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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-04 00:00:00

with the munificent donation of
M.P., the sum of £16,000. The committee also fixed upon

the site, in Shaw's-brow, opposite the north front of St.
George's-hall, and running back into Clayton-street. The
committee recommend that the Council should advertise
for designs ; and that a premium should be
design which may be chosen. The belief of the
mittee is, that the new erection will cost £30,000; bi
is intended to restrict the outlay to the £16,003 already
named, and to call upon the public to subscribe the
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LIVERPOOL CHURCH OP ENGLIND INSTITUTION
bazaar in aid of the library of this institution is to open on
Monday next. We learn that the arrangements are in a for-
ward state, and that there is every probability of a success-
ful result.. Great exertions have been made by the friends
of the institution, both here and elsewhere, to furnish the
stalls and give eclat to the proceedings. The principal stall
will be held by the Hon. Mrs. Edward Cropper. Twenty
volumes of the poetical works of the late Mrs. Sandbach—
the grand-daughter of Roscoe —have been received from
H. R. Sandbach, Esq. A collection of original poems,
all specially contributed for the purpose, by Lord John
Manners, Charles Swain, Rev. W. Pollock, and other
living writers, will also be published on the occasion. The
effort which the members of this valuable institution are
making to extend its usefulness, is one which well de-
serves, as we hope it will receive, the warm support of
the public.
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Ties NEW SANITARY EILL.—At a meeting 'of the
Health Committee on Thursday, Mr. Stewart explained
what had been done with regard to the new sanitary bill,
the clauses of which were prepared, and would be brought
forward at the next Council. The sub-committee had
made certain amendments, which would be submitted for
the consideration of the Health Conimittee. The chief
alteration was that of making owners of property in the
borough liable to pay a certain proportion of the cost of
severing, at so much per lineal yard, the sewerage in all
cases to be done by the public authorities. No application
would be made in the next session of parliament except for an
alteration of the present bill. The committee found the sub-
ject beset with so many difficulties, that they considered it
better to confine themselves to what appeared the most
pressing matter, that of severing, and they had reason to
believe the course they had adopted would be satisfactory.
He moved the adoption of the bill in its amended form.
The motion was adopted unanimously.
HEALTH OF LIVERPOOL.—The general mortality in this
borough continues to be' considerably below the average.
This is very satisfactory, although we have again to report
some fatal cases of cholera. On Tuesday an Irishman,
living at No. 5 court, Lace-street, was hurried off in a few
hours by this. fatal disease. On Wednesday the govern-
ment emigration agent ascertained that some emigrants
on board the ship Silas Greenman, lying in the river, and
bound for New York, had been attacked with severe
diarrhoea.. It is supposed that the passengers, having
suffered from sea sickness during the gale of Sunday, were
subsequently seized with bowel complaint, which in three
cases turned to cholera, and ,proved fatal to the cook of
the ship and two of the .German emigrants. As the vessel
was about to sail, and had about 500 passengers on board,
these circumstances were reported to a sub-committee of
the health committee, then sitting, and a consultation
took place on the sublect. It was ultimately arranged,
.after a communication with the emigration agent and the
custom-house authorities, that the sick persons should be
separated from the healthy. Those in good health were
to be placed on board one of the lazarettoes in the river,
and the sick removed to a suitable place and put under
immediate medical treatment.
ELECTRIC TIME SIGNAL BALL.—The system of drop-
ping the time signal ball on the buildings of the Electric
Telegraph Company, 44-3, Strand, London, by a galvanic
currant from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, having,
after the experience of several months, been found per-
fectly efficient (interrupted only by occasional repairs of
the apparatus), chronometer makers and others are in-
formed that; when no extraordinary signal is exhibited,
implicit reliance may be placed on the accuracy of the time
given by the-drop of the ball. The same galvanic current
which liberates the ball in the Strand moves a needle upon
the transit clock at the Royal Observatory. The time of
movement of this needle is observed by the officers of the
Royal Observatory, and duly registered, and is found to be
sensibly correct. The time occupied by the transmission
of the galvanic current from the Royal Observatory to the.
Strand is about 1-3000th part of a second. The time oc-
cupied by the unloosing of the machinery which supports
the ball is less than one-fifth part of a second. Chrono-
meter makers are requested to remark that the instant
which is to be taken as truly corresponding to one o'clock,
Greenwich mean solar time, is that of the commencement
of the drop of the ball. In the event of accidental failure
or error in the dropping of the ball at one o'clock, it will
be raised half-mast high till two o'clock, when it will be
dropped with the same accuracy.—Royal Observatory,
Greenwich:— a B. AIRY.

