The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-04 00:00:00

May 4, 1847. Erni ptlus. It is expected that the new landing stage will be moored On the 11th inst. The sale of Charing Cross Bridge to Sir Joshua Walms ley. Mr. W. Jackson, and others, for £226,000, is now before the parliamentary committee. The Oregon, the first vessel which entered the Birken head Docks, is hereafter to be allowed to enter them free Hof all dock dues. On Friday, as some men were lowering cotton from a `warehouse in King-street, one of the bales fell on two children who were improperly allowed to remain in the tart. One was killed instanter, and the other had his arm broken. Charles Battersby, Esq., of Dale-street, in this town, was a winner of a £lOO prize at the Art Union distribu tion in London on Tuesday ; Mr. J. R. Cooper, of Rum ford -street, and Mr. E. Ward, of this town, drew a £5O Prize each, and Mr. J. Stamper a prize of £5O. . On Monday fortnight a man named John Linford, 60 years of age, while with a horse and cart in Seacome-lane, was knocked down by the plunging of the animal, and the Wheel passing over him, he received such injuries as to cause his death last week. DEATH ON BOARD-SHIP.—The body of a man unknown, was on Friday landed at the Egremont pier from a ship in the river, called the Pursuit, which has since gone to sea. It was taken to the dead house. It appeared that he had died aboard on the day before. Three vessels, the Elizabeth, Scotland, and Thistle, tailed lately from Mobile by the same tide for Liverpool •, and it is rather a curious coincidence, that the Scotland and Thistle arrived here the same day, the Elizabeth having only preceded them by about twenty-four hours. The new North American royal mail steamers, Ame rica, Canada, Europa, and Niagara, are expected to be ready for sea early next year. Under the new contract the steamers will sail every Saturday during eight months, and every fortnight during the other four months in the Year, going alternately between Liverpool and Halifax and Boston, and between Liverpool and New York. -FATAL ACCIDENTS.-On Wednesday, as some men were lowering two bags of rice, from Warehouse No. 5., of the Albert Dock, one of the bags came in contact with the sill of the door, slipped out of the sling, and fell upon a man named William Williams and knocked him down. Deceased, who was forty-eight years of age, was taken to the Southern Hospital, where he died on Friday. At meeting of the journeymen bakers in this town and Birkenhead, on Saturday, it was resolved to send cir culars to the masters that they (the men) had resolved on and after a certain day to be named hereafter, not to work more than twelve hours a day, including meals; and that unless the masters :consented, they would leave the em ployment on adate to be fixed. A general association of the body was formed. ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, a boy named John Maxwell, residing in Johnson's-court, New Bird-street, while wrestling in play with another boy in Stephen's-street, was thrown down, and fell into the cart-way. A cart drawn by two horses, going along slowly, happened to be passing at the time, and one of the wheels went over the legs and side of deceased, who died in the Southern Hos pital next day. No blame was attributable to the carter. SUDDEN DEATH.—On Thursday morning Robert Cheet nam aged 50, was found dead in bed. Deceased lived in bush-place, Gildart's-gardens, and bad complained of a Pain in the head and chest for some time past. On Wed nesday evening he came home intoxicated and retired to bed about six o'clock from which he never rose. From the evidence of Mr. Bell, a surgeon, it appeared death had been caused by effusion of serum in the chest. SUDDEN DEATII.—On Friday morning, a police-officer on duty in Chapel-street, ob , et•ved a man named Stephen M'Carty to stagger, and afterwards to sit down upon some step s . On going up to him, he was found not to be drunk, but very ill. He was attended to, but died in ten mi- flutes afterwards. In his pockets were found Ils. 7d., and a ticket for his passage to Quebec, by the ship Aber deen. Death was caused by disease of the heart. EXTRAORDINARY SALE OF DOGS.—On Saturday week, I tt Messrs. Lucas's Repository, an individual gave 10s. for t wenty foxhounds, and sold them immediately afterwards to a butcher, of the name of R. Lewis, for £2, who, soon repenting of his bargain, gave the first purchaser £3 more to take them back ; and in less than half an hour he sold !hem again for £25 to go abroad, thus realising £29 10s. °Y his bargain. The report of the Constabulary Commission states that the cost of 4,700 vicious characters of both sexes residing 11 1 Liverpool alone was (independent of the expense of police) £700,000 per annum. If we follow up this calcu lation to the other great towns and populous districts throughout the country, whose neglected state we have .Seen, we shall find the annual cost of vice and crime not less than ten millions per annum. Suieine.—On Wednesday an old man, upwards of 70 Years of age, named George Seddon, residing in Bridport- Street, committed suicide by hanging himself. The de ceased took his breakfast as usual, and retired to his bed room ; but some time afterwards, as he did not make his aPpearance, a person went up stairs and found him sus- Fended from the bedpost: He was quite dead, and had been for some time in a desponding state. About half-past twelve o'clock on Tuesday morning a fire broke out on the premises of Mr: M`Kenna, provision dealer, corner of Milton-street, Scotland-road. The build ing was gutted. The damage is estimated at about £lOO. —On 'Wednesday, about half-past one o'clock, a fire broke out in a stove adjoining the workshops of Jones and dump, builders, Lime-street. The engines were got out, but before they got at the spot the flames were extinguished, with only trifling damage. MEETING OF ROMAN CATHOLICS.—A public meeting of the Roman Catholics of this town was held on Wed nesday, at the Music-hall, " for the purpose of expressing their indignation at the unjust exclusion of their body " from all participation in the grant of government money for educational purposes." The hall was well filled, and amohgst the audience were a number of females. The chair was occupied by Richard Sheil, Esq. The various resolutions were unanimously adopted. The brig Tyro, Captain Cotton Symonds, belonging to Messrs. Cotesworth, Wynne and Lyne, arrived hence at Lisbon on the 12th of April, having thus performed the voyage from Lisbon to Liverpool, and back to Lisbon, in the remarkably short space of twenty-one days, including the time of discharging and re-loading full cargoes at this port. The Tyro is a regular trader between this port and Lisbon, and from her invariably quick passages, and the superior condition in which she delivers her cargoes, is a very favourite conveyance with the trade generally, and especially shippers of fruit. The imports of grain into Liverpool from the 24th to the 29th ultimo are as follow :-2,438 quarters of Indian b arrels 191,346 bushels ditto, 149,829 bags ditto, 2,996 o arrels ditto, 43,496 barrels of flour, 1,065 barrels of bread, 21,301-barrels of Indian corn meal, 445 bags ditto, 20 barrels oatmeal, 1,631 bags of oats, 4,503 bushels ditto, ' 1 ? 6 20 bags of rye, 4,132 quarters of wheat, 14,534 bags ditto, 121 tierces of rice, 3,345 bags ditto, 548 barrels ditto, 2,915 qUarters of barley, 340 sacks ditto, 1 tierce of „ be ans, 1619 bags ditto, 543 barrels ditto, 602 bags of Peas, 326 ' boxes of biscuits, 615 barrels ditto. LELIIIN'S LAST PICTURE.—We announce to-day, as !trill b e seen from our advertising columns, the opening of t he diorama by Telbin, the artist, so well known by his s ext raordinrry work, "London by night," at the Colos rann, his no less beautful production at the Royal Italian "Pera-house, and other works of equal merit, which have established his reputation as an artist of the highest class. t .l )e diorama to be exhibited here is his latest production, rd created qu it e a f uror i n L on d on . There is one peen tl„rity attached to thes e b eau tif u l ex hibiti ons o f ar t en "rig them to universal patronage; the combine amuse ment with instruction, and the subject of the present de !cript inn is one of singular interest. One of the views is w h , e h r vr i‘iliesty' s res idence at Osborne-house, I s l e o f Wi g h t, "th e he tal e d te d T e lbin is now occupjed i n pa i nt i ng frescoes" for her Msjesty. The royal yachts are seen sailing in front of the royal residence. THE AMERICAN PASSENGER ACT.