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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
GLOBE.—We took occasion, a few weeks ago, to
advert to the first Report of the Commissioners for
inquiring into the state of large towns and popu-
lous districts. We now return to the subject, for
the purpose of stating some considerations having
reference to the practical adoption of the measures
already indicated by the Commissioners as most
expedient. The subject naturally divides itself
into portions more or less distinct, and of varying
importance. Foremost among these, in point of im-
portance, we find drainage and ventilation, each having
direct relation to the chief object of the com-
mission. The evils developed in the course of these
two branches of the inquiry are, however, evidently
susceptible of very different remedies. The improve-
ment of the system of drainage now prevalent seems,
to a great extent, hopeless, without the vigorous inter-
ference of the Legislature. It is chiefly under the
management of Commissioners appointed under local
Acts, and governed by bye-laws and usages alike
destitute of uniformity and of fitness for attaining the
first object of an efficient system of drainage. It aims
almost solely at effecting a mere surface drainage : thus
leaving the sewerage and drainage of houses almost
entirely unprovided for; and confined as these laws
are as to the extent of their object, they are so loosely
constructed as to give rise to considerable differences
of opinion ; and are, moreover, seldom enforced
but wider the pressure of great local annoyance
from a want of drainage. The efforts made by
those who can afford to pay for a convenience
so essential to health and comfort as the proper
drainage of their houses, are attended with
much unnecessary trouble and expense, and the
convenience is at length conceded rather as a privi-
lege than as a common right ; while those who stand
in greatest need of the accommodation, are effectually
deprived of it, though immediately surrounded by
every facility for it. In some of our large towns the
passage of house refuse, &c. into the drains is entirely
prohibited, and it is very generally forbidden to make
the drains subservient to the cleansing of the streets.
There being no general supervision in reference to the
levels, it is not uncommon to have houses so built that
they do not admit of effectual drainage, or drains no
ponstructed that their contents can only be partially
discharged. None but a legislative remedy can reach
evils such as those just enumerated. There are,
however, some others which may be cured by a
better exercise of the discretion at present vested
in the local authorities—such as the defective and
unnecessarily expensive methods of construction
at present very generally adopted, and the de-
tails of the arrangements for meeting the expense
of improvements. A complete revision of all the
Aets now in force affecting the subject, and the
formation of a general plan of drainage upon a scien-
tific basis, with regulations fur an equitable imposi-
tion of the requisite expense, however, seem to present
themselves as essential requisites. If the art of
draining towns is but little understood or practised
amongst us, that of ventilating our dwellings is
scarcely more so. But the drainage is under public
management, and comes properly within cognisance
of the Legislature, while ventilation is rather matter
of arrangement for private individuals. Much may
be done in widening streets and passages, and
prohibiting the erection of the most notoriously de-
fective class of houses, but nothing very effectual can
be hoped for without the hearty co-operation of the
public. It is already sufficiently obvious, that neither
the value of pure air nor the facility with which it
may almost everywhere be procured, are sufficiently
known, Here the great barrier to improve-
ment is ignorance; and that is not to be re-'
moved by an Act of Parliament. The poorer
classes especially require to he taught to what
an extent they suffer from this cause. All classes
would be the better for it, and we believe any means
by which the leading facts and suggestions embodied
in the report we have alluded to could be made gene-
rally known throughout the kingdom, would do much
to prepare the way for such legislative measures
as the Commissioners may ultimately think fit
to recommend, and at the same time tend strongly
