The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-25 00:00:00

returned.

LEGATE WITHIN.
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Wilson
I Sutton
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Whitelock'

Brown
Smith
Sagurs
Hoole
Brass
The first eight returned—Mr. Whitelock resigning on Friday
evening. The vacancy was caused by Mr. Wilshire retiring.

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In Farringdon-within—Messrs. Hartley, Emerson, and Ridley
returned, vice Filby, Dunnett and Roberts, who retired. There
was no opposition.
In Bishopsgate—Messrs. Weston and lieynon retired, and
Messrs. Carr and Thomas were elected in their stead without op-
position.
In Bread-street Ward—Messrs. Holmes and Cracklow retired,
and Messrs. Shuttleworth and Battams were returned in their stead.

In the following wards the old Members were returned without
any opposition :—Dovrgate, Candlewick, Cripplegate-without,
Queenhithe, Aldersgate-street, Lime-street, Vintry, Castle Bay-
nard, Cordwainer, Bridge-within, Billingsgate, Walbrook, Bassi-
shaw, and Portsoken.
In Portsoken ward, for the first time since the dispute as to the
aldermanic gown, the proceedings of the wardmote were allowed
to go on quietly. Mr. Michael Scales absented himself from the
wardmote, after addressing a circular letter to the householders,
stating that he protested against Mr. Johnson being considered
Alderman, and declaring his continued intention to carry forward
the appeal brought by him into the House of Lords.
In Lime-street, Candlewick, and some other wards, a reform of
the system of City police was recommended.
In both the Cripplegate wards, and in that of Farringdon-with-
out, resolutions in favour of Municipal Reform were passed, to be
based on a constituency of all rated housekeepers; the limits of the
wards to be equalised ; the Aldermen elected periodically, and the
City funds to be under the sole control of the Representatives of
the City, as consisting of Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons,
duly assembled in the Council Chamber.

SMALL-Poi.—The many-headed monster—a denomina-
tion given to the people by certain philosophers—turns out,
after all, to be right. On the introduction of inoculation
into England in 1720, and for nearly a century afterwards,
there was the strongest popular antipathy against the prac-
tice ; and this antipathy is now justified by Sir Henry Hal-
ford, Sir Astley Cooper, and Dr. Parris. In their last re-
port to the Home Secretary on the National Vaccine
Institution, they state that a question had arisen whether
the introduction of inoculation into this country were the
blessing which it claims to have been ; and add—We know
that, before the practice of it was brought from Constan-
tinople, the small-pox used to prevail epidemically, now and
then, and to occasion a great mortality when it did pre-
vail ; but there were intervals in which 'the disease was
scarcely heard of; and we really believe that the loss of life
occasioned by the small-pox recurring after considerable
intervals has been far exceeded by the accumulated mor-
tality of successive years, in consequence of the disease
being continually propagated through the practice of ino-
culation. The same report states that if 300 children be
vaccinated, one of them on an average will be susceptible of
small-pox afterwards, but in a mild and perfectly safe
form ; whereas, if 300 be inoculated, one will surely die,
and that, before vaccination was established, 5,000 persons
died of small-pox in the metropolis every year—whereas,
last year, only 300 died of that distemper.
How hard Whitfield worked in his better days may
be estimated from what he did in his latter ; when declining
health compelled him to relax, he put himself on what he
called short allowance ; that is, he preached once every week-
day, and thrice on Sundays.