The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-15 00:00:00

Sept. 15, 1f446. gmlo by Zurtion CART HORSES, CARTS, GEARS, &c. By Messrs. LUCAS and CO., TO-MORROW, (Wednesday,) the 16th instant, at one o'clock, at their Repository, Great Charlotte-street, TWENTY to Twenty-five CART HORSES, Hacks, Harness, &c., a Broad-wheeled Cart, Spring Cart, Two Shandries, several other Carts, Two Gigs, One Phaeton, a va riety of Shaft and Chain Gears, Saddlery, Harness, &C. On view prior to the sale. IMPORTANT SALE OF FIFTY DRAUGHT HORSES By Messrs. LUCAS and CO., (Of the Repository, Liverpool,) On TUESDAY next, the 22d instant, at One o'clock precisely, at the Fire-Police Yard, Clarence street, Manchester, FIFTY Valuable CART HORSES , t he Pro p ert y of Messrs. John Waring and Son, Contractors, who have just completed their work on the Bolton and Bury Railway. The Horses are young, sound, healthy, and seasoned; and having been actively employed up to the present time, are in splendid hard-working condition. Amongst them are many large, powerful, muscular Horses, calculated for heavy Draught Work. The others consist of clean-legged, useful Horses, —combining size with substance, symmetry with action, power with activity,—and are in every respect admirably adapted for the Manchester business. In colour they are Bays, Browns, Grays, and Blacks. They will be on view on the Morning of sale, and will positively be sold without reserve. FYLDE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S ANNUAL SALE OF HORSES AT LYTHAM. By Messrs. LUCAS and CO., (of the Repository, Liverpool,) On WEDNESDAY, the 30th instant, at eleven o'clock precisely, at the Clifton Arms, Lytham, ONE HUNDRED HORSES, bred by, and the pro perty of, the Tenantry in the District of the Society, comprising a number of valuable Hunting-like Horses; Ten Pairs of splendid Carriage, Phaeton, Brougham, and Match Horses, and many Ladies' Pads, Hacks, Gig Horses, and im proving young ones. Also, the celebrated thorough-bred Stal lion, NEW FASHION, Sire of some of the finest and best Stock in England, several short-horned Bulls and Cows, high bred Sheep and Pigs. Messrs. LUCAS and Co. earnestly and confidently call the at tention of Noblemen, Gentlemen, Graziers, and others to this splendid collection of well-bred Stock, as affording them an opportunity of selecting promising Young Horses, calculated for the Field, the Road, and every variety of useful purpose. They beg to assure parties desirous of purchasing, that the greatest care has been taken to exclude all unsound Animals from this Sale, and every facility will be afforded for their having the inspection and opinion of a Veterinary Surgeon, should they desire it. _ _ _ . Catalogues will be ready on the 22d instant, and may be had on applying at the Repository, Liverpool; HoLLINGSWORTH'S, Manchester; Bull Inn, Preston; the Clifton Arms, Lytham; and from Mr. DAVID TAYLoa, the Secretary, Lytham-hall. VALUABLE FURNITURE, ELEGANT DINNER, BREAKFAST, TEA, AND COFFEE SERVICES, &c., CANNING-STREET. MR. SYERS begs to intimate that he has been in• structed t 0 SELL. by AUCTION, on the Premises, 6, Canning-street, on .lIONDAY next, the 21st instant, at half-past ten o'clock. The remaining valuable FURNITURE, capital Eight-day Spring Timepiece, by Evans, and other Effects, the Property of a Lady changing her residence, consisting, in the DRAWI NG ROOM, of a Range of beautiful Curtains, of Drab Figured Da mask, suspended 'from Three elegant Cornices, a large and brilliant Mantle Glass, and Ormolu Chandelier, Venetian blinds, &c. The DINING-ROOM and BREAKFAST PARLOUR, &C., Con tain Twenty-four tine Malt-ogany Chairs,a handsome Sideboard, in high condition, a capital Set of Dining Tables, Circular Centre Table, modern liat.stand, large Plate of Glass for the Mantle, Curtains for Two Windows, Of rich figured Green Da mask, and to One Window of the same material, in Crimson, capital Brussels Carpet, Sofa, Fenders, Fire-irons, Szc. The BEDCHAMBERS contain lofty Four-post and Camp Bed steads, modern Toilet Stands, Glasses, Carpets, Fenders, Fire irons, Sze. The Excellent Kitchen and Culinary Requisites, Water-urn, Sideboards, Lamps, &c. May be viewed on SATURDAY next, the 19th instant, when Catalogues may be had, and from Mr. SvERs, Claytou-square. The HOUSE to be LET Eo bt &oar. -LANE, NEAR TILE OLD SWAN TO be SOLD, to pay 8 per Cent., without Mortgage, Three good DWELLING-HOUSES, one of which is con verted into a Shop. Rental A 52. Price .4'oo. Apply to OcrAvius WATEnnousE, Estate Agent, No, 10, Exchange-street East. BUSKISSON-STREET, NEAR ST. BRIDE'S CHURCH. TO be SOLD, a capital FAMILY HOUSE, con taining Dining-room, Draw i n g-room, Breakfast-room, six or seven Lodging-rooms, Two Kitchens, Scullery, Water-Clo set, and other conveniences. Apply to OCTAVIUS WATERHOUSE, Estate Agent, No. 10, Exchange-street East. BEDFORD-STREET SOUTH, OPPOSITE THE SCOTCH CHURCH. TO be SOLD, Two Capital Modern-built FAMILY HOUSES, containing Dining-room, Breakfast-room, Drawing-room, Seven Lodging-rooms, Hot and Cold Baths, Water-closet, and other conveniences. Price X 2260. Apply to OCTAVIUS WATERHOUSE, Estate Agent, No. 10, Exchange-street East. CARLETT PARK, EASTHAM THIS Park, consisting of 200 Acres of Land, well wooded, is laid out to a fixed plan for the erection of Double and Single Villas, in convenient-sized lots for pur chasers. It is situated on a gentle rise of ground, sloping to the south, between the villages of Bromhorough and Eastham, and from every point commands fine views of the head of the River Mersey, of the He!sby Hills, of Beeston Castle, the Welsh Mountains, and the River I)ee. From the north and east winds it is effectually protected by Eastham or Carlett Wood. It is within a quarter of a mile of Eastham Ferry, to which place boats run every two hours from George's Pier, Liverpool; and from the Broinhorough Station of the Chester and Birken bead Railway, where eighteen trains a day stop, it is distant only half a mile ; from Birkenhead, by the Turnpike Road, it is distant rive mil es. The whole of the Park lies on a bed of fine red sandstone, which purch asers w ill h a ve the privilege of quarrying, and using for their buildings. For plans and particulars apply to Mr. W. LAIRD, 38, Hamil ton-square, Birkenhead. SP ITAL E STATE , NEAR B IRKENHEAD. THIS deli g htf u l , well wooded, and conveniently si nutted Property is now undergoing being divided i n t o surveys, priorto. the Proprietor BUILDING LOTS, having decided upon offerin g for Sale, by • PRIVATE TREATY, several well arranged and suitable Lots for tither on I VILLA RESIDENCES, induce Ong Leases or for perpetuity at low respectable parties to settle upon this beautiful so as to ESTATE. Th e Port io ns offering will be so marked out as to command a picturesque view, for a long distance, of the surrounding dOU NT ItY, RIVER MERSEY, and the LANCASHIRE SHORE, and is distant from the about five miles , LIVERPOOL EXCHANGE and can be done per rail and steamer in twenty minutes. A convenient and neat STATION has been built by the Company, on the CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY, Within three minutes'. walk of the Lots to be Sold, and the cost of transit to and from the . SPITAI, STATION including Ferryage, is only .t 5 ss. per annum, by first-class carriage. Nine trains per day, each way, stop at this Station ; and, as the traffic increases, further accommodation may reasonably becalcul d upon. ans of the Estate, and every requisite information as to terms, &c ., can be obtained at the Offices of Mr. E. G. B URY, Mortimer-terrace, Hamilton-square, Birkenhead Co be Ea. TO be LET, in an eligible situation, either for busi ness or a private residence, the PREMISES extending over an extensive SHOP, in the immediate vicinity of the New Assize Courts. The Apartments consist of two large Dining rooms, three Sitting-rooms, five Bed-rooms, and Kitchen, if required. Apply M. N., at the Standard-office. The above would be eligibly situated for a Railway Travel lers' Private Boarding Establishment. TO be I ET, an excellent COFFEE and DINING ESTABLISHMENT, situated close to the Railway Station, and now doing a profitable business. The House is commo dious, and is fitted up with every convenience. Satisfactory reasons will be given for the present Tenant's leaving. Rent and Incoming very moderate. Apply to Ittr.v.oLns and WORKMA N, Jubilee-buildir s, Lord-street, who are in WANT