16 DECEMBER 1871, Page 2

It would appear to be as difficult now as it

was in the time of Raleigh to obtain a true account of anything. It was impossible that statements should be clearer or more definite than those about the existence of a cesspool in Londesborough Lodge, under the closet next to the Prince's bed-room. No such cesspool, how- ever, exists, or ever has existed, except in the imagination of a plumber who informed the author of the statement iu the (Nib., papers. After reading all the statements pro and con about the drains in Londesborough Lodge, we incline to the conclusion that no such place exists, that it is an imaginary house, invented in order that sewage authorities may fight out their theories by illustration.