The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-27 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AI LONDON tiftIDGE

THIS DAY —Morning 2 imin. after 12 I Evening 28 min after 12
To-Moßaow—Morning 48 min. after 12 , Evening 13 m n after 1

Tap; W EA'fidElt.—Stim (Mum, JuxE 27.
Tincrawaurrice, fl THE SHADE.
78—highest since noon yesterday.
55-loweA this morning and during the' night.
78—thin day, at noon.
BARonsTER, 30.27.
WIND S. S. E.— fine sunshiny weather.

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.
placStesateatofiithil:e Win d and Weather at each of the following
o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
are erranged in order of latitude.
PLYstotrrn—Wind ....
2l
E.. gtentlgeTt e breeze—cloudless.
Poorx —Wind
BEIGHTO:.--
.- Wind E. calm—cloudless. reeze—cloudless.
HASTINGS--Calm—douctiesB.
BOUTEWEPTON— Wind S" strong breeze ra t ove cs .
FOLKESTONE-- WI" S.W., gentle b
TuNertiDGE—Wind N. w.,
gentle brreeze—foggy.
BAsnictsToKE—Wind S., gentle breeeeze—cloualess.
ORE EN WI C H—Cal m —par tially cloud y•
cloudy.
Bwm-Dori—Wad mw., light airs_ .•
, Paitally cloudy.
COLCHESTER—Wind S.W., gentio breeze
—Partially cloudy.
CAMBRIDGE —Wind S . gentle bre.-ze-...eloual___.
YARMOUTH—Wind S. W., gentle breeze-0017135.
% HITBY—Wind S. W., gentle breeze—partially Cloudy.
The returns from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Wednesday morning at . 6
eciock :-.-
LIMERICK—Wind N., gentle breeze—cloudy.
CARLOW—Wind S. W.„gentle breeze—cloudy.
hlut.uweAn—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. '
FoucEsroNE—Wind 8.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
CREwg—W ind W., gentle breeze cloudy.
YORK—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—rain.
Le.:u ind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
Wm-ray—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
DARLHIGTONW ~ gentle reeze—
ind S. by Wb overcast.
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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1851.

In the House of Lords last night,

The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second reading of
the Charitable Trusts 1311. The principal feature in the
measure was the appointment of five Commissioners
(two of thein to be paid), who should be invested with a
general control over all charities, to whom the trustees
of chdrities might apply for advice, and annually furnish
a list of their accounts. On the other hand, trustees
were to be indemnified where it was shown they had
acted by the advice of the Commissioners, and no action
for fraud or malversation was to be commenced against
trustees without the consent of this newly•consiituted
body.

After some remarks from Lord BROUGHAM and Lord
STANLEY, approving generally of the objects of the Bill,
though they avoided committing themselves to the details,
the Bill was read a second time.
Their Lordships then adjourned.
The Commons held a morning sitting,
On the order of the day for the third reading of the
Bt. Albans' Bribery Commission Bill,

Yesterday our columns were adorned with the
official report of the Government Commission on the
question of a supply of water to the metropolis, Con-
spicuous among the declarations embodied in this
inestimable document, we observe one to the effect,
that " rivers must always be the natural and indispen-
sable channels of drainage"—drainage being em-
ployed here, most erroneously, as a synonym for
sewerage. Remember this is tne language used, not
by a City functionary enamoured of old abuses,
not by an Alderman infatuated with the igno-
rance and ordinances of a former age, but
by men supposed to be men of ability and
information, men selected for the inquiry
because of their supposed enlightenment, men who
appear to carry a guarantee of their intelligence in
the initials appended to their signatures, those three
magical letters F.R.S. Yet from personages like
these we find emanating such miserable indications
of fatuity as that afforded by the preceding quota-
tion. According to them drainage means sewerage,
for which the rivers of a country are the natural and
indispensable channels. Now both of these assertions
we beg leave to pronounce most contemptible for
their glaring and self-evident inaccuracy. Drainage
and sewerage are words by no means synony-
mous ; their signification is essentially different—
drainage implying, forexample, the carrying off of such
superfluous quantities of water as may result from
rain, from the melting snow of the mountains, and
from that aggregate of rills, and brooks, and runnels,
and rivulets which go to the making up of every
river, while sewerage ia restricted entirely to the
conveyance of the foul and putrescent outpourings
of every locality distinguished as a place of human
habitation. Using drainage, therefore, in its right
signification it would, of course, be correct
to say that rivers are its natural and in-
dispensable channels, though, at the same time,
it would be ridiculous to announce, with an air of
formal solemnity, a fact so very plain and self-evi-
dent. It reminds one of SAM WELLER'S illustra-
tion—" A self-evident proposition, as the cat's-meat
man said, when the servant girl called him no gentle-
man." It would be as absurd to advance such an
opinion officially, through the medium of a report
from a Government Commission, as to remark,
with the same air of sagacious circumspection,
that the atmosphere is the natural and indispensable
channel for the falling shower. After protesting
however, in the first instance, against the quibbling
phraseology in which the document above-mentioned
has been couched, we have a stronger protest than
this to enter against the argument which that phrase-
ology is intended to advance, namely, that the rivers
are the necessary means afforded to the inhabitants of
a city for the carrying off of its sewage matter. Such
an assertion is in accordance with the memorable re-
marks of the London Alderman, that PROYIDENCE
had evidently intended that rivers should be
thus employed by the fact of His having directed
their currents through every considerable capita

