The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-11 00:00:00

DANISH CLALiii.

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PE'l I [ION OF CLAIAIAN a etluffs
The humble Petition of the under igned merchants an
.I,jo
claimants for tosses sustained by the seizure of their
and goods by the Danes. in 1807,
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Shevveth, fnat your petitioners represent the ciann
e
the British Government, for compensation in respect oft°. tas
el
of ship. and caigoes seized within the Baltic in reprisal 1,014
► sane., un the par 1607, and subs( quently condemned
attd
by the Dai.ish Goveroment,
hat, the House of Commons, in :he two successive se'dof6i°
of lts:.ic and 139, adjudged by brae majorities, that this' the
of claimants was equally entitled to compensation 0;4 00
other two classes, to which it had been already awarded'
has since been p<iid.
aa terten
That it was hereupon referred by the Treasury -.-,.1005.
Commissioners to adjudicate and report upon the .4°D, 0
cases ; and, after a strict investigation of docuoloslie
other evidence, 1 claims, to an amount in the se,
225.000/., were, in 1840, reported as established. • 100
That no sters having been taken by the late G0V400,01,
towards the payment of the sums thus awarded, it e15,...1/30tb$
on behalf of the claimants, on the 9th of June, 1841,-w b 0"
House should resolve itself into a Committee of the pipe
House, to consider of an address to her Majesty," whOla
was carried without a division. :1;
.04'
Toat on the following day (June" 10), after a web.-x
t
upon a division, the whole douse, in Committee, sigef•enessei
address, praying " that her Majesty would be gracimistlil tlt
to advance to the claimants the amount as ascertaioetleh 010
Commissioners to be due, and assuring her
, • House would make good the same." .01
That this address was duly presented, and, on. the
June, 1841, her Majesty was pleased to return -the 'riot°
answer :—" It must at all times be m most earnest; debbe
attend to the wishes of the House of Commons; anti! 10 the
ready to give effect to them in this instance, tebeliCl.!
means shall have been provided by Parliament."
That, notwithstanding this intimation of her Majestyt,oj.
sure, nothing has been done, either by her Majesty ales
visers, or by her present Ministers, to give effect to notlll
cious intentions of her Majesty, and your petitioners 7), re,
wholly without any fruits or benefit from the replite(4oo.
corded resolutions of your Honourable House in their 00
Your petitioners respectfully submit that, imnsetliti
the communication of her Majesty's pleasure, it Ne.„,,,,...5.0f $
of the Ministers to have asked your Honourable' BOttfr; or
vote of money to be applied in satisfaction of thesi.no till
rather at once to have paid the money by anticipatiotl,.. itl
assurance that your Honourable House would
fojt
pledge, and make good the advance by an appropr.i4t,°"'
petitioners confidently believing that not a single
be found in which the House of Commons boa-We°
effect, by a vote of money, to its own previous resolution.t. tbl
Your petitioners further respectfully maintain, t•ile'.the
House of Commons, being the constitutional guaraiee:'
public money, it is not constitutional in the Minister t•:•tbits
gard or frustrate a resolution of the House,
purportingd portion of the public money shall be applicable and aPPlie toe
purpose.
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That very numerous cases are to be found in.t"":0:,110
dresses have been made by the House of Commons t 0 for
Crown, for grants of money, as well to individuals kW
public purposes, which addresses have been gratiotf
sponded to by the Crown, and that in no instance, el.u1:00F1
petitioners have been able to find, has the Government' We'
to give effect to such addresses and answers, either tbl
diate payment, or by calling upon the House to prof
• ' requisite means of payment.
i• tiow
That your petitioners have made repeated app-'4Ol, r
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her Majesty's Government, requesting them to take,,7o
cessary steps for fulfilling the declared wish of your Is!' kSI
able House, assented to and adopted by the Crow's'
hitherto wholiy without ffect. el°
That your petitioners having four times made ont
to the satisfaction of your Honourable House, and itsdef,d•fel
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established their title- to a compensation already withhe'. :sr
them for thirty-five years, having incurred great lah°ei
expense in the proof of their individual claims before the
t. to
missiuners, and having made arrangements on the faith l ;
e 104 t
awards made, and the declarations anti proceedings °I 010
Honourable House in their favour, cannot but conside
refusal, or delay of justice, on the part of the Governose
a serious aggravation of the original wrong ; and
they• humbly and respectfully pray your Honourable House,
That such measures may be taken for giving effect,,. 100
, resolutions and address of• your Honourable House, as $."..1
Honourable House, in its wisdom, may seem fit.
Aiici your petitioners will ever pray. • OD
THOS. WARD, Chairman of Hull Clams,
ROBERT BRERETON, of Blakeney.
JOHN P. KIDSON, on behalf of claiw!aw
Sundertasid, Newcastle, and Shields..
&c. &c. &c. . •