of a first-rate WINE and SPI RIT VAULTS, for which a liberal Premium would be given. (One inherent.) FLINTSHIRE. rpo be LET, with immediate possession, that plea santly-situated HOUSE, Lygan-y-Wern, two and a quar ter miles from Holywell, in the parish of Halkin, on the Ches ter and Holyhead road, with good Stablin., Shippon, Coach house, Granary, Laundry, Brewhouse, and every other conve nience requisite for a genteel Family; also a fruitful Garden, Orchard, Rookery, Fish-pond, and about Ten Acres of rich Meadow LAND. The House commands a view of the Dee, Parkgate, and part of Liverpool in the distance. The House is fit for a large and respectable Family; and the Rent is very moderate. For Particulars apply at 39, Church-street;llirkenhead, or to Mr. J. IL JoNEs, Penypwlle, near Holywell. TO as4NUFAC BIRKENHEAD DOCKS. —.,...,TURERS AND OTHERS "ATRILSIDE PREMISES AND RAILWAYREQUIRING COMMUNICATION. T" BIRKENHEAD DOCK COMPANY are pre , pared t Birkenhead ASE, in Lots to suit Tenants, LAID, "mat'ng the Dock, and connected by Railway with all parts of the Kingdom. from no D ock Rates can be ch arge d on G o ods and Produce an Y Part of the World in these Docks, Manufacturers of raw and bulky materials entering the Mersey, will have the a cl an tage of receiving them direct from the Ship, free of rge on these Premises.—For particulars apply to MACGREGOR LA IRD, B irkenhead D oc k Company's Offices, Argye-street, Secretary. Ilamilton-square, September 1, 1846. GREAT_ REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OP VENETIAN BLINDS IVLEDGER'S WINDOW BLIND M • 31, PARADM 72 )vllO has constantly on hand an STOCK, and can furnish a T"' STREET nd At-sen SIX HOUI Gauze Wire, and every other C moderate Prices, and superior Workmanship SERVE, • 31, PARA OB DISE- STREET, Aetween the Unitarian Chapel and the Star and Garter Hotel LIVERPOOL HOUSEOWNERS' GUARDIAN SOCIETY THE MEMBERS of this SOCIETY are particularly requested to attend the ANNUAL MEETING, which will be holden To-MORROW, (Wednesday,) the 16th instant, in the Large Room of Mr. Whiteman's Brunswick Hotel, Hanover street, at Half-past Seyen o'clock in the Evening. WILLIAM JONES, Hon. Secretary. LAST SAILING MATCH OF THE SEASON, THIS DAY, (TUESDAY,) the 15th instant, THE ROYAL MERSEY YACHTS will start at Eleven o'clock, a.m. from, and win at, the FLAG BOAT off the NEW BRIGHTON PIER. THE STEAM-PACKETS PLY TO AND FROM NEW BRIGHTON EVERY HALF-HOUR. FERRY 3d. EACH. LIVERPOOL NEW STOCK EXCHANGE, ON CASH PRINCIPLES, 3, BARNED'S BUILDINGS, SWEETING , STREET. THE Committee having'revised the Laws of the As sociation, and reduced the amount of the Entrance Fee and Annual Subscription, parties not devoting themselves ex clusively to Share operations may now become members. The SECRETARY, at the Rooms, will afford every information to Gentlemen desirous of joining the body. N.B.—The Balloting for Members takes place the First Tuesday in every Month, September, 18.16. LIVERPOOL IMPERIAL LOAN AND INVEST- MENT COMPANY. Registered under the 7th and Bth Victoria, c. 110. THIS Company, being compl e t e ly R eg i s te r ed, is prepared to make ADVANCES from .'2O and upwards, upon approved Personal, Freehold, or other available Securi ties, on advantageous terms. The Company'will also PURCHASE PROPERTY and SELL the same to any Person wishing to become an Owner, on pay ment of Weekly, Monthly, or other Instalments, as may be agreed upon. All applications made, personally or by letter, at the Com pany's Offices, 28, Gloucester-street, will receive immediate attention. W. EDWARDS, Secretary. DANCING MESSRS. JOSSET and DUGIT beg to inform their Friends, that their ACADEMIES will RE-OPEN on the 24th instant, at 1, DEVON.STREET, at Half.past Twelve, and at the ASSEMBLY -ROOMS, GREAT GEORGE-STREET, at Two o'clock. and at the CRAVEN -ROOMS, Birkenhead, on the 19th instant, at a Quarter before Eleven o'clock. PRIVATE EVENING LESSONS, in DEVON -STREET, will com mence on the Ist October, when all the Fashionable Dances will be introduced. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCAS TLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY, (Late Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction and Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway Companies, now amalgamated.) THE Register of Shares in this undertaking being now nearly completed, all holders of Scrip who have not yet forwarded the same for Registration are requested to do so without delay, as the Share Register will be absolutely closed on the first day of October next, after which time all Shares not transmitted for that purpose will be registered in the names of the original Allottees. It is requested that the Scrip in the original Liverpool, Man chester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway Company may be forwarded to the Secretary, at 22, Parliament-street, London; and the Scrip in the original Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway Company to the Secretary, at 31, Princess street, Manchester, who will send an acknowledgment for the same. The Certificates under the Common Seal of the Company will be ready for delivery in a short time, of which due notice will be given to the Shareholders. By order, (Signed,) THOS. ROBERT WILSON Chairman August nth, 1846 , } W. K. INGRAM, Secretaries, C. MOORE WILSON, LATEST INTELLIGENCE (BY rxrFtFss.) DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH. The Right Rev. William, Bishop of St. Asaph, expired on Sunday, in London, in the 77th year of his age. According to the present Act of Parliament, which it will be remembered was endeavoured to be repealed by a bill, brought in by Lord Powis during the last session of Par liament, the see of St. Asaph will now be merged in that of Bangor, and s Bishop of Manchester forthwith appointed. LONDON CORN EXCIIAN3E.—YESTERDAY. At this day's market there was a fair show of English wheat, the trade was less buoyant than on Friday, still nearly a clear ance was effected at Is. to 2s. per qr. over the currency of this day week. Free foreign and barrel Flour in moderate request, and Is . - dearer. White Peas and Egyptian Beans fully 2s to 3s'higher. The Barley trade ruled less brisk. Malsters and distillers kept more on the reserve. The turn was in favour of buyers, and the quality not so good as last week. Malt, new Beans, and hog Peas, held for advanced rates. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MA RKET.—YESTERDAY. Prime Scots, &c., moved off steadily at last week's quotati ons ; but in some instances, the value of the inferior breeds had culty effected. The numbers of sheep were again seasonably extensive; yet the mutton trade was very steady, and last Monday's curren cies were readily supported. In lambs, the numbers of which were good, a full average amount of business was transacted, at late rates. The veal trade was steady, at full prices. Pigs moved off steadily, at our quotations- The foundation-stone of the new Concert-hall, for the Philharmonic Society, will be laid on Wednesday week, the 23rd instant, at one o'clock. MISS WHITNALL'S ANNUAL GRAND CONCERT.— This concert was held last night, and a crowded house re warded the fair benPfieiare. We regret that we have not room to say more than that a more enthusiastic scene we never witnessed. THE BAKERS' QUESTION.—We are not disposed to take part either way in this mooted question between two of our contemporaries. There are no dt,ubt tricks in all trades, our own not excepted. We are guilty sometimes of sad adulteration—diluting other people's solid sense with nur own slip-slop. Some of us puff atrociously, and our commodity is wanting in weight, whilst others are too heavy for any thing. It is hard, therefore, that the poor baker should be selected from the whole batch of traders for observation, merely bec,.use certain persons have told the world that, as the result of their pet mea sures, bread was to be cheaper than either the importer, the grower, or the miller can afford to sell it. Why not ask why boots are not much cheaper, and no better for the reduction on leather? or why Mercury has been raised to sixpence, although the duty is taken of all drugs? As to the short weight part of the business, people should tee their bread tveiyhed before they pay for it. If they are afraid to eat alum let them learn to bake at home. PROHIBITION OF BATHING AT NEW BRIGHTON.