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MORTALITY in the TyLETROPOLIS
The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registrar-'
Registered in the week endi Dec. 30, 1843." The Table is
issued from the Office of the
General:—.
Weekly
Average
1838-9..40-1-2
_ .

CAUSES OF 4EATH.

il°l4l.AurFeumns giv
.11'e are:
Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 196 183 182
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 157 140 148
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs a: f
Respiration ...
Dseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other -
Organs of Dig_estion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c •••••• 9 5 5
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c .. 13 10 9
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscle s 3 6 6
Diseases of the Skin, So , 1 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat . . 109 106 105
(Yd Age, or Natural Decay 73 69 68
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or In6sm-
perance - 46 24 25
Causes not specified
Deaths from all causes. •-••1007 —•—•
Hackney
36156,4616.0
11838-6:4:
Average Weekly Deaths ..... ........ 908 903
161-22. Week
Is
Population Average Death
enu- ' Weekly in
merated Deaths the
West—Kensington, St. George
r—A---,
( Hanover-square), Westinin- Five I Five
ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Years.jAutumns.
St. James ...................••••300,705 135 130 124
North—St. Mary-le•bone, St.
r a Islington,s,strand
ilce ear
ve n Saint
i,
,
George,P Central—Saintaile
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon-
don, Wist London, City of
L0nd0n...... ...... .. ........ • • '373,806 184 183 225
East—Shoreditch,Whitechape ,
•
Bethnal Green, St. George
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392,491 203 206 232
South—St. Saviour, St. Olave,
St.George(Southwa4),l3er-
mondiey, Newington. Lam-
beth,hithe ,
Greenwich ....•••••••'•
..R..
....... e..r:438,060
219
227 242

