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College. The year’s income from other sources wos parts were sung by Miss Birch and Miss Rainforth. | 
4,039/. 11s. 4d., and the disbursements for the establish- Madame Caradori Allan gave her favourite ‘‘ Una voce yi 
ment department, including payment for several perma- | poco fa,” with great spirit. Besides the above the most | 
nent additions to the property of the College, interest upon remarkable performance was the old cantata ‘‘ Alexis,’’ of 
mortgage, &c., amounted to 4,000/. 17s. 11d.,‘thus show- | Dr. Pepusch, sung by Mr. Hobbs, with Mr. Lindley’s 
ing that the expenses were covered by the receipts. Of p nt on the violoncello. Its effect was admi- 
the sum above mentioned, of 12,7567. 4s. 6d. received for | rable; Mr. Lindley’s brilliant execution produced Joud i 
education, 5,5702. 10s. was derived from classes of the | applause. The benevolent object of this concert must be i] 
medical faculty, and 2,5701, 14s. 6d. from those of the arts | fully answered 5 as in addition to the tickets sold toa | 
and law. ‘Lo the library a set of works, 100 in number, crowded audience, large donations were sent by many 
printed at the Government press at Cairo, had been pre- individuals who could not attend. a | 
sented by Lord Brougham, who had received them from Accidents and Inquests.—The Coroner’s inquest on the 
the Pasha of Egypt. The junior school produced during body of Major Jones, late Aide-de-Camp to the King of 
the year 4,615/., a sum less by 2827. than the year be- | Hanover, whose death we noticed in our last, was con- 
fore. The collection made at the public dinner in June cluded on Saturday, when the Coroner, after several 
last was 1,1207. Since the last meeting a very fine col- | witnesses had been examined, remarked that the only 
lection of geological specimens had been offered to the | thing which gave the slightest rise to any suspicion in the 
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College for the use of students, by Mr. Greenough ; but | case was, that a man who a ee ee basic pe / 
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ings adopted, it is reasonable to calculate that the health, 
beauty, and ‘convenience of the Metropolis will, without 
much delay, be considerably augmented. On Wednesday 
special courts of conservancy were held by the Lord Mayor 
at Westminster, the Borough, Greenwich, and Stratford, 
for the several counties whose lands embank the Thames, 
with the view to commence the great work. The 
Recorder, in his charge, alluded with approbation to the 
plan for embanking the river. The juries, he said, would 
be expected to recommend such measures as might be, in 
their opinion, best calculated to meet the new state of cir- 
cumstances, and what new alterations might appear to 
them most effectually adapted to advance the public utility. 
It was impossible not to admit that a most extraordinary 
change had occurred, in consequence of the progress of 
steam navigation: the use of the Thames as a public 
highway had increased beyond all imagination. Five 
minutes did not elapse through the day without testifying 
to the energies of that power, by conveying from one place 
to another thousands of persons who thus found an ac- 
commodation which it would be impossible to remove or 
fetter. Those considerations having been presented to the 
juries, their duty, they would see, was plain and obvious. 
