The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-26 00:00:00

Munlochy
Dundee
Dunbar ((rem 16th to23d inst.)

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.Total
General total:—
Metropolis
Country
Scotian:l

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25

NoTE.—The number of attaeks reported by the
union officers are—tor the
_metropolis 123, and for
the country 462; but their returns do not, in general,
comprs.thend the cases that are treated by medical men
in private practice.
The deaths are returned according to the
superintendent registrars' districts, as it is found im•
practicable to distinguish every place separately.

CHOLERA. DIARRECEL.
Sat. Mon. Sat. Mon.
Sept. Sepr. Sept. Sept.
22d. 24th. 22d. 24th.
7 19 3 4
13 7 7 8

15 8 2 4
36 23 12 9
52 45 19 18

LAB

OLD

The bee produces honey—
Honey commands money :
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The labourer produces food—
Food commands money.
The shadow comes before the substance;
The substance comes after the shadow.
Paper money (to pay the wages of the labourer) is th 6
shadow;
Food, clothing, &c. (produced by the labourer in return
for the paper money) is the substance.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—Owing to those existing laws of England
which enact that gold (exclusively almost) shall be a
legal tender in discharge for all debts, our Govern-
ment may be compared to a supposed colony of human
beings, who, dependent for sustenance upon the honey
gathered from the wild flowers by the bees of the
colony, robbed the bees of all the honey they had
accumulated, and extirpated every flower to prevent
them gathering future stores, whereby the doom of
both bees and colonists would be manifestly sealed.
The death of the bees would speedily ensue, and
starvation of the colonists would become inevitable
after the stock of honey was consumed.
It would scarcely be thought possible that any
human beings could so overlook the vital necessity of
preserving and extending the flowers, that the bees
might continue to gather honey for the future
sustenance of the commonwealth of bees and men;
yet, strange as it may appear, in this highly civilized
and enlightened age, the Government of England act
with even more purblindness, for though the whole
fruits (quasi honey) of the labourers of this country
are required for the sustenance of themselves and
families, and to meet the expenses of the nation, yet
the Legislature permit the continuance of a law
which, when operative, withdraws from circulation
the money (quasi flowers) by means of which labour
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elicited, and food, clothing, &c. (honey) is produced;
and notwithstanding that (and what evinces greater
imbecility) the Government expects that the labourer
(it has thus deprived of means) shall continue to
maintain himself and family ; and demands besides
that he shall, in such starvation state, furnish money
forsooth (which he has no power physically or
legally to make) to defray the national expenditure.
It such folly and insanity be persevered in, the con-
dition of England and its labourers, it is self evident
would soon become like unto that of the bees and the
colonists as prefigured.
The labourer cultivates and manufactures food,
clothing, &c.; thus be rieles money's worth; but it he
could (which he cannot), he lA not ellovvel to make
coined money. Hence it is imperative upon the
Government to make sufficient legal tender paper
money (based on and convertible into national pro,
perty, food, clothing, &c.), so as to facilitate and
maintain a ready and adequate legal tender medium
of exchange at all times for all commercial trans-
actions.

The precious metals, fixed property, and merchan-
dise, are the fruits of labour capitalized ; hence it
must be obvious that if there be not sufficient con-
vertible legal tender paper money based thereon, or con•
vertible thereinto by purchase at the necessity of the
holder, free from any statutory contraction, and
adequately maintained, the labourQr cannot continuo
to be employed either adequately or profitably to
himself, or to his employer ; cons( queutly the, honey
in the national hive (i. e., capitalized labour) w,uld
decrease, and all commodities would fall in value, ex-
cept gold, which is protected at a standard price by
Act ut Parliament. War is not halt so devastating as
this bullion law, which bears with ruinous injustice

on the labourer, throwing him out of emploiment,
and at the same time reducing the value of his pre-
vious proiucts, whilst gold, by the present law, be-
comes appreciated. DELTA.
Liverpool, Sept. 15, 1849.

CITY COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS.
Yesterday a court was held; Mr. Deputy Pea-
cock in the chair.
Mr. Alderman and Sheriff FINNIS presented a me-
morial, signed by a great number of mercantile men
who transact business in Mincing-lane, complaining
of a most intolerable stench which constantly assails
them through the vents in the immediate locality, and
praying that the court would take immediate steps to
remove so disgusting and injurious a nuisance.
The Memorial was refkred to the surveyor of the
court, to examine and report .upon.
THE SCENE IN THE CHURCHYARD OF ST. OLAYE,
SILVER-STESET.
The churchwardens and other parishioners of the
parish of St. Olave, Silver-street, attended for the pur-
pose of giving to the court an explanation of the
alleged condition of the churchyard.
Mr. Law, one of the churchwardens, and several
parishioners, stated that the church and bad bet n
closed without the delay of more than one day atter
the issue of the notice of the Board of Health ; that
the parish authorities had acted consistently with
their duty, and that in the description which had
been given of the ground, much exaaeration had
been used.