—A communication has been sent by W. Rushton Coulburn, Esq., to H. C. Chap man , Esq., stating the result of the deputation, con !listing of the former gentleman and John Miller, and T. D. Anderson, with Lord Palmerston, on the subject of the recent act of the American Congress to regulate the _conveyance of passengers. The act was fully discussed, and every suggestion of the deputation was kindly consi dered by his lordship, who promised to make a suitable 1 3Presentation to the American Government. The opi- X9n of th e Att orney -G enera l , t h at any s hi p sa iling from this country, or the continent, on or before the 31st May next, wou l d b e exempt from the operation of t h e new ac t, Was mentioned; but, as the American minister may not ' 0 construe it, the deputation consider it desirable, to prevent detention to a ship,. that each party should draw "P a short and clear statement of Isis case, have it properly attested before a magistrate, certified by the American r . r e ansul, and forwarded to the agent of the ship in the ‘- I nited States, as Lord Palmerston expressed his conviction that, whatever the intention of the American Government !night-be, a liberal construction of the act would be ex tended to those who had entered into engagements accord to the present law, in good faith, and ignorance of 41 e ...new enactments. b r EvEn. IN LIVERPOOL. — During the last few days the Mr. Parker, a Roman Catholic priest, has died ; r.. Inspector Forsyth, one of the recently appointed re 4°4R-officers, after an illness of eight days, died on Fri ; - Air. Gray, one of the overseers, is in a state almost ii e teless ; Mr. Staine and Mr. Lamonby, two of the re it wa, , g-officers, are seriously and Mr. Martindale, fossofficer -of the staff, is still in a bad state, and no than three of the surgeons, viz., Mr. Steele, (only a 4 , 5 7; days ago appointed to the offi c e.) D r , Robert Gee, ,i; 1 111r. G r i ms d a l e , surgeon t o th e wor kh ouse, are i n a a b e of great risk to their families. The Rev. Dr. Kelly, t rt nnan Catholic clergyman, died on Saturday. He i,,caed on Sunday week. Another of the Roman Catholic to rn' is ill. Three of the policemen employed as district a t , e ‘ ving officers have become afflicted with typhus, and 1 1 ail le-hodied pauper from thew orkhouse, employed as 4,:pistant at the n e w parish-offices in St. An n e - s tre et, i s th e n ,of fever. A requisition is in course of signature to ite_-kaYor, to call a town's meeting relative to Irish pauper awuliaration, and the best means of checking the dise a se 1 0 `4_ 0 :9rtalitY. This, however, is now likely to be aban nktoea; and it is thought the requisition will be converted wi th a Petition to parliament to pass the bills before them ai t iout del a y, as it i s expec t e d they will contribute mate ezateyo our relief. A meeting of the requisitionists was got t °I I Saturday, but the shortness of the notice only o,g_ether a very few persons, and another meeting will th e 'eP- 1 at the Clarendon-rooms this day (Tuesday), when A''ePs requisite to be taken will be decided on. th e e'w Tatiss.--We have great pleasure in directing Asp a ttention of our readers to an Advertisement in our . T,,,lllpte*,relative to a Truss for the relief of Rupture, m str,,,.c,u by Mr. David Tod, Surgeon, 5, Upper Fitzroy aeij%, c!,_ondon. From the accounts which we have Fitzroy qt f the inventor's high degree of professional ac (%;rititeitnielseeennltiiisas,tsirhtuoimsu our firm belief that every one afflicted I,Y,the facult e ld n , ts w . itl T io h ut delay, be provided with one The Truss is highly recommended Y.. ay 4, 1847. ,er day. In. the con.; red ample protection hole line. The cost lude everything, but A gross income of I as the income in so that the income arty as possible. wkesley, by counsel, a the committee ad- TRADE AND )f the return under tment of the Board ►nth ended sth Feb vere, for the month, , and from Foreign ianties were respec and in 1845, 446,095 i entered for home in 1845,3.232,969 1847, 4,062,466 lbs. ding month of 1845, 3, 224.527 qrs. and and 253,222 cwt. ; ntered at once into 743,268; in 1846, rr, unrefined, total 10 evits. ; in 1846, wts. Tea.-1845, :47, 133,696 lbs. he month has been in 1847, 43,077,010 11,371 in 1845. Foreign parts has against 1425 ships, 19,331 tons in 1845. IL SUMMARY. ng the week of an ?Ouch we have now The cri3is is past ; )re confidence and Ve mar confidently mount of business eration afforded to lwever, will still be lids upon the na ue of the next bar- en materially pre of a Russian Im ,ooo silver roubles aced as the base of re to be gradually rarities. Of this 50,000, the sum of d in the arrange ince ; £750,000 is nd the remaining for investment in announcement on ent. in the funds; through the day wernment securi the close of the ienced at the corn announcement of he account opened t closed at 87 to mportant, as the attendance very in the House on :xchequer will be_ Referring to the y matters, which pitate haste With .ly acted to , pro- MIS want of cau had a letter from Loney market had he Bank had in eased facilities to ations from the vere better satis days previously. e were turning in in from America pated. This we nee whether the tured and other of procuring dis itisfactory to the .ek has been ex epressed 4cl. per id Ad. below the 3ales of the week speculation and lligence received rket, cotton was s were sold,. of advance, in !an descriptions. r, and that little Ibtaining money, • 'crating to check , wever, that the r state of things the same cause,, n the raw mate apwards to that wean short time i—remains to be mthly circular of 61 30th, gives a hey were a month s, sustained with tributable to the th and yarns, and we to experience !ould feel satisfied way, an improve :des would follow ,rders in the mar-- placed were the )robabilities as to y will, we think,. iething approach- L favourable light, rn to be so bad at edered at looking ssed state of the vhich has charac- Lt is amiss, grati solvency amongst periods of adver ativel y harmless; :ercise of sounder beneficial opera- aturday,created urday ; but no iolding back for telligence of the 11, and transac ay, it improved 21bs. per 701bs. :..anal flour bring On Saturday, the state of the its staple of the d at 415., with niter Guardian, the money mar )Sided, as far as su red positively nk of England le first class at If per cent, and nt ; but, never s have been re een felt in the r, assured, that irst fortnight in itie an extended n to be felt in a the present ted. T believe extend their ac -3 SO ; but that Lied drain upon ecially the East om the difficulty s some material quences are ap will look better. j while, how- Ilion. The go- Sir Robert Peel . They express and will work [gh the pressure aracter, there is tensity, and for severe. From le to be received, cent is stated to 7resent state of mode of doing a houses having vhom they have of paying cash they will avail it to which they except in cases [ to increase the per cent per an ke advantage of pool and Man interview with excessive scar esult, that Go undertake to do ring and trading !Ussure, and the shed in Fridtl ►d silver bullion )eing a decrease )anking depart• FALSE IMPRISONMENT.—An action was tried on Fri ! day, at the Birkenhead County Court, before J. W. Hu ' den, Esq., in which James Parsons, a private constable at Rock Ferry, was the plaintiff, and John Gregory, a but cher, residing in Liverpool, was the defendant. The ac tion arose out of a chaige preferred by the defendant against Parsons of having robbed him of five sovereigns, which turned out to be entirely groundless, as the money was shortly after found in the watch:pocket of the defen dant. The damages were laid at £lO. Verdict for the plaintiff, damages £5 and costs. INQUEST ON FIRES.—A suggestion which is in favour of Liverpool will probably have official judgment upon it in the course of this week. It is, that, in cases of fire, the local magistrates should be empowered to hold in quests, with the view of ascertaining the cause, with the power of examining witnesses upon oath. Lord Sandon and Mr. William Brown are to have an interview with Sir George Grey concerning it, and, if approved, there seems to be question that a short general measure will be passe this session. A prescriptional practice of the kind exists in the city of London, and the Liverpool magistrates have held inquiries extra-judicially with considerable be nefit; but the advantage has always been neutralised by there being no power either to compel witnesses to attend or to examine them on oath. We are chiefly indebted to Mr. Alderman Horsfall for this valuable measure. EMIGRATION FROM GERMANY.—On Sunday afternoon, about five o'clock, a train from Hull rid Manchester, ar rived at the Lime-street station with about 250 Germans, including their wives and children. They had come well prepared for their intended voyage, as-was evident ft•om the number of casks of mess beef, sides of bacon, and sacks of potatoes, which formed part of their luggage. It was rather an amusing sight to witness the bivovac formed on the platform, which was quite covered, during the ab sence of some of the male portiOn in search of lodgings, which, from their se - .ming total ignorance of our language, they would ,find rather a difficult task. We think some plan might be arranged, by the numerous influential Ger mans in town to assist these parties on their arrival in a strange country over the temporary difficulties which thus beset them. LIVERPOOL AND . LONDON.—We gather from a parlia mentary return, that at the close of last year there were registered in the pert of Landon 31 sailing vessels under 50 ; 2,116 of upwards of 50 tons ; 90 st eamers o f un d er 50 tons ; and 197 of upwards of 50. In Liverpool, there were registered 131 vessels under 50 tons ; 1,275 above ; 14 steam-vessels under 50 tons, and 46 above that tonnage. The number of sailing vessels that entered ,and cleared coastwise, during the year, (including repeated voyages) was, in London, ,(of sailing. vessels of ail burthens) 32,037, and of steamers, 2,273; and in Liverpool, of - sailing ves sels, 14,055 ; and of steamers, 5,592. It is here to be re marked, however, as regards this item, that the tonnage of the London steamers was 349,317 inwards, and 346,932 outward ; while the tonnage of the Liverpool -steamers was respectively 808,571 inwards, and 741,894 outwards. The tonnage of London vess?ls that entered and cleared from and to foreign ports (including repeated voyages), was inwards, during the year, in British vessels, 449,987 tons, and of foreign vessels, 370,380 tons ; and outwards, 235,970 tons - British, and 354,236 foreign ; whie in Li verpool the burthen was, inwards, 410,283, British, and 427,295 foreign ; and outwards, 405,427, British, and 479,553, foreign. BALDNESS EFFECTUALLY CURED.