The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-03 00:00:00

HEALTH AND CIVILISATION.

The enforcement of the powers granted to magis-
terial discretion for ordering the remov.l of nuisances is fer-
tile in difficult*. The progrer of civilisation has keen at-
tended by the creation of a hundred nolaortie but mut useful
trades, which cannot be safely carried oa within the vicinity
of inhabited regions. Yet they, for the most part, aim at the
utilieation of the waste materials of great town., and hews
cannot be profitably conducted far from great towns. They
repneent the economics of tedium; her savings from the
endue tub of a great population ,• her marvellous untatoor-
phrase ot the despised mamma of the =thrifty into articles
of value and general use. Most people cart remember Bow-
common; a suburb of London, unsoiled by brick-
duat, unsullied by the impurities of town; green, swims-
gamut& and abundant in rural attributes. But now
it le the centre of chemical economy. There, leillECO
gathers the refuse of tilt town, stews it, distil it,
acts upon it with sulphuric acid, end fertiliees the land, or
speeds the manufacturer's skill with the metamorphosed pro-
ducts of this noxious filth. Thus Mr. Croll converts fool
gee -liquor into shun ; Mr. Pound bake', night-mil, and pro-
duces an admirable manure; and Mr. F. Carey mixes
sulphuric acid sad sulphate of lime with sticking fob,
Arad from this dainty mess manufactures an agricultural
hetilleer. These are not trades to be discouraged or
smsered at. They are to be admired ; but at a
distance. Their unquestionable utility, their undoubted
modal value, and economic propriety, invest them
I with a claim to *pact which nothing but a el*
proximity men destroy. It can well be imagined that the soul
of a maker, offloer in filled with a great honer end indigna-
tion at the overt wren= stench from a yard full of decom-
posed fieh, described, with unconscious wire, ea tt fresh from
illingsgate." Nothing can to more disgusting from • sanitary
point of view; nothing more delightful to the chemist, who
ages in prospect the ingenious and useful changes which his
art will shortly work M the unpromieing mesterei. This will
sufficiently account for the discrepaecy of opinion between Mr.
Carey and the officer. of health, when theireition of nuisance
was lately diseuased befute Mr. Yardley. Dr. Ansell and his
staff diwed that the stench WIA overpowering. end the
nuisance semealnable. Mr. Carey roundly smarted that all the
whams. ea that side were perjured. It is the point of view
which mare m wide a deference. The duty of the ma-
gistrate ander each eircumetances is difficult. He cannot
hat empathise with the Indignation of the manufacturer,
who lab his hedastry impeded, and his trade injured; he
mart bat Nippon the smeltery officer, who maintains that
health is paremennt to weelth. It is to be lowed that the
heat& of the may cannot be consulted without serious
Injury to the lads trial welfare of the few. The miundee-
toren mast, perdsce, go further afield, or submit to =ph,-
mat and anymodtable reatrktions. Meanwhile, it is just that
considemelon should be had to the luduatry and the wealth
which have bees exploded in these useful enterprises, and no
exaggeration should eater into the statetoesta of injury to
health from mated enkaace.— Ids Lama,

Tams CNILDILIN AT A BIII.TH.—W• recently
sasoesesi QM • Mr. Derma, of Erbabel, had st"
*di to Ore boys. On Sunday ler she attended with them
at tee Indessaihrt chapel to her them christened. They
wan seemnake weed Abr•batu, bar, end Jac.b. At the
doss of Me service, at the auggrehon at the Rev. R.Werser.
the pastor, a collection .aa mode on behalf of the mother mad
sipring.—litelbreithire Advertiser.