The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-21 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

and wretched of our population, to breathe only
impurity and imbibe disease, at the risk of being
plundered from the almost utter impossibility of any
police surveillance being used for their protection.
Should he step aside from the view of our noble pub-
lic buildings ; should he turn from the survey of the
vast facilities which we have provided for our
commerce, and give a glance into one of these fever-
breeding and contaminating dens, what a contrast
will he see between the enterprise and lavish spirit

with which we have decorated our town and ex-
tended its mercantile advantages, and the utter

...sness displayed in our treatment of the suffer-
-3g human drudges, who have created and are
increasing the wealth which is spread around him.
Every intelligent officer of police could describe
numbers of these lodging-houses, which it is re-
volting, even to those accustomed to such scenes, to
enter ; and every medical man who has written upon
the subject of sanatory regulation, attributes to
them a great portion of the disease and crime which
infest our large towns, and sweep off annually thou-
sands of our population. Speaking of such places,
Lord Ebrington, in a lecture recently delivered be-

fore the members of the Mechanics' Institute at

Plymouth, says

" I cannot read aloud the evidence about the lodging-
houses in which human beings, our brethren of both
sexes, are promiscuously packed, almost as close as the
decks of a slave-ship, in the very room where patients
may be dying of some contagious disease, nay in the very
sheets from which some victim of typhus fever has just
been carried forth to his grave—such evidence as the
Children Employment Commissioners give about the con-
dition of the lower classes at Sheffield for instance, or
Leeds, of their precocious vice or premature decay ; or
what I have beard from eye-witnesses of that of the
chapter property at Westminster. But what must be the
religious and moral consequences of such a state of
things? Can we wonder at the result? I only marvel it
is not worse than it is."

And other witnesses bear out this statement abun-
dantly.

Now, we maintain that a mitigation, at least, of
this evil is quite within our reach ; and that the
authorities of our town, aided with powers from the
Legislature, are the parties to make the effort. it
would be quite possible to erect in various parts of
the town inexpensive buildings, well ventilated, and
supplied with the means of cleanliness, in which our
casual wayfarers might be sheltered for a small
charge, and protected, by proper classification, from
moral and physical contamination. A system of
licensing the houses kept by private individuals,
with proper powers of inspection and limitation of
the numbers accommodated, might also be adopted ;
and care might be taken that all such houses were
made suitable for the purpose, and that such build-
ings as are now used for lodging houses—mere
hovels, unsafe:and filthy—should be disallowed. The
difficulties, we should imagine, could not be great if
resolutely grappled with ; and the expense would be
counterbalanced by the saving caused by the dimi-
nution of crime, which such places generate to a
fesrful amount.

Speaking of such increase of crime, and its source,
the same Noble Lord remarks ;

" Whyshould creatures living so wretchedly fear a change
for the worse? 'They have nothing to lose in this world;
and such is their ignorance that the next has no terrors
for them. Take again the gaol returns of Preston : of-the
prisoners tried for felony, 73, ignorant of the Saviour's
name, were familiar with the histories of Dick Turpin
and Jack Shepherd. A larger:per centagebf the others knew
these histories better than the names of the months of the
year, or the meaning of vice and virtue. Mr. Clay men-
tions a map of the town coloured darker according to the
intensity of filth and squalor, and with the houses marked
on it where criminals had resided, and where epidemics
had caused death ; and sums up the result by saying that
dirt, disease, and crime are concurrent. Read Parent
Duchatelet's account of the dwellings and habits of the
"classes dangereuses" at Paris, and you will only wonder
that the French Revolution was not more sanguinary and
terrible."

An examination into the state of some parts of
our own town would give similar results, which the
records of our police-court would confirm.

We only glance for the present at this subject, for
the purpose of throwing out the hint for others,
more able and influential, to take up. On a future
occasion we may be 'able to afford the public a few
statistics upon the subject.

THE MAYOR AND THE RADICAL PAPERS.

Our contemporaries, the Mercury and Albion, are in
extacies over a supposed error of ours upon the subject
of the grievance trumped up by them against his Worship
the Mayor, and the alleged heaps of tickets which had
been returned and were lying upon the Mayor's table.
We stated that such a thing could not be, as "the invi-
tations" were not at the time issued. The Mercury,
however, retorts, that they were sent out on the 4th and
sth of July ; and the Albion alleges that they were for-
warded ten days before our remarks were written, which
would be on the 4th.

