The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-24 00:00:00

HEALTH COMMITTEE.

The weekly meeting was held on Thursday, present
Messrs. Hornby (chairman,) Rimmer, Bennett, Harbord,
Neill, Bent, Parker, Tyrer, Walser, and Morris.
Mr. Newlands tendered his resignation as engineer of
the water-works, in consequence of the recent vote in the
Council.

Some discussion followed, during which Mr. HARBORD
intimated that they might have government interference,
which, he thought, was inevitable before long.
A deputation from the Houseowners' Guardian Society.
consisting of Mr. G. Sumner, Mr. Carson, and Mr. Brad-
ley, surgeon, waited upon the committee to lay before them
the evils resulting from the overcrowding of court houses.
After some conversation, the deputation then retired,
it being understood that the subject of the overcrowding
of court houses should not be lost sight of upon the next
application to Parliament.

The Inspector of Nuisances reported the cleansing of
1020 cesspools during the week, and the reference of 113
dilapidated places to the building surveyor for repairs, the
inspection of 68 nuisances complained of by inhabitants,
and the reference of 49 others to the borough engineer
for remedy by drainage ; together with a variety of other
details of work done in his department during the week,
including the re-examination of 781 courts in 51 given
streets, where notices to limewash the exterior walls had
been given, and in 682 of which the notices had been com-
plied with, and 149 remained undone, and proceedings were
about to be taken to compel the owners of those courts to
comply with this necessary sanatory regulation.
The Medical Officer reported that the mortality of the
town had been more than double the average, in conse-
quence of the prevailing epidemic. The deaths from all
causes were 463 against 445 the previous week : cholera,
233 against 201 the previous week. Deaths from bowel
complaint, 55. There had been 45 deaths from cholera
in Scotland Ward, 42 in Vauxhall, and 40 in Exchange
Ward. During the last four days there had been a gra-
dual increase, the deaths being 64, 74, 85, and 105, respec-
tively. Every effort was made to lessen the mortality by
cleansing courts, removing the sick. and other means;
and the engineer was directed to withdraw a portion of
the water used for watering the streets in the better parts
of the town, and apply it to the cleansing of the streets
and courts where the epidemic was most prevalent. It
was also considered desirable that the police force should
render any assistance when required to do so.
Some conversation ensued as to the quantity of water
required for the use of the town, during which Mr. HAR-
HORD said that the Water Committee were in a difficult
position. They had no establishment—no head—and no
power to increase the supply from the wells. He would,
however, do all in his power to furnish the required sup-
ply as far as possible.
Mr. Newlands said they were distributing 4,000,000 gal-
lons per day, but that was not sufficient for the wants of
the town at the present crisis, though it might do for a
domestic supply. Liverpool was, however, in as good a
position as other towns. He had previously said that by
improved machinery they might get a million of gallons
per day additional.
The CHAIRMAN intimated that they were getting upon
the water question, and the subject dropped.

Mr. WALTHEW said a circumstance had been commu-
nicated to him, which he considered it right to bring be-
fore the committee. An individual whom he knew, who
was now much reduced in circumstances, called upon him
to state that his mother, who was on a visit to him, had
unfortunately been taken ill (as was understood) of the
cholera. He applied to Dr. Hawthorne for assistance,
hut he refused to attend unless they gave him a guinea.
With great difficulty the guinea was obtained ; the doctor
attended the woman four times, and she was no better,
after which he refused to give any further assistance un-
less another guinea was paid to him. He (Mr. Walthew)
thought that too much publicity could not be given to
such an act, as it might be of benefit to the working
classes. Dr. Hawthorne could have no sympathy when
he refused going to persons labouring under so dreadful a
malady without first having a guinea.

Mr.'HARBORD said he had no wish to shield Dr. Haw-
thorne, hut he thought the committee would be stepping
out of their province by interfering in such matters.
Mr. PARKER.—Four visits for a guinea is rather a low
rate.

The CHAIRMAN said the committee had nothing to do
with it, and the subject then dropped.
The meeting then adjourned.

IBtstrfa Retvo.

