The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-20 00:00:00

LONDON;

turn by their respective opponents. Had we no other
reason to put faith in their innocence of purpose, we
might find it in the fact of which Lord Brougham
has now left an indelible record. His Lordship has
alternately been terrible to a King, to a Government,
to a House of Lords, and to an Opposition. Now,
"he capers nimbly in a lady's chamber to the
lascivious pleasing of a lute;" and therefore is at
least safe from Gloster's temptation to be a villain.
Without claiming for Lord Brougham all the
qualities necessary for an agricultural leader, we
shall be glad to see him put a little of his spirit
into that feeble and diffident class. His Lordship is
possessed by an honourable ambition to beat every-
body and everything. He sees a rival Chancellor
dancing, and is unable to sit still. His rival is
now tied by the leg, and his Lordship cannot
refrain from informing us in a very solemn manner
that he would gladly have passed an evening dancing
with country lasses but for the indelicacy of appear.
ing to steal a march on Lord Lyndhurst. He walks
over a field, ready, as its owner imagines, for the seed
and sees it paved with intractable clods. He is
seized with as strong a desire to pulverize them, and
render them pervious to sun, rain, and seed, as if they
were so many blockheads in some part of her
Majesty's Palace at Westminster. He sees the hob-
nailed clodhopper, the toiling plough, the ineffective
harrow, the tedious flail, and all the helpless imple-
►nents of the wretched husbandman, and immediately
feels their pace too slow for his own natural gallop.
So he calls out for steam, and peoples the field and
the farmyard vtith a multitude of steam-engines,
puffing and blowing on fifty different errands. It
is, in fact, his own soul he puts into all the functions
of husbandry. That soul is steam. Nothing will
►atisfy him but forwarding all nature by express.
The general fault of husbandry lies in the other
direction, for to one farmer of spirit and adventure
there are two who will run no risks, try no experi-
ments, tolerate no innovation, go to no extra expense,
Ind accept no aid from science. If his Lordship can
put a little more life into these gentlemen, he will do
them a great service.

CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS.
Tuesday the City Commissioners held a Court of
Sewers at Guildhall; Mr. Deputy Peacock presiding.
MR. MOFFATT'S CATGUT MANUFACTORY.
With reference to a complaint against Mr. Moffatt,
of 145, Minories, for carrying on a catgut manufac
tory, much to the annoyance of his neighbours, a letter
was read from Mr. Altred Brown, of 147, Minories.
Mr. Deputy WEIGHT said that Mr. Brown had in-
formed him that the offensive smell then arising from
Mr. Moffatt's premises appeared to be something like
burning hair. He (Mr. Wright) was satisfied that
the manufactory was a great nuisance, and he hoped
the Court would order another inspection to be made
when the works were in full operation.—Agreed to.
STILL-ALLEY, BISHOPSGATE-STREET.
One portion of the report of the General Purposes
Committee consisted of an elaborate defence of the
Commissioners, in answer to the charges brought
against them by Mr. Jeyne at the late vestry-meeting
of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, with respect to the sani-
tary condition of Still-alley, Bishopsgate• street.
After a lengthened discussion, Mr. Alderman
SIDNEY moved, and vr. Deputy STEVENS seconded,
a proposition that the report be referred back to the
committee, and that they avail themselves of the
assistance of Mr. Jeyne and Mr. Hopgood.—Carried
unanimously:
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER.
Mr. SIMON (chief medical officer) produced his
report. It stated that during the past week the deaths
in the city from cholera had been 67; from diarrhoea,
18 ; showing a still further decrease, and confirming
the hope expressed by him at the last meeting, that
the worst period of the epidemic was passed. So far,
however, from recommending any relaxation of pre•
ventive measures, he urged their prosecution with
increased vigour.
DISGRACEFUL STATE OF ST. OLAVE'S CHURCHYARD.
Mr. Simon then read an affidavit made by a widow
lady residing in Monkwell street, near the General
Post-office. The deponent stated that her house
overlooked the churchyard of St. Olave's, and that on
Sunday last the gravediggers commenced their work
at six o'clock in the morning, and continued until
noon, by which time they had thrown out of the
grave four human heads in a "green state," with hair
visible, and other parts of human bodies on which the
flesh still remained.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Simon recom-
mended that the proper legal proceedings be immedi-
ately taken against the perpetrators of the abominable
outrage.

It was finally resolved that the particulars be com-
municated to the General Board of Health, and that
the sexton of St. Olave's be summoned before the
magistrates.
Complaints were then made of the imperfect
manner in which Smithfield had been cleansed of late.
The matter was ordered to stand over for considera-
tion ; and, after the transaction of some routine
business, the Court broke up after a very prolonged
sitting.

