The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-16 00:00:00

bled, mentally and bodily, from the polluted atmosphere
which they respire.
Dr. W. H. Duncan, of Liverpool, says, in reference to
this subject, " I have compared the healthiness of one or
two streets, densely populated, which are notoriously un-
healthy, with that of others less densely populated, the in-
habitants of which are also of the working classes; I have
mentioned Oriel-street, in which one-fifth of the whole
number of inhabitants were affected with fever in the year.
In Lace-street, another street 160 yards long, containing
1285 inhabitants, giving an average of more than 11 in each
house, there were 200 cases of fever in the year ; that is,
nearly one in six of the inhabitants. I would compare this
street with another, also entirely inhabited by the working
classes, but not so densely populated, Addison-street, which
is 220 yards long, containing 1190 inhabitants ; in that street
only 89 cases of fever occurred in the year, being less than
lin 13. In Primrose-hill to. Cow-lane, 165 yards long, con-
taining 304 inhabitants. there were only eleven cases of fever
in the year, or 1 in 28."
It may be taken as an established fact, that fever, small-
pox, measles, scarlatina, cholera, diarrhoea, with the at-
tendant train of poverty, recklessness, immorality, and the
thousand ills that flesh is heir to, are rarely, if ever, absent
from the more populous districts of the metropolis and
other large towns. Much of this mischief would seem to
arise from want of ventilation and cleanliness. In popu-
lous neighbourhoods the tenements are crowded together
either in narrow streets or alleys, or in confined courts with
only one outlet. No sufficient purification of the atmo-
sphere can take place in such localities. They are, con-
sequently, damp, and the air is contaminated with the
exhalations arising from the dirt and filth which are ge-
nerally accumulated in some part of the court or street.
The light, also, is partially excluded from these abodes of
poverty and wretchedness, a circumstance to which, as ma-
terially tending to aggravate the evil, sufficient attention has
not hitherto been paid. Crowding of the population, im-
perfect ventilation, want of efficient drainage, and the con-
sequent accumulation of dirt and filth, and we are con-
strained to add, too often also the impoverished state and Un-
moral habits of the inhabitants, would seem to be the chief
causes of the sickness and mortality of populous neighbour-
hoods. The crowding of the populace within a confined
space, must necessarily tend to contaminate the purity of the
atmosphere, not only, as stated in the report by the deteri-
oriation which the air undergoes in the respiration of so
many human beings, but also by its becoming charged with
numerous exhalations necessarily connected with the process
of animal and social life. The use of fuel, the decay of
animal and vegetable matters, the accumulation of dirt in the
houses, all tend to charge the atmosphere with various im-
purities, for which in confined situations there are no coun-
teracting forces in operation, no renewal of the atmosphere
by the fresh and invigorating breezes of the open country, no
purifying action of vegetation in the full light of the solar
rays. On the contrary, the contaminated air hovers over
the spot, pressing like an
_incubus throughout the damp and

fects and throws its gloom alike on the physical- and Moral
system of the inhabitants. In many of our large towns it
would seem that a considerable portion of the inhabitants
undergo a kind of living sepulture. They inhabit under-
ground cellars, carrying on their occupations in these damp
and dismal abodes, shut out from the light of heaven, and
breathing an atmosphere little superior to that of the Grotto
del Cane.

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14.—Wind South

Ana: V E n.—Marchioness of Normanby, , from Quebec—
Henry Hoyle, Chapman, from Oporto—Christian, M'Kenzie, from
Bourdeaux—Belvidere, —, from Quebec; sailed gth September
—Osprey, Langmaid, from Bourdeaux—Stormont, —, from
Odessa— Constant, Van- Schie, from Antwerp—and Johanna, Bak-
ker, from Dordt
ALSO

nalvicy,—Fanny, , from Limerick—Robert, Bur-
rows, and Pacific, Hutchins, from London—Mary, Walker, from
Cork—Ellen, Mackintosh, from Waterford—and Jessie,
from Poole
SAIKED

Miniken, for Malta—Hercules, Postill, for Mo-
bile—lndefatigable, Lister, for Savannah—Mary Jones, Fishley,
for Valparaiso—Captain Ross, Martin, for Africa—and Nimrod,
Manning, for Port Phillip and Sydney.

