The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-08 00:00:00

REGISTRATION OF VOTERS:

Sir J. GRAHAM gave notice, that on Tuesday next
he would move for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the
law for the regulation of the registration of Parlia-
mentary electors in England and Wales.—(A laugh.)
On the motion of Sir R. PEEL, the House was ad-
journed, till twelve, o'clock on Monday, at a Quarter past
Five.

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 July 30, 1842." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:—
Weekly
Average
1838-9-40-1

CAUSES OF DEATH. Total.

our Four
Summers (Years
Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 160 191 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 162 150 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ...
Diseases of the flea-t and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Cbildbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c 8 8 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 6 5 6
Diseases of the Skin, &e 0 1 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat . 123 95 104
014 Age, or Natural Decay 56 54 69
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or intern-

perance
Causes not specified 7 6 7
Deaths from all causes . BB2 - --
Average Weekly Deaths B4B 912
Population: Average Death
enu. Weekly in
rnerated Deaths the
Ib4l. 1834-v-4"-1. Week.
---1
yFeo,rirdsuFmomurers.
135 124 136

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS GI SATURDAY.

GLOBE.—The character of a Government may be
ascertained from two sources—its acts and its agents.
We have had frequent occasion to comment on the
acts of the Irish Government; for it must be confes-
sed that it has not been chary of material
suited to our purpose. With very brief in-
tervals, from the day it was constituted to the
time present, either by its appointments, its
policy, or the dissensions of its members, we have
had no lack of provocation for serious reprehension
or well-merited ridicule. By its solemn promises
and pledges of strict impartiality of administration,
it raised hopes in the minds of the people which it
quickly dashed to the ground by the exclusive
and strongly-marked party character of its appoint-
ments. Its policy—from a constant war between desire
to keep up a show of moderation, and efforts to gratify
the rampant claims of its Orange supporters—has been
weak, vacillating, and consequently unsatisfactory to
and denounced by all parties—while the ill-sup-
pressed jealousies and occasionally open disagreements
between the members of the Government, have
betrayed the absence of that most important element
in the constitution of an Administration—with-
out which its character will fail to command
respect, or its policy confidence, with the
people—the union which constitutes strength
in council and energy in act. Another, and
no less intelligible exhibition of the character of a
Government, is found in the kind of agents who
find employment in the subordinate departments of
its service. Judged by this rule—the validity of
which will not admit of controversy, even though
the truth of our application of it may be denied—we
affirm that the Irish Government is consigned to
obloquy and shame. The debate in the House of
Commons last night on the motion of Mr. O'Connell,
for the production of the correspondence between
the Irish Government, the Magistrates, and the
police, relative to the employment of a fellow
named Hagan, who was produced by the Government
prosecutor as a witness to, support the charge of Rib-
bonism against four men indicted for that offence,
will explain and justify our opinion of the weakness
(implying something worse) of the Government, for
its refusal to produce the correspondence. It is little
short of equivocation and evasion to pretend, as Lord
Eliot did last night, that though the local authorities
might be cognizant of that double-dyed villain's pro-
ceedings, the Government was not to blame.
STANDARD.—In reference to the debate on Mr.
O'Connell's motion, it may be useful to remind the
public of the manner in which the Ribbon conspiracy
is recruited. Seven years ago we gave very full par-
ticulars of the organisation of the conspiracy, but at
that time it was the policy of the Whig-Radical jour-
nals to deny utterly the existence of any such conspi-
racy,while Conservative statesmen and our Conservative
Contemporaries—we say it more in sorrow than in
anger—left us to denounce alone the confederacy
that has since caused so much calamity and blood-
shed. We had then quite enough to do to main-
tain our own veracity and character for common
sense against a tempest of contradiction, ridicule,
and sneers ; and we can scarcely hope that the
details of the conspiracy which we made known
seven years since, live in the memory of any reader.
The conspiracy is, however, admitted to exist ; and
the evidence which extorts this admission will, if
fairly examined, prove that it has existed in Ire-
land, under one name or another, for at least a cen-
tury. How it has been for so long a time able to
defy the law will be explained by its exquisite
machinery. " When they talked to me of Ribbon-
men," said Sir Frederick Stovin, when examined
before the Parliamentary Committee, " I required
them to show me a Ribbon lodge." Now Sir Frede-
rick's has been the error of all who have been called
to consider the subject. There are no Ribbon lodges;
the only occasions upon which Ribbonmen ever
formally assemble are a few rare meetings of
the local or superior leaders—and these have some-
times been detected—and musters for the exe-
cution of some villainy, which musters are
too frequent and notorious. If the Executive
wait, with Sir. F. Stovin, until Ribbon lodges
are of easy detection, they will wait long
enough. The manner in which the conspiracy is
recruited is this : a Ribbonman pitches upon a
party whom he believes willing to co-operate in the
designs of the conspiracy, engages him in private
discourse, and, if the man is prepared to enlist, admi-
nisters to him the oaths, usually in some retired
place, but always "so/us cum solo." The recruit then
receives the sign and pass-words, which are changed
every month, or at farthest every three months,
rnd soon after his enlistment he is invited to a
meeting, usually at a public-house, at which some
experienced members of the conspiracy have an
opportunity of considering his person and conduct,
but nothing having any appearance of business is
transacted at this meeting. Upon the decision of
the scrutineers at the meeting depends his receiv-
ing the new pass-words, that is, his continuance as
a member of the conspiracy. The central authority
from which this organization proceeds is, and ever has
remained, a secret even from the Ribbonmen them-
selves. It must be some authority which has the
opportunity of secret communication with the whole
body of Roman Catholics—for to that sect the conspi-
racy is strictly confined—as its primary object, appa-
rent from the Ribbonman's oath, proved more than a
hundred times in Courts of Justice—is the extirpa-
tion of the Protestant religion.