THE LATE FIRE IN CAMBRIDGE.—The inquest
called to inquire into the origin of the late fire on the
Market Hill, Cambridge, was resumed on Tuesday even-
ing, at the town-hall. The couri; wee, as before, densely
crowded, and several of the borough magistrates were
on the bench. Mr. C. H. Cooper, the deputy-coroner,
presided, and an immense mass of evidence was gone
into. Mr. Lodge, the occupant of the premises upon
which the fire originated, was in attendance, accompa-
nied by Mr. Hyde, his solicitor. The jury retired, and
after an ab►ence of about half an hour returned an open
verdict, " That the fire originated on the premises lately
occupied by Mr. Lodge; but how or by what means there
is no evidence to show. We further tied that the other
premises consumed were burnt by reason of their con-
tiguity' to the pry-mises of Mr. Lodge." The above hav-
ing been couched by the coroner in the language of the
law, and agreed to by the jury in that form, the jury
were discharged. A subscription has been got up and
closed, the amount having:reached a sum which will cover
the losses of the destitute sufferers.
An accident occurred on the 12th inst. on the
railroad from Hamburgh to Berlin. A fire having
br, ken out in the village of Lechsee, two fire-engines
were sent off from Hamburgh by the railroad. At
about two leagues from the city a weggon, in which
were the engines and the firemen, got loose from the
locomotive and ran off the rail. All the men were
seriously hurt, and the fire-engines were broken to
pieces.

cultural meeting after harvest, and Lord Brougham
1 being a good scholar, as well as a man with a good
deal of nature in his composition, and a fund of human
sympathy about him, has instinctively fallen into it.
We like him all the better for thing so. Accordingly,
the ex-Chancellor, while giving some capital advice,
did not forget to be more than usually entertaining.
He discussed with suitable gravity the important
subjects of sound farming accounts, agricultural ma-
chinery worked by steam, and clod crushing; but,
over and above that living energy with which he dis-
cusses all subjects whatever, be associated
the whole with an image which it is im-
possible for the most oblivious natures to
forget. Whenever we see a farmer at his
accounts, or a patent thrashing machine, or a
clod that wants crushing, we shall think of the two
Chancellors of England in a quadrille. Ten or twelve
years since, these two celebrated men, who had long
been contesting the Woolsack inch by inch, were en-
gaged in another sort of rivalry. Lord Lyndhurst
danced and Lord Brougham would not be beaten, so
he danced also. There was no Queen of Beauty to
award the prize, and the competitors still dispute it.
Lord Lyndhurst thought he danced the best, and
Lord Brougham was equally confident of his own
superiority. We can quite understand that. The
ideas of youth survive the physical graces and powers,
and many a man can bound and pirouette in his soul,
while his frame is racked with rheumatism, or swollen
with gout. Everybody dreams that he can fly. It
should be considered, too, that their Lordships saw
one another, but could not see themselves, or, at least,
as far as regarded themselves, were more aware of
their intentions than of their performances. Lord
Brougham still claims the victory, and leaves the
matter in the hands of an impartial posterity. One
thing, however, we are surprised at. It had
been reported that Lord Brougham danced with the
country lasses at Brougham- hall for several hours
together, and his Lordship now wishes, with one of
his customary adjurations, that the report had been
true. His only regret is, that he cannot realise
the rumour. Then, why does he refuse to believe it?
If he will take our advice, he will trust the public
impression rather than his own memory, which may
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The dance of the Chancellors belongs to a series of
s3lemnities. There is the war dance, and the death

dance ; now we have the law dance. But many
grave men have danced. Socrates danced every night,
he said, in order to go to bed with his feet warm.
Various great men of antiquity danced, and great
authorities have commended the practice. Chancel-
lors Lyndhurst and Brougham will now be added to
the list. One of their most distinguished predeces-
sors betrays a lurking inclination that way. "Dancing
to song," says Lord Bacon, "is a thing of great state
and pleasure." Queen Elizabeth " danced high and
composedly" before the Spanish Ambassador.
A Cardinal once danced to please a Queen. There
was something rather crusty about the Romans,
and they did not dance. "Nemo saltat sobrius,"
ays Cicero; but, in our humble opinion, if his
contemporaries had danced a little more, they
would have cut throats a little less, and Cicero him-
self might have obtained to a good old age. In the
interesting scene described by Lord Brougham we
recognize some guarantee that neither of these men
will ever.be dangerous to the State. Lord Brougham
was once the head of a popular movement, and Lord
Lyndhurst has occupied a similar position in an
aristocratic combination. Plots, intrigues, ulterior
designs, unavowed associates, corruption, and every-
thing short of treason has been ascribed to both in