quite forgetting, poor silly man, that the rivers were
not directed through the cities, but that the cities
were constructed on the banks of the rivers. Silly
as was the opinion of the municipal potentate, it has
been endorsed with all imaginable formality and de-
liberation by the Government Commission for the
supply of water to the metropolis.
For ourselves, we can never cease proclaiming the
truth that rivers are most unnaturally employed as a
means of carrying away the sewage matter of a town
or city until we can find the system at length happily
abandoned by a more wise and humane generation.
Experience in regard to the noble stream of water
flowing through the heart of this vast metropolis has
assuredly taught us long since the folly and atrocity
of polluting its current as it has been so long polluted,
and transforming it from the blessing to the curse of
the surrounding population. Let it not be forgotten
that the Thames, if properly cared ' for, that is
to say, if permitted to convey to us the
pure filtrations of the land accumulated in its
course to the channel from its fountain-

head in the vicinity of Cheltenham, might
supply the citizens of the capital with an
abundance of life-giving nutriment, instead of poison-
ing them daily, as at present, when employed as a
means of city irrigation. Whereas, according to the
position of things as they are, the metropolis is not
only supplied with a foul beverage from this source,
but there is perpetually floating to and fro among
the bridges the collected filth of London and West-

minster, during the summer in the broiling sunlight,
the river being as far up as this subjected notoriously
to the agitation of tidal influences. Yet with these

evils glaring upon their comprehension, the mem

bers of the Government Commission are not ashamed
to assert that rivers are and must always be the.natural

and indispensable channels of drainage, meaning
sewerage, as we have already sufficiently well indi-

cated ! Against every such monstrous perversion o
the truth we never can protest too loudly, whether it

come from the lips of an ignorant City functionary,
or from those of an enlightened (r) Goverment
Commission. Never can the people, living
in a capital situated near thn mouth of
a large river like the Thames, listen to
the enunciation of opinions such as those here par-
ticularised without profound sentimetrts of disgust
and indignation. They tend, indeed, to declare that
the dispensations of DIVINE PROVIDY NCE are ne-

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comarily malign instead of being alwa;is beneficent,
and to aver that the course of Nature is one of cruelty
and violence, instead of being one of unbounded love
and of maternal and perpetual conservation.

Gentleman the Member for Kerry
is Tenhteitin°
lie°dtuoraconsiderable credit for the zeal and
•lf of his , un-
fortunatedefrauded depositors in the
ability which he has
displayed on beha.
constituents, the
eßrekgsi'slatti in bringing
re. Neither
their
cSeavoifngths
cliarsaelseeuanndderKthilelarnnoetyi
has he been indifferent to the injuries inflicted on the
sufferers at Rochdale and Scarborough, for whom he
has likewise endeavoured to obtain redress,
and he has certainly succeeded ill establish-
ingnot only a strong claim, -, upon the
compassion, but also upon the justice of the country.
Expediency and equity alike demand that full
condition of those,
consi-
deration should be given to the
supposed tE at they bad
who, to say the least of it, .
a rl3ll 03.
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Government security for their hard e - b
Pro-
vident habits should be sedulously encouraged by
those entrusted with the administration of public
affairs. Nothing could be more impolitic than to
enable the drunkard and spendthrift to exult over the
prudent and careful, and to boast that they had at
least the satisfaction of spending their money, and
that they were after all in no degree worse than those
who had appropriated a portion of their wages as a
provision for old age, sickness, or any other emer-
gency that might arise, but who had their stores
swept off by the infamous frauds of some parties and
the culpable negligence of others. The Government

Mr. BANBES moved as an amendment that it be read
a third time that day six months.
Mr. HENLEY and Mr. STUART supported the emend-
ment, which, on a division, was negatived by 37 to 16,
and the Bill was read a third time and passed.
At the evening sitting, on the order for going into
Committee of Supply,
Mr. ROEBUCK brought the Danish claims once more
before the House. These were claims, he observed, of
British merchants, in consequence of" losses sustained
by them in the Baltic in 1807, under the following cir-
cumstances :—The expedition under Lord CATHCART
and Admiral GAMBIER, in that year, ended in the bom-
bardment of Copenhagen and the seizure and confisca-
tion of 3.000,000/. of Danish property. Tha Danes re-
taliated by confiscating the property of British mer-
chants, whose claims for indemnification he advocated
on the grounds that the English Government had misled
the merchants by assuring them that they might safely
send their goods to the Baltic; that at the time of the
seizure of the property at Denmark there was an under-
standing on the partof England that she was not going to
war with Denmark; that the act of the Danish Govern-
ment, in seizing the property, was one of mere reprisal;
and that England had still in her hands 3,000,0001. of
Danish property seized before a declaration of war, out
of which indemnification ought to be made for a wrong
done to individuals by the Government of this country
for the benefit of the community. He moved a resolution
that on Wednesday the House would resolve itself into
a Committee to consider an address to her MAJESTY
upon the subject of these claims.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the
motion, contending that the seizure had taken place
during a state of war, and that consequently the claims
were unfounded.
Colonel SIBTHORP supported the motion, which, on
a division, was negatived by 126 to 49.
The House then went into Committee of Supply, Mr.
BERNAL in the chair, and proceeded with the estimates
for Civil Services, Civil Contingencies, and the Com-
missariat.
The various orders of the day having been disposed
of, the House adjourned at a Quarter past One o'clock.