ST. HELEN'S PETTY SESSIONS were held on Tuesday
last, at the Town-hall, before the Rear. J. S. R. Evans
(chairman), Z. Sillar, M.D., and R. Pilkington, Esq.—
Peter Marsh was fined 10s. and costs for assaulting James
Callon, on the 19th ult.—Mr. Edward Unsworth, of
Widnes, was summoned under the Cruelty to Animals
Act, for shooting a cat, on the 19th ult., belonging to

with three persons was shooting at Widnes, and that:
when in a field near to complainant's house, he shot a cat
belonging to him. In answer to the charge, the defen-
dant admitted the shooting of the cat, but stated that his
dog set at something which appeared to him to be a
rabbit or a hare, and that he of course fired; that imme-
diately he. had done so the animal ran up a tree ; and he
then, suspecting it to be a cat, fired a second time to put
it out of its misery. He raised an objection to the sum-
mons, on the ground that this case did not come within
the meaning of the. act, the words of the act being
" cruelly torturing," &c., and it did not appear that a
wanton act of cruelty had been committed, as the defen-
dant had, in the first instance, shot at what he believed to
be game. . The magistrates, concurring in this view, dis-
missed thecase. A second information was laid against
Mr. Unsworth for shooting on the highway. It appeared
that on the night of the same day on which the former
offence was- alleged to have been committed, Mr. Uns-
worth and his men were returning home about eleven
o'clock, and that, when opposite the house of the last
complainant, a gun was fired close to the window. The
inmates were alarmed, and opened .the window. One of
them stated that he saw Mr. Unsworth with a gun in his
hand. But, on cross-examination he admitted, that it was
so dark that he could not swear positively to him. Mr.
Unsworth and the keeper proved that one of the men,
named Platt, fired the gun, without the previous know-
ledge or consent of Mr. Unsworth. The case was there-
fore dismissed----Mr. George Houghton, Ecclesten, was
summoned for breach of the beer act, in selling ale on Sun-
day, at seven o'clock in the morning. Fined £1 and costs.
SELECT VESTRY.—The Rev. Rector • Campbell pre-
sided at the usual meeting of this body, on Tuesday.—A
discussion took place relative to the magistrates who had
been newly appointed for the despatch of parochial busi-
ness, on which Mr. Came said, that the parties who had
more immediately taken the subject in hand had been
absent for some time, Mr. Johnson from ill health, and
Mr. Willmer from, having occupations which he did not
anticipate at the time. After a few remarks from other
members, the subject dropped.—From the unusually long
minutes of the Workhouse Committee, it appeared that
the• total number of inmates in the house on the 21st
ultimo was 1,801. There were 478 sick cases, 37 being of
fever and 50 of itch. Several of the district medical
officers had reported the town as being in an unusually
healthy condition, the cases of diarrhoea or dysentery
being exceedingly few_ It was recommended to advertise
for a district medical-officer, in the place of Mr. Cripps, at
a salary of £lOO a-year.—The Dock Committee's mes-
senger had attended, and pointed out that he delivered
the note in reference to the oakum in the governor's
office at the workhouse. The governor admitted its
receipt, but stated that it was a printed circular, inviting
tenders for a ton of oakum, and, as they were then manu-
facturing none for sale, he had taken no further notice of
the communication.—The workhouse, it was reported,
had been supplied with flour of a better quality lately. It
was recommended that competent assistants be provided
for each of the parish dispensaries, in lieu of pauper assist-
ants, the salary to be 20s. per week, with residence at the.
dispensaries. It was also recommended that Mr. James
Douglas Kelly, having now qualified, be appointed dis-
trict medical-officer of the district held by the late Mr.
Duman, and under the like terms and conditions.—Dr.,
Brett and Mr. Lingley, to whom had been submitted sam-
ples of the flour from which the late gritty bread had
been made, submitted their report. Dr. Brett's abounded
in details of the analysis, but Mr. Lingley's at once met
the porn' t :—" It contains much bran. The slight grit-
tiness, I am of opinion, is caused from some hard grains of
wheat, usually called by millers and grocers ' flints,' and
not by the admixture of any foreign substance."---In
consequence of one of the members having complained of
the non-employment of the inmates of the workhouse„
the governor submitted a return of their number, and the
manner in which they were employed. . This showed
that the number of inmates is 1814, from various causes
only 657 are fit for work. Of these, 276 are over the age
of 60, and a large number are variously afflicted. Of the
Women capable of working 172 are over the age of 60
years, who are engaged in knitting. There are 196 under
this age who are employed in household duties.—The pro-
ceedings of the committee were then confirmed, with the
exception of that paragraph relative to advertising for a
medical-officer in place of Mr. Cripps, the proposed salary
being raised from £lOO to £l4O per annum.--A discus-
sion then took place relative to the health of the town, in
which the chairman said; he thought it extremely satis-
factory to hear from their medical men that their districts
were unusually healthy, and that diarrhcea was less pre-
valent than usual. It was also satisfactory to see. the
inspector of nuisances on the alert, and to observe the
care taken to cleanse the town. As the town was better
drained, and was in a better sanitary condition than on
any former occasion, we might hope that the visitation of
the disease, if it should come, would be less severe than
before. Mr. Kitchen observed that there were only six
fever cases under the charge of the district-medical
officers, whilst in the corresponding period of last year
there were forty-eight.—A communication from the
Health Committee was then read, stating that a sub-com-
mittee of that body bad been formed, who would be glad
to sit and confer with a like committee to be appointed by
the Vestry, on the subject of the cholera. The following
gontlemen were appointed members of the Medical-relief
Committee :—Messrs. Biadley, Shaw, Troughton, Kitchen,
Banner, Bain, and Luff. Mr. Johnson was re-elected a
member of the Vestry, and Mr. Talbot elected assistant
medical-officer of the Workhouse.