to bring about changes for the better in the sana-
tory condition of the people which no legislative
interference, unaided by such knowledge, would
be at all likely to effect. How far the Govern-
ment should interfere to settle the terms of con-
tracts between private individuals, or to regulate
their personal habits in matters not most palpably and
directly affecting the_public weal, is a problem yet to
be solved. Should its solution be required in this
case, it would, we conceive, be advisable to begin by
narrowing the ground of disuussion as much as pos-
sible. This might be done, perhaps, most efficiently
by publishing in a more accessible form a condensed
view of the evidence already taken and published by
the Commissioners, embodying the facts and the sug-
gestions of practical men most immediately appli-
cable to those evils which lie beyond the ordinary
range of legislative enactments.
STANDARD.—There is in the Church a party,
we rejoice to believe a small one, who wishing well
to the scheme of Tractarian dissent, and lending to
the Romanising Dissenters all the aid that they
safely_ can, decline: boldly to assume Mr. New-
man s colours. This may be good worldly policy.
Such men are secure from being involved in the
fate of the more ingenuous and enterprising Dissen-
ters, should it prove disastrous; while, in the event
of success, they prepare a claim to share in the
triumph; and all the while they enjoy that praise
of moderation to " cowardice and craft so dear."
This, however, though a good worldly policy, is
not Christian policy. The presumption is, no
doubt, always in favour of moderation towards
those who act on the defensive, and who maintain
the admitted truths, even when they happen to
err on the side of excess, because their motive
is originally sound and honourable ; but the
presumption is against moderation towards the
aggressor, whenever there can be the slightest suspi-
cion of the rightfulness of his aggression. " When
thou sawest; &c.," says the inspired King—
and how does the spirit menace the Laodiceans
who "were neither hot nor cold"—in the assertion of
divine truth ? It is not for us to mark out the re-
presentatives of the lukewarm party to wb'
refer, but few 'readers can be at a loss to
nemee";n's"'
them.
e
Doctor Hook, of Leeds, has cause(' .
e to be published,
a letter addressed by him 'so a Mend in Oxford,
which letter, with the, •
rep.. es to it from some
Remanising Disse- • --
tarian organ We copy from the Tree-
"sti.at'tclins been favoured with them.
Dr. Hook
dares that he will not attend to
vote against Dr. Symons, because the majority of
the members of Convocation are not disposed to set
aside that excellent and pious gentleman, in
e
&wee with the command of Messrs. 'NewnT.
Ward, and Company and Dr. Hook, howeverr)
'willing to be the unattached ally and abettor of the
Romani ing Dissenters, does not like implicitly
to bars in h's lot with them—least of all when
they seem to be seriously threatened with a
defeat. This is the plain English translation
a Doctor Hook's shuffling apology to his
Romanising Dissenter friends, and some of his
answerers have made good use of its transparent dis-
ingenuousness and confession of self-seeking. But
though Dr. Hook will not vote against Dr. Symons,
neither will he attend to support the venerable war-
den's claim to what uninterrupted usage has rendered
bit indisputable right, and what therefore cannot be
withholden f:oas him without inflicting an insult and
an indelible stigma. Here is strange morality—
more extraordinary religiOn ! Here, says Dr. Hook,
is a grievous aggression threatened
I—acknowiedgetb upon one whom
ea most upright, pious, and
honourable man ;°I will not join. in executing the
threat, not, trvever, because I believe an unprovoked
aggression upon any man wrong—more wrong upon a
tnan such as the warden of Wadhm —but because I
think none will take part in it,
savea the most despe-
rate of the Romanising Dissenters; and it is not
my present convenience to identify myself with
them. Would such morality as this be endured in
any of the ordinary affairs of life ? The proceedieg
at Oxford, it is to be remembered,'is not an election,
not a contest between A and B, where every one is at
liberty to weigh the merits of the respective candi-
dates, and to vote for one, the other, or neither, ac-
cordingly as his judgment shall direct. It is a punish.