MONEY MARKET and CAT Y N
TIM ES.—The Funds have declined per cent. to 010
with very heavy appearances ; there have been no large oil,
of stock, but there is a-continued influx of small parcels,' 04.0
increases the difficulty of supporting prices. The Parr SI,
the dividends has had no effect on the market at present 401,
there appears for the while to be a demand over and
the supply.
•
The class of the " Danish claimants " who claim CO p
sation fur the loss of ships, &c., seized within the Baltic•
again addressed a petition to the House of Commons. tl
they in the first place reler to the decision of that. House :reti Vt
sessions of 1838 and 1839, that they are as fully edi
compensation as the other two classes who have already been 9 ;
and to the Report of the Commissioners upon individuslo.
o
according to which claims to the amount of 225/JOOl4 ;
established in 1840. They then proceed to show; tiltof
decision and Report have been of no benefit wha";te
The late Government not having taken any 'the
towards the payment of the awarded sum, the case 9fr
claimants was again brought before Parliament in June Its'
and the whole House in Committee agreed to an addre°,,ji
the Crown, praying "that her Majesty would be graelr-ei
pleased to advance to the claimants the amount as ascertalt:o
by the Commissioners to be due, and assuring her Majesti• of
the House would make good the same." Her Majesty's anldt
to this address was It must at all times be my most earl
desire to attend to the wishes of the House of Como:1005' er
I shall be ready to give effect to them in this instance, n."t,,9
ever the means shall have been provided by Parlieso:„ ss
This answer of course revived the hopes of the claireaolol
they already had the opinion of the House in their fa-roartio
here was every reason to believe that such favourable °Piety
would be acted upon. Nevertheless, neither the late o°,.r
present Administration have taken any steps towards the
faction of the petitioners' claims, and they still find lop
selves in the same situation as before. Having, thereof,
not only a decision of the House of Commons in their far.... 0
but also a declaration by that House that it would make srole
the amoubt of compensation, they now submit that at all es: of
the Ministers might have applied to the House for a "L." it
money, or even have advanced the money at once,
full confidence that the House would redeem its
They use the argument that it is not constitutional in a i""
ter to disregard a resolution of the House appropriating ,ts
certain purpose a portion of the public money; and they so.
that they have been unable to find any case where, when tit
dresses have beers answered from the Crown, the Govern
has failed to give them due effect. On the constitutionalL
thus set up this is not the place to decide, but it is one 0700
not to be disregarded ; and the position of the petitionerS, to
have made out their case four times to the satisfaction 0' A•
House of Commons. and now find themselves without erh-
pensaiion, is certainly one of the greatest hardship.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS
0
The following ar?, the results of " A Table of Mortality 10
the Metropolis, 3'noaing the Number of Deaths from all Calso
Registered in the week ending July 2, 1842" The Tabe
issued from the Office of the Iteg6.rar-General:—

