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London, England, 1842-05-14 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS—(CLO*ING PRICES.)
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock 1671 India Stock
3 per Cent Red. 9ll Ditto Bonds 2l pse
3 per Cent Cens 921 'Ditto Old Annuities ...
31 per Cent Red . 94 Ditto New Annuities:,. -:...
New 31 per Cent - 1,0001....24d, 39 pia
, .
New 5 par Cent.
Long Annuities ~o expire j Ditto SMall .. 41 pm
Jan. 1860 .. Jo/ Bank Stock for Acct ...
Oct. 1859. .. .... 121 'lndia Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860...,.:.... ,Consols for Aect 921
, FOREIGN FUNDS:
Austrian, 5 pi- cent.... Portuguese, 5-per cent. 631
Belgian, 5 pet cent._ ' Ditto, New Ditto - 371
Brazilian Bonds. — Prussian, 5 per cent. ... "
Buenos Ayres 6 percent Russian, 5 per rent .... .
Chiltan, 6 per cent... ~ 80 'Ditto, Metallic . .... --
Colomblan, 6 pet cent.. Spanish, 6 per cent..,., 23*
Ditto, 1z,24.. ....... ..... 251 Ditto, Deferred .
Dani,h, 3 per cent — !French, 5 per cent. --.. —c.
Greek, 18:46, 5 per cent — 'Exchange —l ...c.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 37
.French, 3 percent —". —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1637 Dutch, 21 per cent. . 52a
Peruvian, 1825, ti per et. 191 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ". 101
SHARES.
Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd) 481
Cheltenham and Great Western (721 paid) 191
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ...
Ditto New Shares ( paid) ......
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) .. : ... ... 551
Great Vs estern Railway (65 paid) 921
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 64
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) , fllii-
London and Blackwall (25 paid) ...... lid
London and South Western
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ...
Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 4/
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) ...... . 29/
Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ......
Ditto New Shares (15 paid) ..... ..... 33

IVIORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.

The following are the results of A Table of Mortality in
the Metrop:dis, shoxing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Itegisteredin the week ending May 7, 1842." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General :
Weekly
Average
1838-9 .40-1
CAtistE OF DEATH. Total.
Four
I Four
Springs Year;
Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 108 183 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 152 147 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other. Organs of
Respiration
diseases of the Hea7t and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion ..
Diseases of the Kidn,ls, &c. 9 5 4
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus' ,Sc c l3 9 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 7 6 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c
Diseases of Uncertain Seat WO .99 104
o'.d Age, or Natural Decay 56 63 69
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intern-
per ance
Causes not specified 2 .6
7
Deaths from all causes - -2--
Average Weekly Deaths B7l 912
Population Average Death
enu- Weekly in •
DISTRICTS. =crated • Deaths the
1541. eek,
West—Kensington, St. Geol-ge .
( Hanover-square ), Westm in- Four I Four
ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye rt.. Springs.
St. James

North— St. Mary-le-bone, St.
Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 156 116
Central—Saint Giles and Saint

George, Strand, Clerkenwell,
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon-
don, West London, City of
London ...... ........ ...373,806 188 179 147

East—Shorediteh,Whiteehapel,
Bethnal Green, St. George
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392;49; 206 190 185
South—St Saviour, SI. Olave,

St. George( Southwark ), Her-
mond:ey, Newington. Lam-
beth, Camberwell, Router-
billow, Greenwich .............438,060 221 210 185

Total 1,870,727 912 147 1 756
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 Alortality—
and the parishes of St. Maryiebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,
Fulham, Hammersmith 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 Woolwich. The population, as
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890, and in June 1841, was
1,870,727. The weekly averrge tor 1838, 1839, 1840, and
1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths it the four years by
208, and the deaths in the four winters by L 2.

