The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-25 00:00:00

Ports.

Aberystwith
Beaumaris
Cardigan........,,
Chichester ......
Padstow
Scilly
Borrowstoness
Campbeltown...
Lerwick
Stornaway .....
Stranraer
Wigtown

And yet, while no complaint is made of the heavy
expenditure in those unproductive districts, in none
of which the gross revenue amounts to more than a
mere fraction of that obtained at Manchester, we
have bitter complaints on the part of the narrow-
minded financier who, unfortunately for the
Whig Government, presides over the Exchequer,
of the sum of 2,503/. 6s. 2d. being required to give
the vast advantages of the bonding system to the ma-
nufacturing metropolis. With the " penny-wise-and-
pound. foolish policy," for which be has ever,been dis-
tinguished, he speaks of depriving Manchester of the
boon conceded in 1844,unless the town council continue
permanently to defray the expenses which they un-
dertook during the pendency of the experiment, and
which they are unwilling to continue, now that the
experiment has been attended with such unqualified
success, a success beyond the most sanguine anticipa-
tions of its warmest advocates.
Manchester is now the sixth bonding place in Eng-
land as to the amount of revenue, and in no single place
is it collected at less than double the expense per cent.
charged at Manchester, and if the revenue should con-
tinue to increase in a similar ratio to that of
the last few years it will speedily go beyond
Hull and Newcastle, which it already closely ap-
proaches. Sir CHARLES WOOD, however, speaks of
taking away its privilege, while there are no less than
31 places in which the revenue collected is less than
5,0001., and 12 more where it exceeds 6,0001.,
but is less than 10,0001. And yet these
places are not to be interfered with, while
Manchester, which returns more than the
whole 43 taken together, is to be deprived of its staff,
and its merchants and traders sent to other districts
to select the duty-paying articles for the consump-
tionitis surrounded.
sonfrtrhoemyed.
riadsifotfhaint unwise,dustrious
thatp persons sonsby which
insane cou

were pursued, or if as Sir CHARLES Wool) suggested,
the corporation imposed higher rates, the consump-
tion would be materially diminished through the
higher prices, and the revenue itself would suffvr to

many times the amount of the paltry sum in dis

—pute. Sir CIIIRLES WOOD is, however, will-
ing to run any risk, to incur any degree
of odium and unpopularity, rather than make any
concession. On his head and on those of his col-
leagues be the result. 'The Manchester men, how-

ever, need not despair ; their cause is based on

equity and justice, and must eventually prove suc,

cessful. Magna est veritas et prevalebit.

