The Sun. — 1840-06-17 (London, England)

PUBLIC JOURNALS  FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) _ _  Lord Stanley, last night, receded from his declared purpose of bringing on his measure for Irish disfranchisement on a night appropriated by the invariable custom of the House of Commons to Bills brought in by Members of the Government. His Lordship—a circumstance not very usual with him—called discretion to his aid, and acquieSced in an arrangement, by which the necessity of taking a vote on the question of precedence was rendered unnecessary. Lord John Russell proceeded with the Canada Reserves Bill, and Lord Stanley's Bill for disfranchising a large proportion of the Irish Electors, by placing numerous obstacles in the way of their exercising the franchise with which the law has invested them, stands for Friday next. The remonstrances which have been addressed to the Liberal members, on the absence of so many of their number on recent important divisions, have had the desired effect. The attendance last night was expressive of a determination on their part not to allow a repetition of neglect to give even a temporary advantage to their opponents. To this, in all probability, was it owing, that Lord Stanley yielded the point far which it would have been vain to contend. (From the Standard.) Last night in the House of Lords, Lord Lyndhurst put to Lord Melbourne the significant question whether it was the intention of Ministers to introduce a Bill for ' correcting the errors in the boundary clauses of the Irish Municipal Bill. Lord Melbourne replied that it was not. We 'nave already explained to our readers the position in which this refusal places the Municipal Bill. The course which Ministers have thought proper to pursue is, to say the least of it, extraordinary. In the first place they introduced the Irish Municipal Bill imperfect, that is, without certain clauses regulating the boundaries of boroughs, which are necessary to prevent an unfair pressure of taxation on some of the suburban districts of these boroughs, and they then proceeded to embody these provisions in a separate bill; so that their course of legislation was to have two bills passed in the same session on the same subject, containing inconsistent, not to say contradictory, provisions. This was in itself strange enough, but this was not all. These provisions they did not include in a Bill by themselves, but they sent them up to the House of Lords, tacking to them provisions relative to taxation utterly unconnected with the main object of the Bill, so that the Lords could not adopt these boundary provisions without, at the same time, assenting to a measure neither in reason nor fact connected with them.  (From the Courier.) We remember reading some years ago in the Journal du Commerce an able paper on the contagion of suicide, which was distinctly traced to the mental disorder produced by the excitement of fearful example, and known as insanity. In this country we often see the effect produced upon others by the infliction of self-murder in some remarkable manner ; thus the death of the female suicide who threw herself from the Monument was followed by another death from the same cause and at the same place, and by another from the top of a lofty tower or spire in the country. Great crimes against the lives of others operate in exactly the same manner ; a kind of mania for murder becomes epidemic. Witness the murders that followed the horrible crime of Thurtell, or more recently those which arc clearly to be traced to the murder and suicide in Clerkenwell. The murder of a nobleman, and the notoriety acquired by Courvoisier, may have exerted considerable influence on a mind predisposed to the kind of insanity which we are considering, and Oxford may have derived his first impulse from that melancholy event, and the final one from a morbid determination to exceed the valet in regard to notoriety.  PUBLIC BUILDINGS in