The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-20 00:00:00

STH HEAH.-THE BURYING OF THE DEAD.

When the usual burying-grounds may not be considered
ufficiently extensive, a suitable situ tion should be pro-
cured as soon as possible for the convenient inter mint of
those who may happen to die of cholera. It should be
particularly impressed on the minds of the local authori-
ties, that during tie presence of cholera in their distt icts
the bodies of those who have died of that di..ieasesllool.l on
no account be carried into the churches. Such bodies
should, without !Aug washed, be wrapt in the clots es in
which they may have died, and d. posited as soon a+ pos-
sible in a well-fastened coffin, carefully hitched within.

A sufficient supply of pitch and tar for this purpose, as
well as materials and implements for lime-was inc and
fumigating, should be kept in readiness at all cholera hos-
pitals and cholera dispensary stations.
You will reside within the limits of your district, and
report daily to the Central Board all impoitaut occur-
rence• eanAectcd with the duties here pointed out.
Sahnuld the hiundary line of your district divide a pa-
riah, the med.cil superintendent* of the whole p v i-h will
be considered as belonging to the district in which the
vest,y of such palish holds its to etings,
You will tr-insmit to this 11 rani accurate daily returns
front ths medical gentlemen of your district of all cases of
..borera in their charge, according to the form alleady
given t you.
You will idler your own su!gestions, founded upon the
local knowledge you may have acqiiiied. and you will re-
ceive the final instructions of the Central B .ard as to the
I best means of eff,cting the objects to which pap attention
is now or may be heteafter directed.
As soon as the local at raneements as to Chet'era Hospi-
tals and Dispensary Cholera S,ationa are completed. you
will suggest that such notice be given, by means of h nd-
till's And advertisements, a.. will direct those attacked by-
the disease where to apply for relief, But it is not the
wish of the Central Board that you sho Std interline with
the local practitioners in the treatment c f th,ir patients,
unless requested by them to give your advice.
You will unreservedly conanunicate with and receive
instructions from any of the Members of the Cintra, Board
wko may have occasion to nt ,ke it quiries in the district
under your superintendence.
1 have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
To (Signed) W. MACLEAN.

A Physician is in daily attendance at the General Post-
office, to be ready at a moment's warning to render as-
sistance to any of the officers of the evahli•hment who may
be seized with cholera. Rooms have been prepared for the
reception of the invalids, anti all the most alproved rt me-
dies are at hand.

A person of the name of HOPWOOD, a car-
penter, employed in Chath im D ek yard, has I itely come
into the possession of a very con•idtrable fortune—it is
stated its high as a inillion and a half of money—in con-
sequence of a decision in the Court ol Chancety relAting to
the Oastoma family, from a branch of which he is a de-
scendant —Kent Ihrald.

blioasPbeoeni.
veCryOlTittTleobN MusineA.RdKoigngT,in FEB. 1
cotton
~
dayrrj",htelile;E sales are computed at 1,000 bale., viz.-400
Brazils, Marani.anas, Bi-d. and 94,1. ; liahias, 7i4, ;
about 600 Atnrii,-an, from 6d. to 1.1. During the we.k
there has been a steady demand for most descriptions ; but
the buying within the last day or two has been less -pirited
than in the earlier part of the week. and pricey have beta
andt:bs
irii
accepted that were before refused. The sales of the week,
including 1,500 hales American, 500 Maranha.c, 500
iiihia, 860 Carthagena, and 300 Stoat, taken
.on specu-
lation, amount to 16,400 bags, viz..--280 sea bland
G..orgia, 104.1. to 131. ; 130 Stained ditto, 5:111. to Si.l. ;
7,300 Upland ditto, 51 I. to 7,-P. ;
1,260 Alarm:ham, 7i,1„
Ala-
bama, W. to 6A di .a7kl2. ,:.:3..g.:7l‘..ld.;:wtoOtirBl:3iaon;-.1,115:bi‘,11:.,
.t 1
.. d , a ,
taoso,sdP.e;rl9laomDburcmje,
6i-d. ; 360 Carthagena. 4id. to sd. ; 380 Egyptian,
74,1. to 9d. ; 1,710 Bans and Macao, 6id. to Sid. ; and
aio Surat, at 4id. to sd. per lb. Ime,rt 2,990 big',

