The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-13 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Merino's demeanour between sentence and execu-
tion is thus described :—" After the regicide was
placed in capilla, two clergymen constantly attended
him. He said to one of them who offered to confess
him—' I thought some honest friar would have been
sent to me for the purpose. As to y'u,
I know you too well to have confidence
in your ministry. You are as great a re-
probate as I am myself. Your conduct is well
known to me. B-gone: Merino at first quietly
listened to the second eccle-lastic, but when the latter
spoke to him of hell and his crime be sud•rienly
stopped him, saying, "Let us not talk of such non-
sense. You no more believe in hell than I do.
Leave me quiet. I can dispense with your sermons.'
Merino refused to take) any substantial food, and,
under the pretext of suffering from his stomach, he
confined himself to drink a li►sle broth and wine."

The following are the principal provisions of the Bill
introduced by Lord Seymour and sir. C. Lewis for the
poapo.e of regulating the supply of water to the
metropolis :
The first clause provides that it shall not be lawful for
any water company to take for the supply of the metro-
poll!, or for any pat thereof, any water from any part
of the River Thames below Teddington Lock, or from
any part of any of the tributary rivers or streams of the
River Thames below the highest point where the tide
flews in such tributary rivers and streams respectively
The second and third clauses direct that all reservoirs
ish in
kept
wwihtiheihn
waacteerrtahi,nr
telhiesteannpcpelyofoSf
L the
Paul'sCathedral,metropolis
shall be roofed or covered in; and that no water shall'
within such distance, be conveyed by
through ph iapteist oarhcaol
iv e
br ea d
laalufeadl a cftner.
any water com-
panyrects
otherwise
netswi see
ltahuasne
oneThoef her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State tod
erappoint
ai
eat
examination
nt 8
upiepnrptsoloynitnhgoer
atphneearrseoemnsse t
frtr,o)opmuml
metropolis
e h
the inquiry
wateran
thereof procure water for the purpose s
ofor any part
certain whether or not the directions of
and into the works of such companies,
es. thisor d order
Act
to
areas-
complied with by such companies; and also to inquire
nsdtak
hno.for the purples There are two modes of doing even what is right—
the pleasant end the agreeable; the unpleasant and unadearseertein whether or not the sources from nich
water
al
the disagreeable—and of the latter Earl Grey's dis- of such supply afford
patch dismiseing Sir Harry Smith from the Govern- procured wtane wa(er, and whether or not the
therefrom is or ought previously to dis-
ment of the Cape of God H .pe, is a perfect specimen. :1, ,
trieueorm to be subjected to any process for filtering or
It fully explains the Duke's euloefum on Sir Harry's otherwise purif • Reproving the same, and to re-
military mertts, and Lord Lendonderry's indigne- port thereon toy:ll(l(l"Secretary of State.
tion that a mere civilian should treat an old soldier Six months at the least before any water company
ao scurvily. take water fur the purpose of
.such supply as aforesaid
No one—except perhaps those two distinguished from any source whinh• at the time being is not already
Peers—doubts that the time had come for the recal resorted to as a source of such supply, such company
of Sir Harry SiniLh. We all admire his long and shall give notice of their intention so to do to one of her
bril • hant career; we all know his courage and gal- Majesty's principal Secretaries of State; and it shall to
lautry ; and we shall never forget the glory he , lesetul for Such Secretary of State to appoint a fit person
achieved on the well-fought field of Aliwal; for it or personsd to make inquiry and examination into such
mien ed source, nod wnether or not the same will eff ad
is part and parcel of our national renown. We can-
pure and 1.
wooleearne water, and whether or not the water
not be too grateful to him for the skillwithwhich h
e to tie precured therefrom is intended or ought to be sub-
assisted Lords Gough and Heediege in repelling jetted to any process for filtering or otherwise purifying
the Seikh inv.l,4*
riencion of India. It was because of his or improving the same, aai io re pert thereon to such
former expe
Kafir ware, and of his Indian Secretary_ of State. former ex
Lord G"f with the applause of the
e,
.11ry
tthe ninth clause it is provided that if upon con-
country) recommended (
oi. Sir Harry Smith to the Crown a
l)ienatedloans of the report of any person or persons ap-
for the Government h the Cape of Good Hope. In g,tat,,
that
anatoresaid, it appear to such Secretary of
that colony Sir Harry
tarisked a constitution, guar- water clompany is procuring water for the 1
celled with the coloniass purpose of suychs
band got the nation into net tiff irding purenally ash lafuresaid from any source 1
another Kafir war without' some water, or that water
oat of it. Under these eingat all able to get us distributed by aay wsucoh'
jeered
company ought before
circumstances, his recal be- distribution to be slaw . •
came, not a matter of choice, jet, to filtration or other
But Sir Harry is an
old, but of necessity.
process for purifying or
improving the same, it
soldier who . . *
In his time Awl be lawful for such Secretary of State, by writing
si hath done the state some service ' and even in under his hand, to signify the same to such company;
withdrawing him, he was entitled to ;
kindly Pxpres- and such company shall, with all convenient speed, take
aeons and to civil soothing words. Not
radical in the the necessary measures for procuring water from some
colony would intentionally have hurt his
give feelings, not other source, instead of such course re aforesaid (sub-
s boy in the streets would willingly him offence. ject nevertheless to the provisions herein contained) or
recal him w • •
The proper way to - for filtering or otherwise purifying
rte-
and politely to intimate that he had f •
ously,
ailed in water distributed by such company, as the case may re-
terminating the war which had occupied him—very quire.