They would point out every encroachment on the bed of 
on account of the expense of providing rooms for its re- | rienced in the use of fire-arms® 
ception, and keeping it in proper order—an expense the | in so careless a manner. He had no doubt, however, 
council did not at present feel themselves justified in in- | from what they had heard, that the case BAe, purely one 
curri they had been pelled, though reluctantly, to of accident. The jury, coinciding in this view of the case, 
decline the offer. Colonel Leicester Stanhope men- returned a verdict of Accidental Death.—On Friday the 
tioned, with regret, that he had heard that the Duke of | Rev. Edmund Drax Free, D.D., late rector of Biggleswade, 
Somerset had resigned the office of vice-president, and Bedfordshire, was run over by a chaise in Gray 8 Inn-lane, 
proposed a resolution expressive of the great yalue they | and so seriously injured that he died in the hospital on 
set upon his Grace’s past services, and of regret at his re- | the following morning. The jury on Monday returned a 
signation. The resolution was passed unanimously. Lord verdict of Accidental Death. On Wednesday night the 
Brougham was then elected president, and Earl Auckland | police succeeded in entering a house in St. James’s-street, j 
vice-president, for the year ensuing. known for some time past as a gaming-house, and capturing i 
the river, without balancing convenience against incon- ‘Anti-Corn-Law League.—On Wednesday evening the | several of the players, and a quantity of gambling imple- i 
venience. The public had a right to all the advantages | first weekly meeting of this association was held at the | ments. An unfortunate circumstance attended their pro- | 
which could be yielded in the width and depth of the | Crown and Anchor Tavern. Long before the hour of | ceedings, which has terminated in the death of Mr. Henry it 
meeting, the great room was crowded to excess. Mr. | Smart, the son of the reputed proprietor of the house, ai 
Hamer Stansfield was in the chair, supported by Mr. and who had attempted to escape by the roof of the house 
Cobden, Mr. Hume, Mr. Ewart, Dr. Bowring, and other adjoining, but, his foot slipping, he fell from a height of 
Members of Parliament. The chairman, after some pre- 60 feet into the area of the adjoining house, and was 80 
fatory observations, alluded to the conduct of a false | much injured that he died on Thursday:morning, in St. if] 
friend towards Mr. Cobden, and said that nothing would | George’s Hospital. It appears that the young man was ii 
deter the hon. Member from pursuing the course he had | not implicated in the gaming proceedings. He was in | 
marked out for himself and the League for the abolition \ bed at the top of the house when the police made their j 
of the Corn-laws. Mr. Cobden then presented himself to entry, but it is supposed he became alarmed on receiving j 
the meeting, and was received with loud cheers. He was | information of what was going forward, and that, fearing i 
sorry the chairman had alluded to what took place else- | he also should be captured, he climbed upon the roof to get 
where, but for his vindication of the charge brought | away. The evidence given before the magistrate in the 1] 
against him, he would only ask them to read his speech in | case of the parties captured was conclusive as to the 
the Times paper—an organ not over favourable to him. | character of the house; but in consideration of the 
He was charged in the House of Commons with medi- | calamity which had happened, they were fined in mitigated 
tating murder, but he would confidently refer to his | penalties, varying from 3/, to 302. A coroner's inquest 
speeches before he was a Member, and they would find | was held yesterday, when a full investigation into the 
that he was always a peace-maker, and no person was more | cause of the young man’s death was gone into, and a ver- j 
opposed to the use of physical strength than he was. He | dict of “ ‘Accidental Death” was returned. i 
then went on to state that the Anti-Corn-Law League was Mortality of the Metropolis. — A summary of the 
a confederacy formed to get rid of an oppressive law, the | weekly tables of mortality in the Metropolis for the year 
existence of which was productive of the greatest possible 1842 has just been published. These tables relate to a 
evil. Four years since had the League been formed in population of 1,875,493, spread over an area of 70 sausee | 
Manchester, and if the people of London had joined | miles, and_of which 878,767 are males, and 996,726 | 
them, the law would have been long since repealed. In females. Dividing this area into five districts, the follow- 
allusion to what had been said in the House of Lords by | ing are the results exhibited in regard to the yearly mor- i | 
Lord g ’ i te language used by an | tality in each :—In the west district, the population is 1H 
individual of the League, it was not fair to cast censure on | calculated. at 301,480 ; during the last year the num-= 
the whole body for the fault of one. His Lordship might ber of deaths was 6,826, and the rate of mortality 2.209 i 
have expressed his disapprobation by letter. The hon. | per cent. In the north district, with a population of i| 
