The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-23 00:00:00

A FASHIONABLE THIEF.

A Berlin letter, in the Constitutionnel, gives
the following account of the discovery of a most
extraordinary series of audacious frauds and rob-
beries lately committed in that capital. A lady
of rank, having been robbed of a packet of trea;r.
sury bonds, applied to the police. The officer
questioned her as to the persons who had visited
her in the course of the day preceding. The
lady named several of distinction, and among
them one who had been introduced to her as the
Marchioness of Hereford, of a noble English
family. From what reason does not uppear, the
suspicions of the officer at once rested on this
high dame, and, going to her residence early the
next morning, he entered her chamber before
she had mien. Announcing the object of his
visit, at which of course the Marchioness ex-
pressed her surprise and indignation, he de-
manded her keys, and searched all her desks,
drawers, and closets. Nothing that appeared
suspicious was found, but there were many
things of an extraordinary nature. Among these
were the minutes of a writing addressed to the
King, on the subject of the religious differences
in Prussia, and a correspohdence with men of
science. With these papers was a plate of cop-
per, which the officer took to the lady who had
applied to him. She at once recognised it as a
token of some peculiar event in her fatumly, which
she had always kept in her jewel-box. This box
was brought, opened, examined, and not only
was the plate missing. but it was discovered that
all the precious stones of the ornaments it con-
tained had been taken out, and false, jewels sub-
stituted for them. This box must have been
taken away, and kept several days before it was
replaced. Inquiries were made, and it was dis-
covered that the real jewels had -been sold to
respectable jewellers at Berlin. This led to the
discovery of other robberies and frauds, and ul-
timately to proof that the pretended Marchioness
of Hereford, who under this title had lived at
Berlin for a long time in sumptuous style, was
the daughter of a forest-keeper at Herstort, in
Westphalia. She had in her passport converted
the words of Mensen aus Hersforteli into Mar-
chioness of Hereford, being greatly facilitated in
her assumption of her noble character, by the
fluency with which she speaks English. She is
conAned in the criminal prison.

MAItKET.
Wneat, Red, Essex and Kent
-s. 5Cs. to 6(s. tine 64:.•
--L
WAKEFIELD-CORN
-C. 62e. to C 4.. nor C,51.
blito
-s. &fis. to tik`s. tine 034.
Yorkshire -I. Lfii. to ',Us. tine &:s.
...-.--. White ..•.. -s. GO.. to 83s. fine Vtis.
.......--. Foreign, Red ••••11. ••..1. to 553. fine E.'ss.
onr. alnadacnadtS.. itttolk .....
White --6* -...5. to -s, sine fats.
.-..-.....----.-•
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 'l4. to ~.. tine .104.
....... LitiColll6lli re,
Yorkshire %sold .............. .... 255. to 6-13, tint LW.
----- t'oreign
Beans, New
"Os. to -4. tine 3`.25.
- Old . ... ....... .. .................... 35i. to -s. tine
Oats, Potato
-s to li(n. tine •Vs.
-...- Poland
-s. -s. to t'.o3. tine Lt2s.
--... Vrierland and Small ....
--.. thcaling
Shelling. pet Stone.
tas to 98,0 d. per Lou'.
Malt
ttapcsecd ....... ..... .. ....... •••••••••.• 1 0111. 341.05. 351. Os. Per La"

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The Bude-light has been introduced into some large
establishments at Birmingham with brilliant success.
Contracts were made on Thursday by Government
for 60,000 pairs of boots and shoes for the army; and 8,000 pair.
for convicts.
DIEM—At his residence, Wilburton; Cambridge-
shire, on the 16th inst., Croply Camps, Esq., aged 53.
A TRAGIC AcraEss.—We find the following in a
New York paper Miss Clifton has horsewhipped -one of
the fashionable loungers of Richmond—probably one of tkose
chaps who eat soup at the close, of dinner to fill up the chinks
—and walk through the ladies drawing-rooms of the Exchange
Hotel with their hats nailed down upon their heads. We wish
her Highness would go
,to Washingtoti, and horsewhip Con-
gress into some decency.,

