The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-22 00:00:00

rbirb Nbition

SUN-OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

8,000 Albion Copper 51.5 b. 511. p 0 12
4000 11. ss. Altcn l5l. sh 19./. Pr pd 14
111:00 ......... Anglo MEI ican ,iss. 5/. pm.loi?/. sh. a i 'l.d 234
Ditto Sul s:ription .... ..... .. . ......251. pu :3
2,000 Bolanos , 150/. a h all pd 4
.10,00 11. ids Brazihanlmp. les. 51. pm 25/.sh. SU, pd 9.
,15,000
1:4000 Ditto St. John Del Rey -.20/. sh. 141. pd IN
VC 010 ......
Vll,OOO Ditto Scnp 104 sh. 10/. pd 2
, 41,008 ...... ... British Iron lOOl sh. 70!. pd 8
000
' Cat-. Branca 6l/. pd 614
Candonga 73/. pd 5
111,000' 1 I COPIaPO
b,506 . ...41". Columbian, iss. 5.. pm. -55/. sh. 55/. pd 0%
.2;850 si; English 11/. Cs. pd 2
2,, 6,00 . General 51iningAssoclation20/ sh.lBl. pd 33s
t'lss -•.-,, Mexican Company 100/. sh. (;(!/ pd
...
3:00u .... ...... Volbcrou Consols: .. ... ... 10/. sh. EU. pd 4
Heatilel Monte Unregistered 3
Ditto Loan llotes.
11,500
1,01. pd 50
30,000
._...... 4j.;ited illexican, iss. 2 pm. 4i,/. oh. all pd 134
ixtt.t.. lf.orlp l4
DUI-, New Scrip 4/ F.l 33l
West Co.ic 5O/. sh 50/. pd 38
Ll'f ERA KY INSTITUTIGNS.
London, with Bronze Ticket ...75g5..b. 13
1,000 """'" London University lOO/.sh. all 14 7
1,500 ••••••'•' aw.scii
25gs sh. 6
'GO . w•••••• sing' College lOOl. 1934
mifC,ELLANEOUS.
Aus tralistj Agricultural.loo/.'sh. 28! pd 37
16'7"
151. c• "ritish American Land Compan y 3511. pd 9
45000 1. per cen.: X ,ad a Coulpan Y 100/. sh. 3211. pd 29
bk._ 000 61. per cod- Ca..-' - -,or Canaia Loan
'0,1)00 51, per cent. va - ,d. 4 %la cent ........... ....... , ~ 100
CIIY 86.- -. A7' •vliption 15/. ,li 'lir 24%
10.000 11. 6s. GeneralSte2m -.4 - ' '
101. percent. Hudson's Bay m,ocis , 254
s ....Av. 75/. sh.. 191!
IL London Com. gale Rnt. m
1241. pd 12
.•....... Caoutchouc Company
New Brunswick Land Cornp.`l•loj• Pd 12
5.387 41. per cent. Reversionary Int. 50c...1001. 10. • it'''. Pd 9334
.iiii33 51. per cent. Ditto New
....low. iii. 0(4 Pd 107
4.00° ••••"., lharnes Tunnel 4O/. 0• a.ll p 4 7
10.000 Be. Iran Dleiner.'s Land...;oo/. ski,. Pit. PI 13

-LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
APRIL 20, 1842.
BANKS.
7..4,-o,oog, 01,p. et. Bank of Scotland...B3l. Bcl sh all pd 152
cOOO,OOOl el. p. ct. Royal of Scotland jow:sh: all pd 150
yyjimo. 81. p. ct. British Liaen Company 100/, sh. all pd =O5
goopoot. 71. p. ct. Commercial .......
.5001. ,h. pd Lap
,500,0001,, G n. ct. National ............ ...... . it,e/. ahpd 14
, 101.
09,0001. 8!. p.ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 50/. pd fl%
1,0 10,0001. 6 p. ct. Western of Scotian, 2OOl. sh 40/. pd
INSURANCE COIIIPA NIES.
111).000sh. 61p. ct. Scottish Union ........ sh. It. pd 23s Cd.
,500 10 p. ct. Hercules x'lol. eh. 10/. pd 13it
301,000 10 p. et. Insurance Co. of Scotland_ hl. sh. all pd
54000 10 p, ct. North British 2001, a!!.. 101, pd 19%
100 10 p. et. Caledonian Fire 1001. s.h. pd 2,1
'5.000 10 p. et, Edinburgh Life
1190,0430 Si p. et. West of Scotland
141SCELLA NED U
4,818 ..... Edin. and Glas. Dn. Canalso/. sh. al lpd ha
Ditto Soik. all xt 42%
‘145,404 N per cent. Edinb. JointSteck Water.2sl. sh all p 3a
.I,ooosh 21 per cent. Shotts Iron I'ounderr......sol.sh 48/. p. A 38
0,000 3 per eentlrElinburgh & Leith Olass.2o/.sh. 18/. pd 3%
4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 251.5 h. all pd 30
4.450 10 per e,nt. Glasgow Gas 254 sh. all pd, 52
710 71 per. 7,MP Lekh Coal Gas 201.18. all pll.l
i. 154 Edinburgh and galkeithtlali way 50.1.5& SO

We learn that the attempt to reduce the hard earn-,
ingi of the poor stocking-weavers, at Mansfield, s proven
aboytiv A public meeting of the trade was called cea Monday,
ba
When t " little bag-hosiers' sliding scale " was m ade known,
and eat; irely disapproved of by the whole assembly. The work-
men to Whom the abatement had been offered sere waited
upon, al Id readily agreed to a cessation from labo ar, until the
Price the 7 hid heretofore received could be obtain( xi..

