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SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENiNG, NOVEMBER 12, 1849.

from Ireland. The private market is by no means heavily TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL,
supplied with either foreign or colenial qualities, but the ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SE-
quantity of English offering is large. For most kinds, CRETARIES OF STATE.
the demand is in a sluggish state, and late rates are My Lord,—As the Minister of' a great country
barely supported. cannot have much time fur the exhuming of autho-
rities, I have taken the liberty of addressing to you
correct extracts of the original Latin and contem-
porary translation of the Confession of Augsburg,
from the copies:sin the Library of the British Museum ;
containing the protest of the early leaders of Protes•
tantism against the enforced observance of a Seventh
Day. _ _ _

SANITARY THANKSGIVING.
(From the Weekly Dispa‘ch.)
Mr. Editor,—On Thursday next we are all to
thank God, according to law, for the abatement of
the cholera. There will, undoubtedly, be much real
and heartfelt devotion on the occasion ; and there
will, as undoubtedly, be cant and conventionalism,
assumption, impertinence, and hypocrisy, in great
abundance. It is to the correction of this iniquitous
alloy that I would now address myself.
'I he positivity with which some people speak of the
designs and dealings of Providence is very presump-
tuous, considering that Heaven has never called them
to its secret councils. Some of the Clergy, and of
those who act as their sycophants and tools, are con-
tinually repeating that the cholera came because God
was angry ; and they further pretend to say why God
was angry, one frequently assigned reason being,
that letters are posted, sorted, or,carried on the:Sunday,
and other acts done of similar harmlessness and utility,
about which no considerate person would be angry,
much less put people to death by thousands who had
nothing to do with the transaction in question, or
who, perhaps, raised their voices in its reprobation.
Stuff of this sort disgraces and stultifies a national
thanksgiving. Look at the profane impudence of
the " Lord's Day Observance Society, in their
memorial to the Lords of the Treasury. They
say, " that the continuance of that Divine judg-
ment under which the nation now suffers, and for
which it has spontaneously humbled itself before
God, is to be apprehended, if his solemn and
emphatic command, Remember to keep holy the
Sabbath day,' be thus more and more set at nought
in a most important national department." Now, see
how facts have rebuked then dogmatical pretenders.
Their hit at the Government about a national fast-
day was disregarded—and yet the cholera has abated.
Their protest against the new Post-office regulation
was disregarded ; the plan is in actual operation—
and ,et the cholera has abated. The attempt,
whether made by an agent of the Lord's Day Ob-
servance Society or by some independent zealot,
influenced, perhaps, by their publications, and by the
platform fervour of clerical oratory, to upset the
mailcarts and Post-office omnibuses, by placing a
ladder in their route, has failed—and yet the cholera
has abated. It is demonstrably plain that they were
wrong about the Deity being angry at all ; or
wrong as to the reason of his wrath ; or wrong in
taking the cholera for a manifestation of that anger.
A truce, then, to these spiritual impertinences on the
approaching Thanksgiving Day The Pharisees are
put to shame by events ; or would be, were they
capable of shame for detected imposition. If the
incumbents and churchwardens did their duty, every
acting member of the Lord's Day Observance Society
would be made to stand through the service in a white
sheet, in his parish church, on Thursday next. While
other people sing praises, with frank voices and lusty
hearts, penance and prayer should be the portion of
those who trifle with truth, slander their neighbours,
make "judgments''' of calamities, and pretend that all
is for the glory of God.
Everybody knows how and why the cholera comes.
The Sabbath is broken at Birmingham and Notting-
ham as much as in the London Post-office, and yet
it came not there. Neither of these towns is par-
ticularly churchified. The inhabitants had the good
sense to take precautions. Water supply was in-
creased—medical visitation was established—nuisances
were abated. The enemy was kept at bay, and scarcely
touched their borders. This was better than pious
canting and criminating. It did the work. If Deity
was really angry with other towns, as these pretenders
say, it shows the reason why, much more truly than
they can tell; it also (to argue on their principle)
shows that for their rigorous sanitary precautions
with Birmingham and Nottingham Providence was
pleased.
Several classes of hypocrites will make themselves
prominent on the Thanksgiving Day, some of whom
1 shall particularize. First and foremost, all those of
the Clergy who have, directly or indirectly, opposed
themselves to the abolition of intramural burial.
"In all the larger parochial burying-grounds"
says Mr. Simon, in his late able and admirabl
report, " where the maintenance of a right to bury
can be considered important; in all such, and in
most others too, the soil is saturated and super-
saturated with animal matter undergoing slow decom-
position." The Church is thus a focus of physical
poison, which infects the entire atmosphere. And
what has been the difficulty, what is the difficulty, of
a complete transfer of funerals to appropriate locali-
ties beyond the boundaries of the metropolis ? The
clerical claims for funeral fees. Never let this be