SPIRIT or TILE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Our account of the dinner at the Mansion-
house will be read with much interest. On pro-
posing Earl Grey, the Lord Mayor remarked
that " the Noble Lord and his colleagues in
office had had great difficulties to contend against,
and they had mastered those difficulties with a
degree of skill and integrity which did them
infinite honour ; and they might now look
forward to the reward of those high qualities
in the complete success of that great measure
which the public had been so long and so
anxiously anticipating." The speech of Earl
Grey, in returning thanks, was that of a mar
quite assured that the great- object for which
he had been so long struggling was now out
of danger. " That they had had difficulties to
contend with (said his Lordship) all would he
ready to admit, but none except those who had
shared those difficulties could justly appreciate
their amount. lie hoped, however, that in time
they would all be overcome
originating the question of Reform, then under
the consideration of the Legislature, he was sure
that he had incurred a great responsibility, but he
could no more doubt of the propriety of incur-
ring that responsibility than he could doubt that
that great measure would be eventually crowned
with success. He was aware of the anxiety felt
on this subject by the public ; and he would not
allow himself to doubt that their wishes would
realized—forhe the great measure was advanc-
ing steadily to a certain and successful issue."
His Lordship was here loudly cheered. This
marked declaration of his Lordship will go far
tr) dispel the uneasiness of the people. They
may rest assured that his Lordship would not
have expressed himself in this marked manner
in public, if he had not been assured that the
Bill is now perfectly safe.—Morning Chronicle.
The movements of the Opposition, with re-
gard to the Reform Bill, resemble the writhings
of a half-scotched serpent. They hiss, but hurt
not—the magazine of venom is expended.
Their Bill has been prepared for some time past,
—the boroughmonger Bill of Reform ! But,
whatever the period of gestation may have been,
we learn that the faculty are neither agreed as to
the measures necessary for a successful parturi-
tion, nor in what " chamber " that important
event is to take place. As an amendment to
the present Reform Bill in the Lords, it has its
partisans: others, in their tenderness to that de-
licate assembly, are for throwing out the Minis-
terial Bill in the Peers, and by consequence, as
is assumed, the Mini,ters with it ; and then in-
troducing the Tory Bill, de novo, in the Houst
of Commons. " First," says the cookery-book.
" catch your fish,—then dress it." If the truth
were told, we apprehend that the elements of
opposition are not quite in harmony with each
other. The Duke of Wellington, judging
rightly that to be consistent with himself hip
Grace can admit no compromise with Reform, i.
presumed to be altogether adverse to any of the
middle or half and-half courses in which Lord
Wharncliffe and Harrowby have declared them-
selves willing to acquiesce ; but towards which
it is utterly impossible for Lord Grey to make th,
slightest approximation. Any resiatance within
the circle of Lord Grey's own subalterns to tin
one and only effectual step that can promote th(
accomplishment of that great object,—we meat
the creation of a large body of Peers,—we hoh
to he such a crime against the principles of a
reforming Government, as, if such resistant,
should really show itself, to call for dismissal or
the spot. We may state here, that Lord Grey'
reception at the Mansion-house dinner on Sa-
turday was very cordial, and that his declaratim
of his hope and trust that the Bill would bi
carried gave great satisfaction ; but there wen
some nice observers who would have beet
pleased with a more confident tone, knowing as
they do that Lord Grey can, by one determined
atep, secure his measure beyond the possibility
(A doubt.—Times.

