The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-24 00:00:00

is still unknown and doubtful. The march of
events in each succeeding year convinces us
more and more that there is no occurrence
beyond the limits of the British empire, and
out of our control, which exercises so great and impor-
tant an influence on our own welfare, and on the general
progress of the world, as the character and policy of the
American Government. It is not, therefore, without
the deepest interest and solicitude that we watch the
somewhat capricious operations by which the composi-
tion of that Government is to be determined for the
next four years. Tie relations of the British em-
pire and the American Union have gradually twined
themselves into a connexion, strengthened by common
interests and common freedom, which is alike distinct
from the close and sometimes onerous ties of a mother
country to her colonies, and from the frigid or politic
alliance of two foreign States. Between ourselves end
the United States there is no dependency, ;
and, strictly
speaking, no alliance ; but there is identity in the first
interests of industry, of peace, and of mutual respect.
There is identity in ties more sacred than those of diplo-
matic intercourse. We are told that a favourite
staple of the inferior press of America is abuse of
this country. It may be so,
for whether what
they say of us be good or bad, it seldom falls under our
notice; but if streh be the practice there, it is not one
disposed
eof
greatness
imitate.cipers.:
Inlt becomes us rather to set
our habitual respect for u
0 desire to see increase rex,
to that of England herself; and totem/ere we me,, cri< is
eize the institutions of the United Sates
as fc,ielye
as
we
do our own, we are not the less conscious that there in-
stitutions are but the Transatlantic growth of our liber-
ties, our laws, and our
g sprung from one root
and bred by one people.
DAILY NEWS.—Check the second has been felt by
Louis Napoleon. In December he had things all his
ttw!hoceu naertiy;:e Plo°
own way—the army umnaged that—but when amongst
his shower of decrees came out one confiscating the pro-
perty of the Orleans family, the lawyers of France
ventured to question the legality of his spoliation, and
in the proceedings that ensued the despotic Pre-
sident of a i noniaal republic met his first
serious rebuff. Eosbued with the determination to
remain the absolute master of France, Louis Na-
poleon, however, thought it politic to surround himself
by the semblance of constitutional forms, and with that
view ho arranged his
set of puppets as members of a
Council of State and of a Legislative Body. To the latter
of these he last Steep sent for the second time his Finan-
cial Scheme for the coming year, with the understand-
ing that
by his trevr Constitution they were bound
to adopt it as a whole. But the members, though
chiefly his friends and nominees—being dignified with
the title of Corps Legislatif, and enjoying the dig-
nity of law makers—felt enough or the spirit of
freemen to venture, on Tuesday, upon a discussion of the
items placed before them for approval. Whilst bile)
in this task they we
, re not unwatched. In an obscure
part of the gallery of the House—" in the corner of one
of the reserved tribunes, in such a position as to be con-
cealed as much
k. possible"—sat the usurper himself,
that be might Bee how his Chamber behaved itself. A
member urged objections to the proposition to adopt a
budget to which no amendments could be made, and
which must be taken as a whole or be rejected altogether,
when M. Billault said the speaker was inveighing against
the Constitutiene-slight murmurs were heard. Another
speaker attacked the budget, when a Councillor of
State expressed his astonishment that any one " could
outrage the Constitution which had saved the country." Or
this a louder storm of disapprobation arose, when, lo! a
note from the tenant of the obscure box reached the hands
of the chairman, and he read to the astonished Assembly
the opinion of the President, that they were breaking
their bounds. "On this a profound sensation "—says
the reporter for the English papers—" a profound sore
sation Rervaded the Chamber, which broke up in con-
fusion. This is precisely what was anticipated. A real
despotism cannot work harmoniously under the whole-
some trammels of constitutionul forms. Louis Napoleon
has been tripped
up by the difficulty that has again and
again been pointed out, and this very anticipation of such
a result gave treble significance to the news when it yes-
terday reached London. The electric telegraph brought
the intelligence by mid-day, and our funds were
at once affected; and to such influences they
must again and spin, beyond doubt, be liable
whilst France is in the hands of the unscrupulous
men who
novr controls her destinies. Whilst
we have a Minister like Lord Malmesbury for the manager
of our continental relations—a man who manifests day
e,
by day sympathy with the despots who are ranged
on one side in this great controversy—every move-
ment of foreign tyranny becomes of vital importance
to us in relation to our own liberties. Already our honour
has been pat up to auction in the streets of Florence.
Already we have been insulted by the production in our
Parliament of the proposed French Extradition Bill, by
which Lord Malmesbury showed his willingness to let
England be made the cats-paw of the French usurper in
recovering obnoxious French citizens. The resistance of
our Peers had some substance in it, but too much smooth-
ness for such times. However, the Bill is withdrown "for
the present," and we must be on the watch for its rein-
troduction. More serious still is our relation to the French
Government with regard to the liberty of our press.
With this Lord Malmesbury has, thus far, had no con-
cern, as far as is known, but that which he shares with
the members of the late Government—that of censuring
the out-speaking of cur press about the conduct of
the dictator who is crushing France. But can he
be depended on for upholding our liberty of speech
in the conflict which Louis Napoleon has thought
fit to begin? If Lord John Russell and Earl Grey
exposed themselves to rebuke six months ago for
their low tone about the action of the press, is it to be
expected that a MAl:nesbury will take a higher stand
after a six months' confirmation of the usurper's power?
