Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-21 00:00:00

,ple is held up as one which .Liverpool would do well to

Newlands," it is said," can do for Liver-
pool what Mr. Burns has done for Ely.". Bat while doing
no more than justice to
,Ely, less than . justice is done
to Liverpool; for in'the very same period in which the
saving of seven per 1,003 was effected in Ely, the

)f life in -Liverpool amounted to nine in 1,000
of the population. In other words, 5,600 lives, or 800 yearly,

saving

were saved in Liverpool more than would have been
saved had the improvement of Liverpool been
only in the ratio of that of Ely, so highly commended.
Reversing the language of the report, it might be asked :
Why cannot Mr. Burns do for Ely what Mr. Newlands has
done for Liverpool ?

Here, also, it is right to state, on the highest authority,
that the object of the distinguished writer of the report in
question was not to say anything in disparagement of Liver-
pool, butrather to stimulate to still greater improvement.
Bnt, in discussing these matter, it should never be forgotten
that Liverpool was the first town in the kingdom to set the
example of sanitary improvement, taking precedence even of
the Government measure in this respect, and that, on this
zard to the peculiar difficulties to

account, as well as in r
be

overcome, and the large sacrifices which have been
made for the purpose, it is justly entitled to a generous
W. H. DUNCAN,
Medical Officer of Health.

consideration.

NEWSPAPER PRESS FUND.—The report of the Newspaper
Press Fund, just carried, states that the number of members
now enrolled is 88 ; that Lord Campbell has consented to
become vice-president ; that the Lord Mayor has accepted
the office of the hon. solicitor, and that a vacancy in the
committee, -caused by the resignation of Mr. Williams, has
been filled up by Mr. Stirling Coyne. Donations to the
funds have been made by Lord St Leonard's, C. W. Dyke,
EN.., G. F. Smith, Esq., and Sir Macdonald Stephenson.
The members are called upon by the committee to consider
the propriety of forming two separate funds—the Members'

Fund and the Benevolent Fund, the latter to be formed by
donations, and the former by subscriptions of the members,
and this question was, by the second quarterly meeting, on
the let ult., referred back to the committee. The first
annual meeting of the subscribers ►ill be held at the
Freemason's Tavern on April 2nd, when the question of the
two funds will be taken into consideration.

COWES. —THE DEZTII OF THOMAS WHITE, ESQ., the
founder of the dockyards at this town, has created a great
sensation here, although his failing strength had caused it
to be expected for some time. No man has for such a
continued period done more towards the prosperity of the
own than he, by the business which naturally follows where
a large number of men are constantly employed, and by
attracting vessels and work to the port by the accommoda-
tion which he provided, and by the frame of his skill in
his profession. He was a liberal subscriber to the charitable
and religious institutions of the neighbourhood, and many
are the widows and distressed whose hearts have been glad-
dened and homes made happy by his cheerful and ready
assistance. He had retired from taking an active part in
the business for some years, leaving the management to his

Messrs. John and Robert White, who employ at
present about 400 men and apprentices. After being con-
fined to his room for about a mouth, he peacefnlly expired,
in the 86th year of his ay. The esteem in which he was

universally held was testified by the shutters, which were
kept up the whole day by nearly every shopkeeper in the
town, and by the numerous flags borne half-mast high on
lay last, the day of his funeral.-ITampshire Inde-

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)TING win! INTENT, &C

)11 Thursday, Fraucis Powell

Stafford

15th of November last, feloniously discharged a pistol at

lenry Alldritt, with in
The ca

tent to (TO him a grievous bodil

appears‘to have arisen out of the recent
:nisunderstandings in the boot and shoe trade, which have
lately ari3an in the district, where that staple manufacture
is• carried on, owing. to the wish, on the part of the masters,
to introduce machinery for sewing purposes. A Trade

used on the part 'of the workmen in opposi-
tion to this movement, and it would seem that such of
their body as refused to join were subjected to much
,oner is a bootmaker by trade, -residing
Al was one of those who refused to join the
,lie evening of the day in question the proseen-
lso a bootmaker, and a member of the society
J adjoining the prisoner's residence,
s his brother, when, in consequence of

nion ova

'he pris

Union. U
t )r, whd is

was in the yar

)iitething tha

transpired, the prisoner appeared
said he should like to beat his
head. Alldritt called out to him

at th

t hat he had better corn
told him that he and
uld " hi;

end do it, when the pdsoner

tter go
Almost
at the
was alleged,

away, or I
immediate'

afterwar

companions had b
11-their brains out
presented him.=
he discharged,

hat he heard shots whistle past hi.
V.;O accAPltliPS_ T 1

Ormalit

vas elicited that, the prisoner had in
been hung in effigy, with all the mock
11-

)lemnity of a x