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I'IIE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARC? 21,. 1842.

t else faithful, to the example of the first Whig—they r MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
resist all means to extract their victim, the
The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in
:
unlucky country, from the dangers and diffi- the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from alt Causes
culties into which they themselves have plunged Registered in the week ending March 12, 1842." The Table is
i Issued from the Office of the Registrar-General :
it, and now they mock at its calamities. This
has ever been their policy—they have always
made enemies for their country, in order that of those
enemies they might make allies of them for their
party. 'The ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer opened
the opposition to Sir Robert Peel's financial plan in
a long and elaborate speech, trying to defend the
policy of the late Administration, and trying
to prove that, though the annual deficiency which
had been created and left unsatisfied by Laid Ad-
ministration could not be supplied by any taxes
that he might venture to propose, it might be made
something less—a noble object for the Finance
Minister of Great Britain. Mr. Baring was fol-
lowed by his successor in office, who did not leave
a shred of even his miserable creeping argument
unexposed and unrefuted. Lord Ho wick follow-
ed Mr. Goulburn, and Lord. J. Russell followed
/
Lord Howick. Then came Sir Robert Peel, who
delivered the most vigorous and uncompromising,
and therefore the best speech that ever passed his
lips. All the arguments of the Opposition speakers
have been read a hundred times over in the Oppo-
sition newspapers, with much, less effect than the
speakers last night could have supposed, or they
would scarcely have ventured to reproduce them.
What these arguments are we need not repeat ;
what they leave untouched, and even unap-
proached, is this—the means by which a financial
deficit is to be supplied, concurrently with the
honourable and safe prosecution of twe very distant,
and therefore most expensive wars, and the mainte-
nance of that imposing state of defensive preparation
at home, by which only an European war and a
war with the United States can be possibly avoided.
This is what the • speeches of Mr. Baring, Lords
Howick and John Russell, do not touch, or even
approach ; but this is precisely the legacy which
they have left to their successors in office and to the
country.

Weekly
Average
l 838-940-1

Total.
t717;1-lir
WinterslYears
Epidemic, Endemic. & Contagious Diseases 135 199 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 134 160 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
ikseases of the Hea-t and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and ether
Organs of Digestion ....., 65 55 61
Diseases of the Kidneys, &a
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, See 8 11 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 7 7 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c
Diseases of Uncertain Seat lOO 115 104
01. d Age, or Natural Decay 69 90 69
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intern-

CAUSES OF DEATH.

perance
Causes not specified 3 7 7
Deaths from all causes
Average Weekly Deaths ..
Population
renu-
merated
Ib4l.

1017
Average
Weekly

912
Deaths
in

Deafly; the!
183e-9-4"-1. Week.

COURIER.—As regards Sir Robert Peel's pro-
position, the great points for consideration are the
taxes he proposes to raise, required by the financial
condition of the country, and are they obtainable in
a less objectionable form ? No one alive to the dis-
credit, nay, danger, of permitting the receipts of
such a country as this to fall yearly below its
expenditure, sensible of the exigencies of the public
service, and of the indispensableness Of maintaining,
in a state of full efficiency and preparedness the 'great
defensive establishments of the country, can affect to
deny the immediate necessity for an augmentation of
revenue that presses upon her Mlljesty's Government.
But besides the plea of imperious, irresistible necessity,
which cannot be fairly questioned, much less contro-
verted, another motive impels the Ministry to the adop-
tion of a property-tax—and one that will, we trust,
go far in reconciling the country to the temporary in-
fliction—namely, an anxious desire to relieve the springs
of industry by removing prohibitory, and relax-
ing restrictive, duties on certain great articles
of commerce and consumption. The huge defi-
ciencies allowed to accumulate during the five
last years of the Whig regime, the requirements of
the public service, and the important benefits to the
trade and commerce of the country, arising from a
careful and judicious revision of the tariff, are the
grounds upon which Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues
rest the justification of the proposed tax, and neither
Mr. Baring nor Lord John Russell, neither Mr.
Labouchere nor Lord Howick (second Burke though
lie be), has yet succeeded in shaking any of these.
How the country will receive the proposal remains
yet to be seen.