— We are sorry to observe that the over delicacy, which we thought was confified to the female portion of that people who can endure the flogging of a naked negro, but are shocked to see a piano-forte, or a table, with its legs bare, has invaded thi s once d e li g h t f u l b ath i ng place. I f people choose to build villas, with sloping lawns, down to the very edge of the tide, the utmost encroachment which they ought to be permitted to make upon the healthful recreations of their neighbours is to prevent any im proper exposure being made in front of them, A police man or two stationed on the shore during tide time would effectually manage this. By the bye, cannot the owners of the soil and the ferry of New Brighton see how this crotchetty aristrocratic movement must affect the value of the hotels and other houses which accommodate visiters during the season ? Next tear, doubtless, invalids will eschew the Cheshire shore altogether, and seek the more hospitable resorts of Bootle, 'Waterloo, Crosby, &c. Very few are likely to permit themselves to be alternately baked and blinded upon the shore and amongst the sand hills of the ullinia table of the Hundred of Wirral, for all its pretensions to superior gentility, without the occasional relit: of a dip in its tide. CHARGE OF DEFRAUDING A BURIAL SOCIETY.— Yesterday, at the Police -court, Thos. Hardwick Taylor, a man who has long been connect, d with benefit societies, as secretary, in this town, was placed at the bar on a charge of fraudulently appropriating £5, belonging to the Loyal Philanthropic Burial SoCiety. Several of the offi cers of the society appeared against him, and their evi dence, and that of a poor woman named Morgan. who lives in Birkenhead, has a family, and had been a member of the society named, went to shew that by borrowing her card, atter she had, by being a defaulter, no further claims upon it, so altered it by additional figures as to make it appear that one of her children was dead, for the funeral expenses of whom he got £5 from the treasurer, on the representation that he had paid it on seeing her card. to save her the trouble of again coming across the water for her money. It appeared, however, tbat all her children were alive, though not hearty ; inasmuch as they had been seen with nothing to eat but some potatoes and salt! The prisoner made a bold defence, and endeavoured to inculpate the collector, and called some witnesses, but utterly tailed in making out his assertions. Mr. Rushton sent him for trial, but, on an application being made, said he should admit him to bail on two sureties of £5O each and his own recognizance of £lOO. He afterwards, on hearing that another charee could be made against the prisoner, remanded him until this day. SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS.—OR Saturday evening, Mr. Rowlandson gave the first of a series of lec tures upon English song, with illustrations, at the Con cert Hall, Lord Nelson -street, which was numerously at tended upon the occasion. The lecturer commenced his remarks with a brief history of the rise and progress of music in England, tracing it from that of the•ancient minstrels to the commencement and meridian of the real old English ballad. The songs selected, as illustrations of the various eras and schools, upon which he com mented, were given with much taste, and some with great spirit and effect. Those with which we were beat pleased were " Death and the Lady, " " The Vicar of Bray," which was encored, and "In the Spring time of the year." The lecture went off most satisfactorily, PROFESSOR LEES AND HIS PUPILS, MASTERS GEORGE AND ALFRED HANLOW.—These extraordinary artists, whose performances in Edinburgh and Glasgow a few weeks since, were the theme of universal praise and criticism, made their first appearance in Liverpool yester day week, and, though we were in every way prepared for a more than usual treat, we did not anticipate an enter tainment half so exquisite in its nature, as that presented by this talented trio. It will be remembered that Pro fessor Risley and his son first introduced the art to a British public, since which some one or two have, with considerable success, become imitators, but we never did for a single moment expect that their (Professor Riley and Son's) admirable eelineation would admit of those new features and classical improvements embodied in the performances of Professor Lees and his pupils. They are both wonderiul a_nd perfect, and exhibi t i n no ordinal degree the sple- -t f whic'• - e iendicl teat ,a our human nature Is capable, when its attributes are finely employed, and worthily made to sustain its elevated position in the scale of creation. We advise all who take an interest in such exhibitions, not to omit seeing them, as in all probability the like may never be seen again. The professor and his pupils continue to perform througbour the present:week, and make their last appearance before the public on Mon day next, on the occasion of the representation of Mr. G. Linnaeus *tanks' new drama of the " Swiss Father," at our Theatre Royal. CORR] , SPONDENCE. ON THE SANITARY STATE OF SOME PARTS OF LIVERPOOL To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, LETTER XIV MODERN IMPROVEMENTS SOMETIMES MORE ORNA. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. MENTAL THAN USEFUL Mr. Burrows, surgeon, informs me, that in a court in Parr -street, the usual decoration of two privies at the end of the court are armei with a wooden spout, or chimney, leading from their cess-pool. purporting to carry off the noxious gases. This is one of the modernized plans for effecting this purpose. The tube is carried upwards so far only as to face nearly opposite, but not quite, the top windows of the end houses. Instead of diffusing the gas over the house tops, it pauses halfway ; and can it be wondered, then, that the occupant of a room belonging to one of these top windows has low fever. The invalid de clares, that to open the window is to get a worse air than that of his sick-chamber. Ventilation here must be at a discount, just because a proper thing of its kind is only half done. Had a sanatory commissioner but seen this error, and suggested the necessity of merely lengthening this tube, this case of sickness might have been co doubt prevented. . . . It seems vain to multiply instances of the bad effects of these wretched arrangements; but the present i s t oo striking an instance to pass over. It is not a demonstra tion of cause and effect, I grant; but it is, nevertheless, as strong a probability as can be found, short of absolute proof. Conviction of the noxiousness of such half reme dies is increasing : the party in the opposite corner has signified intentions of leaving. A.CCIDENTS IN TliE MERCANTILE ECONOMY OP THE NUISANCE CAPABLE el PORT, ATTENDED WITH MITIGATION, INSTANCED A month or two back, the lower parts of the town about George's Dock, were inf es t e d, f or d ays together,, with a most horrid stench, from heaps of burning and burnt corn, among which quantities of hides, also partly burnt, were lying, the result of an accidental fire of a large warehouse. I do not mean to say the nuisance, in the first instance, could have been remedied, or could be any other than subject of regret for the lo , s of property. But what did the authorities do ? They allowed a large vacant space between the pier baths and the dock to be strewn over with the charred corn, along with pieces of burnt hides—this spreading and sorting-out of the unfortunate results of the fire producing the most disgusting stench possible, which was allowed thus to spread in clouds over the district, and as the wind was blowing from the west ward when I had occassion to pass by to the pier for one of the ferries, I observed that the odious vapours took, of course, the direction of the wind at the time, and conse quently were blown over the town, to the great annoy ance of all parties within reach of the impure vapour. It was distinctly perceivable in Lord-street and about there, and continued for some days, as I was informed by those who, being located there, were excessively annoyed by the nuisance. It was a general conviction, as far as passing remarks could indicate it, that the thing might have been far otherwise and better managed. The disgusting re mains might have been taken away, at once, out of the town district altogether, so as to free the neighbourhood from the polluting annoyance. It bad to be carted away finally, and should have been