The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM TUE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—It is not surprising that Sir Robert Peel
should have ceased to be greeted by the applausive
vociferations of the animal portion of his own party.
Even these animali parlanti are not destitute of natural
instinct. They feel they have given themselves a
master and they feel their master is leading them
to the slaughter-house. This is felt, too, by the
more rational irrationals of the Tory benches. ' Its
proper power to hurt, each creature feels ; " and
these ultras feel that Sir Robert Peel . has pared
their claws, and blunted their natural weapons. Wild
animals indeed, just caught from the Yorkshire Hussars,
or the quarter-deck—such animals as Rous and aFr
rand—may feel nothing but their raw impulses. their
occupation who have a method in their madness feel that
re
occupation is gone. All who attempted to
and
-
stricaien and monopoly popular among the make
the working classes, by clamouring for poor
renstrictions
and regulations to please the Ten-hour Bill _ men,
trades-unionists, or agitators against the new Poor-law—
all these feel how completely their guns are spiked, by
the Premier's explicit rejection of them. Yet this
section of his supporters were, in some sense, wise in
their generation. -They saw that if monopolies of the
rich could be defended successfully, it must be by com-
bining their cause with monopolies of the poor—that if
enhancement of price of food was to be rendered popu-
lar, it must be by affecting to legislate for enhancement
Of wages of labour—for muzzling the " money monster"
e—for decreeing short work for full pay, and lavish
and unconditional parish pensions for no work at all.
.All these pretexts the Premier has cast aside with
cool withering scorn. He won't enact that ten hours'
'work shall earn twelve hours' wages in factories, He
won't legislate for operative monopolies, or subsidize
wirdy pauperism. But what is worse, he won't pretend
to mean anything of . the sort. This is a heavy blow
and great discouragement to that section of his sup-
porters who have sought to enlist hosts of plebeian pre-
judice for aristocratic monopoly. It is quite certain,
however, that in abandoning the pretexts of his party,
Sir Robert Peel has rendered it impossible to maintain
Its interests.
STANDARD.—We spoke yesterday of the good
effect which the division of Wedaesclay night must have
upon- the interests of the country at home and abroad.
Let us now offer a Word upon the influence which must be
eercised by the debate, and the arguments adduced in the
debate. Of the arguments of the Opposition it is unneces-
aary to, say anything. They may be disposed of in two
classes into which they were pretty equally divided—first,
arguments in support of a fixed duty ; secondly, argu-
ments in condemnation of any duty. These arguments,
like e opposite qualities in algebra, plainly destroy
each other, and leave nothing for an antagonist to
answer. On the other side we have the arguments
of. Mr. Gladstone, Sir Edward Knatclabull, Sir James
Graham, and Sir Robert Peel, untouched by any-
thing • upon which their opponents can -agree,
and therefore .to be regarded as absolutely unas-
sailable. So the question goes to the public, and
the public will know how to decide upon it. We
mu s repeat it, that arguments upon a question so
long, and so earnestly canvasaed, could not be a
once new and sound, and, in fan, scarcely any argu
ment was advanced upon the Mnisterial side which
had not been long made familiar by our invaluable
correspondent, Mr. James M'Queen (whose name ought
to have been quoted, and would have been quoted
fifty times had he been a Whig, writing on the Anti-Corn-
law side) and by others. The merit of the Ministerial
speakers was in the candour and the forcible eloquence
by which they gave interest and additional strength
to familiar arguments. It is no mean benefit, also, that
by a lopting these arguments they gave them that weight
which high names can always give, and which, we may
lee excused for saying it, is not given by Conservative
statesmen to the reasoning of less exalted persons, as often
ns, for the sake of truth, it ought to be given. It is
an injurious delicacy which rejects a decisive proof be-
.cause it has been first advanced by an obscure pamphlet,
or _a
more obscure newspaper writer.
COUla ER.— The prompt and manly declaration by
L ! Melbourne in thie House of Peers, en the first day
of the Session, thet with the creation or the prevalence
of e -define; distress the Corn-laws were in no respect
chargeable, a declaration tardily re-echoed since in the
Connnons' House by Lord John Russell, appears to
have been a " heavy blow and great discouragement"
to the Anti-Corn-law press, and to the Anti-Corn-law
faction both within and without the House. For months
bye-gone distress and Corn-laws figured daily in the cleee
ref, tionship of cause and effect with every radical
wriaer condemned .to the drudgery of one column or
inure per day of h acing and leaden matter, and aid' every
r:lr ter, whost. only. chance of' cheers at public meetings lay
e,
in the volum of rigmarole ringing. the changes to the
same tune. Nay, even with the reverend revolutionist it
wrc the ataple text from which ribaldry and ruffianism
had to be preached, and under the standard of which the
Pev. Mr. Spencer prepoe,ed to embody the 'pie',:ed corps
of I,aoo Manchester desperadoes, who are peaceably to
beleaguer the houses of the landed gentry, and assist
Perri anent. to. a right determination ou the abolition of
Cern-htWs'question. Until nouethes'e ominous repudiations
by the two Parliamentary chiefs of the stock material of
- Arti-Corn law agitation have been responded to only by
'Thi; sulky :silence or the factious press thus slighted, and the
ant:tepees thus disewned ; but with the temporary tenni-
i4e-Inaitaianti:COin-law debates and the decisive manifesto
,or' 41,-;4l4.nistAlrial majority, the rout of writers and ranters,
..,fiasalea, thew emery craft in peril of extinction, are tukiug
lacearts.fromadesperation, and are re-hoisting the old ban-
: Iffaa. tinder-which a show ofeditorial fight could be made if
aietreey were past hope, and itinerant Smiths and spouters
rieleaatn a living, if- Anti-Corn-law bazaars forbade the
liheanee'of a fortune The Chronicle leads the. van of this
'fae!orii. hope; and commences by a clumsy attack on Sir
Rohert Peel for saying that which the two Whig Lords
bed said before. " When," says that veracious journal,
"he ea id the. Corn-law was net chargeable with
_any
portion of the existing distress, he said that which he
did not himself believe." It is quite natural for dis-
honest. dealers in flash wares made, like Peter's razors,
for sale, to measure' other people's consciences by their
own standard.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in the week ending Feb. 12, 1842." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:—

Weekly
Average
838-9-40-1.

Total.
gT.l7'iOtT
WinterslYears
• Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 161 199 190
• Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 161 160 149
' Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ...
iXseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and ether

CAUSES OF DEATH.

Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, t•ce .
Ch:tithed, Diseases of the Uterus, Scc 7 11 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 6 7 6
Diseases of the Skin, Sec 4 1 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ll3 115 104
Old Age, or Natural Decay lO6 90 69
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intem-
perance . ' ..
Causes not specified 1 7 7
Doaths from all causes .
1042
Average Weekly Deaths
Population Average Deaths
mu- Weekly in
merated Deaths the
IS4I. 183,..7-1:-4"-1. Week.
i..—..,_—_,
Four I Four
Ye rs. I Wint rs.

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