Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-22 00:00:00

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PRICES.

POSTING BILLS. Per 100. Perlin*,
Demy, 21i inches by 18, in one c010ur....55. 6d.. es 1 os. Oct.
Ditto ditto in two colours.. 7s. Od.. £3 58.0 d.
Double Crown, SO inches by 20, In one c010ur...65. 6d...;e3 Os. Od.
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Ditto ditto In two colours.. gs. 6d.. £4 ss. Oci,,
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25 Ditto ditto In two colours..., 4-1 28 6d.
50 Ditto ditto
ditto.
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Ditto two colours
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Per 100.
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Ditto, ditto, In two colours. 2,. Od.
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Ditto, ditto, in two colours... 2s. 6d.
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Ditto, ditto, in two colour.. Ss. Od.
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REPORTS OF MEETINGS, SERMONS, PAMPHLETS, AN
EVERY DESCRIPTION OP BOOKWORK, ace., kg.,
AT TEICIEB EQUALLY MODSRATE,
fildaked is *stile Detrairseeedln 1117 ober Mu •

SMITHSONIA_N HOTEL
BRoi DWAY, Corner of HOUSTON-STREET, New Yong.
Named In honour of the Um's°ruse Irurrirottos.
Established at WASHINGTON, by the U. S. CONGRESS,
With Funds bequeathed by JAMES SMITHSON, of ENGLAND,
Haying the Friendship of the OFFICERS of the NATIONAL INSTITUTION
Is conducted on the EUROPEAN PLAN.
CHAS. H. SMITH.

that such exhibitions as that which we etract
an account from the Post should be prevented,
and we think the cheapest way would be to
transport the man from the country for ever with
the least possible delay. Society cannot permit
that a husband should go about proclaiming that
his wife conspired to murder him, by the most
unnatural concert with his own children, and
that the wife should also be at large denouncing
him as the perpetrator of a murder, the enormity
of which chilled every heart. One or other of
of them is a criminal, steeped in the blackest
guilt ; and that the law should be thus openly
frustrated, and a living memorial of its inefficiency
exposed to contact with men in their daily paths,
cannot but bring our institutions into contempt,
and expose the weakness of the provisions which
are in force for the protection of the lives of our

citizens."
We have heard it rumoured that SPOLLEN,
failing to create effect in Dublin, and "draw
crowded houses," has determined to visit Liver-
pool. The morbid feelings of the inhabitants
are not so low as to permit them to countenance
such exhibition, and we predict for him a failure
more marked than that of the city of Dublin.

We learn from the Lancet that the Sanitary
Commissioners have just been 'paying a visit to

Liverpool, with a view of testing the quality and

wholesomeness of the various commodities sold

by grocers and others for human use. It would
appear from the report (although the very reverse
had long been the general opinion) that the Liver-
pool tradesmen are remarkably honest in their
dealings, and that their goods are remarkably
pure and free from adulteration, for out of sixteen

samples of arrow root examined, only two ap-
peared to have been at all adulterated,all tha others
were genuine; even in the two exceptional cases a
small portion of potatoe flour was found mixed with
the arrowroot, nothing more. Then there were no
sloe leaves in the tea—no sand in the sugar—
nothing save chicory in the coffee—no wood rasp-
ings in the snuff, or cabbage leaves in the 'bacca.
No yellow ochre in the mustard, P. D. in the
pepper, or gypsum in the flour. In short, our
grocers, bakers, and flour dealers all appear in a
fair way of getting to Heaven, and the
very worst amongst them might even ven-
ture to open shop at Bagdad or Da-
mascus, without any risk of the Cent's
sending a spike through his ears and pinning him
up, like a flitch of bacon, against his own door
post. It is so far satisfactory for us to know that
we are so very well cared for in regard to the

food we eat. It is only deeply to be regretted that

the same vigilant watchfulness does not extend to
the water we drink. We have inspectors of beef
and mutton, of fish and fowl, and the result of

their vigilance is recorded in our police intelligence
every week. We constantly read of persons being
fined for selling, or offering for sale, unsound or
diseased meat ; dressing slink veal ; blowing lamb,
and a variety of other malpractices; while, as re:
gards fish, we believe that scores of tons have, this
season been condemned as unfit for human use
and destroyed. All this is so far good, as showing
the care the authorities bestow in checking the
sale of unwholesome food, and if they had only
shown a like commendable zeal in regard to water,
they would have deserved the lasting gratitude
of the town at large. Unfortunately this they have
not hitherto done. Bad beef is easily detected,
so are rotten herrings, and no one is com-
pelled to use them. This is not the case
with water. In the first place it may be
deleterious, nay, actually poisonous, and yet
escape detection Until its effac's begin to
be felt, while all are not only compelled to
use it, but to pay for it, however nauseous it may
be, or however detrimental to health it may niti-

mately prove.
It is a sheer farce and nothing else for our
Health Committee to appoint inspectors to hunt
out and punish the vendors of unwholesome food,
while they tacitly sanction the wholesale vending
of poison water. Why should the petty delinquent
be punished while the giant delinquent is allowed

to go scot free? Undoubtedly if justice had been
evenly meted out, some of the unprincipled Riving-
ton Pike gang would long since have expiated
their disgraceful crimes on the pillory—a gang
who have robbed the Town to the tune
of a million and a half sterling, and
at the same time polluted their pure wter
water into the bargain. We would ask the
Water Committee how long they intend
permitting trinity in unity—their Engineer—to
tamper with our water supply in the manner they
have hitherto done ? We are unwilling to think
So ill of the Water Committee as to suppose that
they are actually in collusion with these parties,
and that they are ailing and abetting them in
their nefarious proceedings. And yet what are we
to think ? The only other conclusion we can come
to is, perhaps, the right one. The committee, or
the majority, at all events, are just so many puppets
in the hands of those who pull the wires ; the
actual masters being those who should be servants
When the Water Committee undertook to supply
the town with water, they pledged themselves to
the inhabitants that they would furnish an article
superior to anything which had been previously
supplied, and at a less cost. It is hardly necessary
to say that the public placed implicit reliance on
these promises—how have they been redeemed ?
Let the Chairman of the Water Committee answer
the question. For half a century Liverpool was
supplied with pure spring water. If there were oc-
casional defects in the mode of supply, that was the
result of mismanagement, and was not caused by
any deficiency in the springs, as subsequent events
clearly proved. For several years before the Com-
mittee took possession of the work 9, it was plainly
demonstrated that there was abundance of water
for every purpose, including ample for extinguish-
ing fires, &a. Since that period, upwards of
3,000,000 gallons daily have been added from
Green-lane, a quantity little short of the whole of
the previous supply. A gross supply amply suffi-
cient, with proper management, for all the require-
ments of the populittion, Dut the Pike must be

THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22. 1857