The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-24 00:00:00

HEALTH COMMITTEE.

The usual weekly meeting of this committee was held
yesterday. The members present were Messrs. Dover
(in the chair), Sheil, Crellin, Beckwith, Haydock,
Crosthwaite, Bowring, Ridley, Steel, Barton, Avison,
and Stitt.

The committee assented to the requisition of the
inhabitants from the neighbourhood of Gildart street,
to permit a crossing to be made, there not being the
slightest objection to it..
The Medical Officer of Health (Deputy Dr. Cameron)
reported that 186 deaths were registered in the week
ending Saturday last, 79 less than the corrected average
for the corresponding week of the last ten years.
Zymotic diseases 38: of these, diarrhosta 21, fever 7,
typhus 1, scarlet 4. measles 5, diseases of the lungs and
consumption 48, diseases of the brain 13, convulsions
13, diseases of the heart 13, liver 4, dropsy 3, paralysis
1, delirium tremens 1, cancer 4, debility and decay of
nature, 23.
The Borough Engineer Building Surveyor and In-
spector of Nuisances reported various particulars of the
operations in their several departments during the week,
from which it appeared that 179 nuisances complained
of by inhabitants had been inspected, and means taken
to remedy them. 1,323 houses in the unhealthiest dis-
tricts, containing 4,246 apartments, and 817 cellars, had
been put under examination with the view of improving
their sanitary condition.
A brief discussion took place upon the reading of
this report, the chairman and the whole of the commit-
tee being of opinion that it was most satisfactory, and
would certainly quiet the Inspector-General as to the
the unhealthiness of Liverpool, as the rate of raprtality
was far below either the metropolis or Scotland.
Mr. SHEIL observed that still the registrar com-
)lained; but he had on the previous day been on a tour
,hrough Everton, and it was with pleasure that he saw
,uch a healthy district.

ST. DOMINGO PIT.

The memorial adopted at a recent meeting of a section
tf the inhabitants of Everton, which has already
ippeared in these columns, was read, a brief discussion
!nsued, and on the motion of Mr. Crosthwaite, seconded
)y Mr. Stitt, a sub-committee was appointed to visit
;he pit in question, and report thereon to a subsequent
tommittee. The names of the gentlemen so appointed
mere Messrs. Crosthwaite, Stitt, Crellin, and the chair-
nan, and it was understood that they would give in-
'orrnation to Mr. Leicester, who had forwarded the
nemorial of the time of their visit, and request his
attendance.

THE DEPUTATION FROM THE WATER. COMMITTEE.
At the weekly meeting of the Water Committee, held
)n Monday last, a report of which appeared in this
ournal, it was decided to send Mr. Alderman Woodruff
',rid Mr. Rae as a deputation to solicit the co-operation
)f the Health Committee, relative to the purchase of a
)ortion of land on the north-west side of the Auclley-
ctreet reservoir, for the purpose of making a public
mprovement, and which would also be beneficial in a
;anatory point of view. Mr. Woodruff attended, and
tfter complaining that he had been kept waiting for
rpwards of an hour, stated the object of his visit, which
was simply—whether the Health Committee would pay
heir portiog of the expenses towards buying tho lagd

in question. The committee decided—Mr. Haydock
having observed that if the land was purchased, the
whole of the money would have to come out of the
pockets of the ratepayers, whether it was paid by the
one committee or the other—to defer the consideration
of the question until such a time as it had been discussed
by the Tuesday's committee.
MR. TRAIN'S STREET RAILWAY SCHEME.

Mr. BOWEING said at that late hour he should not
detain, the committee with many observations, but he
wished to ask a question. It would be recollected that en
the 9th Feb. a sub-committee was appointed, consisting
members of the Water Committee, and of that (the
health) committee, to consider and report on the advis-
ability of 'adopting the street railways in Liverpool, in
order to lay it before the Town Council. He was him-
self a member of that sub-committee, but since the 9th
of June he never heard anything whatever of the
motion. lie thought that it was most desirable that
they should have the report, particularly as the same
scheme had been adopted in the metropolis, Manchester,
Birmingham, and even Birkenhead, where it had been
carried into effect. He really did think that this sub-
committee should be requested to make some report, in
order that the question might be decided in the Council.
Mr. CRELLIN said that the reason the report had not
been made was, because at the last meeting of the com-
mittee it was understood that they should not make £l,
report until such a time as it had been seen how the
Birkenhead line of railway answered.
The CHAIRMAN thought that if there was any blame
it was to be attached to the chairman of the sub-
committee for not calling them together.
Mr. BECKWITH—The chairman of this sub-committee
i 4 Mr. Johnson. If he is a slow coach, why do not the
committee men whip him up ?

