Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-04 00:00:00

HEALTH OF THE TOWN.

The Medical Officer of Health, reported that the
prevalence of inflamatory affections of the lungs, continues
to keep the mortality of the borough considerably above
the average, the deaths registered in the week ending last
Saturday having been 260, or 32 more than the corrected
average of the same week of the preceeding nine years.
In the parish, the deaths were 192, and in the out-
townships 74. Diseases of the lungs and consumption,
caused 103 deaths, being three more than in the previous
week, and 23 more than the corrected average. Zymotic
diseases were fatal to 47 children and 20 adults, in all 67,
giving a lower mortality from this class of diseases than in
any week of the previous (cur months and a half. The
scarlatina epidemic shows a disposition to decline ; the
deaths were 25 against 33 in the waek prezed:ng Fora
typhus the deaths were 7 ; from hooping-cough
11 ; small-pox, 4; croup, 2 ; diarrhcea, 2 ; syphilis, 1.
A porter aged 96, died from delirium tremens.
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 141 nuisances complained of
by inhabitants had been inspected and means taken to
remedy them. 1,237 houses in the unhealthiest districts,
containing 4.316 apartments, and 690 callers had been put
under examination, with the view of improving their
sanatory condition, and 198 lodging houses had also been
examined and reported upon.
The question of Maeadaso and squire-set pavement was
again introduced before the Committee. Nearly all the
members present again expressed their opinion that it was
unwise to deviate from the practice of the committee, in
extending square-set pavement; and to show the imprud-
ence of it, on the motion of Mr. Vernon, seconded by Mr.
Haydock, the borough engineer was directed to report on
the relative coat of Macadam and square-set pavement,
including the cost of repairing, scavenging, and watering.
This concluded the general business.

Two of the Republican candidates returned for Paris at
the last election have taken the oath of fidelity to the
Emperor.
TILE CITY OF GLASGOW BANK.—A numerous meeting of
the sLarebolders of this bank was held at Glasgow on
Tuesday. The meeting unanimously agreed that the bank
be registered in terms of the Joint Stock Bank Companies
Act, 1857, it being explained that the design was not to
wind up, lut to secure the same vantage ground as the
chartered banks. The meeting also agreed unanimously
that a committee of gentlemen unconnected with the bank
be appointed to investigate its affairs and report to an
adjourned meeting on Tuesday next, and that a guarantee
fund of halt a million be raised to enable the bank to
resume business without delay.

ROT'S CLOTHING MADE WITH GREAT TASTE AT LEWIS and
COMPbNY Reaelaglz-street.,

MODERN CRITICISM AND CRITICS.

LETTIIII 11.

you at a disadvantage, put you in the position of the un-
fortunate Giant, wh), wounded and dismembered, in vain
seeks to lay hands upon his assailant, that dexterous
swordsman, and talented acrobat, " Jack," having put on
his invisible cloak !

It is a necessary condition of your judgments being
affected by that of another man, that you should have
faith in his—that you are satisfied and convinced of
his ability, and of his fitness to pronounce upon the
question under consideration. Why should not this
condition be met, by our self-constituted critics I
Upon what grounds, consistent with reison, can you
be expected to receive the jugdment of a man, re-
specting whom you know nothing, and of whose capacity
or qualification to pronounce, you are in complete
ignorance? Why should you be called upon to endorse
his judgement as yours ; or to recognise his decision as
embodying your sentiments ? Ridiculous and absurd as
this appears, and as this is, yet, it is to this, and to nothing
else, that " modern criticism" has come. You are daily
led by the nose up to the broad sheet of some organ or
other, and there you find an opinion dictated to you, and
written and printed into you; and you dutifully imbibe
and abaord that opinion, and you partake thereof as you do
your daily sustenance; and, plagiarist that you are, you
express and promulgate that opinion when speaking of
affairs, general or particular, as if it were your own !
You pay certain unknown gentlemen, with more or less
brains in their heads, for thinking for you on certain
subjects; your part of the bargain being that, on these
subjects, you abdicate your sight to think for yourself.
Value is given, and value is received; but, in the majority
of instances, the value is not worth the price paid for it.
Again, you have, periodically, a criticisim—or what
purports to be. one—stuffed down your throat, habit
rendering you meekly quiescent during the operation; and
why ? for no better reason than that it is presented to you
in all the dignity of " leaded type ;" and that it appears in
the pages of the " Quarterly " this, or the " Monthly "
that !—Yours, &c., DIIBLINIENSIS.