The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-10 00:00:00

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 10, 1853.
State of the wind and weather at each of the following
places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
SOUTHAMPTON—N., gentle breeze—overcast.
FOLKESTONE—N., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
GREENWICH—CaIm—overcast.
STROOD—N., calm -partially cloudy.
SWINDON—S.E., light airs--cloudy.
CAMBRIDGE—CaIm--cloudy.
BIRMINGHAM—N.E. , calm—overcast.
YARMOUTH—W., calm—cloudless.
CREWE—Calm—overcast.
LANCASTER—W., calm—partially cloudy.
Slur— N.W., calm—overcast.
The returns from the following places indicate the state
ci the weather on Thursday morning at nine o'clock :
LIMERICK—E., calm—cloudless.
MummiGAR—N.E., calm—foggy.
CREWE—caIm—partially cloudy.
HOLY HEAD—Calm—overcast.
LANCASTER—W., calm—partially cloudy.
DARLINGTON—N.E., gentle breeze—overcast, light rains.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TIM DAY —Morning 17 min. after 6 I Evening 43 min.aft. 6
Toaloaaow—Morning 12 min. after 7 Evening 47 min.aft. 7

TIIE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICB, SEpr. 10.
THER3fOKETER, IN THE SHADE.
63—highest since noon yesterday.
55—lowest this morning and during the night.
64—this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 29'82.
WIND, S.E.—Light breeze, and cloudy.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1853,

The Alarmists are again endeavouring to fill the
public mind with apprehensions. They are spread-
ing abroad the gloomiest forebodings in regard to
the harvest, and in regard to the cholera. They are
beginning to talk confidently of the approach of a
formidable dearth of provisions, and of the steady
advance of a dreaded pestilence. If we were to
credit but a small proportion of their sinister pre-
dictions, we must assuredly give ourselves up for
lost between the horrors of these two vast cala-
mities, about which they have lately become so
grimly garrulous. Now, precaution is, of course,
all very well—but it must be allowed at the same
time to be not less irrational when it degenerates
into panic than it would be if it gave place to a
blind and culpable indifference. We invari-
ably suspect the motives of those who are
so peculiarly vociferous in announcing the
perils in store for the great masses of
the population. We cannot but conjecture
that some other object is kept in view than the
indulgence of a morbid fancy when a certain class
of publicists begin sounding the trumpet of alarm
with more noise than circumstances would appear
to justify. It so happens, moreover, at the pre-
sent juncture, that we are confirmed in these sus-
picions by one remarkable and really significant
remembrance. The recollection, we mean, that
terrors of this extraordinary character, if only in-
dustriously awakened in the popular heart, would
be wonderfully well calculated to subserve, in the
most effectual manner, the paltry policy recently
adventured upon by a band of pusillanimous ad-
ministrators. Convince the multitude that they
are actually threatened at this moment with
famine, and impress their minds, in addi-
tion to this, with the belief that a disas-
trous scarcity will be accompanied by a
destructive pestilence, and you will be better
enabled .to satisfy them with an uncertain
peace purchased by a disgraceful compromise. In
other words, you may paralyse them by these
horrible prophecies of a bad harvest and return-
ing cholera into consenting to a series of conces-
sions from which their nobler instincts under more
propitious circumstances must inevitably have re-
volted. The reasoning is obvious, and the de-
duction from it at this crisis we conceive to be no
less apparent.

Certainly, to say the very least of it, these
Alarmists begin croaking at a period the most
portune, so far as concerns the abject foreign
policy of the Coalition Government ! Nothing
could come more exquisitely "in the nick"
than their horrid BEWARE as to the Dearth and
the Cholera. Threatened,according to their
showing, with the simultaneous
scourges of
T-' amine and Pestilence, Western Europe might
naturally enough be expected to take less interest
than usual
in the
manlier of settling the Eastern
difficulty
by a
v
paci-
fication. People might
treaty and a cobbled paci-
igllit reasonably neglect paying much attention. to the course taken by events at
St. Petersburg and at Constantinople when they are
told that the modern plague
de is again stalking across
Europe towards them,
a
g miserably
the grain crops
are everywhere provin
l,
the wants of the population.
•inadequate for
whieliw
that the Alarmists are
in this manner
Prepare the
striving to
act
tilkl amount
public mind for an acceptance
subser-
viency a tacit approval of a shameless
viency to the pride, ambition, and arrof
the Russian AUTOCRAT. According to thisgraair of,
view of things we may readily account for the rational
lugu-
brious tone in which the apologists of the ARDEEN Cabinet have been latterly accustomed to
speak of the probable deterioration of the harvest,
and of the likelihood of a speedy return of Asiatic
Cholera. An instant's reflection may therefore
satisfy even the most credulous that:many of the
sombre rumours recently promulgated by the
Alarmists, i. e., by the mere blundering of the
Aberdeenists, may just within the limits of pos-
sibility be slightly in one or two instances—exag-
gerated.