We propose to convince the public that both these great
authorities are in the wrong, and that our statement is
substantially correct. On the 10th of July, (Friday week,)
the Mercury stated that on the day previous (the 9th)
the Committee met to decide upon a selection of persons
to be invited, and that at this meeting the alleged rumpus
took place. How on earth could this Committee meet to
determine who were to be invited if the tickets had gone
out five days previous, according to both his own and the
Albion's statement? We never meant to assert that none
of the invitations were issued.

Our meaning obviously was confined to the invitations
to those parties whose claims the committee had met to
decide upon, and who were said to have taken the conduct
of the mayor in such high dudgeon. This is clear from
the fact that we expressly stated that " Mr. Rathbone
was reminded that many members of the Roman Catholic
Church were already invited, including Mr. Weld, Mr.
Blundell, Mr. Chaloner, and others." The members of
the corporation, the borough and county magistrates, and
a number of the neighbouring nobility and gentry, who
could not be passed over, had indeed had early invita-
tions; and that any of these were likely to be heaped on
the Mayor's table at the time the Mercury was penning
his assertion of the fact (on Thursday the 9th) on ac-
count of a circumstance which took place in a private
committee on that day is very improbable, to say the
least of it.

Substantially, therefore, our statement, although capa-
ble of affording a subject of cavil to some people, was
quite correct ; and the assertions of our contemporaries
are as obviously incorrect.

Lord and Lady Stanley arrived in town, on Saturday,
from Knowsley, Lancashire. Lord George Bentinck
went to town by the same train; his lordship was among
the guests at Knowsley.

Mr. Moore, the active agent at Liverpool of the Lon-
donderry steamers, arrived yesterday from an inspection
of the Maiden City steamer, and he reports tbat the da-
mage sustained from the steamer'slbeing on shore at the
Mull of Galloway is not so serious as was at first antici-
pated. He fully expects that she will be got off next tide,
and that she will resume her place on the station in a few
days. In the meantime the Coleraine and Falcon steam-
ers have been chartered to supply her place.
DEATH OF CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH.—This firm and
uncompromising champion of the truth breathed her last
at Ramsgate in Kent on Sunday the 12th inst. She had
been for two years afflicted with a distressing and painful
disease, but was.able to continue her labours until within
a few days of her death. It pleased God to remove her
at last without pain or suffering: she gradually sank un-
der a total exhaustion of the powers, although able within
ten minutes of her death to speak with confidence of the
hope that was in her. She was perfectly aware of her
approaching end, and after speaking to those around her,
she peaceably closed her eyes at twenty minutes before two
in the afternoon, and resigned her spirit into the hands of
her Saviour. Few have closed a life spent more ardently
in the service of God, and in Promoting the welfare of
their fellow-creatures. It may truly be said, " her works
do follow her." On Wednesday, the 15th, she was in-
terred in Ramsgate churchyard, being followed to the
grave by a large concourse of people anxious to shew re-
spect to her memory. The Rev. Henry Beam's!), who
for many years enjoyed the friendship of the deceased,
read the service over her.

THE LATE llEv. R. P. BUDDICOM.-011 Sunday
week two sermons were preached in the parish church of
St. Bees, on the occasion of the lamented death of the
Rev. R. I'. Buddicom, A.M., late Incumbent of St. Bees,
and Principal of the College there. The Rev. C. W.
Woodhouse, A.M., Theological Lecturer, preached in the
morning, from Heb. xi. 16; and in the afternoon the
Rev. J. Huhee, A. 8., Incumbent of Congleton, from
Rev. xiv, 13. All the studenis in residence, and a con.
siderable number of the inhabitants of the parish, ap.
peared in mourning, as a tribute of respect to the memory
of their lamented Principal and Pastor. On Sunday last
the Rev. J. Jones, Incumbent of St. Andrew's, improved
the melancholy occurrence, by preaching a most affecting
and impressive sermon at St. George's Church, Everton
(so long the scene of Mr. Buddicom's christian exertions),
in the morning; and in the tvening, at his own church in
Renshaw-street. Mr. Jones took for his text the very
appropriate passage, occurring at the 19th, 20th, and 21st
verses, of the 20th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles,
" Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with
many tears and temptations which held me, by the lying
in wait for the Jews : and how I kept back nothing that
was profitable unto you, but have showed you and have
taught you publicly, and from house to house, testifying
both to the Jews and also to the Greeks repentance
toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ."
We believe Mr. Jones was selected to deliver the discourse
from his long intimacy with the lamented deceased, they
having been fellow-labourers, we believe, in the Christian
field for almost the same period. In the course of the
sermon Mr. Jones read a most beautiful letter of con-
dolence, written by Mr. Buddicom (the last act of his
life), to Mrs. Horsfall, on the death of her late most excel-
lent husband, who was Mr. Buddicom's bosom friend
from early life, and who was removed from this world
only a very short period before him.