P 1 IT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
Filo): THE EVENING I'API.;RS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—Our readers are aware that we are not
friendly on principle to indefinite propositions for th(
Extension of Suffrage, and for the framing of what it
sometimes called a second Reform Act, though we art
not blind to the imperfections and abuses of the present
elective franchise. In reviewing last night's discussioi
on the motion of Mr. Sharman Crawford, we cannot but
feet:that there is some degree of falseness in the pos-
tion.of both parties: We do not say this to escapt
from the explicit statement of our own views, whicl,
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 it
the arguments, or, at least, of imbecility in tin
positiens, which are practically occupied by eacl.
party—the advocates and the opponents of mea-
sures of. organic change. There are no two of tht
former who seem agreed what change they shouk
qdvocate. 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 notion
of any but numerical franchises, Mr. 'Ward is not pre-
pared to abandon all property qualifications. While
s:r Robert Peel defends the Reform Act as something
be was 'nowise responsible for, except to embrace
the le4 of two evils in order to stave off the greater,
Lord Stanley and . Sir James Graham have their
ffitarof pars magna to proclaim, and put themselves
coma:Ill in the front of the battle, as champions of
the di6, Reform of Parliament. All these variations,
which- hardly amount to serious discord within the
walls of Parliament (excepting a note or two from
the &embers for Bath and Stockport in a somewhat
sharpof 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 of 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
qua;terly ; so that his argument is false in its
premises, besides belonging to our chapter of false
analogies. But how are argument's 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. Cobden, 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.
CO(JRIER.--: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, :uid the then Government affected to deplore
and pronti,4ed to remedy them. Session after session
the Irish law officers of the Crown introduced,
what they termed declaratory acts, but, session after
session, these were allowed quietly to drop off tO-
w.rds 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.

:VIORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
1.1,e following ar3 the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Sfetrop3l:A, 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:—

CA UM OF DEATH.

Weekly
Average
1638-9 .40-1

Total.

Four I Four
Springs. Year
Epidtmic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 121 183 190
Diseases of the. Brain, Nerves, and Senses 150 141 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
x.nseases of the Ilea-t and Blootl-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidn:ys, &c. 4 5 4
CLildbed, Diseases of the Utrr. s, &e lO 9 .10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 7 6 6
Diseases of the Skin, &e 0 1 1
Diseases of Uncertain Syat lOO 99 104
0'.(1 Age, or Natural Decay 6l 63 69
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intern-

peiance • 9 25 2.5
Causes not specified 9 6 7
Deaths from all causes -
Average Weekly Deaths B7l 912
Population Average Deaths
Jelin. . Weekly in
'lterated 'Deaths the
Ise I. 1837,—5-4'7—l. M eek.
West —Keusington, St. George ~......—....k....—......,
(1 litnover-stivare ), Westmiu- Four I Four
stet, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye rs.l Springs.
St. James
North— St. Mary-le•bone, St
Pancras, Islim2ton, hackney 365,660 162 156 165
CL,ltral—Saint Giles and Saint
Gaorge, Strand, Clerkeuwell,
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon.
don, West London, City of
London__ ...... .. 373,806 183 179 169
East—Shoredit eh, Whitechapel,
Bethnal Green, St. George
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392,49 e 206 190 179
South.--St Saviotr•, St. Olave,
St. George( Southwark ),Ber-
niond.ev, Newington. Lam-
both, Camberwell, Hother-
'lithe, Greenwich .... ...... —.438,060 221 210 207

:• . . Total 1,870,727 912 87l 822
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. 31aryiebone, St. Pancras. Kensington,
Fulham', Hammersmith k;liapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad-
dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard ( Brom-
ley), St. Aiary-le-how, Camberwi
(Deptford). and Woolwichd l, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
. and St. Paul The population, as
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890, and in June 1841, was
1,870,727. ' The weekly avenge for 1838, 1839, 1810, and
1841, was (Lt.
litied by dividing the deaths in the four years by
"08, and the deaths in the four winters by 52.
'ItATI/ItE IN THE NI, EESS ENDING

TEMPS

' April 9.
57°
34
43
21, 1612.

