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LONDON, TUESDAY; JUNE 22.

SPORTING

A SPECIAL EDITION of the " EXPRESS,"
containing the results of the day's Races, is pub-
lished every evening daring the Sporting Samoa, at
six o'clock.

THERE is retributive justice in the visitation of
fetid odours to which the Members of the Legisla-
tor, are subjected in their stately corridors. When
magnificent bonfire had emancipated us from the
old inconvenient Houses of Parliament the 'Mee of
common sense was heard recommending the erection
of the new upon a more elevated and healthy site,
But the cant of sentimentality was all-powerful in the
Senate. The locality of the old buildings, it was
affirmed, was hallowed by myriads of constitutional
auseciations. Qeeea ELIZA'S= had boxed the
Srammit's can in the Painted Chamber ;
WALTZ& RALUOII bad been beheaded in Pales..
yard; and OLIVE' CaOnwru. had administered
Pride's Purge in the Home of Commons. No where
else than on the scene of such events could national
policy be fittingly diamond, or wise laws enacted.
ao it woe resolved to ergot the prettiest picas of
quaint stone-work that has been seen in England ih
the midst of a great laboratory of malaria. The
subsoil on which the structure stands is curiously
reticulated by the junction and intersection of
innumerable sewers, which °Davey to the spot the
filth of half London, there being no sufficient oatfall
to carry it off. The river, already surcharged with
filth beyond its capacity to carry off, has been
narrowed by protruding the basement of the New
Palace into its channel, and obstructed by bricking
tip one-third of the arches of Westminster-
bridge. The stench from the sewers is at all seasons
intolerable; the stench from the river and from
the bone-Miler of Lambeth is, in the dog-days,
pestilentiaL The Members of the Legislature are
mailed alternately and simultaneously by bad /Knells
from within and bad smells from without. With a
wisdom worthy of thine who selected etch a site for
the halls of national legislation, the task of
sweetening the foal scents generated from beneath
was entrusted to Dr. BOSWELL REID, who, alter
spending a mint of money, and spreading catarrh,
bronchitis, and innumerable other dimwit
among the Members; was at list compelled to
desist from his bellows-blowing. Upon whom
has fallen the task of repelling the foul
scents surging around the building from without
is yet unknown, but no doubt some other
BoawELL REID may be found. One thing, how-
ever, is certain, that the prospect of the New
Palace being ever made anything else than a gorgeous
temple of CLOACINA is of the faintest. It mew
doomed to be in perpetuity the haunt of all abomina-
ble and deleterious stanches. Verily historical sen-
timent would need to have no nose.

It was a drugs freak of ths ;;;Ilsotive wisdom"
of England to construct at an immense outlay a Airy
tale in stone, and then plunge it into a reservoir
which is constantly being replenished from a great
retort for the generation of miasma. Nor dose the
site of the Royal Residence appear to be much
better. Unless we are much mistaken, the sower
which was nuns the Tye-bourne must find its
way ender, or close put, Buckingham Palace to the
marshes of Millhank ; and the pains lately taken to
purify the pond in Bt. James's Park is a pregnant hint
as to the quality of the oosings which find their way
into it. But the constitutions of Royal personages,
Minimums of State, Legislator, and Courtiers may
be different from those of ordinary mortals. What
would be death to the vulgar may be salutary to
them. It must be so, or with the whole environs of
the Metropolis to choose from, these clause would
scarcely otherwise have squatted down in an ever.
mous cesspool, only not so bad u the prenincts
of Jacob's Island.