COUNCIL

MEETING

Yesterday"morning, a special council was held in the
Council Chamber, to agree upon an address to his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, on his intended visit to the town.
At eleven o'clock, his worship the Mayor took the
chair, and there was a full attendance of the members.

The Town-Clerk having read the summons calling the

Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE rose, and said he would ven-
ture to suggest that no address should be brought forward

or agreed to on the r
such had been the cu

,n. He was aware that
was one which enabled

the public to forestall the Council, and to have the matter
so long before them that a good deal of the effect of the
address would be destroyed. He would therefore sug-

gest, that the committee, which were at present making
for the reception of his Royal Highness,
powered to draw up the address. It might

THE ROYAL ATERSEY YACHT CLUB.

On Saturday, the sailing match far the Grand Chal-
lenge Cup, value £lOO, and the Ladies' purse of 50
guineas added, took place in the outward channels of our
river. The purse, an elegant piece of needle-work, and
its contents, are taken by the winning boat of the day;
the cup must be won two years consecutively by the same
boat before it can be bona fide claimed by the owner of
the winning boat, at the second time of her successful
sailing.

The Prince, City of Dublin Co.'s steam-ship, com-
manded by Captain Bezley, was engaged for t

member

started about ten o'clock in the forenoon fro
Pier, with a goodly company of ladies and gentlemen,
the former numbering about fifty. A capital quadrille
and brass band was on board.

Ile race,
mthePi

The course was from New Brighton to the Bell Buoy ;
thence to the Northwest Lightship, a double run round
the last two points, and thence back to the place of
starting. This is what in the Club parlance is termed
" The Queen's Course," and the distance to be sailed in
all might be about forty miles, all in the o

well defined by buoys. The yachts had previously been
placed in proper starting position by the Captain of the
Club, on whom devolved, in addition to his own duties,
those of the worthy Commodore, who was unavoidably
absent.

Nine fine yachts entered for the race, but owing to un-
foreseen circumstances, only the following_came up : _

The Jilt, R. T. Y. C. 19 tons,—owner J.S. 'Maude, Esq.
The Vision, R. M. Y. C. 44 tons,—T. Birchall, Esq.
The Petrel, R. M. Y. C. 15 tons,—W. W. Shand, Esq,
'I he Victoria, R. C. Y. C. 59 tons,—D. Connor, Esq.
The Leander, R. M. Y. C. 31 tons,—Jon. lirindrod, Esq.
We regret that Mr. Ewart's fine yacht, the Edith, and
Mr. Naylor's Sultana were not entered, as. from the
general strength of the breeze, these large and powerful
vessels would have bad a good chance of obtaining the
noble prize. That singular vessel, the Enchantress, from
Cork, which arrived the night previous, had carried away
her main boom in crossing the channel, during the heavy
gale of the preceding day, and was prevented from starting,
although she was entered. The contest, consequently,
seemed to remain with the Victoria (the winner of last
year) and the fine new clipper yacht, the Vision, of which
great expectations were entertained, and it was reserved
for the spirited and worthy owner of this last vessel that
she should have the honour of rescuing this splendid prize
from being lost to the club, which it most assuredly would
have been if the Victoria had been the victor.

The morning opened, squally and unfavourable, with
rain, the wind at first blowing fresh from the S. E. and
afterwards blowing to the amount of a gale from the S.W.
with frequent squalls and showers of rain.
On the signal being given by thelCaptain, the yatehts
started off in good style, steering down the channel. The
Victoria did not get away till a short time after the Vision.
From the S.W. the wind eventually veered to the W. by
S., and so kept all day, blowing fresh. The time of start-
ing was—the Vision, 11b.49m. ; the Victoria, 11h. 514 m. ;
the Jilt, Leander, and Peterel, following soon after.
They reached the Bell Buoy first time—Vision at 12h.
15m. ; Victoria, 12h. 18w. ; Jilt, 12b. 26m. ; Leander,
12h. 273 tn. The Vision reached the N.W. Light-ship
first time at 1h.31m., and the Victoria at lh. 38m. There
was a pretty race between the Jilt and the Leander, the
former weathering the latter at the Light-ship. Here,
however, these two vessels got out of the race, seeing
their chance of winning lost from the severity of the
weather, and the other smaller vessels also gave up the
contest. In the double run between the Light-ship and
the Bell Buoy, the Vision and the Victoria kept pretty
close together, the former leading.
The Victoria, in tacking the last time round the Light-
ship, fell upon that vessel, split her mainsail on the
bowsprit, and was consequently thrown hors de combat.
This accident was to be regretted, as the Vision was but a
short distance in advance, and the race between the two
was extremely close and beautiful.
The Vision, which, after this, became evidently the
winning boat, reached the flag-boat, at New Brighton,
at fifty-one minutes past four o'clock—acco

whole course in four hours and forty-one minutes. -
The Jilt on one occasion made a dolphin-like jump in
the heavy sea-way, and lifted her fore-keel out of the wa-

ter three or four feet. The Victoria, after her misfortune,
took the Rock channel, under her foresail and jib, fol-
lowed by the steamer.

