The Sun. — 1844-06-20 (London, England)

THE METROPOLIS.—The total purer PEEL should have relied upon the precedent of number of deaths during the week ending June 15, was 855—average for the last five years, 946. In the Lord Ammar's .more manly and straightforward first class of diseases, called zvmotic, which includes appeal to the Commons, to reconsider their vote for small-pox, measles, scarlatina, &c., there is a consiextinguishing the Malt-tax, is intelligible enough, on derable increase, the number being 194, while the I average is 178. In nearly all the other cases there is the ground that the egotistical complacency of the a decrease. Deaths from small-pox are unusually Right Hon. Member for Tamworth may easily overgreat, the average being 15, while last week they, look the somewhat startling disproportion of his own amounted to 47, and of these 46 had not been vaccipopularity in the House to that of the honest Whig 'nated. Among the unvaccinated are reckoned a feChancellor of the Exchequer ; but that the House male' aged 11 months, who was " vaccinated only 10 of Commons, not content with its perilous departure days before death ;" a female, aged 3 years, who had from sound and constitutional practice, in the case of been " vaccinated 3 times without effect ;" and a male, aged 6 years, who had been " vaccinated with doubtthe Malt-tax, and at the prayer of Lord ALTHORP, ful success." Among the vaccinated are included a should have been induced to hazard a similar experi- male aged 25 years, who " had been vaccinated young ment, on the motion of Sir ROBERT PEEL, under the —one indifferent cicatrix ;" and a female, aged 23 circumstances of the debate, and the terms and years, who had been " vaccinated when 6 wears old— object of Mr. MILES'S amendment, is an event that one small cicatrix scarcely perceptible." The deaths must have mocked all previous anticipations of reason- from this disease, occurred at the following ages':— able men. We have reason to suppose that it amazed Eleven under 1 year; seventeen, 1-3; three, 3-5 ; seven, no man so utterly es Six P-10 ; one, 13 ; five, 230 ; and three, 30-40 years. AbOBERT PEEL himself! Deaths from consumption, l36—average 147. The On the merits of the main question between the Go- 5 'following is an analysis of the violent deaths : vernment scheme of duties and Mr. MILES'S, we do Fracture or contusion by falls, 4 cases; drowning, not offer, at present, any opinion ; but we cannot irrelevancy ; its tone of 7 cases, of which 4 were accidents, 1 suicide, and 2 • manslaughter; hanging, 3 cases (suicides); suffocarefrain from observing, that if ever aspeech, by its Lion in bet], case ; and. at birth, 1 case. In the 1 proverty, its feebleness, its remaining cases, respectively, "injury," " manslaughter," dictation to one great party; its attempted intimida- " murder," the means by which death was caused are tion of another, by a hollow menace of resigning not stated—total, 19 cases. The thermometer was office in the event of defeat to the Ministerial project ; "Tuesday, on Thursday, the 13th-83.1; and lowest on was calculated to ruin the cause it was meant to ad- "Tuesday, the 11th, 47.5 degrees. The total amount vocate, it was the lamentable address of the Right of rain for the week is marked at the unusally low I syyt, the Duke of Wellington is stated fo.rhave Honourable Baronet to the Committee on Monday degree of 00.2. last. To reconcile its own concurrence in such a LI In the account of the Waterloo banquet in The gig e sacrifice of consistency. and opinion to the deficiencies, of esterd the health of Colonel Macdonald It should have Caesura Sir James Macdonell. a plea that, in all respects of force, argument, and ex- been Lieutenant The Message; publishes two dispatches from the Duke D'AUMALE, giving an explanation of the unfortunate affair of Biscara, and casts some blame on the officer who had command of the small garrison ; while the National attributes the calamity entirely to the negligence or imprudence of the Duke himself. "Before accusing M. PETIGAUD," says that journal, "the Duke D'AuAtaLm should have begun by justifying himself from the fault which he had previously committed, in allowing himself to be surprised in an attack which he neither knew how to foresee nor prevent, and in which a great number of our soldiers were killed through the want of skill of their too young general. Let each be judged according to his deeds."