—A surgeon, natu rally enough dating from " Cork," has obliged us with an order to insert an advertisement entitled " Baldness effectually cured" ; but he has omitted to add to the obli gation by giving us some assurance of being paid for the' same. It is true that he intimates that he " intends to keep it standing," but we read this, probably from some peculiarity in the composition, as referring to the account only ; and he will excuse us if we don't agree with him in the propriety of such an arrangement. We regret, in some respects, that we do not feel ourselves justified in concluding an engagement with the gentleman on the flattering terms offered ; because a fine specimen of the native humour of the writer is thus lost to this part of the world. He gravely mentions, for instance, that hav ing " acquired great experience in the treatment of Ca pillary Diseases, he is happy to inform those persons who are afflicted with Baldness (whether in youth or advanced life), that they may, by a most pimple (!) process, re produce that necessary orname n t" ! Th a t 's one good joke ; but here 's its fellow. He says solemnly, and in a fresh paragraph, that persons afflicted with baldness, and applying for his assistance, " will require to enclose a small quantity of hair " ! Why, where is the bald man to get it from ? But we shall be chargeable with the advertisement duty if we proceed.—Blackburn Standard.' [We were favoured with the same obliging order, and have treated it with a taste of the fire.] SPREAD OF FEVER.-The Rev. Rector Campbell has forwarded a letter to the Mayor on this. subject, in which he desires his worship to communicate to the Health Committee the following extract from a very able article in the Edinburgh Review, " on the causes, cure, and pre vention of contagious fever." Vol. 41, p. 433.—" As to contagious effluvia and the distance at which it may affect persons exposed to it, there is, we think, the most con vincing and satisfactory proof deduced from along course of experiments and observations, that the exhalations ra 'Bate from the body of the patient only to the distance of two feet, provided the noxious vapour be not accumulated and condensed in the room for want of ventilation. This sufficiently shows how unfounded are the fears that many express at living in a district of a town where fever is prevalent, or in the neighbourhood of fever hospitals and infirmaries. If the precautions now recommended are at all attended to, we may live in safety„ even in the same house where fever exists." The Rev. Rector adds, "the precautions alluded to are ventilation and cleanliness. Not knowing who the author of this article is, I cannot say what amount of deference is due to the opinion it ex presses ; .but it. is a most able article in one of the ablest publications of the day, and if the opinion it expresses is correct, nothing can .be more visionary than the appre hensions of infection from the new fever sheds. I have just received a letter from a medical gentleman, who tells me that when he was in Dublin in 1837, when typhus' raged, sheds were erected in the yard of the hospital, in a much more crowded situation than Mount-pleasant, and that fever did not prevail so much round the sheds, as in other parts of town." CARVING IN Ivoßy.—We have been much gratified by an inspection, at Mr. Grundy's Repository, Church street, of one of the most beautiful pieces of carving in ivory which has ever been produced, we believe, in this or any other country. It is a figure of Christ on the Cross, of about 174 inches in height, and fully sculptured. The moment taken by the artist is just when the Spirit of the Saviour has departed to his eternal heavenly rest, and the greatest attention has been paid by the carver to anatomical accuracy, in the general proportions of the human form, the position of the limbs, the development of the muscles, &c. The hands are minutely and finely cut; and the head, which reclines on the right shoulder, is executed with great mastery and taste—the eyes upturned, the mouth open, the thick long hair falling on the shoulders, and the countenance retaining the finest expression of resignation, benignity and forgiveness. The cross is of polished black ebony, surmounted by a scroll in ivory, inscribed, without colouring, " JESUS NAZARENUS, REX JUDAORIIM." The work was executed by our townsman, Mr. Jacobs, modeller and carver in ivory, whose talents becoming known to Joshua Lace, Esq., that gentleman with a generous desire to encourage genuine merit,' and elevate it into deserved notice, liberally gave the artist an unlimited order to execute the subject, and also sent him to London to study the best masters in sculpture, with a view to its more perfect accomplishment. It must be a noble satisfaction to him to find his highest anticipations fully realized in this production, beautiful in itself, yet necessarily painfully true to nature, and to scriptural record. It is said that the swallow cannot rise from the ground without being elevated on some little sprig or eminence. In like manner, genius may long struggle on Th in lowly s c t o i n n d tithiiosneausenthilasaifdoeud thatd n tosoa g r etnoeraoluogft assistance, r si s s p ta h n e c r e e and may he, for the honour of his patron, attain a loftly position in his art ! THE Ron DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS. —The annual meeting of the subscribers to and supporters of these are schools was held on th e 14th i nstant, and as theye schools which have been e s t a bli s h e d and maintained wholly on the voluntary principle, and moreover the schools with which such a champion of voluntaryism as Mr. Corns is connected, we have turned to the report, naturally expecting that under present circumstances, with the stimulus given to voluntary exertion by the op fip n o s d i t t i n e . s t c o h t o h o ci s g i o n v e a r n m n o ) r e e n t thanpla nuos usually a e l I d y n fi e a o t l i i O r i n s II i N n V g e S e l o ), o n IA lid tion. But what are the facts ? We quote the report i:self:— " It will be seen, from the treasurer's statement, that a large balance is now owing to him ; and it is evident to your com mittee, that the former scare of contribution is not sufficient to support the schools in their present efficiency." On turning to the treasurer's account, we find that, in April ; 1846,, the schools owed him about £127 ; and in the present month, at the time when the accounts were made up, they owed him £171; so that they had increased their debt by £44, during the past year.—Well, under these circumstances, the report being printed and circu lated, announced that the sermons would he preached on Sunday, the 25th instant, (Sunday last,) by the Revds. Dr. Halley and Richd. Fleteher, and the usual collections made. Of course, the collections would be larger than usual, under - such circumstances, and after a direct appeal to the friends of the school for " increased liberality." Not so ; the amount of the collections at the annual ser mons, which last year was nearly £164, was no more on Sunday last than £l47,—a falling off of £l7, which, under all the circumstances, does not augur well for the permanent prosperity of the schools, or• speak much for the efficiency of the voluntary system.—[This from the Manchester Guardian, a dissenting. liberal, and free trade paper, is a tolerably honest testimony, at all events, to the inefficiency of the boasted voluntary system.] TIM ALBERT DOCK. From the 25th March to the 29th April, 70 vessels of 36,860 tons register, have entered the Albert Dock to dis charge : 57 of these have been completed, and have had upwards of 1500 tons weight put on board for ballast pur poses ; and several of the remaining 13 vessels (now working) are nearly finished. The following exhibits the progressive increase in the work of the Albert Dock, viz. :- 29 ships, of 12,040 reg. tons, entered to discharge in Janry. 3 8 ty 15,845 „ OP Febry. 35 9, 17,682 „ March. 46 ~ 24,440 „ ft t 7 April. 148 , „ 69,987 „ in 1847. - - --- Of these, 11 were from China. 30 from the East Indies, 67 from America, 14 from Bahia and Pernambuco, 6 from the West Indies, 4 fro m Af r i ca, and 16 from other places. The time occupied in discharging ships in Albert Dock during this year gives an average of 30 working hours for a vessel of 400 tons register burthen. THE LIVERPO - OL STANDARA. LOCAL MEETINGS. DOCK COMMITTEE.—The arms of the Holyhead tele graph were ordered to be covered with galvanized wire, and some repairs were ordered for Leasowe lighthouse.— The receipts of dock and light dues on vessels entering the port of Runcorn for the month ending the 24th April, were stated as follows :—Vessels, 278, tons, 13,762, amount, £72 2s. 11d., being £3 93. 6d. less than at the corres ponding period of last year.—On the application of Mr. John Wilson Greene, permission was granted to the go vernment surveyors of steam-vessels to use lights at any time when necessary for the examination of vessels.—A communication was read as to the laying down of the electric telegraph from Crosby lighthouse. The Chair man said there had been no proceedings taken to warrant the application, unless the person offering chose to lay it down at his own expense. The subject was at present under the consideration of the sub-committee. THE FEMALE PENITENTIARY.