The inquiries universally made respecting
cholera begin to be couched in different term
from those employed only three or four ()ay-
es:9, and are directed to different objects; and tin
only rational answers given to them have already.
in very many
i cases, provoked a spirit of ex-
treme—nor, n our opinion, by any means
unnatural—disgust and indignation among rea-
sonable and upright men. Here there is
an outcry about something called " Asiatic•
cholera," and pestilence, and frightful ,
conta-
aion • and certain doctors have thought fit to Fro-
,
flounce that this " terrible visitation" has taken
a gripe of London; where there are 1,500,000
of inhabitants crowded together ; and what are
the consequences ?—where is the mortality ?
where are the proofs ?—where the shadow of
evidence that any such disease exists at all ?
that any disease exists in any quarter of the me-
tropolis, which has not been recognized for
ages in this country, and of which the very worst
symptoms that have yet appeared are not to be
found distinctly stated in the Encyclopedia
Britannica, published twenty years ago, and in
so common a book as Buchan's Domestic Me-
dicine, which belonged to the last generation.
We aver it as a fact within our own personal
knowledge, that some of the ablest and
most estimable physicians in London and in
other parts of England have, within the last
forty-eight hours, declared the official manifes-
toes, assertions, injunctions, precautions, reports,
and so forth, to be one mass of humbug, degrading
to medical science. Why, if any thing like an in-
fectious cholera had reached London, and exhi- •
bited the same virulence and power of commu-
nication as have been ascribed to it elsewhere,
we must have seen by this time some thousands
of deaths, instead of the 18 instances which are
reported, from the commencement, in this day's
Papsr. Of course it would be uneandid to throw
blame on any shoulders but those of the profes-
sional authorities which have from prejudice, gross
ignorance, or something far worse than either,
pronounced judgments on this question of the
existence of a new malady, whereby the Govern-
ment has been misled, the public terrified, hun-
dreds of families induced to leave their homes,
and tens of thousands of unhappy labourers
already dismissed from that. employments. If
poverty and destitution be predisposing
cases of cholera, what have those men to
answer for whose stupid or mercenary miere-
presentations of facts have tended so cruelly
to aggravate them ? There is here one
question which we beg leave to suggest. as of no
mean importance. Are there any, and how
many, medical men in this country who receive
salaries in consideration of their being ap-
pointed members of Boards of Health, or in-
spectors, or superintendents, or whatever may
be the title of hospitals for the reception of cho-
lera patients ? Or, in short, are there any mem-
bers of the profession who receive pay from the
Treasury on the ground or pretext of Asiatic
cholera being in tins country, and who expect to
receive such salaries so lona as cholera shall be

' reported to exist ? Again, are there any me-
dical grandees who enjoy the privilege of n
nating the above salaried personages ? Because
• if these questions be answered in the affirmative,
it follows directly that the possessors of pa-
tronage, and their creatures the receivers o
salary, have an obvious though vile and sordid
interest in getting up a cholera panic, and more-
over in keeping up the humbug to all eternity, or
at least so long as the Government and people are
soft enough to bribe them for transforming every
fit of illness that occurs, into " spasmodic
cholera,"—an exercise of ingenuity which we
are inclined to fear has been practised in hundreds
of instances since the first alarm was spread in
the north of England. What the sages of the
" Board of Health" are doing, it might not be
easy to decide. What useful information have
they ever given to the public? What well-reasoned
or intelligible statement has ever come from
them, or any of them, as to the nature, history,
or existence of the alleged disease within our
island ? The medical profession throughout
this country, and more in London than any
where else, has been brought into utter contempt
by the system of charlatanism to which truth
and common sense, and the comfort and welfare
of society, have within the last three months
been made victims. If matters proceed at their
present rate, there will not be a parish in_ or near
the metropolis without a cholera-doctor saddled
on it, at a dozen guineas a day. In the mean
time, the state of the shipping on the Thames is
deplorable, trade being totally at an end.—Times.
The Lord Mayor gave another dinner at the
Mansion-house on Saturday. We really pity
his Lordship for the expedients he is thus in-
duced to resort to in order to accomplish an
unworthy political purpose. Still more however
do we pity and deplore the degradation to which
the present hopeful Ministers of the Crown are
reduced in accepting so frequently, with a mere
view to mob popularity, the invitations of per-
haps the most imbecile and obnoxious Mayor
that ever presided over the magisterial affairs of
the British metropolis. Lord Grey, when called
upon for a speech on his health being drank,
made a most miserable exhibition. He was evi-
dently afraid to avow, in reply to the allusions
tnade, the actual purpose which he means to
pursue in regard to the revolutionary project
which he has so thoughtlessly, if not mischiev-
wsly, caused to be introduced ; but, from all
chat we have been able to collect on this as well
as other occasions, we fearlessly come to the
conclusion that the Constitution is still safe.—
Morning Post.
The alarms so imprudently excited in the me•
tropolis, in regard to the supposed introduction
of the cholera amongst us, subside as rapidly as
cite good sense of the momentarily frightened
people is permitted to return. Every thing that
has transpired since our last satisfactory state-
ment upon this subject will be found in other
parts of our Paper of this day ; and the conch--
-ion to which we arrive on the whole is this—