It was understood that the subject must be left to the
sub-committee themselves to settle the matter, and get
the report as soon as they could.

GREAT POVERTY IN TOXTETH-PARK.

The DEPUTY TOWN-CLERK read a report showing
that the dead body of a child was in a cellar, where
parties had to live and sleep, in a most decomposed
state, and the smell from which was very offensive ; and
the relieving officer for that district had refused to bury
it, although the parents could not do so. The Clerk
had written to Mr. Alpass, the chairman of the board,
but no answer had been sent to that communication,
and the body still remained unburied.

On the motion of Mr. Sheil, it was ordered that the
committee should have the child interred, and that the
expenses that were incurred should afterwards he ob-
tained from the guardians, whose officer had refused to
have the child buried.

The committee, having concluded the business, then
adjourned.

LA QUESTION D' ORIENT EN 1860."

This is a very interesting and eleverly written

pamphlet by the Prince J. A. Pitzipio, who is
well known to the French press at least, for
several works concerning the Levant and its
abuses. The object of the one in question is to
show the best way of solving that never-ending
" Qaestion d' Orient," and the French press speak
highly of it. We translate the following extract
from the pamphlet : •
It is worthy of observation that of all the administra-

tions which the decline of the Mussulman army occa-
sioned to be established in the different parts of the
Byzantine Empire, since the Greek revolution of 1621
down to our days, the farther they are from the admi-
nistration of the so-called." Government of the Sultan,"
or the " Sublime Porte," the more they prosper, and the
more they are susceptible of modern civilisation, pro-
gress according to the spirit of our century, and orderly
government. This is an undeniable fact. The part of
Greece which: 1829, was definitively separated from.
the Government of the Sultan, and established as an
independent kingdom, notwithstanding the want of suf-
ficient material resources, notwithstanding the complete
devastation which that country had suffered from a ten
years' warfare of extermination, notwithstanding the un-
fortunate administration of a foreign regency, with which
it was burdened from the very moment of its resotra-
tion, at last, notwithstanding the obstacles of all kind,

, .
that country made wonderful progresses in modern
civilisation. All the forms of an European government
have been introduced, applied, and consolidated, from
the very moment that a separate and independent
government had been established. Can any one deny
that since the establishment of the Kingdom of Greeee,
a civilised government exists—that there are laws before
which all the citizens arc equal—that the Mahomedans
of that country enjoy the same religious, civil, and
political rights as the Christians —that they are happier,
and preserve, even better than in the states of the
Sultan, the principles of their proper religion, and
that the Jews enjoy also all their religious, civil, and

political rights? Can any one deny that all foreigners
in Greece are equals before the law—that in that
country an independent court of justice exists,
a jury, police, financial administration, county
courts, responsibility of government etnploye3, public
schools, charitable institutions, hospitals, parishes,

a national bank, life insurances, preservance of
the honour and property of the citizen and the
stranger, liberty of conscience, liberty of the press,
respect for religion and public opinion, and even a
constitutional charter and houses of parliament ? In a
few words, one can say that that part of the Byzantine
empire placed itself, in the short time of a few years, on
a level with any of the most civilised governments.
The same can be said of the small state of Mon-
tenegro, which became quasi-independent of the
administration of the Sublime Porte, as well as
the principalities of Wallachia, Moldavia, and Servia,
which, thanks to the special protection of Russia,
have been enabled 'to keep a separate administration
from that of the Sublime Porte and change in suzer-
ainty the sovereignty of the Sultan ; the lonian Islands
placed under the protection of Great Britain ; and at last
the Isle of Samos instituted a principality in 1832 by
the Great Powers, and received also a separate adminis-
tration. All these parts of the Byzantine Empire suc-
ceeded in obtaining fundamental laws and a govern-
ment more or less civilised, and make their way,
notwithstanding the obstacles which the suzerainty puts
every now and then in their way, towards progress and
civilisation.

