The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-12 00:00:00

children, and have sandwiches and a glorious scamper
on the sands; or they strike up a dance ; or they go to
the British Museum to see Nimrod, if he be yet come ;
er to the theatre to see Macready, if he be not yet
gone. And why not ? The Hebrews of old
praised God by dancing. They tuned their harps and
tinkled their umbels, and the Bible records it as
not less devout than listening to long Rabbinical
homilies. In Greece the drama was devotion. If
good, a new play served for a pious thanksgiving. I
protest against praising God on Thursday by stopping
trains and closing theatres and museums. Rather
throw them all open. Let people see sights, and the
sea, the greatest sight of all, gratuitously. It should
be no dolorous thanksgiving. Indulge the great
national heart in showing its gladness, by whatever
harmless mode it prefers, whether with or without
church-going.
One more hint it is a bounden duty to give, how-
ever vainly. In this fierce cholera battle, the men of
the medical profession have done their work gallantly.
They have stood in the breach between the dead
and the living. They have persevered, under the:most
depressing discouragements. They have cheerfully
encountered the worst forms of personal peril, and
not a few have fallen victims. Their remuneration
has been as beggarly as their behaviour was brave.
Had destroying life been their occupation, instead of
saving it, coronets would have been showered on their
heads, the public treasure lavishly poured out at
their feet, and their names would have been greeted
with legislative thanks and acclamations. And yet no
battle-winning implies a tithe of the intelligence which
hundreds of that profession have evinced. No army
has ever rendered equal service. Have we no public
honours but for wholesale homicide ?—no substantial
recompence but for fire and slaughter ? Around the
sanitary hero, even when he falls, there is none of
th• false glitter of military glory. The medical is not
an aristocratical profession. Men who have fairly,and
strenuously earned the nation's gratitude will sink
back unnoticed and unrewarded into the common
ranks. The folly and knavery of aristocratical Go-
vernment, and of servile opinion, will laugh at the
idea of making Dukes of doctors rather than of de-
stroyers. PUBLICOLA.

MARY LEBON E VESTRY.
Mr. Malalieu in the chair.
THE SUPPLY or WATER.
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Mr. JACOB BELL drew the attention of the vestry
to the tainted, unhealthy water with which the parish
was supplied. The impurity of the water was in a
great degree attributable to the flushing of the sewers,
which contaminated the water, and rendered it both
dangerous and offensive. He moved that a commu-
nication be made to the present Commissioners of
Sewers upon the subject of the wells of the parish,
which were poisoned by the sewers.
Mr. 1-lAikcs seconded the motion, and hoped that
the vestry would adopt energetic measures to effect
their object. The pump in North Audley•street, to
which the poor resorted, was similarly poisoned.
Mr. NIcoLAr said that private as well as public
property had been injured by the Commissioners of
Sewers. Some months since the sewerage in Oxford-
street was lowered—hence the springs above were
destroyed, and the people had to use the bad water
under the sewer, and into which the sewers dis-
charged themselves. lie wished to know if the
vestry had a legal remedy against the Com-
missioners ?

The resolution, and an address to the Commis-
sioners of Sewers upon the foetid and unhealthy
water with which the parish was supplied, were
unanimously adopted.