forgotten. The pestiferous practice of intramural
burial would have half abolished itself, at least, but
for the obstruction to forming suburban cemeteries,
and, when formed, the inordinate tax upon them for
the advantage of the clergy. Projectors of cemeteries
have long stood in dread of the opposition of the
Bishop of London in the House of Lords, unless they
submitted to most unreasonable exactions. And yet
there will be gowned and cassocked men on ,Thurs-
day, raising their voices in tones of pious gratitude to
Heaven for the cessation of the plague, whose ravages
werefiggravated by the consequences, of their cupidity.
Out upon it! Their " offence is rank; it smells to
Heaven."
The next class of thanksgiving hypocrites will be
your local magnates, your Select Vestryman, your
Corporation leaders, your Monopolist Company Mana-
gers, all who, from affected or exaggerated jealousy
of Government interference, or from servility to civic
factions and interests, or from yet baser motives, have
so perseveringly thwarted both the enactment and
execution of sanitary laws. They have, practically,
been fellow-conspirators with the Clergy above de-
scribed for the promotion of the cholera. They have
no right to pretend to thank God that it is gone.
Smithfield-market is not gone. The slaughter-houses
(138 of them are registered within the city walls, in
58 of which the slaughtering occurs in vaults and
cellars), these are not gone. The tidal sewers
that poison the river are not gone. The up-steam-
ing effluvium from numberless sink-holes in the pub-
lic thoroughfares is not gone. And will the authorities,
who, in their ignorance, their obstinacy, their
pride, or their selfishness, neglect or delay to abolish
such abominations, dare to go to church, and thank
God that cholera is gone, while they offer all these
most tempting invitations for its prompt return ?
Mr. Simon affirms, backed by the reports of the
Registrar-General, that " within the city of London
there have died in the last year twice as many per-
sons as it seems necessary that there should die. To
this extent, death has been helped by the Corpora-
tion and others having command over the needless
circumstances that realised the surplus. Death an d
they are partners in the replenishment of grave-yards.
Corruption is their brother. Crowded vaults, like
improved streets, may be inscribed, " Widened by
the Corporation of' London." When those who, by
absurd authority, perverted influence, or culpable
neglect, have been parties to this needless multiplica-
tion of mortality, respond to the voice of thanks-
giving for a cessation of the consequence of their
conduct, it would be a mercy to stop their open
mouths with grave dirt, and check the utterance of
untruth, offensive alike to God and humanity.
A third class of hypocrites will be the last I shall
now specify. Owners of houses, unfit for human
habitation, yet made profitable by the workings of a
necessity which has no law, upon wretchedness who
can find no other shelter, may be chiefly amenable to
public opinion, but it is the more requisite that they
should not escape its reprobation. The proprietor of
a fever factory returning thanks for the abatement of
cholera is a sight alike unhoty - and preposterous. I
have called them "chiefly amenable to public opinion."
To a certain extent the late enlargement of the powers
of the Corporation over untenantable houses has
brought them within the scope of authority,
and they have fought the battle of plague
and pestilence like faithful allies. They have
blended the colours of Mammon and misery,
and done their damnable duty by disease and health.
I quote again Mr. Simon's report. " The intentions
of your Court, and "the industry of its officers, have
been, in a great measure, frustrated by the passive re-
sistance of landlords. Delays and subterfuges have
been had recourse to, by the owners of house pro-
perty, in order to- avoid compliance with the orders
of the Commission." If these men must and will
join in the thanksgiving, let them have a separate
service, congregated in some foul grave-yard, with
rotting coffins for their seats, and a chorus of owls
bats, rats, and all other loathsome things for their
psalmody.
After all, the best thanksgiving will be a determi-
nation that the mischief shall be remedied. Let
penitent landlords make their houses properly habit-
able. Let persons of local influence and authority
learn that there is more real dignity in co-operating,
though it be with a Government Commission, for
preserving health and life—more real dignity in
obeying even—than there can be in the pragmatical
adoption of an independent course. Let the clergy an-
nounce from the pulpit, as prefatory to the services of
the day, that their claims and fees shall not for one
instant longer stand in the way of a. wholesome dis-
posal of the dead. And if this manifest duty be
neglected by the specified classes, let the public take
the matter into its own hands, in so determined a
spirit as to override all interested opposition.
Heaven, it may safely he answered for, will accept
that as a more grateful offering than all the prayers
of all the parsons, or the spiritual songs of all the
Psalmodists.
Why should everybody be thankful in the way,
and only in the way, prescribed by authority ? Many
find churches and sermons very dull affairs. At-
tendance on them is not their natural mode of show-
ing gladness and gratitude. When anything Par-
ticularly good and welcome happens in their families,
they know it comes from Providence, and have an
honest sense of thankfulness ; but they do not show
it by catching cold and weariness, if nothing worse,
at church. Not they, indeed. They make holiday.
They take Brighton return tickets for their wives and

