The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-11 00:00:00

DECEMBER 11, 1851.
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principle. At the first meeting of a small knot of
twenty hardworking men, fifteen out of their number.
declared themselves prepared not to touch a drop of
beer for six months if necessary—(Cheers)—but he
believed that such a measure would not be required,
because when the brewers attempted to raise the price
ld. a put in 1847, they were threatened with a ge-
neral abstinence from their beer, and they were ob-
lig:Al very speedily to come down again. If it should
be necessary to have recourse to so extreme a remedy
again, he was sure that a fortnight's abstinence would
compel the brewers toaccede to a reduction.—(Hear.)
Mr. FOSKETT urged the working men to induce
their companions to join the league, and said that he
had himself got thirty-seven out of thirty-n4l! fellow
workmen who were employed in the same factory as
himself.—(Cheers.) He liked his beer as well as any
man, but he did not like to be nude to pay an extor-
tionate price for it; and he was determined to abstain
rather than continue to do so.--(A. voice, "Bravo
Foskett," and laughter.)
_ _

Mr. GiBBS, of Mary lebone, said that the agitation
had extended to his parish, which was anxious to send
delegates to Bermondsey to co•operate with the
league. He pointed out the necessity for a strenuous
and persevering effort, because the brewers, from their
great wealth, would be able to stand a long siege."
The SECRETARY said that the league was going on
very prosperously, and would be happy to act in con-
junction with the other districts of the metropolis in
making preparations for holding a great aggregate
meeting. They would meet there again next Wed-
nesday, and their friends at Hackney intenled to hold
a meeting on Monday.
Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and, after
a considerable number of new members had been en-
rolled, the proceedings terminated.

IIEALTHOF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
The official table says :—The state of the public
health, as indicated by a constant increase of mor-
tality, is far from being favourable at the present
time. During four weeks of November, the deaths
registered in the London districts increased in the
following progression :-989, 1,022, 1,132, 1,279;
and in the week ending last Saturday they rose to
1,316. During the same five weeks the deaths among
old persons of 60 years and upwards have numbered
successively 202, 207, 242, 277, and 305.
It will be seen from a review of ten previous years
(1841-50) that in the week of 1847 corresponding to
last week influenza raised the deaths to 2,454 ; but
with the exception of that year they did not in any
corresponding week exceed 1,146, and were generally
much less. The average of the ten weeks was 1,123,
and if corrected for increase of population, 1,235,
compared with which the deaths of last week exhibit
an excess of 81. It is hardly necessary to remark
that if the unusual mortality of 1847 were excluded
from the comparison, the result would be still more
unfavourable for last week.

It appears that last week the mortality of young
persons was 14 per cent., of persons in middle life 26
per cent., and of those of advanced age 35 per cent.,
above the average. The increase in the present return
above that of the previous week has been derived
almost exclusively from the aged part of the population.
From an examination of the table of fatal causes it
will be perceived that affections of the respiratory
organs greatly preponderate on the list. The increase
of cases enumerated in this class is shown in the
numbers of the last five weeks ; viz., 148, 168, 256,
298, and 333. The 333 deaths of last week are dis-
tributed under particular heads in the following
manner : laryngitis, 2 ; bronchitis, 156 ; pleurisy, 4 ;
pneumonia, 133 ; asthma, 30 ; others of the same
class not designated, 8. In the corresponding weeks
of the previous three years neither bronchitis nor
pneumonia exceeded 88, and the whole class scarcely
numbered more than 200, or were about 130 less
than in last week.

