The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-10 00:00:00

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REPRESENTATION OP MANCHESTER.--A meeting of the
friends of Lord Lincoln wu held yesterday morning to con-
sider, now that it was understood his lordship would come
forward. how the " ways and means " should be raised. It
is said about twenty gentlemen put their names down for
1001. each, and that it was understood Mr. Ald. Neild (one of
the seceders from the Whig camp) bad consented to become
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in a filthy awl r state, occasioned by the wsseunau-
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on the certificate of two duty yuslified medical men, a."vd
was made under the provisions of the 9th and 10th Victoria,
cap. 90, whereby certain public officers (and in this case
the commissioners of police), are :stithonsed, on receipt of
the certificate of two medical men, !so prefer complaints
against parties causing nuisances. The juirloss to whom the
complaint is made are required forthwith to summon the
parties complained against; and if the party neglect to
appear, or, appearing, neglect to show suffioeni cause to
the contrary, the justices, upon proof of the existence of
such nuisance, are to make an order fur the cleansing, white-
washing, or purifying, in ease of a house or other building,
or for the removal or abatement of the nuisance: and the
expenses are to be recovered from the owner or occupier of
the premises by distress. The bench expressed their grati-
fication that an opportunity was now afforded of improving '
the sanitory condition of towns. The summons was granted. '
This is the lint application made under the above act in
this neighbourhood.
Ast ACCIDENT occurred on the Manchester and Bolton
Railway on Monday, by which the legs of a collier who was
trespassing on the line were nearly separated from his body.
Iscantse or MENDICANCY. —During the past fortnight
the suburbs of Liverpool have been almost overrun with
beggars, apparently fresh importations from Ireland. It
would :tiny seem, says the Ltrerpool Standard," as if some
organised system of immigration was going on ; for it is
scarcely imaginable that the bulk of these poor creatures,
some of whom travel accompanied by three or four tattered
children, can have come across the channel at their own
expense. Of course our own parish officers will have to pass
them back again at the expense of the ratepayers of Liver-
pool. It is rather too bad that, on every occasion when
the &failure of a crop or any other calamity dries up the
sources of charity in Ireland, her habitual beggars are to
be drafted over to this country. A poor law for Ireland is
the only remedy far the evil ; and it is time that we began
to demand it as a measure of justice to Englishmen, who
cannot afford to maintain the poor of both countries."
Tile HCALTII COMMITTEE in Liverpool have done much
good in that town, but it appears that the builders there have
been most mischievously ingenious in the construction of
plans for defeating the new sanitary arrangements. The
Liverpool Standard says:—
Since the passing of the local act, by which a large portion of the
cellar and court habitations of the poor were declared untenantable,
we have seen a large quantity of cottage property springing up in
every part of the town to aecommulate the penal:don tlins driven
out. But what has been the character of tl>Me dwellings! Un-
doubtedly their builders have complied literally with the requirements
of the act e., they have given the minimum amount of space and
accommodation declared to be requisite to health. The most ingenious
plans have Data hit upon to comply with the letter, and evade the
spirit of the health enactment, with a view to save in cost of eoustrue-
tion, and to economise land. In some instances, in the heart of
the town, where land is mast valuable, we see the area required for
one made to serve for two; cottages Sinn upon cottawes ; the upper
range approached by steps, with a railed balcony, must dangerous bath
for children and adults. Some of these, so far an mere building, con-
venience, and ventilation are concerned, and their dangerous diame-
ter apart, are, we believe, much better dwellings than the average of
the new cottage erections, the bulk of which are niiscrahle shells,
nndrained, with little ventilation, and as provocative of ill-health as
some of the old dwellings, which they have been built to supersede.
In some of the outskirts we see houses of even a superior class to mere
cottage tenements, ereeted—no doubt in lit ral compliance with the
taw—with tkeir backs and necessary offices close u; to the blank walls
of lofty warehouses; and it is easy to conceive what kind of ventila-
tion there most be in these cases, where, except with porticolar winds,
the effluvia must steam up to the bed-room windows. SOW
of the pure cottage-form erections are so closely placed
back to back that t:.c back windows of each may be
said to admit, for nine months in the year, little better titan a
stream of effluvia; whilst the rooms o such habitations are so
miserably contracted as barely to supply breathing room for one
tenant, without a constant admission of alr from the open window—
amt pure air, in such curs, it cannot be. Some of the houses so con-
snarled at their backs are court-houses ; and with revert to these
the evil is increased. The I lealth Committee seem resolved to put in
exercise their utmost, and undoubted power, with respect to this
claws of habitation. They bare just determined, that in all ca-es
where the proposed width of such courts in front is not 15 feet in the
clear, and from bark to lock 18 feet ri inches—or nay 7 feet for each
back yard, with a 3-feet passage between, and two 0-inch walls—to
refuse to pass the plans, the effect of which will be, that, in the event
of their being constructed and occupied without such sanction of the
Health fosamittee, their owner will be liable to information by any
common informer.