SEED.
The supply of linseed offering being small, that article
ruled steady, and fins samples commanded rather more
money. In other seeds, as well as cakes, only a limited
business was transacted. The total imports of linseed
into Hull this year have been Only 195,192 quarters,
against 315,244 ditto in 1848. The stock of clover seed
in bond is 44,000 cents.
Turnip,White, per bush. 105 to I Is,
Red aad Green.. ••1 Os I is,
Mustard, 8r0wn.... . 8s lisl
White .. .•• • .. Gs 9s
Tares, Winter ...... 4s Gd 4s 9d
01d............ .. Os Os
Canary, per quarter .. 75s 82s
llye grass... . 2os 24s
Clover, RedEn;. (cwt.) 355 50s
White .......... 343 42s
Foreign lied .. .. 30s 40s
White.... 24s 42s
Trefoil .............. 143 183

An extract is further appended from the Church of
England's Catechism, presenting the part in which
that Church, in obedience to the direction of the
Apostle, refuses to recognize the Fourth Jewish
Commandment as binding upon Christians. And there
is finally added the original Greek of the Apostle's
prohibition; with a translation more exact than, from
want of access to referencea, may have appeared in some
preceding parts of this discussion.
Fol. 21 If byshops haue auctoritie to onerate and lade
churches with infynite traditions and to snare the consciences,
why doth scrypture so often prohibete to make and to hears
traditions? Why dothe it call them doctrynes of deuyls
[devils I ? Dyd the holy ghost warns those thynges before
in vayne? Wherfore it muste nedes consequently ensue,
that syth ordenaunces instituted as thynges necessary-, or
with an opinion to deserue remission of synne, be contrary to
the gospel! : that it is not lawfull for any byshop to institute
or require such honours [observances]. Fur it is necessary
that the doctryne of Chrysten [Christian] libertie be kepte
styli in the churches, whiche is that the bondage of the lawe
is not necessary to justification, as it is wryten in the epistle
to the Galathians : Be not subjects agayne to the yoke of
bondage. The chyef place of the gospel! musts nedes be
kepte styli, whiche is, that we optayne remission cf synnes,
and justification freely by fayth in Chryste, and not for cer-
tavne obseruations of honours devysed by men.
What shal we thynke than of the Sonday and lyke rytes
of the temples? To this our lerned men saye, that it is law-
full to byshops or to pastors to make ordynaunces, that
thinges be ordrelye done in the Churche not that we shulde
purchase by them remyssion of sinnes, or that we can satisfie
for sinnes, or that consciences be bounde to iudge them ne-
cessary honours, or to thynke that they sinne, whan without
offence of other they breaks them. So Paule doth ordeyne
that in the congregation that women shulde couer theyr
heeddes, and that interpreters and teachers be herde after an
ordre in the Churche.
It is conuenient that the Churches shulde kepe suche or-
dinaunses for charitie and tranquilite se farre forth that ono
offendeth not another that all thynges be done in the
churches in ordre, and without busynes and trouble, but yet
so that the conscience be not charged, as to thynke that
they be necessary to saluacion, or to judge that they synne
whan they breake them without hurtynge of others. As no
man wyll saye that a woman doth synne which gothe forthe
abrode bare heded offendynge no body ther with.
Euen suche is the obseruation and kepyng of the Sonday,