done at first ; or suppose that this was, from the heated condition of the charred rubbish, impossible in the first instance, yet some chemi cal agency might have been employed to decompose, if only partially, the noxious effluvia in the act of being formed ; and this, even if expensive, ought to have been attempted, to say the least of it. Lime, in some shape or other, might have been had recourse to. The stuff was only fit for manure as it was, and the addition of a little chemistry wculd have only improved the heap for agricul tural purposes. Several letters appeared in our newspapers at the time, complaining of the nuisance ; but though proclaiming the annoyance to the sense of smelling, yet possibly these complainants were hardly aware that the disgust was the least obnoxious feature of the case, for that there was danger to the health of the parties of the neighbourhood the nearest and most exposed to it. Referring to the fact at the time, Captain H- informed me that a vessel, whilst lying in the river near Calcutta, and having a cargo of hides, had the crew all more or less affected with fever, which was fatal in more than one case. He commanded her. The captain attributed the fever to the intolerable effluvia from the hides affected by the burning rays of the sun. There can be no doubt of the correctness of the alleged cause of the fever. Now, in our own case, even though fever did not result, yet it does not follow that there was no prejudice to health. Lesser disorders might, and in all probability did, to a limited extent, occur. If fever had occurred in the above instance, it would have been of a typhoid character—in fact, the worst kind of typhus : there can be no medical doubt on this head. I do not know that any case of fever did present itself, but most assuredly that cause which, when acting in a concentrated form, would be adequate to the production of one of the most fatal diseases, would not prove entirely innocent even when diluted as a poison. We know that prejudicial health is often traceable to causes of so miti gated a character, as to prove inadequate to that entire poisoning of the whole system which is the case when typhus results. And I may remark, under the heading ARTIFICIAL CLIMATE, that there is always in Liverpool a vast amount of bodily suffering in the shape of indigestion and its associated evils. This prevails here more than in any place of equal size. It is a well-known medical fact. Strangers coming here are usually very keenly sensible of the deteriorated change in their health—loss of appetite, oppression after food, headache, languor, restlessness at night, and sto mach ailments more or less prominently manifested, with depression of spirits. Londoners, when down here, espe cially complain of these symptoms, although one would think that London, with its million and a half of popula tion, was as bad an atmosphere; but it is not. Medical men from London usually complain of the depressing effects of the climate of Liverpool They must be sup posed to be good judges, and their own personal experi ences in this matter ought to go further than that of any other class of witnesses. With others, as merchants, &c., other possible concurrent causes might be accused ; but in the case of medical men it is not so. Again : I know several medical men resident here, who find all their de pressed health improved as soon as they get out of the atmosphere of the town, which they regain again on re turning. A medical practitioner went up to London the other day, and lost all his former symptoms of indiges tioo, which returned on his regaining this town. Whilst there he kept a keen look-out for Liverpool's parallels of filth, and be declares be could find nothing approaching to them. The City enjoyed such an immunity from stinks as quite surprised him. The cause cannot lie in the topographical position of Liverpool. Close to the mouth of a huge tidal river, and fanned by prevailing breez s off the Irish Channel from the westerly points of the compass, it might not to be so, The simple effects of these winds would have a bracing tendency upon the body, and render the climate colder than where these strong winds are less felt. To live in a colder climate simply, is to gain vigour in proportion to the stimulus to muscular exertion—at least in those cases where the body is capable of the grateful effort. Along with this the appetite is rendered keener, the digestion quickened, and the sense of living, physical and meta physical, heightened into the agreeable; the mere sense of existence is grateful: the wheels of life, in such cir cumstances, perform their revolving play, " not as a toil, but as a pleasure," and might be compared to the beauti ful figure of Virgil's, where " doors" are said to sing upon their golden hinges"! Not so when a sense of oppression weighs down every corporeal function, and drags the elastic mind and feelings down to the some slack level. Then the vegetation of our life languishes, and the respiratory as well as digestive systems do their work complainingly ; and the latter class of organs have reason to reproach the former with catering a vitiated life current, whereby the nervous system is not sustained adequately to the demanc he diges ive and systems, in return for replenished and renewing energies It must be the artificial climate of Liverpool, as oppo sing itself to the natural, which does all this mischief ; for where it produces in isolated cases only fever and other well-marked diseases, it strikes generally upon the systems of all the residents with unfavourable and de pressing influence. This general effect has never been measured—never can be: it is rather to be inferred sta tistically from the more determinate results of recorded diseases and deaths. Thus in the notes and observations of the medical practitioners here, a vast amount cf dete riorated health calls for their assistance, and which will continue to do so, the opprobrium of the town, until the more than " seventy-two stinks" of Coleridge are ba nished from the place. The " foul, t'lntrappell sewers," the reeking guile y holes, the •‘ open dr a i ns ," th e repose o f fil t h , t h e o ff a l , and every other kind of street and alley refuse—the smoke—the slaughter-house remains—the manufactory nuisances—must all be effectively remedied, before the Liverpool indigestion and the preventible epidemics will be reduced down to an average minimum of towns' health. For my own part, I am inclined to think Liverpool gets worse at present instead of better. I never knew the town in the course of my own limited experience so full of stinks almost in every quarter. There are some gulley holes which are in the habit, especially in the lower levels of the town, of yielding most intolerable stenches, baneful to the neighbourhood in no small degree, and proclaiming to every passer-by the " stillness of rep o se that's ther e ,' down among the covies of rats whose vested rights have been acquired by the undisturbed posse. , i—, of many leases of lives renewable, the fines upon v.,..„1i tic e the bi ped inhabitants of the superficial area of the town have been contented so long and ruefully to pay. The large plashes of stagnant water all around the precincts of the town must exercise a depressing power over the popula tion. As for bad drainage, all know the noxiousness of this wherever-it is met ; but in one spot of this town its effects have been made but too apparent to a medical man. On the declivity of the hill rising up from Lime -street and Renshaw-street level, three back streets with bad drain. age unite at an angle, and pour their surface drainage into another street which runs horizontally below them. In some houses of the latter street, near to the junction, a low kind of febrile attacks has been generally more or less present in the autumn months for years past. Last autumn there was an exception to the rule. The season was very wet, and there can be little doubt that the rain washing down the gutters clean was the exceptional cause. _ — High-street, Edge.hill, is still much in the disgraceful state it ever was. The gutters are full, in many places, of green and foetid water: If ever the Asiatic form of cholera does reach us, such places will be the first to suffer, and the last to ne emancipated from its virulence. Several of the inhabitants of the street have to pay for scavenger rafes, but it does not therefore follow that