Member concluded a long speech by declaring himself an | 366,482, the number of deaths was 8,550, and the rate 
advocate of free trade, and an enemy to monopoly of every | of mortality 2.289 per cent. In the central district, with | 
description. Mr. Bright, of Manchester, next addressed | @ population of 374,640, the number of deaths was 8,873, i 
the meeting. He commenced with a severe censure on and the rate of mortality 2.363 per cent. Tn the east dis- i] 
the House of Lords and her Majesty’s Government, who, | trict, with a population of 393,448, the number of deaths 
though the heads of them perfectly agreed with the | was 9,947, and the rate of mortality 2.493 per cent. In 
League as to the expediency of the repeal of the Corn- | the south district, with a population of 439,443, the nu~ 
laws, yet for the sake of place opposed it. The meeting | ber of deaths was 11,076, and the rate of mortality 2.476 | 
was subsequently addressed by Colonel Thompson and | per cent. The total number of deaths in the Metropolis | 
Dr, Bowring.—On Tuesday evening a public meeting of amounted, for the year, to 45,272, of which 22,842 were 
the inhabitants of Marylebone took place in Albany-street, | males, and 22,430 females; and the annual rate of mor- 
for the ostensible purpose of considering the question of a | tality throughout the whole population was 
repeal of the Corn-laws. — Mr. John Bagshaw, ex-member | The number of deaths of persons under 
for Sudbury, was advertised to take the chair, but on his is stated to have been 21,266; from 1 
making his appearance, accompanied by Mr, Hume, Sir | 14,836 ; and from 60 upwards, 9,098. Th 
De Lacy Evans, Dr. W. C- Taylor, the members for | deaths caused by epidemic, endemic, * 
Marylebone, and other supporters of the League, a scene | eases, amounts in the year to 7,696. att 
of extraordinary confusion took place. The Chartists, | deaths caused by diseases of the nervous ones ne ; 
who had assembled in large numbers, tore up the seats, | to 7,505. The number of deaths caused La need 
and drove the ‘Anti-Corn-Law party from the platform ; | the respiratory organs amounts to 13,990, Peni aethi 
and after a violent struggle between the parties, the plat | ber 3,923 resulted from pneumonia, 1,10) Tout dee 
form broke down, and the Chartists were precipitated into | and 7,145 from” consumption. Tue Uae wonhits a | 
the body of the meeting. ‘The League Members immedi- | caused by diseases of the digestive organ’ fatto SY 2 | 
ion, but the Chartist 3,396. ‘The number of sudden deaths amounted to 870. 
ately took possession, OU rtists returned to the | 3,50. 1d age amounted to 3,346; 
assault with redoubled vigour, and effectually drove the The number of deaths from © ee ne 205 aia ot 3 | 
Leaguers from the platform, when their chairman and from intemperance, 99) trom ‘starvaucny <> rom iy 
lowing is the number of deaths a 
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the borough Members quitted immediately. Mr. Smart, | violence, 1,220.0 eae rere in nates 
aa anenb ie proposed a resolution in support of the | registered in the week ending a Ean Bey 
i of the League, to which an amendment in favour districts 120, north districts eae i 8 listricts 174, 
Charter was proposed and carried by a large | east districts 176, south districts : total 864. Weekly 
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havi ‘ for the last five years 903 (461 males, 442 females 
cheers having’ been given for the | average 0: Ae paverinterd 1004 
stream, and therefore no permanent encroachment could 
be tolerated. It would readily occur to the jurors,that 
in a river which, to say nothing of its prodigious com- 
mercial importance, constituted the great drain of the 
metropolis, it was essential to preserve the activity and 
depth of its water. When he spoke of the Thames as 
being the drain of the metropolis, he by no means in- 
tended to be understood as intimating that the inhabit- 
ants on its banks would be tolerated in letting flow into it 
the refuse of gas or other noxious filth. Every offence of 
that description must be presented, and would be 
punished. It was matter of congratulation, however, that 
by means of an improved embankment the public health 
was capable of being seriously benefited by the depth and 
activity of the stream, whatever might be the pollution to 
which the water might be subjected. The juries would in 
their surveys find numberless encroachments which had 
in former days been altogether innoxious, but which had 
become, by the remarkable changes to which he had ad- 
verted, very injurious to the navigation. They would 
present those encroachments to be dealt with according to 
law; and they would have the able assistance of the City 
| Solicitor, who would afford them all the necessary faci- 
| lities. It was the determination of the Lord Mayor, 
under the extraordinary circumstances to which the atten- 
tion of the juries had been called, to make these courts as 
efficient as they were capable of being made, consistently 
with the law’and the constitution. The 11th of March 
was appointed for the next courts, on which day the several 
presentments will be made by the juries. 
