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London, England, 1849-11-27 00:00:00

the land of their net .v
Lty would only be of temporary
duration—the day ,)f retribution upon their adversa-
ries depending in
some measure upon the will of
FUAD EFFENDI,ttyen
acting as Plenipotentiary Ex-
traordina'ry 0 St, Pete:s.burgh. Although we cans
unhappily, ens tertain but feeble hopes of any such
rapid realis atir:a of the golden dreams of patriotism,
and althone, we cannot conceal from ourselves the
000\letiur that those words were uttered by KOSSUTH
',simply as a m eans of affording some wholesome solace
to ir.en in a state of profound dejection, there
cr.l be no question but that matters are
assuming a very serious and somewhat com-
plicated aspect when we find the representative of
the Turkish SOVEREIGN speaking in terms of digni.
fled and resolute remonstrance to the Russian
Au-roca.AT, while a British fleet almost immediately I
afterwards makes its appearance at ,the mouth of the
Dardanelles. While such important events are
transpiring simultaneously on the Baltic and the
Mediterranean, there is surely ample ground for
conjecture, and hence the sanguine expectations of
the most renowned among the heroic emigrants from
Hungary is to a very considerable extent justified.
Knowing that occurrences such as those already
mentioned are taking place on the European
continent, the readers of the excellent speeches
addressed to the inhabitants of Newcastle on the oc-
casion of the recent demor.stration will not fail to
recognize that that assemblage assumes a character
of real and engrossing interest. The meeting was
not, as might have been otherwise argued by the
more surly among the class of political curmudgeons,
a meeting convened to express sympathy for exiled
destitution or patriotic pauperism.; No ! :thanks
he to the nobler sentiments of humanity, the
little band of emigrants recently removed ;,from
Widdin to Shumla are, by contemporaryZoccur-
rences, invested with an importance in some measure
commensurate with the grandeur accruing to them
from their own bravery, civism, and self-sacrifice.
Hence it is a subject worthy of observation and re-
tnembrance that the sympathies of England, so far
from having in any degree diminished, have become
enhanced and extended towards the upholders of the
cause of the Magyars, the aspirants for the liberation
of Hungary : and this we conceive was sufficiently
apparent in the earnestness of the speeches delivered
amidst acclamations at the recent meeting of the
beral inhabitants of Newcastle.

!rho cause of sanitary relorna is steadily progress-
ing, and thanks to the exertions of Mr. SiatoN, there
is every probability that a really efficient Health Bill
for the city of London will be introduced into Par-

liament early in the next session, and be carried
through without any very great opposition or delay. As
was observed by Mr. Deputy PEACOCL, when speak
ing of Mr. SIMON'S invaluable report at the City

Court of Sewers on Tuesday—
"lf a tithe of what was proposed in this report had
been inserted in the Bill of last year, and pressed fur,
the Bill would not have been passed. But a very dif-
ferent feeling now prevailed respecting sanitary matters
.--(Hear)—and very likely the City might he able to get
some further powers to enable them to carry out what
might be practicable in the suggestions of this report."
If the City Commission of Sewers does not possess
sufficient powers to carry out the recommendations
of that report, lot them lose no time in applying to
Parliament for further powers, and having obtained
those powers, let them forthwith proceed to exercise
them, and to abate all the nuisances and to introduce
all the improvements necessary to preserve the health

of the inhabitants of the districts committed to their

charge, or let them at once set their house in order.
The public has beeu roused from its apathy by the
visitation of the cholera, and the public has determined
that drainage shall be rendered efficient, that the

Thames shall be preserved from pollution, that in.
tramural interments shall cease, that intramura

slaughter-houses shall he abolished, that the dwellings
of the poor shall be cleansed and ventilated; and the
public cares not one jot or tittle at whose hands it
receives these benefits, and will not be diverted by
the cuckoo cry of centralization from insisting that
these things shall be done by the general. Government
if the local municipal bodies show themselves unable
or unwilling to meet the emergency; as Mr. Deputy
HARrtisolf warned them on Tuesday—

