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together in filth , can wonder at such a result . There is a general opinion prevalent that the Kensington Board of Guardians might have done mucli more than has been done to correct this monster nuisance , and it has even been alleged that some of the guardians are owners of the property in " The Potteries . " A case of cholera has occurred within the last few days in Kensington , in the very same room where the first fatal case occurred in 1849 . There hare also been two fatal cases in St . George ' s-in-the-East . In Newcastle much good has been done by the covering up of heaps of refuse with fresh earth . The nuisance is completely buried out of sight . The earth will have a deodorising action on the refuse , which after some tune can be harmlessly removed .
The cholera still lingers in Newcastle . The deaths daily have fluctuated during the week from 6 to 2 . In Gateshead , on the 19 th , there was no death , and one or two have occurred on each other day of the week . In the metropolis sudden outbursts of the cholera occur in " bad places . In a close and unwholesome court , New-court , Bluegate-fields , two deaths have occurred . Such was the filthy condition of this court , and so imminent appeared the danger to the inhabitants in general , that the medical officer recommended their removal , if practicable , until the place could be thoroughly cleansed .
Beneath a great portion of the town of Hull there extends a system of flat brick sewers , which , under present arrangements , constantly accumulate foul deposit . During the last twelvemonth the local board have turned their attention to clearing out these receptacles of filth . Upwards of 10 , 000 cubic yards of foul matter are estimated to have been removed by hand labour and cartage from about ten miles of sewer . The condition of the small town of Castleford is very bad . Foul middens , dung heaps , and collections of decomposing refuse , abounded in all parts of the town , and the liquid filth and house refuse stagnated on the neglected surfaces of yards and streets . At the last visitation of cholera Hull is reported to have suffered the most severely of any town ; Castleford was next on the list .
In York-buildings , Grub-street , Westminster , the Commissioners of Sewers emptied a cesspool down one of the old sewers which they were not able to flush , while the rule is to empty such pools into flush sewers only . The magistrate has been obliged to interfere to prevent the Commissioners from committing a nuisance . Under the arches of the Eastern Counties Railway a heap of manure is allowed to remain , spreading most dangerous effluvia throughout the neighbourhood . Diarrhoea , typhus fever , and other dangerous maladies prevail in the neighbourhood . The officials of the railway station have been warned by the police .
In Gloucester a system of sewerage is in progress , but at present the inhabitants of the four principal streets live over cesspools , which are in their cellars , and the contents of which are nightly pumped into the streets , ci - eating a stench of the most frightful description . Only a few days since it was decided that water should be procured from the filthy Severn instead of the Seven Springs , the source of an unbounded supply of pure water , the expense being about equal !
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LETTERS PROM PARIS . ( From our Own Corrkspondent . ) Lkttkr XCV . Paris , Thursday Evening , Oct . , 1853 . AnURSTS are falling thick an hail just now upon the Republican pjirty . Charles DelcHcluze , the friend of Jjedru lvollin , and a fellow-refugee with him sit London , haH been arrested on a secret journey he was making to Paris . His arrest caused a number of others . He had gone to sec M . Goudchaux , and Home thirty men of the party . The police paid a domiciliary visit to the honourable Republican banker , and conducted him to prison at tho Prefecture do police ; but ho was only
detained there two hours . The Emperor , informed of his arrest by tho electric telegraph , ordered Iuh immediate release . It was not ho , however , with the other perHonH compromised in tho visits of Deleacluzo . They were all arroHted , and arc wtill , jih I write , in confinement . The arroHtH have not been limited to Paris ; they have boon carried on very oxtenwivoly in tho provinces . At Tourw five democrats have been thrown into prison . At Nantes tho popular and cm teemed Doctor Guopin , and itooher ( tho inventor of tliitt admirable machine for filtering Halt water , which figured at tho Great Exhibition of 1851 ) have both been arrested . They wore both coinniisH . uieH of the
Provi-HJonaKgovernment in Brittany in 1848 . DoubtlflBS the fact of their having held that temporary portion exposes them to tho suspicion of being as it wero tho rallying- oontroH of tho patriotic party in J $ riM , any . Two more persons have been arroHted at Tours ; they aro the printer and editor of the Phurc , dc hi Loire , MM . Mangin , lather and Hon . After a lnont liumitu domiciliary visit they wero both taken to prison . You will remark that all theHe various arreHtH are directed against the republican party of the . middle-damc . x ; not a single working-man is arrested . Perhaps tho iojihoii for this may bo that tho working-classes havo a far stronger organization than tho ooim / eoitrie . All tho working-mou who havo tried iwolatod agitation , who
have not been willing to undergo the salutary yoke of the strictest discipline ; au , in fact , who have tried to preserve their individual initiative , their private freedom of action , have been severely punished for their pains ; witness the journeymen hatters of the quarter of the Temple arrested three weeks since . On the other hand , not a single one of those who have submitted themselves , to the mot d ' ordre has been either imprisoned or disturbed . So , half the working-men of
Paris , and nine-tenths of those at Lyons , are now regularly organized . The southern departments have been considerabl y agitated of late , A serious exasperation has shown itself in the public spirit , as the Government inspectors have themselves attested . In a recent report to Bonaparte they assured him that it would be imprudent hi the existing state of effervescence of the public spirit to relax those rigorous measures under wliich those departments are placed , and that the strength of the garrisons cannot be diminished .