T0ta1......... 1,870,727 903 908 1007
It is stated that under the term Aletropolis 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. Plarylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,
cbapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea , Pad-
dFiunlghtaomn: Hsat.mAmiarerysm(
ewington), St. Leonard Brom-
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. icholas
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,: M 9, 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, Jan. 4, 1813.
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ROYAL ARSENAL, WooLwicu.—Several powerful
cranes are in progress of erection at this extensive depart-
ment, made on the most approved principles, by Napier, the
celebrated engineer. One capable of supporting ten tons has
been erected in the foundry, and the others on the wharf-wall,
for landing and embarking large. guns athned
rsihvoetr.a7nhdasmheelsls
The keel, or rather part of the keel, of a first-rate vessel-ef-
t of the b
war was recently dug
short distance from the Warrior convict-ship. It was nearly
twe feet in thickness, and upwards of twenty feet long. No
person alive at Woolwich remembers- the loss of a -vessel of.
that magnitude opposite the Royal Arsenal, but many have
heard their parents state that a first-rate ship of war was
wrecked near the spot where the part of the keel was found.
This relic has been sold with other old wood.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAI.Y.P.3 OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE. —" Open your mouth—shut your
.eyes—and see what Peel will send you !" Such
was, in effect, urged upon the country, in divers
forms, as no more than was due to the newly-in-
stalled Premier; who asked for " time" to
prepare his measures, and then put forth
the same plea, that his measures might
also have time to work the promised
good. The !lobe mooches complied with the
Premier's request: they devoutly shut their eyes
to consequences—opened their mouths wide .with
expectation—and had the income-tax popped in
as the produce of Peel's financial skill; while the
new tariff, shadow of good things to come—the
substance of which was never to be realised—
completed the amount of the Premier's benefits
to the country. In his much-lauded finan-
cial exposition, upon the introduction of his
first budget, the Right Honourable Baronet
founded his claim to public confidence on
the estimates and working of the grand
scheme for restoring the national revenue.
The result has proved that no failure was ever
more signal than has attended the Minister's
scheme of finance; because no estimates were
ever more erroneous than those on which that
scheme was founded. Sir Robert Peel's grand
expedient for meeting the deficiency in the
.national taxation, and for restoring the revenue
to health and efficiency, ha., now been in opera-
tion two years. The country is familiar with,
its—results. - The several sources of reventie,
with the increase or decrease, as the case may be,
on the year and quarter, are thus supplied; and,
as these returns are published by the Govern-
ment, they constitute satisfactory data by which
the financial condition of the country may be
arrived at, and a correct judgment be formed of
the system of taxation to which the Govern-
ment has subjected the nation. The increased
receipts from the Excise for the quarter
amount only to 8,7631. The Post-office shows
an improvement 0H2,,000/.; but the deficiency
of the latter on the year is 13,0001. This defi-
ciency is, however, attributed to items • being
now charged under this, which were formerly
placed to another account. It is thus seen that
the increase upon the legitimate sources of reve-
nue is trifling.-- Any improvement in those items
which indicate the condition of the labouring
classes is, we admit, a subject of congratulation
- An
improvement in the Excise on the year 0f387,000/.
is, therefore, to be taken as proof, to that extent,
of an increased ability in the consuming classes
of taxed articles to procure a larger quantity of
the necessaries and comforts of life than, for a
considerable period, they had been able to ob-
tain. Still, when the state of depression and suf-
fering, of which the labouring classes had been
long the subjects, is considered, the improvement
in trade, and increased means of procuring more
than mere food, and that of the coarsest kind, is
but trifling. The decrease in Stamps evinces an
apathy in commerce. The diminished receipts
from the Assessed Taxes show that if the income-
tax enriches the Exchequer in one department,
it induces the individual who is subjected to its
odious operation to curtail his expenses in other
respects. Reduced domestic establishments,
among the more opulent classes of society, and
houses exchanged for tenements oflower ren ts an d
rates, with inability to pay the assessments on even
these, explain the continued decrease upon the
Assessed Taxes. To the income-tax, therefore,
the boasted improvement in the state of the na-
tional exchequer must be principally assigned.
Even that improvement is the result of the
great statesman's erroneous estimates of the
amount it would produce—errors which cut away
the bases of his calculations as to the per cent-
age to be imposed, and the number of years
during which the tax was to be in operation. The
head of Miscellaneous includes,if it does not al toge-
thercomprise, alarge remittance under the treaty
with China—an item which, though it has largely
aided the Exchequer, was not so much as hinted
at in Sir Robert Peel's grand financial exposi-
tion. The same may be remarked of " Corn,"
the duties on which—though they have assisted
the revenue to the extent of Y,300,000/.—were
a god-send to the Minister, though a fiscal
curse to the community. We have gone more
largely and elaborately into the revenue returns
than we have been wont to do on former occa-
sions. The notes of preparation sounded by the
Standard, to prepare the public for Sir Robert
Peel's grand financial triumph, have prompted,
if not provoked, the .. analysis ; which, we
think, will exhibit the great political luminary
somewhat 'shorn of his beams.
STAN DARD.—It has lately been our pleasing
duty to !present to the public a rich array of
proofs of the pi osperous advance made by the.
empire within the last two years, the effect of
a prudent and patriotic administration of
the Government. Peace conquered _and
confirmed—the British territories profitably
augmented—manufactures and commerce re-
f.tored-.-botindles • fields opened ‘. to their
.enterpriSe-and' -the. 'value of.- British public
obligations enhanced -10 per cent. To-day
we complete the gratifying work, by announcing
an improvement in the revenue wholly without
example under any circumstances approaching
to similarity. The readers of the Standard
were prepared, by our brief and general, but
accurate, announcement of last night, for
a large increase in the public contribu-
tions of 1843, beyond those of the pre-
ceding year ; in our present number we
lay the figures in detail before them. In the
tables inserted in our first page they will sec an
increase, a large increase, in every branch of re-
venue which can by any construction be treated
as an index to the state of the mass of the
people, with reference to their enjoyments
or to their active industry. The year's increase
on the Excise amounts to no less than
387,5031., and the total increase of all sources
of revenue, deducting decrease upon those
heads of taxation which are proofs ofdistress, not
of prosperity—'such as the corn duties and the
stamp duties—amounts, exclusive of the pro-
perty-tax, to 1,063,9741.—m0re than one mil-
lion sterling. Including the property-tax, the
increase would be 5,742,0781., and as respects
the • resources of the Exchequer, its abi-
lity to meet the demands of the
public' ser-
vice, as respects, too, the general ability of the na-
tion, this increase of nearly six millions sterling
is, questionless, a bona fide increase. But this
is not the light in which we wish to have the
returns looked to at present; we would direct
attention to them as evidence of the national
progress, not as evidence of the national strength,
of which, indeed, there was never any rational
doubt. Let us then take the property-tax from
both years, because it was collected during a
part only of 1842, and we shall have a compa-
,ative view to which no exception can be taken,

viz..-
1842.-44,339,8651., minus .571,016/. property-
tax
£43,751,809
1843.-50,071,9134., minus 5,:149,260/. pro-
perty-tax

Increase on the year, exclusive of property-
tax
- -

Thus, exclusive of the property-tax; nay,
despite of its reflex operation, which the oppo-
nents of the measure threatened to be so injuri-
ous to other sources of revenue—exclusive of the
property-tax, and, in spite of all the mischief
it was to do—the ordinary sources of revenue
are more productive in 1843 than they were in
1842, by one million sterling and upwards.
Even this, however, is an inadequate view of the
national progress. On the face of the returns
before us, there appears we must admit a decrease,
though a trifling one, in the Customs of. last
year. From the statement it is seen that the
great excess of revenue in 1842 arises upon the
October quarter of that year—an excess,
altogether attribut.►ble to the prodigious mass
of foreign corn imported or taken out of' bond at
the Bs. duty in the mon►_hs of August and Sep-
tember, rated, if we mistake not, at three mil-
lions of quarters. Such revenue is an index of
loss and not of gain, as for every shilling gained
by the Exchequer the former must have lost
at least three, and lost the money never to
return to this country. Upon the same prin-
ciple upon which, in order to arrive at a
fair comparative view of the revenue of the two
years, we have struck out the property-tax for
both years, we ought to strike out the corn
duties, which made up so large a part of last
year's revenue, and have produced little or
.nothing in the present year. If we had the
figures enabling us to do this, there is no
reason to doubt that the actual increase of

the ordinary fixed sources of revenue, instead
of resting, happily high, as it doer above