•
LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, M-treh 19.
WRIGHT, RIDDULPH, AND CO.'S BANKRUPTCY.
This was the sitting for the declaration of a further divi-
dend under the joint es ate of these bankrupts, and also for the
declaration of further dividends under the separate estates of
Mr. George Wright Biddulph and of Mr. H. Robinson.
Mr. Bagshaw, Barrister, said—Upon the occasion of the
"glorious Catholic emancipation" certain parties wished to
erect a memorial to his Grace the Duke of Wellington, and
subscriptions were entered into for that purpose, tru.tees and
secretaries being named for the due apclication of the fund.
Mr. J. Wright was the sole surviving trustee, and Mr. J. Ma-
honey, of Dublin, the sole secretary. Messrs. Wright and Co.
were the bankers, and the account stood in their books under
the head of " the Wellington Testimonial." The amount sub-
scribed was 1,4001. to 1,500/., and out of this amount 1,000/.
had been laid out in the purchase of Exchequer. bills, while
the residue remained in the bank. Upon the failure of the
bank, he (Mr. Bagshaw) was instructed by the subscribers to
apply to the Court of Review for the appiutment of new trus-
tees. The Court granted the order, and Mr. Lynch and him-
self were appointed, and they now applied (as we understood)
in that capacity to prove.
Mr. Hamilton, for the assignees, objected to any proof.
There was no order from the Court of Review to enable them
to do so.

Mr. Bagshaw—Then it appears you wish the sum to go to
the general creditors rather than to those persons who paid the
money.

Mr: Commissioner HOLROYD said, he had no power to in-
terfere in the matter. An order must be first obtained trom the
Court of Review before the proof could be admitted.
Mr. G'eorge Robins applied to the Court to order payment
of his expenses from Brighten to attend a summons of tl.ist
Court. His claim was 10/., for coach-hire and loss of time.

Mr. Hamilton said, he must object to the Court ordering any
such amount. He was prepared to show that the time named
for Mr. Robins's attendance in this Court was entirely to suit
Mr. Robins's own convenience. He (Mr. Hamilton) had sent
to Mr. Robins's office in Covent-garden, and was there in-
formed that he was coming to town to attended a meeting of
the shareholders of Drury lane Theatre, and upon this infor-
mation the summons was issued and left at Mr. Robins's office.
Now, if Mr. Robins meant to deny that statement, he (Mr.
Hamilton) should be compelled to put him on his oath.
Mr. Robins --I should not have come to town on any such
wildgoose chase as the meeting of the Drury-lane share-
holders ; though called to town by your summons, I certainly
attended it, and am now ready to make oath that I came to
town especially upon your summons. 1 came for that and that
only, and you shall pay me for it. Am I not, Mr. Commis-
sioner, entitled to interest upon my dividend, which has been
vexatiously withheld from me for the last six months?
Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD said, he certainly could not
allow interest on the dividend, but as to the expenses, what-
ever was the usual allowance made to other gentlemen in like
circumstances, he should of course be paid.
The Registrar said, the allowance in such cases was one shil-
ling per mde.
Mr. Robins—What? Is. per mile ; is that all I am to get?
Surely rive guineas for three days is not too much for any man
to charge. Mr. Hamilton must have known chat at the time
the summons was served I was at Brighton to sell Lord South-
ampton's estates.
Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD said, the Court could order no
more.

After other matters of minor importance were disposed of, a
dividend of Is. was declared under the joint estate, to pay
which it will take nearly 45,0001. Under the separate estate
of Mr. G. W. Biddulph a dividend was declared of 45., making
a total of 15s. in the pound at present declared, and Mr. H.
Robinson's estate will pay 20s. in the pound.
The following appear to be costs of working this estate :
Official assignee, 5,7201. (3,1001., being for commission or re-
ceipts amounting to 346,0001., and 2,6201. for commission on
paying dividends amounting to 262,0001.) ; solicitor, 1,676/. ;
messenger, 377/. ; fee fund, 3861. ;, and auctioneer, 1,6041.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Maidstone, March 18.
ALLHUSON V. STRANGE.
(Before Baron ALnEasow, and a Special Jury.)
This action was brought to recover the amount of a Bill of.
Exchange for 1,0504, accepted by the defendant, and endorsed
to one Walter George Turner. The defendant pleaded that
no consideration had been given for the Bill ; that it had been
obtained by fraud and covin, and other pleas.
Mr. PLATT and another appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.
THEISGER and Mr. CHAMEEKS for the defendant.