Notwithstanding all that has been asserted of
late so confidently about the deficiency of the grain
crops, notwithstanding the enormous rise in the
price of corn effected at intervals by the
ingenuity of the panicmongers, notwithstanding
the riots that have taken place in Belgium and in
parts of Fiance, in consequence of the increased
demands made by the millers and the bakers upon
the unfortunate purchaser—we don't at all regard
the present harvest as likely, when completed, to
Prove as lamentably deficient as many have anti-
cipated. As to the cholera, When, we should like
to know, since
the period of its last most
memorable appearanceihay.ets our large towns
been altogether free from
during the warm season's, ravages ? Why,
more or less aided in swelling.
the it
has always
general mortality. The truth ofamtainhtasofbethene
evidenced again and again by the official returns
of the Registrar-General. People died of the
cholera in London last year, and the year before,
and the year before that. It is, consequently,
with no new disease that the community is threat-

ened when they are told of the approach once
more of this dreadful and destructive pestilence.
No !—while we would urge upon our rulers more
and more strenuously if possible than ever the
adoption of better sanitary regulations, while we
would insist more and more energetically upon the
advisability of facilitating by every contrivance
the general transit of provisions—we would, ne-
vertheless, at the same time, protest most loudly
and earnestly against the sinister predictions
recently disseminated about the harvest, and
about the cholera, believing them to be, in our
conscience, marked by the most criminal exagge-
ration.

We all know what is meant in common par-
lance by trailing the herring. We believe that the
herring has been trailed in the instance here
particularised. We believe that attempts have
been made to divert popular attention
from all that is odious in our treatment of Turkey,
and from all that is despicable in our sycophancy
to Russia, by talking about the probability of the
simultaneous approach of scarcity and pestilence.
The common sense of the community, we hope,
however, will altogether defeat this contemptible
endeavour. Englishmen will not allow themselves,
we trust, to be alarmed in this manner into a
disregard for the sacred rights of an unoffending
ally, or into an unwonted indifference for the fair
fame of their own country, the honour of which
we believe is at this moment being deplorably
compromised.

The Ursine fraternity are displaying considerable
activity and boldness in their operations on the
Stock Exchange. They are taking advantage of
every circumstance whereon "to hang a doubt"
that may suffice to alarm the timid or inexperi-
enced, and induce them to sacrifice their property
at far less than its actual value. They are the
better able to carry out their inequitable projects
by the temporary absence from town of the lead-
' ing bulls, who are seized with the rural mania for
the time being, and flying in every direction in
pursuit of health, or amusement, in accordance
with their respective tastes. Such an opportunity
is seldom or ever thrown away by their energetic
opponents. As there is but little real business
at this season, they are enabled to depress the
quotations at their pleasure, and any person com-
pelled by circumstances to dispose of his property
without reserve must make up his mind to a con-
siderable loss in the transaction. It is strange
that capitalists who have money lying idle, while
waiting for a favourable investment, should not
take due advantage of the golden opportunity. By so
doing, they could be certain of realising consider-
able profits. But, independently of the pre-
valent vis inertice, and the readiness with
which they permit themselves to be operated
on by the centrifugal force which affects
every thorough-bred and thorough-going " cit"
at this time, driving him in any direction, and
in pursuance of any object, so that it be away
from town and business--there seems to be a
general desire to let the " bears" play out their
game for a time, satisfied that ample retribution
will follow the short-lived triumph. They like,
too, to await the turn of the tide, when the stream
has set in in an opposite direction, or, in Capel-
court parlance, when " prices show a tendency
upwards." It is true that those who have the
good fortune to hit the lucky moment of 'Change
make very considerable profits, but if the gains
be smaller they are more certain, and, therefore,
the worthy speculators for a rise bide their time,
and the market consequently first becomes heavy,
then weak ; then a panic sets in, and the uniniti-
ated, frightened by the direct mendacity, as well
as the hints, insinuations, and surmises that follow
each other in rapid succession, surrender themselves
up as willing victims, leaving portions of the
" golden fleece" upon the brambles and thorns
that surround the magic portals. Why will men
permit themselves to be thus victimised ? Some,
unquestionably, are unable to help themselves,
being driven to the course by causes over which
they have no control ; but the great majority are,
as we have stated, " the timid and the inexpe-
rienced," who reverse the economical rule, being
anxious to "sell in the cheapest and to buy in the
dearest market---Quos Deus vult perdere prigs
dementa." It is impossible to help those who
will not help themselves—of whom the artful
dodger might say, "It is no pleasure to cheat
then:l, they're so jolly green."
We could understand the nature and the causes
of the depression that prevailed in 1847 and 1848