Custom House.—The proceedings of the Commission 
appointed to inquire into the recent Custom-house frauds 
have assumed additional importance during the past week, 
two officers of the establishment, searchers and landing- 
waiters, and a Custom-house agent having absconded. It 
js said that the investigation is pressing so heavily on the 
guilty parties, that these persons thought it necessary for 
their own safety to take themselves out of the way. The 
Government, however, have offered a reward of 2001. to 
any person who may apprehend them, or give evidence 
leading to their capture. It is expected that Government 
will follow up the advertisement, and that measures will 
be taken for claiming them from foreign governments as 
fugitives from justice, if they have escaped either to the 
Continent or to America. It has been repeatedly stated 
that leading houses in the City were in league with the 
delinquent officers, and that large profits have been ac- 
quired by them through such dishonest practices. It is 
difficult to believe that extensive frauds could have been 
perpetrated, unless the guilty officers had been in league 
with the owners of the goods ; this fact has given rise to 
great anxiety in the City, in every department of foreign 
trade, to have a full and searching inquiry, and great im- 
patience is expressed for the speedy publication of the 
Report of the Commission. Itis stated by the Globe that 
“a firm inWatling-street, largely impli din these frauds, 
has been exchequered for 160,0007. Independent of this 
sum, others of minor importance, ‘and particularly one 
firm, rather celebrated at the West-end, have had the same 
process served on them.”’, 
8 Christ’s Hospital.—A special Committee of the Go- 
vernors of Christ’s Hospital was convened on Monday, to 
agree upon an appropriate form of address to the Queen, 
jsis, and eo eet for ee as and the League, | and for the aay 
riotous assembly broke up ata late hour. | 1 
a Wrecks of the Conqueror and Reliance.—On ‘ Probincial Netus. 
Monday night the concert for the relief of the widows | Bristol.—In the Court of Peculiars on Saturday, it was 
and orphans of the seamen who perished in the Reliance stated that the proctor for Mr. Woolley, the Bristol 
and the Conqueror took place in the Hall of Commerce in timber-merchant, who was hoaxed in the affair of matri- 
Threadneedle-street. The hall was crowded to the doors ; | mony which has lately become so notorious, had no libel to 
and its appearance, brilliantly illuminated, and filled by | offer in the cause he had instituted to annul his marriage 5 
such an assembly, was magnificent in the extreme. The | and the cause was therefore dismissed. A suit on the 
orchestra was led by Mr. Cramer, and the whole was con= part of the wife, for the restitution of her rights, was 
ducted by Sir George Smart. The overtures to the mentioned as probable. 
« Zauberflote”” and to “ Buryanthe,” commenced each | Cambridge—In January of last year, 2 gentleman 
of the acts. Mrs. Shaw sung an air by Benedict, full of | named Hopwood, a graduate of St. Peter’s College, was } 
bravura passages for a soprano voice, and succeeded so | found nearly dead in a ditch near Chesterton, under cire 
well as to gain an encore. In the trio m the ‘‘Matri- | cumstances which excited suspicion that he had not been 
monio Segreto,”” she was yauch more at home; the other | fairly dealt with, He breathed and groaned when first 
chair. ‘The report stated that in the session of 1841-2, 
the pupils in the College and the junior classes numbered 
{ 886. Of those, 336 were students in medicine, 155 in the 
x / arts, and 395 were pupils in the junior school. The amount 
/ ‘of receipts from students and pupils was 12,756U. 4s. 6d., 
/ of which sum 9,081/. 18s. haying been paid to the profes- 
sors and masters, 3,679/. 2s, 10d, fell to the share of the 