The three millions of vulgar inhabitants of the
Metropolis do not, however, bear charmed lives like
the " upper ten thousand." This great river-diaiSfeo-
tion question has a practical interest for them. It is,
however, a problem of which we see little hops of •
satisfactory emission. Let es consider for a moment.
Seem thousand years ago the level ground on either
side of the main chases' of the Themes from Batteenea
to Itotherhithe, between the rising grounds of Surrey
and Middlesex, was intersected by irmumerable clan-
nels. The inhabitants were few, and the teeniest
filth of a great city unknown. Up these multitadi-
nous channels the rising tide toyed ample and easy
way, and its reflux carried down the fluvial
deposits to the sea. There were agues is their
season. bet es yet typhus or cholera was not. But
now, throughout the whole of this space there leanly
ore central channel op which the tide with didiselty
' forme its way. London is situated so little above sea
level that the effectual scouring of the river-channel
is here mare dependent upon the beck-draught of
the receding tide than upon the waters from the
'pleads. In proportion se all channels but use
have been choked up, and that one much narrowed,
the asecust of water brought op by the tide has
been diminished, and, as a necessary consequence,
the scour of the receding tide has been rendered
hiss effective. And at the same time that
the river's power of carrying off deposits
has been diminished, the inhabitants whose
filth has to be carried off bare multiplied from
themes& to millions. Nor is it suMcient to
carry off the daily dole of dirt thus generated ; the
useumulations of centuries have also to be removed.
This is a task not to be aceomplishei by " powerful
articles." It seems equally beyond the power of
the ingenious gentlemen who lectare on gases and

Commission will be composed of the same ingenious
amateurs who have been lecturing learnedly and
doing nothing about matters sanitary foe the
last dozen of years. Giving them a new
name will not render them one whit
more capable. The task seems beyond the
powers of any but a demi-god--some modern
Hzect:Las with a will as powerful as that of the first,
and with modern machinery substituted for the
thews and sinews of the old Grecian. We may
look long enough for such a one; and yet till he
.arrives there is little chance of the Thames being
I sweetened. Is the summer of London destined to
become u pestilential u that of Rome ? Is London
to be prepared for the meditative inspection of Lord
MACAULAY'S New Zealand Volowy, not by battle, or
siege, or earthquake; but are its inhabitants to be
literally stunk out of it ?

The answer to htquirias for Lady Morgan yester-
day were favourable ; and it is to the honour of
literature to observe the public sympathy which has
been accorded to the precarious state of one of its
most eminent female profemors in this country.
Lady Morgan has made through her social position
a new claim upon literary distinction, and we
jaeartily wish her recovery both for her own sake
mod for ours.

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which is sow wend q daily ; the iodic relics, obtebed by
the Maria& espaillisas rat out to marsh of Sir Jolts
ltsakila ; PeradaDeshe's walking-stick. Among the
interestb‘ehjelle eallaralal to her Majesty wee • pieta ei
the deka ed the Ueda. =a of war the Twelve Ape d%
rhea iM hammilim auras Ja Mao 'larboard Ilabaasped,
the wad Ishii ampisair MIA. id* want4isio. Ia
juserpteltioa • piece ail we taws le the royal
party, which had bees barbillaCelahltmlear for 300 years,
which. boyoad.behtg bipth by the. Is d the ea water,
was quite snail. la as adjebiag sem, the age In which
Mn. Noble we. amid abaci dada' bar aptivity in China
—• rude wooden eciestesetioe, barely epacloos enough to
afford comfort toe Cochin China fowl.

Afar peas( ma boar, the Queen •nd the Dachas. of
Brabant, attended by the Dachas of Atholl and Colonel
Benner* left foe Hsokia(h•ea Pal•as.
The Prince Consort, with the Duke of Brabant and the
Count of Flanders, ranalstad not l • quarter-part seven
o'cicalt.

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1M PARIS.

ARIES, MONDAY Emune.
• which yesterday was only
t it was furious at Lord
about the introduction of
colonies—is now enabled to
In an astiole signed by
-1 its demonstration that
the slave trade under

great deal of abuse of Eng-
land for her cruelty in India and her misgovernment
of Ireland. After having exhausted these extra-
neous subjects, it dwells on " the generosity and the
noble sentiment of glory which is revealed in every
page of French history," and draws a pretty sketch
of nations and governments awaiting from this side
of the Rhine, " not only the signal of a progress in
moral order, bat also the heroical and disinterested
devotion which carries that progress into execution."
At length condescending to come to the point, the
Chnatitutiounel denies in the following terms the
truth of the statement made by the Earl of Malawi-
bury :

