The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-24 00:00:00

(Stamped ld. Additimml.) g

MANCHISraz AND SALFORD SANITARY

4880CLITION.

The annual meeting of the friends and supporters
of this aerociation took place on Monday evening in the Man-
chester Town-hall. The Lord Bishop of MANCUESTIX pre-
sided, sad on the platform were the Rev. Canon Hickson,
Mr. J. A. Turner, M.P., Mr. J. Simon, of the General
Board of Health, Sir J. L. Sudsier, M.D., Rev. Canon
Stowell. Rev. W. ()oaken, &c.

The Right Rev. CHAIRMAN expressed Wm greet regret at
the absence of Lord Stanley, who was prevented from
attending by his engegernenta in connexion with the Cam-
bridge Unrawsity C 011110,4011. He (the Bishop) had derived
sincere and unnamed gratification from perusing the ram-
miner's report. This association commenced about Sys
years ego, and had slowly, quietly and unostenta-
tiously progressed, working good in every respect--bon in the
manner and spirit in which items conducted, in the remits pee-
diked, and in the gratifying fact of persona of different reli-
gious denomination, and different political opinion. meeting
together for the common object ed muting the public
good. There was also shown the pYg circumstance of
men of science and others meeting {w devoting pa
tuitoualy their time, their talent, end their experience to the
preservation of the public health ; end the other
circumstance of the wealthier inhabhanta of
giving their sympathy and assistance to their pewee neigh-
bours. He braised the mere sanitary operations of this
society were only the smallest part of its seefalneme. We
might repel the great scourge of cholera, which not long
mince carried of in a single yew 18,099 olareonnie the wire-
polls alone • we might endeavour to drain large districts, and
render entail more healthy, and assist the small peoprktor to
improve his house or lend; but he belMved the bringing
together of all cleans of society In one common in-
terest to promote the public health, and thereby
the public morality, and the public feeling of reli-
gion, would be ono of those things mainly due
to the labours of this association, if it pursued its course
aright. (A lase.) He could not too strongly express his
gratitude tothe corporations of Manchester and Salford for
the part they had talon in promoting the great object of the
maceration. There wire fair thing. more hintructive and
creditable than the minutes .f the proceedings of those bodies,
as showing what they were endeavouring to do for the well-
being of those whom the rep Laudable and earnest
as were the attempts , they were made to a certain ex-
tent under constraint, by on who acted as guardians of
the interesta id the ratepayers. The Manchester and Salford
Sanitary Association came in es an intermediate link to point
out to the ratepayers, judiciously, where they may demand
and authorise an increased expenditure, and guarantee
their willingness to bear additional burdens for the
prospect of greeter additional good; and be trusted
that the steps which had been taken by this
association would have their proper effect in warn-
ing, assuring and encouraging the corporation to go on
fearlessly in the good work which they had thus far sawn-
steely undertaken and carried out. Though mach had been
don, much yet remained to do. The attention of the society
during the past yew had been celled to several moat Import-
ant ponds, and amongst them he would especially allude to
the state of the great rivers whkb formed the main sewer-
see of Manchester. He would ask the people of Manchester
if, having shown their liberality, their taste, their earnest
desire to make their city whet it ought to be, in the splendid
erections in front of the Infirmary, they were willing to let
the front of their cathedral—that church which, however
it might be associated in the minds of some who did not en-
tertain the sentiments which were preathed there, yet still
must be dear to every Idancter man as the
old church of Manchester (cheers)—would they
allow It still to be fronted by the stinking
ditch—he could call it nothing better, which attempted to
flow, or rather attempted to rani_ along every sort of im-
purity and filth in its current? What must be the feeling@
of traveller.. detained, ea they frequently wen for a few
minutes, before entering the Victoria station at Manchester,
on the bridge over the Irk, and compelled to inhale its peed •
knife] vapours ? Or was it worthy of the people of Men-
chatter that they should allow the continence of thee kW
spectacle immediately beneath the institution erected by the
liberality of Bishop Oldham for the education of their youth
He Widened from allusion to other things of the manikin, '
but they were point. to which attention ought to be directed.
What had been the enpeoditure attendant on the really eel-
enterale results of the efforts of this association
He found that 3641. had been collected, end what
they had done had cost 2811, or thereabouts. If
so much had been done at this small expenditure, what
might not be expected as the legitimate result of the efforts
of the association—efforts worthy of the great community in
which it waited ? Those who had bed eeptarance could
date the direct result* of sanitary improvement there. They
would speak, in the impressive language of one of
ara the in:
=tern, diffusing aces
theoif sewerage open in W r
pestilential miasma sit around. But
there was one point to which he felt entitled to call atten-
dee—there was one plague-spot which he felt called upon
to speak of, trusting that then who heard him world give,
by the expression of their feelings to-night, and their Influ-
ent* abroad, their instruction to the =pored= that it be
lnuesdistely removed; and that was, the result date lm-
pen state of one part, at least, of their community. A
kw months since it was his privilege to sanction the
efforts of a few liberal gentlemen who chose to
place, at their own expense, a minister of religion of the
church of England in a district provisionally teemed, not
far from the Town-hall. What was the result of their

evarninati;noltis; coniati 0; of that dietrThei t Then were
771 houses, about 612 of them inhabited, and if he mistook
not, there were amongst these 49 beer-houros, 52 houses of
ill-fame, 28 lodging-houses, 5 cellar lodging-houses, and
also no We than 158 cellar dwellings. Woukl the people of
Manchestsr permit that to go on'? Would they, in Chris-
tian, civilised England, at this present time, when we had
crashed, under God's blessing, by our energise, that
northern tyrant in the east ; when we were recovering and
re-occupying our Indian empire by the splendid and chival-
rous devotion of the handful of men left there
. .

--(eheeTs)—when we were about to lay the hand
at the strong man on the paltry and ignorant
tyrant who had dared to defy us at Canton—
would they suffer this canker-Teem to gnaw at their heart
at home P In another district of this great town, the sta-
tistics of which had been faithfully reported to him, and than
which none was more carefully watched, more judiciously,
earnestly, and prayerfully supervised—there were 1,318
houses, 1,687 families, 7,002 inelividuals, and of these there
were 563 families who never attended any place of worship.
Why did he mention these things in connexion with this se-
sociation Because he believed that, if permitted to carry
out its work, if duly supported, it would enable the minister
of religion to go from house to house visitinii, and would in-
troduce a kindlier feeling between the higher and lower
classes of society, and would contribute, by multiplying the
minitters of religion and the means of grace, to draw-
ing the people together, not in the tiunultons,
piny assembly of strangers, but in the comfortable,
Wm, quiet, and religious congregation. He believed it
would engender a kindlier feeling between man and
man ; he believed it would not merely produce the means of
rioter health and comfort, but indirectly the means of
ti:6lwealth and greater means of subsistence ; and he he-
18' U would lead the people on, improving them in their
physical condition, ansobft them in their moral condition,
and, through Clots grace, raising there in their spiritual
condition to be wrathy servants of their Maker.
The meeting yea subsequently addressed by Dr. It. A.
Smith, Mr. Turner, M.P., Mr. Cawley, C.E., end Mr.
Simon; and resolutions were passed in conformity with the
objeots of the association.