Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-18 00:00:00

HEALTH COMMITTEE.

The weekly meeting of this committee:raa held in the
Town Hall, at halt-past two o'clock, yesterday. Mr.
Alderman Dover presided, and the other members present
were—Messrs. Sheil, M`Guffie, Beckwith, Haydock,
Hodson, Johnson, and Holden.
The Medical Officer of Health reported that in the week
ending on last Saturday, 272 deaths were registered in
the borcugh, showing that in the last five weeks there has
been very little variation in the general mortality, the
deaths having been respectively-274, 277, 277, 272, 272
The corrected average of the corresponding weeks of the
preceding nine years, excluding the years of epidemic
cholera, was 258, or 14 less tban the mortality of last
week. The deaths in the parish were 183; in the out-
townships, 89. In the mortality from diarrhoea there was
a c(easiderable reducAon, the deaths, which, in the previous
-week, were 73, having fallen last week to 50. Of these
44 were children, 2 only were between 4 and 76 years f f
age, and 4 were aged respectively-76, 83, 92, and 97.
From scarlatina share were 16 deaths; from hooping-
cough, 12; typhus, 9; dysentery, 7; small-pox, 4; measles,
1 ; cholera, 1 ; ague, 1. Diseases of the lungs, with con-
sumption, caused 45 deaths, being 11 more than in the
previous week. A married female, eged 36, died from
delirium tremen

The Borough Engineer, Building Surveyor, and Inspector
of Nuisances, reported various particulars of the operations
in their several departments during the week, from which
it rppearsd that inspections were made of 163 dilapidated
privies and ashpita ; 1.118 cesspools had been discharged ;
103 nuisances complained of by inhabitants had been
inspected, and means taken to remedy them ; 724 houses
in the unhealthiest districts, containing 2,239 apartments,
and 187 cellars, had been put under examination, with the
view of improving their sanitary condition ; and 148
lodging-houses had also been examined,! and reported
-upon
An offer was made on behalf of the Marquis of Salis-
bury, to give up a slip of land en the north-west corner of
Bmithdown late, which was accepted by the committee.
An equivalent was to be giVen by the flanging if some foot-
walks. The application made by a numb. r of clergymen and
residents, to have the centre of Pembroke-place macada-
mised, having been considered, it was resolved that the
committee could not comply with the request, in conse-
quence of the expense, and also of the complaints certain
to be made, as in other parts of the town, by shopkeepers,
of damage done to their goods by dust.
A similar reply was made to a request of the same
character from Messrs. Maclver, on behalf of Rumford- ,
street.

There was no other business of any importance.

LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT.-Y&STERDAY.

BEFORE MR. COMMISSIONER STEVENSON.

In re °wax Ews.—The bankrupt, a stonemason, of
Liverpool, came up upon his adjourned last examinaion He
was ordered to file a cash account, and make further
amendments in his balance-sheet, and his examination
was further adjourned to the sth. Octcber.
In re JOHN WALKER.—The bankrupt carried on the
business of a tobacclnist in Liverpool and Rochdale. In
consequence of his illness no balance-sheet was filed, and
his last examination was adjourned to the nth October.
In re H. H. STATITAIE —No balance sheet having been
-filed the last examination, was adjourned to the 2nd
October.

BOYS' CLOTHING "WADE WITH GREAT TASTE, a LEWIS and
COMPANY'S, Ranelagh street.

CAUTION T) PiG FEEDE43.-`,Sr. Browne, of Clonard,
lost fourteen pigs this week, in -consequence of their
eating new margold which was boiled for them, tops and
all. A similar case occurred same time back in this town
t a poor man, wla ese only pt wat that poisoned.--Weaford
People.

WaR TEsvotontiLs.-77e perceive that the good people
of Wex'ord are about erecting an out-door monument to
the naval and military heroes of their touutry, who fell in
the late wit with Russia, following up the example net
them in Kerry an] limerick.
" ADVEUSITY MA Kll-3 IJ3 ACQUAINTED VPIT.II STRANG'S
BEDF2I LO S "—A captain in the Bengal Native Infantry,
writing home from Mhaw, says : —" The first night when I
lay down to rest, I ,wat between a young lady, who had
-only arrived in the country three months, and somemarried
soldier's wifo. I dared not stir, for I feared I night put
my foot into the young lady's mouth, or into that of the
other. In other circumstances, however daglatful ittn'ght
he to me to be in the priping‘lity of the fair sex, I consi-
dered myself in the meet disagreeable qiundary at the
time. Had any one uaacquained with our eitaation passed
by, we should have been taken for members of the Mormon
school."

A Cna.n WITH A GOLDEI Tconr.—At the end of
the six•eenth century terrible excitement was caused by a
report that a zolden tooth had appeared in the jaw of a
child horn in Silesia. The rumour, on being investigated
turned out to be too true. It became impossible to
conceal it from tho public; and the miracle was soon
known all o'er Germany, where, being looked on ss a
mysterious omen, universal anxiety was felt as to what
this new thing might 2itan. Its real import was firs'
unfolded by D. Horst. In 1595, tLis eminent physician
published the result of hie researches, by which it appears
that, at the birth of the child, the sun was in cojtinctiwn
with Saturn, at the sign Aries. The event, therefore,
though supernatural, was by no means alarming. The
gold'en tooth was the precursor of a golden age,in
use Emperor would drive tho Turks from Christendom,
and lay the foundation of an empire that would last for
thousands of years. And ale, says Horst, is clearly
alluded to by Daniel in his well-known second c`iapter,
where the prophet speaks of a statue with a golden
head.—Buckle's History of Civilization in England,
Tol 1.