The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-17 00:00:00

the latter alone were interested, and, much
as we respect their useful body, were their
welfare exclusively at stake, we should cer-
tainly be but little inclined to devote our
columns to its diScussion. We regard the Small
Notes' Bill as one which will inflict on -the
cuminunity at large a serious and lasting injury—
as one that will materially embarrass and con-
tract the trade of the country, and in its mis-
chievous operation interpose between his con-
venience and comfort, and the poorest member
of the community. And in addition 19 the im-
pediments which it throws in the way of , the
home commerce of the empire, a metallic cur-
rency, while in its consequences it will leave a
much smaller profit to pay the taxes of the State,
cannot fail, in its mere tear and wear, to add
another tax, heavy and grievous above all the
rest, because neither imposed by necessity nor
justified by reason. IN ere it necessary to de-
duce any argument, against the attempt to give
to the Bank. of England so monstrous an exten-
sion ofits monopoly as to permit its small notes
alone to circulate, other than the plain one, that
such a permission would be, to all intents and
purposes, an abandonment of the Bill, we might
urge the dreadful increase of the -crime of forgery
which such an extension would naturally and ne-
cessarily tause. No expedient, whether of com-
plicated pattern, or of costly engraving, or peculi-
arity of paper, can diminish that crime—nothing
is effectual but a limited round of circulation.
What is the reason that a country banker's notes
are so seldom forged ? Because there is rarely
one into whose hands they come that is not prac-
tically an ." inspector." And let the public for
a moment judge what would be the degree of
universal confusion were an idea to go abroad
through the country that its, only medium of cir-
culation was extensively forged ; when in addi-
tion to the distrust, which • such an extent and
complication of business might not unreasonably
attach to a genuine bank note, was added the
much stronger and better-founded distrust in-
spired by the ignorance of those who happened
to hold it whether it were genuine or not. But
it is unnecessary to argue against what cannot be
contemplated, since it cannot be carried. 'What
we most wish to impress on our readers is • the
injurious effect of the Bill in its present form ;
and what we would most like to stir up in them
would be, a movement as general as are their
feelings on the subject, to have it instantly and
totally repealed.—New Times.

Some of the Professors and Students of Me-
dicine and Surgery have recently, as our readers
may have observed, preferred complaints to the
Legislature, of the difficulties under which they
labour in procuring the necessary supply of
human bodies for the pursuit of their anatomi-
cal researches. The subject is not by any means
an agreeable one ; and if there had not appeared
a determination on the part of some of those who
are most immediately interested in it to force
it upon the attention of the community, we
we should very willingly have refrained from agi-
tating it. The object of our remarks will be, to
induce, if possible, this class of persons to review
their determination, and not to prolong a discus-
sion which may do harm—which may, and we
believe will, increase the difficulty of which they
complain ; but. which cannot, as it seems to us,
by any possibility do good. The prayer implied in
these complaints, although the complaints cauti-
ously abstain from giving it distinct utter-
ance, is, that Parliament would legislate with a
view to diminish the_ veneration of the people
for the rites of sepulture, and the sanctuary of the
tomb. This is their meaning, or they can have
none. The feeling we have mentioned is the
admitted source of the difficulties complained of,
and it is not dissembled that the relief to be
afforded must consist in enactments calculated
and intended to weaken or undermine it. We
venture to assure those complainants of a fact, of
which indeed the slightest reflection might have
convinced them, that there is scarcely a man in
Parliament, or in the country, who does not sin-
cerely rejoice to find the strength and universal
prevalence of this feeling among the people of
England, attested so unequivocally as it is by
their complaints, or who so far from studying
to relieve them from their present difficulties,
would not even be glad to see them, so far as
they spring from this source, go on year after
year increasing. It is unquestionably a consola-
tion, amidst so many statements of the general
increase of crime, to find upon testimony so un-
doubted, that there is one crime at least,
to the continued perpcuation of which a
progressive increase of temptation is required.
The sciences of medicine and anatomy are
doubtless very good and valuable things, and all
honour is due to those who successfully cultivate
them ; but there are some things connected with
the feelings and manners of mankind, and es-
sential to human welfare and happiness, which
are still better and more valuable. The emo-
tions, for instance, with which men read Gray's
Elegy, or look at 'Westminster Abbey, ought,
it will be generally agreed; to be reckoned in
the latter class ; and it can only be considered as
a remarkable illustration of the partiality which
men are prone to indulge towards their own
peculiar avocation, when we find any portion of
the Physicians or Surgeons of Great Britain
Soliciting the Legislature to dissolve, if it can,
the spell, which gives to the touching Elegy all
its interest and beauty, and imparts to the vener-
able edifice all its moral grandeur. For what,
after all, is the national evil, when viewed in
its extreme exaggeration, to remedy which
the Legislature is in effect called upon to
sanction and promote the habitual violation of
the tomb, and to extinguish in the minds of the
people the natural sentiment of regard for the
remains of those who have been dear to them in
life ? It is at the utmost this, that if this social
and kindly- sentiment—this sentiment, incom-
patible with great moray debasementthis senti-
ment closely allied with honour andiWith -virtue
—should go on increasing. its strength, as it 'ap-
pears, to, have. done in British. society Great
Britain will finally be, reduced to the necessity
of importing a proportion of her.surgeons, as
she now imports her
.Opera Dancers, from
France. We venture tei.say, that the 'nation will
contemplate without terror this distant and con-
tingent and, that the mournful represen-
tations-of life-Medical profession, however gene-
ral they may become, or whatever aid they may
receive from the verbose inanities of a certain
EX,Minister of State, will remain for ever in-
effectual.—Morning Post.
As the period approaches in which the Char-
ter of the East India Company will expire, the
question as to the future fate of a hundred mil-
lions of men presses heavily on our attention, and
demands all the contributions of knowledge and
benevolence to
for
'for their felicity as de-
pendents, and for our
,prosperity as rulers. We
hope that the well-being of so vast a population
will not be lost sight of in the discussions which
must soon be commenced.. If errors have .been
committed in the past, we trust that they will be