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TUE MAYOR.
It is thought that tl a
majority in the corporation, will select Mr. Josephs,
proprietor of the Northumberland Hotel, to fill the
civic chair next year, in violation of a cowpact by
which the Conservatives and Liberal: t have heretri-
fore alternately selected a Lard Mayor from their
respective rank. This year the latter party have
set aside Mr. John Martin, the elect of the Conser-
vatives, at which the letter have justly taken
serious umbrage. They will not, I believe, inter-
fere in the elect ion of Mr. Josephs, who is a hiolly
respectable gentleman. Though always voting with
the Liberals, he is an :Englishman and a Protestant.
TUE CHAIRMANSHIP FOR. THE COUNTY OF DeWN.

STAMPED ....sd.

SANATORY CONDITION. OF BRIGHTON

(From the Lancet.)

With a due regard to the wholesome maxim of
Cervantes, we are disinclined to stir up unneces-
sarily the unsavoury question of Brighton drainage;
but recent efforts at local drainage on the Hove side
of the town are bringing matters to a crisis by
greatly increasing the defilement of the sea, and iti
must soon be decided whether Brighton shall cleanse
herself, or be for ever dirty. Naturally this fa-
voured seaport has the highest advantages ; placed
in a sheltered valley between the open sea arid
wide- tretching Downs, accessible to London within
a space of time which is not greater than that which
separates the suburbs of London from its centre,
Brighton has found in the gifts of nature a source
of unexampled prosperity. But that source has
been tainted, the sea is befouled, and the air of the
Downs is polluted ; and in present symptoms of a
delining prosperity may be traced the results of a
neglect of those principles of sanatory government
which the crowd of visitors seeking health, and the
physicians who direct them, have the right and
feel it a duty to insist upon.

According to a rumour (says the Evening Iliad)
prevailing to-day the chairmanship of the county o
Down, vacant by the retirement of Mr. Jonco, has
been bestowed by the Lord Lieutenant upon Mr.
D. 1). Pigot, son of the Chief Maori and purse-
bearer to the Lord Chancellor. This is a report
which we certainly find it hard to credit, but the
confident manner in which it is circulated leaves us
no option. The appointment is in all respects a
most extraordinary one. Mr. Pigot has no quali-
fications that the public have been able to discover
for even a third-class county, far less a first class
one, as Down is. Werehe a man of marked ability
and established reputation at the bar, to pass out of
the usual course to give him a leading county would
still be reprehensible, but in this case such a pro-
ceeding is doubly offensive, It is, in fact, nothing
short of an insult to the senior barristers, Queen's
counsel, and others—men of proved competency and
servants of the Crown of long standing, who are de-
nied their just advancement from lower-class coun-
ties to superior ones. Such conduct will of course
be regarded as cancelling all the obligations under
which any of them may have considered themselves
placed towards their party.

