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7— We will say nothing at present of Lord C ^ ningk That personal quea- 1 tion stands exactly where it did a . tartnight ago , "before either . Qw ™ a tie Expert or Paimerbton the Panoplied had elucidated the conduct of Jshe .. Gowmt ; General . IToble lords are bound to he the champions of their caste , and , whenever a peer has been shockingly at fault , . to find that he has been beyond all anticipations rAa \ + evRrvthine he has done . Neither
, ™ tffi Mansion"ioule nor the guildhall is a proper place for debate , so that even Lord L ^ BOBC ueH or Mr . Malcolm Im could hare ventured to he critical upon ^ Canning apology . But it . was the truly British fervour of the Eirst Lord that won upon the guests of the contrite Sir Eobert Cabden , who was once devoted to the Maine Law , but now , happily for himself , wishes to ishman in the enjoyment of
see every Engl a quartftd of the decoction of malt ^ and hops , lord Paimerston rose to the level of the gold and purple occasion . ± Us allusions "to the army in India were Tyrtaan as well as Anacreontic . He felt proud of the army , proud of the people , iproud of himself , and of his noble and right honourable friends . The rebellion " broke out . Well , lie had hurled an army upon the rebels . In future the basis of our empire in the East would be ' unshakable . ' But let no
foreign nation ' dream in its visions that we are weaker at home than we were be- fore the mutiny broke out ; we havevnow * as many fighting men . under arms ' _ then ; to presume upon our weakness would be a very unsafe game at this particular moment , for if any power offended us , we have a trovernment that would coolly turn round and
' crush it . ' We may not love uniiorms , or steel scabbards , or iron heels but we are the most valorous nation on the face of the entire earth . Xnckily , it was not the 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 , out very
women are heroes , and to be as brave as an Englishwoman is to be more than Hobatitjs C 001 SS . Very right ; we have no sympathy ™ th the tortoise-hearted persons who sneer at Lord Pamiebstost for being national and triumphant in his language . He knows that vrhat he says is felt as well as admired ^ He declares , with perfect justice , that it is the bounden duty of Great Britain to resent every insult , and protect her citizens trom iniury . He is the Minister to do it , and when he fulminates over London , we are as nroud of our First Minister as he is proud ot
himself . . . -1 -i • « 4-Whilst our gallant Premier is declaiming at the Mansion House , there are two unfortunate and innocent Englishmen imprisoned , degraded , and tortured by the King of Naples . % hat wretched colleague is it that bridles the generous British ardour of Lord Palme * - SIGN ,, and prevents him putting all these magnificent denunciations in force and showing what he means by Oivis Bomanw * 7 Is it that Naples is a small State , and that England , of course , has never been so craven as to bully fourth-rate Elings ? That is not a bad reason , if it be the true one .
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' HOW HOT TO DO IT . ' The sanitary Btate of the metropolis is now one of anarcliy . We have this on authority . The most necessary works cannot be executed The most helpless Londoners are exposed to the most noxious ponces , and the responsible local managers repudiate thenresponsibility ; the central pagers leetuA ^ g without power to enforce The main drainage of the metropolis is 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 agree . The dispute between the Chief Board
Commissioner and the Metropolitan 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 Erith 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-Beach being beyond even the suburban ranges of the metropolis . The Metropolitan Board , however , 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 I to objections , since it comprised open sewers . Like the German postilion who threatened to flog the Jew in the other postilion ' s '
| caliche t i the other postilion , flogged the Jew ^ in his the Metropolitan Commissioners iell to flogging the report of the referees in retaliation for the referees' flogging of their own report . They held a conference with the Chief Commissioner in order to come to an understanding ; and the result has been , in the words of their most trusted spokes-| man , Mr . Cabpmaei ,, 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 Hail
does not require the Metropolitan Commissioners to go beyond the authorities or powers given by Act of Parliament , but at least to fulfil their duty . The Act requires them , to intercept all streams that would pollute the Thames within tbeboundsof their jurisdiction ; requires them to carry the outfall of the main drainage beyond the metropolitan boundary ; to create no nuisance ; audit empowers them I to lew rates . But with none ot these conditions have the Metropolitan Commissioners th