Highest .....................
Lowest . .....................
Daily Mean .........
'era! Register Unice, April

Api it 16.
490
37
42

The Union Catholique relates that the Commission
of Antiquaries leaving obtained permission to take a cast of the
statue of the Virgin, which adorns the porch of the church of
the tlarthurct at Riotn, in the Puy-de-Dorne, and the iron
grating which protected it being, a few days ago, removed for
the purpose. the inhabitants, who had formed a false notion that
the statue had been sold for 10,000 f., assembled in great num-
bers, armed with rude weapons of all kinds, and with great
violence declared their determination to prevent its removal,
and 'defend, at all risks, what they had preserved throughout the
Revolution. Numbers remained on guard throughout the
night, but, in the morning, listened to the assurances made
them that there was no intention to deprive them of-their Pal-
ladium, and order was restored.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE
ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, APRIL 13, 1842.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint George Phillip Lee,
Esq.. to be Lieutenant of her Majesty's Guard of Yeomen of
;he Guard, in the room of Sir Edwin Pearson, resigned.
WHITEHALL, APRIL 12.
The Lcrd Chancellor has appointed William Bu t, of Ryde
in the Isle of Wight, Gent., to be a Master Extri, rdinary in
the High Court of Chancery.
WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 16.
Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to permit the 32d
Regiment of Foot to bear upon its colours and appointments, in
addition to the distinctions heretofore granted, the word
-‘ Corunna," in commemoration of the gallantry displayed by
the regiment in the action fought at that place between the
British and French armies on the 16th January, 1809.
WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 22.
6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards-Lieutenant W. Scot to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Johnston, who retires ; Cornet J.
Somerville to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Scott; C. J.
Bourchier, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Somerville,
April 22.
7th Regiment of Light. Dragoons-Veterinary surgeon J.
Robertson, from the 9th Light Dragoons, to be Veterinary
Surgeon, vice Johnston, who exchanges, April 22.
9th Regiment of Light Dragoons-Lieutenant-Colonel J.
Scott, from the 4th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
without purchase; Captain J. H. Grant to be Major, without
purchase, April 22.
To be Captains, without purchase-Captain H. J. Close, from
half-pay 2'2d Light Dragoons ; It. A. Reynolds, Esq., late
Captain llth Light Dragoons; Captain T. W. 11,1‘.11ahon, from
the 6th Dragoons ; Lieutenant R. Cooke, vice Grant, April 22.
To be Lieutenants, without purchase-Lieut. the Hun. C.
Powys, from tne 3d Light Dragoons; Lieut. W. Cathrey, from
half-pay 13th Light Dragoons; Lieut. W. Drysdale, from the
4th Light Dragoons ; Lieut. 0. H. St. George Anson, from
the 3d Foot ; Lieut. W. W. W. Flumbley, from the 4th Light
Dragoons ; Lieut. J. R. J. Coles, from the 4:h Light D,agoons ;
Lieut. W. A. Hyder, from the 4th Light Dragoons ; Lieut. C.
J. Colville, from the 40th Foot; Lieut. W. R. N. Campbell,
from the 47th Foot, April 22.
To be Cornets, without purchase-Cornet Sir J. Radcliffe,
Bart., from half-pay 23d Light Dragoons; Cornet F. Lord
Rendlesham, from half-pay 21st Light Dragoons; Cornet D.
R. Ross, from half-pay 23d Light Dragoons ; Cornet E. R.
Staples, from half-pay Staff Corps of Cavalry, April 22.
To be Cornetts, by purchase--C. F. Studdert, Gent., vice
Sir J. Radcliffe, who retires, April 22; P. Antrobus, Gent.,
vice Lord Rendlesham, who retires, April 23; A. Hawtrey,
Gent., vice Ross, who retires, April `24; W. C. Kortright,
Gent., vice Staples, who retires, April 25.
To be Assistant-Surgeon-Assistant-Surgeon W. G. L.
Staunton, from the Staff, April 22.
To be Veterinary Surgeon-Veterinary Surgeon G. John-
ston, from the 7th Light Dragoons, vice Robertson, who ex-
changes, April 22.
10th Regiment of Light Dragoons-Paymaster E. B. Frith,
from the 47th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Wells, deceased,
April 22.
13th Regiment of Light Dragoons-Lieut H. Hamilton to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Ellis, promoted ; Cornet L. J.
