The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

PAROCHIAL ASSISTANT ASSISTANT ASSOCIATION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SlR,—The proposed formation of a Parochial Assistant
Association, or Ecclesiastical Town Mission, noticed in
your paper of Tuesday last, is a matter of considerable
importance to Liverpool and its neighbourhood. It is
desirable, therefore, that the intended plan should be laid
before the public, in order that a just opinion may be
formed both as to the soundness of its principle and the
prosoect of its ultimate success. The following remarks
are offered chiefly for the purpose of drawing from the
parties concerned an official statement of their views.
The general plan is understood to be this :—That
college should be established at Birkenhead, for gentle-
men intending to enter the church; the Vme of study,
the amount of fees, and the class of students, to be the
same as at the present College of St. Bees; but that,
instead of confining their education to theological studies,
they should also be exercised in the pastoral work of the
ministry, by acting as visitors or Scripture-readers in the
various districts of the neighbourhood. It is obvious that
the main part of this scheme is the supply of candidates
for orders, and that the inducement held out of local
assistance in the pastoral work is only additional and
supplementary. Now before establishing an institution
of this sort, we ask.—first,
Is it necessary 7 To this question, the bare fact that
the Bishop of Chester has taken the office of patron does
not of itself afford a satisfas-tory reply. For it is ru-
moured that the Bishop and Lord Lonsdale do not agree
in the management of St. Bees, and that the tone of
feeling prevalent there is not altogether approved ; and
these and similar motives may naturally render our dvs-
cesan favourable to an institution more immediately
under his control, without in any way affording a proof
of its actual necessity.

But if not absolutely necessary: is it advantageous 7
To the students there would be no saving of time or ex-
pense, not even to those residing in Liverpool, unless
specially exempted from living in the institution. And
as to the knowledge they would obtain of the pastoral
work, it would indeed be a great benefit as an addition to
mental acquirements, but may be a doubtful advantage
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
when considered as a d duction from a short two-years
course of instruction. To the incumbents of poor and Sts,—lt is with pleasure I ob-erve that the Rev. Mr.
populous districts the assistance of twenty or thirty Barker made a collection last Sunday in aid of this So-
young men acting as gratuitous Scr'nture readers for two ciety. I trust his example will be followed by other cler-
or three hours a day, would, no doubt, be highly valuable; gymen in this town and neighbourhood.
and yet it may be questioned whether the funds required " Unity) is strength." I believe two distinct societies
for the present scheme might not he applied so as to are now in existence, one having in view the erection of
furnish more effectual local aid. Supposing that three three or four churches in Toxteth-park; the other, the
hundred pounds ' a year is sufficient to support the same number in the north-eastern district of Liverpool.
the institution, for that sum twelve persons would I should by all means recommend a coalition, or amalga-
give half their time as permanent Scripture readers (nation, which would cause them to work together with
always on the spot; and the services of such men may rca- more energy, and the object of both would be more epee-
sonably be considered as far more valuable than the crude dily accomplished.
efforts of twice the number of mere college students, limi- A better method for effecting the purpose contemplated
ted to three hours a-day, and ending their labours just at by these societies than continual agitation of the subject
the time when they really were b: coming effective. cannot be adopted ; and causing collections to be made
There are other points in the plan which require expla- either yearly or half-yearly in the different churches of
nation, brit these may form the subject of another letter, the establishment. A considerable addition would thus
in case no satisfactory statement should appear. In the be made to the fund, and I may add almost imperceptibly
mean time, or without inconvenience to the contributors.
I am, sir, &c. JUNIUS.
Liverpool, Dec. 21st, 1846.

Nor. 28, 1846,

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LIVERPOOL CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETIES.

18th Dec. 1846

I remain, Sir, very truly yiurs,
C. M.

[We do not agree with our correspondent ; but as his
letter is written in a becoming style, we have not felt our-
selves justified in withholding it. An advertisement in
our columns to-day will probably give C. M. much of the
information which he seeks for.]

INFALLIBLE CURE FOR THE POTATO
DISORDER.

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—Au agriculturist with whom I am acquainted
tried last season, with great success, the following experi-
ment on his potato fields .—The scouring of ditches, mixed
with a considerable portion of lime, soapwaste, and soot,
the component parts of which dressing contained a large
proportion of the latter ingredients, the detersive quality
of which is well known, as being most likely to counter-
act the putrescent tendency of this useful vegetable, and
restore it to its pristine state. CHARON.
191 h Dec. 1846.

ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF SOME

PARTS OF LIVERPOOL,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

LETTER XXII

" Property has its duties as well as its rights."

