The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-05 00:00:00

MESHAM AND BROWNE V. HILL

The proceedings in this case, which was a suit against the de.
fendant for the subtraction of Church.rates, were postponed to
Tuesday, the 15th of June, in order that the libel might be
amended.

The defendant complained of the hardship of being brought
from Bedford to London, a distance of upwards of fifty miles, with.
out having any final settlement of the case come to. He stated
that this was the second time he was put to the expense of coming
to London, and that he was too poor to be able to get professional
assistance. Under those circumstances he hoped the case wou'd be
at once decided.

The COURT stated that any proceedings in the case must be
stayed till the libel was amended.

After disposing of some other business, the Court rose shortly
before three o'clock.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
COURIER.—Mr. Handley is in luck's way, that's flat.
After jogging on in easy, and, so far as public concerns, hum-
ble life, " the world forgetting, by the world forgot," for some
half a century of age, he bursts upon us all at once in full-
blown butterfly plumage, the gaped at of all eyes, and the most
ambitiously erratic of all doomed and transitory moths. As,
inverting the passage, from the ridiculous to the sublime, there
is, we are told, but one step, so without intermediate stags of
preparation or transition, from a creeping chrysalis he has
spread his wide insect wings to catch the gale of public noto-
riety. " Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and
some have greatness thrust upon them," quoth the sage Malvo-
lio ; we incline to believe, at cross purpose voting, Mr. Hand-
ley as richly entitled to class with the latter genus as his great
" cross-gartered" antecedent himself. His " greatness" has
indeed been vigorously thrust upon him with all the merciless
mischief exclusively appertaining to the Conservative press
without, Conservative orators within Parliament. We a.e not
sorry to have taken our share in hailing tile sudden sphntlour
of the mid-day sun, if only from the benevolent consciousness
of the darkling eclipse and . instantaneous extinction which
await it, when sinking and swamped, as so soon to be in the
cheerless fens of Lincolnshire.
STANDARD.—In our recent exposure of the miserable
failure of the attempt to excite a Corn-law agitation, we gate
the Metropolitan C..rn-law Association credit for telling the
truth in the advertisement published by them in the Morning
Chronicle, calling for more subscriptions. They acknow-
ledged in that appeal that they last year collected 1,0001.,
whilst they had, this year, they said, been unable to
raise more than 700/., notwithstanding the vast increase
of public excitement on the subject. This lachry-
mose howl for more money was followed by a threat of the
total failure of the conspiracy in case of further default on the
part of the people. We have since been assured that the sum
which these importunate mountebanks have received in Eng-
land and Ireland amounts to little more than 600/. ; which at
the rate of a guinea a-head (and we can hardly presume that
members of the committee would contribute less), will
give to the can e just so many earnest supporters out of
a population of nearly 30,000,000—a falling off from previous
manifestations of nearly 50 per cent. If this be a proof of the
progress of the cause in public opinion, we trust it will con-
tinue to proceed in the same inverse ratio of success. Why,
looking at the capital letters and notes of admiration with which
the accounts in the Morning Chronicle of recent " great meet-
ings" have been headed, a larger fund than this might reasonably
have been looked for from any one of them. There is scarcely a
charitable institution in London which, at its anniversary
meeting cannot command a far larger share of the cash and
sympathy of her Majesty's subjects than the Anti-Corn law
Association ; and if it should hereafter be otherwise, any public
institution exhil iting so important a decline of its funds, will at
all events not date the increase of the interest felt in its con-
cerns from the precise period at which its subscriprior.s may
happen to fall off. The people of England refuse the Anti-
Corn-law Association their money, because they de not care
one farthing about them or their objects, and because they
have in fact much better uses for it.
GLOBE.—Mr. Colquhoun is very pathetic about Sir R.
Peel working without salary ; and certainly the bowels of most
Tories must yearn at the recital. But, after all, the case is
not entirely unprecedented. Brougham, Romilly, Mackintosh,
Lord Grey, Lord J. Russell, &c. did a good deal of work, in
their time, without salary, or much hope of salary. The
difference we admit to be a material one. The Whig
statesmen ultimately forced their measures on Tory Ministers.
The Tory statesmen have conformed to, arid cobbled, the mea-
sures of Whig Ministers. They have acquiesced, for the roost
part, in passing (more or less altered) the measures of Govern
ment. Most extraordinarily this is made a reason why they
should take their places. Public opinion has constrained th,-us
(some of them, we grant, not unwillingly) to follow in the
wake of Whig policy, and assist in passing Whig m-asures.
They have done so as regarded Canada; they have done
so as regarded Ireland ; they have done so as regarded munici-
pal reforms, tithes, poor •laws, &c. Therefore the framers
of those measures ought to give place to them ; because, for-
sooth, they could not have carried them without their sup-
port and acquiescence. Whykdid they give that support and
acquiescence? In compliance with public opinion. All that
it proves, therefore, is that the Wh;g Ministry proposed
measures which the leaders of the Tory Opposition
qould not but acquiesce in (with whatever reservations), if
they hoped to conciliate public opinion. And now they make
a merit of having assisted to pass those measures ; as if their
having been constrained (whether by enlightened public opinion
or their own) to afford that assistance—an assistance afforded
against the sense, or nonsense, of their own party—were not the
strongest testimony in favour of the policy they attack, and did
not indeed stultify themselves by attacking that policy.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all CaLses
Registered in the week ending May 29, 1841." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar- General

Weekly
Total. Average
1838-9-40.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 127 204
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 172 151
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
Diseases of the Heat and Bloodvessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion 67 60
Diseases of the Kidnays, &c. . 7 4
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c 2 1
Diseases of Uncertain 5eat...... 93 103
Old Age, or Natural Decay 5B 71
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 21 25'
Causes not specified , 7 8
Deaths from all causes ' B`i3
Average Weekly Deaths • • 926
Deaths in the Average Weekly
Week. Deaths, 1838-9-40
Western Districts ... 131 ...... 139
North Districts
Central Districts 179 •.... 190
East Districts l5O •••••. 211
South Districts ... ......

CAUSES OF DEATH.

....
Total 833 .. 926
It is stated that under the terns Metropolis are comprised the
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon-
don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of
Westminster, the out-parishes within the 13111 s of Mortality—
and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,
Fulbam, flammerSrnith ( Chapelg), St, Lnke( Chelsea), I?atl-
dington,
St. Mary (Stoke Newtngtotl), St. eonarrl (Brom-
ley),, St. Mary-le-bow, Camber -ell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890. The weekly averrge for
1838, 1839, and 1840, was obtained by dividing the deaths in
the three years by 156.
I.**RER!"PkiE IN TIDE WEEKS RIMING
May 22. May 4,19.
pig!lest rft ••• f
Lowest
„ . .
Daily Mean ....
..• 49 65
General riegister Oflice, June 3 184 j.
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