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London, England, 1857-08-21 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

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THE WEATHER—Sox OFFICE, AUGUST 21

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
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61--lowest this morning and during the nighi
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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1867

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Many valuable suggestions were offered to the may prevail against such a measure. It was the
Government last night on the third reading of the excuse of one of the opponents that it would not
Militia Bill. Lord PALMEaSTON, as usual, pro- , succeed—an excuse impudently set up in the face
raised that they should receive every attention, of the fact that it was only a partial extension of
and that advantage would be taken of any of them a measure which had had unwonted and extra-
which might seem to conduce to the efficiency of ordinary success. Let us recall attention to some of
the r üblic service. These general promises are, the chief points of the incontroverted and incon-
however, easily made, and aro but too seldom trovertible evidence set forth in various reports,
thonght of afterwards, until Parliament is again and to the recognised principles of legislation
sitting to enforce the necessary proceedings. We involved in the measure.
should have been pleased if there had been an an- The common lodging-houses of the metropolis
noun cement that some of the most obvious and and throughout the country were the most, con-
beneficial of these propositions had already been stant sources of typhus, and of physical as well as
acted on., and that ample powers had been taken to moral pestilence. By the o?eration of Llrd
be prepared for any alternative that may arise. SHAFTESBURY'S Act for their regulation, a large
The Premier declared that if between this time proportion of them have had their cesspools
and the period when Parliament usually meets, abolished, the rooms whitewashed and cleansed
it should be necessary to ask for further assist- regularly, water introduced, and over-crowding
mice, he was sure that no members of the House prevented. It has followed upon these inea•
Would grudge the attendance, which might be sures that epidemics have been banished
required to afford that assistance to the Govern- from the houses operated upon ; that they
, t• We are perfectly satisfied on that point ; are no longer fever nests, but stand out iu high
out,.
•a beg to remind the Noble Lord, that con- sanitary contrast to the tenements occupied at
siderbeae ti •
me must be lost before Parliament weekly rents by the labouring el tsses. In the metre-
wuld be convened, and that when every day polis six or eight thousand persons die annually
would be of vital
importance. As we some time from diseases which have now no spontaneous origin
since, pointed
outit
the leilitia regimentswell-cleansed that may be embodied the model dwellings. Parliament has had before
shoull be authorised to serve in our Mediter- it the evidence of the beneficial working of the
ranext or other colonies,—
nay, more in India acts but that it is much evaded. The House of
itself, if they volunteered for that du;y. They Superior Landlords readily passed a bill for the
might, certainly replace the regular
troops
at prevention
of the chief evasions, and fur the par-
Malta, who could be forwarded in
a v short tial extension of its provisions for the prevention
time by the overland route. Had this Course of overerowdinc, in those tenements occupied by
been adopted, at least 5,000 men could have the poorer classes, which only diffor from the cont-
been added to those who were intercepted en .
mon lodging-houses in the rents being paid weekly
route to China, and thus there would have been \ -instead
no less than 10,000 distilefficient lined and Lvadiotodfghtly
s,ni . But in the House of Inferior
and by new, so called reform members,
troops added to the strength of
the Indian execu- 1 the measure, for the extension of proved benefits,
tive, a number quite sufficient to have turned the 1 instead of being hailed as a boon, is virulently op-
scale, and insured the speedy suppression posed as an uneonatitut. 1 .
mutiny, of the i
i so it would be far better for the poor to have a
The proposition to despatch
1,000 sappers and ; pure air under a despotism, than foul air under
mines s, with the least possible delay, is one that i such a rule and atmosphere as ti
lose members-seek
should be forthwith acted on. As Sir F. SMITH 'to naaintain—shortening the period of health and
truly declared, there is a great demand for eng:- 1 working ability of the inmates, and di-Tit-oath.),
neers in India ; and even if the next mail should their children. No possible political tyranny
annornce the fall of Delhi, there would still 11 could in these days visit upon its suldeets
be abundant work on which they could evils so grievous as are inflicted on the idle
be very usefully employed, in the con- ' mates of the vile tenements sought to be amend.d.