The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-04 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The "sheddin"," of the new railway station in Waterloo-road
is composed entirely of Patent Galvanised Iron, and not of
Zinc, as stated in our last. The iron was furnished by the
London Galvanised iron Company.
A correspondent wishes us to suggest to Mr. Marcus the pro-
priety of affording to the Liverpool public an opportunity of
visiting Rivington Pike by a cheap trip to Bolton. We have
no doubt that the speculation would prove a remunerative
one.
We do not wish to attach greater importance than our corre-
spondent does to the omission of the usual words on the new
coinage; but it should be remembered that the master of the
mint is a Roman Catholic, and "great events from little
causes spring."
"Justitia ' may or may not be correct in his statements, but
he ought to have furnished us with the means of instituting
an inquiry about them in the event of their being questioned.
We cannot answer the question of " M. S. M."
"A Ratepayer" may be quite justilled in making the statements
which he has written, but we cannot give them publicity on
anonymous authority.

Ebt Eitnrpool &tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 4, 1849.

THE public have heard of late somewhat of the
extraordinary vagaries practised by a clique in the
metropolis, acting, it is said, under the dictation of
Mr. Edward Chadwick, to establish for the central
Board of Health, a tyranny far more insolent in its
character than any ever established in this or any
free country. Meetings have been packed, or the
requisite numbers to form a quorum deterred from
attending, just as best served the purposes of the
master spirits, and would-be autocrats of the
Board. The most wholesale interferences with the
property of entire districts, involving vast outlay
of the money of owners of property, have been
resolved upon with scarcely any opportunity afford-
ed of inquiry into facts. In short the metropolis
is to be turned upside down, or inside out, at the
whim of a few interested Charlatans, and places
created for their hangers on and toadies, in the
vain expectation of driving away by the spade and
pickaxe, the hose and th besom, a visitation of
Providence, with respect to which one-half of the
medical faculty are at issue with the other, whether
it -is epidemic or contagious, whether it is produced
by atmospheric influences, or terrestrial, whether
it is generated from electricity above, or volcanic
movements below our feet.

The Morning Herald of yesterday thus accounts
for the toleration given thus far to the body :

" Why self-serving quacks are not laughed at in London
arises from this, that every one in the metropolis is busily
engaged in some business or avocation, and the mass take
their opinions, on matters that do not personally concern
them, very much on trust. Thus it is that in an over-
peopled and over-busy city, alarming suggestions put for-
ward under particular influences have a value and a signi-
ficancy which those not behind the scenes little dream of."

We would ourselves go a little further, however,
and remark that there is no imposture so gross
that a Cockney cannot be found to gulp it down
greedily. Mr. Chadwick and his friends tell that
most gullible people to-day that the cholera is all
produced in the sewers and drains of the city. Yet
every adult man or woman within five miles of St.
Paul's is perfectly well aware that whilst the sewers
and drains were a hundred times as filthy as at
present ; when the muddy waters of Fleet ditch
permeated openly through the heart of a dense
population, before traps were thought of ; and
when a crossing here and there was the only place
which the scavenger's broom ever touched, cholera
was unheard of, and disease in the metropolis was
scarcely above the average of any considerable town
in the empire. If Mr. Chadwick were to-morrow
to pronounce the spouts of London to be the ori-
ginators of disease, half of Cockney town would
clap hands at the wonderful discovery. The real
fact is that Mr. Chadwick must live ; engineers,
surveyors, secretaries, et hoc genus omne, must he
provided for; and the long-suffering public will
pay for their living until the tax-gatherer comes
bodily to every door. Thus philosophers may
mulct unfortunate owners of property ad libitum ;
and the infliction will only cease when it begins to
be felt by those persons who, our centemporary says
are so " busily engaged" that they " take their opi-
nions, in matters that do not personally concern
hem, very much on trust."
Within the last few weeks matters have been
approaching to this point of resistance. Though
perfectly admitting the advantages of cleanly
houses and streets, good sewers and other 4anatory
measures, the people of London have begun to dis-
cover that the gentry of the Board of Health are
disposed to ride their hobby at too strong a pace.
A vigorous opposition has sprung up to its whole,
sale -doings. Owners of property find that they
cannot conveniently sink quarter after quarter's
rent in sewers and drains, and at the same time
pay grocers' and other bills. In a word, rebellion
is in the wind; and the world is beginning to
suspect that the philosophers are not all Solomons.
After the fashion, therefore, of members of the
swell mob, who occasionally, for obvious reasons,
find the air of the country agree with them better
than that of the town, .Mr. Chadwick and his
friends appear desirous of transferring their busi-
ness to Liverpool for a season. Their business
circular has already been issued, in the shape of
some serious charges against the Select Vestry of
Liverpool. That body is accused of having
neglected to make preparation against the approach
of cholera; of having omitted to appoint an addi-
tional array of doctors, and to build houses of
refuge, &c., as directed by the emissary of the
Central Board, Mr. Grainger.
This will certainly be news for the people,
who are feelingly aware of the expensive precau-
tions adopted, and thoroughly appreciate the energy
with which the vestry has been of late discharging
its various duties. We are not fast enough, how-
ever, for Mr. Chadwick and his friends; and those
gentlemen conclude their long tirade by modestly
asking for powers to be placed in their hands to
compel us to carry out whatever they may choose
to dictate !. We suspect, however, that the country
at large, and Liverpool in particular, will demur to
the suggested arrangement. We prefer manage-
ing our own affairs ; and are not at all believers in
the infallibility of either Mr. Chadwick or his
coadjutors. Most likely their impertinent missive
will receive a fitting answer at the meeting of the
Select Vestry to-day.

