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under the control of Parliament, so much my ti-

fication occurs that " the accounts are thoroughly
cooked" without any, save official persons, being
able to discover the process by which it has been
effected. There is a general impression that
something is decidedly wrong ; but the blot is
seldom if ever hit, and the nation is victimised in
strict accordance with the most approved system
of red-tapism.

The simple fact, that the civil service estimates
have increased within five years from 2,012,0001.
to 7,250,000/., or about 250 per cent. is quite
sufficient to attract attention to the subject. Mr.
JAMES WILSON, last night, undertook to explain
this very untoward result, and he certainly dis-
played extraordinary tact and judgment in the
manner in which he discharged his duty. His
ability was no less manifested in the clear and
intelligible manner in which he dwelt on the
strong points, than in the masterly skill with
which he slurred over, or passed sub silentio the
less favourable items. He did all that roan could
do under the existing system, to make things
pleasant to the House. But, still it is palpable
that something more is wanting, and that there
must be a complete change before Parliament or
the country can be satisfied with things as they
are, not as they ought to be.
There was one strong point in the case,
and it is almost needless to say that Mr.
WILSON made the most of it. He showed
that, by a very salutary attention, many
payments which had formerly been charged
on the Consolidated Fund, or stopped in transitu
before the receipts were credited to the Exche-
quer, are now subjected to the control and regu-
lation of Parliament. This is unquestionably a
decided amelioration. But that control should
be real, and not merely nominal. Before it can
afford a valid guarantee to the tax-paying com-
munity, against undue extravagance, the accounts
should be rendered intelligible, so that every man
of ordinary capacity, whether in or out of Parlia-
ment, should be able clearly to understand every
item, and the object for which it is required. Any
job might then be immediately detected, and lavish
expenditure prevented, or at all events materially
checked.

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AND OPERA. HOUSE.
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Under the patronage of Her Majesty and His Royal Highness
Prince Albert.
The encomiums of the press and the approbation of de-
lighted aud'ences justify Mr. William Cooke in announcing
"II Trovatore," with Equestrian Illustrations, every Even
ing, until further notice.
THIS EVENING (Saturday, June 13), Verdi's far-famed
Open. of IL TROVATORE ; or, The Gipsy's Vengeance.
The whole of the Music as performed at the Italian Opera,
And Equestrian Illustrations,
Miss Rebecca Isaacs, Mr. Augustus Braham,
Miss M. Somers, Mr. Brookhouse Bowler,
and Mr. Francis Kirby, and
Miss Fanny Huddart. Mr. Borrani.
Conductor and Composer- Hen- Meyer Lutz,
With a powerful Baud and Chorus.
Manager and Director of the Opera Company—Mr. Augustus
Braham.
After which, Mr. Wm. Cooke's Inimitable SCENES in
the ARENA, supported by the Unequalled Troupe of Eques-
trians.

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head of ouriPublie Works Department an Admi-
nistrator
who does absolutely seem to know how
to spend the' Public Moneys upon Public Works,
for the Public Advantage. And instantly HE of
all men is chosen out of the Ministerial gioup to
be the target for all sorts of splenetic attacks and
the butt for every conceivable kind of petty and
malicious insinuation. We have had enough
of this. We are sick of the repetition upon
repetition—of the rechanffee upon rechauffee.
Parliament, Public, Press-0110 and all are
heartily tired of it. It is becoming too stale and
too obviously dull a joke to be any longer toler-
able. We hope that any future perpetrators of
it, whether in Lords or Commons, will henceforth
be coughed down as so many bores and dullards.
And, beyond this, we earnestly trust that Sir
BENJAMIN HALL, undeterred by all these misera-
ble little jibes at his extravagance, will persevere
manfully in the laudable course upon which he has
adventured.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1857

Another attempt was last night made to neu-
tralise the benefits derivable from the Divorc6
and Matrimonial Causes Bill. The bishops
mustered strongly on the occasion, and under
the leadership of "SAMUEL Oxorr,!' offered a
strenuous and almost factious opposition to the
just and salutary measure. In a very full House
an amendment had been very properly rejected
by a decisive majority, which would allow indi-
vidual clergymen to exercise their own private
scruples, by refusing to marry parties who had
been divorced. This' decision was at-
tempted to be reviewed and set aside,
by a comparatively small party, who, forgetting
the logical consequence that the less must always
be included in the greater, the particular in the
universal, attempted to prohibit marriage by any
clergyman whether he entertained these scruples
or not, and to reduce such nuptials to a merely
civil contract, which could not be hallowed by a
religious sanction. The proposition was merely
an exhibition of petty spite, which was fortunately
rejected by a majority of four. It could not have
answered any beneficial purpose, and might have
been productive of consequences little thought of
by the Right Rev. Prelates.
As the Duke of ARGYLL clearly pointed out, it

