The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT o the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The :Herald ,kindly interposes its protec-
tion to Sir Robert Peel, against the rough and incessant
assaults of the Times, backed by nearly every other
Tory journal, for his support of Mr. Roebuck's motion
for the appointment of the Compromised Elections Com-
mittee. The Herald's defence of the Premier, if not very
successful, is well meant ; and considering the almost
entire abandonment by the organs of his Government
which his general policy has sustained, and the strongly •
expressed disapprobation his votes and speeches have
called forth from the same quarters, the Right Hon.
Baronet ought t, be—and, doubtless, is—grateful for any
exception to the general rule. If the organs of the party
of which he is the nominal head have been wont to re-
pudiate the Premier, our contemporary magnanimously
reverses the rule, and upholds the Premier at the ex-
pense of the party! The attacks upon the Constitution
and proceedings of the Committee of Inquiry into the
compromised elections, in which the Times has taken the
lead out of the doors, and Sir R. H. Inglis and Colonel
Sibthorp have been the leaders within the House, are
described by Sir R. Peel's advocate, as ," the pettifogging
quibbles of a criminal lawyer when attempting to save a
client, of whose guilt he is certain, from conviction ;"
and meets the objections urged against the Committee on
the ground of its calling ulion parties to give testi-
mony concerning matters which may prove criminatory
of themselves, in the following distinction between the
two cases which the objectors seek to establish as iden-
tical :—" If these Committees be judicial tribunals the
causes they have to try are not personal matters; but are
actions in which the constitution sues its worst enemy—
corruption." Mr. Walter's refusal to appear before the
Committee, and the mock heroic praises poured forth by
the Times in celebration of his noble stand is defence of
the constitution, are thus unceremoniously consigned to
their proper place in public estimation :
" If there were any substance in the objection that
Mr. Walter took, why did he not persist in it, and re-
fuse 'that to the order of the House which he denied to
the summons of the Committe ? The fact is, Mr.
Walter found that he had advanced into a quicksand,
and was glad enough to seize a t the nearest and easiest
means of escape from a position whence, had lie
mained, he could only have been extricated to the
damage of his person. Had he had a case such as
the Sheriffs of London [why this sneer at- the late
Sheriffs ?] possessed, the spirit of martyrdom would
have stimulated him to constancy, Newgate, and a.acr-
vice of plater
Every advance made by our Contempary in the
Premier's vindication, is a thrust at the Tory press and
the Tory party by both which hJ is assailed. When
the Herald asserts that "it was a wise and prudent
support which the Right Hon. Baronet gave to Mr. Roe-
buck ;" and worthy of Sir R. Peel's high position ;"
that " viewed even as a party tactic it was judicious ; a
bold and daring attempt to disassociate the great Con-
servative party from the odium of electoral corruption ;"
—by so saying our Contemporary opposes the general
sentiments of the party ter whose special benefit the Pre-
mier is represented as acting upon the occasion re-
ferred to.
STANDARD.—We are sorry to see our respected
Contemporary, the Morning. Herald, casting: reproach
upon the opposition offered to the usurpation of Mr.
Roebuck's Committee, as if this opposition was com-
posed of pettifogging quibbles. We were as well pleased
as the Herald could be with the reference to a Com-
mittee of the. cases of compromise, because we thought
a fur exposure of these :cases to the public must
be productive of good; but. we are not prepared to
go with our' Contemporary so much further as to say
that the Committee ought to be permitted to insult,
oppress, and calumniate, and to violate all the principles
of British law, and, indeed, the universal principles of
justice ; surely it is nf- t " pettifogging er quibbling" to
say that courts of justice ought to be open, that men
accused ought to know of what they are accused, and by
whom, and have an opportunity of confronting their
accusers face to face.. Does not our Contemporary see
that bes'des the incidental tyranny which it practises
upon our fellow-subjects, the conduct of the Roe-
buck Committee tends directly fo defeat the purpos
of its appointmen: ? The Report prepared by a body
acting with manifest unfairness will never be received
by the public as a fair Report: Dr. Bowring and Mr.
Phelan's Reports are treated as waste paper, because
they are seen to be partial, though one of the reporters
is certainly a man of honour, and the other may be such.
What reason is there to expect that the Report of a body,
acting as the Roebuck Committee acts, will not be
treated with much greater Contempt ?

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS
- The following ara the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in the week ending June 25, 1842." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:—
Weekly
Average
183b-9 40-1

CAUSES OF DEATH. Total.

our Four
Springs I Year.
Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 126 183 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 109 147 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
iiseases of the Heat and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. 5 5 4
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c l4 9 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 2 6 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c
Diseases of Uncertain Seat 93 99 104
Co!d Age, or Natural Decay 36 63 69
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intern-
pei ance
Causes not specified .. . ............ ......... 2 6 7
Deaths from all causes-
Average Weekly Deaths B7l 912.
Population: Average Deatts
et,u- Weekly " in
merated Deaths the
In4l. -1. Week.