The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-12 00:00:00

DISTRICTS.

- West
North 162 171
Central .
148 188
East 205 207
South 243 242

Total 00000 • •••••• ••••• 915 946

ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOLWICIL—Within the last
fortnight, a number of hands, to the extent of about
twenty blacksmiths and a similar number of men for the
carriage and the laboratory departments, have been en-
gaged to work from four to six months certain, to com-
plete the works in progress for rendering the vessels of
war, and war steamers, and works at the outports in a
perfect and efficient state, according to instructions
emanating from the Lords Commissieners of the Admi-
ralty, and several workmen in these departments are
still required to complete the order within a limited
time. A report prevailed at the latter end of last week
that the nineteen brass howitzers said to be missing, had
been recast without being entered ; but a printed bill,
subsequently issued, offering a reward of 100/. for in-
formation leading to the detection of the parties guilty
of breaking them up or abstracting them from the
Royal Arsenal, must remove any impression that they
were recast for Government purposes without being
entered on any of the books of the departments. The
nineteen howitzers of 2i cwt. of brass or gun metal are
not the only articles unaccounted for, as four Coehorns,
a species of ordnance of the same kind of metal, and
weighing 1i cwt. each, were abstracted from the wharf
of the Royal Arsenal some time ago, and although
every search and inquiry was made relative to them, no
information could ever be obtained to lead to their
restoration, or the detection of the parties who must
have removed them, whether for an innocent or felonious
purpose.
At an inquest held yesterday on the body of a
child aged 2i years, who in the temporary absence of
the mother, and dressed only in her night-gown, ap-
proached the grate so near as to set it on fire, and was
in consequence nearly roasted alive, and died in three or
four hours after, the Coroner remarked, that strange
though it seemed, children were frequently burnt to
death by the ignition of so light a garment as a cotton
night-gown. The surest remedy possible for burns, par-
ticularly as a first application, was pure flour, when it
could be had, and no family should be without some.
TITHE COMMUTATION.—Yesterday a Parliamen-
tary document, which was moved for by Mr. Manners
Sutton, was -printed, embracing returns of all agree-
ments for the commutation of tithes which have been
confirmed by the Tithe Commissioners in the several
counties of England and Wales, from the Ist of January
to the Ist of July last, specifying also in each case the
amount of rent-charge agreed to be paid in lieu of tithes,
and showing whether the same be payable to appro-
priators, impropriators, or clerical incumbents ; of all
awards for the commutation of tithes which have been
confirmed by the Tithe Commissioners in the several
counties of England and Wales in the same period ; And
also of all appointments of rent-charges in the period
mentioned. It appears that under the first branch—
agreements for the commutation of tithes which have
been confirmed by the Commissioners—the balance
of increase was 6911. 17s. Oid., which, with the increase
in former returns of 54,7221. 2s. lid., makes the total
increase 55,4641., so that in England and Wales " rent-
charges" will be the term used, instead of the ancient
word " tithe," which existed from the earliest period,
and was provided for the support of the clergy. By the
second head —the awards for the commutation of tithes
confirmed by the Commissioners—it is stated, that in
England and Wales the total rent-charges of the present
return were 92,3601 6s. 51d. ; the total rent-charges of
id. ; and the total rent-
charges, e9t4u873,281.5565,3. 751.1 19s.
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return was made of all apportrenments confirmed by the
lithe Commissione):, in the period ov .ix months ending
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and over the same period the two other
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Sir John Brooke Pechell, Bart., continues much
branches i lesa hstav ; e
reference.
indisposed, at his residence, in Hill-street.