—The annual meeting of the friends to this charity was held on Thursday. The chair was occupied by John Cropper, Esq. The report, which was read by the secretary, Mr. Michael Ashton, commenced with an expression of gratification at the suc cess which had attended the labours of the committee during the past year. The number of applicants for ad mission was 95 ; of these there were refused, as unsuit able, 41 ; taken into the probationary ward, 54 ; in the house, 52: total in the house during the year, 106; of these there had been placed out to service, or restored to their friends, 15 ; left at their own suggestion, or from disobedience of rule, 22 ; not returned from the hospitals, 5 ; remaining in the house, 64 ; admitted, 50 ; on proba tion, 14 ; making the average during the year, 56. The total number since the commencement of the institution, thirty-five years ago, was 1425; of these there were expel led, 167 ; eloped 54 ; left at their own suggestion, or from 'dislike of rules, 560 ; restored to their friends, or placed in service, 470; removed to other institutions, 93 ; dead, 17. The report then went on to state that the number of applications for admission during the year had increased, and the committee entertained a hope that such circum stance arose from the desire of the females to escape from a life of ignominy and sin, rather than from an increase of those individuals who were the objects of the society's at tention and care. It was a gratifying fact, that fifteen of the penitents who had concluded their two years' proba tion had been restored to their friends, or placed out in respectable situations as domestic servants. Two others had left the institution from impatience of the discipline of the house, or disobedience of the rules; but there was reason to hope that even one of those had avoided a re turn to a life of vice and ignominy. The number in the house had been greater than during any former year, hav ing been as high as 68, and there were now 64 receiving the benefit of .the instution. Notwithstanding that the most rigid economy had been exercised in every depart ment of the expenditure, the amount expended had been greater than the income, on an average of the last few years, by £21;,0 per annum ; and last year, notwithstanding the earnings of the penitents, which amounted to £331, the deficiences had reached the sum of £254. of Birkenhead, Fell, and 'others ; and' they further appointed'assistants to the districtmedieal officers. Mr. Austin, assistant poor-laweommissioner, suggested that thc-bonfined parish-offices in Fenwick-street be never again. occupied ; and the committee agreed to. provide offices ehewhere. CORRESPONDENCE. HEALTH OF THE TOWN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Several friends have requested me to address a , letter to the Public, through the Press, on the subject of the present-alarin ing sanitary crisis ; they say that as 1 have hitherto been the first to sound the toscin of alarm on the approach of danger, I should also be among the first to allay undue apprehension' when it exists. lii deference to their wishes, no less than in accordance with my own feelings, I have determined to write. When I found dysentery, gastric fever, and other disorders, raging during the last summer, and at the same ti me • ascer tamed the deficiency of water, the overflowing condition of the privies of the town, the quantity of diseased potatoes and meat permitted to be sold in our markets, the Practice of carry ing to the grave the bodies of persons dying of infectious and contagious disorders, hi the cars and vehicles licensed for pro miscuous hire, and these tacitly permitted as things that ought to be, I considered it to be my duty, distinctly recognisirg as I did the cause and effect in this matter, to apprise tbeauthori ties of the town of my strong convictions, first privately and then publicly through the Press, and at the same •time urged the adoption of certain measures as preventives—l advised, inter alia, that the infected districts should be supplied once if not tWice a day with water, that the sewers should be flushed, that the sale of diseased food should be restricted, and that the authorities should at once proceed to the removal of the con tents of the middens all over the town, but especially in the worst districts. What then have the authorities done? After a lapse of nearly seven months, when the Water Companies were going to Parliament for further powers they were induced as a remedial measure, to increase their previously stinted supply. In a few weeks after my application, a few cart-loads of fifth were removed from the worst courts; but at the time when the cumbrous machinery of the new sanatory act began to be slowly set in motion four months afterwards, the accuinu , lation was so erect that, under the present system, it will be impossible to keep the atmosphere of the town sufficiently free from malaria, to be under low" fever "mark." The diseased potatoes are now nearly all gone—some few rotten—most of them eaten. "Jigged beef" being certified by some medical men, who were consulted. as quite fit for human food, the filthy stuff is still permitted to be sold, but, thanks to Providence, the " Cattle Epidemic" has much abated, so that the amount of the certified carrion is not nearly so great as it was. Under a wise provision of the new sanator y Act, a large number of cellars and other dwellings, unfit for human habi tation, were shut up, but as soon as disease became more rife, —as soon as Ireland began to pour her hordes of half-starved, filthy, fever pre-disposed, invaders into our town, at a time when (if sanatory regulations are of any avail), the utmost precautions phould have been uzed,—then did those who ought to have prevented it, wilfully shut their eyes and their ears, and as a premium for mire fever-bearers to come over to us, permitted those who chose to appropriate as habitations these dens of disease and filth, to close up which our local legisla ture had been at considerable pains and expense in obtaining the powers. When the numbers arriving lead considerably in creased, it was then deemed better openly to permit inendicancy, and so inducement after inducement has been held out for fresh arrivals—as "the cry is still they come." Having now taken a review of the past, let us contemplate the present, and the means of providing for the future. Liver pool is just now looked upon with dread from a distance, and no wonder, as much which has gone forth to the world has been exaggerated. In the first place, then, the disease which is now so prevalent in Liverpool, viz., typhus fever, is almost entirely confined to the districts where the poor Irish veyefale, or to persons whose duties call them frequently into these districts, and consequently who are subjected to many of the causes which induce it among the poor Irish and their neighbours. Next, TYPHUS FEVER IS NOT CONTAGIOUS. This assertion, though strong, I am prepared to defend ; but, for the sake of allaying the over-anxiety of the public mind on the subject, I consider it no less my duty than my pleasure to state that, if required, I mu prepared to prove it. Next, that the causes which leave induced it to so n ~. .eat an extent lit present arc com pletely removable. Ex gr., Let the " powers that be" imme diately make arrangements to evacuate the cellars, and other dens of disease, which have been so improperly re -tenanted ; let them build vast tents or sheds for those so deprived of lodg ing ;—let them, backed by their fellow-townsmen, insist upon government at once preventing the further importation of Irish paupers ;—let the cleansing staff, until the whole town is tho roughly cleansed of its abominations, be increased at least ten fold;—let the supply of water be still further increased;—let the animated bundles of rags be prevented from obtruding their disgusting peculiarities upon the passers-by in our streets; —let the public mind lie re-assured ;—and while all this is be ing done, let one and all join " heart, pocket, and hand," in petitioning government to dispense with the standing orders, and pass at once into a law the two bills now before the house on the subject, which will prevent, for the future, such almost unbearable burtnens being foisted on the inhabitants of Liver pool. Let all this, I say, be done, and Liverpool will, in a few weeks, be a cleaner awl a healthier town than she has been since the commencement of the nineteenth century. In conclusion, I say to government—to our paternal govern ment—if you do not immediately take measures to prevent the further importation of Irish paupers, you are (now that you are made aware cf the real facts of the case) morally guilty of the death of all who may hereafter come and perish from fever in Liverpool. A vast proportion of these misguided creatures come to certain death, as the only places in ich they can be put are already in the undisputed possession of the destroyer. H. G. HARBORD. • - - - 4, Upper Parliament-street, May 3d., 1847. - -.4!,...- -- GOVERNMENT SCHEME OF EDUCATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sir,--Highly as I approve of the Government scheme, one abuse I see will soon become apparent. Most of our schools are crippled in their funds; and I am sorry to say that many committees are so niggardly that they will avail themselves of any scheme to save their own purses: for instance, if they find they cannot give their present teacher, say £lOO a-year, they will form some excuse to get rid of him, and engage another for .470 or .41=0, and obtain .V2O or .4'30 from government to make up the deficiency. Then how will the teacher be benefitted ? am convinced that such will be the case. CERTES. LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE. " JUDGE NOT; LEST YE BE JUDGED."