Phthisis or consumption also exhibits an increase,
the numbers during the four weeks in November
having been 125, 123, 135, and 161, and lest week the
fatal cases of this disease rose to 180. In the te❑
weeks corresponding to last, of 1841.50, the deaths by
phthisis ranged from 96 to 136, and when influenza
was epidemic, to 198.
Last week the mortality attributed to diseases of
the zymotic or epidemic class was nearly of the same
amount as in the previous return, namely, 249 deaths.
Small-pox carried off 24 children and 3 adults;
nseasles, 17 children ; scarlatina, 43 ; hooping-cough,
31 ; croup, 6; thrush, 2; diarrhce3, 26 persons;
dysentery, 2 ; cholera, 1 ; influenzs, 7; purpura, 3 ;
ague, 1 ; remittent and infantile fever, 4 ; t3phus, 61;
rheumatic fever, 3 ; puerperal fever, 5 (besides 5
other cases of women dying after childbirth); erysi-
pelas, 7; and syphilis, 1 child and 2 adults. It ap-
pears that fever has increased to a small extent on tee
preceding week.
The following is the case of cholera mentioned
above :---In Mile-end, New Town, at 8, John's-place,
on the 2d of December, the son of a journeyman
shoemaker, aged 9 years, cholera (48 hours.)
In South Chelsea, at 16, Wink's-buildings, on 3d
of December, the son of a labourer, aged 10 years,
died of "typhus (17 elsys).” On the medical certi-
ficate it is observed that "the buildings in which
this lad died are most pestiferous, the houses most
unwholesome. It has always been the haunt of fever,
and from this point as a centre it has often spread
with great virulence. The disease has just appeared
amongst other inhabitats of the place."
In the west sub-district of Islington 39 deaths
were registered in the week ; of these 2 occurred in
the small-pox hospital on the 24th November and Gth
December ; 5 in the London fever hospital on the 26th
and 30th November and 2d and 4th December; and
2 in the workhouse on the 30th November and Ist
December. Mr. Watts, the registrar, adds that " the
number is greater than usual, and 10 were from con-
tinued fever, typhoid fever, and scarlatina. There
have been many admissions to the fever hospital. As
regards both this and the small-pox hospital, applica-
tion for admission, unless by a parish order or through
a governor, should first bo made to the resident sur-
geon."
In the sub-district of St. Paul, Deptford, 5 deaths
from small-pox were registered in the week, and in al
the cases it is stated that vaccination had not been
performed. Two occurred at 4, Black horse-fiehis,
in the family of a labourer, whose sons, aged 9
months and 10 years, died of the disease after 9
days' illness. At 7, Bagle-street, Red Lion-square,
on 27th November, the son of a lath-render, aged 3
years, died of "small-pox (3 weeks), not vaccinated."
Mr. Goodhugh, the registrar, adds that "the reason
assigned by the mother of the child for not having it
vaccinated is, that in the opinion of the medical atten-
dant it was in too weak a state of health. This is the
third case of small-pox that has occurred in this
house within the last six weeks. Several children
have since been successfully vaccinated, and although
18 children were living in this house at the same time
no other case of small-pox has occurred. The disease
was brought into the house by a servant girl, who
bad been vaccinated, and in whom it appeared under
favourable conditions.

The death of a girl, aged 9 nine years, in Thomas-
street, Lambeth, is ascribed to " fright, cerebral dis-
order (14 days)." Mr. Daws states that "the fright
was caused on the sth November, by a cracker tied
to the street door, which deceased went to open. She
died on the 25th November. The circumstances did
not appear to the coroner to require an inquest. ,A
woman, aged 57 years, died from " long-continued
habits of intemperance." A man, who bad been a
servant, died on sth December in the Marylebone
workhouse of " destitution." He had come from
Carlisle-place. A coroner's inquest was expected to
be held. Three children died in various districts from
suffocation in bed.

STATE OF THE WEATHER DURING THE PAST WEEK.

SUNDAY.—The sky was three-fourths covered at 10h. A.M
and cloudless at Bh. rm., after which time a dense fog pre-
vailed ; clouds, cirrocumuli, and cirrostrati. Electricity—
Nothing shown in the morning, positive, with moderate ten-
sion in the evening.
MONDAY.—
The sky was cloudless at 9h. A.M., overcast at
noon, three-fourths covered at 3h. r.m., and overcast at 9h.
P.M., fog prevailed generally during the day, tine rain fell at
9h. r.M.; clouds, cirrostratus. Electricity—Nothing shown
throughout the day.
TUESDAY.—The sky was for the most part overcast
throughout the day; clouds, cirrostratus. Electricity...
Nothing shown throughout the day.
WEDNESDAY.—The sky was overcast throughout the day,
fine rain fall during the afternoon; clouds, cirrostratus.
Electricity—Slightly positive, with weak tension. at Oh.
P.M., nothing shown at any other examination.
THUDSDAY.—The sky was cloudless at 9h A M and noon,
overcast at 3h. r.m. and 9h. P.M., fine rain fell during the
evening; clouds, cirrostrati. Electricity—Nothing shown at
9h. A.M , positive, with strong tension at other times through-
out the day.
PRIDAY.—The sky was two-thirds covered by cloud at
9h A.M., and overcast the remaining portion of the day.
Rain fell during the afternoon ; clouds, cirrocu muliu' and
cirrostrati. Electricity—Nothing was shown throughout
the day.
SATURDAY.—The sky was overcast throughout the da
the dy ; clouds,ay. cirrostratus. Electricity—Nothing; shown throughout
The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the main-
mast, and read each day at 9h. A.M. was 40.70 ; and the mean
reading at 9h. P.M. was 42.2° ; the mean readings at the
Royal Observatory for the same times were 38.34 and 40.40
respectively.
The reading of the barometer during the week has been
subject to very small changes ; it increased from 03 07 in. at
the beginning of the week, with slight variations, to 30.19
in. at 9h. AM. on the 3d ; and decreased, with slight varia-
tions, to 30'12 in. at the end of the week.