Mr. THESIGER addressed the jury at some length, and then
calltd Turner, but the judge not considering his evidence ma-
terial, the jury, under the direction of the court, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff (including the bill ;nd interest), for
1,120,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION- Ho USE.

A cab •driver, named Wm. Taylor, was brought before Al-
derman Farebrother, charged with having whipped to death
one of the pigeons which have been accustomed to fly about
Guildhall-yard so tamely, and so much to the amusement of the
inhabitants.
The officer said that the cabmen, who had a stand in King-
street, were in the habit of cutting down the pigeons with their
whips, and pocketing; them when they thought they were un-
observed by the police. So much disgraceful work of the kind
had been done of late by the rascally fellows who were allowed
to have the stand close to the Guildhall-yard, that witness de-
termined to take the first offender in that way into cnstody ; and
having seen several cabmen run to take up a pigeon which had
just fallen beneath the lash, he apprehended the defendant, who
happened to be the lucky picker-up. The poor bird, which
was still warm, had the marks of the whip, and the cabmen in-
sisted that, as the pigeon family had no exact owner, they, as
they contributed to the maintenance of the birds, were entitled
to any which might die either by accident or violence.
Alderman Fisaterinonsea—The pigeons have been kept in
the Guildhall-yard for a great many years ; and if any other
case of the sort is brought before me, I shall direct a prosecu-
tion to be instituted by the City Solicitor, for I consider them
1 to be the property of the hall-keeper.
't he prisoner said that he by no means cut down the poor
bird, although he admitted it had been flogged to death by
some of the fraternity ; but he confessed that he picked it up,
an d he thought lie had a better right to it than anybody else,
as Ise was in the habit of feeding the whole lot from his horse's
nose bag.
Al tiermen FAILEBROTIER--S0 you rob your master's horse
to feed the 13geons, and you steal the pigeons to feed yourself.
—(A laugh.) Defendant—No, please your Worship. My
horse is used to the poor birds' company, and he has no objec-
tion to their eatio g along with him. I never used the whip
with any on 'em, but as I'm the only ene as gives 'em a morsel
of witttes, I thought': I had a right to what the whittles reared
when any on 'cm Wei off; but indeed a deceased pigeon is a
most as scarce as a dead jackass.
Alderman Fantontovuza—The fact is, that if I hear of the
repetition of this unworthy conduct, I shall bring forward the,
subject in the Court of aldermen, and propose that the stand
be removed altogether from the spot.
Mi. HOBLEIL said that all the neighbours supplied the
pigeons with food, and were much interested in protecting
them.
The Alderman laving been informed by the policeman that
the defendant haci not oeen seen whipping the pigeon, and no
proof having been given that he was the actual slaughterer of
the poor bird, discharged him. bat with the assuurance that,
lightly as the fraternity might think of the offence, the experi-
ment of a prosecution should be tried in the event of a repeti-
tion of it.—The d'ead pigeon was then ordered to be delivered
up to the hall-keeper.
BOW-STREET.

William Joseph _brown, a youug man of very respectable
appearance, was brought up for final examination, charged with
robbing his employers to a very considerable extent, and his
mother, Mary Elizabeth Brown, was charged with receiving
a. great portion of the stolkm property, well• knowing the same to
have been stolen.

