The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-23 00:00:00

ever, discontent verging upon actual rebellion,
and at the eleventh hour a candid confession
from the candid authors of the mischief
that they have no single measure to
propose for the relief of the people.
The Whigs, in fact, now assure us, upon
their personal and official responsibility, that the
Tories governed the country so admirably as to
leave to their successors no scope for any im-
portant improvement. But if the Whigs have
utterly failed, according to their own confession,
to accomplish any good object, the country is
well aware that they have been fatally influential
for purposes of evil. The recent experiment
has been made at an enormous expense of all
that constitutes the proper wealth and well-being
of the nation, and years must be expected to
elapse before the advantages which we have lost
can be restored. When the barricade revolution
occurred in France which laid the foundation of
our wretched reform, this country had just
overcome the difficulties of her monetary and
commercial changes, and, having a prosperous
revenue at home as well as unboutided influence
abroad, had before her the exhilarating prospect
of great and progressive improvement. But the
defeat of the Duke of Wellington's A dministration
swept this goodly vision in a moment from our
view, and two years of fanatical excitement and
Whig misrule have since almost caused reflect-
ing men to despair of the fortunes of their
country. Under the imbecile Administration of
Earl Grey Great Britain appears to have sunk
with preternatural rapidity from the condition of
a first-rate to that of a fifth-rate power. Foreign
Potentates settle all points of policy, to what-
ever extent they may involve our interests, with
an instructive contempt of the opinions and a
perfect scorn of the resentment of this country;
they consider that unity and decision can never
more characterize the councils of a once power-
ful, but now insignificant, island, which tole-
rates a Palmerston for Foreign Secretary, and
has to submit its most refined policy to the en-
lightened judgment of a democratic rout of ten-
pounders. The consequence is that our external
interests generally, including the security of our
colonies and the stability of our commerce,
without which we can no longer exist, are un-
dermined to a fearful extent by our jealous and
vindictive rivals, and threatened with absolute
and irretrievable ruin. What passes at home is,
if possible, still more alarming, even to the most
cool and dispassionate observer. No single im-
portant class throughout the empire is satisfied
with the existing Government, or confident in
the permanence of the present system. Every man
who is happily conscious of his competence to ,
discharge his ordinary pecuniary obligations
has a personal quarrel with the Ministry,
for robbing him of his equitable share of the
representation, and giving it to the rabble ; and
the rabble, on the other hand, complain that no
sooner had the Ministry gained its own ends by
means of agitation, than it let loose a savage
police upon the agitators, as though they were
no better than mad dogs, besides disappointing
them of the blessings which were to follow in
the train of reform. In the meantime our trade,
upon which a patient and industrious people
depend for their daily bread, is miserably de-
pressed and paralyzed; and the little public con-
fidence that remains seems about to be sacrificed
to such chimerical and unaccountable schemes as
never before entered into the bare contemplation
of sane statesmen. The panic already excited
among all classes connected with the East and
West India trades, is described to us as wholly
unprecedented, and as likely to lead to an amount
of distress of which our wise Ministers never
formed the remotest conception. Such is the
general aspect of our affairs in this third year
of Earl Grey and reform. Our consolation is,
that the public mind is at length roused to some-
thing like a just idea of the perils which sur-
round us, and the necessity of vigorous measures
in order to ward them off. The eyes of the
whole country turn at this moment, if we mis
take not, to Sir It. Peel, as the only man corn,

petent to overcome existing embarrassments,
through the medium of the present anomalous
House of Commons. We have the utmost

confidence in the integrity and discretion of the
Hon. Baronet, but we hope that no real or
imagined public necessity will bring him into
permanent connection with men who are plainly
rejected by the nation at large, besides being
amenable to public justice for high crimes and
misdemeanors. At all events, however, and
come what will, let the great Conservative party
remain united as they tender the well-being of
their country, and avoid those fatal divisions by
which only we have been thrown into our pre-
sent dangerous and unnatural position. The
country cannot be governed by a section, but it
may be governed by a confederacy, of able men,
who will consent, if needful, to forget the past,
and to look with an unprejudiced eye upon
the present and the future. A temperate Con-
servative Ministry would unite all parties.—
Morning Post.

IMMENSE SALE OF LITERARY WORKS.—
A gratifying statement has appeared in some of the public
Journals of the present immense sale of the new edition of
Sir WALTER Scores admirable novels. To this we may
add, that " The Standard Novels and Romances," brought
out in monthly volumes, and similarly printed and illus-
trated, enj,y scarcely an inferior popularity, upwards of
100,000 of this cheap reprint of the must sterling modern
works of fiction having already found purchasers. In this
excellent undertaking, be it remembered, the entire novel
is, with but few exceptions, complete in a single volume,
for six shillings, less tha❑ one-fourth of the cost of the
ori:,ital edition.

PARISIAN STATISTICS.—A table of the
births and deaths in the 12 Arrondissements of Paris during
the year 1832, which has lately been published, presents
the following results:—.ln the cour'e of the year there
were 45,675 deaths and 26,364 births; namely, 28,565
deaths and 21,322 births in private houses, and 17,010
deaths and 4,902 births in the hospitals. Thus one-fifth
of the population are born in the hospitals. Among the
births in private houses there were 16,553 of legitimate
children, and 4,769 of illegitimate. In the hospitals only
499 were legitimate, and 4,498 illegitimate. Thus of
the total births above one-third were illegitimate children.
The deaths exceed the births by 19,371 ; but, by subtrac-
ing about 19,000 occisioned by the cholera, there remain
nearly 25,000 deaths, which number corresponds with that
of former years. The 7th, 811), 9th, 10th, I I tb, and 12th
Arrondissements lost in private houses, in 1832, the
twenty-second part of their population, whilst the Ist, 2 I,
3,1, 4th, sth, and 6th loot but one thirty-fourth. This
disproportion becomes still greater if to the number of
deaths in private houses we add those which took place in
the hospitals, and which chiefly consisted of individuals
belonging to the last six Arrondissements of Paris. The
Arrondissements where the mortality was greatest are the
most unhealthy quarters of Paris, where the streets are
snean9r,er.
narrow -- and the houses very lofty. Gedi.mines /Ties.

SINGULAR DEATH FROM FRIGHT.-
Yesterday an inquest was held at the Good Samaritan,
Oxford-street, Stepney, on the body of Henry Odiie, a
fine boy, aged 11. On Saturday the deceased was
nursing his little sister, an infant of three months, when it
',creamed, and the mother charged him with having let it
fall. This he denied ; but the mother repeated the charge,
and took the child from him. Tr .e deceased then turned
very pale, reeled round three times, and falling to the
ground, died almost instantly- A medical gentleman gave
it as his opinion, that death had been produced by a
sudden rush of blood to the head through excitement.
Tne Jary returned a verdict to that effect.