That part, on the contrary, which up to this moment
is under the immediate domination of theiCultan, and
which forms the greatest and most fertile portion
of the Byzantine Empire, notwithstanding the immense
resources it contains, notwithstanding its unrivalled geo-
graphical position, notwithstanding that its inhabitants
were, up to the beginning of our century, far more
civilised and respected, and happier than those of Greece,
Montenegro, Wallachia, Moldavia, Servia, lonian Islands
and Samos; shortly the "pretended" Ottoman Empire
or Sublime Porte—that part of the Byzantine Empire
which is yet under the direct domination of the minis-
ters at Constantinople—is in total disorder, without
laws, open to the insult and devastations of the first
intruder, in a state of fraudulent bankruptcy, and with-
out the least security for one's life, the honour and for-
tune of the inhabitants, of the travellers, and even of
the representatives of the other Powers. Therefore,
also, this country is considered by statesmen and public
opinion in the west as a corpse in a state of dissolution,
as a &Tut ,mortuum, and as an organised brigand's den.
No one could deny that the only reason of this
strange phenomenon is, that in the kingdom of free
Greece, in Montenegro, &c., &c., the high functionaries
of the government are Christians, natives of the land,
while in Constantinople the power exists in the hands
of "Turks"—that is to say, in the hands of uneducated
and uncivilised people; barbarians, deprived of alt sen-
timents of honour and patriotism, and men of the
greatest depravity. It is well known that the
present Sovereign, the Sultan Abdul Medjid, himself
reproached them publicly with the above facts two years
ago. Those people consider themselves strangers to the
Byzantine empire, dream of nothing else but making
money any .vay, and then returning to Turkey—which
they consider the hearth of their origin—the day on
which they will be chased from the empire of the
Giaours.
What, then, if the great Christian Powers really
wish to civilise our country and procure us a govern-
ment ; should they not advise the Sultan to select, also,
his ministers from the native Christians of the land,
who would assist him to accomplish the generous inten-
tions which his Majesty manifested in his hatti houma-
youn• of the 18th of February.

The London and North Western traffic return shows

this week an increase of £5,231; the Great Northern,
an increase of £'10; and the London and South
Western, an increase of £2,776.

A SETTLEMENT, AND No MISTAKE:—An elderly
female, on being examined before the magistrates of I
Bungay as to her place of legal settlement, was asked
what reason she had for ,supposing that her deceased
husband's settlement was at St. Andrew's. , The old lady,
looking earnestly at the bench, said, "He .was born and
married there, and they buried him there, and if that
isn't settling him there I don't know what is."
DEATH OF FLEXMORE, THE CLOWN.—The pantomime
loving public will learn with regret that Mr. Richard
FlexinOre, the well-known clown, died on Monday night
of atrophy, or wasting away of the body, at his residence,
Hercules-buildings, Lambeth, in the 38th year of his
age. Mr. Flexmore may be said to have commenced life
as a pantomimist, for at the early age of eleven years he
made his first appearance at a small theatre which then
existed at Chelsea, in a fantastic piee,, called "The Man
in the Moon." He danced very effectively a burlesque
shadow dance. Ile subsequently became a. pupil of Mr.
Crampton, and showed great aptitude for stage business
1i
e, Sic.,
his own peculiar line. He was especially celebrated
for his close and natural imitations, a la clown, of the
leading Terpsichoreans of the day, such as Perrot, Car-
lotta ri
enjoyed and in theseimitations
none ed them more, than the
originals who happened to witness them. He married
mdue. Auriol, and both himself, and his wife, who sur-
e laughedsi iahgelia°rnt ii' C,,
ee o rrto ni
yiyes him, became great favourites with the Nitro, •

THE STEPNEY, THE ROAD,

AND THE

QUEEN'S PARK MURDERS.

THE MURDER AT STEPNEY.—NO progress appears
to have been made in detecting the murderer. In the
course of yesterday, Mr. Faith and Mr. Whittaker, who
each married a ftepdaughter of the murdered woman,
expressed their intention to offer a reward between them
of £2OO. In all probability the whole of the property
belonging to the deceased will revert to the Crown for
want of kindred and assuming she has died intestate.
THE ROAD CHILD MURDER.—Edmund Sohn Gagg,