ment threatened for an alleged offence ; an aggres-
sion, menaced for the gratification of revenge ;
or a political manoeuvre, contrived for the purpose of
throwing the government of the University into the
hands of a particular party. Now we car not which
of the three hypotheses be adopted; we assert that no
really honest man can escape from the necessity
of taking a part, as far as his opportunity and
convenience permit. If a punishment for trans-
gression is proposed, an honest man will vote
to punish the transgressor, or more cheerfully to pro-
tect the innocent. If revenge only is the aggressor's
object, every honest man will feel it a sacred duty to
interpose between the aggressor and his vengeance. If
the manoeuvre be purely a stroke of Uni-
versity politics to obtain ascendancy for one
party at Oxford, every honest man attached
to the University and to the Church, must feel
that it is his duty to take one side or the other.
Less learned men than the members of Convocation
remember the infamy justly attached by the Athe-
nian legislator to neutrality upon such a vital
question as is agitated. But Dr. Hook does not
disguise his feeling that not only Dr. Symons, but
the other five judges of Dr. Pusey's sermon, as
well as the admirable Vice-Chancellor now in
office, ought to be insulted and stigmatised ;
nor conceal the fact that it is only his an-
ticipation of defeat, and his care for the position
of himself, Doctor Hook, that prevent his join-
ing heart and hand with Messrs. Newman, Ward,
and Company, in the attempt to affix the insult and
the stigma. Honest and generous man ! His pre-
text is the condemnation of Dr. Pusey's sermon.
And why the condemnation of Dr. Pusey's sermon ?
Dr. Hook will not deny that substantial justice
was done in the condemnation of a discourse which
laboured without disguise to establish, against the
Protestant Church of England and all the other Pro-
testant reformed churches, that doctrine which is the
distinctive doctrine of Popery—the foundation of
the power of Rome, and the great source of its
errors and its crimes. Dr. Hook will not say that
such a sermon, preached in a Protestant Univer-
sity, might not be condemned, and he does not
dare to deny the substantial justice of the
condemnation or its necessity. No, imitating
the example of some of the less honest Whigs,
in the parallel case of the repeal conspirators, he
evades the question of substantial justice, rest-
ing his complaint upon the pretext that the
party had no fair trial. What does Doctor
Hook mean by a fair trial ? The tribunal
was statutably appointed by the Vice-Chancellor,
under the obligation of his official oath, and it
comprised gentlemen supposed to be favourable to
Doctor Pusey's opinions. No other form of
tribunal was available without violating the
statutes. No better men it was admitted, before ,
they gave their judgment, by the Tractarians them-
selves, could be found in the University than the'
six gentlemen selected. The corpus delicti, the
Romanising sermon, was placed in the hands of this
tribunal. Dr. Pusey was made acquainted with
the construction put upon its Romanising passages,
and invited to explain these passages, if he could, in
a manner to reconcile them to the Articles of the
Church of England, to which he had more than once
sworn. Neither then, however, nor since, has he ever
attempted any such explanation. Was not this a fair
trial ?- If not, no man against whom a plea of
guilty has been recorded- was fairly tried. What is
a plea of guilty ? Is it an acknowledgment that
the party ought to be hanged, transported, or iin-
prisoned, as the case may be ? No ; it is merely a
confession that the accused has perpetrated the act
alleged against him, under the circumstances and with
the understanding imputed in the indictment ; but
after the record of his plea of guilty, is he allowed to
defend, as innocent, the act condemned by law ? No;
the law will not allow such an insult to its authority.
This, however, is precisely the case of Dr. Pusey's
sermon. His delivery of the sermon, and de-
clining to explain away the Romanising tendency
of its objectionable passages, was a plea of guilty.
Any defence after that, would be merely an
apology for the avowed Popish doctrines of the dis-
course, and such on apology, the Vice-Chancellor and
his assessors were by their oath and by the statues
forbidden to hear. This is state of things which Dr.
Hook represents as constituting a denial of justice.
Dr. Hook, however, will, we trust, find few followers,
as to-morrow's numbers will show.