With this slight interruption , Bonaparte is hunting , as if nothing had happened . The whole official world of the first class has received invitations to Compiegne . They take their turns by ticket , as you do in an antichamber . The finances are in a bad state . I have already mentioned the deficit . It appears the Government is preparing a series of measures to provide against the difficulty : among others , a loan of 400 millions ' ( of francs ) , 16 , 000 , 000 ? . This is seriously talked of at the Bourse .
We are now in a complete stagnation of business . Commercial men are universally complaining . They have bought dear , and can find no sale . Bonaparte fancied that to toss stone and mortar about would be at once to revive commerce . But this political economy of 1803 is found to be totally unavailing in 1853 . The State and the Municipality of Paris have been plunged into fabulous expenditure . A tenth of Paris has been knocked down ; and after all , at the close of the year , the result is disastrous . Now , as it is the first of the reign , you may imagine it is far from an encouraging prospect .
And thus it is that some change or other is looked for in all quarters . Now it is to be observed that when such is the disposition of the commercial world in Paris , it is just then that revolutions happen—and succeed . The working men of Paris have translated the fact into a principle . They say , to make a revolution the workmen must be up , and the tradesmen looking on . Now circumstances are such ( next May they will be a thousand times worse ) that the tradespeople at their wits-end will have nothing more to lose . Then revolution will be possible . So people are beginning
to have a presentiment that the year 1854 may even hold the promise of 1852 . Not to speak of the chance of a European war , and of the whole continent being under arms . In vain Austria and Prussia are trying to preserve neutrality ; it is impossible . Of two things one : either Turkey will beat Russia , or Russia will beat Turkey . In the first case Russia , driven to madness , will only redouble her efforts ; she will raise a million of men if necessary to avenge her defeat ; then France and England , to prevent Constantinople falling into the hands of the Czar , will be forced to give the Porte material succour of another kind than the
mere presence of their squadrons ; they will have to send an army into Turkey . Russia will call Austria , if not Prussia , to her aid , and then we have all Europe in a Maze . In the second case the result is the same : only more immediate . In the meanwhile , preparations are mado on all hands for war . An army of observation is to be formed at Metz , under the command of Prince Jerome Napoleon . This army would be designed , in certain
contingoncicB , to act directly against Rhenish PniHflia , and to operate on the Rhine from Landau to Cologne . All the garrison ?) in tho northern departments are being brigaded by brigades , divisions , and corps , so as to be ready to fnniinh , at the first flaHh of the electric telegraph , a second army of GO , 000 men , to act on Belgium and on tho Rhino , from Cologne to Dussoldorf . All these garrisons could now , by means of the railway , be concentrated in one grand corps d ' armee , in twenty-four houra .
HuHHia , on her sido , in not remaining inactive . The Czar , it in said , on learning tho TurkiMh declaration of war , mud , thafr'it should bo a war of extermination . Consequently , he gave orders to mobilize tho entiro active army—that in to nay , tho ten corptt d ' armee , of (> 0 , 000 men ciioli , and to inarch them \ ipon the Prufch . RiiHHia , then , protends to bo able to march f { 00 , 00 () men to the conquest of Turkey . Shall we let this be' { Shall civilization let barbarinm triumph ? Let me cite
the words of one of our eminent writers : — "It in high time to put an end to tho middle ngen , preserved , like a mammoth , in Polar ice ; to havo done with a world which han no plaee in tho century , and which has given to humanity neither an idosi iior an induHtry , nor an invention , nor a Hoience , nor an art , nor a genius -nothing but war and Gholora . Russia iH tho nation of death . To kill or perinli , Huch is her mis-Hion . " . 1 . jih 1 c again , Hhall wo lot it l > o ? S .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . Tun Empress Eugene in reported to l > o again in an "intorosting situation . " M . Ziunoyflki ho « writton to tho JDSbata to etato tliut
there is no truth , whatever in the assertions made * by the New Gazette of Prussia ( copied into the Messenger ) of an auxiliary legion of refugees being formed at London ! to assist Turkey , under the direction of a committee of Polish officers and the Polish Literary Society . The Moniteur , of the 20 th instant , contains a decree granting an extraordinary credit of 5 , 000 , 000 f . to the Minis , ter of the Marine . The Ministerial report on which this decree is founded states that France has at present two squadrons of 40 shins * of-the-Hne , with a proportionate increase in the number of "
steam-frigates and corvettes . There is in the French naw one steam-line-of-battle-ship , the Napoleon ; four with auxiliary power , completed ; while nine others are being fitted for steam , and will be ready for se a within the next two months . Two 90 gun steam line of battle ships are to be launched at Brest on the 31 st inst . Six new steam-vessels after the model of the Napoleon , are on the st ocks and will be launched about the end of 1864 . The total of the French navy amounts to 161 vessels , manned by 33 625 sailors , gunners , and marines . '
All this is mainly owing to the energetic economies effected by M . Ducos , the present Minister of Marine and it sufficiently reveals the determination of his government to make France a really formidable maritime power . Ifc was on Tuesday week that Alexandra Dumas addressed the letter , which , we printed last week , to the director of the Theatre Francais , proposing to write and complete an entirely new comedy , m five acts ( to replace the play stopped by the censorship ) , by the following Mon . day . On Friday night , just three days after the offer was made , the new comed ywas finished ; on Saturday it was read before the committee of the Thea tre Franoais , and accepted with enthusiasm . It was declared to be superior to the comedy for which it was substituted .