complied , and they are not , ere [ ore ma position to claim the approval of the Ouiet Commissioner of Public Works , whose business , indeed , it is to see whether or not they have done their duty under the Act . Mr . Caupmael ' s complaint , therefore , amounts to a declaration that the Board is not prepared to do its duty , l ) ut stands where it did 1 when it first saw the light two years ago Nor is there auy promise that the Board will 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 arawn to an official correspondence respecting the state of West Ham , in Essex . . It is a picturesque spot ; there is a rising neighbourhood ; but it is in a marsh below the level of the Thames ; there is no main , drain-| age-, and in 1855 Mr . Airbed Sickens , inspector of the General Board of Heath described the pestilential condition of the place . The correspondence to which we Safer begins with a petition from the inhabitants to the Home Office , ^ Vnch was
re-| ferred to the Board of Health , and the Board referred to the Local Board for information . The Local Board replied that it had been taking ' active measures to compel the petitioners to cleanse their own neighbourhood-, that < no tune had been lost' bv Mr . Ha . wlinson , their engineer , in devising a 1 Ian of drainage ; and that under his diction the Local Board ' had placed " disposal of occupiers of < 1 * ^ HallBville ' --the centre oi tbo pestilential
pa which was found to be very beneficial during cleansing operations . ' This repl y , was made in May or June ; in the summer tie cholera broke out , and the General Board of Health then discovered that the inhabitants in one part of West Ham were drawing their water from a pump over a common drain I The Board then took ' very energetic measures , ' removing the handle of the pump , and writing a severe letter to the clerk of the Local Board of Health ! We have not ^ et had any official announcement that the local authorities of "West Ham have rescued "the inhabitants . The whole affair seems to staud exactly where it did , just as the whole of the metropolis stands exactly where it did ; except that , onbehalfof the Board of Health , i > r . South wood Smith , Captain G-alt-on , and Mr . Henkt Austin , have gone to Milan to look at some water-works !
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THE CITY IN BAGS . Some day , we suppose the Lord Mayor ' s Coach will fall to pieces , and the pageant ot the 9 th of November will be rendered impossible hy the absolute decay of the ^ decoraions . That seems the only ground in existence for hoping that the annual nuisance will ultimately be abated . Tear after year the grotesque apparatus becomes more washed out , dingy , and degraded . Last Mondav ' s procession was- the climax ot dirt and frippery . There was a melancholy cloud on the faces of the military bandsmen , who , to all
appearance , were anxious to attract 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 he a Lord Mayor , can endure the jibes and grimaces of London , tor a whole afternoon , passes any ordinary comprehension . Last Monday , so mourntul was the sicrht , that profane persons were irresistibly reminded of Earl Eeubees on his way to execution . Whyin the mme of the middle
, i ^ s , is so much brilliant , barbarous trumpery mixed up with modern civmzedAig lmess ? Th I whole affair resembles a harlequinade . Ifvou occupy a particular point of view , com-2 ^ thi groaning , creaking , trampling tram a ! it unrolls , you first see a compa ^ t bodv of policemen . That means the Seentl century . They are simple stern blue-coated men , well known to the ! 3 iJLin « bovs . Then ensue swarms of
small beings in scarlet coats , human we are iXiA but ™ cU like kingfishers in aspect Thirty , a loose array of 8 ^^ , £ v SI and staggering under portable ¦ £ ¦«*** ; * 2 rear of the troop being broug ht up by ^ three citizens upholding a lofty pole ; J ? * J " summit floats a banner , so long tlmt a weakly vout ™ looking like a half-burnt auy , is eniSged toprevfntthe streamer from d « jg I gtL mud . But the most fantastic « PP ^ consists of the Astley wPf ^ T ^ gSSd supernumeraries in armour and va ™ S iSico skirts , on jaundiced hinpogriifB the men calico a Kii'UB , uii ^ M . u . »« v » . — ^ ., , 1 nll .
tS ^ r ^ X ^^ i to Satoh the Ine , leng thenmg 1 , 1- « P « a « x buiatinff lB c tt"irt ' th l c ient \ v : f » i rV eUon afe de ^ ous of concealing their identity ? or that t ^ ^ is a delicate comp liment paid to the C * . l"K snUndours of the old Varccuall Vf ° \ Z whoels , containing the chiei magistrate ana the satellites of his civic throne ? i *** would be unfair to puss over the BbeiiH » equipages . They are really pretty , and would
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R [ district—' a tent deodorizing powder THE LEAPE . No . 399 , November 14 ; 1857 , ;¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ '¦ ¦ ¦ 1094 ¦ , ; - ' . : , ¦ ¦¦• '¦ ¦ : ' " " ¦ - ¦ ¦• - -
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 14, 1857, page 1094, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2217/page/14/
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