PRICES OF CANAI,DOCK,ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c.
LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 22.
Number Dividend Price
of per CANALS. per
Seams. Annum. Paid. Share.
1,766 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldham...Average97l.lBs.sh. 94
1,482 41. Ashbyede-le-Zouch Aecrage 1151.5 h , 71
1,260 ..... .... Basingstoke.... lool.sh. 5
1,065 31. Brecknock and Abergavenny lsol.sh. 92
6,0011 I-16th. 101. Biriningham,l-16th share ...,811. & 711. 194
4,000 ... . Ditto & Liverpool Junct.l9ol. sh .100 pd 21
600 fir. Bridgewater and Taunton.looeske all p 3 --
409 51. Chelmer and Blackwater ..... lool.sh. 101
300 32!. Coventry
Croydon . Avere7e3ll.26.lod. sh . -
2,060 5! Os Dudley 1001. sh. 04
600 131. Derby lool.sh . 120
20,000 4 per cent. Oanube and Mayne 411.105. 4d.pd 30
3,575 e 4' Eilesmereand Chester Averegel33:.sh. 69
231 ge ••
l Erewasn
.• •
6,453 eel. Forth end Clyde ....... 1001. an:
......... Pd. • 11_6
411.3 71. Grancteunction... .................. lute. 0 l'en
),04911 255. Grand Union ........« .............„..1001.sh
3. 27
15
',SOO . ..... .. Grand Surrey...-. .. u 01: n
1001.
1,0001 41. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan
• 090 .. Grand Western .......... ...... 21. A. all.pd 10
. '2l
136.4 d. 0
800 13 12s. Sci. Glamorganshire,Aver. coati-721
740 121. terantheen 1501.3h. eeti
6 138 e..ils. Huddersfield Average e //. 63.6 d. eh. :9
100 .. Kensingtoet lo6th. allpd 10%
20.3 e leS les . Kennet end Avon. Av. 391.185.104
.sh 18%
11,6991 le 105. Lancaster Average 6s. 8d e 7
Y,5971 301. Lecd s and Liverpool lool.sh 710
5451 11. 10s. Leicester 140/.31 150
,807 51.05. Leicester & Northampton Aver 631.10 E 72
• 2,409 les Monmouthshire -me.. um „I em
250 131. Melton Mowbray
600 '.i Mersey and Irwell lool.sh. 540
S,OOO 11. Ins. Macclesfield lOll. sh. all pd 16
247 17/. Neath iool.sh. 305
'2,00 Si. Peak Forel. ivet.ge about 781.5 h. 64
I, tlB tes. Regent's (or London) Av. 33/.165.8d. eh. 10%
5,6110 et. Rochdale Average 861. eh. 62
590 81. Shropshire /esl.sh. 137
SGO Ile 108. Somerset Coal lsol.sh. 170
3e1.1111. 6p -r cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 12/.los. sh. 114
.700 381. Stafford and Worcester 1401.5 h. 666
1.00 151 Shrewsbury 1251. sh. 280
MO 91. 3teurbridge
3,047 21.05. Stratford.on.AVoll liver-791. 9s. ed. sh. 33
533 12}1 Swansea lool.sh, 205
3,762 21. 12s. Severn and Wyc &Railway Ay.e6l.9s. sh. 45
,60945 h. 32/. 10s. Trent and Mersey, e share lOOl. sh. 475
8.149
I,ooosh.e ,
I,oooeske Lel. Warwick and Bermingham ...... 1001.sta 2CO
910 104. Warwick and lupin.' 100/.sh. 118
7,000 41 Worcester & Birmingham AvelBl.Bs.sh. 16
5.0,00 365, Wilts and Berke Avereee 671. 105.84• eh • 28%
ell 6s, Werlev and Erungt0n......... les/.sh '74
.26
903 II Wey and Arun..... llOl. en. 20
DOCKS.
2'6" Pe 1 So c Commerc al .w.....1001.5h. 61
1,96518 h. .• ' '
5 per cent. East and West India .......... Stock 1034
.233,31015. Ole p. ct. London ..........Stock 78
Ditto Bonds
2,e09 31.65. sd. Bristol , ..... ........ Average 1411. 91. sh . '75
69,324/. 51. per cent. Ditto Votes, various amounts lOB
252,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 97
502,144 4e percent. Ditto Bonds ... .„ ...... .......... , lOO4
200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds lor 1121 years
Deptford Pier ......«........201. sh. 201. pd 10
BRIDGES.
1,604) It Hammersmitl, 501.5 h. 2134
7,231 ...... .. .. Southwark, 01d.........Av. 631.2 s Bd. sh. 3e,
1.700 1/. 151. Ditto, New, of 71'per cent., 501.5 h. 15%