Mr. Charles Christian, of the firm of Christian and Mat-
thews, East India and array agents, carrying on business in St
Martin's-place, Charing-cross, stated that the male prisoner
had been in his service as clerk about eighteen months. On
onf Wellingtonthe subject,
the 24th of February, witness, in consequence of some infor-
prisoner
mation he received, examined his store-room, and missed
several_
P;
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o boots.and
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male
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ledge of them. Witness then sent for the man by
whom the boots had been made.. and he, after looking atten-
tively at the prisoner's feet for some time, expressed his con-
viction that the prisoner had then on a pair of the identical
stolen boots - on which witness desired prisoner to take off his
boots, and the maker having examined them, said he could swear
positively to them, as being one of the pairs of boots that he
had made :or witness. The prisoner then declared that the
boots he then wore had been purchased by him at a shop in Ox-
ford-street; but witness being satisfied with the statement of
the boot-maker, sent for a policeman, and gain the prisoner into
custody. Witness afterwards accompanied the officers to the male
prisoner's lodgings in lisson-grove, and there they found
the female prisoner, who stated that she was the mother
of the male prisoner, and that he lived there with her. The
officer then searche4 the room in the presence of witness, and
he found several :uvoices of articles otjewellery made out as if
they had been ordered by the witness and his outlier, but
which in fact had .not been ordered by them, and of which they
knew nothing what ever. The officer also found some property
in the room, which had been stolen from his warehouse, which
the female prisone r admitted had been brought there by her
son. The officer :ilso found three skeleton keys. which, it
was subsequently :ascertained, would open nearly all the
desks, drawers, &c., in witness's warehouses, and on a, subse-
quent visit found in a garden at the rear of the house, up-
wards of seventy duplicates, the greater number of which re-
lated to property whieth had been stolen from witness. he
female prisoner admitts (I, in the presence Of witness, that she
had torn up the duplicaees, and afterwards thrown them out of
window. Witness, on subsequently examining his stock, i nissed
several of the articles named in the duplicates; and els... five
.5/. notes of the Bank of England, which had been stolen Croat
a book in his iron chest, and which be had deposited in the
chest a few days before.
Thomas Gundry, a shoeenal,:er, ie St. Martin's-lane, proved
that the boots worn bs- the prisoner at the period of his appre-
hension, were made by him, and part of an order which be had
executed for the prosecutor.
Charles Roy al, t clerk to the prosecutors, stated that lie bad
on the day before the prisce.er's apprehension, deposited the fi
5/. Bank of England notes produced, in the prosecutor's'
iron chest.

Charlotte Emma Susannah Smith stated that the prisoner
had paid his addresses to her f sr some months past, and that the
day before he was taken into custody on the present charge he
called upon her and gave her five 51. Bank of England notes,
three uf which she gave baca t o him that evening, and the other
two she subsequently gave up, to a policeman. The prisoner
gave her tde notes and desired, *e would take core of them for
him. He at the same time g awe her a goll ring, which she
cubsequently
gave up to the Hear.
Samuel Hastock stated th at; a short time since prisoner came
to him and presented written )rders for various articles of jewel-
Eery, purporting to be signet l I sy his employers, and .was conse-
quently supplied with rings,, el tains, Scc., to the amoulst of about

