The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-24 00:00:00

DEEP-SEA FISHING.
KEEP THE GOLD IN THE COUNTRY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—How can it be wondered at that the amount of
gold once in :his country has of late years so rapidly left
it? And now that the reason is justly understood, why
not immediately comm.nce and prevent a further re-
currence of the evil? Tne great number of the inhabi-
tants of this vountry that have of late years been fed
not only upon foreign grain, but also upon foreign bee 4
pork, butter, cheese, &c., has unquestionably been the
cause of the drain of gold—as foreigners knowing that
these are necessaries of file, that hungry people will buy
whatever they should barter in return, wht•n they bring
their provisions to our markets, and find that money is
of more value to them than to exchange for our own
mer. handise—so they take away our gold. It must be
quite evident to any one, that on islands like Great'
Britain and Ireland, where the population is so rapidly,
increasing (and they cannot cut away into the bsclr. •
woods as in America. and forage for themselves), unless
thefoodthe g
natural to this
population,isncountryisincreased in the sante
ratio with
upon foreigners (who have a surplus)we
sions ; and if it so be that those foreigners who 8111):",
.
ply us with food have improved their machinery AP!.
manufactures in articles they hitherto required from arsi:
(in considerable qulntities) to such an extents that 112..
they will not require so much of our goods in proportio_
must
for dpe
rp ea d:
able exchange tor their commt,dities, which is here daly
increasing in demand, the balance of exchange in traue;
by bartering merchandise, will be lost to this countrp
and the foreigners take away our gold for their prore
sions. Where, then, will be the great wonder if, in to •
course of time, every coin will be drained from our
own
c,ffers unless some urgtnt measures are sPee
adopted to di aw forth the lood natural to the country
f.r the increa*inz population. If labour is to be coma.
dared wealth, h Yvy many thousands and tens of thou-
=ands o men might. be all succe,,stully employed in pro:..
svcuring the deep•sea fisheries ? Thus would they
nos
only he coining wealth f themselves, but also increasing
food for the inhabitants. both in this and other countries,:
where they are fond of &h. An increased supply of fis,
h. would keep down the price of butcher meat anti
poultry—lessen the demand for foreign salted pork, beet;
cheese, and butter, with all the other et ceteras--4Da
keep the go!cl in the country.—l am, &c. •
H. DEMPSTER.
Edinburgh, May 18. 1847.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING Tavir.

AMENIP.'ENT OF THE LAWS.
TO Tlli EDITOR OP THE SUN,
Court of Bankruptcy, London,
May 22, 1847.
SlR,—The Lord Chancellor has proposed to the
House of Lords a Bill to consolidate and amend thh
Bankrupt Law. Lord Brougham has also a Bilk°,
the same subject. Neither of them attempts to AIN,'
lish the power of the individual creditor to seise ptrio:o
party for his own sole and exclusive use. Yet z.
existence of this power is the greatest evil of the! h
isting law. It is the instrument by means of whic
every fraudulent debtor cheats his creditors.
for •
In 1844 I printed a short outline of a pan
amending the law of Debtor and Creditor, costaieinl
ten propositions, of which the sixth was in the

words
" Abolish - executi toagainst property at the suit
bane,
individual creditors, and substitute seizure, as in
ruptcy, and thus have only one seizure and one exPtlist
" Ira debtor, adjudged to pay a debt, does not pSY
the strong presumption is, that it is because he cannot.
If so, he is an insolvent ; for if he cannot pay one credit:oFt
.
a fortiore, he cannot pay all. If he is insolvent therer
-
IS.
no reason why his property should be seized by one Ot
his exclusive benefit, to the prejudice of the rest ;
one being always either a fictitious creditor in league
with the debtor, or it a real creditor, either a favourea,
one, or the most harsh, exacting, and selfish. Executio!
against property, to au honest creditor, is generally nek
only useless but ruinous ; for, after the creditor Ms
seized, a claimant to the property starts up, audit knoll
possible in the nature of thiugs for the creditor to
whether the claim is good or not • he either withdraws
after having incurred considerable expense, or enters,
into the contest, and is defeated by a fraudulent bill
sale, which he has no possible means of proving to be
fraudulent."
In 1846, I submitted to the Society for the Amen:
men of the Law (21, Regent-street), a paper °-tto
same subject, which I enclose. I sent both papers
all the law Lords, but seemingly to no purpose. . d
If the paper makes the impression on your min
which
inil(cannont botlbinuateadntbieyiplaawte that it must make upon
any P
will advocate the reform I wish to
otel.
The common law has always sanctioned the doctrine
hope you
of preferences amongst creditors ; Chancery aud
BankruptcY haielsanetioned equality of payment. Both
doctrines cannot be right. Surely we need not
tate between them. The common law doctrine may
give all to a knave in league with a debtor , under
the Chancery and Bankruptcy doctrine the honest
crejitcr must get soln,thing..
Your obedient servant.