they get-scavengers. In 1832 the first case of cholera in Edge. hill District broke out close to High-street, in Glouces ter-street, according to Mr. Fell, who attended the pa. tient. It was fatal. Three other cases followed immediately. Opposite one of the worst gutterages of the street, a fatal case of the English cholera has occurred in a newborn infant, over a cellar which, I am told, is overcrowded with night occupants in the winter time, and next door to a scarlatina case formerly alluded to. King-street, if it is improved at all, has undergone no thorough cure, or else the waste grass-covered plot would not be, at the moment of my writing, the commo❑ reci pient of the surface drainage of Little Derby -street. There, on this waste, the stinking and black water re main's, to be removed by evaporation alone ! The pools of Crown-street continue just as they always were, except as buildings gradually encroach upon the pools, which are the resort of hosts of idle boys skilled in drowning cats and dogs. The policemen seldom do duty there, the inhabitants opposite affirm ! On Sunday afternoons aquatic diversions of all kinds are seldom interrupted by the devious footsteps of a policeman. In Back Bedford-street, a blind alley runs out of the street, on a gradient declining from the level of the street, and a sewerage untrapped is inefficient to afford vent to the stagnant mud and dirt which usually blockades the opening, to the risk of the health of the neighbourhood. The smell is loudly complained of. At times windows cannot be opened in oonsequence which could let in the effluvia. I have had to attend illness close to these dis graceful precincts, which I accuse of being the ostensible cause. Back Peach-street is quite as bad ; in fact worse, be cause presenting a longer range of filthy gutterage. I have had several cases of the epidemic to look after close to these gutters, which are cleverly arranged so as to pre vent them cleaning themselves. Water will not find a proper course from the defective gutter; and though I have warned as much as I could, yet the parties are un able to maintain an unremitting and fruitless struggle against natural laws. Whenever water will run up hill. they will not suffer what they tic) at present. A vacant plot of land flanks a part of this street, and until society can devise some compulsive remedial plans for waste land pollutions, &c., any individual's health lies not only at a risk from their own imprudence or ignor ance, but at the mercy of any other person whose dirty habits and recklessness of natural laws may be cow pared to so many plots against the life, health, or happi ness of their fellow creatures living within reach of their baneful focus. In one house alone here, every inmate, to the number of seven or eight, has been attacked with cholera or dysentery ; and in two or three cases, the ex tremes of life, the disease threatened to prove fatal. I accuse filthy gutters, and so on, especially in the matter of relapses. I remain, Sir, yours, faithfully, GEO. C. WATSON, M.D. Bedford-street, Sept. 9. LIVERPOOL CHURCH-BUILDING SOCIETIES TO TILE REY. THE RECTORS AND CLERGY. REV. Sras,—The accomplishment of this great under taking, to supply spiritual instruction for the poorer dis tricts of the town, would, I presume, be more readily at tained if a n undivided and strenuous effort were made by the amalgamation of these bodies into one. I allude to that which originated, at the meeting held last winter, under the auspices of our worthy Bishop, to provide four additional churches for Toxteth-park, and another more recently, for the same number at the northern part of Liverpool, where the Senior Rector presided. In furtherance of this object, I would propose that ser mons be preached at least half-yearl y in all the churches of the Establishment. Thus, by ringing the subject continually before their several congregations, each z.nd every well-disposed member thereof might have an oppor tunity of contributing according to his means, and this great work would not be allowed to be dormant. Sui..ly, when such large sums are annually raised towards the support of foreign missions, a, portion should be appro priated to the enlightenment of our poor at home, many of whom, it is to be feared, are in as destitute a condi: ion as the heathen abroad, and are actually perishing for lack of spiritual knowledge, communicated only by the Word of Life. _ _ . In addition to the building of churches, it will be rerpii site to attach to each a day and Sunday school. that the rising generation may have the seeds of religion and virtue instilled at an early age, which, it is hoped, may have a tendency to check and counteract the. growth of vice ;Ind irreligion, which grows with our growth, if not timely prevented, as 1 have pointed out. September 8, 1846 LECTOR RAILWAY TRAVELLING TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD, SIR, —Liverpool is yet behind her neighbours in rail'vsy accommodation; in some matters she may excel, 1 tit not in this particular. Coming from Preston a few days ago by the six o'cl ek evening train, I arrived a quarter of an hour befor,. the time, and saw the train start a quarter before six for Bolton, Manchester, &c., (East Lancashire hoe) and observed how much superior the 2nd class carri, v es were to those on the Liverpool line—in that the corona. t ments were divided, so that the passengers in one divi jun were not annoyed by the misbehaviour or squalling of children in another division, and moreover the seats I:ad the benefit of a stuffed leather cushion. In addition to this. I learned that the spirited directors of this new line had arranged to grant day tickets for a single fare, from Manchester or Bolton, &c., to Fleetwood, Blackpool. &c , with this additional boon, that a day ticket on a Sat or day will last until Monday evening. This is as it shonid be, and is an encouragement to persons to locate their fa milies at those delightful watering places—Lytham, Blackpool, and Fleetwood. I hope this hint will not be lost. Yours, &c., A TRAVELLER. Liverpool, Sept. 9, 1846. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,—It is with feelings of compassion, for the blind ness with which Englishmen spend their money, that I see in every paper the increase of the immense sum for the Cobden testimonial. Upwards of £72,000 are to be presented in some form to a man already rich,--a man who has not done any real good to his country, and who is fast hastening where testimonials will avail nothing. How much better, Sir, might such a sum be employed in purchasing bread for the unfortunate multitudes that are perishing from the failure of the potatoe crop ! then, indeed, would a national good be done, while the prayers and blessings of thousands saved from starvation would be a richer, a more enduring, a far more glorious testi monial, than thousands of gold and silver ; and more glorious still would be the reward promised by Him who said, " forasmuch as ye did it unto the least of one of my little ones ye did it unto me." I remain, Sir, your obedient Servant, A [ - JAPER OF WASTE Liverpool, 14th September, 1816. LOCAL NEWS Notwithstanding the removal of duty on so many articles of import, the daily customs' receipts at this port have, within the last few weeks, largely increased. FEMALE OFFENDERS. - Of the seventeen prisoners transported at the Liverpool assizes. seven were women. And of sixty-nine who were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, 27 were of the " tender sex." In compliance with an application from two Liverpool firms, the Lords of the Treasury have allowed cane juice to be shipped as stores, in substitution for sugar and mo lasses. The Health of the Tow recommend to the Council an addition of six public bat..., to the two now in progress, and that two of these be erected immediately, in the most densely-populated parts of the town. George Willock, the policeman who stole the gold watch from a drunken man in the Park a fortnight ago, was found guilty of the crime at the sessions on Thurs day, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment aad hard labour. Several desirable improvements are contemplated by the Exchange Buildings' Committee. At their request, the master of the rooms, Mr. Warburton, has been on a tour of inspection throughout the kingdom, and several improvements suggested by his inquiry are to be adopted. It is possible that the room may be continued to Tithe barn street, and, if so, a coffee-room and refectory may be added. ROBBERY AT A BROTHEL.