The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-12 00:00:00

(From Me Votes Ond Proceedengs of the House of Commons.)
FAIDAY, FEB. 11.

COURT OF SESSION (SCOTLAND.)
Motion made, and Question put, " That an humble Ad-
dress be presented to her Majesty, that she will be graciously
pleased to give directions that there be laid before this House,
a Return of the number of Jury Cases in the first division of
the Court of Session, from the Ist (lay of January, 1839, till
the 31st day of July, 1841 ; specifying those in which the late
Lord President of the Court of Session presided, and those in
which any other and what Judge presided :"—Mr. Fox Maule.
—The House divided :
MINORITY—AYES,
Granger, I'. C.
iirey, Sir G.
Grosvenor, Lord R
Guest, J. J.
Hall, Sir B.
Harris, John Q
Hastier, A.
Hatton, Captain V,
Hawes, B.
Hay, Sir A. L.
Heathcoat, John
Heneag,, E.
Hill, Lord Marcia
Hindley, Charles
Holds worth 'l'.
Howard, C. W, G.
Howard, H.
Hutt, W.
Jardine, William
Johnson, General
Johnstone, Alex.
Labouchere, H.
Larpent, Sir G.
Layard, Captain
Leader, J. T.
Mangles, IL O.
Marshall, W. •
Martin, John
Maule, Hon. Fox'
Mitchell, 'l'. A.
Morris, David
Mentz, G. F.
Napier, Sir Charles
O'Brien, W. Snlitla
O'Connell, D.
O'Connell, J,
O'Connell, J.
Connor Dor
Ogle, S. C. H

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Aglionby. H. A.•
Aldan), William
Armstrong, Sir A.
Barelay, David
Baring, F. T.
Barnard. E. G.
Bell, John
Bernal, R.
Blake, Sir Valentine
Bowes, J.
Bowring, Dr.
Brodie, W. B.
Brotherton, J.
Browne, W.
Bryan, George
Buller, C.
13usibild, William
Byng, G. S.
Childers, J. W.
Clay, Sr W.
Colborne, W. Ridley
Cowper, Hon W.
Dalrymple, Captain
Dawson, Hon. T. V.
Dennistoun, J.
Duncan, George
buncombe, T. S.
Dundos, David
Easthope, Sir John
Ebrington, Viscount
Elphinstone, Howard
Ferguson, Colonel
Fitzalan, Lord
Forster, Matthew
Fox, Charles Richard
French, F.
Gibson, T. M.
Gill, 'Fhemas
Gordon, Lord F.

Palmerston, Viscount
Pendarves,,E. W.
Philips, Mark
Pinney, W.
Plumridge, Captain
Ponsonby, Hon. John
Powell, Caleb
Rawdon, J. D.
Reade, W. M.
Reddington, T. N.
Ricardo, John Lewis
Rundle, John
Russell, Lord John
Scholefield, J.
Scott, Robert
Smith, Vernon
Sombre, 1), 0 Dyce
Somerville, Sir W.
Statistield, W. R
Strickland, Sir G.
Strutt, Edwaid
Thornely, Thomas
Townley,:Johu
Troubridge, Sir T.
Tufnell, Henry
Tulle, H. M.
Villiers, Charles P.
Wall, B.
Ward, H. G.
Wawn, John T,
White, Luke
White, Henry
Wilson, Matthew
Wood, G.W.
Yorke, H. Redhead

TELLERS
Roebuck, J A.
Wakley, Thomas

Acland, Sir Thomas
Aciand, T. D.
Ackers, James
Adare, Lord
Alexander, N.
Allix, John Peter
Antrobus, Edmund
Arkwright, George
Ashley, Lord
A stall, William
Baillie, Colonel
Baillie, H. J.
Baird, William
Balfour, J. M.
Baring, W. B.
Baskerville, 'l'. B. M.
Beckett, William
sell, M.
Beresford, Major
Blakemore, R.
Boldero, Henry G.
Borth w ick, Peter
98tfield, Beriah
Broadley, Henry
Broadwood, H.
Bruce, Lord E.
Buck, Lewis W.
Buckley, Edmund
Isaller, Sir J. B. Y.
Campbell, A.
Chelsea, Visconnt
Chetwodeo Sir John
Christmas, William
Christopher, It. A.
Clerk, Sir G.
B. H.
Collett, W. Bickford
Colville, C. B.
Connolly, Colonel
Corry, H. L.
Cresswell, Baker
Cripps, J.
Crosse, T. Bright
Darner, Hon. Dawson
Denison, E. Beckett
Douglas, Sir C. E.
Drummond, H. H.
Duncombe, 0.