But, as we have stated, this cannot possibly be
achieved under the present system. The most
complicated questions are brought forward in a
thin House, anxious to get rid of the dry topic
with the greatest possible expedition. Tens of
thousands, hundreds of thousands, even millions
are voted with the most profound indifference.
What is everybody's business is never attended
to by any ; or, if some indefatigable person takes
the trouble to investigate some one point, his inter-
ference is regarded as a bore, to be got rid of in
the most summary and expeditious manner.
No decided improvement can be effected until
a regularly constituted Committee of Finance has
been appointed, whose duty it is to investigate
every estimate, and to report fully and fairly to
the House on its nature, extent, and object. The
necessary information would thus be obtained to
enable Hon. Gentlemen to know something of the
matters about which their votes were required.
Some abuses would unquestionably still exist,
but they would gradually be abolished. The
Committee might be packed, but there should be
some independent members who could enlighten
their brethren. it would also be requisite that
the several estimates should be prepared an an
earlier period, so that they might be in the hands
of every member at the very commencement of
the session. But this could easily be achieved by
the exercise of proper official diligence during the
ParliamentEry vacation. The subject is one of
vast importance to the welfare and prosperity of
the nation, and we only trust that it may receive
the attention it so eminently merits, and
which must lead to considerable improvement,
although everything that could be desired may
not for some time be attained.

would have been the first step to a complete sepa
ration of Church and State, the introduction of the
sharp end of the wedge that might lead eventually
to a great hiatus. We need not say that we
should not deem this any very serious evil, but it
would be pas Ping strange if the fatal blow should
be administered by the members of the Episcopal
Bench ! It would, however, tend to promote
immorality ; might lead some who, having unfor-
tunately once yielded to temptation, were anxious
to lead a new life, to disregard the solemnity of the
tie which was reduced to a merely civil contract
without any religious sanction. It could
not possibly pass the House of Commons, and
might, unless their Lordships yielded at the last
moment, occasion a very unpleasant collision
between the different branches of the Legislature.
The Bishop of OXFCRD and his associates should
look to this in due time. The attempt to render
the clergy independent of the law is one of a very
dangerous character to those largely endowed under
that verylaw, and if persevered in, the natural re-
sults must be anticipated. Other efforts to reject or
emasculate the measure may be anticipated on
the third reading. We trust, however, for the
sake of the general community, and still more of
the discontented patties, that they may be deci-
dedly rejected, and that a fertile source of reli-
gious dissension may be got rid of by the salutary
decision of both Houses of Parliament.

We have before noticed the fact of epidemic
diseases being almost entirely abolished, and the
death rates reduced to nearly one half in model
dwellings,—which are only model in respect to
the cesspool taint, and the foul emanations from
old house drains and sewers prevented, from their
having some provision of ventilation, from the
means of cleanliness by water supplies being given
within the living and sleeping rooms, and from
overcrowding being prevented. Even common
lodging houses, have by these means
chiefly been rendered comparatively salubrious.
Wsth these practical examples before us, the
deaths from preventable disease in this metro-
polis of ours, occasioned chiefly by foul air are
estimated at above ten thousand yearly. Each
man of the middle class, who, besides doing
business in the metropolis, sleeps in the foul
drain and cesspool tainted atmosphere—it is
proved loses thereby several years of life and
working ability. The means of prevention is
therefore a large question, which csnnot be
allowed to drop, and ought not to be allowed
to flag. But at each step it is beset
with difficulties, or with questions which
are unresolved to those who have thought
only slightly upon the subject, or too readily re-
solved in the shape of immense outlays with very
doubtful results. The latest question raised in
the metropolis has been the purification of the
Thames. We are inclined to agree with Mr.
CHADWICK, that the complete purification of the
cesspool tainted houses was the first question to
be dealt with—for, supposing the Thames puri-
fied, in what relief would the completion of that
work affect the 60 or 70 per cent. of the houses
which have those poison pits, the cesspools, beneath
them Y And how, we would ask, can outfalls be ad-
justed properly until a new system of self-cleansing
house-drainage—proved to be practicable and ad-
mitted to be necessary—shall have been got into
operation, and it is seen what, under the new circum-
stances, the outfalls are required to do ? But a
powerful engineering influence, in a high quarter,
has been successfully exerted to put the outfall
question first. The Metropolitan Board of Works
was induced to agree to a scheme of outfalls which
were to cost four millions, for throwing all
the sewerage and manure of the metropolis
into the Thames below Greenwich, or at Erith.
Then, besides the outcry of the inhabitants against
the pollution, there is a public condemnation of
the proposal to throw a vast amount of manure
into the sea. The plans are taken out of th e
hands of the Metropolitan Board of Works, and
put again into those of another Government Com-
mission. But if the sewer manure is to be pre-
served ; how shall it be applied ? This question,
in which the whole arrangement of the work,
outfalls, and all, turns, is put into the hands of
another and special Government Commission, and
that commission has, we are informed, been kept
inactive for want of money to pay their expenses
—immense waste of manure, to say nothing of
life, still going on. In the meanwhile, on the
suggestion of Mr. CHADWICK, as one of the inter-
national Jury of Hygeine at Paris, under some
interesting circumstances narrated in a speech
which we give elsewhere, the Municipal Govern-
ment of Paris, under the auspices of the
EMPEROR, have establisbei some important
trial works, the results of which may be taken as
contributary to our investigations in En-
land on this important national question.
The main point of the speech, which was listened
to with profound attention by a very competent
auditory at a meeting of the Royal Agricultural
Society, was demonstrative of the practicability of