—On Friday, at the Police court, a youth named Robert Daley, the son of respects b:e parents, was committed for trial, charged with steal. ing several rings and a brooch, the property of Mary Ann Wood, and another female, residing in Great New ton-street. The prisoner and another person, named Isaac Stanton, went to the house about noon on the day previous and pocketted the articles. NEW ORLEANS A FREE PORT.—A notice was posted in the Exchange Rooms, on Friday, containing an ex tract from the proceedings of the council of municipality of New Orleans, which, on the 22d June last, resolved that, from and•after the let of November next, all vessels mooring within the distance of from the head of Monte gate-street to the tobacco warehouses, should be exempt from the payment of wharfage, and declaring such distance a free port for all vessels. The new law respecting the porterage at the docks, and which is to come into operation in a week or two, has caused a movement amongst the dock-porters; for we perceive that they have called a meeting of their body for Tuesday (this evening). The operation of the law, we believe, will be to this extent :—stevadores will be licensed by the Dock Committee, and they may employ what por ters they like; but under no pretence will more than one gang of porters be allowed on board of a vessel at the same time. PAWNBROKERS. —On Wednesday and Thursday, a number of pawnbrokers were brought before Mr. Rushton on the informations of a London informer. One or two of the cases were proved ; in several others the informa tions were dismissed for legal informality, and three others were withdrawn. The informer was much annoyed by successive defeats, and complained of there being undue quibbling employed, but be would by and by have all his informations correctly drawn up. On leaving the court be was assailed by a mob outside, and would have been rather roughly handled lad not the police interfered. LIVERPOOL GOVERNESSES BENEVOLENT INSTITII TION.—We are glad to lea rn that this u s ef u l i ns ti tut i on is making progress, acquiring new friends and supporters daily, and enlarging its means of doing good. Th e sup . port which it has hitherto received, though th ere h as not yet been time for the inst itution to make known all its advantages, and collect an adequate fund to develope them, has been such as to show the general feeling enter tained in its favour, and to encourage the directors in their hopes of being able to establish it on a broad basis patrons,Staniey and, w withehear, leas is usual asconsen be t l e i dt rli to become one of its has presented a donation of twenty guineas to its funds. LIVERPOOL SEPTEMBER SESSIONS.—Of the prisoners tried and convicted at the late sessions, one was trans. ported for fifteen year?, ten for ten years, three for seven years : two were imprisoned for twelve months, three for ten months, one for eight months, seven for six months, three for five months, nine for four months, one for three months, nine for two months, five for one month, seven for six weeks, one for five weeks, one for four weeks, electn fur three weeks, five for fourteen days, and one for twelve days ; two were admitted to bail, nine were ac quitted, against six there was no prosecution, and agait,st three there was no bill. AN IRISHMAN'S AGE.—On Friday, at the Police -court, Thomas Mather was charged with obtaining Is. under false pretences. A serjeant in the 15th Regiment of Foot stated, that he enlisted the prisoner on his assurance that he was not 18 years of age, lads of that age, even although under the requisite height, being admissible. The prisoner received the enlistment shilling, and the next day said he did not think it mattered whether his age was l 5 or 25 ; he was quite fit to be a soldier and quite willing. Mr. Rushton said that very few of these Irish knew what their ages really were ; he did not think there was sufficient proof to support the charge, but he remanded the prisoner COLLISION AND DAMAGE ON THE RIVER.—On Fri. day, a long examination took place before Mr. Rushton, for the purpose of ascertaining whether Mr. Moss, jun., was not entitled to damages, for injury sustained by his yacht, the Phoebe, on the 11th cf August. It appears that o❑ that day the Phoebe was lying about 100 yards from the Brunswick Pier, with a number of ladies on board, when the steam-tug President, which was then towing out the Naomi, ran into her, and carried away her shroud and three or four of the stauccheons. Evidence was given tharthe captain of the Phoebe hailed the Presi dent in good time, and told her to port her helm, but the case was dismissed for want of proof that the pilot sum moned was in charge of the President at the time. BATHING.—The Commissioners of Wallasey, by a re solution to take effect next January, have actually prohi bited bathing at New Brighton after nine o'clock in the morning, except in machines, and have limited the hire of machines to a sum which will preclude their existence at all, thus abolishing virtually the delightful practice al together, at the only place accessible by countless thous ands of the labouring classes of Lverpool, and the neigh bourhood ; and crowding thither, too, for the purpose from distant districts. By this resolution, bathing there will be abolished, for though it is still to be permitted upon the sands westward of the rocks called the Red Noses, the distance thither from the Ferry will place the privilege beyond the reach of more than a few, and be most inconvenient even to them. EDMUND-STREET DAY AND SABBATH SCHOOLS. — On Monday last, the children belonging to these schools had a holiday excursion to Birkenhead. Mr. Willoughby, with his usual kindness, gave them a gratuitous passage over the water, end a large field belonging to the same gentleman, as well as the gardens, were kindly lent for their recreation, for whose kindness and liberality the committee desire thus publicly to express their thanks. On their return to the school they were plentifully sup plied with buns and milk, provided principally by their teachers. Upwards of 150 scholars, accompanied by Mr. Thomas Jones, Mr. James Davies, Mr. George Watts, and their respected superintendent, Mr. Thomas Lock hart, and a number of ladies and other friends were pre sent, and the utmost order and decorum prevailed. The number of scholars on the books in both schools is 250, with every prospect of a large increase, the majority of which are children of seafaring men, or those employed about the docks and quays of Liverpool. SOUTH LANCASHIRE REVISION.—The revising bar risters appointed for the Southern Division of Lancashire have appointed to hold their courts as follows :—At the New Court House, Ashton-under-Lyne, on Tuesday, the 22nd of September, at one in the afternoon ; at the Ses sions'-house, Liverpool, on Wednesday, the 23rd, at ten o'clock ; at the Town-hall, St. Helen's. on Saturday, the 25th, at eleven; at the Town-hall, Ormskirk, on Monday, the 28th, at eleven ; at the Bold Arms Hotel, Southport, on Tuesday, the 29th, at eleven ; at the Leigh Arms Hotel, Newton, on Thursday, the Ist of October, at eleven ; at the Town-hall, Oldham, on Friday, the 2nd, at eleven ; at the Court of Requests, Smith-street, Roch dale, on Wednesday, the 7th, at eleven ; at the Moot-hall, Wigan, on Thursday, the Bth, at ten ; at the New Ses sions'-house, Great Bolton, on Friday, the 9th, at ten ; at the Town's-offi ce , Bury, on Saturday, the 10th, at ten ; and at the Town-hall, Manchester, on Monday, the 12th, at ten. SERIOUS ROBBERY.-At the Police court on Friday, Catherine M'Loughlin was charged with stealing £145 from Mr. John Parr, of Birkenhead, under the following circumstances :—lt appeared that Mr. Parr and his wife had been to Liverpool to receive a legacy, amounting to the sum above-mentioned, and after leaving the attorney's office, his wife discovered that she had left lin- umbrella be hind her. She returned to fetch it, and while he was waiting in Houghton -street for his wife, the prisoner came up and accosted him. The prosecutor refused to have anything to do with the prisoner. who suddenly turned round and ran away. On examinine , his pockets be found be had been robbed of the amount' of the legacy. Information of the robbery, and a description of the thief, was given at the Police-office, and in the course of a few days the pri soner was apprehended, and at once identified by the pro secutor. Some five or six pounds only were found in her possession ; but she had also a new gold watch, purchased since the robbery for £l6. The prisoner made no defence, and was committed for trill. INnuEsTs.