hat on a due examination of the cases and real
facts the satisfactory truth will become manifest
ro all, that divested of the typhus disorder,
dways more or less prevalent at this season of
.he year, and the diarrhoea affections no less fre-

quent in all variable climes, not a single instance
•f Asiatic cholera will be found to remain.—
Morning Post.
Whenever any member of the late Adminis-
tration accuses the present Ministers of a waste-
'id application of the public money, the defence
esorted to by Ministers or their friends is to re-
-on the charge by calling to mind some act 04,
extravagance or some gross job which disgraced
the reign of the Tory power. This mode of
.lefence is sufficient as between the Ins and the

Outs, and, if there were no third party interested
in the matter, the argument ad hominem would
'le conclusive ;—the charge of the accuser, in

hat case, must be silenced by the recrimination
of the accused. But there is, a third party whose
interests are very seriously involved in these
natters; that party is the public. Now we can-
not understand why the public should be satis-
ied with a mere recriminatory defence to an ac-
cusation made against Ministers of a corrupt or
foolish misapplication of the money of the public.
As far as their interests are involved in these

disputes, nothing but the argument ad renz—
the reasoning which goes to the merits of the
case—can be satisfactory. if the Ministers
cannot with truth deny the facts charged, or,
admitting the facts, account for them on grounds
of justice, public necessity, or good govern-
ment, they do not make out any defence of alleged
misconduct at the bar of public opinion by stating
tacts which inculpate in an equal or greater degree
the official wisdom or honesty of their adversaries.
When we observe a Member (f Parliament, who
has for years objected to Tory extravagance, getting
up in his place to defend Ministers from the charge
of some job by stating that their adversaries had
been Guilty of most extravagant proceedings, and
that they had been still more prodigal of the
public money than those whom they accuse, we
naturally ask what satisfaction is it to the public
to know that, if plundered by one party, they
have been still more plundered, at a former time,
by another By believing the mutual accusations
of both parties the public are reduced to the un-
pleasant situation of not being able to place any
confidence in either. We say, then, that it
eminently behoves Ministers who have been
raised into offices upon pledges given not to
imitate errors—the political vices or the extrava-
'gance of their predecessors—but to counteract
the consequences of misgovernment, to econo-
mise the resources of the State, and to rec-

tify its abuses :—we say it eminently be-
hoves such Ministers to show, whenever
a charge of jobbing or wasteful expenditure is
made against them, that there has been no job,
and no wasteful expenditure ; and it matters
not that Alr. Hume reminds the country of what
it cannot forget—that Mr. Dawson and his party
were very prodigal of that public money which
they now watch with so economical a vigilance,
or that Mr. P. Thomson proves Mr. Goulburn
to have committed as unfortunate blunders in
finance as Lord Althorp. The question is, are
Ministers guilty or innocent of the specific acts
of error or delinquency laid to their charge ?
The arguments that affect this issue are the only
arguments that can be conclusive with the public,
Let us take an example ;—lt has been said in
Parliament that the 900/. which Government
gave to a gentleman to investigate and report
upon the French mode of keeping the accounts
of the public revenue and expenditure was a job.
How is that charge to he met Not by show-
ing that the other party are chargeable wit::
worse jobs, but by proving that the French
system of keeping public ac2ounts, under which
a cashier had it lately in his power to become
a defaulter to the amount of between 200,0001.
and 300,000/. sterling, is really better than the
English system, under which we never hear of
so extensive a defalcation taking place ? We
believe, indeed, that the EnVish mode of keep.