of Easter, of I'enthecoste, and lyke holydayes and rytes.
For they that judge that by the auctorite of the churche the
obseruynge of the Sondaye in stede of the Sabbat day was
ordeyned as a thyng necessary do greatly erre. The scryp-
ture permitteth and graunteth that the kepynge of the Sab-
bat days is nowe free, for it teacheth that the ceremonies of
Moyses laws after the reuelation and shewynge. abrode of the
gospell are not necessarye. And yet because it was nedefull
to ordeyne a certayne daye, that the people myght know
whan they ought to come together it appereth that the
Church dyd apoynt the Sonday, whiche day (as it semeth)
pleased them rather than the Sabbat daye, euen for this
cause, . that men myght haue an example of Chrysten
libertie, end myght knowe that the kepynge and the obser-
vation neyther of the saturday nor of any other day is ne-
cessary.
Prodvgyous, monstruous, and wonderful disputations are
set forth of the chaungynge of the lawe, of the ceremonies of
the new lawe, of the chaungyng of the Sabbat day, which all
haue spronge forth of a false persuation and beleue of men,
whiche thought that there muste nedes be in the churche an
honouryng of God, lyke to the leuiticall, and that Chryst
commytted, to the apostles and to byshops auctorytie to in-
uent and to fynde out ceremonies, whiche be necessary to
saluation. These errours crepte in to the church whan the
ryghtuousnes of faythe was not clearely ynough taught.
Some dispute that the kepynge of the Sondaye is not merely
and fully goddes lawe, but in a maner, as it were of the law
of god. The literal translation accords best with modern
use ; " is not of divine right, but of quasi divine right"! They
prescrybe of holy dayes, howe far forth it is lawfull to works.
Suche maner of disputations, what other thynges be they
but snares of consciences. For all though they busy them
seines to modefye, qualifie, and fynde an epikee in theyr tra-
dycions, [For however they may try to make out their tra-
ditions to be 4rieucefas, epieikeias," conventional proprieties,"
—in allusion to a preceding place where the Greek word is
introduced as employed by the opponentsd temperynge the
rygour of them with fatiour,ble declarations, yet notwith-
standynge as longs as the opinion that they are necessary
doth remayne (whiche must nedes remayne where ryghtu-
ousnes of faythe, and Chrysten libertie are not knowen) this
epikee equitye conventional propriety] and fauour can neuer
be perceyued ne knowen.

Carraway ............
Coriander ............
Hempseed, per quarter
Linseed, Eng. sowing • •
Crushing ........
Baltic . • .. • ...
Odessa ..........
Linseed Cake, pr. 1,000
English ... • . 91 Os 101 Os

28s 34s
16s 25s
32s 35s
54s 56s
40s 43s
38s 44. c
42s 460

Foreign, per ton 610 s 8/ Os
Rape Cakes, pr ton 41 5s 41 lOs
Rapeseed,New,prlst2B/ Os 291 Os

BOROUGH HOP PaTARJEET.

The old duty has been officially announced at 79,7911.,
atd the new 58,9761. For most kinds of Hops the
demand is firm, and, in some instances, rather more
money has been obtained for prime qualities. The
supply offering is comparatively small. Since our last
report 20 bales have arrived from New York, and three
bales from Rotterdam. New Mid and East Kent
pockets, 81 to 11/ per cwt; New Weald of Kent ditto,
6/ to 8/ ; New Sussex ditto, 61 to 71 ss; Farnhams, 11/
to 12/ ; Yearling Kents, 3/ to 51 ss; Yearling, Sussex,
2/ 16s to 4/ 10s; Old Hops, 1/ to 3112 e.