H. Allgreato be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hamilton; H.
G. Holden, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Allgood,
April 22.
15th Regiment of Light Dragoons-Lieut. R. Knox to be
Captain, without purchaLe, vice Vernon, deceased; Cornet
T. R. Crawley to be Lieutenant, vice Knox, March 9; Cornet
T. 0. Bache, from half-pay 23d Light Dragoons, to be Cornet.
vice Crawloy ; J. L. S. Lumsdaine, Gent., to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Bache, who retires, 'April 22.
17th Regiment of Light Dragoons-T. Lyon, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Benson, promoted, April 22.
10th Regiment of Foot-Ensign J. V, H. Montagu, from
the 38th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fenwick,
promoted, April 22.
15th Foot-Ensign E. Pardoe to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice West, promoted; G. A. Hatchett, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Pardoe, April 22.
23d Foot-Second Lieutenant T. P. Rickford to be First
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Brooke, who retires ; P. L.
Phillips, Gent., to be second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Rickford, April 22.
24th Foot-Ensign F. Spring to be Lieutenant by purchase,
vice Chetwood, who retires; P. W. C. Lipycatt, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Spring, April 22.
25th Foot-J. Clancy, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Thomas, appointed to the 57th Foot, April 22.
29th Foot-C. E. APDonnell, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Stanhope, promoted, April 21 ; J. Johnston, Gent.
to be Ensign, without purchase, April 22.
31st Foot-Ensign W. F. W. Atty to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Robertson, who retires; Poole Gabbett,
Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Atty, April 22.
38th Foot-T. Bellew, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Montagu, promoted in the 10th Foot, April 22.
39th Foot-Ensign T. D. Bray, from the 57th Foot, to be
Ensign, vice Smith, who retires, April 22.
45th Foot-T. Best, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, April 22.
57th Foot-Ensign H. Thomas, from the 25th Foot, to b.
Ensign, vice Bray, appointed to the 39th Foot, April 22.
64th Foot-Surgeon W. Smith, from the Saint Helena
Regiment, to be Surgeon, vice Fogarty, who exchanges,
April 22.
65th Foot-Assistant-Surgeon J. G. P. Moore, from the
94th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Nicholl, deceased,
April 22.
73d Foot-The Hon. F. C. G. Fitzclarence to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Simmons, promoted in the 29th Foot,
April 22.
84th Foot-Ensign P. A. Iremonger, from the Bth Foot, to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Palmer, whose appoint-
ment has been cancelled, April 8.
94th Foot-Assistant-Surgeon E. Menzies, from the 20th
Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Moore, appointed to the
65th Foot, April 22.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment-Assistant-Surgeon G. W. Powell,
111. D% from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Rumley,
promoted to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, April 22.
St. Helena Regiment-Surgeon M. Fogarty, from the 64th
Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Smith, who exchanges, April 22.
UNATTACHED.-Brevet Major R. Ellis, from the 13th Light
Dragoons, to be Major, by purchase, April 22.
BREVET.-Capt. H. J. Close, of the 9th Light Dragoons,
to be Major in the Army, July 22.
STAFF.-Lieutenant W. Ready (Staff-Lieutenant at Fort
Pitt) to be Adjutant to the Invalid Depot at Chatham, April 22.
111EmoitANnum.-Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel E. E. Kenny
has beer, permitted to retire from the service, with the sale of
his majority, he being about to settle at Port Philip, April
The commission of the under-mentioned officer has been
cancelled from the date, inclusive, set against his name, he
having accepted a commuted allowance tor his half-pay :-
Paymaster W. Moir, half-pay 2d Ceylon Regiment, April 22. •
The Christian names of Major Galloway, of the 10th Foot,
are Thomas Leech " Lennox," not " Lenon," as previous!):
stated.
The Christian names of Ensign Hutchison, of the 84th
Foot, are Harvey Francis," not " Henry," as proriously 1
s:ated.