mach, perhaps, on account_ of the lack Council, of troops. In case it appear to her Majesty in Co
The act itself, put it in its gentlest, kindest form, Was the representation of one of her
Majesty's
principal
censure and rebuke enough, without adding to it the Secretaries of State, that any water company has
neglected to comply with all or any of the directions of
agony of re roaches and the severity of accusations. I:he! A
But no. The Colonial-office, which had fostered end
With
tbct, it shall be lawful for her Majesty, by and
encouraged, endorsed lane supported every inchof
Sir furthereadvice of her Privy Council. to order that no
Harry's proceedings up to the 31st December, 1851-- until it be dividendoe shall be declared by such company
which had repulsed and dwfied all criticism on his jeety,s
principal Secretaries
to her Majesty by one of ber Ma-
itre ProceedingW'np 1,1 Siiehcretaries of State that such company
policy and treated with contempt all re-
directions. diligence to give effect to such
marks on his campaign—which was committed erovtdeddnel sb,knt,t.artion shall be eiveallwtolys, suchthat notice of such repre-
and recommitted to all that he had done this Colo •
. nial-office, which by its own conduct on the convict '
I the same to When
it
shail company fourteen days
please her Majesty to order
tu be taken into
question had first ' •
jeopardise the
dsuccess of mak-
ing of such consideration, and af.er the
the old man's administration—this department, on company to
declare
it shall not be 'lawful for such
the 14th January, 1852, fearful and apprehensive of State has certifiedretoaeledividend until such Secretary ot
the responsibility which Parliament might impose on have complied with suchrdikir ajesty that such company
it, coolly and deliberately prepares a bill of indict- Any water company, uponectit).ns.,
so to do by the owners water ‘l.og required in writing
meat against its own officer, addresses him in terms
houses supplied with "pters of the majority of
of contumely and disgrace ,accumulating its ownby such
street, shall provide and company in any
keep in the
faults and errors upon his head; treats him .
wit all I ~. • • h
i haters in such street a supply f pipes supplying
the indignity official censure can convey ; and—un- ,sufficient for the
f water domestic fairly contrasting him and his conduct • h
wtt that of I tarts of all houses supplied blue of the inhabi-
Lieutenant-Governor Pine in Natal—coarsely and 'in such street, constantly laidy such company
on at such a
vindictively dismisses him. as will make the
pressure water r h
With his recal the public will be satisfied, butstory of the highest of such houses eac the top
of sto
the terms and the manner in which the act we e shall forthwith II ' acid where the
_ 8 COM- else may requir . . Y down i
-11 substa
Pitted hy Earl Grey, o,.
no gentleman. man of feeling. non for any'
existing communication pi „ ~,,. lu-
p , lei, may
can approve. Itwas idle to suppose ''' - • ,-11 or ochp •
Srir arry he deheteu in comma
. rwise unsuited -
Smith could such pres,ure a. iihr,,etini to a
be kept doing lift!! or nothing but eorestant supply at . such
wri tin he i.iiteble to'
g home self-complacent diE-naches about a I stronger or oilier pipes es m 4
such
war that ~
, "" costing England at the rate of 120 ono/ 1 sapply; and the envision. of the W,terwerks eh
UIiPS
a montn, ana b t -1" ' "' " ) • Act, 18 ' *-- the tire!erts kers to .
47, authceisieg
.charge
n ating di,grece upon 132 r —los. But , meet
for Earl Grey,
t for pipes to be laid down by f•• teem as the:- in
who kn -••-• ere' when be .
appointed Lin3k—wh cw 14:3 seat .6- ' ioned, eI - - g seeti rent. and otLir.;'
hoedwas responsibla for his oF- caicerning the pipes to tall; dower, and the reply"
pointment--whe
defended his while career went (,f th.. t•r.pPenEse ofproviding and laying down the
dismissal write an -
dismissal is "t„ baincrs.ulting letter of ignominious same, shall be applicable ro any such company, and to
and a great " deal " too and in respect of the pipes to be laid down by them as
bad." And when the aforesaid and
treatment of Sir Harr ceountry compares this final the expense of 'd•ng and laying down
provi i
in office, and who hasyria6enlith—who h..is no 7elatif)7,s ' the same.
Secretary of Sta-,;k., who, risen from the rank =--oNt a 1 •
esnynfcupmroparny hot effarding supply, e: n.:: I -a ingdown
rington, did so in an apphiwunld:t recalling Lord Tore ,
prelpnalty of litpd.r 'Xci a''d e e"nsti tie -ton, ••re c3bi to a
will feel, and feel deeply,
thatory dispatch, the public during he time they iel- furtherfurther penalty of 40s. per day
measure of justice for kinstnee of the
Grey haa one litii does not containaya -e guilty of negligence. The
iker.F: t.,,,,, a•dforti another and a very the IVhig house of under the value of 101. pernaynn
scheduleu of rseee on houses
annum, as the rates are to be
1 „
e$
..
is
the
__,different one for ordih t 3 I 1 °
11 . s ribli otaKeeeseee who
. __ . . nare
.r, eby t e e et: opunictee to "iem she Bill le to
111 '! Indignant settled referred.
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