—On Tnesday, in the Police-co - art, while Sir Joshua Walmsley was amercing several individuals in various sums for their chim neys having been set on fire, singular enough, at the very time, the stench of iYurning soot in the court was intoler able from one of their own flues. RICH BEGGARS AGAIN I—On Tuesday, an elderly man was brought before Sir Joshua Walinsley, at the Police court as a begging impostor. He had gone to. the Be vington-bush relief office, and alleged that his family were starving. He had not, he said, one farthing of money. The, policeman searched him, and found ss. 6d., and ('wrapped in some old rags) three £1 Bank of Ireland notes. His wife was in the room at the same time apply ing, in another name, for relief, stating that she had six children without a morsel of bread. He was' sent to pri son for a month, to be maintained out of his own funds.— On the same day another man was brought up, who had applied for relief with Bs. fid. in his pocket. He was sent to prison for 14 days, under like conditions. • COMPLAINT AGAINST THE GOVERNOR OF THE Bo- ROUGH GAOL.—On Friday, Mr. Edward Bretherton, so licitor, appeared to prefer a complaint against Mr. High ton, the governor of the Borough Gaol, for having refused him admission into that prison. Mr. Ilighton stated, that according to an order issued by the justices at Kirk dale, no attorney was ad m i ss ibl e i n t o th e pr i son, to see criminal prisoners, unless he produced. his certificate, and as Mr. Bretherton was unknown to the turnkeys, and had not brought any certificate, he was, therefore, inad missible by the regulations. Mr. Bretherton said he had been allowed into the prison the day before to see a debtor, without producing a certificate. Mr. Highton said he was unaware of the fact, but.that admission ander the circumstances might have been granted, as the rule did not apply to debtors. Mr. Rushton said lie would see the mayor, and endeavour to get some relaxation of the order. He would not overrule the orders of the visiting justices, but he certainly thought that every proper facility ought to be given to legal advisers. A PUBLICAN CHARGED WITH UTTERING BASE COIN. —On Wednesday, Elizabeth Carlock, who keeps the Victoria Vaults, Stewart-street, was charged with passing six bad shillings. Charles Darcey, an Irishman, about to emigrate, who had been staying at her house, said that she changed half a sovereign for him, but h e f oun d fi ve bad shillings amongst it. She afterwards gaVe him an other bad shilling, and he handed her into custody. Two bad shillings were found in her purse. It was stated that publicans were much exposed to.receiving bad money, and Sir Joshua Walmsley ordered her diicharge. Mr. Owen, solicitor, who appeared for the prisoner, addressed Darcey at the close of the case, and said indignantly, " I'm sorry you are not going- to stay in the country, sir ; I would have shown you what you are in another court." (Laughter.) Sir Joshua Walmsley :—" You should not make a remark against a man after his being of six bad shillings." Mr. Owen :—" It is not true, sir ! it was a palpable lie." Sir Joshua Walmsley :—" There is a proof of two at least being in her possession." Mr. Owen : —" There would have been an answer given to that, sir, Which would, perhaps, have let a little light into this case." Sir Joshua Walmsley :—Well, it might be 50 . ." CONFESSING TO AN ALLEGED MURDER.—A tall athle tic looking Irishman, who gave the name of Michael M'Shean, was brought before the magistrates on Wednes dayl under the following extraordinary circumstances. Police-constable Hitchmough, stated t hat, on the previous day while on duty, the prisoner came up to him and said be had been guilty of a murder in Ireland, and wished to be taken into custody. The officer accordingly took him to the Police-office, where he made some further disclo sures. They are to the effect that he and two other men formed a design to murder a perlon named Cruish, at Armagh, about six years ago ; that he (the prisoner) went with them, and having repented of hi s or i g i na l determina tion to take part in the crime, advised the men not to kill Cruisle, but they persisted, and committed the horrid deed by knocking down their victim and thrustinc , a bayonet through his body. The prisoner when asked by the magistrate what he had to say, replied, that he was one of the men, as he had stated, but he did not take part in the murder. We understand the prisoner's statement is not entitled to much credit, as there is no notice of any such murder in the Hue and Cry, where such offences are usually ,noticed. He was remanded to gaol, and in the meantime the Commissioner of Police would write to Ire land for further information. SELECT VESTRY.-TUESDAY. The first business before the Vestry, at their fortnightly meeting on Tuesday, was a memorial, signed by more than 200 inhabitants of Abercromby Ward, representing the serious evils likely to arise from the fever sheds, and asking whether they could not be removed to a better locality, or whether such alterations could not be made as would allay the apprehensions of the memorialists. After several members of the Board had expressed them selves to the effect, that the parish could not have found a more eligible. site, the Chairman expressed his pain and regret at one xpregFion used by Mr. Neil, the surgeon, wherein he had accused the parish authorities of " heart lessness." That was not a word that ought to have been used even in the heat of controversial debate, still less should it have been used deliberately by a medical man, in writing upon such a subject as the present. Almighty God had brought upon us a calamity, and instead of ac cusing the authorities of heartlessness, far better would it be to aid those authorities in rendering the application as little onerous to the inhabitants as it possibly could be. He denied, upon the authority of some medical men, and bis own experience, that there was that intense danger from typhus fever which some people supposed. He could not conceive it possible, with fever pressing on them in the manner it was, to take down the sheds and remove them elsewhere ; but alterations might be made, the privies might be removed, and the walls might be raised, so as to do away with any really existing grievance.—Mr. Bennett said the privies would now be converted into water-closets, the floors of the sheds would be perforated so as to admit ventilation, the foul air would be carried off at the highest possible point of the building, and the pro bability was, that the windows would never be opened. The deputation having withdrawn, the following motion was unanimously adopted :—That we have the most anxious desire to meet the wishes of the memorialists, but cannot hold out any expectation that it will be in our power to take down the sheds, the plan of which was sub mitted to Dr. Duncan prior to the erection, and which cannot be removed to a more eligible site ; but that we shall do all we can to allay the apprehensions of the in habitants ; the privies will be made into water closets, the walls will be raised, and the ventilation will be so managed as to prevent danger. The daily number of paupers relieved during the last fortnight has been as follows : Monday, the 12th .. Tuesday. the 13th Wednesday, the 14th Thursday, the 15th Friday, the 16th Saturday, the 17th The cost of out-door relief this week. was in money £583 IGs., - being an increase of £730 over the correspond ing- week last year. Monday, the 19th Tuesday, the 20th 12,080 Wednesday, the 21st 12,201 Thursday, the 22nd Friday, the 23rd 10,630 Saturday the 24th The cost of out-door relief this week was in money £593 16s. being an increase over the corresponding week of last year of £745 12s. Mr. 'Evans, the governor of the Workhouse, sought for advice as to how he was to act with reterence to ad missions when the house was overcrowded.—lnstructions were given to the governor to provide all the accommoda tion in his power, and when that was full to admit no more ; and a committee, consisting of Messrs. Hand, Chesney, Cafferata, and Townsend, were appointed to ascertain what additional room could be provided in the newly-built addition to the workhouse. _ _ _ The Chairman said that he had recently written a let ter to Sir George Grey, relative to the conduct of the mayor and inhabitants of Wexford. The circumstances of the case were briefly these :-250 Irish emigrants, by the Rochester, had been wrecked on the coast of Wex ford. The Mayor and inhabitants of that town had sub scribed to pay their passage back to Liverpool, and on their arrival here. 130 of them had become chargeable to the parish. The question put to Sir George Grey was, — Whether the Mayor and inhabitants could legally act in this manner, and, if not, what measures were to be adopted ? In reply, Sir George, stated that be was not aware of any law by which the course pursued by the mayor and inhabitants of Wexford was prohibited ; but he added that the proper way to remedy the grievance appeared to be by the removal of so many of these per sons as were described in the act, an amendment of which was now under the consideration of the House of Com mons. He (the chairman) should like to ask, whether, if the Mayor and the inhabitants of Liverpool were to subscribe to send 10,000 Irish paupers up to London, that would be lawful ?. (Hear and a laugh.) He did not mean to advise such a project, neither did he mean to say it would be lawful ; but he knew that if they, the parochial authorities, were to attempt to do such a thing, it would be a misdemeanour. llowever, this was the fact, and it was likewise an important fact for the people of Ireland to know, that they might subscribe to send over 100,600 intr o . eiei r eaal 2 gd, beoi remedy ta o ,7sti p ipdo a ocn u tosh p euwed e l hdrbsi difficultiescytni not h t ti r h e e i Gb s naef c ood o orr ducgt. the law were hear.)rawn up for p e Grey was resentation atitanitiia. pottr T nhtaeh h tenoe e_ e it.