The Challenge Cup was, it may be said, gallantly won
by the Vision; the day being stormy. the sea running high,
and the vessels put to the severest test of seaworthiness
and tackle. The steamer came to anchor off the Maga-
zines, but more on the Lancashire shore, and the noble
prize, with the rich purse and contents, was awarded to
Mr. Birchall, owner of the Vision. The Capt. of the Club,
in presenting the prize to the winner, complimented him
on the sailing qualities of his yacht, and the able manner
in which she was managed, which was modestly and feel-
ingly replied to by the successful candidate. The health
of Mr. Connor was also drank with cheers, and a hope
expressed that he would try his luck again another day.
Capt. Bezley, of the steamer was most attentive and kind
to au on board.

Although several of the ladies in the steamer suffered
occasionally from sea-sickness, they kept up the dance at
intervals with surprising grace and spirit. Lieutenant
Lord, in the absence of the commodore, afforded, with bis
accustomed politeness and obliging manners, all the nau-
tical information and advice in his power, and had a life-
boat brOlight-OTII4- Irrease of any accident, the day being
so stormy.

The company were alt safely landed at the Clarence-
pier, delighted with their rough but pleasing excursion.
The next club sailing match comes off on the 17th of

August.

On Friday Mr. James Nuttall, of this town, was ad-
mitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.

STREET ROBBERY.—A woman named Williams, was
yesterday committed for trial, on a charge of stealing in
the street the handkerchief and stock of a man named
Chalmers.

We are requested to say that the Freemasons will not
receive any sum from the Council, in order to meet the
expenses to be incurred in their extensive preparations to
celebrate the visit of Prince Albert. All the charges will
be defrayed by the society.
CARELESS DRIVING.—At the Police court yesterday,
a youth named Luke Ryley, was charged with having
carelessly driven his father's cart over a child in Renshaw-
street, on the 13th inst. The child has happily recovered.
The prisoner was fined 40s and costs.

—LIVERPOOL RACES.—The following summary of the
races last week may be interesting :—Total number of
races, 19 ; won by favourites, 7 ; dead heats, 1 ; horses
entered, 219. Won by non-favourites, 6 ; walks over, 5 ;
horses started, 92; total amount of stakes, £5782; sub-
scriptions, £4812 ; public money given, £970.
THEFT FROM A SHOP.—Yesterday at the Police-court,
a man named M'Avoy, was charged with stealing a spade
on Saturday, from the door of the shop of Mr. Hazle-
burst, ironmonger, Marybone. He was observed by a
neighbour, and being pursued, dropped the spade from
under his coat, in Cockspur-street, and a policeman
apprehended him. He was committed for trial.
POST-OFFICE REFORM.—The Guardian Society de-
serve credit for having moved on this subject. It is a
question interesting to every inhabitant, and we are glad
to see that a public meeting is called for to-morrow, at
which William Brown, Esq., will preside. We hope such
a memorial will issue from the meeting as will compel the
Government to remedy the present injurious postal ar-
rangements in this and other parts of the country. The
meeting ought to be crowded.
DUKE OF YORK LOYAL ORANGE BENEVOLENT SO-
CIETY, LODGE, No. 22.—The members of the above
lodge have just made the following presentations : to the
worshipful master, Robert Kerr, a handsome silver
medal; to their secretary, William Roberts, and their
treasurer, William Gregson, a splendid silver snuff-box
each, as small tokens of respect and esteem for their va-
luable services in their different offices. The whole were
got up by Mr. Chadwick, Lord-street, and cost altogether
twelve guineas.
MEDALLION IN CELEBRATION OF THE VISIT OF
PRINCE ALBERT.—We have just seen a beautiful Medal-
lion, struck in honour of this auspicious occasion, by Mr.
Isaacs, of Castle-street. On the one side is a fine side,
head of his Royal Highness, Prince Albert, finely exe-
cuted, and which strikes us as:being a very good likeness.
The reverse contains an excellent view of the Sailors'
Home, with the date of the laying of the Foundation
Stone. The Medallion is got up in a high style of art,
and will no doubt be extensively purchased on the
occasion. _ _ .

