The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-10 00:00:00

SPRIIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM TILE EVENING PAPERS OP YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.----We are glad to see the attention of
Parliament at length called, with a serious purpose,
to the shocking and swelling nuisance and danger
of interments in London and other large towns.
And we are glad to find Sir James Graham admit-
ting that " the time has arrived when some legis-
lative interference upon this subject is necessary."
We only hope that the measures which have be-
come imperative will be made efficient. In Mr.
Mackinnon's motion for a Select Committee to
consider the expediency of framing some legisla-
tive enactments for the abatement of this nuisance
(which the- City of London, and many other places,
have at length become sensible of,) a proviso is in-
. serted for due respect to the rights of the clergy.
We conceive that the clergy can have no vested right
in pestilence, though the doctors may ; and, indeed, it
is the latter learned profession in our principal owns
that we should have supposed chiefly interested in keep-
ing open thatfons etfamesveneni,which multiplies death
and disease in the whole vicinage of city church-yards.
The shafts are invisible, and therefore the pest has been
• deemed non-existent, so long as it was possible to
shut the other senses against it. This is no longer
possible ; and the excess of the evil will at length, it
may be hoped, force the remedy We do not for a
moment disguise our own conviction that the cure
should be made more • radical than, we fear, is at
present likely. We -look upon the enclosures
around places of worship as, from that very circum-
stance, the most unfit places possible for the purpose
of sepulture. Churches and chapels are always built
either where a large population exists, or as near as
possible to considerable numbers of people. They form
natural centres of population, the nucleus of enlarged
neighbourhoods. To make iem receptacles, to an in-
definite extent, of the relics of mortality, is to secure
that the remains of the dead shall be interred as
near the living as possible, when the object of
wise regulations should be to remove them to the
greatest practical distance. There is, therefore, a
radical vice in the very selection of church-yards as
grave-yards. We know that, in country places, this
objection is less palpable ; and that a great deal of sen-
timent, and a great deal of superstition, is arrayed in
favour of the practice. We protest against sentiment
being mistaken for sound feeling, or superstition for
religion.
STANDARD.—fIow is it that the Whig party
never possessed office without drawing sonic signal
and enduring disgrace upon the nation—the expedi-
tion to the Dardanelles, the capitulation of Buenos
Ayres, and this last and worst disaster ? How is
this -war in Central AAtt to end ? Let those who
embarked the nation answer. They ought to be
made to answer. Although we could have much to
say of the • condition of the army at Jellalabad, as
described in Sir Richard Sale's despatch, our atten-
tion is called to 'the other Whig-born war, the war
in China. AccountS from Macao, to the 13th of
December, describe the British forces, naval and mi-
litary, as inactive, waiting for further re-inforcements.
That is to say, we are at an enormous expense
maintaining a 'fleet and an army at the. other side of
the globe, which are inactive because they
are too .weak to act with any rational pros-
pect of success. What docks the Chinese Govermnent
care for their preience? - What motive can this
alone supply for coming to terms of aceommodatiOn ?
We may in this --way exhaust the whole .resources
of the empire, without in the slightest degree
improving our position. But then this fleet and
army will be re-inforced. Sir liohert Peel's Go-
ye: nment must make the best of the disastrous
legacy- bequeathed to them. This fleet and army
will V act, and act successfully. -What then ?
Suppose them to reduce in succession all the great
towns and cities upon the coasr—and we are not to
expect; or to fear, that Sir Robert Peel's Govern-
mant will play the Affghanistan game by hazarding
a British army at a distance from the coast—all the
great towns along the coast reduced in succession ;
again, what then ? The fate of Canton, once
more preparing for resistance, proves that we
cannot count upon their continued submission
unless we, occupy them. But this is, happily,
impossible, fr?ut the number of troops that
would be required, and the d'stance. Still
what then ? , We have proof that unless utterly pros-
trated, the Chinese Government will not yell a jot ;
and this is not stupid obstinacy, which we might hope
to overcome by perseverance and continued persecu-
tion. it is sound policy. The prcottge of pre-emi-
nence and invincibility are the Emperor's title; let
him abandon that, in however slight a degree, and his
Crown is not worth a. day's purchase. Such is the
second legacy of the Whigs ; but we have no pleasure
in dwelling upon such things.
COUR lEit.—The Bombay government was stated
to have been in the receipt of various despatches from
the northern frontier ; hut their.. contents were not
suffered to transpire ; " the Most rigid seeresy " had
been maintained respecting them-: • The factis-of bad
omen, for the so COlnmunicated had been
in any way eneoupaging, it surely Would have been al-
lowe( t to find its way to the public, if only to alleviate the
poignant anxiety of so many families in that city who
had friends or 'relatives among the forces in .Cabool.
The only favourable feature in the news from India
now received, if so purely negative a fact may be so
considered, is that General Sir R. Sale still main-
tained his gronnd at Jellalabad, and from accounts would
be able to maintain himself there, but nothing more.
Such is the deplorable scene of disaster and disgrace
which winds up the melodramatic horrors of that tra-
Wdy of Affghanistan, the joint composition of the
Whig Board of Control, headed bz Sir John Cam
Hoblnise, the " juvenile" Whig oreign Secretary,
Lord Palmerston, and that very staid and soft-looking
personage the (now) Earl of Auckland. That tragedy
opened with a deafening flourish of trumpets ; gorgeous
was the spectacle.; orientally blazing the decorations ;
the managers excellently well entitled to placard
themselves as having spared neither pains nor expense
in getting up a show that should astonish the world.
And the world will be astonished as much as the Bri-
tish nation is now scandalised and huiniliated, when
the bill of particulars shall come to.be published of
commencing triuMphal processions and parades, end-
ing in the mournful consummation of time wreckl and
ruin of military enterprise, with the blood-stained
'scene of die final on which drops the curtain of
Whig recklessness, rapacity, and imbecility, never we.
hope to be raised again. The Affghan piece, the
crowning achievement of Whig-Radical misrule, is
damned to everlasting infamy.

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manche.ster Guardian.)
MANCHF.STER.—We regret to say, that the depression
in this market continues, without the slightest abate-
ment ; and prices, both of goods and yarn, gradually
recede from day to day ; the decline in nearly all des-
criptions of yarn since yesterday fortnight, amount-
ing to a full farthing per pound, with a corres-
ponding, reduction upon most manufactured fabrics ;
and, even at- these miserably low prices, the demand
is exceedingly limited. We tuiderstand that a large
spinning and manufacturing firm in this town
have decided on stopping their factory on Friday next,
by which upwards of a thousand hands will he thrown
out of employment ; and it is to be feared that, unless
a favourable change should speedily take place, their
example must be followed by many other concerns, and
the consequences to the labouring classes will be most
disastrods. The glooin which prevails here has recently
been increased by one or two failures in the town, and
by one at Ilelflist, with respect to which some rather
,exaggerated statements have been circulated. We un- .
derstand ,tbat the debts owing in Manchester—which
have been represented as amounting to 30,000/ or
40,0001.—d0 not really exceed eight or ten thousand ;
,and this is divided amongst so many parties, that no
"srery serious loss will be sustained by any one firm.
ROCHDALE FLANNRL MARKET, MONDAY, MARCH 7.
—The flannel market has been thinly attended to-day,
. and, if possible, less business done than on the preceding
Monday. In the wool market there is no change.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, Mardi 9.
The LORD CHANCELLOR sat in Lincoln's Inn Hall.

IN THE MATTER OF THE CLARENCE RAILWAY.

The arguments in this patt.heard case wire resumed and con-
cluded today.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said he should take time to consider his
judgment;