s,OOO Waterloo 1001. eh. 3
5,000 fees. (Id. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 601. pd 21
5,000 les. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 4Ol. pd 18%
60,000/. el. per cent. Ditto Bonds 99%
5,848 27s Vauxhall .......Average 701. 100.3 d. sh 26
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
2,000 3110 s Albion .5001. sh. 50/. pd 70
60.000
161;inerd cleszel Allianeeßritish &Foreignlooe sh. Ile pd 14
60,00 f, 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 51. pd 5%
24,00/ . 41. per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 144
1,200 eth. 5/. Birmingham hire 250/. sh. 551. pd 10734
20,0(e) 4/.percent. British Fire 250/. sh. 501. pd 41
19,1) )0 61. per cent. British Commercial .........501. sh. 5/, pd 6
5,0 a. 5/. per cent. Clerical & Medical Life, 1001. sh. 2110 s pd 03e
4,1.00 310 s County lOO/. sh. 101. pd 11
7. elOO 35. Eagle.
ere, I'ans
30
d per cent
bee a Economic Life 10001. sh. 250/. pd 406
"ee 11
',271 221. percent. European Lite °O/. sh. all pd 22
'50,000 2s. Ditto, New 001. sh. 2!. pd I 1(,
.000,000/. fl. per ct Globe Stock 116
20,000 51. Guardian
30,000 4s. Od. Hope 5O/. sh. 51. pd 531
2,400 51. 12s. ed. Imperial Fire 5OOl. sh. 50/. pd 139
7,500 10s. rd. Imperial Life
13,459 5/. per cent. Indemnite Marine lOOl. sh. el. pd 3131
9,020 31 103 Kent Fire 5O/. sh. all pd 91
31. Ditto Life 5O!. pd 06
10,000 25s Law Life 101)1. :de 10/. pd 3231
5,17013 Ids. London, Fire 25/. sh. 121. 10s. pd 17%
3,900 108. London, Ship .. 251. sh. 121. 103. pd 174
1/100,000/. ... ..... Minerva life 100/. sh.
2eooo 5!. per cent. National Loan Fund... 201. sh 2!. Ns. pd 2%
:Veen° 51. per cent. Palladium Life 5Ol. sh. 21. pd 216 s
50,900 5!. per cent. Protector Life 201. sh. 21. pd 17s 6d
10,000 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters ....100/. sh. Si. pd 5%
9.500 ii. Provident Lire lOOl. sh. 101. pd 20
200,060 4s. Od. Rock Life
59,220/ 51. percent. Royal Exchange Stock 170
6,000 5 per cent. University Life 100 e sh. 5!. pd 11
10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. sh. 51. pd '714
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
25,000 Agric. and Corn. of I reland2sl. sh. 101. pd
15,000 8 per cent. Australasia 401. sh. 401. pd 53
1e.04210 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 501. sh. 10/. pd 13
10,000 Viper cent. Birmingham Bank sol.sh. 10/. pd 13%
31,0e0 6 percent. London & Westminster 100/ sh. 201. pd 21%
60,000 5!. London Joint Stock 50!. sh. 10/. pd 12%
4,000 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl. eh. 201. pd SO
'25,000 10 per cent. Liverpool 1001 sh. lei/. pd 19
50,000 74 percent. Manchester and Liver/ 50/. sh. 151. pd 1934
pool Dis-onnt
20,000 7 percent. Manchester lOO/. sh. 101. pd 4%
110,000 8 per cent. Provincial Bank of Irelandloo/. sh. 25/. pa 41
10,000 6 per cent National Bank of Ireland 50/. eh. 17;1. pd 1534
10,000 6 per cent National Provincial Eng.loo4 sh. 3.51. pd 56
10,000 Ditto New 10/. sh. 101. pd 10
10,000 Gloucestershire .501. vb. 101. pd 32
0,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 9%
GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
2,500 16. Od Bath 201. sh. 101. pd 22
",5 Ofle British 401. sh. 16!. pd 19
„t e, 151.fieTcent.1
es - land Bs. 61.3 Ditto Provincial 2O/. sh. 101. pd 13
990 51 10s Birmingham. .50' sh. 101
4,250 2/ Os Bristol 2O:. sh. 76
2,250 3/ lOs Brighton 2Ol. sh. 13%
750 31 108 Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 18/. pd 9
