The Sun. — 1839-10-23 (London, England)

ROW N. But to-day, the Times goes from all these charges ; says that, " the:existence of Ribandism is a vexatious embarrassment to the Ministers ;" and limits its charge to " having committed the fraud of denying the facts, and of lulling Parliament into a false security," that is, in fact, to abet Ribandism ; so that the veracious Times cannot stick to the same charge, in the same column, on the same day, and then pretends to wonder, that its simple-minded dolts of readers do not yet understand the various and contradictory charges it makes from day to day. If, after its mortifying confession of this morning, veiling an announcement that it has endeavoured to mislead them, there be found one of them who shall continue to place the least reliance on its political charges, he will be a proper dupe for any impudent quack to impose on. Our Contemporary is frequently indignant with the Papists for the blind confidence which they place in their priests. His language this morning, ought to convince many persons, that there are priests in politics, as well as in religion, who demand a blinder faith in their followers than is even required by Popish priests. Our Contemporary, like the POPE, claims to be infallible ; but urges his claim mare continually and far more arrogantly, and exacts a more dutiful belief in his varying doctrines, than the present humbled occupant of ST. PETER'S Chair.  We cordially concur in the remark of a Corres pondent that " in the majority of cases when e inquests are held on suicides, they do no manner of good, and they often do harm." Nay, we are inclined to go farther, and assert that the frequency of these inquests, and the publicity given to then. by the Press, have led to ten times more violent deaths than all the homicides and murders together which they may have been the means of bringing to light. Man is the most imitative of all animals, whether for good or evil. What one does, however atrocious the deed, or however painful to him. self, others are inclined to imitate, and the frequent repetition of the crime strips it proportionally of its terrors. It was the practice at one time to hang up together at the Old Bailey fifteen or twenty fellow-creatures for forgeries or some other offences now not capital. Did these awful examples check crime. One would suppose they rather encouraged it, for since the mitigation of the law several of the offences formerly capital have decreased. An execution is looked upon with infinitely more horror by the rising generation than it was by their fathers, and consequently. has a greater effect now in checking capital offences. The same rule applies to suicides, and instead of blazoning these before the multitude, by entering into needless details, and making frivolous inquiries to satisfy vain curiosity, it ought to be the duty of the Coroner to check investigation at once, when, as is the case in nine cases out of ten, there is no possible doubt of the cause of death. We have not seen any returns of the number Of suicides in Scotland, but,, judging from analogy, we should infer that they are not half so frequent there as in Eng. land, solely because the 'particulars elicited during the. investigation, and generally the fact itself, are concealed from the public eye.  The Madrid Journals received this morning are of the 14th inst. They contain no political news of any interest. The Cabinet still staggers on, now threatening a dissolution of the Chambers, and the next moment a dissolution of itself. We find dreadful accounts in the Journals of atrocities committed by