sailed 13th Sept., Mauritius 2d Nov., Cape 6th January, 11011., which orders he had since..astertained were forgeries, but
St. Helena, January ; York, Segly, from Bengal, in the he suppled the articles to the prisoner,knowing thrt he was in
Downs, sailed 20th Oct. ; Paragon, from Bengal, in the the service of the ?rneetitors:
Downs, sailed 20th Sept. ; Buteshire, Currie, from Bengal, off Win. Henry Powell, a paWnbroker, proved that all these
Dover, sailed 2d Oct., Madras 12th Nov. ; Jane t;itford, latter articles i.a.4 b.,en pledged at his shop at different times,
Mason, from Bengal, in the- Downs, sailed 27th October • ; and in venous chrimian natnei, by the female prisoner ; and
St. Mune(); Larmont, from China, in the Downs, .ailed Ist • that she had also pledged at his shop some Cashmere shawls,
Oct., Anger 9th Nov. • ,Harebell, Chudleigh, from Mauritius, candlesticks, telescopes, and other articles, which the prosecu-
in the West India Docks,l sailed 26th Nov. ; Pilgrim, Raw- tors had since identified as their property.
tins, from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed 24th Sept. lEdward Thompson, a clerk to' Messrs. Carr, proved the
Arrivals at Mauritius—Orestes, Cook, Dec. 1, from Cal- prisoner had paid hint two of the W. notes stolen from the pro-
cutta ; Earl Powis, 3d, from the Cape ; Mary, 3d, put back secutor's safe.
fur Cork ; John Woodall, 4th, from Calcutta. After some other confirmatory evidence had been adduced,
Departures from Calcutta—London. Jan. 12, to Liverpool ; the prisoners were called on for their defence.
Dido, to Penang ; Sir Win. Wallace, to Penang; Ann Ran- I They both declined saying anything in answer to the charge,
kin, 17th; Concurrent, 18th to Bourbon; Petite Nancy, 19, and after an examination which lasted several hours, were fully
to Bordeaux ; Hooghly, to Havre ; Ann Jane, to Liverpool ; committed to Newgate for trial.
Alexander, 20, to New York ; Cypress, to London.
Departures from Diamond Harbour, Bengal —Esperanee,
Jan. 20; Montrose, 20; Agincourt and Southampton, 21, to
London ; Mary Louisa, to Leith.
Arrival at Masulepatam—Madagascar, Weller, Jan. 13,
from Calcutta, and sailed 14th to London.
Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope—Lord K cane,
Jan. 12, from Liverponl • Helen and London, from Mauritius.
Arrivals at Adelaide—Daniel Wheeler, Oct. 2, from Lon-
don ; Daphne, sth, from Mau: itius ; Francis Yates and Famer,
from London.

MONEY MARKET adici CITY NE
SUN.—Consols did not leave off so good as on Friday; the
fluctuation, however, during the day was not more than a
mere fraction. This would appear to indicate, that other em •
ployment than trade is required for the investment of spare
capital. The last prices were—Consols for Money, 89} a,
and 894 buyers for the Account. The transfer books for Bank
Stock are at present clo,ed, but sales for the opening have been
made at 170 to 171. Exchequer bills, 29 to 31 prem.
The same cause which has induced the steadiness in the
English Funds has operated unfavourably for Foreign Securi-
ties. Portuguese Five per Cents. were last quoted
at 34* to 344 ; the Three per Cents., 20* to 204 ;
Mexican, 4l to 414 ; Colombian, 26i to 26a ; Spanish
241. The e Bonds all profess to bear interest vary-
ing from 3 to 6 per cent. per annum, and many
years coupons are delivered with them. Thus, a Spanish
Bond represents 1001:, the coupons to May in the present year,
27/. 10s., the simple interest upon the dividend, 3/. Bs. 9d., so
that fora document representing 1271. 10s., which is owing by
the Spanish Government, more than 27/. 17s. 65. can he ob-
tained, or a trifle below the dividend, the bond being considered
as valueless. The price of the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. Stock was 54 ; the Five per Cents. 103 to 103} ;
Danish, 81i to 82i.
The share market has been somewhat better the demand
having been good. Great Western improved to 26, 27 ; the
half shares 13* to 4, and Birmingham, 85 87 premium. Bir-
mingham and Gloucester, 56 to 58 ; Gosport, 59 to 60 ; South
Western, 59 to 60 , North Midland, 70 to 72 (11. higher than
yesterday) ; Brighton, 36„ to per share ; Eastern Counties,
13* to 124 ; South Eastern, 22 to 21i discount.
The Committee of the Stock Exchange have very properly
called upon some parties who were defaulters years since, and
now in po.session of wealth, to pay off the old differences, under
the penalty of expulsion.
While upon this subject it may be mentioned, that a high
legal character has given it as his opinion, that every bank-
rupt should receive a certificate,:which is, as is the case now,
to be published in the Gazette, but that the certificate and
tae advertisement should specify to what cause the bankruptcy
was to be attributed ; whether to fraud, carelessness, or ine-
vitable misfortune.