The question is very simple, and everyone may
easily understand the existing state of things. At
present Brighton is drained in great part on the old
and abominable cesspool system. This refers mainly
to the worst houses. The rest are drained into a
sewer which., mpties itself into the sea opposite to
the Old Steyne, and a little to the west of the
Chain-pier. Here everyone may see a long iron
pipe discharging floods of black abomination into
the waves, discolouring them far and wide, and
often floating on the surface and spreading an oily
smoothness which extends beyond the extremity of
the pier. Here everyone may smell, especially on
a warm day with a gentle south-westerly wind—
which should be the most delicious weather at
Brighton-- a noisome stench, which is strongest and
most sickening at the bottom of the Old Steyne, and
and along the Marine-parade.
A second outfall has just been created—is, in
fact, in process of completion ; and this is why the
question presses now. The western extremity of
Brighton, known as Hove, and including some of the
most fashionable and costly residences, is under the
separate jurisdiction of Commissioners. Until lately
this part was especially ill-drained; but, since the
recent discussion of this dangerous nuisance, the
Hove Commissioners resolved to cleanse their part
of the town, and they have done so by draining
rapidly, and on a very complete scale, into the sea
at the line of junctiun of their district with Brighton
proper—that is to say, opposite to the end of Water-
loo-street, and at the western end of the esplanade.
Now the sea-way at Brighton runs strongly east-
ward, as is well known, and may be observed by
any one who takes a cursory glance at the trending
of the shingle and sand between the timber groins
on the shore, erected to oppose the eastward sifting
of the surface. Hence the sewage of the whole of
the Hove district will under the present manage-
ment inevitably float past the flout of the espla-
nade, and be carried in the current in a direc-
tion parallel with the King's-road. Thus no
part of the sea in front of Brighton will
escape this unutterable defilement. Granting
that the sewage will be so largely diluted with
the sea-water as to cause no noisome exhalation,
which we have excellent practical and scientific
reasons for disbelieving, there will still be for the
large class of bathers the disgusting conviction that
they are bathing in sewage water, and close to the
mouths of large outfall drains ; while every one
will have the agreeable consciousness that the
" bright blue sea" before them is the receptacle of
the abominations of the town. All this is no way
mysterious or dfficult of comprehension ; and even
if the remedy were very difficult and very costly
we should not hesitate to state the unpleasant
truth, and require an effectual change. Although
town councillors may growl and lodging-house-
keepers gnash their teeth at the exposition of their
infirmity, yet they may rest assured that their best
friends are not those who cry peace where there is
no peace, or proclaim cleanliness where filth exists,
which may serve as a focus for disease. The plan
which municipal wisdom has discussed for im-
proving the drainage is simply futile; to carry
the pipes a few score yards further out to sea is
only to delay the return of the sewage to the
shore, not to prevent it, and only to dilute the sew-
age with more sea-water, not to keep the sea clean.
The Hove drainage nuisance will still exist, and
Brighton will be irrevocably ruined by the comple-
tion of that fatal system. But there is an excellent,
cheap, and perfect remedy, and we have great hope
that, one way or other, sufficient pressure may, at
this opportune moment, be put upon the Brighton
Town Council to induce them to adopt it. It is by
tunnelling through the chalk, and carrying an
underground sewer landways, parallel to the sea, to
Saltdean, three miles eastward of Brighton. We
may say at once that this is pronounced by able
engineers to be a most efficient and cheap operation;
indeed, it is estimated at only £3o,ooo—a sum
which is, we fear, too small ; but it happens that
all the present system of pipes may be brought
into that main conduit, and the sewage may be
thus carried off three miles to the east, where
arrangements may be made for utilising it for
agricultural purposes ; or, if the Brighton people
will have it so, they may cast it into the sea with-
out dams ge to any local population. The Hove
Commissioners are willing to fall into this scheme.
They are willing to connect their system with this
main conduit, instead of continuing their pipes
into the sea; but if the resolution be not
pretty
quickly taken they will carry on their sea pipes
at a cost of some £5,000, and then it will be idle
to expect them to incur expense in retracing their
steps. It must be earnestly hoped, then,
for that the
people of Brighton will adopt the scheme
car-
rying off their own and the Hove sewage to Salt-
dean. We have given strong reasons enough for
adopting this determination ; we will add another
reason why they should not foolishly resolve to be
content with " standing in the
old ways" and drain-
ing through the old pipe. That great out-fall sewn..
the Old Steyn
which poisons the sea oppesitetee
_e _ _
d for a sewers
was actually never built cursein d
some years ago, to
it was built as a waterc
nd to prevent the overflow of
carry off storm water, a.
h used to inundate the old
l
the Preston brook, which aced
" Ha o
opposite to re and Hounds."
London-road
Inhabitants were expressly forbidden to drain into
heavy fines •
were
his watercourse, and.imposed on
h,„ should violate this regulation
anyone • But one
he householders found it •
after another of t convenient
the "ntowatercourse, and
to drainthe authorities
winked at the practice, as the day of cesspools
to wane and the
begansystem of main-drainage
became popular, until at present
part of Brighton discharges its
sewage into the
sea immediately under the eyes and noses of the
dwellers on the Ma • rine-parade, and of all who
pass along that part of the seaport. As we have
said, the Hove
Commissioners now threaten to make
matters worse by draining the western end of the
town into the sea opposite Waterloo-street, and
fouling that part of the sea which is most used by
bathers. The plan which we have described, and
which is authenticated
hailed with delight by a large section of the inha-
bitants, offers a speedy and effectual release from
these evils. There is no reason why Brighton
should not be as healthy as Eastbourne or any
other marine resort. The inhabitants may be assured
that they will consult their best interests by
strenuously endeavouring to make it so ; and, mean-
while, they are under great obligations to Dr.
Alfred Hall for having the moral courage again to '
bring the notorious grievance before the public.

The Vienna postman Kallab, whose abstraction
of so many thousand letters has made so much noise, has
been condemned to 10 years' hard labour.