The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-11 00:00:00

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WANTED
Orders, to
St. Peter.—Addre

CLERGY3IA

the SALT %VATJ
—By order of th(

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PARENTS AND GUARDIANS.-
..A. WANTED. a Youth, of respectability, as an APPRE
TICE in an Office in a Wholesale Business.—Address, Box
P 6, Post-office.

WT. T 031 PS 0 N, BOOKSELLER and
• STATIONER. 13, ELLiorT STREET, respectfully
announces his recent return from London, where he has
selected a choice Assortment of FANCY arinris. namely.

tions is b)

spared from t

writing Cases, Folios, Paper Weights, Inksta'
&c., in addition to an excellent Stock of ge
which he is now otTerimr on the most mod
cash only. AN ASSISTANT WANTED

been much better employed in

WANTED, now, or any time within three
months, a convenient detached H OUSE, with Garden,
Stabling, &c. Distance not to exceed five miles from the Ex.
chance. Rent from X6O to .eBO. The advertiser would pur.

effectually to this part of their d

&c., as it stands, if he approve of the
—Apply to Mr. S. WATERHOUSE, Derby-square,

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though we have ahead

STOCK OF FURS

Is now complete for the S,

on a former occasion, there any

September 21, 1853,

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ADAME GRISI AND SIGNOR 3IARIO
WILL SING
THIS EVENING (TUESDAY), the 11th INSTANT,
AT THE

unfortunate passengers from the emigrant
Isaac Wright were landed in a pitiable state

AT A QUARTER BEFORE EIGHT.
Qs - Tickets to be had at the OFFICE

rescue from the disabled vessel, 01Vil

S PON DENTS,

PILES OF STONES IN VACANT PLACES,,A cor

snondent

wishes to know if it be an element in the r

economy of Liverpool, to have every vacant space

such as that at S

bottom of Richmond

'street, &c., covered with piles of loose

stones, rubbish, &c.
PERTINAX will find that it is easier to teach twenty what were
good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow his own

teaching,

TIMBER SALES.—In our advertising c

ans last week there

were two accidental errors

and other furniture woods by Messrs. Ho'me, Slater, and
Crook, should have been announced for the 14th of Octol,er

(next Friday); and the large sale of similar goods by Messrs

Chaloner and Fleming should have been announced for tie

19th instant (to-morrow week)

letter in our second page, under the head of
The editor of the Hampshire independent evidently mistook
the notice published by the Post-Office authorities.

The Week."

Riberpool tattbarb+

TUESDAY

MORNING, OCT. 11, 1853

GREAT credit is due to the Town Council of Li-
verpool for the good sense which actuated their
decision on Wednesday last,
when they rejected
the proposal for a high-level bridge
street and the top of Shaw's-brow

When the

report of the Improvement Committee was first
presented to the Council, we raised the obvious
objection to the proposal, that it was altogether
unneeded. It was to be a bridge without a valley
to cross, a bridge with only one end, for though
there is an elevation at Shaw's-brow which creates
an inconvenient gradient, there is no correspond-
ing elevation at the other end, so that the bridge
would, at the best, have removed one inconveni-
ence by creating a greater one. The proposal was,
therefore, objectionable, for the simple reason that
not the slightest necessity existed for it ; but had
the call been a stronger one, had Shaw's-brow been
higher and Dale-street of similar elevation, the pro-
posal to obviate the difficulty by a bridge would
have been equally objectionable. It would have
considerably reduced the value of property on
either side of it, and, what is worse, would have
created a receptacle for filth, for which no amount
of facility for carriage traffic would have been an
adequate compensation. It has been found, in
every place where a similar scheme has been tried,
that no care on the part of the police, or other
local authorities, can keep the lower parts of such

a structure free from the vilest contamination
and in the city of Edinburgh, which was cited as
an example of such structures, their locality is
better detected by the sense of smelling than that
of sight. In a word, the scheme is altogether un-
tenable, notwithstanding the recommendation of
the Improvement Committee, and the Council have
deserved well of their fellow-townsmen for decree-
ing its rejection.

There are several objects which must be specially
kept in view, if the town is really to derive ad-
vantage from the carrying out of improvements.
The thoroughfares must be widened, straightened,
and made as level as possible ; the central position
of St. George's-hall must be maintained by the
chief streets converging in that direction ; the.
demolition of houses must accomplish the destruc-
tion of the haunts of infamy which abound in the
densely-populated localities ; and, as in railway
construction, the requirements of each terminus
must not be forgotten. Bearing these elements
of improvement in view, we may venture on some
suggestions to the committee for their future
guidance. It has been proposed to open a new
street from North John-street to the neighbourhood
of St. George's-hall ; but a far greater advantage
would be gained by converting Whitechapel, from
a narrow crooked lane of decayed houses, low spirit
shops, dirty lodgings: and filthy kennels, into a
broad, straight thoroughfare of eligible shops,
which would form a handsome approach, not only
to the south end of the hall, hut also to the new
slope by which the acclivity to Shaw's-brow is to be
reduced. The improvement of R'hitechapel is not
a very difficult task : the houses of Mr. GILLHAM
and Messrs. PFULLIPS and IfoLmE, at the corner,
are about to be pulled down to save their falling,
and the frontage of Mr. HYAM's shop might form
the line of the new street. The bulk of the pro-
perty must be of eomparatively little value, and
the cost of the re-construction on both sides of the
street would be more than repaid by the great ad-
ditional rental of the new shops; , The improve-
ment must then be extended by a similar alteration
of Paradise-street, the demolition of which is
equally necessary for the proper ventilation of the
town ; and, when this is completed, there would

be a direct and commodious route from the Custom-
house and the Sailor's Home to the centre, with
the prospect of the proposed widening of Park-
lane proving a much greater advantage than
would be the case were such alterations as we have
suggested not carried out. It may be considered
merely a question of time, but delays are dan-
gerous, and if some steps are not soon taken to
effect the improvement as a whole, the dilapidated
condition of many of the houses will render the
re-building of thew. indispensable ; and if this be
done in isolated cases, without reference to the
increase in the width of the street, the additional
cost of their removal will increase the difficulty in
the future. It is not simply a question of beauti-
fying the town, though that is of some consequence,
but the far more important object will be gained
of moral and physical purification, in addition to
the greater facilities of circulation for the rapidly-
increasing traffic of this busy port. Nor must it
be considered simply with reference to the mag-
nitude of the first cost, as not the slightest doubt
can be entertained that it will be more than repaid
by the greatly-increased value of the property.

WE cannot deny the Health Committee credit
for the good they have effected in the promotion of
sanitary improvements, of which the best evidence
is afforded in the general healthy state of the
population, at a time when some localities are
suffering severely from the ravages of disease.
The time has not, however, yet arrived for them to
rest from their labours, for the Cholera has already
made its appearance among us ; and though its.

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unseemly disputes about the character of their
Chairman for sobriety, which no one ever seriously

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and inexpensive means which proved so efficacious I

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cases with which they have yet had to deal. The

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