The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-09 00:00:00

BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL, to wit.
GILBERT HENDERSON, ESQUIRE, RECORDER.
THE COURT of QUARTER SESSIONS of the
PEACE for the BOROUGH will be held, in the CROWN
COURT, in the SESSIONS-HOUSE, Chapel-street, on MONDAY,
the 15th day of March instant, at Ten g"eloek in the Forenoon.
No Traverse will be tried unless% entered on the first day of
the Sessions, or previously, at the Office of the Clerk of the
Peace, No. 6, Brunswick-street.
• And all Indictmentsfuf Misdemeanours found at these Ses-
sions against persons'admitted to Bail, must be entered for trial
before Twelve o'clock on the day after the discharge of the
Grand Jury, or the trial will stand over.
WRIGHT, Clerk of the Peace.
O'terk of the Peace's Office, March 2, 1847.

THE GREAT MADRAS JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY.
PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.

CAPITAL, £1,000,000, in 21,000 SHARES of £5O each.
DEPOSIT, ss. per Share.
To be empowered by Charter of Incorporation from the Indian
Legislature, and also by Act of the Imperial Parliament, to
limit the responsibility of Shareholders.

PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.

Henry Glanville, Esq., WeStbourne-terrace, Paddington.
Joseph Peplow, Esq., 13, Tottenham-court-road, Middlesex,
Richard Greenwood, Esq., Saint Pancras, Middlesex.
Richard Edwards, sq., Mitcham, Surrey.
William Freeman, Esq., Bayswater, Middlesex.
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.
Union Bank of London, Argyle-place, Regent-street.
SOLICITOR.
Wood Readett, Esq., 35, King-street, Cheapside.
SECRETARY.

DISTRICT PROVIDENT SOCIETY,
OFFICE, 4, QUEEN-SQUARE. I
THE Treasurer begs to acknowledge the receipt of
the following Additional Donations :
4' 8. d.
Mrs. Thompson, Aigburth -------- 10 00'
Frederick Peel, Esq lO 0 IY,
' Messrs. J. O'Neile and Co. 5 0 0
Rev. Gilbert H. Phillips , 5 0 (V
Edward Eccles 5 0 174'
Miss Ellison " 3 0 0,
James Crabtree, Esq.
3 0 0
William Cook, Esq.
Miss S. Jones
Mr. Richard Allinson
By a few men employed by the Corporation 0 16 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

HEALTH OF TOWNS.
TO TILE WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR.
•
SIR.,—I am extremely glad to perceive that the public
-generally, and more especially the influential portion
thereof, seem to be quite aware of the importance of
-adopting sanitary measures for the amelioration of the
health and condition of the inhabitants, and that you have
placed yourself at the head of the movement. In fur-
therance of this object, I will, with the Editor's permis-
sion, offer a few brief remarks, which probably may not
be quite irrelevant to the question before us.
In the first place, I maintain it to be futile to esta-
blish baths, Stc., without better habitations are provided
for the working classes, and cleanliness promoted in the,
domestic circle. It is my firm impression that until this
is effected, all other appliances will be comparatively use-
less, :and vain will be the attempt. The plan proposed
by Dr. Blackburn, at the annual meeting of the Health of
Towns, Association, to rebuild cottage tenements of the
worst description, meets with my approbation, though it
would notwithstanding be more advisable for a joint-stock
con4Pany t 'undertake it, with the sanction of the corpo-
ration, -as the latter body have enough to do in other mat-
ters without becoming speculating builders.
In'the'neitt place I will bring under your notice the
revolting practice
,of allowing interments within the
Borough. This should. not be tolerated any longer, but'
,be immediately discontinued. There is ample space on
the North Shore, towards Formby Point, for the forma-
tion of a Cemetery, on a large scale, which ably con-
ducted by a respectable Joint Stock proprietary, might
answer every purpose for centuries to come. In the
meanwhile every method should be taken to prevent the
public health suffering from contagion. I have heard that.
the use of Lime is effectual in removing the unwholesome
, effluvia arising from grave-yards.
It has been known that infectious disorders have re-
appeared, after the lapse of many years, simply by dis-
turbing the ground wherein the remains of persons were
deposited, whose deaths occurred through plague, cholera,
or fever. How cautious then should we be with these:
awful facts before us, to prevent, if possible, a recurrence
of the latent evil.

I am respectfully, your -obedient servant,
SPONDEUS.

THE EXCHANGE NEWS-ROOM AND ITS
MANAGEMENT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—Amidst all the dissensions (religious and political)
which vex society, every man of business must hitherto
have found it a most agreeable arrangement that, by
general consent, they have been excluded from the com-
mercial world, and must, in consequence, deprecate any
violation of this rule.

I am induced to address you, because I observed with
much pleasure, in a recent number of your valuable paper,
notice was very properly taken of the refusal to allow
the petition for a National Fast to lie for signature in the
Exchange News-room, after the utmost license had been
given to Free-Trade, pro-Slave-Sugar,- cum multis aliis
petitions of questionable character; and I wish to point
out for your further animadversion, a petition which I see
to-day in the News-room for the first time, viz., one for
the total abolition of the punishment of death.
Hitherto the signatures have been very few ; but. I
grieve to see the honoured name of Dr. Raffles among
those who are audacious enough to answer the question,
4th Job 17th verse—" Shall a mortal man be more just
than God ?" The rest appear to consist chiefly of alnico-
Socinians and others, who make lofty pretensions to
humanity. I would ask them, if they would affect credit
for a higher degree of humanity than one who literally.
" went about doing good ;" and whose life has been
written by a near relation of Dr. Raffles,—will not even
they blush as they read the following—" I would wish
that no person might suffer capitally but for murder—for
setting houses on fire, and for house breaking attended
with acts of cruelty."—John Howard, Appendix 6, State
of Prisons, 2nd edition, p. 170.
But to return to the source of this evilEl would ask that
inqury should be made where this partial influence in the
mangement of the News-room resides, in order that it
may be over-ruled. It cannot be the interest of the pro-
prietors to disgust those numerous subscribers who may
sign themselves as I now do,
Your obedient humble servant,
A CONSERVATIVE, A PROTESTANT, AND
A CHURCHMAN.
Liverpool, 6th March, 1847.
TO THE CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN OF
THE HEALTH COMMITTEE.