—Last Thursday, Alexander Gibson, aged ten months, was taken by his sister to the pierhead. and on arriving home was found to be quite dead from suffoca tion, caused by pressure in her arms. An old woman. named Fanny Wright, aged sixty-four, was found dead in a privy, in Mill-street.—On Saturday three inquests were held. The first was on Richard Jones, a child four and-a-half years old, who went to Cropper's school in Mill-street, Toxteth-park, and who accidentally fell into the area in the yard, a descent of about ten feet. The ex ternal violence produced concussion of the brain, which speedily ended in his death. The second was on Ann Colley, a child five months old, who lived with her parents in Fontenoy-street. About eleven o'clock on Thursday night the deceased was taken to bed by its mother, and the following morning she was found lying dead. Suffo cation, arising from being overlain, was most probably the cause of death. The third was on Ann Bowen, a child six months old, residing with its parents, in Oriel-street. Between ten and eleven o'clock on Friday night it was taken to bed in good health, and about two o'clock in the morning she was found dead. In this case, also, accord ing to the opinion of the surgeon, suffocation was the cause of death, arising most probably from having been overlain. THE PnovisioN TRADE.—A new feature has arisen at Liverpool in the provision trade, as regards beef, viz., a demand for Ireland, and this has developed itself in was little calculated on by many in the trade. The quality taken for that quarter is no longer confint d to the inferior kinds; during the last month, upwa►ds of 2,000 tierce , : have been exported to Ireland, and a considerable quant y remains there bought for Irish account. The purdase , though principally made in a depressed market, h va . , 7 • c!eared out all the eager sellers, and have given a bm yancy to the trade; so that there are no sellers, unless at an advance of Bs. to 10s. a tierce upon the extreme low price ; The usual government contract has been advertised for 12,000 tierces (4.000 more than last year), restricted, as to the produce of the United KQdorn:ancliie he previous year. will partly tend to enhance the price of American. About 6,000 tierces have changed hands at Liverpool during the past month. The import there w;.s 1,16 S tierces, 603 barrels, 66 half barrels. Pork also at Liverpool has partaken in the general advance of provisions ; a litle demand has existed for Ireland, and prices have advanced 3s. to ss. a barrel 3 I 2,000 - )arreis have changed hands. The government con tract is advertised for 18,000 tierces, which is an increase of COCO tierces on that of last year. The import there is 504 barrels, 100 of which are from llamburgh. GRUNTING, A SERIOUS OFFENCE Reed —On Tuesday, J assP.ult against Th The complainant stated that a few days reviou . _ lSlyrtle-street, when defendant pushed him off the foot-walk, and immediately struck him a violent blowon the face. The defendant cross-examined the complainant with a view of showing that he had grunted at him in the street several times, and on the oc casion alluded to, he alleged that lie was intimidated by the complainant, who squared up to him with his fist, and he struck in self defence. The defendant was ordered to pay a tiue of 20s. and costs. Defendant, addressing tlif majstrate—" How am Ito do if he pursues this ing ?" Mr. Rushton : " Never mind him, let him he wa away. The complainant was then cautioned not to an noy the defendant, and the parties left the coart. ANNUAL GENERAL SESSIONE general sessions for tt ---The adjourned an n ua county was held at Preston, on Thursday. The Rev. Jonathan Brooks occupied the chair. The various expenditures were as follow: —For the county, £105,536 Ils. sd. • the lunatic asylum, £3876 12s. ; in county brid g e s , .6995 4q.; the Preston and Kirkdale Elouse of Correction. £13 . .781 17a. 7d. on each of these there was a balance in favour of the county. Then followed the account of the constabulary expenses for the year, amounting to £33,371 3s. 24d. ; and a variety of other items, which it is not necessary to give. After which some discussion ensued relative to a statement in the report that £642 4s. 4d. due from the Salford Bridge master (Mr. Carrington) bad several times been applied for, but never obtained: An explanation was, however, given, and the briugemaster's account passed. The court tben proceeded to the assessment of rates, which were granted in the following amounts :—General purposes, le. in the pound - constabulary force, ( genera l expense,) ; ditto Lonsdale division, 24d. ; ditto South Lonsdale, Id. ; ditto Amounderness, Id. ; ditto Blackburn Higher, 2d. ; Blackburn Lower, Id. • ditto Leyland. Id. ; ditt o B o lt on, lid. ; ditto Bury, lid. ; ditto Middl e t on , lid. ; di tto Bury, lid.; ditto Middleton, lid. ; ditto Ashton-under- Lyne, 24d. ; Manchester; lid. ; Kirkdale, 4d. ; Ormskirk, 3d. ; Prescot, 3d. ; and 'Warrington, 2d. ; for the Houses of Correction at Kirkdale and Preston, 2d. ; for the hun dred bridges each of Lonsdale, Amounderness, and Black burn, 4d.: Leyland, Id. ; West Derby, 3-16ths of Id. ; and ith of Id. for the Chairman of the Salford Sessions. — The Finance Committee presented several reports, which were adopted.—The Rev. T. S. Mills presented a long report from the committee appointed to select a site for a new county lunatic asylum, which caused some discussion ; at length the committee was empowered to select a site.— Mr. J. F. Foster presented a report from the Special Committee as to the payment of special constables em ployed in the borough in 1842, which was adoptcd.—ln pursuance of the reoort of the Committee on Prison Dis cipline and A ccommo d at i on , it was r esolved to adapt the 1 separate system as far as Possible. The expenses estt mated for altering Lancaster. Preston, and Kirkdlc Gaols, to accomplish this object, was about £ll,Ol- On the Motion of Mr. Samuel Fletcher, it was resolved, rect a_; erect ce station at Newton, at a CCU 0 _ the police rates of the division.—Other busi nt_ and the sessions were adjourned till the 210 ranspired, f October . According to an act just come into force, and obtained ty the Commissioners of Birkenhead, any female who shall stand on the outside of any window, the sill whereo shall be more than six feet in height from the street, f the purpose of cleaning the same, or for any other purr whatever, shall be liable to a penalty of forty shilling ACTON Scaoots.— On Friday last, tbe children of schools had a fine treat at the expense f their patrons, the Tollemache family, P' )tfole were conveyed in waggons to the s on from thence had a trip, per railwa% .o Live their arrival, they were to-- where they had lunch, John's Market, and the pr Pier, where they ernkno- of their benev Dorfold-hall. en to the Chris and afters t Crewe Church si )1 SOLDE hi joying themselves theriefte,:isis and make th e i r struc!ive to country child r en that „ town or seaport before; and we should s Tngedh c onsiderrits, so t enlarge p o nisriidt se'ra te hi g tre a t t b h i e l' i o r d d eligh' lessons doubly int resting, THE NEW DOCKS.—We extract the following from tL report of Mr. Hartley upon the state of the dock works : " Considerable progress has been made in these works (luring the present year, for 280 lineal yards of the river wall have been completed, and 337 lineal yards of foun dations put in, in addition to the 700 yards in the previous year, the greater part of which is carried up to the height of 14 feet above the level of the Old Dock sill, making the length of foundations 1,317 lineal yards in the whole; and 1,484 lineal yards of dock walls have been built tot - ,e average height of 20 feet above the Old Duck sill, making, with what was done the previous year, 2,484 lineal yards of quay walls. Two pair of dock gates are nearly ready for hanging, A large sewer has been construe:eel, ex tending from opposite Sand-hills lane to the river, of about 615 yards in length. The northern part of the river wall, opon which the new fort is to be erected, has been commenced upon. The new south works, a mortar miil and limekilns have been erected, and some excavations heir day's e ery berieficia Dever seen a uppcse it vac removed for the backing up of the river wall in font of the tobacco warehouses ; the further progress of these works, however, is suspended for a few weeks, till the 40-engine can be spared from the warehouses, A" Dock. The timber framing for the landing star George's Parade is in considerable forwardness, , also the iron pontoons." The items of expendit , the whole of the new and the old works, during th Year, occupy some pages of the report, but tl follows : Total new works Total repairs Increase of stock £321,491 11 10 is 28 5 9 12,305 3 11 Total expenditure New IRON STEAMER.