Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-11 00:00:00

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vomica, and others, varying from 1 to 11- per cen
I have given the principal, making 891 per eent..l,3io
ther—opiiim, arsenic, sulphuric acid, prussic 30/:
acid, corrosive sublimate, and mercurial preparato.o. :,,
That, refers to the years 1837-8, and I will adYcrtilof
a period 20 years later. I find in the last report
Registrar-General that -•`‘ Four hundred and one p
died annually of poisoning, and in nearly 118 case'eciis,
poison is not specified. Opium is the princil:4l sPeO
poison ; by that, drug 125 persons are said to qv ot:
—namely, 89 by laudanum, 34-by opium, and. 2
phia. Thirty-four persons were killed annuallY t„rotO
acid, including 15 by -the essential oil hi bittlr 104;
Arsenic stands next, and to it 27 annual deaths are ressio $
The salts of lead kill 23 persons annually, the 1;+1
mercury kill 10, oxalic acid kills 13, sulphuric fpg
of vitriol) kills 15, persons annually. The cicat7, frd,
these, poisons are understated, as the 113 ilea,' V
unspecified poisons are chiefly caused by theme' P-dei!
some cases the poisoning is not discovered, and theme
is ascribed, erronopusly,lo,disease. The-deaths bY 0
are murders, manslaughters, suicides, or acci4elitsa",
would be greatly diminished if solid opiam,l3:ll,
prussic acid, essential oil of bitter almonds, arscrir .0011
of lead, corrosive sublimate; oil of 'vitriol; an
acid were- only retailed upon the production pf 3 e
;
prescription. 'Quack medieineS, oterdoSes, arid iniof
medicines are stated to have caused 183 deattts

DOCK RATING

(From the Manchester Guardian.)-
A bill, promoted by the Corporation and the ' g
Liverpool, is befOre thelfouse,d- `Comineris4—therai
reading to be proposed on Wednesday next
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the poor and:other local rate; the Mersey °
Harbour Board in respect of the docks and other Pi
belonging to them in the parish of Liver Pool
where ; also to extinguish the partial exemption
Liverpool Corporation from rateability to the rt e
poor. The Liverpool dock estate has ever been
from the payment. of poor and other local
according with various acts of Parliament, ana
grounds stated by Lord Tenterden in the case
the Inhabitants of Liverpool." On the author
faith of these acts, more than twelve millior°
have been borrowed and expended in reclaia
below high watermark, and in mak
land) the present doeki ;* and the mortgage-en
raised on. security of the dock rates

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upwards of six millions sterling. By an' iet P'
1857, the management and 'Control of the Liverpc
were vested in the ,Mersey Docks and Harbour Boa
ing previously been managed by a committee 10
control of; the Liverpool Corporation. By the

the town dues (prevronsly levied by the C-Orpor4;
applied in payment of the local expenses of 1)
were vested in the Mersey Docks and ,llarboothi
and directed to be applied only for the benefit of
and, as compensation, a million and a halt sterli
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secured to the Corporation, and charged on the;

commerce of. the country.
made to set aside this le

:Now- an insidious
;gislative" settlement,

pose upon commerce otlier local,

ad still ill'

iionable rates. Last year, such an attemPt.:b;
but the bill never reached a second rea
present one would tax the commercial e°
to the extent of probably £40,000 a yoart,
Bemire to the inhabitants of Liverpool their e
from due local taxation. The docks arc not P.
taxation_ for such purposes

nally w3tc,

strand, they were wholly unrateabl; for. the Du
this reclaimed strand the Liverpool Corporatiolle
trustees) paid to themselves (as representatives 0
payers) more than a million sterling; its re(
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having been first effected out of rates
shipping. The formation of the, dock*
fore, has not only not displaced rateable
has enormously increased the rateable v3ltil
adjacent property. Nay, it is to the el
on its docks of the millions raised by

trade of the country, that Liverpool owes
great wealth and prosperity. Out of the doe,' 0,
present, the dock streets are paved and the "
maintained at a cost of more than £20,000 Ye„,.,
under this bill it is now sought to make coel",:e
shipping contribute largely to the local exPell',
borough. Nor is there any good case in theii
pressure and weight of the local burden. :t

toitants of Liverpool do not know what
borough rate,—and their poor rate is on
the pound ; that of Manchester being 4s ;
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