The paragraphs are divided as in the original
Latin ; which is not done in the book. After two
more paragraphs, and a brief but impressive " Con-
clusion of the Boke," the signatures of the princely
fathers of Protestantism are given as follow :
To the imperiall majestic of Cesar the fyfte, his faythfull and
true subiectes.
Jonwx DUKE OF SAEON ELECTOR.
GEOEGE MARQUES OF BRANDENBRUGH.
ERNEST DUKE OF LUNERRUGII.
PHILIP LANDGRAUE OF HESSE.
JoHNN FAIDERIKE DUKE OF SAXON.
FRAVNCES DUKE OF LUNEBRUGH.
WOLFGANGE FETICH OF ANHALTE.
TUE SENATE AND COUNSELL OF NURENBERGE.
THE SENATE REUTLINGE.

[From the copy in the Library of the British Museum.
The title is] The confessyon of the faythe of the Garmaynes
exibited to the mouste victorious Emperour Charles the v.
in the Councell or Assemble holden at Augusta, the yere of
our Lorde 1530. Imprynted at London in Fletestrete,
by me Robert Redman, dwellynge at the sygne of the
George nexte to Saynt Dunstones Churche. Cum Privilegio
Repoli. [Black letter. No date; but is dedicated to the
ryght honorable Lord Thomas Crumwell Lord Preuy seals
and chyefe Secretarie to the kynges grace." Who was be-
headed on Tower-Hill, 28 July, 1540.1
Here follows tho original Latin; which is often
the easiest of the two.
Si jus habent Episcopi onerandi Ecclesias infinitis tradi-
tionibus, et illaqueandi conscientias, cur toties prohibet
scriptura condere et audire traditiones? cur vocat eas doc-
trinas donnoniorum, Num frustrl. hsec .przemonuit spiritus
sanctus ? Relinquitur igitur, cum ordinationes institute
tanquam necessarito, aut cum opinione promeranda) remis-
sionis peccatorum, pugnent cum Evangelio, qu6d non liceat
ullis Episcopis tales cultus instituere aut exigere. Necesse
est enim in Ecclesiis retineri doctrinam, de libertate Christi-
anti, quod non sit necessaria servitus legis ad justificationem,
sicut in Galatia scriptum est, nolite iterbm Lugo servitutis
subjici. Necesse est retineri prtecipuum Evangelii locum,
quod remissionem peccatorum et justificationem per fidem in
Christum gratis consequamur, non propter certas obsarva-
tiones, aut propter cultus ab hominibus institutos.
Quid igitur sentiendum est de, die Dominico, et similibus
ritibus templorum? Ad blec respondent, quod liceat Epis-
copis seu pastoribus facere ordinationes, ut rem ordine geran-
tur in Eccles*, non ut per illas mereamur remissionem pec-
catorum, aut satisfaciamus pro peccatis, out obligentur
conscientise, ut judicent esse necessarios cultus, ac sentient se
peccare cum sine offensione aliorum violant. Sic Paulus
ordinat, ut in congregations naulieres velent capita, ut ordine
audiantur in Ecclesiii interpretes, &c.