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KOSSUTH PAPER'.
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LIBERATION BY A BANQUET AT STOCK-
Ganflernen,—Oue of the circumstances which has
most tended to console me iny expatriation has
been to find toy country's cause appv;h
reciated in the
must remote localities. In Li.bon
have conceived that cau yte and n't ere
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surprised as gratified by a reception
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all classes, from the peasant to the peer, se,. fell
emulous in expressions of sympathy to my
counrut:(.l
or rather to the principle it represents, by welcotning
in me its representative.
If I was touched and gratified by this expression
of opinion in a portion of Europa whose geographical
position comparatively isolates it from immediate
interest in the affairs of the east and centre of the
European Continent, you may imagine with how
much emotion I learned that a similar feeling was
entertained at Stockholm, where I am informed that
you have done me the honour to celebrate my libera-
tion by a public banquet.
In the midst of a reception in this country worthy
of the great people who have vouchsafed it to me, and
on the eve of my departure to accept the proffered
hospitality of the younger scion of this mighty Anglo-
Saxon stock, I could but have heard with gratitude
that I had the good wishes of that glorious Scandi-
navian race from which, at second and at first re-
move, the American offspring and the British parent
both have sprung.
If only on account of thin relationship, I should
therefore have forwarded to you, as I do, my warm
acknowledgments, couched not in your tongue, which
I have still the misfortune to ignore, but in the
nearest language to it with which I am acquainted,
the English—a dialect of your own, and the evidence
of that common Scandinavian origin acknowledged
in the Danish and Norman element of the
great (so called) Anglo-Saxon stock, and to
which Scandinavian origin Englishmen conversant
with this subject assure me that the names
of Jutes and Saxons show that Saxon element, its
other moiety, really to have appertained. But the
expression of your sympathies, and manifestation of
the spirit animating you, has for my country a far
higher interest than could be derived from kindred
connexion with those two great nations in whose re-
ception of me I flatter myself that I discern the ten-
dency to make me the opportunity of coalescing, as I
believe that the French people ere long will coalesce
with them—in assertion of the principle of free go-
vernment against the banded and encroaching
despotisms of Europe.
I have a higher interest than this in your sym-
pathies, because I believe that in the great Avar
of opinion which is imminent if my country be
called, through circumstances end its position, to
constitute the centre of the line of battle ranged
against absolutism ; and if Italy be the right wing, I
can but look on Sweden and the Scandinavian nationali-
ties clustering round it as the left wing of that host.
If therefore I have seen.:with heartfelt satisfaction
signs of that combination 'to which the instinct of
necessity is giving rise between the Eaglish and
American nations (and at no remote period be-
tween them and the French), in the common
interest of each individually, and of hu-
manity at large, and if I look on these ma-
nifestations as the solid basis upon which those
in the front rank of the contest may rely in conduct-
ing their operations against despotism, I am yet sen-
sible that Hungary must regard Sweden as in the
still more intimate connexion of a brather in arms,
ready to bear with her the battle's brunt, and con-
fronting in first line a common enemy.
Sweden, I believe, has no need that events should
arouse in her that instinct of the approaching crisis
in human destinies, or of the quarter from which
the development and progress of humanity is
menaced, which is at length awakening in the long-
apathetic west. Sweden has her unbroken traditions
of sagacious and heroic opposition to all those princi-
ples of evil—papacy, the imperialism of the Austrian
Caesars, and that last depth of human degradation,
the leaden and encroaching despotism of the Tsars,
which at this turning point of Uurope's fate have been
absorbed and concentrated into one. I say into one,
because Jesuitism long leaned upon Austria for_ sup-
port, and Austria having declined into a Russian pro.
consulate, both have become identified with the auto-
cracy of Russia.
In that war of thirty years, which has crowded
the page of history with your victories, and that
proudly humble church of the Riddarholm with
sheaves to mouldering banners widen seem to block
up access to the tombs of heroes ; in that war of
opinion Sweden successfully asserted the religion::
freedom which Papacy and Austria would hate
trampled out of Europe. At a subsequent time, as
if in instinctive prescience of the peril with which
civilization was one day to be menaced, 3 our iron
Charles all but crushed in its cradle that power which
has since been developed into the arch enemy
of the progress and freedom of mankind. More
recently, as if these traditions were provi-
dentially to be kept alive, Russian fraud
and violence dissevered Finland from the pa-
rent trunk to which, after one and forty years, the
separated limb yearns ardently to be re-united. It is
a coincidence perhaps scarce worth noticing, where
such weighty considerations bind us, but which yet I
cannot forbear to remark, that our learned men have
recognised an affinity between the Magyars and those
Finns, whose inalienable attachment to Sweden :so
singularly harmonizes with the kindred sympathy to
which similitude of aims and mission have given rise
towards Sweden in our race.

