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Not- 17 , 1855 . 1 THE LEADER . ^^ 1103
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The "Water Supply of I ^ ondon . —Mr . Coe , the Secretary of the Grand Junction Waterworks Comply , in a letter addressed to the Registrar-General , Eakes tie following statement : —" The wht > Ie of the narish of St . George , Hanover-square , north of the Green Park , is supplied by the Grand Junction Waterworks Company with water taken from Hampton ( the same spot whence the companies south of the Thames draw their supply ) and is perfectly filtered prior to delivery . The new supply commenced on the 7 th of August between three and four weeks before the period prescribed by the Metropolitan Water A . ct of 1852 . " Mr . Whiffin , the secretary , states , that the West " Middlesex Company has drawn its water from new works at Hampton , six miles above the tidal range ,
ever since July I 9 th . After subsidence in two large reservoirs at Barnes , all the water is filtered before delivery . This company supplies Marylebone , a part of Hampstead , and , the secretary now says , * ' nearly the whole of Kensington" parish , but only a part of the Kensington district , which is largely supplied by the Grand Junction and the Chelsea Companies . It is gratifying to know , that the water of four companies , which was formerly drawn from parts of the . Tham . es which the London sewers polluted , is now drawn from a purer part of the river . These companies deserve credit for having completed their works within the periods fixed by the legislature . The Chelsea Company , which supplies Chelsea , Brompton , Belgravia , and the Westminster districts , are , under their Act of
Parliament , not bound to abandon the present source of supply at Battersea , and famish the population of these important districts with the purer water from Seething Wells above Kingston , before 1856 . —Idem . Health op London .- —The mortality of London shows a tendency to increase , but it continues much below the rate which is usually found to prevail in the beginning of November . Last week the deaths of 986 persons , viz . 473 males and 513 females , were registered . The daily average number was 141 , which is less by 21 than the average rate of mortality in the corresponding weeks of the last ten years would have produced ; but it also exceeds by 21 the number that
occurs daily in the healthy districts of England . Cholera was fatal in only two cases , and in both to infants , one of whom died of " cholera infantum , " and the other of " choleraic diarrhoea . " Scarlatina destroyed 61 lives , and several districts have suffered from it severely . Three children died from this complaint last week in St John , Paddington , and one of the medical men states that " it is making great havoc in the district , and sanatory measures should be taken by the local authorities . " In St . Pancras it was fatal in 7 cases ; and the medical attendant of a case in Somers Town writes : — " The great increase of scarlatina and typhus in my
neighbourhood requires immediate attention , and it is necessary ( I think ) that a sanatory committee for the district should be appointed . " Judging from the number of deaths , the disease seems to be very prevalent in Shoreditch and Cripplegate . One person died from exposure to cold ; and a woman , aged about 55 years , was found in a state or destitution , and , having been conveyed to the Greenwich Workhouse , died oh 7 th November , twenty-four hours after admission—Last week , the births of 896 boys and 818 girls , in all 1714 children were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845- 54 , the average number was 1465 . —Fiwn the Registrar-General ' s Weekly Return .
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NOTICES TO COBRESPONDENTS . No notice can be taken of anonymous communications . iWhatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . Communications should always be lepibly wvitteu , and on one side of the paper only . If long , ifc increases the difficulty of . finding space for them . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication .
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THE SCAPE-GOAT OF DESPOTISM . The King of Naples is the most ill-used man in Europe . Wretched prince !—every virtuous journalist conspires with every vicious intriguer to malign him . He is abused , vilified , menaced , derided as a madman , insulted as a tyrant , exposed as a public murderer . The Times now discovers the modern Costmodus at Naples . The passage in Gibbon—ILatin , and untranslateable—a clot of filth—which it once flung upon the purple of the French Emperor , has spattered the Lazzarpni cloak of the King of Naples . The journal that quoted
Victor Hugo in proof of "twelve hundred murders" which it imputed to Louis Napoleon , " now surpasses even the ordinary limits of licentiousness in the rancour of ifcs political execrations . Obloquy , contumely , and ribaldry are light compared with the torrent of loathing it is accustomed to pour on the head" of the miserable Bourbon , who sees all his executions recorded , his floggings betrayed , the secrecy of his tribunals invaded . And why he—unhappy one—more than other despots ! And why now , more than formerly ? Because the
Bonapaktists want Ills throne ; because we want his alliance . When the Emperor of Russia was adulated as the grand Conservative of Europe—the terror of malcontents , socialists , and incendiaries , Naples was scourged , silenced , abased , at the will of its ruler , and the passive attitude of the population only exasperated his ferocity . But tlio flexible writers who wear to every change of wind , found no fault with the policy of Order . It was only when a ] Muratist adventuro had been set on foot , and when Feudinand , in the exercise of his undoubted rights , and in obedience to natural sympathies , seemed disposed to assailed