The law-clerks of Blackburn are getting up a movement
to obtain a half-holiday on the Saturday.
THE YACHT " VISION."—A very beautiful print of
this beautiful craft, belonging to Thos. Birchall, Esq., is
just published, and makes a very pleasing picture.
On Friday evening a meeting similar to those held a
Bolton and Ashton, was held in Stockport, when resolu-t
tions in support of the Ten Hours Act were unanimously
adopted.
HEYWOOD.—The Grand Protestant Confederation of
Loyal Orangemen, Lodgel7l, held their 30th anniversary
at the King's Arms, New Marketplace, Heywood, on
Saturday last, when eighty sat down to a very excellent
sinner. The company enjoyed themselves as usual, with
loyal toasts and songs appropriate for tne occasion.
On Wednesday a cow belonging to Mr. Wm. Pritchard,
of Sutton, which had taken shelter under an ash tree, was
struck by the electric fluid, and killed. The tree was but
slightly injured. About three years since three trees were
struck by lightning within ten yards of the same spot ;
one was entirely destroyed and the others seriously injured.
HEALTH OF TOWNS ASSOCIATION.—The annual meet-
ing of the Working-Mons' Health of Towns Association
was held on Monday evening, in the Cairo-street school.
The room was well filled. The mayor (Mr. Allcard) pre-
sided. Among these present were Mr. G. Greenall, M.P.,
Mr. J. Nicholson, Mr. Hardy, Mr. J. Rylands, the Rev.
P. P. Carpenter, and several others who take a deep inte-
rest in sanatory matters. A report was read, and several
resolutions were carried, bearing upon the desirability of
effective sanatory measures being adopted; one expressed
the hope that the Town Council would not let another
session pass without applying for the introduction of the
Health of Towns Act.

THE TEN HOURS AcT.—A meeting of the Lancashire
Central Committee for the protection of the Ten Hours
Bill was held on Wednesday night at Manchester, at
which a letter from Lord Ashley was read, dated July 17,
in answer to one addressed to his Lordship by the meet-
ing. In this letter his Lordship refers to a letter, dated
June 15th last, addressed by him to the Editor of the
Manchester Guardian, as explanatory of his views on the
subject of the Ten Flours Bill; and concludes by saying,
that if the operatives choose to stand on their fall rights
he shall not abandon them. To this last letter of Lord
Ashley's, the Committee on Wednesday night sent a
reply, expressing the firm determination of the workmen
to stand to the Ten Hours Bill, and calling on his Lord-
ship for his support of their cause in Parliament.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—An accident of a most unex-
pected and fatal nature occurred on the bridge crossing
the Manchester Railway, in Bridgeman-street, Bolton, on
Thursday last. The railway company, for increased ac-
commodation at the station' have been laying an addi-
tional line of rails, and on this account some alterations
have been necessary at the bridge. They are in course of
completion, and on Thursday men were engaged in laying
water pipes in the road upon the bridge. Jo. Ainsworth,
an old man of seventy-two years of age, a weaver, residing
in Bleakley-street, stood watching the men, when, from a
flow of water being let into the pipes, and forcing itself
upon the air contained in them, the plug was driven out
with the force of a cannon ball, and striking Ainsworth,
who stood near, upon the head, he was killed instanta
neously.
UNFOUNDED RUMOUR OF CHOLERA AT SOUTHPORT.
—ln the early part of last week a melancholy event took
place in Southport, not fewer than three members of one
family being struck by the hand of death within twenty-
four hours ! Mr. Younghusband's son, about eighteen
mouths old, who had been ill of the scarlet fever, died
first; Mrs. Youngbusband, a lady aged 72, died next, of a
suffusion of blood in the head ; and lastly, Mr. Young..
husband, her son, and the father of the little boy, who
was of a nervous temperament, died of spasms, brought
on through excessive grief. These melancholy deaths,
coupled with two or three deaths from ordinary causes,
appear to have given rise to the report that cholera was
raging in the town, and a most injurious paragraph ap-

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peared in some of the journals to that effect. At a meet-
ing of the Southport commissioners, held on Tuesday,
attention was drawn to the report, and three medical gen-
tlemen declared that no such disease as Asiatic chslera
had made its appearance in the town ; but, on the con-
trary, the health of the town was such as to strengthen its
character of being the healthiest town in her Majesty's
dominions. The immense number of visitors, many inva-
lids, must necessarily inerease the rate of mortality ; but
the registrar of the district says it is not by any means
excessive. The commissioners are taking steps to remove
anything likely to encourage the spread of the disease,
should it appear. The scourging epidemic of 1832, and
the not less fearful one of 1847, were known in the town
but in name, not a single case having occurred there or in
the vicinity.

MR. BECKWITH'S UNFOUNDED CHARGES
AGAINST MR. ALDERMAN COOPER.

[The following letter was offered to the Mercury, in
whose columns the speech of Mr. Beckwith, in making
his absurd charges, was fully reported, whilst the satis-
factory reply to it, by Mr. Cooper, was greatly abbreviated,
and refused to be inserted, except as an advertisement.]

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY.
Sir,—ln the columns of your paper on Friday last
appears a portion of a report of the proceedings in the
Council, on Tuesday, the 17th instant, distinguished as
" Another Charge of Jobbing against Mr. Alderman
Cooper in the Water Committee," and although the mem-
bers of the Council, by their decision, clearly expressed
their opinion thereon, yet the statement of Mr. Beckwith
is so full of misrepresentations, and so calculated to injure
our character as tradesmen, that we feel ourselves called
upon to make the public acquainted with the correct
circumstances of the case.