the self-accused murderer, has been released. It is
stated that the family of Mr. Kent feel very strongly
the imputations which have been cast upon them, and
which they attribute to all the inmates of the house not
having been examined at the time of the inquest. On
their behalf an application was made to Sir G. C.
Lewis, Home Secretary, for permission to hold a second
inquest. Sir G. C. Lewis, however, declined to comply
with the application, on the ground that it was
unusual to grant such commissions, and that he saw
no necessity for so doing in this particular case.
The police still maintain surveillance over the house,
the men on duty being changed every eight. hours;
inquiries are being made on fresh points or' new sugges-
tions by Superintendents Wolfe and Foley. On
Monday, the nurse, Elizabeth Gough, gave Mr. Kent
notice to leave, alleging, as a reason, the uncom-
fortable position she has recently occupied in the family,
she having of late been constantly watched, and none
of the family have been placed to sleep in her room.
On Monday last Superintendent Wolfe received a com-
munication from a labouring man in the south of Ireland,
professing to have assisted Constance Kent in committing
the murder, and stating that he had the missing night-
dress in his possession, which he would bring over on re-
ceipt of money to enable him to do so. Of course after their
late experience so shallow an imposture was readily detec-
ted. As showing the necessity there is for a new and fuller
inquiry, we may state one or two circumstances which
we have ascertained to be correct, and which have, we
believe, never been given before the magistrates or the
police. The girl, Emily Doel, who came to Mr. Kent's
house at ten minutes to seven o'clock on the morning
of the murder to assist in the household duties, went
four times into the nurse's room, once with a bath,
once with hot and twice with cold water, in the
interval between the time when the nurse says she went
to Mr. Kent's door the first time and the second. The
nurse did not say one word to her about the child being,
gone, and she did not see her reading or praying. The
nurse explains this by saying that if she made confidants
of the girls they would not do their work. A man
named Job Moon, also, who works at a quarry near,
heard Mr. Kent's dog barking very early on the morn-
ing of the murder, and remarked to his fellow-workman,
"There must be something wrong at Mr. Kent's, the
dog barks so."
THE MURDER IN THE QUEEN'S PARX, EDINBURGH.

—The post-mortegt examination was commenced on
Tuesday by Drs. Keiller and Smith, but the identifica-
tion of the body as that of the girl seen in the Queen's
Park and elsewhere with the soldiers on Saturday
night being still incomplete, the medical examination
has not been formally closed, and no report has yet been
made to the authorities. The mystery which envelopes
the whole case, and the manner in which, it is under-
stood, the investigations of the authorities have been
baffled, have contributed to perpetuate, if not to increase,
the 'excitement which the first news of the tragedy
excited in the public mind, and the want, as is believed,
of any very specific proof as yet against the only person
in custody; Tanner, has strongly awakened public sus-
picion against the two absentees, and points to their
speedy apprehension.

INSPECTION OF THE NEW POLICE COURTS---Yester-
day Colonel Woodfall, the government inspector, accom-
panied by Major Greig, and some members of the Town
Council, visited the new police courts and offices, Dale-
street, by way of an inspection.
Law! Law!! LAW !—During the sitting of the
Court yesterday it was announced that two cases, in
which Mr. Monk was concerned, had been settled, and
that the parties on each side were satisfied ; therefore
the time of the Court would not be occupied by their
hearing. In this announcement Baron Martin said the
parties had showed their wisdom, and he hoped such a
precedent would be followed by many others out of the
long list still before him.
TOXTETH GUARDIANS.—The usual weekly meeting
was held yesterday morning ; Mr. Alpass presiding:
The other members present were Messrs. Waln, Car-
ter, Leyland, Wilson, Baynes, Siddeley, Hunter, W.
Leyland, Johns, Hughes, and Miller. After the usual
business was transacted, the clerk was directed to
enquire whether the druggists who supplied drugs during
the year were desirous of contracting for the next twelve
months on the same terms.
AN INCIDENT AT THE TRIAL OF WINSLOW.—During
one of the most impassioned passages in Mr. Digby
Seymour's speech in defence of Winslow, he struck the
bar with his hand, on one of the fingers of which was a
diamond ring, value over £5O. The collision bent the
ring, and the diamond flew out and dropped nearly at
the other side of the court. For a single instant only
did Mr. Seymour pause, and glanced in the direction in
which the diamond had fallen, and then proceeded with
his address, as if nothing had happened. The incident
was witnessed only by the barrister who sat next Mr.
Seymour, and he at once went to the place where the
diamond fell, and was fortunate enough to pick it up.
After the learned gentleman had concluded, the diamond
was returned to him, and he was warmly congratulated
by his brethren on the coolness and presence of mind
shown on the occasion.
DARING BURGLARY IN TOXTETH-PARK.— A most
daring burglary was perpetrated in the south end of this
town early yesterday morning. • The shop of Mr.
Robinson, tobacconist. 80, Mill-street, was entered and
plundered of a considerable portion of its contents.
Fortunately these were not of great value, as the family
do not sleep at the shop ; as it was, however, about 141bs.
weight of thick Limerick tobaccO, together with a
quantity of thin twist, five boxes of cigar 3, and some snuff
were stolen. Some articles of wearing apparel were also
taken, and the drawer of the counter was broken open
and emptied of its contents, consisting of small change.
The robbers evidently anticipated a much larger booty,
as the mode of entrance was a most violent one, and
could not have been effected without considerable trouble.
The shop is of only one story in height, and has a flat
roof; it was through the roof that the burglars entered,
for the family upon going to the shop yesterdayinorning
discovered that the roof had been broken in immediately
over the counter ; the inner room had also been entered..
The detectives are investigating the matter, and as the
route which the thieves pursued upon leaving the house
is partially known, the offenders will probably be dis-
covered in a few days. •
THE WORKHOUSE Core lITTEE.—The weekly meeting
of this body was held at the Parish Offices yesterday.
Mr. Churchwarden Cropper presided, and the other
members present were Messrs. Owen, Critchley, Satchell,
Peck, Smith, Brown, Scott, Williams, and Turner.
From the medical report book it appeared that there
were 421 cases under treatment last week ; new cases
since, 131 ; cured and discharged, 96 ; died, 15,—show-
ing a total of 444 cases now under treatment. Included
in these are ten cases of fever, and 34 of itch. From the
governor's journal it appeared that the number of in-
mates in the house on the 22nd of August was 1747,—
being precisely one half the number which the house is
calculated to accommodate. The return shows a decrease
of 25 inmates as compared with the corresponding day
of last year. The vagrants relieved during the week
ending the 18th of August amounted to 459, including
264 men, 148 women, and 47 children. Two tons of
rice, supplied by Mr. Pearson on Tuesday and Wednes-
day, has been rejected as being inferior to sample. The •
governor also reported that Mr. Bilshaw, the contractor,
had supplied timber of inferior quality to the house.
The committee then proceeded to open and consider the
;estimonials of applicants for the situation of house