THE CALAMITOUS FIRE AT ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUND-
LAND.—We yesterday received a copy of the St. John's
Times of the 24th ultimo. This paper states that the
late awful calamity has for the present so completely ab-
sorbed all other considerations that it will be a considera-
ble time before the industrious citizens will be able again
to apply themselves to their ordinary avocations. It also
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ing him for the measures he had taken for the relief, in
the meantime, of those who had lost their houses and
property. A meeting of members of the Church of Eng-
land had been held, the Lord Bishop in the chair, and
resolutions were passed in furtherance of the rebuilding
of the parish church. Intelligence had been received
from England of the birth of the last royal offspring of
our gracious Queen. News had also been received of the
amicable settlement of the Oregon question. This paper
contains numerous advertisements relative to the late fire
—goods missing though saved from the flames, removals,
schools reopened in new localities, &c. The Governor
had gone down to the House of Assembly and given his
assent to a bill, authorising the raising of a loan of
£230,000, in England, or elsewhere, to be applied to the
rebuilding of the town.

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QuESTS HELD BEFORE THE BOROUGH CORONER
YESTERDAY AND SATURDAY.—On the body of John
Roach, aged 39. Deceased had for some time complained
of palpitation of the heart. Early on Friday morning he
had an attack and died in four hours. Verdict natural
death.—On Michael Redington, a labourer, aged 25. Ou
the 17th of last month the deceased, who was working on
the Liverpool and Bury Railway, at Fazakerley, and ob-
serving the soil at a cutting giving way, gave. the alarm to
his companions who escaped, but he was himself buried
before he could get away. He was got out immediately,
but with a hurt of the right knee. He was sent to the
hospital and every attention paid to
i him, but inflamma-
tion set in and he died on the 15th instant. Verdict ac-
cordingly.—On the body of John Jones, aged 30. De-
ceased, while rolling a bale of cotton from a vessel in
the Prince's Dock on a stage, missed his footing, fell into
the dock, and was drowned before he could be rescued.
Verdict " accidental."—On the body of Thomas Gibson,
aged 17,. On Thursday deceased and another were run-
ning along Kirkdale road to obtain shelter from a shower
of rain, when the former became suddenly ill and vomited
blood. He was carried to a druggist's shop and died in
a few minutes. A post mortem examination showed that
death had been caused by the rupture of a blood-vessel in
the stomach.

July 21, 1846.

LIVERPOOL JULY SESSIONS

The Court resumed its periodical sittings yesterday, be-
fore Gilbert Henderson, Esq., the Recorder. The calen-
dar was numerically heavy, there being the names of 128
prisoners charged with felony, and 18 persons with mis-
demeanour. Out of the whole number, 60 can read and
imperfectly ; 36 can read imperfectly ; 7 can read
—.II, and 43 can neither read nor write. The
^bserved by the:Recorder's chargepre-
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THEATRE-ROYAL, WILLIAMSON-SQUARE.

Under the Management of Mr. MERCER H. SIMPSON.

CE.—ln consequence of the enthusiastic reception of the
BOHEMIAN GIRL, it will be repeated This Evening, for
the Last Time.

Miss RAINFORTH_ and Miss POOLE, Mr. STRETTON and

Mr. ALLEN, of the Theatre-Royal,nituy -lane

THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 21st inst.,
I will be presented Balfe's Grand Opera, in Three Acts, en-
titled

THE BOHEMIAN

GIRL

- - ---
Count Arnhem.. Mr. Stretton. j Thaddeus ➢ir. Allen
4rline (the Count's daughter in 2d & 3d Acts), Miss Rainforth
as originally performed by her at the Theatre-Royal, Drury
lane.
Queen of the Gipsies (on this occasion) Miss Poole
in which she will introduce "By the sad Sea Wave."
To conclude with
THE REAR ADMIRAL.

'TO-MORROW, (Wednesday,) for the Benefit of Mr. ALLEN,
Donizetti's Grand Opera, entitled LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR.
THURSDAY, an OPERA.
FRIDAY, an OPERA, for the Benefit of Miss POOLE.
SATURDAY, an OPERA, and the Last Night of the Operatic
Company.

The Box-office will be Opened daily, at Ten o'clock.
Prices of Admission : Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ;
Pit, 25.: Gallery, Is.
Half Price will be taken to all parts of the House at the end
of the Second Act of the Opera : Dress Boxes, 2s. ; Upper
Boxes, Is. 6d.; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d.
Doors to be opened at Seven o'clock. The Performances will
commence at Half-past Seven precisely.
Stage Manager, Mr. ADDISON.