THE DAMP, FOUL STATE OF DWELLINGS, SOURCES

OF DANGER

The remaining cases of disease and distress which I
have to bring forward are perhaps only illustrations of
what is already well known as the general results of foul,
mal-sanitary tenements : but I advance them as so many
particular proofs of the effects of this cause, reaped by my
own personal observation for the most part, or accurately
verified by myself on testimony upon which 1 have every
reason to rely. A fact may be so general as to lose its
sharpness of character, it may be so widely accepted, as
to require the re-engraving of its outline in general, or
here and there touches in particular ; in order that the
mind may be adequately impressed with the truth of it.
Truth itself seems to lose its effect—principle fails to
energise motive—and the latter thereby slackened, all the
activity that is based upon it, is indifferently carried out.
Unless this truth or this principle from time to time be
renewed in its aspect, or exhibited in some freshened
form, it becomes like a metal obscured by the incrustation
of time—the rust of exposure, which requires a little ap-
plication to restore its native lustre and purity. For this
reason, if I may take the reflections of my own mind for
an example of the common mind, a great advantage re-
sults from the endeavour to set down a well• known truth
in the light of fresh incident or novel illustration.

REMOVAL OF THE CHURCH FOR THE BLIND

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

is, I presume, a matter of certainty, that be-
fore long the North Western Railway Company will
require this Church, together with the School, for an ex-
tension of the Lime-street Station.

This will be matter of reiret7tOmany admirers of the
fine arts, as this building is, without exception, the, finest
and most perfect specimen of classic architecture in Liver-
pool.

Might not the materials be reconstructed elsewhere, if
cautiously taken down, without visible detriment to any
portion ?

- I have been told that in America these things are cle-
verly managed, houses, &c. being transferred to another
locality, without the necessity for demolition, but as we
are unable to compete with Brother Jonathan in this
respect, probably the only feasible plan is what I have
suggested, to preserve intact the noble structure in ques-
tion.
CLIO.
Liverpool, 181 h December, 1846.

A patient I attended lately, whose residence, like some
cases I have already given, was located on nearly the
highest topographical region of Parliamentary Liverpool,
and was of a comfortable size for health and convenience.
His wife lay on the weary couch of lingering consumption's
latter stages. Her personal habits—and not merely habits,
but the springs rf those semi•instinctive domestic apti-
tudes—were based on the most exalted Christian virtue,
as rightly poised motives ever tending in well regulated
minds to order, cleanliness, decency, and the ruling well
of the lesser affairs of household economy. One day, on
my visit, I perceived the lobby of the house, and in fact
every room in the house, from cellar to attic, in a most
horrid condition frosa stench which was all but insupport-
able. Necessity may tie us down to anything—and so it
was with the poor invalid. Though we could seek relief
from the nuisance by remaining at open door or window,
yet could not the bed-stricken. Her fate was to
endure what I (accustomed as some of my readers may
naturally suppose me to be) could not reconcile myself
to remain longer in than to superintend the ventilation
needed, and the immediate wants of the patient. I es-
caped as soon as my duty was done, arid rejoiced in the
comparatively pure air of the street, though not unpractised
in the professional toleration of sulphuretted hydrogen
gas., whether found in the laboratory, or, as a frequent
accident in Liverpool Improper ; yet to the keener sense
of the delicate invalid, whose intolerance of dirt and stag-
nation, oftner called forth my gentle censure than any-
thing els 2 ; what must have been the amount of distressing
annoyan to her for hours during which it had lasted !
this, added to the demand fur the purest and most oxy-
genised air in consumption, when so much of the lung is
often incapacitated for respiration, was an evil added to
the hour of languishing, preventible in itself, and there-
fore vexatious in the extreme. " A stone given for bread "
is the forcible figure which may be correctly applied here.
The wisdom of a former Parliament and the ryes( nt pos-
ture of the landlord of the row of houses, required that he
should drain the foundations, and, as I suspect must have
been the case too, the super-abundant fluid of the cess-
! pools of his own houses, into some lower depth sill, since ,
lie was not permitted to make use of the main sewer for
this purpose, even if there was one. I belive though there
may be one now almost so far up in the street, a con-
siderable thoroughfare too, yet it is of no more ancient
date than 1846 ; and the houses have stood ever since I can
date back for Liverpool. The landlord had to bury his
dead water some where then, as the public receptacle was
not commissioned yet to carry it off for him to the river
side. It is, 1 admit, a puzzle to know what else the
houseowner could do, lie did as well as he could ; he sunk
what is called by builders a dry-well, about twenty-firs
feet deep, so I am told by the tenant is the fact. Its
capacity would, of course, for some time yield sufficient
reservoir for drainages, so as to carry them out of sight,
and, but for occasional gusts of stench, out of mind that
such agricultural treasures lay buried so far, ton low down
to be useful, yet not to prove innoxious. The natural
filtration of the fluid contents through the sand-work
would be tending always to a diminution of the bulk of
the fluid, and a concentration consequently of its chemi-
cal ingredients; except where a long s: inking rainy season
would charge the superficial and substrata of the soil and
rock, to saturation, when another feature would be added
to this interesting dry-well—this Liverpool gem; the drain-
age of waters from the foundations, &c., would be greatly
increased by the downfall of rain, and the rocky sides of the
now incapable of leaking out, would return old compli-
ments, and so leak in. This " unexpected return"—this
double-duty doing well—there, in the plenitude of its
gratitude, would proceed into actual overflow, and thus
relieve itself of its natural burthen, presenting landlord
and tenant with a handsome overflow over kitchen-cellar
floors—not of mere rain-water, but of water black as ink
—being only the diluted mud of the long concentrated
cesspool drainage at the bottom of the well. Here was
ample return of capital, with compound interest!—usury
of domestic economy ! Over such a rich storehouse, what
a pity that the slad cover of the well had not had a
classic motto cut upon it, just as well entitled as the
\Vavertree fount—since they are both springs—to appro-
priate the well-known Latin motto—" Qui non dat (plod
dremoninferaridet." I have narrated this oppro-
brium of Liverpool sewerage work with a natural smile
over my reflections whilst writing, which I hope will be
excused ; at the time I felt its evils in all this grave form.
Whilst witnessing its last naturally endowed irruption,
and in investigating the nature of the cause, I found that
for a short time previous to my call the cellar-kitchen
floor had been flooded ankle-deep with the stinking
contents of this overflowing dry well. The iron
fender and fire-irons, and every thing within its bath-

