Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Meteorology, Oceanography, Declinism, Religious Authority, Political Economy, Declinism, Exploration

    Responds to a report in The Times concerning William B Carpenter's evidence challenging the claim that the gulf stream carries heat from tropical regions to north-west Europe. The writer hopes that this claim, which is a 'long standing' and 'notorious tyrant', will be refuted and that the gulf stream, an 'uncalled-for interference on the part of a friendly power', will be abolished from conversation. On this basis, anticipates the end of talk of 'Foreign Invasion, Exhaustion of Coal, Decline of England's Power and speedy re-establishment of Popery', and the explorer David Livingstone's return.