favour Itussin , that " public opinion" him . He acted with a clear conception of his pos ' tion when be refused to assume the aggressivo against Russia . The powerful and legitimate despotism of thut Empire has surely a closer affinity to him than the meddling liberalism of England , or the phantom autocrat of Franco , who is , bamles , the secret rival of every Italian government . It would bo more rational for Bourbon Naples to ally hersel f with Russia than with Great Britain , —ftt least as rational ns for Great Urituin to become an official appendago of Franco . But this is the secret of our journalistic virtue . We vilify one
of the most feeble princes in Europe , because he is feeble , and because he is not a tool in oui hands . Even he , however , cowering bigot as he is , may feel some superiority , because he affects nothing—some contempt for England , because she repudiates despotisms only when they sympathize with Russia , and threatens a cruel tyrant only when he is weak . Of the abject attitude in which we stand , an Englishman is reminded , in every part of the Continent , " Civis Jtomanus sum " has come to this ! The King of Naples knows how to estimate this violence . In three years , should his foreign policy change , he may be " that great prince . " Who is now the favourite of England , tlie hero of her streets , the model monarch , the " new sort of" despot whose fears are consulted even at the expense of our national honour 1 The usurper to whom iu August , 1852 , the Times applied these expressions : — " Such a man is no judge of contracts ; for him . they have no existence , and we are well satisfied that our glorious constitution should be honoured by his hatred and sanctified by his fears . " But looking at England , from Paris , or Vienna ., or Rome , other contrasts are visiblecontrasts more degrading and only explicable on the plea that we are betrayed by cowardice into hypocrisy . The tyranny of the Neapolitan King is on a minute scale compared with that of Austria . The journalists who doctor the public mind will purge it shortly of every idea belonging to morality or self-respect . In . Lombardy martial law is in full iforce . It is not long since au Italian gentleman upon a bare suspicion of patriotism was hanged at Mantua ; still more recently , a woman was stripped in the public square of city , andignominiously flogged . Such incidents occur , not accidentally , not rarely , but repeatedly , throughout the Italian dominions of the Austrian Empire . The prisons are as full , the police as lawless , the reign of terror is as complete in that vast empire as in the dominions of the tenth-rate autocrat whom we lmvo selected as the scape-goat of despotism . Something more mean than insincerity is to be detected in our conduct . We quarrel only with the weak , while we are fighting Russia . If u Tuscan Protestant is arrested , Exeter Hall smokes with fury ; but if a French publicist bo condemned to a long imprisonment for writing a polemical treatise , France is congratulated oa her escape from anarchy . Yet , if men had a choice of punishments , who would not prefer confinement in Mediterranean islets to dragging cannon-balls chained to the limbs iu Senegambia or Cayenne ? in a pestiferous climate , without a word of sympathy from Europe ! It is becoming painful to visit any circle of intelligent men on the continent . Questions are put which an Englishman knows not how to answer . Taunts arc uttered which it is impossible to repel . But the experience in useful , for it teaches us to look at our own policy , from an external point of view . Allowing for instance , that the sympathies of America arc with Russia ¦ why not ? Whub h the law of sympathy ? Americans may say that it is their interest to preserve friendly relations with Russia . England professes to bci ashamed oi America— England , which is dragged into every adventure suggested by u Jionaparto usurper , which sacrifices her lawn , nml tho vory spirit of her institutions , to bin will , which ropresHCB the liberal pol lution * * ol Jmirope , aud forbids them to move . Which ulianoo wore more jmtural—that of America with Russia , or that of England with tho December dvnaatv ? Whatever liberalism exists among us is piwerleHH— Jiiih not the slightest influence on public policy—i » contradicted and disowned
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ANSWERS TO COBBESPONDENTS . OiD Sitbscbibbb . — "La Caricature en Angleterre" is a reprint of articles -written by M . B .- Forgues for fthe Itevue Britannique . It is published at Paris , by DautrevUlo et Cio , 3 , Hue Neuve-des-Bons-Enfants . Signob Gauensa ' s letter has been received too late for insertion this week .
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Dantzio , Friday , Nov . 1 C , 9 a . m . The Locust has arrived . Admirnl Dundas has gone to Kiel . Admii-Jiln Penaud and Baynes remain at Nargen . The transmission of muila , via Dantzic , ceases today . Hamiiuko , Nov . li . The English ships at present in Kiel harbour have received , by telegraph , the orJer immediately to return to England . Admiral Seymour haa ulioudy loft with the JSxmouth and Colossus .
THE RUSSIAN DEFEAT . Tuje following additional details of the action at Ingour liave been transmitted by telegraph : — Thkrm-ia , Nov . 15 , 1855 . At noon , Omer Pacha forded the river Ingour on the 5 th , at the head of 20 , 000 men , and defeated the Russians , computed at 10 , 000 , including Militia , and partly entrenched . The enemy lost about 100 in killed and wounded , 00 prisoners , and three pieces of cannon . The Turkish loss waH upwards of 300 . Tho Britiah officers did honour to their country .
Leader Owice , Saturday , November 17
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COMMITTAL OF DR . VAUGHAN . t , Dr , Vaughan has been committed for trial , but is liberated on bail .
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— v SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 17 , 1855 .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the worldis by the -very law of its creation in eternal progress . — Abnold .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 17, 1855, page 1103, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2115/page/11/
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