—The both louses of Parliament, setting forth that the immense fl inux of Irish paup ers i nto Liverpool ;vas a grievous injur to the parishioners, not only i n a pecuniary, but also in a sanitary point of v i ew , f or many of the immigrants were labouring under infectious diseases, and thus brought illness and death amongst the inhabitants. The petitioners therefore pray, that a clause may be in serted in the intended Irish Vagrant Act, restricting pauper vagrants from leaving the Irish ports in order to pass into England, and only permitting those to leave Ireland for England who leave it for the bona fide lawful purposes of emigrating to foreign parts or seeking work in England : and that the expense of relieving sick and distfesscd Irish casual poor, and burying such as die of fever, may be removed from the parochial rate in England, and paid out of the Irish relief fund. It was stated in the course of the petition, with reference to the spread of disease in the town, that " three of the relieving officers have already died of typhus fever, and one now lies dangerously ill. One of the medical officers is dead; another is dangerously ill. One of the nurses of the Lying-in Hospital is dead ; another ill. 654 paupers have been buried in the Workhouse Cemetery during the last month, the average number of interments during the last twelve years being only 1,367 annually ; so th a t in one month the interments have nearly equalled half the num ber which they usually amount to in one whole year."— Upon the motion of Mr. Riding, the petition was adopted, and it was ordered that a copy of it should be sent to Lord Sandon, for presentation to the House of Commons, and another copy of it to Lord Brougham, for presenta tion to the House of Lords; and that a thousand copies of it be printed, and sent to every member of both houses of the legislature.—Mr. Haigh thought a great public meeting of the parishioners ought to be convened, either by the Mayor or the Select Vestry, with the view of con sidering the most advisable steps to be taken in the pre sent alarming exigencies in which the town was placed by the increased and increasing influx of Irish paupers.— Mr. Chesney said it was the more necessary now to act with promptitude, as the Irish were threatening to send over, not 40,000, but a million of their countrymen bef ore the harvest was reaped. (Hear, hear.)—The Chairman then gave an account of his interview with Sir Geo. Grey. The result of the interview was, that the people of Liver pool were now entirely upon their own resources ; that they must put their own shoulders to the wheel, and do all they ‘ could to provide for the burden. Upon the motion of Mr. Avison, Mr. Hugh Mullineux ,was elected a member of the select vestry, in the room of Mr. Raymond Houghton, who was appointed an overseer. The medical board recommended that four surgeons— two in addition to the present two—be appointed. The board, in reply to the recommendation, appointed an as sistant dispenser to Mr. Lingley, the apothecary, at a salary of 20s, a week. They also appointed Drs. Steel, HEALTH OF BIRKENHEAD. TO TITI? EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.,-INDARD. Stn,—While the subject of the health of towns engrosses at present almost general attention = it is amazing to view the in dirfsrence with which the inhabitants of Birkenhead seem to retard the subject, and that in the face of a report just pub lished, which asserts that Birkenhead is more unhealthy than Liverpool—consequently the most unhealthy town in England. It may fairly be questioned whether there is in any town in the kingdom so dangerous anti disgusting a nuisance as that which bounds Birkenhead on the south-west, known as Trail ' mere I'ool. As some of your readers may not be acquainted with the locality, it may be proper to state that the pool com mences about a mite to the south-west of the town ; from thence it receives the contents of four or five common sewers from various streets in Birkenhead, before it reaches the Brook-lane; here it is made into a covered sewer, and receives the contents of the sewers of five streets from iii kenhead, and one from Clifton Park; after passing Clifton Park, it becomes open sewer or ditch, and continues for nearly half a mile skirting Birkenhead, till it reaches the river, receiving in its course the contents of several other street-sewers, the waste from the gas-works, the drainings of the Commissioners' dung and soil depot, and the drain water, refuse, and waste animal matter from the slaughter-houses. As if these were not suffi cient to cause a pestiferous vapour, the night-soil depOt of the Commissioners, consisting of thousands of cart-loads, is placed on its margin, increasing the evil. Close to this part of the pool, the houses are as thickly planted as possible, and great quantities are in course of erection, all of the cottage class ; and it is dreadful to contemplate the ravages that fever will make amongst the poor inhabitants when once it gets a 'hold there, more especially as Birkenhead is totally unprovided with a fever hospital. -Nor will the evil stop there. whenever a south or east wind blows, the of nvia in Grange-lane, from the Railway Station to the lark Hotel, are a!most unbearable, and are further spread all over the town. It need scarcely be neces sary to say, that these effluvia are highly prejudicial to health : the tenant of a horse in the vicinity left it in consequence of two medical men telling him that the ill health of his family was solely attributable to that cause. If vigorous steps are not taken before the warns weather commences, I feel persuaded that fever will be rife in Birken head ; and the inhabitants, having been fairly warned, will have themselves alone to blame. It is not enough that the town possesses more sewers than any of its size in the kingdom, if many of thsm tire allowed to discharge themselves in an al most, and in dry weather a quite, stagnant ditch—in parts filled with decayeti animal matter. It seems ridiculous to cry about a deficiency of water for sanitary purposes, while such a glaring evil is unnoticed under the very roses of the Commissioners. Let the inhabitants bestir themselves. and see that they have a Health Committee in reality, and not in name only; for should they not speedily abate the nuisance, and fever and disease ensue in consequence, it will no doubt extend to their own homes, and a!so prove the most serious blow to the prosperity of Birkenhead it has yet received. A SUFFERER THE NAVIGATION LAWS. TO 'THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD SlR,—Would you inform me through your valuable columns why there appears such apathy in Liverpool respecting the in vestigation of the Navigation Laws now going on, taking into consideration the number of merchants, captains, and others who are so deeply interested, it is truly astonishing that some movement is not made towards the support of these laws which are and have been of such vital importance not only to them selves but to England at large. It is a great loss there are not more CHAPATANS in Liverpool. Yours, 8:c. A CONSTANT READER. Apptedon, May Ist, 1847. .[We are quite unable to answer our correspondent's question, but " apathy" on all questions affecting the vital interests of the country seems to be the order of the day.] FEVER RAGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. gin, —Whether the fever rages or not, there is decidedly a fever rage. It is fashionable talk, fashionable writing, and fashionable reading, and I believe it is the same as all other fashions, outraged. In speaking of the unhealthiness of Liverpool, it is riot borne in mind that this sanatory system has only just merged into existence ; and that every filthy nook and corner of the town is now strictly scrutinized ; and every death with its cause strictly searched into ;—whereas, a few years back, the filthy dens that then existed—for there has been a great im provement in clearing the cellars of their wretched inhabitants —were almost entirely overlooked, and we heard nothing of them, or their deaths, or diseases. There may be an increase, and over the average, by the influx of the half-starved and thoroughly filthy Irish; but I do not think the inhabitants are more unhealthy ;—nay, I should say, if correct statistics could be compared, more health) than some years back. You news paper gentlemen might be the only reporters the authorities had adisease and death, and that the Sanatory Committee had to look over the papers to see what was going on. I believe they possess every information requisite, independently ; and are doing what they conceive to be best. If any suggestion can be given through the press that requires the public to back it, all well and good; but where it is not the case, a note to the committee is all that is necessary, and would have every atten tion. But this fashion will be succeeded by others; and I be lieve it will be fashionable this summer to go out of the town, and keep out of it. Nay, I understand that this fashion has already commenced : several families, I am informed, have already gone, and I know others are keeping out. I had a gen tleman called on me the other day from the country, who was seriously talked to before leaving home for the folly of running into danger, by coming to Liverpool. It is not what is seen or heard, it is what is read in the papers. If an inhabitant wants to know how heavily he is taxed, or how unhealthy he is, he must gn to any other town in the empire, and there they will make Ins hair stand straight on end.—Yours, &c., A SUBSCRIBER. *,,,* I don't wish to insult the suffering poor, but I really think that it ought to be made known in every port in Ireland, that all that were coming to this town would be thoroughly wel► washed, either on board or on landing. I don't see why a per son should be allowed to be ill before any such measure was taken; it would no doubt prevent a vast deal of disease if this measure was carried out. It might make them more hungry, but it would be a preventative aga►nst disease. 