Tales ordinationes convenit kcclesias propter caritatem et
tranquillitatem servare eatenus, ne alius alium offendat, ut
ordine et sine tumultu omnia fiant in Ecclesiis. Verbm ita,
ne conscientito onerentur, ut ducant res else necessaries ad
salutem, ac judiceut se peccare cum violent eas sine aliorum
offensione, sicut nemo dixerit peccare mulierem, quire in pub-
licum non velato capita procedit, sine offensione hominum.
Talis est observatio diei Dominici, Paschatis, Pentecostes,
et similium feriarum, et rituum. Nam qui judicant Ecclesiis
autoritate, pro sabbato institutam esse diei Dominici obser-
vationem, tanquam necessariam, longe errant. Scripture
concedit, ut obeervatio sabhati nunc sit libera. Docet enim
ceremonies Mosaicas post revelatum Evangelium non neces-
saries esse. Et tamen quia opus erat constituere certum
diem, ut sciret populus quando convenire deberet, apparet
Ecclesiam ei rei destinasse diem Dominicum, qui ob hanc
quoque causam videtur magis placuisse, ut baberent homines
exemplum Christiania libertatis, et scirent nee sabbati nee
alterius diei observationem necessariam ease.
Extant prodigiosto disputationes de mutatione legis, de
ceremoniis novae legis, de mutatione sabbati, qua) omnes °rho
stint ex false persuasione, quOd oportet in Ecclesia cultum
esse similem Levitico. Et qu6d Christus commiserit Apos-
tolis et Episcopis excogitare novas ceremonies, gum sint ad
salutem necessariie. Hi errores serpserunt in Ecclesiam,
cum justicia fidei non satis dare doceretur. Aliqui disputant
diei Dominici observationem non quidera juris divini ease,
sed quasi juria divini, prtascribunt de ferias, quatenus liceat
operari. Ilujusmodi disputationea quid aunt Wind nisi laquai
conscientiarum ? Quatiquam- COnent.."
ditionea, tamen nunquam poteat mquitas deprehendi, donee
manet opinio necessitatis, quant manere necesse eat, übi igno-
rantur justicia fidei, et Tiberias Christiana.
[From the Latin copy of the Confession of Augsburg,
with the Apology or o efence of it by Philip Melanchthon,
in the Library of the British Museum. The title is Confessio
fidei exhibits Invietiss. Imp. Carol, V.,&c. Anne 1530. Im-
pressum V;teberga per Georgium Rhau' 1531. The pages are
not numbered in the part extracted from, but the extracts
begin in the 64th page.]
The Church of England in her Catechism, in the
answers to the question " What dolt thou chiefly
learn by these Commandments ?" lays down as
follows:

" My duty towards God, is to believe in him, to fear him,
and to love him with all my heart, with all my mind, with
all my soul, and with all my strength; to worship him, to
give him thanks, to put my whole trust in him, to call upon
him, to honour his holy Name and his Word, and to serve
him truly all the days of my life."
In which it is plain the Church of England bas no
more idea of deriving the obligation of a Seventh
Day from the Fourth Commandment, than the obliga-
tion of honouring the Pope from the Fifth.
The passage in which the Apostle prohibits the
observation of sabbatbs, is as follows, with an exact
translation.

Mn
07/1, TIS pivi've 13pctvei iroo•EL, tapf,
4oprijs, Ij voupnvices, craflficfrwm. Coloss. ii. 16.
" Let not therefore anybody judge you in meat or in drink,
or i❑ respect of feast or new moon or sabbaths."
The serious consideration for one who has charge
of the deck as your Lordship has, is what is to be
the effect on public order, when the numerous classes
of the community come to the knowledge that their
paid spiritual guides, or so many of them, have acted
as impostors and deceivers in this matter.
ONE WHO BELIEVES SABBATICAL OBSER-
VANCE PROHIBITED TO CHRISTIANS.

FASHION.—The outre and at best mere' fancy
sketches in books of fashion, too often wholly useless in
a practical sense, may have suggested to the Messrs.
Jay, of Regent-street, the production,of the work of art
forwarded by them gratuitously to the most remote
distances, Furtraying tastefully-executed designs of
mourning cloaks, dresses, &c., delineated from their
actual stock, thus combining a beneficial employment to
many artists with the advancement of commerce, and
giving the recipient a faithful notion of the general effect
and elegance of their various garments.—Evening Paper.
Viscount Anson has left town for Shugborough
Park, Staffordshire, where the Earl and Countess of
Lichfield and family are paining the oilmen.

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;
or to the theatre to see Mix:ready, if he be not yet
gone. And ci by not ? 'The Hebrews of old
praised God by dancing. They tuned their harps and
tinkled their symbais, 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 tierce 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
enconntered 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
the 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 OP WATER.
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. HAIKES seconded the motion, and hoped that
the vestry would adopt energetic measures to effect
their object. The pump in North Audlepstreet, to
which the poor resorted, was similarly poisoned.
Mr. NICOLAY 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. He wished to know if the
vestry had a legal remedy against the Com-
missioners ?

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