_ ..
when the bullion in the Bank had fallen to less
than ten millions, and there was a danger that
the " Old Lady"—notwithstanding an amount

amply sufficient under a judicious monetary
code to provide abundantly for all engage-
ments—might be driven to the greatest straits

through the stringent operation of the Act of
1844 ; but it really is inexplicable at this moment,
when there is more than 17,000,000/. of gold in

hand. It is true that the final arrangement of
the Turco-Russian question has not yet been au-
thoritatively announced ; but there seems to be

but little doubt that the problem will speedily
receive a pacific solution. Each passing shower
enables the croakers and alarmists to predict a
total failure of the harvest, and a consequent
scarcity. We doubt, however, if the " loaf" will
be anything whatsoever dearer than it is at this

moment, or if the opportunities for remunerative

employment—the great matter, after all, for
a commercial and industrial community—will
be at all lessened. So long as there
is Abundant occupation for men " able and willing
to work," there is nothing to fear in the social
condition of England. The most superficial ob-
server may perceive that there is that general
activity—that the working classes, generally speak-
ing, are fully occupied, and that, notwithstanding
the high prices, they are in the enjoyment of un-

usual comforts. Indeed, the extravagant prices
are in a great degree ascribable to the increased
demand occasioned by the number of persons able

to afford a much larger expenditure than was for-
merly practicable. The Board of Trade returns,
too, show that the foreign demand is fully keeping
pace with that for domestic use. The declared
value of our exports for the first seven months

of the year exhibit increases amounting in the

aggregate to nearly ten millions of pounds

sterling beyond those of the corresponding
months of last year—the returns being from
January to August, 1845, 49,861,6431. against
40,138,5601. for the corresponding months of
1852, and nearly 9,350,0001. beyond those of

the same months in 1851. We may also add
that the importation of wheat has been nearly
doubled, and that of flour materially increased.
Under such circumstances there is really nothing
to fear. Let the alarmists cry out as they will,
Old England will still weather the storm ;
and persons possessed of property need not
Predictions
submit to any losses, or suffer themselves to be
unduly alarmed in consequence of the unfounded
required
of interested individuals. All that
is, that they should not throw their
stock or shares on
the market on insufficient
grounds.

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DEATH OF SIR PECKHAM MICKLEWAITE, B.An,
hon. boronet, who died at his seat on Frid-,,-*--
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his sixty-eighth year, was created a baronet di),',4,,i1n.. his
late Lord Melbourne's administration, in 1833' the
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married, in 1836, the sister of the late Lord Bateman
MELANCHOLY CASE OF DROWNING AT MARGATE.
The very offensive practice of ladies and gentlemen
bathing in close proximity with each other is followed
in Margate. On Thursday, while the different sexes
were thus indulging in the luxuries of open air sea bath-
ing, a lady observed a young gentleman, who was bath-
ing close to her, struggle and then sink. At first she
thought that he was only indulging in aquatic gambols,
but his cries and continued struggles quickly convinced
her of the reality of his danger, and she accordingly
hurried back to the shore, loudly screaming for help and
pointing towards 'the drowning man, who was carried
out of sight and buried for ever beneath the waves befoi 0
assistance
could reach him, although several boats in-
stantly pushed off from shore.
His body has not since
beendiscovered. The unfortunate youth was a student,
i preparing for holy orders.