14Nstrat Dr llls. Last week a fine sturgeon, measuring seven feet, and weighing 1 cwt. was caught in the river at Runcorn. A new Protestant church is about to be erected at Ormskirk, A few parties have already subscribed up wards of £l2OO. Sir Robert Peel, during his recent visit to his estates at Oswaldwisle, near Blackburn, forwarded £5O towards a new organ for the church in that township. Tim NEW CHURCH AT WORSLEY. - During the late gales, the stone cross at the top of the spire of the new church at Worsley, was blown over, so as to fall on one side, upon the scaffold ; and the upper part of the spire it self, for about six yards from the top, appears to he so split or broken, that it is said it must be taken down, if it does not fall. The upper portions of the scaffolding, being those parts most exposed to the fu r y o f th e ga l e , h a d t o b e staved in all directions, by strong ropes made fast to trees and posts, so as to prevent the whole from being blown down. A NEW " KIND OF PRODUCE."—On Friday, at the Wigan market, a large quantity of " Nettles," imported from Warrington, were offered for sale in baskets, at 4d. each, (not the basket, included), which quantity might very easily have been put in a person's coat-pocket; ne vertheless, the newly-invented article of agricultural pro-' duce met with a ready sale. This is the first importation of this staple article of food in the Wigan market, but judging from the success it obtained, we venture to pre dict that others will be inclined to follow with the same article, and cause a little competition, whereby it will be come reduced in value. FACTORY TRADE AT WIGAN.—It is our painful duty to have again to revert to the exceedingly depressed state of the trade in Wigan and Hindley. In the former place, Messrs. Eckersley have, during the past week totally stopped a considerable portion of their looms, and as the work comes off, other hands are being thrown out of em ployment ; and besides this, notice was posted through the mill, stating that on Monday the mill would commence running only three days per week. This arrangement is at present only expected to continue one month. Messrs. J. Woods and Co., of the Sovereign Mills, are working only four days a week, as also Messrs. Brierly's. Mr. Tipping's mill, in Chapel-lane, runs only three days, and it is stated, that if trade is no better in a short time, it will be closed altogether. Mr. Bullock's mill, Wallgate, has been stopped several weeks. It is also stated that many of the other owners of mills will be compelled to adopt the short time system. In Hindley nearly all the mills are on short time. With these facts before us, and a proba bility of trade being worse, we are quite at a loss to ima gine what will be the ultimate issue. Hundreds of poor people are now upon the very verge of starvation. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS IN WEST LANCA SHIRE.—Wheat has not been so thin upon the ground for many years as it is this year, in the Fylde country in fact, many fields in Lathom, - Burscough, &c., have been ploughed up, and sown with barley. What oats have brairded up have come up remarkably well. . The rain which fell on Sunday and Monday nights will be of great benefit to the various crops, and to none more than the grass crops. The bright green of the fields this week affords an agreeable contrast to their former bleak ap • pcarance. We have bad very high winds since Monday; indeed, on Tuesday it almost blew a hurricane, carrying the dust from the roads in clouds into the air. It is feared that it will have done serious damage to some of the carrot crops sown upon sandy. soils, by blowing the seed along with the dry sand into the reins and ditches. The bloom upon fruit trees, too, will suffer very much : gooseberries and currants, also, have been blown from the trees in great quantities. The farmers have almost finished planting early potatoes, and are busily engaged with the winter crop. An average quantity, or perhaps more, will be planted ; b u t u p on t h e st iff so il s in the neighbourhood of Mawdesley, where the disease was very severe last year, not so many will be planted—the high price of seed being a serious obstacle to procuring sets. Early potatoes are springing beautifully, and appear per fectly free from disease ; but the winds have blighted those in exposed situations almost as bad as frost. MANCHESTER NEW RACE COURSE.—The formation of the Manchester new race-course, Broughton Meadows, is rapidly approaching towards completion. The ground, a few days ago, could be compared to nothing but a bee hive, so numerous were the hands employed to mould it into form and fashion. When completed, it will rank as the first race-course in Great Britain. The ground is perfectly flat, and on the east and northern sides of it nature has formed a rising ground, forming a most splen- 1 did amphitheatre, capable of containing half the popula- 1 tion of Manchester. The approaches are hastening to completion • the permanent sods h ave b een l a id on t h e whole of the course, and it has been most substantially railed off wherever it is requisite to be done. There are • to be three different stands, all of which are built very substantially. These stands will accommodate above 9,000 people. The course will be as solid as box, (as the saying goes),—at least, if the most ponderous roller almost ever seen can, by a diligent working of it, accomplish that object. The lessee of the ground has erected a toll-bar just at the entrance, at which both pedestrian and eques trian will have to contribute. Bets are now making that the bar will realise £1,500 or £2,000. That a large sum will be raised there is no doubt; curiosity alone will, it is supposed, bring its tens of thousands to the scene. There will be three general approaches to the race course, for carriages, horses, and pedestrians ; one from Pendleton, one from the Crescent, Salford, and one from Higher and Lower Broughton. PROTESTANT MEETING.—On Thursday, the annual meeting of the Manchester and Salford Protestant Refor mation Society was held in the Free Trade Hall. The immense hall was crowded by a highly respectable assem blage of ladies and gentlemen. Amongst the gentlemen present on the platform, we observed Colonel Sir Digby Mackworth, hart. ; Mr. Augustus Stapleton (formerly secretary to the late Mr. George Canning), and Mr. Richard Nugent, who attended as a deputation from the National Club for promoting the Protestant principles of the constitution; Rev. Hugh Stowell, Rev. H.W.M'Grath, Rev. J. H. Maguire, and an immense number of the clergy and gentry. The chair was taken by the Rev. Hugh Stowell. The following resolutions, moved and seconded by the Rev. J. H. Maguire, Rev. W. Huntingdon, Rev. R. Nugent, and Sir Digby Mackworth, were unanimously passed : That unity of purpose and consentaneous action amongst the friends of Protestant truth being most impor tant, the Manchester and Salford Protestant and Reforma tion Association resolve to communicate and co-operate with the National Club; at the same time, retaining their own independence of existence and proceedings." "That the meeting is deeply impressed with the solemn and cri tical position of our national Protestantism at the present juncture, and look forward to the coming election as sure, under God, to determine the destiny of this Christian country ; they would, therefore, call upon all who love the truth of God to unite in fervent prayer, and prompt and energetic effort, with a view to that crisis." Mr. Augustus Stapleton delivered a very powerful address to the meeting. MOST DISTRESSING CASE.—On the 20th instant, an inquest was held before H. Churton, Esq., coroner, at Nantwich Workhouse, on the bodies of Catherine, Mar garet, and Mary Kelly, a mother and her two daughters, who died under the following lamentably distressing circumstances :—The deceased woman, with her family, lately arrived from Ireland, among other unhappy wan derers, in a state of great distress. They took up their abode in some empty houses at Beam Heath, near Nant wich, but having been forcibly ejected from this tempo_ rary shelter, the poor woman, on the 11th instant, under the combined pressure of want and delirious fever, threw herself into a pit, where they would probably have been drowned but for timely succour, which was obtained by some youths who saw the bodifs in the water. The children were taken to Nantwich Union Workhouse, and the mother to the lock-up, charged with an attempt to murder; here she remained till the following Friday, when, on her examination before the magistrates, Mr. Williamson, surgeon, deposed to the alarming state of her health, and she was also removed to the Nantwich Work house. On the 18th instant, after dreadful sufferings from a raging fever, the mother died ; on the previous day her child Mary died, and on the 20th instant, another child, Marcaret, died also. The other little sufferer still survives. The jury returned a verdict that "the deceased, Catherine, Alargaret. and Mary Kelly,elied from the effect*, of typhus fever, consequent upon exposure to the in clemency of the weather, and from the want of proper food." The jury also took the opportunity of recording their "regret that the deceased were admitted into the Nantwich Union .Workhouse in a state of fever, thus en dangering by infection the lives of the inmates."