The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-03 00:00:00

TOXTETH-PARK LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH

The ordinary monthly meeting of this board was held at
nine o'clock yesterday, in the Public Offices, Park-road,
Mr. Alpass in the chair. The other members present were
Messrs. Rathbone. Wocdhead, Hughes, Briscoe, Bonit,
Rogers, Urquhart, and Dania.
Tb e minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed
The proceedings of the Finance Committee comprised a
recommendation to purchase a number of lamp-posts to be
placed in Aigburth-road, Grove-park, and St. Michael's ham-
let, fir the sum of £lO. After some conversation the recom-
mendation was referred back for farther consideration, and
the other proceedings were confirmed. The Sewerage
Committee recommended the purchase of 408 yards of
land for the improvement of the entrance to Grove-park, in
accordance with the plans submitted by Mr. Newlands. They
also recommended the board to adopt and carry out the plan
of Mr. Newlands for the sewerage of Parkfield-road,
and Lark-lane by an outlet shore through Church-lane, at
right angles, and running nearly parallel with it to the
river, the estimated cost, including the raising of the road,
being £2,319 5s ; and also that the widening of Smith-
down-lane be proceeded with by the committee, in conjunc-
tion with the Health Committee.

The Chairman stated, in reply to Mr. Rogers, that the
assessible property on which the amount could be raised,
was £lO,OOO, and that as the payment wit.; to extend over
a considerable period, a rate of 6d in the nound
would procure more than was required. As to the taking
down and rebuilding of the wall in Smithdown-lane,
it would take £lOO, not including the removal of the rope-
work sheds. They were in a veay delapidated state, but
they should be removed, and as they would also have to
compensate the owner for l ss of business, and as that
would cost a great deal of money, Mr. Newlands recom-
mended the postponement of that part of the work. The
report was unanimously confirmed.
A. letter was read enclosing proceedings of a meeting of
magistrates at Preston, relative to the inspection of
lodging houses, and suggesting that the police
be appointed to act as such inspectors. The
suggestion was declined, Mr. Williams having undertaken
the duty whenever it was required that he should act.
Mr. Rauh gave notice, that at the next meeting of the
board he would move the following resolution :—" That
it is desirable that the rural district of Toxteth.park should
be incorporated in the 133 rough of Liverpool, and that it
be referred to the Finance Committee to consider and re-
port upon the best means of cam ing out the same."
The board then adjourned.

BOYS' CLOTHING MADE WITH GREAT TASTE
At LEWIS & COMPANY'S. Ranelairh street.

NEW ZEALAND FLAX rom experiments which have
been made recently, it has been clearly established that the
New Zealand flax, when properly prepared, is equal in
strength to the beat qualities of Russian or Italian hemp,
arid would successfully compote in the manufacture of
cordage with that material. At some trials made in one
of Her Majesty's dockyards, by order of the Board of
Admiralty, it was found that cordage made from the New
Zealand flax, bore a much greater strain than some of a
similar size made from the hemp usually employed. In
this else, as in the finer descriptions of manufacture, the
great difficulty to be overcome is the removal, at a
modercte cost, of the large quantity of resinous matter,
which, in spite of the ineffectual mechanical or chemical
means hitherto employed, serves to increase the bulk, while
it adds nothing to the strength of the rope. There are no
grounds for supposing that the mechanical genius or me-
chanical sc'ence of this country will be unable to do upon
a commercial scale for the phornium tenax, what the nail
and the shell and a few hours steeping in cold water once
accomplished for the few domestic wants of the native
tribes of New Zealand.—Australian and New Zealand
THE HONDURAS TREATlES,.—lntelligence from a source
perfectly well informed on the subject, enables us to state
that the treaty of amity, commerce, and friendship beta/eel
Great Britain and Honduras has been accepted by the
government and ratified by the legislature of the latter
Kate. This treaty embodies the " additional article,"
guaranteeing the Honduras Interoceanic Railway "against
interruption, seizure, or unjust confiscation," from what-
soever quarter the attempt may proceed. It also guarantees
its neutrality, and constitutes the ports at both of its
extremities, viz. : Puerto Cabello and the Bay of
Fonseca, as " free ports," and ;provides that the road
" shall be open and fr e to all nations, and on (qua!
terms." The convention ceding the Bay Islands to Hon-
duras has not yet been acted on, and is still in the hands
of the legislative committees to which it was referred.
The President of Honduras is oppose.] to its acceptance,
and expressed himself strongly against it in his message to
the legislative chambers. The second convention terminat-
ing the Mosquito protectorate, abolishing Mosquito pre-
tensions within the territory of Honduras, and providing
for the adjustment of all British claims against that State
through the medium of arbitrators, is also in the hands of
the legislative committee, but will no doubt be finally
ratified.—Yew York Herald.
TUE HIGH Patcas or PROVISIONS.—The Dublin Mercan-
tile Advertiser says—" There are many circumstances cal-
culated to give an impulse to trade, to relax the extreme
severity, so to speak, of prices, and to ease the unusual
pressure upon the resources of consumers, yet business
continues exceedingly slack, and prices renasin at such a
high range as to prove a powerful incentive to the most
rigid economy. The weather is exceedingly fine. It could
not be more seasonable—more cheering to the hopes of
the farmer—if it were bespoken to suite his views. Corn
and provisions are teeming into the great English ports,
particularly Liverpool, in immense quantities. Within
the last few days upwards of 70,000 boxes of bocon, or
about £1,200,000 worth, have been con,igned to Liverpool,
houses from the United States ; and though the general
opinion among those who are qualified to judge of the
matter, is that there are many reasons and much room for a
considerable fall,' the article is as precious a commodity in
the pantries of housekeepers as if we were wholly depend-
ing upon our own r.ther limited supply of it. Neither
does the glorious weather with which we are so seasonably
blessed, nor the fair promise of the crops, nor the foreign
arrivals, which are considerable, seem to affect the rates of
grain, nor to check, in any degree, the upward tendency of
the markets."

EtINCC NAPOLEON'S INTENDED WIPE.—The approach-
ng marriage of Priace Napoleon has become another
fertile subject or gossip and speculation. The young
princess who is spoken of as about to share his honours is
well known by all oar water drinkers of the different Eau
in Germany. She has for some time been considered one
of the best partis on the continent, and has only been
suffered to remain thus keg unmarried by the anxiety
experienced by her relatives to relieve her o a slight
nervous malady by which she was seized during con-
valescence after scarlet fever some years ago, and from
which she is only now just free. This malady which had
resisted the efforts of the first physicians of all countries,
and which has only just yielded, apparently, to Time, the
greatest physician of all, possessed the extraordinary
feature of presenting to the eye of the invalid an insect of
g7gantic size and unknown slyciP's, which had just
alighted on the hem of her dress. The nervous movement
to brush away the unpleasant host constituted the only
symptom of this strange malady visible to the beholder;
but the distress occasioned to the patient by this fatiguing
tic can be well imagined. IL was unt until last March that
the young princess was delivered, as if by enchantment,
from her troublesome visitor, and her delight at remaining
one whole evening without once beholding him knew no
bounds. Since the day he disappeared, he has troubled
her no more, nor, according to the opinion of the greatest
French authority in nervous complaints, is he ever likely
to annoy her more. Such a visitation as this would have
been regarded as a case of witebraft in the middle ages,
and would have, no doubt, led to the untimely death of
many a poor harmless old woman who might have been
observed to gaze on the beauty of the fair princess with
more admiration than ordirt arc.
—Paris correspondence of
eh. Court Journal.