The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-22 00:00:00

THE DRAINAGE BILL

TO THE EDIT ROOF THE SUN.
SlR—Your dislike to the enactment of new laws in-
terfering with the property of her Maje3ty's subjects,
carries you the length of concurring with the well-
known saying of a Tory aristocrat—" May I not do as

I will with my own ?"
You appear not only to condemn the details, but the
principle of Lord Normanby's Bill for Sewerage, &c.,
and in doing so you disallow (at least by implication)
the propriety of the Legislature interfering to abate a
nuisance, or to interpose its authority to prevent the
health and lives of the community from being placed
in jeopardy.
I am a reader of your Journal, and like much the
strenuous exertions you make to procure the abolition
of the Corn-laws, and your remonstrances against the
encroachments of aristocrats and ecclesiastics on the
liberties of the people ; but why stand up in defence
of those who build houses and streets without sewerage,
drainage, or conveniences for the inhabitants to deposit
their refuse ? Are you acquainted with the existence
of the evils, and the extent to which they prevail ? and
are you not aware that the effluvium arising from stag-
nant pools o f foul water, deposited from houses not
having sufficient drainage, produces both disease and
death ?
I must take it for granted that you are not well in-
formed on this subject. You have not seen the offen-
.sive exhibitions of filth, or smelt the noxious miasma
which is almost every when; to be found in densely
poi,ulated manufacturing districts, or you certainly
would not have devoted the columns of your Journal
to the advocacy of non-interlerence with a state of
things which it would be the disgrace of any civilized
Government to let remain without attempting to remedy.
Huddersfield, Feb. 19, 1841. 1.
[We readily insert the letter, as we make no objec-
tion to have our opinions controverted. We neverthe-
less adhere to our own views. We are well acquainted
with the existence of the evils our Correspondent men-
tior s,but the quedon is, what is the best remedy? We
have seen too many failures in legislation to
rely on a new law. Our Correspondent apparently
thinks law omnipotent, and that it is sure to effect what
is proposed. As long as the law-maker fancies he can
correct such evils by a statute, he wit be care'ess of in-
flicting them : and believing, as we believe, that nine-
tenths of the evils complained of by our Correspondent
wile from a multiplicity of bad laws, such as laws taxing
corn, timber, sugar, stupid police regulations, &e.
cannot, like our Correspondent, antic:pale any bets
from another law, though it appear to him and ot
likely to be beneficial.—En. Sun.]

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head we find the following paragraph in the
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honoured by Court patronage
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aa lucid,
a logical, and a delicate production :—.' Several
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journals have announc-d during the past k, at h
Majesty is again in that interesting state
believe the fact
be as stated, and also that it is stated correctly. It ii
now nearly ton days I.iace information of the pleasing cir-
cumstance was conve)ed to us from a quarter on which we
have always sof ly relied, and, thouo we declined to give
it publicity at tho time, it was not from any doubts of the
accuracy of our intelligence that me did so, but from a
certain delicacy which precluded us from touching on such
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foremost, to a topic at such a period. The daily press having, how
ever given publicity to the fact, the reason which -
influ-
enced us on that occasion has, consequently,
force ; and we now hasten, among the
con-
gratulate the country upon the auspicious event::
A very considerable failure Was of as
talker;
having occurred at Hamburgb. The
of Eimbke and Co.) has been en'2:e
cra d house named (that
and its stoppage is understood to have in the core trade,
a firm at Cork which suspended been caused by that
its payment some time
since.