The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-16 00:00:00

MB. TUPPER ON RUNNING BROOKS.

Mr. M. T. Tupper is not satisfied with the relation
of man to the elements. He has already made an
unsuccessful attempt to shew humanity how to
become lords of the air. He is now concerned with
the way in which man uses his servant, water.
It is the irreligious custom in this degenerate
age to make a running stream a convenient
drain for every sort of nuisance. Our pro-
verbially philosophical poet protests against
this desecration in a letter to the Builder. Selfish-
ness, he says, leads to brook-pollution, and
the stream which is bathed in, the water
which is drunk, become " redolent of horrible
infections." The only way to prevent the great
offence against nature and society is, Mr. Tupper
thinks, to punish any fouling of a stream. Unconscious
that power has already been given to the Privy
Council to stop pollution, ignorant of the fact that
Chancery has in several instances stepped in to pre-
vent the discharge of matter into rivers, Mr. Tupper
earnestly pleads for a law creating an authority
with power to arrest the course of stream-fouling.
Should not Mr. Tupper look up his facts before ho
writes again ?

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS.
The Paris Temps, one of the leading French journals,
has expressed the opinion that the London press is
the best in the world ; but such is not the opinion of
the Americans. The Anglo-American Times holds
that though the " leading journal" of London may
in some respects surpass the New York papers, yet
in respect of gathering and distributing news
the lattsr are superior to all others.
journalism
the this essential particular of
the London press is manifestly inferior. The waste
of space in reporting parliamentary speeches is ono
instance of defective management. Sheet after sheet
is filled with the wearying sameness of speeches
which are often worthless and often meaningless.
When the " silly season" commences the great dailies
fill in the vacant space with ponderous reviews
and long, wearying letters from correspondents.
Compare this system with the extensive news-
collecting of the New York papers. The
Triune, for instance, of July 29, devotes its first
column to Cuban intelligence, giving official and.
correspondents' news, besides the telegrams in
another part of the paper. Then comes a telegraphic
account of a railway accident; then more telegrams
front the leading towns in the Union, some of them
many hundred miles distant; afterwards a very low-,p
list of telegraphic despatches from London and the
Continent, those from England being dated the
previous day. Next follow letters from all parts of
the world, Utah, France, England, Spain, P:-..ra-
guay, &c. So far as news is concerned, the London
journals do nothing equal to this. Their telegraphic
matter especially is very sparse. It takes -1:125,000
to start a first-class New York daily.

" .SOCIAL WRONGS."

A new monthly periodical, with the above title,
has made its appearance. Its aim will be to call
attention to the various wrongs under which women
at present suffer "in consequence of man's brutality
and selfishness." These, our contemporary thinks,
are " disgraceful to a Christian nation ;" it will,
therefore set before the public the most flagrant
examples of injustice to the weaker sex. The first
number ii filled with extracts from " Ecce Homo"