i .IRiI

8. M. PANE.

TO THE EDil'Ult OF THE SUN.
case
Sii,—A Coroner's Inquest was held yesterday at
ieted h
Hampstead,r,vtth
coi , allownanoth
n e to
,rc fm infanticide;eritioa
a
nuisancecon
w
bearing on ,anatory regulations—the supply of
water,
and the chsract( r of many dwellingsof
the
poor. •
The '
infants body Has taken from the pond in which
it was found to an e nlpty house; while performing
the post mortem, the gentleman who assisted, and HIY:r
self, were immensely annoyed by fleas—troops e.'
fleas. When we left the house several hundreds of
them must have been on our clothes. On reaching
home, the linen was carefully rolled up and put into
scalding water ; the dead bodies, next day, reigh,t
have been swept of Coats and other outer gar-
ments have required sulphur fumigation, and subse" ,
quently drenching in the garden. I have known two
or three instances of poor families coming to reside
in houses as infested as this. Imagine a working
man and his family having, in such rooms in which
we were but an hour,—children, beds, husband, wife;
huddled together—bad , ventilation and drainage;
little or no water.
Some years ago, Iby a medical
student, of general i was directed
ntelligence, to visit a case of
" eruptive fever of suspicious character." I found
the poor child covered, literally covered with " flea
bites," acute, sub-acute, and chronic. On my telling
as much to the good dame, she replied, smiling, "La,
Sir, is that all ! well, we do swarm with fleas ; one
might sweep them up ; but the boards are so old, and
the child is a stranger, and not used to them." Oh !
Mr. Editor, it is a sad thing when use makes a human
skin like a rhinoCeros' hide ; there is a cause, too, to
suspect that something like moral fleas often tura
amiable sensibilities into hardened Devils.
Hampstead, so far from being worse than other
places, as some would idly fancy, has a thousand
claims beyond most others for salubrity ; to dwell on
which, would be "to paint the rose..' It is true, it
may be, that some matters I have • '
published in a
recent pamphlet, are not worse than they were thirty
years ago ; that there is noth. in .
mg new all the details
which sanatory investigations bring, per force, before
the public. Yet, the very
antiquity of these faults,
and their widely spread character, spread all over the
world, show the need of a
England.
remedy,—demand, at least,
their removal from There is, however,
something very new indr'
very
gpublic attention to
these things; something healthy; good and
holy in our gracious Queen and our modern Govern-
ment, telling the nation that these sources of evil
must be exterminated.

Improved dwellings for the labouring classes, like
the delightful, though simple, model houses at Bag
ligge IVells, must soon be built for all, the rents
ranging from is. 6d. to 6s. per week. Interim, an
linentermitting supply of pure water, light, and resh
would cleanse out many a hole and corner, now
the hot beds of vermin, disease, and death, in our
present ill-constructed tenements for the industrious
millions. The recorder; of sanatory facts should be
very careful to check an idea going abroad, that indi-
viduals, as proprietors of particular places, are especi-
ally culpable; nor may the working population be
earl,l,omwedanyto
otfnhaercydesitrheeirthahnonithesat o"fshaotwteemd ptuinpg"
to remove evils under which they suffer,
which they, by themselves, have neither
leisure, knowledge, nor strength, to remove.
l'bere is something workmandike, business-like--
earnest—in the style of publicity which sanatory facts
assume. Some people laugh, some sneer, some shud-
fier, at the simple or disgusting details. We say like
Themistoles—' Strike, but hear us." Let it be re-
membered, that the existence of such facts, particu-
larly if no effort be made to alter them, not the Pub-
lishing them, is the disgrace.
A knowledge of the principles of animal physiology
is all important, that men may know how to live in
order to command health. These laws must be fa-
miliarised to the rising generations—must be made as
familiar as their daily bread—as their pious, bible,
unrsery faith. This accomplished, we shall have ad-
vanced another step in sanatory reform, from-which
small eminence the public will see others more lofty
ltoouws theylcittitle band of
willbefarle-dseeoinngt,o
tthhieukiniutgre,pifdreaun.adurtienai-
men, who, "through evil report and good report,'
dare to do what they believe to be right.
journalslank Mankind at
ht
steady,e arge are
humane,deeply
indebted
ittoed manner
adaily
r
in which all have advocated sanatory measures; rising
papers have advanced this wise and humane move.
ibove the bias of party, the weekly as well as daili
apology,
fohmeempoalsistioufalsoacuiiemtyosimtiaeys, viorellfaaufftioorods asnquaapbi:4
o
which the press now and then may be hurried, in suulef
it starts up gratuitously, unanimously, to labour :
cause for the common benefit of our common
I have the honour to be,
Mr. EDITOR,
Your very obedient servant,
CHARLES F. J. LORDS.
'steal, May 18, 1847.

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The announcements of any names for the bishopric
of Manchester, or of the other new sees, are premature
—the arrangements not being yet in form for aeY
ciPsou or selection.—Observer.