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Thirbbh: SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 9.

Tsars he a French proverb which says that when
a gum cannot have what he likes be must like
what he has. It is only by the help of philoso-
phical maxims of this kind that those who are
condemned to live in London throughout
these second dog days can make their enforced
sojourn in the metropolis bearable. Wbenneither
sea breezes, mountain roving, partridge shooting,
nor a month on the continent can be had, it be-
hoves mortals to submit with a good grace to
London empty, London dull, London where there
is nobody in the clubs, London from which every
acquaintance has fled, and London given up to
the perjure and contractorafor the construction of
the Metropolitan Railway Eztenaion. We who
remain in London cannot have what we like,
therefore we must like what we hare, but in the
present state of this huge human jangle it is
certainly no easy matter to like the town, even
if we do our utmost to believe that we are con-
tented and happy.

For, of a truth, Londoners are not well treated
at this season. If we could look for or expect
nothing eke in this sultry September, it is surely
not too much for us to hope that the streets might
be as clean as at other swoons ? Men do not ex-
pect to gather grapes from thorns, nor to find figs
on thistles ; nor do they look forward to an inch
of liquid mad in the streets during the hottest days
of a very hot autumn. Yet amongst our other
troubles we have this to contend with. From
Chasing-crass eastward, far away into the un-
known miens of Whitechspel and Mile-end, the
streets of London are not merely watered, they are
sluiced in such a way that we might easily believe
ourselves to be walking through a town where a
heavy fall of mow had been succeeded by a sudden
thaw. The honest wags who perform the dtay
?mammy of eenvertiog the dui!! of oar roads into
IfiCd Isom to take a pleasure in their work. Every
now and then they come to a spot where there is
more dirt than usual, and here they generally stop
their carts, and let the water run out freely for a
minute or so, determined that nothing scull be left
untried to prepare people for the wet slush of winter,
and make them experience the delights of muddy
boots in what is really the driest season of the year.
Are these men paid by the number of water•carts
they empty upon the streets I It would really
seem so, for the end and aim of their work appears
to be to get rid of as much water, and therefore
to make the streets as muddy, as they possibly
can. To cross over one of our great thoroughfares
during tie busy hours of the day, or even to walk
near the edge of the pavement, without getting
splashed froea head to foot, is almost an impossi-
bility. In the west-end of London this annoyance
is not on groat, for the simple rearm that the
streets are swept in the early morning, and the
water-carts are more sparing in the quantity of
water they empty over the roads as they go along.
But throughout the City the nuisance has become
intolerable, and from London being the amulet'.
of towns during the fine weather, it has now be-
come distinguished for the dirtiest streets in
Europe.

To complain of the pavement being "op " at
this season would perhaps be out of place, and
yet it appears to the uninitiated as if so many
large streets need not be pulled to pieces at one
and the same time. Would it not be as well to
take one place and finish it off before opening out
a second, and without sending the carriage,
omnibus, cab, and cart traffic to wander through
a maze of small streets, and end by getting blocked
up for several hours at • time 1 Let anyone who
thinks his temper to be proof against petty
troubles take a Hansom in Oxford-street and tell
the driver to find his way to the Bank. To say
nothing of two, if not three, impainabie ohstrao-
lions before reaching Newgst•-street--not to take
into account having to wander out of the right
path into the regions of Fitzroy-square, Great Or-
mond-street, Bedford-row, or the British Museum,
and then returning to the main route to find your-
self but a few yards advanced on your journey—
where has the vehicle to betake Beall to in order to
make its ending f Newgate-street is shut ; there
is a barricade—from which even Parisians might

take a lesson—in Cheapside ; Smithfield is boarded
round for the Metropolitan Railway Eitel:ay:on,
Sad Alderagate the workmen ar3 preparing
to put in a stato of siege. Cabby is not
equal to the difficulties which now surround
him anywhere beyond Holborn on the north-east
line of streets. No amount of geography would
suffice to carry him through the present season of
few fares and stopped up thoroughfares. Nay, even
local knowledge will not suffice. The narrow lane
which yesterday was open, to-day is impassable;
and when last week were thriving &bops, there is
now a yawning chasm preparing for a prolongation
of " the Underground." Formerly, if proceeding
in a hurry from one part of London to another, a
cab, if not the cheapest, was certainly the quickest
mode of progression ; but to day we have the ad-
vantage of combining speed with economy, for if
any one is in a hurry to reach • given place in the
shortest possible time, there is nothing left for it
but to walk. The great heat of the season may
render such exercise far from pleasant, but it is
at any rate preferable to losing a train or being too
late for dinner.
All these are, however, minor evils in comparise•
with the foal smells, evident bad drainage, and go-