Mr. Beckwith commences by stating that Mr. Cooper,
for some reason or other, thought proper to give us the
fitting up of the Water Offices in Strand-street, for which
Messrs. Dixon and Hunter had previously given in an
estimate agreeing to do the work for £lB, but for which
we had sent in a bill amounting to £33 Ss. With respect
to Messrs. Dixon and Hunter's estimate, we can distinctly
state that no such estimate was ever given in, and that no
such thing ever existed ; and our bill, as claimed from the
Water Committee, and which was referred back, was
£2B 145., and not £33 Bs., as falsely stated by Mr. Beck-
with.

The specification only embraced a small portion of the
work required and executed by ourselves, and a statement
of the extra work done by us was sent in to the Water
Committee amounting to £ll, leaving for the portion
done, according to the specification, only £l7 I4s. Mr.
Beckwith could not be ignorant that the Water Committee,
at the request of Mr. Cooper, got Mr. Whiteman to value
the work ; the object, though dark to Mr. Beckwith, is
obvious to every thinking man, viz., that they might be
fully satisfied of the justice done them, and to disarm
those whose object it appears is to take hold of anything
whereby to attack an honourable member of the Council.
Mr. Whiteman did value the work, and estimates it at
£27 9s. 6d., but at the close of his estimate he remarks
that he had made no allowance for tongueing and groov-
ing, or waste of timber, and that considerable detention
had been caused by our not being allowed to proceed regu-
larly with the work. Thus Mr. Whiteman's valuation
only differs a very trifling from our bill, his valuation being
£27 9s. 6d., and our bill £2B 14s. Mr. Beckwith goes on
to say that Mr. Whiteman had over estimated several
articles, such as hinges, baize, &c. He states the
hinges, charged 175., may be purchased for 9s. 9d.,
whereas they cost us 14s. 9d., cash. He also states
there is 31 yards baize charged 2s. 6d. per yard,
and that he remembers distinctly selling the same de-
scription of goods at Bd. Now there is no such thing as
baize named in our account. There is 31- yards of painted
oil-cloth, of an extra width, for office tables and desk.
This, we presume, is what Mr. Beckwith alludes to • he
may have sold such an article, as we are aware his shop
contained an assemblage of many curious commodities,
,stated to have been portions of the cargoes of wrecked
vessels ; and, owing to this circumstance, he may have
been able to sell it even as low as Bd. per yard. This we
have no wish to dispute. He then goes on to say he would
have little difficulty in proving that the greater portion of
the ironmongery came from Mr. Cooper's shop. This is
also untrue; we are not in the least manner bound to Mr.
Cooper, neither has he any object in serving us more than
any other parties. The whole charge from I,,,ginning to
edd is a perversion and gross misrepresentation, and
merits the scorn of every upright person. It is a great
pity Mr. Beckwith's constituency do not call upon him to
attend more to their real interests, instead of wasting his
and others' time in bringing forward unfounded charges
of this nature, and endeavouring to keep honest tradesmen
out of their money, so justly and so long past due,—
Requesting the favour of your publishing this letter in
d 'MURTRIE & GILLIES.
paper of to-morrow, we are, sir, your obedient
sy eoruvra n ts ,

73, Si. James's street, Liverpool, July 23rd, 1849.

THE BISHOP OF OXFORD AND THE REV.
T. W. ALLIES.

61, Eaton Place, July 3d, 1849.
My dear Archdeacon,—l think it right that my Clergy
should know what had taken place between the Rev. Mr.
Allies and myself ; and as you are the most probable per-
son by whom I can on this occasion act, I will thank you
to communicate this my letter to them.
I felt it my painful duty to censure Mr. Allies's volume
as in my judgment contradicting the 39 articles. My
censnre has drawn from Mr. Allies the following letter,
which (there being no copies of the first Edition remaining
in his publisher's hands) is held by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Bishop of London, and myself to be
sufficient to allow me not to originate legal proceedings
against him. Mr. Allies's letter is as follows :
" Launton, Bicester, May 15th, 1849.
" My Lord,—l regret that any thing in the Book that
I have published should appear to my Diocesan to be
contrary to the Articles of the Church of England, or
calculated to depreciate that Church in comparison with
the Church of Rome; and I undertake not to publish a
second edition of the work.

