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London, England, 1850-09-24 00:00:00

of phraseology—a nasty beast. Talk of sanitary im-
provements, forsooth, with such ideas as those preva-
lent among certain classes of the population ! The
notion of any such sweeping Schemes in the way of puri-
fication must surely after this appear little less than alto-
gather preposterous. Hitherto, indeed, the saying has
I ( been from time immemorial that" Cleanliness is next
to Godline,ss." In the creed of our Scottish Sabat-
tarians, however, it would seem that Dirt and Divi-
nity are identical. Whatever can lay claim nowa-
days to the privilege of being particularly filthy
would appear to be especially worthy of veneration
among this unclean section of religionists. To speak
to them of " whitened sepulchres" would be
to pervert their ideas of morality, and virtually to talk
above their comprehension. According to their
estimate of the phrase it would mean that
religion necessitated habits of physical impurity,
insomuch that the polishing of a shoe, the shaving
of a beard, the rinsing of a scrap of linen in the wash-
tub, would be acts not very farremoaed from being ab-
solutely Satanic. Than this we cannot conceive any
more degrading or erroneous notion of religion.
Certainly we can imagine none more peculiarly des-
picable and repulsive. It transforms what is in its
nature divine into something smelling intensely
of the earth, earthy. It degrades the dogmas of
Christianity into the ordinances of filth, into
the commandments not of priestliness but of beastli-
ness. Acting upon such impressions the community
would very speedily degenerate into a state of peri-
odical and disgusting stagnation. The Sundays
would become the moral cloacae of society, plunging
it at intervals into a condition toe foul to admit even
of conjecture. If carried into effect, the offence of
the multitude would very speedily be like that of the
King of DENMARK—" rank, and smell to heaven ! "
It is against this evil consequence of Sabbaterianism
that we would battle as strenuously as against its
most pernicious moral tendency. Our oppot-ition to
it is attributable, not merely to our religious convic-
tions of the wholesomeness of Christianity, but also,
and in a particular manner, to our conscientious
opinions as the advocates of Sanitary Improvement.

" Tbsre is at present eo probability of success for.
any sedition egaiost you, but neither is there any
probability of success for ,any sedition in your favour."
Such were the words addressed by M. Durre, the
Orleanist President of the French National Assembly,
to LnIII3 NAPOL,-.WT BONAPARTr, the President of
the French Republic, and ;Is it hrs been -shrewdly
cori!eturcd that Lours NAPOLEON • BomAr.tr.TE
would have .no objection to be " something more "
than President of the French Republic, aid as it is
certainly known that M. DUPIN would do and has
done everything that he could do with safety to destroy
the Republic, and to restore the' o.leens dyncsty to
the throne, we tske these Ivor d 3 of M. Durier to
be the valuable testimony of an unwilling witness to
the stability and permanence of Republican in-
stitutions in France. In February, 1848, we were told
by the reactionary journals, and by the reactionary
Peers, that the Republic was a surprise, that it could
not. last, because it could not preserve order,
and that the then Msderate - Republic would be de-
stroyed by the anarchists, to put down whom the nation
would hail the restoration of Absolute Monarchy.
Toe month of Jane, 1848, I),:lied that prophecy ;
the Moderate Republic was found strong
enough to put down by force the attempts of
the most unnatural coalition ever formed—
the coalition between the Communists and the Mo.
narchists, for the most mischievous purpose, that of
the disorganization of society, and . the true Repub!ic
was consolidated by the means by which its enemies
sought its destruction. The Constitution was
formed, proclaimed, and accepted, and under the
Constitution the first President was elected. As a
homage of gratitude to -NAPOLEON his nephew was
elected first President of the French Republice and
from that moment .the intrigues of the reactionary
party began for the restoration of monarchy in
France. Every engine that could be employed
was set to work to destroy the Republic ; offices
of trust and profit were bestowed exclusively on
those .who were known to be Monarchists ; to be a
Republican was the only bar to office under the Re-
public ; all official influences were shamelessly used
to inflict " a heavy blow and great discouragement"
on Republicans and on Republican institutions;
the priests almost to 'a man were leagued together
for the destruction of the institutions which protected
them, and whioh assured to them that liberty for
which for twenty - years they bad clamoured, end
which . only prevented them from persecuting
others; every means that could be devised
ware employed to corrupt the army, a con.
sidereble section of • which was sent to Renee to
be indoctrinated in the principle of hatred to Repub-
lican institutions ; the foreign correspondents of
our English reactionary • journals, acting as
the mouth-pieces of the police and of the re-
actionary conspirators of the Continent, were repeat-
ing, usque afl nauseam, that the Republic was repu-:
dieted by the great majority of the French people,
and must inevitably fall ; and yet, nothwithstanding
all the false dealings of treacherous friends, note:it:l:-
standing all the machinations and plottings of secret
enernits, notwithstanding "all the prayers and the
prophecies" of the CARLIEM dictated correspondence
of •the reactionary journals—in spite of the
efforts of the S xiety of the 10th of
December-7in • spite of the manifestces of
Wiesbaden, and the intrigues cif St. Leonard's and
Richmond, we find that the results of the PILESL-
DENT'S -joeirney through the French Departments,
and of the experience of M. Dorm of the feelings ex
pressed in the Councils •General, has been to wring from
the latter a reluctant confession that no sedition
against the Republic has the remotest chance of auc-
cess. We 'have alWays maintained this opinion, and
from February; 1848, up to the present pe
Hod . have never hesitated to declare that we
felt no apprehensions us regards the stability
of the Republican institutions of -Preece, because in
the present social and political condition of that
country a Republic is the only possible form of go-
vernment which has any chance of stability, and
we aro rejoiced to find that our opinion is supported
by that a f so accomplished a statesman as M. DUPIN.
In the meantime it 'Would be well that the "fo-
reign correspondents" of English reactionary journals
should, for their own reputation's sake, be somewhat
more " chary" of their prophecies of the immediate
destruction of the Republic. C est un rnechant metier
que celui de prophetiser, as they may find one day to
their cost.

