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THE LEADE B. [^o- B99, Kotembeb 14,1857,
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been We wJl say nothing at present I of Lord Casing . That personal question stand s , exactly vrhere it did a torbnigbt ago , before - eithep : . Q-RAHTELiiB ; the Expert or Paembrston tbe Panoplied had elucidated the conduct of the -Governor- 1 G-eneral . Noble lords are bound to be the champions of their caste , and , whenever a peer has been shockingly at fault , to tmd that he haa been beyond all anticipations
right in everything he has done . Neither the Mansion House nor the Guildhall is j , proper place for debate , so that even Lord E ^ bobottgh or Mr . Malcolm Ja ^ w could have ventured to be critical upon the Canto apology . But it ^ as the _ truly British fervour of the Eirst Lord : that ^ on upon the guests of the contrite Sir Bobbbt cSbd . es , ' who ms once devoted to the Maine Xaw , but no *' , happily for Hm ^ elf , wishes to in the enjoyment of
see every Englishman a quartrul of the decoction of malt and hops . Lord Palmeeston rose to the level of the gold and purple occasion , H-is allusions to the army in India were Tyrt « an as weU as Anacreontic . He felt proud of the army , proud of the people , proud of himself , and of his noble and ^ right honourable friends . The rebellion broke out . "Well , he had hurled an army upon the TebelaIn future the basis of our empire m
. the East would be ' unshakable . ' _ But let ^ no foreign nation < dream in its visions that we are weaker at home than we were be- 1 fore the mutiny broke out ; we have now ' as many fighting men under arms ; as * hen . 1 . to presume upon our weakness would be a verv unsafe game at this particular moment , f « r . if nnrmwer offended us , we have a (
government that would coolly turn round and < crush it . ' We may not love uniforms , or steel scabbards , or iron heels , but we are the most valorous nation on the face of the entire earth . Luckily , it was not tlie American Minister who said this , or a very majestic morning contemporary would have been down upon him for his vulgar republican arrogance But the Premier continued : why , our very women are beroes , and to be as brave as au Englishwoman is to be more than Hoba ^ b have sympath
Cooxes . Very right ; . we no y with the tortoise-hearted persons who sneer at Lord PA ^ EBsnoK for bein g national and triumphant in his language . He knows that what he says is felt as well as admired . He declares , with perfect justice that xt is the bounden duty of Great Britain to resent ev £ y insult , and protect her citizens from imury . He is tke Minister to do it , and when he fulminates over London , we are as proud of our First Minister as he is proud oi
" wlilst our gallant Premier is declaiming at the Mansion House , there are two unfortunate andinnocent Englishmen imprisoned , degraded , and torturedbythe King of Naples . Vhat wretched colleague is it that bridles the generous British ardour of Lord Palmbubxon , and prevents him , putting all these m agnificent denunciations in force and showing what he means : by Civia JRomanus ? la it that Nap les is a small State , and that England of course , has never been so craven as to bully fourth-rate Kings ? That is not a bad reason , if it be the true one .
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THE LEADE B . [^ o- B 99 , Kotembeb 14 , 1857 ,
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• HOW NOT TO DO IT . ' Thb sanitary state of the metropolis _ is now one of anarchy . "We have , Uub « J «^ JOlhe most necessary worku cannot be exe- 1 cuted . The most helpleas Londoners are exposed to the most noxious influences , and the responsible local managers repudiate their reapoZbility j the central n , a . nagors lecturLg without power to enforce , lho mam OraiimgeofthQinetropoliB w declared on all
sides to be necessary , but it is suspended ; the Metropolitan Commissioners being unable to agree upon a plan which meets the approval of the Chief Commissioner ; and the Chief Commissioner being obliged to wait until the Metropolitan Commissioners can rnm «> A Tl , ft rKanute between the Uuel until the Metropolitan Commissioners ^ can acrree The dispute betweenthe _ Chief
. ; Commissioner and the Metropolitan Board was the subject of a conference at the close of last week , and the matter stands thus . The Board had agreed upon the plan known by the outfall marked B * , near Eritli Church . The engineers to whom the Chief Commissioners referred this plan showed that -it
would establish a nuisance in a rising suburb in London , and that a small extension of the plan by land would obtain a large extension of the outfall by water ; Sea-Heach being beyond even the suburban ranges of the metropolis . The Metropolitan Board , how--ever , discovered that the engineers of the Chief Commissioners had not only made objections
to the original plan , but had suggested a plan of their own which was frightfully open to objections , since it comprised open sewers . Like the German -postilion who threatened to flog the Jew in the other postilion ' s calecle if the other postilion flogged the Jew in his , the Metropolitan Commissioners tell to flogging the report of the referees ^ -retaliation for the referees' flogging of their ~ « - ™ vr > r . rf . Thftv held a conterence with reportThey held a conterence wiui