weeklY •
Averigel
163b-t.„'"l-
r-----Fouf
Four Ivest,,
Springs '490
Epidemic, Fndemie, & Contagious Diseases 110 183 „ig
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and senses .128 147
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
20
Respiration
':eases of the Hea-t and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other 61
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
ailubed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c 5 9 6
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 12 6 1
Diseases of the Skin, &c 1 1 10.1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat llB 99 69
o'.d Age, or Natural Decay 44 63
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intern- 0
pet ance
Causes not specified 2 6
.../
')eaths from all causes. 753 -- 02
Average Weekly Deaths B7l 00
Population: Average Desiii
en u. weekly tbe
merated Deaths voeiro
toil. 183ts-1)-4 -1.
West—Kensington, St George f--,-,---0%
( Hanover-square), Westmin- Four 1 Four
ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye r,..lSprinP
St. James
North— St. MSt Diary-le-b0ne,139
Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 156
Central—Saint Giles and Saint
George, Strand, Clerkenwell,
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon-
don, West London, City of
London ' 373,806 188 179 148
East—Shoreditch,Whitechapel,
Bethnal Green, St. George 153
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392;496 206 190
South—St Saviour, St.. Olave,
St. George( Southwark ), Ber-
mond.ey, Newington, Lam-
beth, Camberw4, Rother-
-173"
hitlae, Greenwich .... ...... -.438,060 221 210
......,..."
r 75?.

CAUSES OF DEATH.

Total.

NAVAL OFFICERS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,2---Irt the article in your Paper of this evening,
headed Mr. Hume and the Flag-officers of the Navy, I
observe the writer has fallen into a mistake in deducting
eight years for the service of flag-officers as midship-
men, for, by a reference to the Report on Naval and
Military Promotions, from which the extract is taken,
it appears that the Commissioners, in page 315, state
that a deduction of eight years is to be made from the
Return of the service of captains, commanders,
and lieutenants, only to ascertain the actual ser-
vice to their country as commissioned officers.
For example, in the class of captains (Return No. 4,
p. 316), it is stated that the total service of one captain SUICIDE rttom DISTRESS OF MIND. On Friday
(the first on the list), was sixty-nine years and upwards; ! an inquisition was taken before Mr. Wakley, M.P ,
at the
and of that period, from thirteen to fourteen years only Middlesex Hospital, on view of the body of Mrs. Rebecca. Shaw,
of that time had been passed on full pay or afloat; if aged 22, a respectable married female, who committed self-
eight'
destruction by swallowing arsenic. Mary Knox, No. 22, St.
Martin's-street, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, the mother of
years for service as midshipman, as stated by the
Commission, be deducted from the thirteen or fourteen
years of his actual service, the result is, that thero dheceerased, said that her daughter had been separated
that officer served only five or six years in corn- husband, who is a law-stationer, in Fetter-lane,
abomut a twelvemonth. She frequently expressed her regret
mission, and has been fifty-five years on half-pay ; that she no home to go to, and shed tears frequently.
and by a reference to page 317, it furt•her appears that Last Tuesday forenoon she went out about ten o'clock, and
the said officer had not been employed for fifty-five returned at twelve o'clock, when she sat down to needle-work.
years ; consequently, he had. received fifty-five years of Soon after she became very sick, but made no remark that she
pension for five years service as an officer. But as the had taken o' Witnessthre gave
ehker some brandy, and she lay
Commissioners have, in the Return of Flag-officers, down in bed. About
ao c o r ,inonhesivihtness's sonh assisting
adopted a different course (as per Table No. 6, p. 39')), her out of bed, he observede
and stated in the Return only the time actually passed amining it he saw the words ‘l'aaprseenic OisoosnT,wwritteennoonn eixt-.
in commission, the time opposite the name of Drum- She was then questioned if she had taken it, when she admitted
mond, of nine years, 11 months, one week and two clays, is j that she had swallowed a pennyworth. She was immediately
in reality the period he served as a commissioned officer• conveyed in a cab to the Middlesex Heepital, where she died in
