The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-26 00:00:00

named, remarks :

" I u►ed often to observe great apathy in a certain
class about the death of their children. They did not
seem to look on the death of the young as the great evil
which it is eommonly regarded ; they said, God took
care of young children who died ; that their death did
not matter much ; that life was full of hardships and
misery, and that the child was provided for when it
lied.' This feeling I found to be rather common."—
(3,313, p. 203.)

How short an interval, in the mind of a parent
thus reasoning, must be interposed between a passive
obedience to the decrees of PROVIDENCE, and an impious
sacrifice of its manifestation in the gift of life I The
wholesome prejudices that honour, or revere, or
respect the memory, and even the ashes of the dead,
once extinguished by the coarse example of the prac-
tices Nre have hinted at—even the bosom, it seems, of
the father or the mother is inaccessible to the claims
of helpless infancy upon the most universal
affectfons implanted in all nature. Sordid ava-
rice expedites, by wilful murder, the term of that
infant life, which but for its intervention would have
been, perhaps, extended into many years, to accom-
plish, -who shall say, what destinies ? Surely these
are en ing evils, demanding (as we have ventured on
form er occasions to urge in the strongest language)
the imstant and most emphatic interference of the law
and its authorities. The one of these evils
is, Iv e apprehend, cognisable at common law,
(acs an offence against the public health),
by indictment or otherwise. The other—these
burin/ clubs—as being in the nature, perhaps,
of benefit societies-4t may be more difficult
to deal with. A more specific remedy—by statute,
po: sibly—may be acquired ; but that infant murder
follolvs on these burial fund associations, is a con-
nexio.n of cause and effect not more palpable to our
judgment than that a brutalising demoralisation is
conseq cent on the notorious desecrations of the sanc-
tuary o f the grave, rendered indispensable by the still
permittt sd and disgusting practice of continued inter-
ments i n our over-gorged church-yards and burial-
grounds.,

Acco tints from Madrid of the 17th inst. state that
the mos t perfect tranquillity prevailed in that capital
The Duke of OSSUNA was dangerously ill. The QuBEN
arrived tzt Valencia at four o'clock on the morning of
the 15th:. The Madrid papers contain no news from
Morocco 7.

The r_ClAree per Cents. closed at 27 1-16, at sixty
days ; ftbe Floating Debt at 591; ind the Coupons,
at 24k, at sixty days.
Madlid journals and correspondence of the 18th
have been received.

The Court will return to Madrid on the 20th. The
reason N bich has determined General NAR vela to hasten
the retu zn of her MAJESTY is not known, and it is con-
sidered .iby many that he must have some very pressing
cause lor so doing, and in hurrying on the Royal
patty int spite of the fatigue occasioned by the great
heat.

The• At ithorities thought it necessary to adopt some
fresh pre cautions for the preservation of order, which
were cot ntinued through the night, but nothing took
place In any way to account for this apparent useless
demon stration of force.