MONEY MARKET and CIT Y NEWS.

FROM THE • MORNING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
POST.—A decline has to be noticed in the price of
Consols to-day, for which various reasons are assigned.
Those that are more probable to be correct are—the ex-
ertions of some parties who have been operating as
" bears" to cause a fall, and the anxiety of others to
realise the profit upon the late advance. The first sug-
gestion is not unlikely to be light, inasmuch as it is
known that the people in question are largely interested
in the pigeon expresses, and the report receives corrobo-
ration from the belief that these documents have been
published in a mutilated and garbled form, presenting so
much as would probably create
.a decline, but carefully
suppressing every favourable circumstance which might
be likely to counteract such an impression. The reac-
tion has been also attributed to the position of the
French Ministry, but that is not a circumstance which it
is thought would have any great effect here.
• TIMES.—The Stock Exchange was in a considerable
state of excitement this afternoon, under the impression
that intelligence had been received from France to the
effect that M. Dufaure had been chosen President of the
Chamber, that M. Guizot consequently would resign, if
indeed he had not resigned already, and that the Rentes
had declined 1 per cent This intelligence being of a
character which seamed to threaten such serious danger
to the peace Of Europe, Consols rapidly declined.
In the Foreign Exchanges to day, owing to a con-
siderable deman for paper upon Hamburgh, the rate
on that place was again depressed. Bills upon Paris
were likewise in request, and the price was similarly
affected, but in a less degree. Amsterdam remained the
same as last post.
A copy of the Commissioners' Report on the repudiated
Exchequer bills has been sent to the Committee of the
Stock Exchange, with strict injunctions not to divulge its
contents till they were officially made known to the
Legislature. These injunctions have been strictly
complied with by the Chairman, who last night de-
livered it, under his own seal, to the Secretary for
safe custody. That the tendency of this report is favour-
able to the bona fide holders is pretty generally believed,
the reason for such belief having transpired from time to
time, long before the Report was printed. At the same
time the greatest anxiety is expressed among the holders
that, as Parliament will be prorogued next week, a de-
finitive answer as to the course he intends to pursue will
be given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to Mr. C.
Buller, when he puts his
.question to that effect on
Tuesday next. The Chancellor of the Exchequer having
stated last night that he should be prepared to give his
opinion when he had read the Report, the feeling is that
ample time will be afforded fur that purpose by Tuesday,
and that the innocent sufferers by this unfortunate affair
should not be allowed to undergo months of renewed
anxiety—a feeling so natural and reasonable, that it is
to be hoped no consideration whatever will interpose to
disappoint it.
It is understood that, for the sake of complying in
some measure with the wishes of the Ceylon merchants,
instructions have been sent to the local Government to
reduce the duty on cinnamon to. is. per lb., which is one-
half of that at present imposed. The merchants are
not, however, satisfied with this reduction, since the
duty is still too high to allow a fair competition with the
production of Java ; and they are convinced that if once
put on an equal footing, but not till then, Ceylon, with
its advantages of soil, will be able to contend successfully
aganst the cinnamon of the rest of the world.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF HYDROPIIODIA.—A
fine bay saddle mare, belonging to a gentleman of this
city, died of this shocking malady on Wednesday, in Dub-
lin. She had been out as usual the day before, exercising
in the Coburg-gardens, and there first evinced symptoms
of sulk, and attempted to lie down, when the groom
immediately rode her home. In the stall she appeared
more uneasy still, tottering from side to side, and at last
fell, but recovered herself; biting and snapping at every
object. Mr. Watts, the eminent veterinary surgeon, was
sent for promptly, and on seeing her, pronounced at
once that she had been bitten by a mad dog, and
could not survive more than a day. Her mouth was
then tied up to prevent the animal tearing herself and
doing injury to all about her. The mare during the night
struggled under the paroxysms of the disease to release
herself, and became so furious that she dashed against
the stable .walls, and broke part of the timber work,
foaming at the mouth, and cutting herself about the
head and eyes by plunging against the enclosure in
which she stood. Death at last closed the poor crea•
Lure's sufferings. Tho mare had evinced a slight lame-
ness in one foot, but no sign of a cut or bite there.
The Impartial de la Meurthe• states that, a few
days back, a man, named Stephanoli, residing at Goudre-
ville, in a fit of irritation drew his razor across the
throat of his wife, and the moment after did the same to
himself. The life of neither, however, is in danger.
He immediately insisted that the gendarmerie should be
sent for, to take him into custody. lie was taccordingh
arrested and transferred to. Toul. The man was evi-
dently insane

DOWN. I r
UP.
Departure Arrival i 1 Departure Arrival
TRAINS. fro n at II TRAINS. from at
1 Rugby. Derby 'I- Derby. Rugby.
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Ist 645 M 9 0M :i Ist
2d
3d
4th 250 530 E 1r 4th ...... 440 7 0
sth l3 45 10 5(1 1 sth 730 I() 0
6th Mail 12 20 Mt 2 49 M 6th Mail 10 40 12 50 M
ON SUNDAYS.
Ist
2d
34
4th, l2 20M 2 49M 4th Mail 10 40 Li 50i11
The times of arriving at and departing from Nottingham am
Derby are nearly the same.

Ist 6 45M 9 30E
2d
3d
4th Mail 10 40 12 50 M
leparting from Nottingham and
,rly the same.

NORTH MIDLAND.

(IN CONJUNCTION WITH THTi: MIDLAND COUN-
TIES, BIRMINGHAM AND DERBY, MANCHES-
TER AND SHEFFIELD, MANCHESTER AND
LEEDS, HULL AND SELBY, AND THE GREAT
NORTH OF ENGLAND.)

DOWN TRAINS.