! own . the Chief Commissioner in order to come to an understanding ; and the result has been , in the words of tlieir most trusted spokesman Mr . Caepmael , that the Metropolitan Board is exactly where it would have _ been if it had never proposed any plan at all ! It is understood that Sir Benjamin Hiii does not require "the Metropolitan Comtnis-I sioners to go beyond the authorities or powers but at least to
| eiven by Act of Parliament , fulfil their duty . The Act requires them to intercept all streams that would pollute the Thames within the bouudsof their j urisdiction ; requires them to carry the outfall of the mam drainage beyond the metropolitan boundary ; to create no nuisance ; and it empowers them to levy rates . But . wit . li none ot these conditions have the Metropolitan Commissioners . complied , and they are ^ therefore , ma the of the Chiet , . » : . '
| position to claim approval fcommissioner of Public Works , whose business , indeed , it is to see whether or not they have done their duty under the Act . Mr . Carpmael ' s complaint , therefore , amounts to a declaration that the Board is not prepared to do its duty , but stands where it did when it first saw the light two years ago . Nor is there any promise that the Board wi A now turn over a new leaf and make a fresh
That which is the general state is also the particular state . Our attention has been drawn to an oflicial correspondence respecting the state of West Ham , in Essex . It " the General Board of Health
SpUor of described the pestilential condition ot tlie place . The correspondence to which we refer begins with a petition from tho inhabitants to bhe Home Of & ce , which was re-Ifevred to the Board of Health , and the Board referred to the Local Board for ^ information . The Local Board replied that it had been talcing ' active measures toI
compel the petitioners to cleanse their own neighbourhood ; that < no time had been lost bv Mr . ' . R-AWLiNSOTr , then- engineer , m devising a plan of drainage -, and that under his direction the Local Board / had placed at tho disposal of occupier * ot dwellings at I IIallavMo ' --the ceutro ot tho peatilential
district—' a patent deodorizing powder which was found to be very beneficial during cleansing operations . ' This reply was made in May or June ; in the summer the cholera broke out , and the General Board of Health then discovered that the inhabitants in one part of West Harn were drawing their water from a pump over a common drain The Board then took ' very energetic
measures ' removing the handle ot the pump , and . writuVa severe letter to the clerk ot the Local Board of Health ! We have - not yet had any official announcement that the local authorities of West Ham have rescued the inhabitants . The whole affair seems to stand exactly where it did , just as the whole of the metropolis stands exactly where it _ did ; except that , on behalf of the Board of Health , Dr Sotjthwood Smith , Captain <* alton , and Mr . Henrt Austin , have gone to Milan to look at some water-works !
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THE CITY IN RA-GS . Somu day , we suppose the Lord-Mayors Coach will fall to piece * , and the pageant ot the 9 th of November will he rendered impossible by the absolute decay of tlie decorations . That seems the only ground in- existence ibr hoping that the annual nuisancewill ultimately be abated . Year atter year the grotesque apparatus teconaes" . more , wa 3 hedout , W , and ^ graded . Last Mondav ' s procession was the climax of dirt uud frippery . There was a melancholy cloud on the faces of the military bandsmen , who , to all appearance , were anxious to attraet no more attention than was absolutely necessary to the motley cavalcade with which they were marching through London , ^ How any serious man , of an age to be a Lord Mayor , can endure the jibes and grimaces of London , tor a whole afternoon , passes any ordinary ^ omprehension . Last Monday , so moumtul was tho siMit , that profane persons were ^ irresistibly reminded ofBarlFEUKEUS on }™ ™ J , to execution . Why , in the name of the middle a-es is so much brilliant , barbarous trurn-- ^!?; Jw ^ -im with modern eivilized ug liness ?
5 ) he whole affair resembles a harlequinade . ^ rrr ^ r- ^ -H ^ aei ^ bourin- boya . Then ensue swarms ot sSbSin scarlet coats , human we are nformed % much like kingfishers in aspect & dl loose of ffl tb »» ^
T y , a array g SS ^ -asrssisSS citizens up holding a lofty polo ; ^ ^ summit floats a banner , so long tha aw akly vouth looking like a half-burnt G-uy , is tn Ced to prevent the streamer from drags ug Site mmi . But tho most fantastic o ^ rUjon consists of the Astley regiment--ga yamjca ' supernumeraries in armour ^ d vaneg ^ d 1 calico skirts , on jaundiced Inppogri s the ino
• tfbW ^ ^^ rfe it ^ gedyr ' TMie Blood of the ^^ Sj ^ cd To say ono . vord of the carnages that followa would betoo painful . It was inisery eno « ti o watch tho line lengthening , hko 1 ' ^ bulating cab-stand , along the sunlit n wav Jb it that the gentlemen « ia K ?^ m ^ vocoseion are desirous of coac . ahng their identity ? or that this shabbmc ^ is a delicate compliment paid to the O ^ ™ flnlendours of tho old Vouxhall pavihon S
wheels , containing tho chioi magistrau . u » the satellites of bin civic tliroije P « uj would be unfair to puna wor tho bhtu equipages . . They arc ronlly pretty , and woui
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 14, 1857, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14111857/page/14/
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