TEMPERATUUE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
April 30. May 7.
Highest
Lowest 45 42
Daily Mean ................50 56
General Register (Mee, May 12. ltsl2.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
G-LOBE.—The petition of Mr. It Warburton, the
late Member for Bridport, presented to the House of •
Commons last night by Mr. C. Buller, will strengthen
the demands which the country is at length roused
to make upon the Legislature, and with which that
body seems at length disposed to comply, that
some effectual check shall be provided against the
progress of the political and moral plague which
threatens the destruction of the electoral system,
by degrading the franchise to a marketable com-
modity, and, familiarising the electors with fraud,
perjury, and the companion vices which constitute
the machinery ,of the system, expose the social
system to disruption, by weakening the . ties
which unite -society. Mr. Warburton's petition con-
tains what tray be properly called .a history of elec-
toral corruption in the mildest forms which it assumes.
It originated in an alluSion made to the case of Brid-
port, in the debate On Mr. Roebuck's motion on
Monday last, by the way of oblique reflection, that
the "compromise and bribery at Bridport " were not
proposed to be comprehended in the list of com-
promises to be subjected to the ordeal of the Spe-
cial Committee. Mr. Warburton, . from the hour
that he surrendered his seat, is known to have
been most anxious to, bring the whole of the cir-
cumstances` which imposed that necessity upon him
before the public—not less from a desire to vindi-
cate his own character from the imputations with
which the malignity of party has industriously as-
sailed him, than from a sense of what was due to that
public, whose cause was injured by the suspicions thus
cast upon his integrity. Mr. C. Buller gave notice
that on Friday next he would move that Mr. War-
burton's petition be referred to the Select Com-
mittee, appointed to investigate and report to the
House the evidence relating to the recent com-
promises of Election Petitions. We cannot ima-
gine on what grounds the motion can be resisted.
If the object for which the Committee is ap-
pointed be .to discover the sources of corrupt prac-
tices, which the apprehensions of having exposed,
led;to compromises that defeated the ends of justice
and infringed the privileges of Parliament, there is
in Mr. Warburton's petition a case stated, and sup-
ported by a series of facts, of the very description best
calculated to accomplish the proposed object. It is
too late for the House of Commons to shrink back
Tom its declared purpose.. There must be no exclu-
sion of evidence, if that evidence be pertinent to the
inquiry. The character of the House is bound up
with the result. It will stand or fall in public esti-
mation, according as faith is kept with the country
respecting the expressed determination to deal honestly
with it in the matters now forced upon its attention ;
nor can that House aftbrd to inqur the consequences
of refusing to fulfil the pledge. •
STANDARD.—Mr. Warburton, the most emi-
nent of all political purists, and the founder and con-
stant master of the sect of the philosophical Radicals
—the compounders of the wisdom, benevolence, and
piety of Malthus and Torn Paine—Mr. Warburton,
the very model of patriot Reformers, appeared last
night in the shape of a long petition, confessing a
sixteen years' career of political iniquity, and pray-
ing that he might be put on his trial before Mr.
Roebuck's Committee. We do not remember any
similar case of self-devotion to justice, except that
of the Pope who solemnly condemned himself to
be burned for his sins, and he was burned accord-
ingly, if that story is not indeed apocryphal. How-
ever, it may lessen the shock of such an astonishing
act of virtue as Mr. Warburton's to recollect that
there had been reason to suspect a purpose of bringing
the affairs of Bridport to light before the mea culpa
cry of the lately appointed Steward of the Chiltern
Hundreds could be heard or anticipated. Mr. War-
burton's petition developer some • pleasant pas-
sages between him and the surviving Liberal
Member, Mr. -.Mitchell, but, curiously enough,
it does not touch . the .Conservative Member.
The compromise appears to have been some-
thing different from any of those hitherto ex-
posed—a compromise, not between a candidate and a-
sitting Member, but a compromise between the two
sitting Members, both conscious of very foul cor-
ruption, and therefore compelled to determine be-
tween them which should go to the wall. Mr.
Warburton seems to think that he was jockied in the
affair ; hence his perfect virtue is dashed with a
slight shade of earthly feeling—he seems to be very
angry with his Liberal friend Mr. Mitchell. If the
veteran corruptor of Bridport may be said to re-
present the .wisdom of Liberalism, Mr. Thomas
Slingsby Duncoinbe, of Finsbury, ought; we are
sure, to be accepted as a type of its chi-
valry ; and Mr. Duncombe made last night some dis-
closures of his private practice, as startling as the
revelations of Mr. Warburton. Mr. DuncoMbe
prefaced his absurd and mischievous proposition of a
declaration, by an acknowledgment that at five elec-
tions he had expended no less a sum than- thirty-four
thousand pounds ! in blibes—in bribes, not to coun-
teract corruption, but to counteract influence, in
four at least of these elections. This is the con-