.JORITY-NOLS,
Egerton, W. 7'.
Eliot, Lord

139.
Manners, Lord C.
March, Earl of
Marsham, Viscount
Martin, C. W.
Marton, G. R.
Manes; R. M.
Morgan, Octavius
Mundy, E. Miller
Neville, Ralph
Nicholl, J
Northland, Lord
O'Brien, A. Stafford
Peel, Sir R.
Pollock, Sir F.
Praed, W. T.
Pringle, A.
Rae, Sir William
Rashleigh, William
Reid, Sir J. It.
Rous, Hon. Captain
Rushbrooke, Colonel
Sandon, Lord
Sheppard, Thomas
Shirley, Evelyn J.
Shirley, E. P.
Smith, Abel
Somerset, Lord 0.
Stanley, Lord
Stanley, _Edward
Sutton, Henry M.
Taylor, 'f. E.
Tennent, J. E.
Thompson, Ald.
Tollemache, John
Trollope, Sir John
Trotter, John
Vernor, W.
Waddington, H. 8.
Walsh, Sir J.
Whitmore, T. C.
Wodehouse, Edmond
Wood, Colonel T
Wortley, J. Stuart
Young, John

Emljn, Viscount ,
Escott, Bickham
Feilden, W.
Ferrand, W. B.
Fitzroy, Caplain
Follett, Sir W. W.
Forbes, William
Fuller, A. E. ~
Gaskell, J. M.

Gladstone, W. E.
Gordon, Hon. W.
Goulburn, H.
Graham, Sir J.

Grant, Sir A. C.
Greena 1, Peter
Greene, T. G.

G rim sa It c h T.

Grogan, Edward
Halton!, H.
Hamilton, W. J.
Hamilton, Lord C.
Hawked, T.
Heneaso

Herne7t, Hon. S.
Hodgson, R.
Holmes, W. A'Court
Hope, Alexander
Hope, G. W.
Hughes, W. 13.
Jernsyn, Earl
Johnson, W.
Kemble, Henry

Sli E.
Law, Hon. C. E.
Leicester, Earl of
, Lincoln Earl of
Litton, E.

Lockhart, William
Lopes, Sir Ralph
Lyall, George
Lygoi, General
Mackenzie, Thomas
Mackinnon, W. A.
Mahon, Lord
Mainwaring, T

TELLERS,
Fremantle, Sir T.
Baring, H. B.

RAILWAY RETURNS.

We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums
received on the principal Railways of Great Britain
for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed
to each. The return includes the money received for
passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer-
chandize :
Week
ended

Name of Railway. Miles Total. Opened. £. s. d.

Feb. 5 Birmingham & Derby Junct. -364 1,030 17 6
4 Birmingham and Gloucester 55 1,392 0 8
... Brandling Junction 25 No returns
4 Chester and Birkenhead ..
6 Dundee and Arbroath
6 Eastern Counties
5 Glasgow and Ayr ..
5 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greatmeli 24 654 5 0
Jan. 29 Grand Junct., Chester & Crewe 1031 7,105 0 9
Feb. 5 Great North of England 45 1,241 R 1
6 Great Western
5 Hull andy . 31 709 9 8
5 Lancast. 8 imlbPreston Junction 20i 475 12 3
4 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 4,272 5 6
5 London and Birmingham__ 114 14,582 4 9
10 London and Blackwall
5 London and Brighton
5 Ditto Shoreham Branch
8 London and Croydon loi 291 2 di
10 Liindon and Greenwich 34 825 12 0
6 London and South Western
3 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 618 9 9
7 Manchester & Birmingham
5 Manchester and Leeds
7 Midland Counties .. 57 2,380 2 3i
5 Newcastle and Carlisle
3 Newcastle and North Shields 7 308 18 8
6 Northern and Eastern — 27 900 3 9
5 North Midland
4 North Unien
6 Preston and Wyre - 202 11 9
7 Shield and ManchesVer.....; 7 243 r 9 9

