The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-27 00:00:00

THE SMOKE NUISANCE.

TO THE EDITOR Or THE NORTHERN TIMES.
min your article in Wednesday's paper. on
Ilbject. you write, " The Smoke Committee
effectually suppressed the nuisance, as if by a
itele, anti they can now afford to repose upon
laurels ; for there is, in reality, nothing for
to do." Now, this is apt to lull the c-mmittee
pwhile their work is only half done. The
er of this article must have written this in
ranee of the smoke of this town ; for while
;' Of the minor smoke nuisances have got a
I,K, the greatest smoke nuisance in this, or any
town, still revels, like a giant, in his strength,
'i4rently setting at d: fian,.e all the sanitary
1)f this kingdom: Need I say this is the Mersey
at the South end of the town, where is
..seen three tint and about twenty short,
6's, vomiting forth, day and night, a constant
Sion of huge clouds of smoke, and this, be it
%eyed, of the worst kind—black, choking.
Bof the most offensive. smell, poisoning and
etting everything within a long range, and
sting one of the finest spots on this side the
‘3T, for marine residences, quite unfit, for any
3 live in; thus injuring health, vegetation,
'fonerty.-
,f44lher towns, no forges are allowed ; they are
ere they should be, some miles distant from
And that suCh a nuisance should ever have
134nctioned here is the wonder of ail, and par-
-I.'ly of visitors from other parts of the king
qi; and why it is allowed, the Health and
Committee alone can or should tell,
th
„ -eY alone are responsible for their con-
:" at such a monster nuisance. While,
'!"re, Mr Editor, you are ever wide
YC to all known abuses, I hope that you will
Vt allow the smoke committee to go'to rest and
4e upon their laurels" until they have relieved
f ~"kod and poisoned inhabitants of the South
Who tvill for your advocircy of their
,just
'rtever sir
ard you, as I do.—Yor obliged
serv,:nt. A SUCuSCRIBER.
"11)001, 2,:ird

THE RIVDNIGTON WATER

Hu
- CHAIRMAN OF THE LIVERPOOL WATER

CO.II.IMITTEE.
,'"On the 4th day of Fobruary last there was
.4t"(I by depwation, to the Town Council of
•

't),)l.. a memorial on the water quesft)n, signed

:\veen three an four thousand, ratepayers,
thtt there might he lai I down it seco•id
by means of which the R vington
be supplied for cleansing, purposes, an
.11 water retained unpolluted, and fit for do
(Ise.
~
te.l.'own Council, at their monthly meeting,
it; I matter t ) your committee for
IC• This was many weeks ago, during the
iill4,son of the year, when the Rivingtoo water
(tornoaratively harniless, and it was hoped
ii.vourable and speedy decision would hove
'lll'ved at, and the promoters of the Innvirial
J,ttille necessity of further agitation on the
ason when we may anticipate warm weather
advancing The evil complained of is
t At'esserl, and the promoters of the memo-
,
L fiat the health of the inhabitants will be
R,Lvjeo,,iardised by a longer continuance of the
%',.4l7ingt(;ll, water.
therefore elziously.await your 101-ig delayed
'tit`l,4l the subject, _and desire to be informed
'11141"S' may expect tii." mune remain, sir,
lv
ours, ToufAsi COPE,
4per, Hon. Sec. to '-he Promoters.
t OA, 24th April.

14:114 RaCOVERY OF GOLD DUST. —A bag of gold
It ahoui £240, was lost at Southampton after it
'‘.ol-from the Atrato, on the 17th instant. It WAS
reed in the Southampton Dick on Thursday. It
‘17)„4 that the thief, after secreting it, had not had
'4o,;:,.ltlity of carrying it off.
114 ',outs Lucien Bonaparte is still busily occupied
4istic studies in the
.Barque country. He has
04‘"11 le the Basqee provinces of France and Soain
l4Pellt dialects of the Basque language, while hitherto
SI I. were kn -tern. To prove his discoveries, the
Atli have the G-spel of St. Matthew printed in the
Nro, but only 250 copies will be taken.
btu AUTO DA-Fa —A. body of the itinerant
'Ng alonks lately invaded the town of Grasse, in the
y'tit Of the Var, and there enacted a scene which
kitlleelY be credbed as having occurred in France in
f,e,etitury, although if the venue we-e in the
Church or in Spain there would be nothing
11
t 4 to the story. After a preachment of mire ser-
J n were ever hrard at a scotch " Holy Fair," a
tit 4tor, one Father Archane, mounted the pulpit
'cirtitt°l3,eeed a furious discourse against philosophers
4 'ee writers. Not only Alexander Dumas. Eugene
Its Sand, and Balzac. but even M Thiers
tit st, •
th -10 e, were denounced by name. 'Among neve.
be'Yes and Siecle were stigmatised as unfit for
teadiog. At the conclusion of a fierce invee-
ttilcink called upon his hearers. as they valued
salvation, to deliver up to the pari.h priest,
hours, all books, pamphlets, journals, and
t4l);B4l,srs whatsoever not approved by the bishop
‘le.4,ut be in their possession. Pursuant to this
,
~"Irge proportion of the population of the town
tkti light to the church door, and the-e, through an
it ail,r3f.'"?vided by the cure, they furtively threw down
ill literature as an unfirtunate mother de-
-101. " offspring in the box of a foundling
(1;, The next day which happened to be Holy
,N,Aa ReAtid auto da fe was celebrated in one of
11,,5,.- Places of the town. The devoted books and
bite were parked upon a large funereal pile. Two
'll-tartine's "Jocelyn," one of La Chute d'nn
set of M. Thiers' History of the
ova " very many volumes of Balzaz, Dumas,
tt 1I .11e
due, a copy of M. Senator Merimee's
'4-jelleet 8 'work, and Jules Simon's "Religion ,1
~Esd remarked among the collection, which
IN „" lnimenBe number of plays, vaudevilles, and
pi v,"'licatiors. At nine in the evening, all being
c•ergv. preceded by two infant chorister:,
114,ding a silver cross, covered with a black veil,
; ,44,k Proceseien to the place of execution. Some
which had been brought in at the 1„9 tl t, Were carried -by needles in baskets hung
The cortege marched slowly and silently
tlultrenea and WaX candles. The beadles having
Per 4.km-a into the condemns". mess of books
I,ets,,,i t the holy fathers immediately eat fire to the
it
the flames burnt up high the cure chanted
I°e The majority of the spectato's were
41111,11 'rant of the moire of the entertainment,
jrebably have thought it a better show
8a capuchins been burnt instead of the
ibao,ir. few made fun of the proceedings, and
ish re "8 questions to the priests as they passed
eaotil lanot be the hest doubt that priests of this
)ittjvant the power to burn Lamartine, Thiers,
'telet) &c., inhtead of their books.