consequently, he enjoyed the half-pay for twenty-eight about three-quarters of an hour after her admission. Nine
months ago she attempted to poison herself, when she was ad-
years for that short period of service ; and Sir L Certis, mitted into King's College Hospital. Verdict—" Temporary
Bart., promoted to be Rear-Admiral on June 28,. 1838, • • "
insanity.
was made Lieutenant on April 21, 1801, anclhas conse- j THE LATE LORD LEICESTER.—His admonition to
quently been forty-one years in pay,o of which seven his eldest son, repeated incessantly, was, that agriculture,
years, five months, two weeks, and two days only, have planting, and building, were to be his pursuits. He inculcated
been in commission, and thirty-four years on half-pay adherence to public liberty and Whig principles with thesame-The iici;
he not having been employed since June 11, 1814. This, fervency. He abhorred racin and abl g ' 11 How TO CURE A LIGHT SOVEREIGN.---
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phases, though perhaps amongst the mostgm skilfulinln playersa their
verpool Courier contains the following account of
I admit, does not weaken much the statement made by
played in that town nn Saturday :—The narratter, who
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you, and although in the whole list of captains, corn- the kingdom. Often and often have we heard his
ployed in a foundry in Liverpool where some hundred :rip,
whist in
'. precept, " Tom, when you go through Newmarket draw down
menders, and lieutenants, the average service is not paid, en Saturday night received his wages. He and his "
the blinds—never look at the place. "—Norwich Mercury.
annexed to the same Report • it will be found that while
and In"-
nions adjourned to a neighbouring public-house to change
the COMMISSIONERS FOR LEICESTER.—the average period of their being on the list of the navy their sovereigns when several were declared light! Our
For general purposes ;.,..aohn sarson, T. W. Daus, John 'acted to deductions varyin from sixpence to a shining• d
is thirty years, four years only is the average service Moore, J. S. Hardy, and J. Taylor, Esqrs. To fill up vacan-
on commission, and the average of service of the admi-
,narratorec,al,e in
,gt
hhekiihigadteapay gso heavy al-tax for. his. cochaknegte:deeluf. ties :—Dr. Shaw, J. Needham, and H. Payne, Esqr... and
piece of sheet lead in his p cie,
rals may ye taken at about sixteen ears, and the aye- Messrs. G. Lockwood, B. Con, T. Marston, and W. Hackett. the edee of hi. sovereign upon the lead, of which some ear". to
put
into
rage period in the half pay list is tlventy-nine years. The first meeting of the acting Commissioners was held at the , adhering to the naillieg, increased its weight. When Prow,
I remain, your obedient servant, Three Crowns, on Thursday last. Mr. T. Burbidge, the ex-
Lokidon, July 9. AN INJURED OFFICER, Town Clerk, is appointed clerk to them. ,down went 4 whop,"
the balance it ' to use his OYU en
i " This will de," said the landlady.

The Almack's Ball this week is appointed to take place ce
Thursday.
On Thursday last Lord and Lady Bridport entertained a
large party at the Star and Garter Hotel,Hichmond.
The Duke de Stozai arrived at Ithvart's Hovel, on Friday,
from Brussels.

DISTRICTS.

The Duke of Devonshire arrived at Devonshire House, on
Friday, from Kemp Town.
Viscount and Viscountess Camden arrived in Cavendish.
square, on Friday, from Paris.
Two of Sir Robert Peel's sons are now staying at Morrison's
Hotel, Dublin.

MISCELLIINEOTJS.
Father Mathew visits Glasgow on the 15th of next August.

Total 1,870,727 912 871 the'
It is stated that under the term Metropolis are cemprisefuo,
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of of,
don with and without the walls, the City and Libertil es
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of MortaitY,
and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensitle,
Fulham, Hammersmith Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), 713„
dington, St. Mary ( Stoke Newington), St. LeonardOr°l ;
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Die":
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, r
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890, and in June 1841, ni
1,870,727. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, 184°*;
1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four year'
208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52.
TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
June 25, July 2.
84° 840
53 62
... 65 66
'-'lv 7, 1842.

Highest

Lo—west

Daily Mean . .
General Register Office, July