The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-14 00:00:00

couracincr a system of Poor Laws, which tended
to lower the wages of agricultural labourers, and
next by supporting a code of Game Laws which
fiunish them, in their poverty, with -an al-
most irresistible temptation to commit offences
which invariably terminated in the perpe-
tration of greater crimes. We have no space
left for dilating on this important subject;
rout we would fain hope that the homt truths
which were spoken yesterday respecting it, will
not fail in making a due impression upon the
country, and that another Session of Parliament
would not be allowed to pass away without
something effectual being done to destroy the
prilLary roots of so much crime and misery. It
grieves us, after this sincere testimony to the
sound sense of the Surrey Magistrates on this
matter, to he obliged' to differ from them in the.
observations which were made respecting Mr.
Estcourt's Act ; but after the most mature con-
sideration of.its clauses, we can perceive no solid
reason for the very harsh remarks which were:
made upon it. The Licensed Victuallers are
satisfied with it, and the public is satisfied with
it ; and why, then, should it be deemed " infa,
mous," let us enquire, by the Surrey Magi-
strates? It takes from them, undoubtedly,
some portion of the authority which they
formerly possessed over Licensed Victuallers;
but surely enough still remains to them in
the power which they enjoy of refusing to
renew Licenses; while if the comfort and satis-,
fliction of the public be worth any thing in their
estimation, .we can confidently assure them, that.
they are more effectually consulted under Mr.
Estcourt's Act than they formerly were. The
leave granted by it, in fact, to keep public-
-houses open at all hours except those of divine
service, has been of more service to the public
than pro Fit to the Licensed Victualler ; and we
believe that there- is not a single instance on re-
cord in which it has been. abused by the latter.

Had the contrary been the case, there would
have been some plea for the observations of the
Surrey Magistrates ; but nothing could have been
more orderly or correct than the conduct of the
Licensed Victuallers, or more judicious than the
Act its-..it ; and we trust, therefore, that the latter
will " think once and again," before they at-
tempt to procure an alteration of it.—Morning
Advertiser.

The Public will naturally look with some de-
gree of anxiety to the steps that may be taken in
the ensuing Session to prevent a repetition of
the atrocious crimes which have lately so much
outraged the feelings of the community. Some
plan must be devised, in contradistinction to
that dreadful system of exhumation which pre-
pares men for the commission of crimes so dar-
ing and dreadful. It was the opinion of the 1,
witnesses examined before the Committee of the
House of Commons, that a plentiful supply of
bodies for dissection would be obtained, if those
who during life have been maintained at the
public expellee in workhouses, in hospitals, and
other charitable institutions, and are not claimed
within a certain time by the relations, should be
given up under proper regulations to the anato-
mist. It was proposed also that religious
rites should be performed after dissection at the.
expellee and under adequate security of those
who dissected the body. To this plan some ob-,
jections might be started, and many would
with some reason, not include the Hospitals,
but in their stead have recourse to the .
pri-
sons, tne penitentiaries, and other places of
confinement. In either case this would sup-
ply as many bodies as are required for the
education of students in this metropolis ; for
their number seldom exceeds 500, for whose
use about 450 subjects would be ample.
For this fact we are indebted to the inquiries of

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the Committee. It appears also from the
re-
turns that were made to them from 127 parishes,
situated in London or its vicinity, that out of

3,744 persons who died in the different work-
houses in the year 1827, 3,103 were buried at
the parish expense, and of these about 1,108
were not attended to the grave by their relations.
By giving up the bodies of those whose rela-
tions show this indifference, exhumation would

become unnecessary, the feelings of the living
would not be outraged, and society would be°
deeply benefitted. Such a plan as is thus pro-
posed has been long adopted -in France with the
greatest success, and it has been an. inducement
to most of our Surgical Students •to resort to
Paris, where the practice of exhumation is com-
pletely unknown, and where the general feeling
is not so much excited against dissection. But
the general system of education pursued there is
not adapted for the practitioners of our country,.
and many serious advantages arise from the ne-
cessity of seeking on a foreign . soil the instrue-
tion•that should be obtained here. Interesting
must the question be to the community in gene-
ral, and we shall take another opportunity of
pointing out the legal- enactments that it will
be necessary for the Legislature to carry into
effeet,—Mo rn ing Post.

A correspondent informs us, with respect to
the approaching Brunswick county meeting-at Exeter, on
the 156, that neither Lord Rolle, Sir Stafford North-
cote, or any of the leading Tories of Devonshire, could
be prevailed on to sign the requisition to the Sheriff,
and it principally consists of about twenty of the inferior
clergy, which must produce the effect of disturbing the
peace and tranquillity, in a large, Opulent, and united
c9unty, on a market-day.