JENNY LIND IN AMERICA.—A private letter from
New York, speaking of the Jenny Lind furor, says--" The
Lind, you will see, has arrived safely. Tickets for her open •
ing concert sold very high ; the first for 225 dolls. (about 45/.
sterling), but the second fetched 25 dolls. only (51. sterling).
It seems to be considered that Barnum got a per•onal friend
to run up the price at the outset, to induce the public to fol-
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men and boys sitting on Stewart's new building, opposite the
Irving-house, about six P as• watching for the Nightingale.
On returning about ten ilia.' mob still remained. Two or
three ladies were on the balcony, but it was too dark to dis-
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under such circumstances;
ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY.--WOOLWIcti, Srpr.
23.—Major-General • Parker, C. 8., Lieutenant-Governor of
the Royal Military Academy, and a number of the rank and
fashion of the neighbourhood, including several parties from
London, assembled on the ground in front cf the Gentlemen
Cadet/Barrack, on the afternoon of Saturday last, to Witness
for the third time the athletic games held by the gentlemen
cadets; and the afternoon being remarkably fine, the manly
sports were carried on with great spirit, and the scene was
of a most animated description for upwards of three hours.
A silver bugle was given to the competitor who was the first
in the greatest number of games, 10 be held until the nest
athletic games, when it will be again contested for in the
same manner. It 'was on this•occasion delivered to Mr.
Temple, who was victorious in no less than six of the genies.
The fifes and drums of the Royal Artillery band were on the
ground during the afternoon, and played between the races.
On the conclusion of the sports, the prizes were delivered to
the successful competitors in the Hall ; after which the full
band of the Royal Artillery played concerted pieces for the
remainder of the evening.

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GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The excursion train
from Oxford and Banbury yesterday brought 1,000 persons
up to Paddington. The one out of Lonth,n on Sunday took
1,200, and returned with them in safety; and during the
week there i.. to be a first excursion out of London to Blen-
heim atid 'Woodstock, over the company's newly-opened line
bt.twcen Oxford and Rugby.

The number of Irish reapers who hive entered
Scotland, via the Clyde, this year is esthnated at more than
2,000.