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facts and experiences which would have been 

 of the most useful character to them and full 

 of instruction. Thus it is that science ad- 

 vances and progress is accomplished. 



If all that we have just indicated as a 

 realizable matter had been done, in effect, 

 England would have afforded in this, as she 

 has so often done in other cases, a noble ex- 

 ample to be followed, and would have ac- 

 quired a new title to the admiration of other 

 nations. 



But, unfortunately it has not been so : 

 silence has succeeded to eloquence at Guild- 

 hall, and the meetings at the Mansion-house 

 have flickered away. That which was held 

 on the 27th of September, seems likely to be 

 the last of them.* 



* Dr. Letheby reported that 12,916 Ibs., or more than 

 five tons of meat, had been condemned in the City 

 markets during the past week as unfit for human food. 

 It consisted of 64 sheep, 4 calves, 7 pigs, 142 quarters 

 of beef, and 361 joints and pieces of meat; 5377 Ibs. 

 were diseased or from animals that had died of disease, 

 and the rest was putrid. All of it was destroyed. 

 Yesterday, a sub-committee of the Metropolitan Plague 

 Committee, at a meeting at the Mansion House, passed 

 an unanimous resolution, on the motion of Mr. Brewster, 

 recommending that, as unexpected and insuperable diffi- 