Ths pretended slaves on board the Regina Corn were not
slayer, they were run who had been free for a long time
put; they were citizens of two republics, exported from the
United Mates to Liberia, who hid freely contracted engage-
meats for our colonies, sad who had no other motive in re-
volting than thirst of blood and love of pillage. Need we
add that It is fan, entirely false, that irons or chains are to
be found on board our vessels employed la the emigration
trade ? It la a pure inventioa. Everybody le aware that
resulting of Attics= is elected under the active and able
surraillan*, of Frenoh endows, under the immediate control
of the administratioa, which pieces an agent on beard every
Teasel employed, and under the eyes of the surgeon who has
•responsibWty to protect. The positive accueatic.na made
in the Hones of Lords were therefore void of all pretext es of
all feenedstion

The Patric is mach more dignified and reason-
able on this subject. With reference to the matter
of the Regina Coeli, it mays :

His lordship was pleased to declare that this enrol, the
crow of which was horribly massecred, had no emigrants
on board, but a cargo of slaves; and that the system of
emigration, by which the French government endeavours to
lintroduce free blacks into its colomitm, le nought but a
newel of the slave trade. We must protest mead Chace
essetious. It may be that the system chosen by our govern-
int Is defactive this is generally the fate of most under-
baies at litelessest ; het it would he sovereignly unjust
to soaped the istemetee el Fears. Frame has no
lion of returning to slavery, which she has abolished ; she
has only sought the means of supplying her colonies with
free labourers, Should this system snoourage abuses,
Frames will employ all her weal in preventing then ; should
these abuses prove inseparable from the system, she will
abandon the system Itself with the same {manse with
which she had adopted it.

The Patric, whether from an error of judgment,
or in pursuance of insidious instructions, I cannot
tell, does its utmost to throw odium upon England
for what it calls " oppressive conduct" towards
Naples in the Cagliari affair. Commander Carafe's
despatch (ia which, after his royal master bad been
convinced that delay and chicanery would no longer
be tolerated, he surrendered at discretion, but sought
to convey the impression that Naples wee very M-
used) is held up as a model of a dignified protest
against lawless force. According to the Petrie, the
King of Naples is a hero end a martyr; it "thinks
the precedent disastrous," and believes that it is
" only fulfilling a duty in opposing to such an abuse
of the right of the strongest the eternal principles
of justice which protect the weak, and are the gua-
rantee of the political independence of states." The
&Cele of this morning has by anticipation a very
good answer to all this "gag." Replying to the
Univers, the Mien, and the Gazette de France,
which have already evinced their sympathy for the
Bourbon and the tyrant, the &isle says :

The adore et the Cagliari was illegal, lad ha detention
was an abase a power. It woe neotaasry to threaten a
resort to force in order to obtain its reatitatice ; what was
there extraordinary or unfair in that f It is no doubt desirable
that strong powers should not abuse their strength, but it is
also more important than some people seem to think that
weak powers should not be allowed to presume upon their
weakness as an excuse for oouunitting all sorts of illegal
acts.

The Bourse has again been very heavy. M.
Rente's angry article in the Constitutiormel annoanc-

ing the firm deteimination of the French govern-
to persevere in carrying on the slave trade under
the name of the importation of free blacks produced
some sensation, and provoked a good many sales.
Contradictory reports are still current concerning
the state of the negotiations between the railway
companies and the government. The Rents fell tio.
for cash, and 10c. for account, closing at 68fr. 15c.
and 68fr. 100. Mobilier fell 11fr. 260. The Orleans'
Railway fell 20fr., Northern and Lyons 10fr. each,
Western Bfr. 7,5 c., and Eastern 2fr. 60e. Southern
was without alteration.

Several German journals announce that the Prince
of Prussia will go to Ostend in the month of August,
and that he will be accompanied by Baron Man-
teuffel, the president of the Council of Ministers—
& circumstance which is considered as giving a poli-
tical character to the visit.

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