We have nearly completed building our cloaca maxima. The Prince
of Wales opened another section of the system on Tuesday, and one can hardly help wondering if the spirit of the old Etrurian architect was looking on at this imitation of his own gigantic design. Some medium or otber should make him give his opinion on modern sewage and modem princes; it would be better worth having than limping verses from Shakespeare. The southern high-level, middle-level, and low-level sewers, and the northern high-level and middle-level, are now complete. It only remains to construct the northern 16w-level, which waits for the Thames embankment. The work done is said to be very creditable to the Board of Works, which really seems to have some wide ideas, to be capable, in fact of rising almost to the Etrurian level, which, as the world is " incessantly advancing," must be very satisfactory, and suggests that we may one day build almost as well as Senna- cherib.