" I declare my adherence to the Articles, in their plain
literal and grammatical sense, and will not preach or teach
anything contrary to such Articles in their plain literal and
grammatical sense. I have the honour to be, my Lord,
your Lordship's dutiful servant in Christ,
(Signed)
" THOS. W. ALLIES.
_ _

" The Lord Bishop of Oxford."
This letter of Mr. Allies, my dear Archdeacon, you will
observe applies to two distinct subjects.
Ist. As to the publication which I have censured, Mr.
Allies regrets my censure, and now proposes not to publish
any second edition. Under the circumstances which I
have before stated as to the first edition I treat this as if
he had originally shewed me his Book, and on my ex-
pressing my disapprobation of it, had, in deference to the
opinion of his Diocesan, abstained from publishing it. I
accept this act of deference to my office on his part.
But 2ndly. I deem it my duty as Bishop, in consequence
of this publication having already taken place, to require
an assurance that Mr, Allies will rot, in his narish, teach
contrary to the doctrines of the Church of t ngland. AS
to this, I apply the same test which I have applied to
other cases before. I ssk Mr. Allies whether he, as the
rule of his teaching, accepts in oonjunction with the
Prayer Book the Articles of the Church in their plain
literal and grammatical sense, By this letter he assures
me that he does so, and I accept this his assurance. Be-
lieve me, my dear Archdeacon, yours faithfully.
(Signed) S. OxoN.
To the Venerable the Archdeacon of Oxford.

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ROYAL AGRICUL
TURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND.

The great meeting and show of this Society has been
held this week at Norwich, where extersive preparations
had been made for its accommodation. The public exhi-
bition of implements commenced on Wednesday morning
at eight o'clock, from which hour the show yard became
the grand centre of attraction to the thousands of agricultu-
rists who have visited Norwich on the occasion. It is
said that the improvements discoverable in this year's
exhibition are very many of them of a highly important
and valuable character. One of the chief features is,
that machinery of a complicated description is gradually
being discarded for that which displays greater simplicity
and more rigid adherence to strict scientific rules, thus
being at one and the same time alike effective and econo-
mical—desiderata which, in the existing circumstances of
the farmer, are superior, perhaps, to every other considera-
tion. The usual prizes were awarded for the most ingeni.
ous implements. After the exhibition, there was an inter-
esting lecture on the parasitic fungi of the British farm,
which was delivered by the Rev. Edward Sidney, in the
County Court, and which was listened to with great
attention by a numerous audience.

The show of stock was on Thursday. The yard was
opened to the public at the early hour of eight in the
morning, and immediately every means of ingress was
besieged by eager applicants for admission. So large and
constant were the arrivals—rnd they included almost
every class and grade of society--that bylnoon the whole
area, covering an extent of ground which measures up-
wards of 14 acres, became very thronged. It is pleasing
to record that, taken as a whole, this year's show affords
another convincing illustration of the rapid progress
which, mainly owing to the operations of the Royal
Agricultural Society—continues to be made in the im-
provement of every description of farming stock. To the
practised eye of the agriculturist this is apparent on every
hand. So far as numbers are concerned, it is true, there
is a falling off on the present occasion as compared with
the exhibition at Derby in 1843, and at York last year.
But with these two exceptions, it exceeds every other that
has taken place since the establishment of the society.
It is due to the society, to the judges, and to the agri-
culturists, of the eastern counties, to state, that at this
exhibition the rage for stock, fattened till they were fit
only for the tallow-chandlers' melting tubs, has been en-
tirely extinguished. Over-feeding, with all its painful
and disgusting consequences, does not, at least as far as
fat cattle are concerned, exist in this district. The stock
exhibited is in excellent condition, and nothing more, and
it would really appear as if there was some prospect that
the encouragement of the society would now be perma-
nently given to the production of the best breeds. The
council dinner took place at six o'clock in St. Andrew's
Hall, and was very numerously and influentially attended.
The Earl of Chichester, president of the society, filled the
chair ; the Marquis of Downshire, president-elect, the
vice-chair.

A SINGULAR WILL.—The following extract is from the
will of William Beckett, formerly Governor of Plymouth,
which was proved in the year 1782 :—" I desire that my
body may be kept as long as it may not be offensive, and
that one or more of my toes may be cut off to secure the
certainty of my being dead. I also make the further
request to my dear wife that, as she has been troubled
with one old fool, she will not think of marrying another."

ea%t Eiailto.

Now loading, and will have quick despatch.
For CALCUTTA,
stiy7-4%!-,F<A' The fine Clyde-built Ship ELIZA STEWART.
' -.-A" JAMES HENDERSON, Commander,
(Who is well acquaihted with the trade;)
A I for twelve years; 448 tons; coppered ; a remarkably fast
sailer; and in every respect a first-rate conveyance both for
goods and passengers.—For terms, &c. apply on board, west
side Salthouse Dock. or to W. and J. TYRER.
The BEETHOVEN is cleared out. but will continue to receive
goods while detained by contrary winds.