ing the financial a0.,-ounts ia far from being the
best possible ; but we always thought it arose
not so much from ignorance as from wilful mys.
tification that the public accounts are not kept
in the best possible manner in this great corm
Inercial country.—Morning Herald.
Our contemporary, The Sun, says, in a leading
article of Saturday:—" We learn, on what we deem
competent authority, that at the last interview
which took place between Earl Grey and Lords
Wharncliffe and Harrowby, the two leaders of
the moderate Reform party, after a long and
animated conversation, in the course of
which they suggested a variety of amendments,
which were all successively rejected by the Noble
Earl at the head of his Majesty's Government,
came to the resolution of giving in their adhe-
'sion to the Reform Bill. Previously, however, to
this decision, frequent and angry interviews hJd
taken place between the two Tory parties, and it
, was, we understand, at one of the latest and most
intemperate of these, that Lords Wharncliffe
and Harrowby, finding that they differed in opi-
nion less with the Ministerial Reformers, than the
avowed Ultra-Antis, came to the resolution to
which we have just alluded. The Bill will in
consequence be carried with very slight modifi-
cations, not one of which will trench even in the
• remotest degree on its great leading principles.
We may add that in every interview (amid
they have been numerous) that the Noble Earl
at the head of his Majesty's Government has had
with the leaders of the two opposing parties,
the moderate Reformers, and the hopeless thick-
and•thin Ultras, he has uniformly held the same
language, that of inflexible determination to
swerve, in no one point, from the main fea-
j tures of the Bill." If this statement be not in
every respect correct, it has at least a very strong
likeness of truth in it. We have little doubt,
however, that in all the main points it is a very
fair out-door version of what took place inside ;
and our reasons for thinking so, putting aside
the authority of our cotemporarv, are, first, that
we know of several interviews having taken place
between the Noble Earl and the Tory leaders—
secondly, that we cannot believe the former to
act in any other manner than that which is here
represented—and lastly, because it must have been
foreseen from the beginning, that,—when all hope
of successfully opposing the Reform Bill in the
House of Comm onsh
bondad v an i
os
union, swoopupic:it
form
trimt s
having lost their great
themselves into parties less hostile to one ano-
ther than to the Government which they had
united to oppose. Though we are inclined to
believe, however, that the ultra and moderate To-
ries have all but parted companionship in their
opposition, and that the more moderate portion
of them will not attempt to offer anything like
effectual opposition to the great principles of the
Bill, we would not, by any means, have Lord
Grey take it for granted, either that he can
safely rely on their support, or that he has fairly
conciliated them. No such thing. He cannot
safely rely upon their support of the Bill ; for,
however they may keep the promise to the ear,
of not opposing its main principles, they may
break it in spirit, either by staying away from
divisions—not dividing with him, or attempting
to introduce amendments but ill according with
the spirit of the Bill ; while, on the other
hand, he may reckon with equal certainty,
that instead of being reconciled to his admi-
nistration and his measures, they hate both
as cordially as they did when the Reform
Bill was first brought into the House of
Commons. It is not in accordance with
human practice, and more especially with
the practice of political parties, to forego at once
the most rancorous hatred and envenomed op
position, for earnest regard and cordial support ;
and it is not, therefore fitting, either that Lord
Grey should dream for a moment, however cer-
tain of carrying the Reform Bill without the
adoption of certain measures, of not availing
himself of the means at his command, of not only
making himself sure of the final result of the Re-
form Bill, but of strengthening his Government
in the Upper House upon all other questions
which lie may be anxious to settle, and which,
he must know, will be contested by the Tory
party. Look at the matter, in fact, in whatever
point of view we may, we see no possibility of
dispensing with a large creation of Peers—that
is to say, such a creation as will hold out to the
people the prospect of a good Government, by
ensuring. to Earl Grey, and his colleagues, the
certainty, of a fair hearing, and a fair support, in
the Upper House, on all occasions and on al'
sub j eccs.—Morning Advertiser.