Company, for immediately the proper
duties are paid upon packages warehoused at the docks,
they are delivered out of charge of the Customs into the
hands of the Company, until their dock charges, &c.,
are paid) on satisfactory proof from the executors of
their right to claim the same. It is believed that the
executors are not aware of the place where the pack-
ages were originally or are at present housed, but no
doubt they will shortly receive a notification to that effect.
The security and identity of the packages has been dis-
covered, in consequence of an inquiry having been set on
foot by• the Customs Board into the matter. It may be
considered as certain that the statue is in a state of per-
fect preservation, as the case in which it is deposited is
nearly two inches in thickness, and has never been dis-
turbed since it was first brought to this country.—Morit-
ieg Advertiser.
Loss AND RECOVERY OF 2,000/.—On Saturday a
commercial gentleman, just arrived from Liverpool, put
up at the Southampton Railway Hotel, Nine Elms,
preparatory to his leaving town for Southampton; but
suddenly remembering that he had some trifling
business to transact in Mark-lane, City, he di-
rected the waiter to call a cab, and he immedi-
ately proceeded thereto. On arriving at his destina-
tion, however, to his great consternation and dis-
may, he discovered that his pocket-book, in which he
had deposited bank-notes to the amount of about
2,0001., was missing. He instantly resumed his seat
in the cab, and having promised the cabman an addi-
tional fee, he was driven back with all speed towards
the hotel • but, as it " all these things - were against
him," the horse twice fell in • his progress to
Nine Elms, and when the anxious gentleman arrived,
his agitation was so great that some seconds had
elapsed before Mr. Howse, the proprietor, could under-
stand what he really meant. Mr. Howse rang for the
waiter, Thomas Wenham (but who is better known
by the cognomen of "Little Thomas"), • who, upon
understanding what was wanted, to the infinite
joy of the gentleman, immediately produced the
pocket-book, with the notes (scarcely any of the
numbers of which, he acknowledged, were known
to him), and other property perfectly correct ; and
stated that, about three-quarters of an hour after the
gentleman had left the coffee-room, he found the pocket-
book underneath the table at which the gentleman had
been sitting, although several persons had been there
during that time. The now overjoyed gentleman pre-
sented the waiter with a 51. note, and an order upon his
tailor for a full suit of clothes, promising also to do
something more for him.
Tun
.IRON TRADE.—In consequence of the strike,
iron is said to have risen from 3s. 6d. to 4s. per ton
above last week's prices. The following are the nominal
quotations:—Pigs, 31. 10s. to 31. 125.; bars, 6L 10s. to
7Z ; rods, 71. 10s. to 81. ; sheets,-&c., 10/. to 101. 10s.—
Glasgow Herald.

NEW HALL FOR THE WORKING CLASSES.—The
Chartists of Westminster have it in contemplation to erect a
large building to be called the Chartists' Hall, which is to be
a school for their instruction in science, literature, the fine
arts, moral, social, and political economy, and also for the
education of their children. It is, moreover, to have a news-
room and library.
THE CROWN PRINCE or DENMARK AT CULLODEN.
—His Royal Highness the Crown Prince arrived at the
Caledonian Hotel here, on the evening of Wednesday
last, by the Glasggiv steamer, unexpected even to his
own officers and suite, who did not look for his appear-
ance till next week. No preparations were, there-
fore, made 'for his reception ; but as soon as it was
known that his Royal Highness was safely housed in
our Highland capital, Provost Sutherland waited upon
his Secretary, Count Reventlow, and Captain Irmingen,
of the Danish frigate, now at Cromarty, and ascertained
that, although the Prince had arranged to embark on
Thursday morning for the Faroe Isles, he was still
most anxious, if possible, to visit the- field of the battle
of Culloden, the spot on which the Highlanders of Scot-
land had so nobly and disinterestedly immortalised
their attachment to the principle of loyalty. In con-
sequedce, it was arranged that the magistrates should
accompany his Royal Highness and suite to Culloden
moor yesterday forenoon, which they did along with
a respectable cavalcade, which was joined on the ground
by Mr. Forbes, of Culloden, and Mr. M'lntosh, of Raig-
more, the proprietors of the soil. Culloden's piper was
also in attendance, and pointed out the positions of the
contending armies on the 16th of April, 1746 while on
the muir, Mr. Forbes, of Culloden presented his Royal
Highness with some relics of the field, consisting of a
cannon-ball, and a finely ornamented barrel of a pistol,
with which the Prince expressed himself highly gratified.
After minutely inspecting t h e graves of the heroes who fell,
and the dispositions of the battle, his Royal H ighuess moved
OH and inspected the sepulchral and religious monuments
Of Clava (whether Danish or Druidical is uncertain),
under the guidance of Mr. Anderson, Secretary to the
Northern Institution for the promotion of Science and
Literature. In these remains his Royal Highness ex-
pressed himself as peculiarly interested, especially from
their resemblance to similar antiquities in hie own coun-
try ; and he was also much delighted with the magnifi-
cent panorama of the Highland mountains of"lnverness
and Ross-shire, presented from the elevated ridge above
Cu
•The anniversary of the
TllodenlizH.--AGTBerss , Inverness Herald.
JUNE
6.
battle of Waterloo was. commemorated to-day (as the
nearest Sunday -to the 18th) in all the churches of this
town. Ts Deum was performed in •the Roman Catholic
church.