9,471 44 per cent Brighton General .20/. sh. all pd 934
4.0c05 71.105. Continental Consolidated ....751. 62.V.pd 110
1,000 101. City of London.. ..100/. sh. all pd 195
1,030 01. Ditto, New lOOl. sat, 751. pd 150
4,000 3/.os, Equitable 5O/. pd 20
10,000 3/. per cent. Imperial 501.5 h. 6034
800 5!. per cent. Isle of Than et 251. sh. 201. pd 19
2,350 61. per cent. Independent 201. A. slipe 56
9,00(1 51. per cent. Phcenix 5Ol. sh. 39/. pd 303;
1,060 4/. per cent. Ratclifl lOO/. sh. ROl. pd 63
4,000 South Metropolitan 50/. sh.-2334/. pd 18
9,000 5/. per cent. United General 501. sh. 471. pd SO
240 5/. per cent. Warwick 5O/. sh. 50
40/1 51. per cent Wakefield 251. sh. 22
2,000 31. Westminster Chartered
6,000 Hs. Ditto New ..................5( 1. ;h. 10!. pd 11
780 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. sh. 181. pd
WATER WORKS
4,800 345. Birmingham 231. eh. 25!. pd 21
4,433 7!. East London 1001• sh. 1654
5,500 21 15s. Grand Junction Average 41/. 13s. 4d. sh. 56
9,1100 .21. Kent 100/. sh. 52
372 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 325
1,500 2 1101 New River London Bridge WaterA tin- 60
0,486 21 lOs Manchester and Salford 100/. sh. 54
1,000 5 per cent. South London 100/.5h. 98
8,294 4jl. West Middlesex Average 631.1125. 9d. sh. 44
1.360 11141 York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 1001. sh. 35
IRON RAILWAYS.
11,390 2/. Os. Birmingham and Derby .... lOO/. pd 52
0,00 3 pet cent. Birmingham and Gloucester KO/. pd 5554
)b,OOO 4 per cent. Bristol and Exeter 1001. sh. 70 pd 45
4,300 Cheltenham& G. Western 1001. s h. 72%1. 1734
3,0011 ~. ..... Clarence 100/. sh. 100/ pd 20
8,000 ..«..... Dublin and Drogheda 100/. sh. 5/. pd
410,00 e Eastern Counties 23/. sh. 23/. pd 1034
3n,000 5 per cent. Great North of England 1001. sh. 1(101. pd 873&
sW,OIB 19 per cent. Grand Junction lOOl. sh. all pd 182
t3,"Ge 4 per cent. Great Western 100!. sh. 05/. pd 9434
25.000 3 per cent. Ditto New 50/. sh. 101. pd 65%
(1,000 5 per cent Gosport Junction 'O/. sh. 501. pd 59
2,000 8 per cent. Hartlepool 1001. eh. 1001.0 14534
8.000 Hull and Selby 5Ol. sh. 504 pd 40
2,100 4 per cent. Leeds and Selby
6,100 10 per cant. Liverpool ed Manchester 'UCLA!). 100/.0 188%
7,206 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 5O/. pd 91-e
11,405 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 9.51. pd 45
feepoe ........ London and Brigh ton SUL sh. 50/. pd 37
fe4,000 ..., . .... London and Blackwell e 2.51. sh. 251. pd 1.234
eO,OOO 3ne r cent. London and Greenwich 2O/. 04. 201. pd el
25,000 91).;,r sh. London le Birmingham lOO/. sh. 90/. pd 181
25,04)0 2/. -i i 63. Ditto csuArter Shares ....ese sh. 51. pd 37
31..),50 '/.:is. 4d. Di t o New Shares 32/. sh. 32/. pd 314
aro to 3 per se. London and &Western Av. nsr, 17s. Od. 61
es,eoo ... ...... London and Croydon] As. 13/. 15s. 9d. 14
Ditto New Scrip. . 14
18,1100 4.. per sh, Manchester and Leeds...loo/. sh. 701. pd 8 4
)1000 Ditto Half Shares 5O!. 30/. pd 36%
10,000 .........Manchester and le rm ieg ham 70/.51).40/. '8
Inito Extension 7l. pd 2
10,000 21.105. Midland Counties 1011/. sh. 100/, pd 791
15,000 Si. Os. North Midland
1/.los. Ditto New 4O pd 34
70,256 1/.los. Northern and Eastern.... pd 44
fe,6oli Preston and Wyrc 5Ol. sh. fell, pd 96
se ,0100 4 per cent. South Eastern and Dover eq. IA 309(
1, 000 101. per emit. Stockton and Darlington
.6,501. sh 1001
Bpd h. 265
10
5/. ,
9 10/. per cent. York and Nerth Midland 50 . sh. 501. pd 94
MINES.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