" They ought nut to deceive themselves. The public
required something to be done, and if the Corporation
did not take a stop in advance in this direction, no doubt
some other parties would be empowered to do so."
The tone of the discussion which we have alluded to
as having taken place on Tuesday, and which resulted
in the reference
.of Mr. SIMON'S report to a commit-
tee, was one on which we can congratulate all the
advocates for sanitary reform. It is true the patrons
of filth still ventured to urge some objections to the
introduction of measures of cleanliness, but those ob.
jections were urged " with bated breath and whis-
pering humbleness." Even Mr. 11. L. TAYLOR, who
has hitherto been the great champion of the dirty
interest, apologised for rather than defended the
existence of Smithfield Market ; while Mr. Ilicxs
contented himself with saying that if all slaughter-
houses within the City were abolished the City would
frequently be left without animal food, a risk we
should be very well content to run, so
that we could thereby secure the abolition
of intramural slaughter-houses. There were
no laudations of the peculiar salubrity of
Smithfield, neither were there any long arguments to
prove that the slaughtering Of cattle in densely po-
pulated localities greatly improves the health of the
inhabitants. It is clear that the conservators of filth
feel that theirs is a lost case, and they now defend their
rotten cause much after the same lugubrious and
despairing fashion as the conservators of Toryism
defended their rotten boroughs during the discussion
of the Reform Bill. The suggestion of Mr. ELLIOT,
with regard ,to Smithfied Market, is one well worthy
of consideration, and would, if carried out, render the
boast of Mr. DIXON, that Smithfield is one of the most
salubrious spots in London, a reality instead of the
self-evident absurdity which it is at present. Mr.
ELLIOT Said—
" Let them abolish that disgusting and immoral place
Smithfield Market. Let them build a row of houses
round the present site and call it 'the Working Mau's-
square,' Let them draught so many men into their new
houses; and then in vacant spaces, from which the
horrid courts and alleys that now existed had been
cleared away, let them build another batch of properly
lighted and ventilated houses. They had a space to
Vgin with—Smithfield Market ; and they might go on
till they had built a sufficient number of comfortable
houses for the working men now employed in the City,
whose numbers, though large, were yet small as com-
pared with the number employed in the suburbs."
And taking skilful advantage of an assertion made by
Mr. Alderman LAWRENCE, he added,
" Mr. Alderman Lawrence had stated that there had
been no cholera in the gaols. We should not have done
our duty to the workman in the City till we had freed
him from influences so pestiferous that we guarded the
thief and the felon from them."—(Elear, hear.)
What is the Christian name of Mr. Deputy LOTT ?
It should be THOMAS, for man more hard of belief
than Mr. Deputy LOTT never was born into this
mortal world. VOLTAIRE himself was a credulous,
superstitious, easily satisfied person, in comparison with
our sceptical friend of the City Commission of Sewers.
Listen to the words of the oracle, on the subject of
intramural interments :
" But the plan had been adopted of burying bodies
within the city; and on his conscience he did not believe
a single death had occurred in consequence."
The worthy Deputy is certainly a perfectly unique
LOTT, and possesses a singular conscience ; but even
he does not venture to suggest a continuance of in-
tramural interments, and is forced to admit that the
opinions of the present day are in favour of the in-
terment of the dead without the city. In order to
keep the sewers free from accumulation, Mr. Deputy
PEWTEESS suggested that water should be constantly
running through them into the Thames, to which
Mr. Alderman LAWRENCE objected that, in that
case, they would have to drink the filth as it carne--a
valid objection under existing circumstances, but
one which would cease to be of any force if
Some means were devised of deputrefying the
sewage, and precipitating from it all solid
matters, held either in solution or suspension,
before it reached the mouth of the sewer through
which, in that case, the deputrefied supernatant water
would alone flow. When some such plan shall be
adopted, then the suggestion of Mr. Deputy Pew-
TRESS may be acted on with advantage, but not until
then. We protest against the adoption of any plan
which shall still further pollute the Thames. On
reviewing the whole of this important discussion, we
cannot but congratulate the public on the immense
progress which the cause of sanitary reform has made
among the municipal authorities of the city of London
—a progress for which we are mainly, if not alto-