Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-25 00:00:00

HE ILTH C OMMIITEE.

The usual weekly meeting of th's committee was held
at half past two o'clock yesterday, in the Town Hall, Mr.
Alderman Dover in the chair.

The other members present, were—Me.4srs. Beckwith,
Shell, lifeGuffie, Crdsthwaite, Johnson, Anthony, Ilaydock,
and Rvberteon Gladstone.

The minutes of the lest meeting were read and con
firmed.

lIEILTII OF TEM Tows.
The Medical Officer of Health reported, that in the week
ending on the 19. h instant, the deaths registered in the
borough were 237, against 272 in the previous week,
and as avarag) of 232 in corresponding weeks of former
years, excluding those of epidemic cholera. In the parish
the deaths last week ware 154, and in the out-townships 83.
Tne zymotic diseases caused 97 deaths, of which 47 were
from d;arrhcea, being three less than in the previous week,
but 15 mare than the average; 15 were from scarlatina,
12 frcm typhus, 8 from pooping cough (less than in any
week of the previous five nt• nths) ; 3 from choler a, 3 from
small-pox (two unvaccinated), one from measles, one from
croup, ono front uphill., and one from Impure. From
diseases of the lungs, the deaths were 39, being six less
than in the week pr ceeding. Two males, aged 29 and 39,
died from delirium tremens. Of the 47 who died from
diarrbces, 41 were below two years of age. Of the 237
died from all causes, 162 were children, and 75 adults.
The mean temperature was 63 8-10 degrees, being more
than six degrees above the average. On Thursday, it was
nearly 10 degrees ab we the average. The only day on
-which rain tell, was on Monday, when 4 100ihs of an
inch were collected.

The Borough Engineer, Building Surveyor, and Inspector
of Naifaaces reported various particulars of the operations
in their several departments during the wed:, from which
it appeared that 123 nuisances complained of by inhabi-
tants had been inspected, aryl means taken to remedy
them ; 1,710 houses in the nnhealliest districts; con ain-
ing 5,931 apartments and 417 cellars, had been put under
examination, with the view of improving their sanitory
condition.

TREASURER'S S CAPP.

The TREASURER (Mr. White) reported that the duties
of his office are greatly on the increase, arsing
partly from the erection of new houses within
the borough, and partly from the introduction of
the system requiring owners of small property to com-
pound for the rates thereon. It is necessary that.
some re-arrangement of the in-door department be made,
and he, therefore, submitted, for the consideration of the
Collection of Rates Joint Bub• Committee, a lists showing
the present and pronnEed
In the case of Mr. Wilson, the treasurer recommended
a reduction of salary, lighter duties being assigned to him,
in consideration of the state of his health.
The annual expense of the present staff is £1,638, and
the expense of the proposed staff will amount to £1,678,
showing an increase of £4O. •
The report was adopted.
This concluded the business.

At LEWN AZ COMPANY'S, Ranelagh-street,-
BOYS are CLO HED from the Ages of Six to 1 wenty Years.

A RECENT C'oevraevenny.—The London csrrespondent
of the Bury Guardian (a Tory newspaper) thus gossips
whir his Lancastrian readers on the rubj, et of a recent
war of words, in which a writer who signed himself " G.
T." is thought to have had the best of i::—'• The Tupper
case, which I noticed in last week's letter hoe increased
in magnitude. A first-rate young satirist and poet at'acked
he proverbial philrsopher in the Morning Star with such
clever banter and such rich pAro.ly, that Tupper, kokirg
to his laurels, attempted to ars ver in the Daily News.
He made metters worse; squib after squib was fired at
him, and Mar:in Farquhar at last retired, leaving Lis
poetry (!) to the mercy of wicked critics, and himself to be
laughed from the field. A man like Mr. 'Dinner, or any
poet, who rhymes about everyaiing, must occasionaly
please somebody; but one who, when our hearts are
bleeding fur tt e w:ongs of cur mimeo, mounts, as it
were, upon the shoulders of cur indignation to bawl forth
his empty ballad verses—whi) gains popularity by the
occasion, inste,d of making the occasion popular, is
simely bee n and, blatant when he thinks he is poetic,
and, instead of leading the people's mind, merely reaches
with a feeble vice the great roar of thundered indignation
which the nation long ago gave forth."
AN AataniceN TRASEDY.—Taz Boston Rerald of Fest
8, gives an account of a shocking tragedy which heppened
at Glaucester the day before, by which a husband and vvire
have lost their livs. At about four o'clock on that'after..
noon' Mrs. Elizabeth Davis, wife of Mr. Samuel Davis,
lent her residence at Feist Gloucester in company with her
two sisters and Mrs. Douglass, for a walk to Siyward's
pasture, a short distance from the hoes>, for the purpose
or picking berries. Mr. Davis soon followed, and after
they bad got into the pasture he deliberately drew a small
sized five chamber Colt's revolver and fired at his wife.
The b,l/ took effect in the left side, just below the breast,
passing throu-Th the heart and out at the b9ck. She in-
stantly fell dead. One of the sisters, Miss Ackley, was
near by, and rushed to Mrs. Davis and said, " Speak tome,
* sister." She received no avower. Mr. Davis is the mean-
time, walked off a rod o: two, and Miss Ackley ran to him
-sad said. "You have abet my sister." He replied, "Dora',
interfere," and fired the sec ntd time. The ball took off ct
in the left arm. Mr. Davis, thou being about seventy-live
feet from his wife, deliberately put the p'.stol to his own
breast and fired. The ball took effec. near the heat and
lodged. He fell on his face, and expired without a wad
from his lips.' It is sated by another Boston' paper that
the character of the woman was not good; that she spent
three nights at the encampment at Islcwbiryplrt with
other person., heving been escorted thither by a young
man. Mr. Davis bad beet) absent some three week or so
on a fishing Inner, end returned somewhat ti exp..ctely,
to fiad his wife absent. Becoming acqu:ieted with the
state of affairs on her return on Saturday, he had a qu-rrel
with her, and they deliberately planned her punishment
and his own death.

LEWIS & COMPANY'SAnet
BOYS aAt re CLOTHED 'rom the Age 3, of R
Siz toarelagh-, Tr,-enty, Years.