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There was a brilliant
night in the House of C)mmona. Many Ron.
Gentlemen took part in the It was an in-
viting topic, by which the zeal and anxiety for
economy and retrenchment, so recently professed
on divers hustings, could be displayed in a very
easy manner. Nothing, however, was effected !
After the protracted discussion, progress was re-
ported, and the House resumed, without much
additional information. But will the postpone-
ment to Monday effect any material benefit to the
country ? We fear not. The present sys-
tem is defective in almost every respect.
Although the various estimates are, nominally,

The Honourable Gentleman who, not so very
many months back, earned for himself a rather
inevitable notoriety by talking seriously in the
House of Commons about the advisability of dis-
persing a Sunday Rabble in Hyde Park with the
crash of a ten-pounder on the Piccadilly Pave-
alent—Mr. G. DUNDIS elicited, last evening,
from the Right Hon. Baronet, the Minister of
Public Works and the Member for Marylebone,
the acknowledgment of the fact that St. James's
Palace is going to be enlarged ! The former per-
sonage—the individual we mean who would fain
bestow upon the iroXXo& a horribly new kind of a
"ten pound" franchise!—had been commenting, in
plaintive accents, yesterday upon that notable crush
at Her MAJESTY'S Drawing-Room to which our fair
countrywomen are periodically subjected, and
about which the Times, a morning or two since, was so
musingly lachrymose. Whereupon Sir BENJAMIN
HALL, ever " blithe and debonnair," even gallant
tnd good-humoured—while he could not for the
!ife of him resist the ineliva'ion to crack a very
tempting little joke about crinoline—proferred
to the Aggrieved the best and surest solace any
Minister in his place could by possibility have
proferred, by announcing the projected improve-
ment already indicated, namely, the enlargement
of St. James's Palace and the general increase
of its accommodation. " Although" said the
Right Hon. Baronet, " the dresses of the ladies in
former days were very large, yet I believe at the
present moment they are almost of a similar
width. It is therefore utterly impossible that
any comfort should be experienced by those at-
tending a drawing-room in the present day. At
the same time I am happy to be able to inform
the Honourable Gentleman and the House that
instructions have been given by Her MAJESTY'S
Government for the purpose of enlarging the
accommodation of St. James's Palacs." Pleasant
tidings for our " ladies of the land"—the victims
of Drawing Room days—the heroines of Crinoline.
But how—in regard to the parsimonious grum-
blers, in the Lords and in the Commons, noble
Earls and hon. and right hen. gentlemen who
complain, from time to time, about the squandering
of the Public Money upon Public Works ? Any-
thing but agreeable news to them, we should say,
this prospective increase of St. James's Palace !
Wby, it was only a few minutes after Sir BENJAMIN
Hann had thus satisfactorily answered the
lamentations of Mr. G. DUNDAS—that Sir
Fnalacis BARING rose for the purpose
of solemnly complaining before Parliament of that
harried and worried Administrator, and what is
deemed by a small clique of snarlers—his waste-
ful extravagance. It was really and truly only a
tedious repetition in the Commons of what it will
be remembered took place a week or two since in
the Lords, when the Right Honourable Baronet
was anticipated in his cheese-paring argu-
ments by a Noble Earl from whom we
had been led to expect bettor things—to wit,
Lord MALIIESBURY. And so, from week
to week, Sir BENJAMIN HALL is teazed, and vexed,
and bothered, now
on the right, and now on the
left, by assailants who really appear to treat his
doings as though they were not simply improve-
ments—but, actually,as if they were so many
monstrous embezzlements It is very dishearten-
ing all this. For here, positively for about the first
time in a hundred years, we have installed at the

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applying sewerage to laud in the immediate vici-
nity of towns, not only productively, but per-
fectly inoffensively, especially when it is brought
oat of towns before decomposition. Another
great proposition, for which we refer to the
facts and reasonings stated, apparently to
the satisfaction of the meeting, was the
comparatively small and convenient area
in which town sewarage may be utilised :—of five
houses to an acre of land ; or, for the whole of the
metropolis, an area of not more than ten miles
square, or not greater than the Essex marshes—
when drained. On these topics the testimony of
the Earl of ESSEX, who has applied to some of his
own land the sewerage of Watford, is very im-
portant and interesting. The next points were the
statements showing that the sewerage and all town
manure might be removed at a less expense than
that of cleansing cesspools and foul drains
and foul sewers of the foul residue after
decomposition. This is a topic which ought to
be of the deepest interest to metropolitan rate-
payers, over whom there is an impending burthen,
the completed old system of drainage works,
which, it has been avowed by an authority never
below the estimates, will cost upwards of ten
millions :—that is to say a burthen nearly equal
to the poor-rates, for the mitigation of which by
equalisation so many ratepayers in the poorer
districts are contending.

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