With regard to the recent obsequies of Francois Arago , the Biecle remarks :- — " Many were astonished not to see a single member of the Provisional Government in the procession . MM . Lamartine , Dupont ( de TEure ) , Cre " - nieux , and Garnier Pages , are absent : ledru Rollin , louis Blanc , and Flocon are in exile : Albert is at Belleisle , and Armand Marrat is no more .
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It appears that there is some chance of the Austrian quarrel with Switzerland taking a turn equally unexpected and unwelcome to both parties . A considerable party in Tessin , exasperated at what they think the unpatriotic and spiritless conduct of the Bundesrath towards Austria , is active at present in bringing about a separation of the canton from the Swiss Confederation , and its annexation to Sardinia . - The Federal Government acknowledges that the policy of conciliation is exhausted towards Austria , but declines , for the present , to do more than assist the suffering " Tessinese with grants of money and provisions .
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Corn riots took place at Turin on the 18 th inst ., but were easily suppressed . Fifteen or twenty of the refugees lately arrested at Genoa were to be conveyed to Malta . Miss Margaret Cunninghame had literally , we are told , to be forced out of the Tuscan prison . She would not accept the pardon of the king , aa it was acknowledged that not even under the Tuscan laws was she liable to imprisonment . The conduct of Mr . Scarlett , the British charge " d ' affaires , who is so completely in the good graces of the Gi ' aud Duke , that the release of Miss Cunninghame is granted as a compliment to him , ia complained of as similar to liia conduct m the Mather affair—unworthy of the Power bo represents , and full of weak subservience to the Court to which ho is accredited .
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The return , inst published , of the commerce and naviga tion of tho Netherlands during tho year 1852 , shows consi durable increase of imports , exports , and transit , as com pared with the former year .
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Tho Danish Chamber , on tho 13 th inst ., rejected tho Government scheme for the revision of tho constitution , known ns the "Whole-Stato project . It decided unanimously , after a short discussion , to reject the project of tho Government , and to take for the bane of its deliberations the fundamental law of tho 5 th of Juno , 1840 . Tliero will bo three discussions . Tliia is a check to itiiHsian intrigues . Tho attemp t of the Ministry has united tho wholo of tho Danish Parliament against tho Whole-Stato law . So that tho Ministry must cither " decree" a constitution , or dissolve thoParliament . The first course might effect their wishes , j" " they audacious enough to attempt it ; tho nocond woulu lead to tho election of a now Parliament still moro opposeu to their policy . It is notablo , that tho Poasant-lottffuOT M ~ r Inthorto partisans of the Court . —havo now joined the lelt and tho centre in opposing tho Court .
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The Governments of Naples , Tuscany , and _ Borne , throwing open tho ports to corn , and are thinking to fiuu ' out ; cholera by . strict quarantine against vessels from i ' tl ~ land and the north . We aro g lad to hear that Malta and Trieste aro gradually abolishing tlio absurd Hystem of quarantino , mm admitting vessels from ports formerly " suspected" !¦<> Jr (' prati (| uo without dolay . . ., Tho < Jolo no ilazkta complains of tho results oi «»/ commercial " treaty with Austria , of February last , iw <«'' j ¦ " mental to the Wt-aUwn Sl . atoH of tho Zollvcroiu , AH " »« propositions of JtusHiaiuul fclio Northern States of Q ''"'l '" ' ^ tending to reductions of tho tiu-ilV , are said to havo i » "K luiforo ( lie Austrian coalition i
. . . . Tho Austrian Government has reduced its army l » y « - ' croc to the extent of 7 r > , ( KH ) inon . We havo rnoro tun onoo ox pound tho hollowiieas of those protomlod r <« luflt «>»" j intended to throw dust , in tho oyos of capital ^ wi »«» loan in wanted . . r () Jtathor inopportunely , ( ho tumw Government || 1 W J oalablLdiod oil tho political owl fiooial < Uaabilitio » w »
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1012 THE LEADER . % [ Baturbat ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 22, 1853, page 1012, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2009/page/4/
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