Thalia, -, sailed from Calcutta for Liverpool 12th August
Congress, -, hence to New York, was spoken 12th Sept. in
lat. 44, long. 49
Bristol Packet, --, from Alexandria to Liverpool, was spoken
28th Sept. in lat. 39, long. 9 . - . .

Maid of Alicant, from Alicant for Liverpool, off Lisbon
29th ultimo, _ _ _

Manchester, - hence to Newfoundland, was spoken 21st
September, in lat..4g, long. 33
Eagle, Bollans, hence at Newfoundland
Archer, Matthewson, sailed from Madeira for Barbadoes 17th
September '
Falkland, Appleton, hence at Leghorn
Palestine, Vianillo, hence at St. Übes
Thomas Leech, Nosworthy, sailed from St. Übes for Monte Video
28th September, and Samuel & Anne, Brollingham, 2nd October
for Liverpool
Mary & Eliza, Berend, and Groop Linkum, Deheril, hence at
Texel
Anna Luckins, Pott, and Aurora, Meppledbr, hence at Helvoet
Gazelle, Crighton, from St. Petersburgh for Liverpool, at Pent.
land Frith

Asia, Hannah; Agitator, Henry; Countess of Durham, Moller,
and Sally, -, hence at Quebec
Garrow, Jones, from Rotterdam, at Quebec
Windsor Castle, -, hence In the Traverse 12th September,
and Joseph Cunard. -, ditto 12th
Mary, Wheelwright, from St. Domingo, at Cork, and sailed for
Falmouth
Captain Weatherall, from Kertch, at ditto
Monarch, Hartwell, from Leghorn, at ditto
Sumatra, Harvey, from Cuba, at Crookshaven
Duke of Wellington. James, from Pugwash, at ditto
Harp, Fletcher, from Bourdeaux, at Dublin

WEDNESDAY, Ocvoaza 14.—Wind variable and moderate

Altai VED.—Elizabeth Keith, Walker, from St. John, N.l3.—Ann,
—, from Alexandria—Otaz, Earborina, from Galatz—Hotspur,
M`Jiautry, from Odessa—Corinthian, Casely, from Zante—Fenella,
Wakem; Damsel, Abbott; Emma, Jarvis, and Henry, Wakem.
from Malaga—Maid of Alicant, Wakem, from Alicant—Trinity
Yacht, Butcher, from Denia—Elizabeth, Bevis, from Nantes—
Ruby, Anning, from Lisbon—Atlas, Brandt, from Bourdeaux—
Oscar, Rentrep, from Riga—Johanna Gezina, Schurr, from Rutter-
dam—Fama, Winroth, from Gothenburg—Handelaars, Wyeman,
from Amsterdam—LoLisa, Rooms, from Antwerp—Catherine,
Glayder, from Dordt—Egidius, Duyts, from Ostend—and Henry
Hoyle, Chapman, from Oporto.

Pachetto di Trieste, Garofolo, hence at Trieste
Fanny, Hallett. from Rio Janeiro, at Flushing
Alida, Scholtens, hence for Groningen, at Plymouth
Margaret Cornelia, Hazewiukle, hence for Dordt, at ditto
Brothers, -, from St. John, N.B, off Newly
Cybele, Fitchett, from Aux Cayes for Rotterdam, at Falmouth
Betsey Susanne, River, sailed from Bourdeaux for this port 3rd
October

Maxim, -, from St. Petersburg, at Longhope, and sailed for
this port 7th October
Anne, --, hence for Africa, was spoken 17th ultimo, in lat.
39 0, long. 12 0
Priscilla, Taylor, hence for Pernambuco, was spoken Ist instant,
in lat. 49 0, long. 8 0

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15.—Wind N.W

DUBLIN CORN-EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 13

There was a good supply of grain at thiS day's market. Prime
Wheat sold nearly on same terms as last market day, but inferior
was very dull, and Is to is 6d per barrel lower. Oats also sold
heavily at a reduction of gd per barrel.
s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d
White Wheat, new 34 0 @ 37 0 I New Bere.... 10 0 @ 11 6
Millers' Red 3l 0— 36 0 Old Oats .... —— -
Inferior 2B 0 31 0 New Ditto.... 10 0 12 0
Barley, Melting l4 0 16 6 Oatmeal l2 0 14 0
Ditto, Grinding .. Second Fiour 2l 0— 23 0
Malt