GLOBE.—Our readers are aware that we are not
friendly on principle to indefinite propositions for the
Extension of Suffrage, and for the framing of what is
sometimes called a second Reform Act, though we are
not blind to the imperfections and abuses of the present
elective franchise. In reviewing last night's discussion
on the motion of Mr. Sharman Crawford, we cannotbut
feet that there is some degree of falseness in the pos-
tion of both parties. We do not say this to escape
from the explicit statement of our own views, which
we will never disguise from our readers on any
question of national interest. But it does ap-
pear to us that there is some degree of vice in
the arguments, or, at least, of imbecility in the
positions, which are practically occupied by each
party—the advocates and the opponents of mea-
sures of organic change. There are no two of the
former who seem agreed what change they should
advocate. There are no two of the latter who art
quite alike satisfied with the system they defend.
While Mr. Roebuck and Dr. Bowring have no notior
of any but numerical franchises, Mr. Ward is not pre-
pared to abandon all property qualifications. While
Sir Robert Peel defends the Reform Act as something
he was nowise responsible for, except to embrac(
the less of two evils in order to stave off the greater.
Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham have their
quorum pars magna to proclaim, and put themselves
forward in the front of the battle, as champions of
the Grey Reform of Parliament. All these variations.
which hardly amount to serious discord within the
walls of Parliament (excepting a note or two from
the Members for Bath and Stockport in a somewhat
sharper key), indicate that this question is not likely
to present itself in a practical shape. It is, however,
before such questions become urgent, that it will
be well for those who assume to take any part in
public instruction to discuss them impartially. For
our own part, in our opposition, on principle, to Uni-
versal Suffrage, and—in general—to all Reform of
Reform which assumes numbers as its guiding rule,
we do not solely rely on an opinion of popular igno-
rance. It is invidious to ascribe ignorance to any one
class in particular ; and it is difficult to prove in what
degree ignorance or instruction characterise one class
or other. The utmost extent to which the argument
derived from assumed ignorance can go is, that—when
numbers alone are made the basis of political repre-
sentation, whatever ignorance exists in the community.
,is sure oibeing represented.
STANDARD.—Very nearly half the community,
that is, the minority at the election of representatives,
are bound by laws made by men whom they positively
distrust and dislike ; and in no sense can they be con-
sidered as consenting to such laws, except as they con-
sent at all to live under a representative constitution ;
and this consent is the same whatever form that repre-
sentative constitution may take. How unjustly, then,
was Sir Robert Peel blamed for not gravely answer-
ing the solemn trifling of the revived Cartwright, and for
amusing himself and his hearers with the ludicrous
reasoning of the triflers—Dr. Bowring's planetary and
book-keeping arguments among the rest. By the way,
we would remind Dr. Bowring that there are planets
whose periods greatly exceed twelve months, and
others the periods of which fall short of that term ;
and there are merchants who post their books
quarterly ; so that his argument is false in its
premises, besides belonging to our chapter of false
analogies. But how are arguments like this to be
answered except by a smile ? Sir Robert Peel did,
however, gravely and decisively meet the propo-
sition of Mr. Crawford, by pointing to the impos-
sibility of the country going in a current of revolu •
tions ; and by showing, from the variety of the propo-
sitions propounded by the different speakers, that to a
current of revolutions, without end or respite, the
country would be committed, by once more break-
ing up the Parliamentary constitution. Sir Robert
Peel might have added, that the current would not
stop with political alterations, but having done its work
with them, must, in the end, overwhelm property.
For our own part, we can see one hundredfold more
and stronger arguments for an agrarian distribution
of property than for any political reform ; and if the
people are to be all charged with the office of legisla-
tion, and have nothing else to think of, they will not
be slow to discover arguments so seemingly profit-
able to the vast majority. This hint ought not to be
lost on Mr. C obden, and his worthy partners, in the
more than worth of the land of the United Kingdom,
which the millowners boast to have acquired in 25
years; nor ought it to be lost upon the aristocracy.
COURIER.—There is, in fact, no election law
in Ireland except what Committees of the House of
Commons enact, and that which is strict law with
one Committee, another, sitting in the next room,
and at the same time, pronounces to be a grievous
wrong. It is not now for the first time that a know-
ledge of this unsatisfactory and disgraceful state
of the law reached the Legislature. Immediately
after the general elections of 1835 and 1837, the
glaring evils of the system became perfectly appa-
rent, and the then Government affected to deplore
and promised to remedy them. Session after session
the Irish law officers of the Crown introduced,
what they termed deblaratory acts, but, :session after
session, these were allowed quietly to drop off to-
wards the close. Early in 1840 Lord Stanley, aided
by Mr. Emerson Tennent, took the subject in hand ;
but, at that period, parties were too equally balanced
in the House of Commons to admit of the success of
Lord Stanley's admirable measure. What, we should
like to know, has become of that Bill ? It possessed
all the materials of a searching and effectual remedy,
and, if tempered a little, and purged of any thing
that could be construed into harshness, it would, we
have no doubt, receive the support of a very large
majority in the present House of Commons. We
have heard, it is true, that an attempt will be made
to assimilate the laws that regulate the franchise
in Ireland to those which obtain in this coun-
try, and that, for the purpose, one comprehen-
sive measure of election reform will be in-
troduced. We are not disposed to under-rate the
value of uniformity, but to such a course of proceed-
ing we discern many grave objections. The qua-
lifications and descriptions of electors, in both coun-
tries, do not correspond, and therefore we consider
any attempt to introduce uniformity in matters es-
sentially different will signally fail. It were far better
to confine the remedy to the specific evils complained
of, than to endeavour to apply one grand panacea.
We have but little confidence in that system of char-
latanism which aims at the cure of various distempers
by the same means, whether in a medical or political
point of view.