REMOVAL OF COMMERCIAL RE
STRICTIONS.

Although the commercial negotiations undertaken
by the British Government with foreign Powers
within the last few years did not meet with that ac-
ceptance and success to which they were justly en•
titled as the best means of improving the advantages
of traffic and of peace, yet we observe with pleasure
that a considerable impulse has been given to the re-
moval of commercial restrictions abroad, and that
the principles of a more liberal commercial policy are
certainly gaining ground in every country in Europe,
except in France. These subjects are still so imper-
fectly understood by a large proportion of the men
who are invested with the government of States, that
their reasoning upon them is an incongruous mixture'
of political suspicions and commercial ignorance.
They are disposed to apply the old maxims of State
policy, which consisted in labouring by all means to
weaken their rivals, forgetting that one of the
greatest dangers to which a productive nation can be
exposed is to impoverish its customers ; and they still
attach such mysterious notions of prosperity to high
prices, that they do not disdain the aid of artificia
means to support them, even at the expense of their
own subjects. The true reasons by which the vices of
this system have been exposed and demonstrated are
not unfrequently viewed by politicians of this class
with excessive distrust ; but meanwhile other consi-
derations, less sound in principle, but more effectual
in their result, insensibly urge them in the same
course, and the consequence is a general, though
gradual, movement in the right direction. If the ef-
fects of this jealous policy had not been extremely
detrimental to the best interests of the world, their
was something unspeakably ludicrous in the lan-
guage of the different States which evaded or rejected
the offers of England, for no better reason than that
they were British offers.
" Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes"
was the universal cry ; and our own commercial
greatness appeared to have taught the world no wiser
lesson than that it was unsafe to associate the interests
of other countries with our own, and to adopt those
principles by which we hold that the common pros-
perity of nations may be most securely promoted.
The pedantic prohibitionists of Germany, the slave-
traders of Brazil, and the jobbers in Portugal, had
but one and the same theme; and by their deliberate
suggestions or ignorant terrors their respective Go-
vernments were led to reject an alliance with the best
market and the largest capitalists in the world.
Such folly must be short-lived; snd although we do
not expect them to have the candour or good sense
to acknowledge the extent of their error, yet we perceive
with satisfaction that in many quarters serious prac-
tical attempts are now made to counteract its progress.
It must be admitted that the principles of commercial
reform, however just they may be in themselves, are
shown to great disadvantage when they are urged
upon the attention of a Government by a foreign
Power. In negotiations of this kind each State takes
an exaggerated view of the concessions required of it
by the other; each seems to forget that external con-
cessions are in reality at the same time internal bene-
fits to the domestic consumer; and the value of
commercial treaty is estimated, not by a ger-
of its effects, but by a sort of balP-
loss, which is derived from

view
of profit and
most superficial ob-
.....netiiite consequences, It is the
of a -Minister engaged in a transaction

servation of its irr-
evident dut-
of

nature to promote and defend the interests of
his own country before all others ; but in the dis-
charge of this duty he is apt to lose the credit which
he may in reality deserve for equitable and prudent
intentions towards the other contracting party,
and, as we have repeatedly seen, the most allur-
ing and advantageous proposals have been tainted
and made repulsive by a foreign origin. For these
reasons our commercial negotiations have for the most
part failed, and we must be content to wait until the
progress of public opinion in various countries, the
effects of competition, and the claims of internal
interests bring about those changes which a more
enlightened and energetic spirit on their part might
have anticipated. This is the operation which we
confidently believe to be going on ; and the present
year has exhibited numerous signs of the command-
ing interest which these commercial questions have
everywhere assumed. The Austrian Government has
promulgated a new tariff, which shows that it is dis-
posed to follow with characteristic steadiness the
policy begun by the treaty and the tariff of 1838.
In Hungary the Diet has been agitated by vigorous
debates on the subject of free trade ; and amongst the
Hungarians, who are eager to assume that rank in
Europe to which they are justly entitled by their
population, their productions, and their free institu-
tions, there are few who deny that theimprovement
of their commercial system is the first step to the ac-
complishment of their national desires. Holland, la-
bouring with financial difficulties which would over-
whelm a people of less prudence and integrity,
steers her course in the same direction, and the mo-
nopolies founded by the late King for selfish pur-
'aches are tottering to their fall. Naples seems at
length to recollect that it rests with herself to carry
into execution the most essential parts of the treaty
.which was so inexplicably and disgracefully frus-
trated by Lord Palmerston. In the other States of
Italy the idea of commercial union is gaining
ground; and in the north of Europe Belgium has
concluded a treaty for six years with the German
Commercial League. In all these States there is the
same manifest tendency to remove restrictions and to
extend trade ; and even though the immediate purpose
of some of these arrangements may be governed by no
friendly spirit to the commerce of this country, yet