THE REPEAL SPLIT.-O'BRIEN V. O'CONNELL

The young agitator and the old one—the man of physi-
cal force and the man of moral force—continue dis-united
in their labours for Repeal, notwithstanding every effort
has been made to bring about a reconciliation, and the
confident prediction of the elder mountebank that he
should succeed in blarneying the cellar martyr and his
friends. The interview between the parties, to arrange
the terms of a peace, has, indeed, only widened the breach
previously existing between them. At the same time,
however, it has naturally enlightened the public; and
may, some of these days, be instrumental in opening the
eyes of the Irish people to the character of the parties by
whom they are sought to be either befooled or betrayed
into rebellion.

The Young Ireland party proposed as the basis of
settlement that, in the first instance, the legality of an
association, amongst whose members are to be found men
who advocate resort to physical force, if necessary to
carry out their projects, should be discussed ; and re-
quiting a pledge that, this point being settled, a new set
of regulations for the conduct of the association should
be determined upon. By one of these it is provided that
atter the first of January the expenditure of all mer.i,s col-
lected in the shape of Repeal rent, shall be audited, and
the hems published. There was to be no enquiry into
the past. Yet, apparently, this charitable concession was
not sufficient for Daniel. Auditing accounts in his
hands is not a pleasant process in his estimation. All
I monies received and no questions asked, with respect to
their application, is more congenial to his tastes. It
would hive been more especially auk ward if those ques-
tions had been extended to past exactions from an abused
people ; and the Young Irelanders in forbearing to press
their demands thus far shewed much amiability.
Another demand of the earnest repealers was that no
member of the association should creep up the sleeves of
whig ministers, or accept of government patronage or
office. But even this reasonable proposition would not go
down. The veteran agitator sees too clearly that his
career of imposture is nearly run ; that he cannot much
longer fleece his. starving fellow countrymen ; and that
snug births for the young O'Connels, the Ffrenches, and
Fitzsimonses would be infinitely more agreeable than a
dependance upon the profits of habitual mendicancy. A
further requirement is that the agitation for repeal ;,hould
not partake of a religious character, inasmuch a the
members of the association are of all religious ; arties.
Daniel, however, declares that he must "throw the shield
of protection t,ver the Catholic Church of Ireland ;" that
an agitation which is not for the advancement of his own
church is " a creedless thing !"
Mr. O'Connell will only enter into a discussion with
respect to the legal portion of the question ; and every
hope of a restoration of the Young Ireland party to Con-
ciliation Hall is now at an end. In the meantime, whilst
these patriots (I) are parading their differences, and en-
deavouring to arrange their joint claims to despoil the
Irish people, that people are starving—dying in their
miserable hovels., or resorting to murder and robbery to
find a meal. Verily, Irish patriotism is a strange con-
trariety !

PROBABLE IMPORTANT ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERY.
Towards the conclusion of a very interesting seance of the
Royal Irish Academy, on Monday evening, Sir William
Hamilton stated the probability—in his own mind, it
almost amounted to a certainty—that, by a certain ma-
thematical process, which he stated, but which would be
unintelligible to the general reader—of his having ap.
proached, if he did not actually hit the central sun, the
star round which the luminary of our own system and his
satellites revolve. Should this be ascertained demon-
stratively, the discovery will be, certainly, the greatest
achieved in the present century ; although, during the
period which has elapsed, six new planets have been de-
tected, one of them attended by moons, and the last, pro-
bably, also, as well as Saturn, encircled by a ring.—Dub-
lin Emning Post.
WHI..EZINGS ON THE CHEST, SHORTNESS OF BREATH,
ASTHMAS, COUGHS AND COLDS, HOWEVER HAD, ARR
EFFECTUALLY CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S PlLLS.—There
is no longer any doubt but that these wonderful pills are
an effectual cure for any of these complaints, even though
they may he of several years' standing, more relief may
be obtained in a few days! Such is the extraordinary
powers of these pills, that many people who appeared
almost to be at death's door, gasping for breath, have
been so relieved in their breathing, and so completely
freed from their coughs, their cold, their wheezing', and
their spitting, as to astonish all their friemle.—See Advt.

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