Absolutely nothing whatever has yet been accom-
plished by our sanitary reformers in the way of sub-
stituting extramural for intramural interment.
Loudly as they have vaunted the importance of this
question, long as they have agitated, in the hope of
bringing about the solution of this difficulty, they
have hitherto failed altogether in dissipating one par-
ticle of the evil complained of by themselves, and
recognised by the vast majority of the community.
Burials are still taking place perpetually in the midst
of our most crowded thoroughfares, in the
very heart of the most densely populated
localities. This, moreover, in the heat
of the summer quarter, and when the metropolis has
had the number of its inhabitants increased by so
many thousands, in consequence of an influx of
foreign and provincial visitors to the Exhibition !
Considering the extraordinary magnitude of the
danger referred to, remembering also the reality
of the perils encountered by the continuance of this
detestable system of interments, seeing that the city
The CHANCELLOR of the Excneguza has for the graveyards are notoriously known to be the manu-
factories of disease, and the inevitable means
,ime being successfully resisted the just and equitable of multiplying the amount of the general mor-
demand put forward by the Hon. Gentleman the tality, it is absolutely inexplicable to witness
Member for Manchester, on behalf of the important the apathy displayed upon the matter, not only
constituency which he so ably represents. By a by the pretended advocates of sanitary improvement,
majority of fifteen he has rejected the inquiry so but, practically speaking, likewise, by both Houses of
anxiously sought for, the effect of which must have the Imperial Legislature. Until the dead are entombed
been to establish the propriety of the claim. after a manner very different, indeed, in its character,
The Right Hon. Baronet should not, however, in- it will be frivolous to dream of effecting any material
dulge in any premature exultation, or suppose that changes for the better in the eocial condition of the
the division of last night can have any per- living. Gwydyr House and its Commissioners must
manent operation. The men of Manchester perforce remain wholly useless as an administrative
sre not to be discouraged by a single failure. They institution until such time as the deceased portion of
have already proved that they can return to the con- the multitude are conveyed to their last rest-
test with redoubled vigour, and that, in a good cause, ing place in some conveniently situated
nothing can cheek their earnest determination to ac- cemeteries beyond the suburbs of London and
complish the duty they have undertaken. They had, of 'Westminster. Better ventilation in the arrange.
atter a contest of seven years' duration, fighting the ments of our domestic architecture, purer water in the
battle of the working classes of the United Kingdom, management of metropolitan irrigation, more copious
indeed we might say of the industrious population of and efficient drainage in the subterranean works of
theh entire world, overthrown the monster monopoly, the capital of England,—all will be idle and preposte-
se power was only exceeded by its iniquity. In roux, as a means of improving the condition of the
'''.a'ti were the struggles of the Protectionists, al- masses, if the decaying bodies of the departed are
"'ugh supported by a powerful and well organized still allowed to remain in the midst of the crowded
party in
the Legislature, and by the whole strength quarters of this great city, contaminating the atmos-
of the bucolic lungs out of doors ; they were unable phere by their exhalations, and disseminating the
to withstand
pressure of public Opinion, tam- seeds of the most fatal and destructive maladies. From
peratelY but eLt.hmei
dTaiL oely gaiti:pd
expressed. The glorious triumph the indifference hitherto displayed by the nation upon
that was uitin,atel
~Yeitlittained was not achieved by a this matter, it would almost appear as if the generality
ccoounptedstee
in advance was fiercely were unacquainted with the simplest facts connected
by the most enthusiastic with their corporeal organization ; such, for example,
and energetic exertion,"
but
abandoned or lost after had no point was ever as the necessity of a pure air for the oxygination of
it 0
The position was strengthened, nee been reached. the blood, and this not only for the support of vitality
making and formed an ad- through the lungs, but through the whole pores of the
ditional means of
new pro •
was at length gress, until the skin in like manner without this purity of the
citadel of monopoly captured and razed it *
atmosphere will be preposterous to expect that
to the earth, the only weapons resorted to by the F h •
ree- uman beings can support life merely by the
traders during the entire conflict being these of
Son aid of the nutrition derived from provision, more
which eventually proved irresistible especially if water—one of the first necessaries
who have given
And it is against persons such tineof existence—is as villanously polluted even as
prowess that Sir
quivocal proofs of their p CHARLES the atmosphere. Aware, as the majority of the
supported
WooD expects to prevail, because, by the Population reuNt necessarily be of these particulars,
the Treasury obedient pick that follow the lash of they would nevertheless appear to neglect the truths
while eagerly watching for forced whipper-in, aril who, upon them by their recognition, preferring
fall from the the
the crumbs of patronage that continuance of a vicious and execrable system
e
vote that black rather than th
Ministerial table, are willing to trouble requisite for the substitution
the sole ()Eject of another, preferable is white, if they can thereby advance in its tendency and its general
of their lives, their own private and personal interest, character.
and gain the smiles of a Cabinet Alini,ter. He Something must be . adventured upon by the sincere
Let Sir well- wishers of the
community
has gained a temporary victory. at once, and without
any further procrastination, if the
CHARLES WOOD and his colleagues (and it is to them
uld relieve the
metropolis of an evil which every Ivo
chiefly that we address ourselves, for they have not asy day threatens to be
yet shown themselves to be irreclaimable, or beyond more and more lamentably pernicious. The measure
session through the
the reach of argument) beware. They may be well passed last
se's e been carefully House of Commons
assured that one such victory, as that of last night, has
by this
. time
Weighed in the ba-
would be far more injurious to their future prospects 1 lance, and it is almost
found wilHtin superfluous .to add that it has
than the most ignominious and decisive defeats. I been long since g: Apparently, that is
It is impossible to speak too highly of the clear and to say to a superficial observer, it was unqueltionebly

- Mr. J. A. SMITII repudiated the assertion that the
public had rendvred itself responsible, now or heretofore,
'or the savings' banks defalcations.
Colonel DUNNE supported the motion.
The House divided, when there appeared—
Fur the resolution
Against it

... 56
... 63

Majority ... —7
Mr. 'URQUHART moved a resolution recommending the
re-appointment of the Select Committee on uiplomatio
salaries.
After some conversation, on the motion of Mr. BRO. THERTJN the division was taken on the question that
the House do now adjourn.
There appeared for the motion, 64; against it, 32.
The House accordingly adjourned at a Quarter-past
Twelve.