DR. *HALE has probably been too busy of late
with his correspondence with his superior to have
appeared much in his old character of a bigoted
vilifier of Protestantism; his charitable sympathies
towards us, however, appear to be as strong as ever,
if we may judge from a sermon with which he fa-
voured the parishioners of Cong, in the county of
Mayo, a short time ego. His Grace attended the
chapel to perform the rite of confirmation, and took
occasion to preach a sermon in Irish to those pre-
sent, the tenor of which could not fail to have im-
pressed his hearers (if there were any gifted with
a glimmering of impartial feeling) with a high
sense of his worth as a disciple of Christ. Having
ascended the altar, he commenced by denouncing
the schools under the direction of the wife of the
incumbent of the parish ; he also similarly noticed
the lectures which the rector is in the habit of de-
livering to his flock. A portion of his bile being
thus dispersed for special application be proceeded
-to empty the vials of his wrath in a more general
way, bespattering the whole Protestant Church
after his own peculiar fashion. A specimen or two
may not be amiss, as showing that the amiable
man's propensities are still capable of energetic
enunciation :
" He was much pained. at receiving an invitation from
that ' holy man' (pointing to the parish priest) to visit the
parish of Cong at that unusual period. The circum-
stances that called for his immediate attention were in-
deed painful. He, as their bishop, the lawful representa-
tive of the true church of God, felt it his duty to warn
'them against the wily and crafty assaults of a base and
corrupted church—a church filled with such filthy and,
foul abominations that he would blush to mention—a
church begotten and founded by Luther and Calvin. * *"
Speaking of the " damnable" schools, lie charges
parents to keep their children from them, and warns
them that whatever their excuses may be such an
act would be more inexcusable than was Cain, who
killed Abel. He asks them if they would murder
their children, and then continues :
"If any parents would send their children to such
schools they were killing their souls, by making them
feed on the poison and heresy of that cursed and damn-
able church—a church which was instilling into their
mind the loathsome and soul-killing doctrines of Luther
and Calvin."

Having informed his hearers that there is only
one true church—of course that church of which he
is such a bright,and shining light, he goes on to
describe the Protestant Church :
" No ; it is a church which robbed God of his glory. A
church that despises His virgin mother, and deprives her
of her honour. How can they honour the Son when
they despise the Mother ? A church which despised the
saints ; a church which divested the true church of God
of its glory, and had only retained the loathsome, filthy
carcase, with which they would fain feed the poor deluded
souls they were destroying by their heretical doctrine."
After this comes a little advice as to how his

hearers are to conduct themselves towards their
Protestant brethren and fellow countrymen :
"Ile wished the people of the parish would henceforth
cease to hold any 'Communication with such a foul insti-
tution. They should hold no intercourse with thein, they
should not speak to them, they should not listen to them,
they should not salute them for the future on the high-
way, their very breath was poison. Now, let us pray the
Holy Ghost may come down upon us," &c.