6Ulster -
20 494 7 9
5 York and North Midland 23 1,314 0 11

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in the week ending Feb. 5, 1842." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General
Weekly
Average
1838-9-40-1.
Total.
Pour Pour
WinterslYears
Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 132 199 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 152 160 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
I.Nseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. 4 5 4
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &e l2 11 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 8 7 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c
Diseases of Uncertain Seat lO7 115 104
0'.(1 Age, or Natural Decay lO4 90 69
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intem-
perance
Causes not specified 6 7 7
Deaths from all causes
Average Weekly Deaths
Population Average Deaths
.enu- Weekly in
merated Peat he the •
Ib4l. )838-9-4r;-1. Week.
West—Kensington, St.'George
( Hanover-square), Westmin- Four Four
ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye . rs.jWint!rs.
St. James
North—St. Mary-le-bone, St
Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 182 197
Central—Saint Giles and Saint
George, Strand, Clerkenwell,
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon-
don, West London, City of
London 373,806 188 213 212
East—Shoreditch,Whitechapel,
Bethnal Green, St. George ----
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392,496 206 223 205
South—St Saviour, St. Olave,
St. George( Southwark ),Ber-
mond:ey, Newington, Lam-
beth, Camberwell, Rother-
hitke, Greenwich 438,060 221 243 263

CA(ISZS OF DEATH.

DISTRICT&

--- - -
Total 1,870,727 912 1017 1025
It is slated that under the term Metropolis 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. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,
Fulham, Hammersmith Cbapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad-
dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
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, 1839,1840, and
1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four years by
208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52.
TEMPERLTUkE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
Jan. 29. Feb. 5.
45° 49°
27 33
37 41
10, 1842.

Highest
Lowest
Daily Mean .
General Register Oftiae, Feb.

ROYAL INSTITUTION.—Mr. Richard King,
the surgeon and naturalist, as well as for a great part of the time
the sole conductor of the expedition in search of Sir John Ross,
and author of the narrative of the journey, delivered a lecture last
evening at the Royal Institution, " On the Boundaries of the Polar
lieas:' After taking a very rapid review of the progress of disco..
very from the 15th century to 1818, he dwelt somewhat at length
upon the surveys made since that period by Ross, Parry, Back, and
Messrs. Pease and Simpson. The survey of the latter officers, lit
appears, has fully confirmed the views the lecturer entertained in
1836 of the polar coast south of the isthmus of Boothia, wherein he
differed with Sir George Back. The melancholy suicide of Mr.
Simpson has given Mr. King an opportunity of again urging the
Government to adopt his plan at a cost of 1,000/. only. This plan
was given at length in The Sun. of January 15, 1836 , but a part of
the contemplated survey at that time has since been made, and a
new line of coast has in consequence risen, in Mr. King's opinion,
into importance in relation to the long-agitated question
of aN. W. passage. Mr. King proposes that the Government
should despatch an expedition, consisting of one officer and six
men, toward. the close of April, from Montreal, in Lower Canada,
by the usual route of the fur traders to the Athabasca Lake, and,
having obtained an Indian guide, make direct for the Fish River by
a route well known to the Indians. On the head waters of that
stream it is proposed the expedition should winter, and having as.
certained the position of a tributary to the Great Fish River, which
takes its rise close to the proposed wintering ground, in the ensuing
spring follow its course, and afterwards the main stream to the Arc.
tic Sea. By coasting along the eastern boundary of the Great Fish
River estuary, Mr. K. is of opinion there will be no difficulty in reach
ing the land of Boothia Felix, or, in case of its insularity, the Ilecla
and Fury Strait. In the latter case the northern configuration of
America will he complete; but if the former should prove to be
as Sir John Ross has described, it will be necessary to follow that
land to its northern limit, which will determine its connection with,
or separation from, the land of Cape Walker. If separated from
that land, and the dividing sea prove of any extent, the grand
problem of a practical passage from the Atlantic into the Pa.
eine by the Arctic Ocean is at once solved. Then the tending of
the coast line of the Gulf of Boothia is but of minor importance;
nevertheless, if the season be not trio far spent, Mr. King con-
siders it desirable to add its boundaries to our knowledge.
A few Li lys ago, aA some men were lamming in the
powder to blow up a portion of the rack of the tunnel for the
Paris and Rouen Railway, at Rolleboise, an explosion took place,
and the iron rod, which had been used as a rammer, entered
the breast
at workmen, and killed him. Another
severely injured.