Many years ago, in common with other of my
countrymen, I indulged in the belief that the gra-
dual and ant-like development of the material prot -
perity of my people would render Hungary strong
enough to oblige the Hap burgs to respect our
rights. Labouring in that conviction, of which the
event, as you know, has since proved the fallacy,
it was a favourite scheme of mine to have opened
through industrial channels an intimate connexion
between Sweden and Hungary. Hence I have be-
come acquainted with many peculiarities of your po-
sition and condition, and hence I know that even in
those parts of Finland east of Vyborg, and indeed on
whose soil St. Petersburg itself is reared—now,
more than a hundred and thirty years after their
annexation by the Tsars, the hopes and affections
of the Finnish population turn to the Swedish
nation, with whom religion, literature, and historic
association, identify it still. Hence I know that
ro-annexation to Sweden is the ardent hops r,.f
that whole Finnish population vs hich helped so faith-
fully to defend their territory, torn from the sister
country, Sweden, like our independence from our-
selves, less by successful violence than donicsti4.:
treachery—another point of sympathy, if any were
still wanting, between us. And how could it be
otherwise ? How could those Finns, whose regiments
were the right arm of Sweden in the immortal battles
of Leipzig and Lutzen, and in the first campaigns of
that great war of opinion which our time, I believe,
will see fought through to a successful issue, ever
have become reconciled to a rule, which science hits
engrafted upon barbarism to render the most desolat-
ing by which humanity has ever yet been oppressed.
It is through this deep interest in your condition
that I have learnt how, from the frontier of Lapland
to the Sound, there is no Swedish homestead la
whose hearth the former proud position of Sweden
is unknown, the spoliation of Finland undeplored,
and how every Swedish heart would throb indip,-
nantly at the thought of final resignation to that
spoliation, or permanent abdication of Sweden`3
that those who wish to deny
formerlam high
not position.
ignorant
Sweden's future, like to dwell u oi_sn the fait
not lario,
that it is 'poor, and that its population')
and thinly scattered ; that the Russian. Colossus op-
presses it, and that the unfortunate divisions of the
'Scandinavian nations have prevented the do-
velopment of prosperity.
our generation this familyßut f!uclknboaws that the inhabitantsof
the stalwart Sweden and of Norway
ceased---
the
have not only the same blood in their veini,
Garnle Gorge"—and their brother
but the same spirit rising in their breasts. And I
know, too, that Sweden was not richer, not morr,
populous when it broke the unconquered infantry e f
Spain, and scattered Wallenstein's hosts and Pap-
penheim's cavalry.
Swedenmen then
.The iron
onportoduDaonec nothingelinoor but
isstilluintesqiuroarilleadn,d its
ani;
I have yet to learn that the Scandinavian be not, nas
from the time s of the Sagas and the Sea Kurga,
through an attesting course of centuries, in courage:
and in prowess, yet unrivalled.
I believe that there has been need rather to restrain
than to excite that Swedish spirit, which it may
have been through the past a difficulty and a duty Of
your Government to keep within pacific limits.
Russia—l mean the Russian Government ate..
despotism—for I pity and sympathise with the Rus-
sian people—is certainly not what its agents or the
fears of those whom it intimidates, pretend. It has
its tens of millions of slaves who ruse under Pugat-
cheff, and who rise annually in village revolutions.
It has its nobles in permanent conspiracy, vho in
their hearts anathematise the Emperor as
Christians
ale the tempter of mankind.