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 April 16, 1842." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:—

Weekly
Average
1838-9.40-1
CAUSES OF DEATH. Total,
Four I Four
Springs. I Years
Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 121 183 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 150 147 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
I.:‘seases of the Heart and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other

. .
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. 4 b 4
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c lO 9 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 7 6 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c 0 1 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat. lOO 99 104
o'.d Age, or Natural Decay 6l 63 69
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intem-
perance

Causes not specified
Deaths from all causes". 822 ---
Average Weekly Deaths B7l 912

- Population Average - 11;ths
term- Weekly in
DISTRICTS. merated Deaths the
1841. 18384-40-1. Week.
West—Kensington, St. George ..___A__,
~
( Hanover-square), Westmin- ~ Four I Four
ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye rs.l Springs.
St. James
North—St. Mary-le-bone, St
Pancral, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 156 165
Central—Saint Giles and Saint
George, Strand, Clerkenwell,
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon.

don, West London, City of
London 373,806 188 179 169
East—Shoreditch,Whitechapel,
Bethnal Green, St. George
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392;498 206 190 179
South—St. Saviour, St. Olave,

St. George( Southwark),Ber-
mondbey, Newington, Lam-
beth, Camberwell, Rother-
hithe, Greenwich .............438,060 221 210 207

- - -
Total 1,870,727 912 871 822
It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the
32 districts heiein 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. 31arylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington
Fulham, Hammersmitl. Chapelry), 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 Woolvrich. 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.
TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
I April 9. Apt it 18.
570 49°
34 37
43 4/2?
21, 1842.

Highest

Lowest

Daily Mean . . 1
General Register Office, April

THE DERBY " STRIKE."—OnIy 10 of the 150, bobbin-
net hands, lateEin the employ of Messrs.Boden and Morley, now
remain at work, the rest having struck. We understand that
about 3001. has been transmitted by the hands in Nottingham
to their brethren in Derby, and that the contributions increase
in amount weekly.—Nottingham Review.
The General Steam Navigation Company's mail.
packet, John Bull, Captain J. P. Corbin, arrived this morning
with the Hamburgh mail.
The framework-knitters of Hucknall Torkard,
being desirous of suppressing the truck system, have collected
subscriptions from the inhabitants generally, and have met
with good support, especially from the middle class.