—There has, this week, been added to the line of steamers plying between this port and Douglas, Isle of Man, a splendid new iron vessel, called the Tynwald. She was built by beoeni l:e reaMsrn.) engines nHlel ßobert asesri el; Integwvi N gen rtel , h i st p yo i i i sft r i , ll3 :f Glasgow, and for strength, speed, and elegance, will bear a comparison with any of the far-famed Clyde-built steam lislsho i rf p ,e s ee . ,t . power,S T he he is a withv al e r O a g t te o a n rba s utle b a u ro r i d b feet on deck, breadth amidships, 26 feet, depth of hole, revolutions a minute, and some idea of her speed may be formed when it is known that, on Monday last, she made the passage from George's-pier to Douglas -bay, having a strong flood tide against her to the bell-buoy, in five hours and a half. Under favourable circumstances she may therefore, be expected to run in five hours, never excee ing six, unless the wind be strong, and adverse. The commodations for cabin passengers in this vessel first-rate description. The principal cabin i and elegant. The ladies' cabins are fitted up i, more elegant manner ; the berths are hung with lig, hangings, and the sofas are covered with blue i They are in that part of the vessel where the least mi will be felt, and instead of being, as they too frequec are' little holes, are light, well ventilated, and complet, fitted-np apartments. Fifty-eight beds can be made 1. in both cabins, rather a large number for a boat runnin, generally in the day time. Whilst the comfort and con venience of the cabin passengers have been amply attended to, we are glad to find that the steerage passengers have not been overlooked. The whole cost of the vessel is £22,000, As she floats on the water she has quite a rakish appearance. She has three masts, and a very hand some figure-head, a full length man, with two falcons upon his head. This is illustrative of an ancient practice amongst the lords of man, who at each coronation presented the crowned head with two falcons. Tynwald is the name of a court which must be held in the island before any law which has passed the insular and British legislature can be put into force. This splendid vessel is under the com mand of ClEtain William Gill, the senior captain in the serlice, *V, for forty years, successfully command e d vessels bet Ween this port and the Isle of Man. ,s light THE SMALL DEBTS ACT AND .THE BOROUGH OT LIVERPOOL—The small debts act, which became law in the late session, will ; in all probability, be put into ope ration in this borough before the expiration of many months, and supersede altogether the existing Court of Requests. As far as we can ascertain, atter much in quiry, the provisions are such as will give general satisfac tion, both to suitors and the public ; and the burgesses will have some cause for congratulation at their introduc tion here, as the borough fund will thereby be relieved from a considerable annual charge, whilst there is provi sion for the repayment of an aggregate outlay of between £B,OOO and £9,000 which has been advanced from that source. The act is to be put in force by an order from the privy council, 'of which one month's notice must be given. The other provisions need not be here stated. ex cept as they apply specifically to Liverpool. By the 10th clauses the judge of the existing Court of Requests will be entitled to be appointed the first judge of the new court ; by the 16th, the appointment of any future judge is to be made by the chancellor of the duchy ; and under the 18th and 19th, the judge of the present court may be removed to another district, at a salary nat less than he received originally. The parties most affected by these provisions are Mr. Lowndes, the Commissioner of the present Court of Requests, and the officers of that esta blishment, all of whom receive annual salaries our of the upon the borough f un d, wh i ch, in return, absorbs the fees. was 3 s 99 e s r . a . superannuated whichated there The Commissi oner ' s salary is £7OO ; that of the chief clerk (Mr. St a th am ) also £7OO, and the late clerk (Mr. Pa rr) is , c 9 up year.£wsaosOraeceived b back k s i t n y fe e e a s r : 1814.5, the t o t a l expense of the court to the corporation £1763 10s. 2d., thus "gaining a loss" of £1,835185. 10d. which has been the case now for some years, until it has accumulated to between £B,OOO and £9,000. The 54th clause, which makes provision for outstanding liabilities in the case of courts which are superseded, gives the cor poration a claim upon the consolidated fund for this amount, whatever it may be—a claim which, coming from a place like Liverpool, will probably excite some astonish ment. It should be mentioned, that previously to 1836. when the Court of Requests was remodelled and placed noon its present constitution, the jurisdiction of the then existing court, which was presided over by the commis sioners, was limited to sums of 40s. and confined w the boundaries of the old borough. The number of then determined averaged annually from 16,000 to 1S In 18:6, the lay commissioners, gave place to a barrister same time the court had its jr It was expected with some d Ticreasedbusiness would but cap tant and apparent valuable changes proved just the reverse, for ins+ number of cases has deer: than 12,000. The lords of the to deal with tbeclßim of the corporati J . of increasing 'hed t.B -u TY, wl yen they come that, with more extensive jurisdictic with cogn of largcr debts, with esperienee, the business of fallen off. What reply will 8, Indeed, u thesis that tl Under r mud cause it furnishes I covery of del is likely to be 3nder A tram The Powers c and the busine pton, is II be seen by an lan in t sh of n fiver tine All id] of the existing tribu remain untouche the able juegeshi FI R EW OR KS.- c, with the eiprese our first n bel works to private parties, admitted equal, if be does not excel in talent, in tl ing London pyrotechnic artists, we cannot for a rx doubt his success. Indeed we shall henceforth priteu tonear or a oirrn-aay eala or other fete without hay ing in conjunction with it the name of Mr. John At kit ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.--Madame Rosini's darit ascent of a rope, elevated to a height of nearly seven feet, was throughout the past v usiastic nd last ni her appearance abe is has but during the time she p whole auditory become Inc the daring fete, the execs fear as to disarm the spec meets the loudest cheers, last time in Liverpool, on Wednesday (to-morrow) evening NEW DRAMA AT THE THEATRE ROYAL.—In advertising columns will be found the announcement of a new drama to be performed at the Theatre-Royal, on the evening of Monday, September, 21. The author of this drama—the Swiss Father"—is Mr. G. Linnaeus Banks, whose poetical contributions to this paper have charmed and delighted, during the last six months, the inte/lac' and the feeling of our renders. Mr. Banks's lyrical effr sions are before the world, and whether regarded by th , poetic merit, their happy adoption to circumstances, the pathos and power which they exercise over the w add more especially over the feelings of *'•- know of no modern, cert-' - ' compared to him. An o the pliE on of which is so dev ators of all terror, she She appears, we learn, of no local po and 'nature, is a feature in our loci of the " Swiss Father" has receive( the estimation of the best liv the young Poet i sincerely hope th preciate modest, unassun and judge for therr sonal c erecter of the wr wttl presen of a provin !o . be pre Writers willare o e f e n s v c C r r m ee is r in in g the new world, where they have not only ability ,but the dirposition to appreciate genius.] vrthiethdllysilbnidt"ils'eceisrt:ineooffatshueec'