surgeon, in which there are two vacancies, owing to the
gentlemen who formerly filled the offices having been
appointed to the charge of medical districts in the town.
There were eleven applicants, a number which as a com-
mencement was reduced to the following six :—Frederick
FOulkes, Ripley, Yorkshire; T. M. Hocken, Liverpool;
J. D. Clement, St. Helens ; George Shiever, Liverpool ;
W. J. Mallet, Bolton ; and John Norman, Carlisle. It
was agreed to advertise for a schoolmaser for the work-
house, on the ordinary terms. This was the whole of
the business of public interest.
NEAT RETORT.—An Israelite lady, sitting in the same
box at an opera with a French physician, who was much
troubled with ennui, happened to gape. " Excuse me,
madam," said the doctor, " I am glad you did not swal-
low me." " Give yourself no uneasiness," replied the
lady " I am a Jewess, and never eat pork." I
DR. CUMMING IN PA.RIS.—We have here this week,
clouded in a halo of apocalyptic nebulosity, Dr. Cum-
ming, of Crown-court, Drury-line ; his holdings forth at
the Oratoire attract the curious, such vaticinations being
novel in Paris. He is announced to-morrow for a " pro-
phetic view of British futurity," which is likely to astonish
the natives ; emptying vials of wrath, and drying up
thr, Euphrates, will no doubt introduce a reference to
Syrian politics. The uninitiated Parisians look on the
worthy doctor as a sort of Caledonian Nostradamus,roirs
a clairvoyant, but of rather dubious lucidity. ra
Correspondent of the Globe.
A TRULY MAGICAL POWER.--The following amusing
incident is recorded in a correspondence from Koenigs-
berg, in Prussia. At Herr Basch'`, h,cthe conjuror's enter-
tainihegt, unexpected interloper of
tieqt, the other evening
r ,ellaonusly successful conjuring
his profession, by
out of him,. and kept, for
trick, took thia- shinge marvellously
minutes.
-the audience roaring with laughter
several mi
al a,gentleman rose m the body of the.
During an interval,
hall, and pointing to a lady who sat on another bench,
addressed the conjuror as follows ?--Herr . Bars* your
neat trick, as I see from the show-bill, is .to make any
who is pointed out to you,
person disappear There sits
my runaway spouse with her paramuur,
turned Pray make
them disappear. The lady alteYnately pale and
red, and the couple left ami-tlthe rowing laughter of the
public; .