—Ches ter Courant. THE FEVER SHEDS IN MOUNT PLEASANT. The agitation against these 'erections continues una bated. The Committee appointed by the inhabitants of Abercromby Ward, to endeavour to effect a removal of the sheds, at a meeting on Saturday, adopted the follow ing outlines of a plan which appears to them feasible and practicable, in preference to the present fever sheds. First,—The plan of erecting, under any suitable condi tions, commodious suburban wooden sheds—(based on logs of wood, in case of renting ground)—on such a site as for instance, Wavertree Ilall &tate, at present lying idle comparatively if not absolutely, in the hands and ownership of the Corporation ; and which was selected by the Quarter Sessions a short time ago as eligible for a new borough gaol ; and considering that it is remote from any inhabited houses, with the exception of one or two, sepa rated by ample garden grounds, common road or railroad, combines in it many obvious advantages. • Secondly.—The plan of erecting a group of sheds lieu of the former, or in addition, on an eligible piece of land, somewhere near an old yrarel pit, on a ridge of land looking over a broad valley, in the centre of which valley is the Calderstones, Allerton, &c. Th e grave l p i t (now stra w b erry gardens) is just where Lodge-lane and Ullet's-lane, Toxteth, meet, or a little further on, past a large barn. The two roads mentioned form convenient approaches. Water can be had, by sinking a well, if not from the Harrington Water Works. Gas is brought close to, and the spot is sufficiently high and cleared of woods, whilst the prevailing winds would (for nine out of twelve months) carry any effluvia by the atmospheric currents in the most desirable directions. Thirdly,—The plan of obtaining a kind of Lazarette or nreadnotight hospital ship, to be moored in toe river, in the anchorage somewhere near the present Lazarettos, would be probably the best plan of all. The mode of access by a small steamer has its advantages as well as its disadvantages. _ _ _ If moored out of the sharpest run of the tidal and fresh current, opposite Rock Ferry as the present Lazar Ates are, the Harrington Dock might afford a suitable point for embarking and disembarking, &c., and the shortest water transit to the fever ships. Perhaps some old condemned gun ship could be con tracted for by the town with the Admiralty—(stipendiary medical staff attached ?) With regard p the difficulty about going out of the parochial possessions for a site, alleged to exist by the Select Vestry, it is confidently felt, and that on the most consistently reasonable grounds, for the adequate fulfil ment of a public purpose of the greatest moment to the town and the country also, that an ORDER IN COUNCIL* might be consented to and granted by the Crown. It is further felt and hoped that the admirable provi sions of Lord Morpeth' 8- Bill, so strongly commended by the Health of Towns Association here and in the metro polis, will, if permitted to pass into law, prove thoroughly competent to deal with such crises of public health and interests in future, and which would be commensurately adjudicated upon by the Council of Health proposed to be constituted, as a Board of health, with supreme powers of direction, which, duly guided by a large and scientific body of Medical Inspectors, could n A an .t o i c'e 'ation3 from the essential precautions in general sanitary points, such as now present themselves so painfully in the in stance complained of by the memorialists. The committee do gravely consider that, the fact of the existing limitations in the matter if real, (a point much doubted) have been already met in some way or other, and very properly so, in the instance of the New Paro chial Industrial Schools planted out at Kirkeale, and that a similar method must be now signally available for a purpose more imperative if possible. It is considered that the limit of act or acts of parlia ment simply arises in this way :—that the Legislature of that date, or of those dates, as the case may be, never contemplated the possibility of a population of 300,000 souls being crowded upon an area—presenting a density of population to the square mile .167,T times greater than the most densely crowded portion of the metropolis itself ! —and the possibility, further, of a sudden influx of 50,000 starring and sickening Irish immigrants ; enhancing, most fearfully, the evils inherent in the already awfully condensed population of Liverpool: and thereby pre cipitating such an amount of epidemic fever and dysentery—the types of which are daily acquiring a more severe and fatal character; eventuating, at present, in a mortality rate of about 10 per cent., and threatening a pro bable still higher per centage. To meet such an extraor dinary exigency, by an extraordinary measure of tempo rary provision, cannot surely be held out rationally, to be, in any wise, a contravention of the tenor of parochial government; but must•be, in fact, in the soundest accor dance with the true spirit of our parochial legislation— many English of which mu s t b e gran t e d t o b e th e b oas t of the English nation, and to reflect to posterity the wisdom of a Saxon Monarch ; but which, in an emergency like the present, occurring in this large sea port (and possibly about to extend as an ,evil) is inadequate, wherein a compre hensive and adequate measure is demanded, alike by the necessities of a case where the sanitary prevention for the healthy is as imperatively required as the cure of the sick population. PROPOSED NEW • ARRANGEMENT OF THE SEWERAGE AND MODE OF CLEANSING THE The Health Committee, we are rejoiced to find, are at length getting their machinery to work in a practical and the most direct effort to remove from Liverpool the stigma under which she has so long laboured, of being, notwith standing the advantages of her position, the most un healthy town of the United Kingdom. One of the most serious impediments to the removal of the existing causes of disease has hitherto been the want of a comprehensive plan of sewerage. The great underground ducts for the removal of impurities from the town have been formed from time to time, as the pressing wants of the commu nity called for them only, not with any regard for its prospective requirements. The natural consequence has -been imperfections in the dove-tailing and connecting process to which the authorities have had to resort as the town extended in area and population. Main sewers, ori ginally sufficient, have proved insufficient in dimensions for the increased quantity of matter running into them; the levels of some have been inaccurate, thus creating de posits below the surface injurious to the public health, and setting at defiance in a great measure the efforts to improve the sanitary condition of the town by attention to house drainage and surface cleansing. The Health Committee, wisely, have taken the bull by the horns, with a determination to overcome it. Their surveyor, Mr. Newlands, with an efficient staff of assist ants, has for some time been at work upon a survey of the town and its locality, with a view to ascertain cor rectly the levels of the whole; and has succeeded in laying before the Committee a plan, founded upon these levels, for the proper sewering of the whole. We have not had an opportunity ourselves of inspecting the plan itself; but we believe the following to be its main features. The north end of the town is to be provided with a complete set of sewers connected with a main sewer running into Beacon's gutter. The s ou th en d o f t h e town is to be provided with main connecting sewers, and a main run ning into the river somewhere near the Harrington Docks; and a third set of sewers for the accommodation of the eastern outskirts of Edge Hill, Low Hill, &c., are to de bouch into Tue Brook. Of course the Building Act pro vides for the House Drainage being effectually carried out. In addition to this comprehensive plan, and by the aid which it will afford, another excellent project has been laid before the Committee by Mr. Newlands, viz., to do away with the use of cess-pools throughout the town, and to substitute for them even in the cottage houses, water closets upon a self-acting plan, which is stated by that gentleman to possess great efficiency combined with cheapness. Ash-pits are also to be dispensed with, every housekeeper being compelled to hand the ashes daily to a carter, who will be sent about to collect them. We have frequently urged upon the authorities the advantage which would accrue to the town, in the improved health of the population, if the sewers were as frequently as possible. flushed thorou g hly. A n exper i ment, having in view to test the extent of our present means to effect this object, was tried on Saturday, under the direction of Mr. Newlands, and in the presence of several influential members of the Council and the Health Committee, at the Kensington Reservoir. The water was turned on at half-past two ; and, in twenty-five minutes, the whole of the sewers, to the North of Islington, and running into Beacon's Gutter, were flushed; 10,000 gallons per minute being discharged into them. For the first few minutes, the stream which was discharged at Beacon's Gutter was black as ink, and very foul, —showing inc?n testibly tLe retention in the sewers, probably from their im perfect construction, in a great measure, ofunhealthy matter; but this gradually disappeared, and at the end of the trial, which lasted about h a lf an h our , the water discharged was perfectly clear. The result produced upon the reservoir was only a lowering of the water level two inches. Ay. Newlands proposes to flush the new sewers regularly twice a day, which, when their more favourable construction is taken into account, together with the diminished quantity of impurity to he removed, can probably be effected with much less expenditure of water supply.