we view them with no dissatisfaction, from the full
conviction that the commercial relations of the world
must be based upon general principles, and cannot be
narrowed by that worst form of restrictions which
consists in national preferences and exclusive privi-
leges. We have already remarked that the spirit by
which the German Zollverein was called into existence
is at work in various parts of Europe. It tends
to assimilate the several members of the Austrian
empire ; it will probably combine the Italian States ;
it has even led France to make an abortive effort to
join her commercial interests to those of Belgium.
But the failure of that attempt (without reference
to the important political considerations it suggested
at the time) shows in a striking light the conditions
on which alone such unions are practicable or can
he profitable. They indispensably require a low
standard of custom• house duties, and a good
system of internal communication. In these respects
France had nothing to offer to Belgium : she would
have placed her within the circle of her own prohibi-
tive duties, but those duties would have cut Belgium
off from her maritime and trans-Rhenane neighbours.
She would have opened to her the market of France;
but France has as yet done less than any country in
Europe towards the completion of that system of rail-
roads which she, more than any other country, re-
quires. The commercial system, the ports, and the
railways of Belgium already assimilated her to her
German neighbours ; and although the French are
irritated with the Government of Brussels for
having, as they term it, " turned its back on the
revolution of July," they have nothing to blame
for it but their infatuated adherence to maxims of
commercial policy which every other State is gra-
dually relaxing, and their very slow prosecution of
those improvements which have already opened most
important lines of communication in Europe, and
will eventually contribute, as much as anything else,
to the general interchange of the productions of every
part of the world.—Times.

THE EXCHEQUER-RILL FORGERIES.-A Correspon-
dent informs us that Mr. Rapello, who cut such a con-
spicuous figure in the well-known Exchequer-bill for-
geries, was the other day seen near the Elephant and
Castle, and that he is now located somewhere in the
neighbourhood of Wandsworth.—Sunday Times.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston had, by the
last letters received from Germany, arrived at Dresden,
from Berlin, and were to quit the Saxon capital this
week fur Vienna.

(ADVERTISEMENT.)
A NEW SCIENCE OF WARFARE.

TO THE PUBLIC.

Some years since the son of Louis XVI., the
legitimate King of France, had his residence in a
small town in Prussia, and his occupation being me-
chanical, led him to study the science of warfare.
• His first production was a cannon, upon a principle
entirely new, with a percussion lock, and without re-
coil when discharged; also a self exploding bomb
shell, of extraordinary power.
In the year 1829, his Royal Highness sent this
cannon to Paris, through the Count Dagrut, then
Ambassador to Charles X., in Berlin, but what
is now become of it is unknown.

This unfortunate Prince lost his only friend in the
Royal Family by the death of the Duke de Berry,
who was assassinated; he afterwards addressed him-
self to Charles X., but without effect.

The determination of his family not to recognise
him, although their chief obliged the Prince to seek
his private rights, and throw himself upon the justice
of his country; he went, therefore, to Paris, presented
himself at the proper tribunal, and, after much diffi-
culty, succeeded in obtaining a trial. The French
Government upon this fact arrested him, put him in
prison, and, without allowing a judgment to pass, he
was, in 1836, by order of the King of the French,
sent by military power to Calais, put on board an
English packet boat, and landed at Dover.

