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London, England, 1842-06-24 00:00:00

berotigh convicted of misconduct, or upon an un-
just accuser respectively, the burcqn of expense ;
but at present the public has no defence of the kind,
and, therefore. there can be no question of the
propriety of Sir Robert Peel's throwing the re-
sponsibility of directing the affair upon the com-
mittee, without pledging Parliament _beforehand. As
we are upon this subject, let us notice a rumour that
Mr. Roebuck intends that the proceedings of his Com-
mittee shall be secret; and, therefore,. without the aid of
agent or counsel. This rumour we can scarcely credit.
A secret tribunal is opposed to the whole analogy of Bri-
tish law. A grand jury is secret ; but a grand jury is not
a court of justice. It does not, like Mr. Roebuck's Cetn-
mittee,pOssess tbepower or exercise the functions of a court
of justice. It cannot compel the attendance of witnesses,
or punish refractory witnesses when they do attend. In-
deed, the Committee, instead of playing the . part of
grand jury to the House of Commons,•is the Court
to which the House as a grand jury presents an
indictment. The analogy of a grand jury, there-
fore, will not help Mr. Roebuck to an excuse for
secrecy. But secrecy is, we repeat it, abhorrent
from the spirit of all our judicial proceedings.
Our Courts are open that Judges and juries may
be compelled to act under the jealous censorship
of public opinion. _ This censorship we think ne-
cessary where our Judges are necessarily impartial,
calm, and learned ; how much more necessary ',must it
be where the Judges aro necessarily biassed—where,
indeed, the principal Judge is the accuser, and very far
from a calm accuser, and where no presumption exists
that a majority of the Judges are men of learning. Mr.
Roebuck has begun well ; let him not mar his good be-
ginning by anything so monstrous as a secret inquisition.
As for agents and counsel, let him dispense with them if
I he pleases ; justice seldom suffers by their absence.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS;
The fallowing ars the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metroplis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in the week ending June 11, 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 Years
Epidemic, Endemic. & Contagious Diseases 136 183 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 133 147 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ...
a.;.seases of the Heat and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidnoys, &c. 4 5 4
Chili-the& Diseases of the Uterus, fcc 7 9 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 10 6 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c
Diseases of Uncertain Seat 9B 99 104
01. d Age, or Natural Decay 5O 63 69
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intern-
_ perance
Causes not specified
Deaths from all causes. 752
Average Weekly Deaths B7l 912
Population Average Deaths
etiu. Weekly in
DISTRICTS. merated Deaths the
1041. 15.3-9-.4"-1. Week.
West—Kensington, St. George
( Hanover-square), Westmin- Four I Four
ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye r-.) Springs.
St. James 300,705 135 136 118
North— St. Mary-le-bone, St
Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 156 141
Central—Saint Giles and Saint
George, Strand, Clerkenwell,
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon.
don West London, City of
London_ ..
East—Shorediteh,VlThitechapel,
Bethnal Green, St. George
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392;49; 206 190 154
South—St Saviour, St.. Olave,
St. George( Southwark ), Her-
mond-ev, Newington. Lam-
beth, Oamberw.ll, Rothe:-
hitlae, Greenwich .... —438,060 221 210 191 .

Total 1,870,727 912

It is stated 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. ntryiebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,
Fulham, Hammersmith Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad-
dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom-
ley)' St. Mary-le-bout, 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 avenge 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
June 11. June 18.
78.) 82°
53 55
66 68
23, 1812.

Highest
• Lowest .
Daily Mean .
General Register Office, June

COURSE OF EXCH.,
Amsterdam CF. 12 8
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam 2U. /2 8i
Antwerp
Hamburgh N.B. 13 15
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 65
Ditto, 3 months 25 90
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 95
Frankfort on Maine... 152

4NCE.—(THIS DAY.)
'Gibraltar . ... 46
I:Leghorn ........ .. 3O 15
Genoa
Milan
Venice .....
'Naples .... 40
.Palermo, per oz 120
Lisbon ,........ 524
Oporto .... 52i
Rio Janeiro . 26i
'Bahia
;Buenos Ayres
New York, 21days sight Obi
'Philadelphia 46
PRICES OF BULLION, PER 01.
Foreign Gold, bars X 3 17 9
ortugal Gold Coin ...3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars . , 0 0 0
gayer in Bars... OO 0

P.-(THIS DAY.)
Last market day, 4.

- • . s. d
Walls End Hedley l6
Walls End Killingworth
W. E. Braddyll'sHettou
Walls End Hetton :0 -
Walls End Lambton
Walls End Morrison] l7 9
Walls End Stewart's 2O 3
Wal s Ei.d less
Blythe l6 6
Hartley