Tho representative of England in Paris has thus far
done well. Lord Cowley acted like a true Englishman
on the spot, and deserves all commsndation; and we
must took to it that ho is not embarrassed by
the head of his :department acting like a French-
man at home. We shall presently be without
a Parliament. There will be an interval long or
short. during which Lord Malmesbury may do an infinity
of eaiseeiete if he be not given to understand distinctly
that the people of England will not b 3 trifled with during
this interval; that they have no sympathy with foreign
despots, whatever he may have, and that every misre-
presentation of English ideas and feelings of which he
may be guilty, will be visited upon him as soon as their
representatives meet again. The worst of it is that the
man himself hes no choice whether he shall serve us faith-
fully or not. It is not that he is acting in ono way while
he is thinking in another—yielding to any supposed
necessity against his own convictions—it is that his sym-
pathies are, as far as yet shown, with the ruling powers
abroad;—that he does not understand English liberties,
nor share English feelings, nor perceive the position that
England will choose to hold in any coming struggle for
freedom in Europe- The danger lies in the character of his
mind. We cannot change that. The thing that we can do
is to change the man. This it is that the people will
look to, while we are without a Parliament. Lord
Malmesbury will be doing what he will in the Foreign-
office; the people must be doing what they will in the
elections; and their will must be to put a true English-
man into Lord Malinesburyes place. There is a time
coming—the time of the next European struggle—when
our island may be—with all the sins and woos that lie
within it—a sort of island of the blest in the midst of a
hemisphere swept with storms; an open air, where men
may still think, and say what they think, of virtue and
vice, in high places and in low; a solitary kingdom
where monarch and people in may understand and love
a lofty each other; platform, where the national honour
so shines amidst the surrounding gloom, that any sha-
dow allowed to pass over it would he an eclipse to th
nations. If such a day
e should be coming, we cannot
look too soon to the bn
-andness of our State, nor pro-
vide too vigilantly for its integrity. If such a day
should come, a n
w hardloos h eto have a Malmes-
bury for the watchman
e c
ri our tower.

HEALTH OF LO
Ragister-Geaeral'a Report.)
(From the IVii----02VDURING THE WEEK.
districts in the weak d• .
The number of deaths registere . .
tan
same lug last Saturday is nearly sue
same as in the preceding din the metropolitan
week, and amounts to 903. In
the ten weeks corresn ending to last week of the years
1842-lion the average
mortality now returned is
correction for increase P
'lumber was 880, which, with a
a. population, becomes 968. The
mated amount by 65. '
amount to 41Y
The mortality produced by diseases of the respiratory
therefore, less than the esti-
mated
last week wa3
~ 104, and is near the usual amount
for this season or
the year. Epidemics were fatal
in the preceding week in 209 cases, and last week in
196, a decrease which
, Il;othwo,sul,ldinbtevrisohmicekwmhaatymore marked,
be expected,
but for diarrbma
prevalent. Small..N;
with the apPreach of F g
corresponding weeks; in five cases,
years, and 7 adults, a destroyed 28 children under 15
the summer months, to become
mortalit double the average of
at the ages of 22
and 32 Tara it is stated that vaccina-
tion had been preaiuuei / two of which occurred
scarlatina
Two deaths
tered in the week ',performed. The fatal cases of
ascribed to English cholera were regis-
On 16th June, at 1
; the following are the cases in detail:—
On
aged 47 years, died
-rs, died of " English cholera (3 days)."
On 14th June, at 0 Shrubland-grove, Dalston, a spin-
'9, Willow-street, St. Leonard's, Shore-
ditch, a shoemaker, aged
cholera (7 days).,,
Mr. Yarrow reports that " this man
lived in a small roam with his family, which consisted of
27 years. died of "English
his wife and three children; he had been suffering for
some time from diseased liver and diarrhoea."
Four deaths occurred in the Smallpox hospital.
In .the Tottenham-court sub-district of Pancras, at 5,
Cumberland-court, on 17th June, the daughter of a
shoemaker, aged
15 months, died of " scarlatina (10
days), bronchitis (4 daysy, Mr. Nodes, the deputy-
registrar, mentions that " scarlatina is raging in this
curt, c
whi h appears to be almost without ventilation."
On 12th June, a labourer, aged 21 years, who had
been brought from Red Lion-Court, liingsland-road, died
in Shoreditch Workhouse of phthisis. Mr. Bowring
adds:—" Red Lion-court contains 15 or 16 houses,
wbich consist some of four, others of five rooms; each
room is occupied by a separate family; the inhabitants
are mostly costerinongers; the place is filthy in the ex-
treme, close, over-crowded, and without drainage.' _
At 24, Crown-court, Aldgate, on 15th June, a female
pen.,ioner on the Hugh Hampstead Gift, died at the
ad-
vanced age el 98 years. Mr. Harria states that "she
enjoyod 101. per annum far the last 32 years fromthiso _
charity of 10,000/. (left to the parish for the benefit f
six blind persons and widows), which had been in the
Court of Chancery for 40 years."
Mr. BaddelY, registrar of Mile-and Old Town, upper
part, registered 22 births and only 3 deaths in the week.
ho says, "The decrease in my return of deaths at thiskr
t
season is worthy of observation; it shows an improvement
in the health of this sub-district, notwithstanding a sea-
son v imp
a ent-1
y unfavourable. From the 11th to the 16th
in3t. I had not a death to maister P and for the
s whole week
only 3, a number at least throo-fourtha less than the
average. At the same time the bir Os show an increase."