With the persecutions of this unfortunate Prince,
however, at present we have nothing to do ; we only
know, that from the time of his arrival in England to
the present day he has employed his whole time in
studying the power and system of warfare.
About four years since the Prince addressed him-
self (through an agent) to the Select Committee at
Woolwich, he was accepted, and at the first experi-
tnent ; presented three exploding bomb-shells, to the
satisfaction of the Committee ; and many general
officers then present must recollect the remarks made,
that the explosions were terrific. The second experi-
ment failed, from causes which can be easily explained.
'lt is well known what happened to this persecuted
Prince at Minerva House, Old Kent-road, when, from
malice, all his inventions were attempted to be de-
stroyed; his landlord swore his life against him; his
creditors harassed him ; and after nine months' incar-
ceration, he was discharged by the Insolvent Court.
What became of many parts of his machinery of war-
fare during this time we are not aware ; but we hear
of individuals, both in England and:France, pretending
to put forward, as new, inventions which were disco-
vered by his Royal Highness as far back as 1821.
The Prince, during his residence at Minerva House,
it is true, had, at times, some French gentlemen with
him, and, it may, therefore, be presumed, that some
of them attempted to profit by the confidence he re-
posed in them, as will appear from the French news-
papers. It is, however, certain, that the principal
secrets have been preserved to himself alone.
His first invention, the cannon, is a beautiful piece
of machinery, without the least recoil when fired, and
constructed in such a manner that one man may direct
a thirty-two pounder (manufactured upon the same
principle) with as much ease as a musket. The sight
also shows the mark at a considerable distance, by
optical power, and without fail, by the self-exploding
bomb shell, the object is destroyed.
His second are rockets, which explode the moment
they strike the object. These rockets are without
sticks, go straight to the mark like a cannon-ball, and
are of tremendous power.
His third are bomb shells, the power of which is
truly terrific, and called by Captain Warner invisible.
These bomb shells the Prince will discharge from a
' cannon in any direction with a certainty to strike the
object desired, and are named rocket-of-cannon.
His fourth is the hand rocket, which can be used
with equal advantage, either at sea or upon land;
with this missile the inhabitants of any island or town,
however small, may protect themselves against the
united power of Europe, as the Prince dare assert,
that no army, however strong in power or numbers,
can take possession, whilst opposed by these rockets,
and they will be found of incalculable benefit to cap-
tains of merchant ships, to protect themselves against
pirates or any other power at sea.
His Royal Highness will also show that these
rockets, directed by an air ship, with the assistance of
a balloon, may be sent from London to Paris, or from
Paris to London, and can be made to explode at any
given time, with such destructive force as to destroy
everything. around them, proving thereby that
a nation, in possession of this power, has nothing
to fear from the combined force of her neighbours, as
no fortress can stand against it twenty-four hours.
It may be necessary here to state that many of the
Prince's rockets are of a very peculiar construction,
withouttouchstick,
the
carry
object,n o fire
otherswith u
ptohne mitres:oaimnnged
ship on fire. Another matte:nio
explode
o
on
the side of a vessel, tearing her timbers Mull
-also, which is of con-
Highness.
others go through the timbers, exel-
rode, and set the
siderable importance '•
. so the inventions of his Royal
re"— so; that all these destructive missiles are
—.Leered perfectly safe and harmless until required
for action, and therefore capable of being packed and
transported to any part of the world without danger.
Thus it must be seen, that Government need not ex-
pend large sums of money in the purchase of invisible
missiles, as it will be proved that many of the inven-
tions put forth by recent adventurers, are fallacies,
and can stand no test with the original inventions.
The Society of Practical Science and Noble Science
of Warfare, Mulgrave House, Fulham, have pur-
chased several parts of these important inventions
from his Royal Highness the Duke of Normandie, and
propose, on the 15th instant, to show a series of ex-
periments upon their grounds at Mulgrave House,
when the rockets, &c , will be so constructed as to be
safely used upon the grounds without danger ; and
the Society of the Noble Science of Warfare are pre-
pared and willing to forward sample rockets and
shells, upon a large scale, to be proved at Woolwich
or elsewhere, should the Select Committee or the Go-
vernment request it.
The Society beg to announce that on the Isth
instant the first experiment on their grounds at Mul-
grave House, Fulham, will be an invisible bomb
shell ; the second, a visible bomb shell ; the third,
a self-exploding rocket without stick ; the fourth,
hand roocket, which will be thrown in several direc-
tious frm the top of a mast, to show that any mer-
chant ship can derend herself against a pirate, or even
a man-of-war, at sea.
The next will be a self-exploding rocket, which
shall go off at a time prescribed by any gentleman
present. _ _

The commencement of these experiments will take
place at one o'clock, and terminate at six ; and it is
presumed, that to noblemen, naval and military offi-
cers, and men of science, the experiments will prove
interesting and valuable,

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, OCT. 4.—There hat
been an improved demand for West India sugars this
week, the sales reaching 700 hogsheads West India, as
about former prices. The cargo of Bengals, per Mary
Ironic, has been brought to market, and about 1,200 bags
have been disposed off, chiefly 60s. for strong grained
dry quality. No sales in Mauritius.—Bristol Alcicurg.
OLDHAM.—The inhabitants of Oldham have for
years been endeavouring to obtain a mail, for L.ndon,
at about five P.N. daily, which they have at length suc-
ceeded in: getting, by raising a subscription for the pur-
pose. A. London and general bag are now conveyed by
the railvray train leaving Oldham at 5'50 P.M., iastea(t
of the 011-fashioned gig mail, when ,the box closed *V
2.15 P.M.,, for Condos.

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