The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-23 00:00:00

The late Dr. G
and Diseases of the I
usual.

's Treatise on the Anatomy, Physiology,
ar, may be had at her residence, as

Extract from the report of the East London Institution for
the Cure of Deafness:—
" Upwards of 200 cases have been cured during the last
six months, and we have no hesitation in avowing that our
success may be mainly attributed to our having, in most
instances, discontinued the dangerous system of operating,
and our having adopted Mrs. Gardner's new mode of treat-
ment by external applications."

GAS! GAS!! GAS ! !!
A SAVING OF ONE FOURTH IN
GA S CHAN_ DELIERS
___

WITH WATER SLIDES,
Warranted perfect and superior, at one-third less than the
Gas Companies' Prices.
This fact can be proved on inspection, at
GLASGOW HOUSE, 53, CHURCH-STREET.

CATALOGUE OF THE VALUABLE STOCK
NOW SELLING OFF, as the Lease expires,
AT GLASGOW HOUSE,
53, CHURCH-STREET.
ROSEWOOD WORK BOXES.

1 360 Ladies' real rosewood Work Boxes, at 4s. each,
2 240 Ditto, ditto, larger sizes, at ss.
3 168 Ditto, ditto, very good articles, at 9s.
4 96 Ditto, ditto, lined with watered silk, at lls. and 15s
5 14 Splendid Nine Guinea Work Boxes, at £6 108. each
_ TEA CADDIES.
_ _

6 125 Real Rosewood Tea Caddies, at 3s. and 6s. each.
7 70 Superior Ditto, in Ebony and Rosewood, at 10s. & 14s
TEA. CHESTS.
_ _ _

8 56 Rosewood Chests, with cut basins, well worth 305.,
selling at 20s. each.
9 52 Ditto very superior articles, at 275.
(Some of these are beautifully inlaid with pearl.)
10 8 Splendid Chests, in Ebony and Rosewood, at a
great sacrifice !
PORTABLE DESKS.
11 128 Real Rosewood and Mahogany Desks, at 10s. & 12s.
12 49 Very prime articles at 16s. and 18s.
13 3G Beautifully inlaid with Pearl, 225., 245., and 275.
14 90 Splendid Ladies' and Gentlemen's, from £3 to £7,
at a serious reduction.
LADIES' DRESSING CASES.
15 48 In real Rosewood, at 18s. each.
16 52 Inlaid with Pearl. at 20s.
17 35 With Jewel-drawer, and lined with Silk Velvet, at
18 A great variety, from £4 10s. to £8 6s.
_ GENTLEMEN'S DRESSING CASES.

19 34 Fitted with Rogers' Cutlery, with liiiithe;Complete,
at 325.
20 129 In Mahogany or Rosewood, at various prices, from
325. to £6 15s.

Great Sacrifices are being made on the Papier Mache
Goods. The Plated Goods are selling at 25 per cent. off the
Manufacturers' Prices. The Reduction is immense on the
whole of the Stock at

GLASGOW HOUSE, 53, CHURCH-STREET
N.B.—Closes at Seven o'clock.

IMPOLICY AND CRUULTY OF NEGLECTING PUBLIC
HEALTH.-It is computed that half the deaths of the in-
habitants of the globe are produced by fever of various kinds
—the amount of intensity of this in a district will pretty ac-
curately indicate the condition of the air respired by its
inhabitants. I am aware that in localities where masses of
human beings are impacted—where no attention is paid to
ventilation—where decaying refuse or excrementitious matter
is allowed to accumulate (and that this is too frequently the
case, I shall take an early oppertunity of proving,) the in-
evitable result must be the deterioration of the surrounding
attained a certain
—the records of its

atmosphere.
degree of int
results in th

The deterioration having
isity, leaves the evidence

—in the huge masses of

misery it has created—and in the wide-spreading desolation
it has occasioned. The magnitude of the result in London,
if that magnitude be estimated by the numbers attacked, is
not slight. From returns received from the Bethnal Green
and Whitechapel Unions, it appears that during the year 1834,
there occurred of fever cases—
In the Bethnal Green U
In the Whitechapel Union

4,611
Thus it appears that the medical officers attached to these
two Unions alone have attended no less than 4,6-11 fever
cases. But these returns include only the persons attacked
with fever, 'oho applied to the parish for relief. Fever, it is
notorious, has prevailed extensively in both these districts
einong people above the rank of paupers, among people of
Me middle -class, and; in numerous ihstaness, even in the
families of the wealthy.—Sp extreme has been the social dis-
order, and so abject is the poverty of some of the places
which are now the seats of disease, that great numbers of
the dwellings have been entirely abandoned by the lease-
holders. This statement affords a painful proof of the close,
the inseparable connection existing between physical agen-
cies producing disease, and their demoralising results.—
Though the power of mere circumstances can never be abso-
lute over a rational and responsible being—though we never
can be quite bereft of the means of making ourselves better
or worse ; still it is not to be denied that upon circumstances
depend the moral and social elevation or depression of all
sorts and conditions of mankind in the mass. Let circum-
stances be favourable, virtue and happiness will prevail—let
them be adverse—vice and misery will abound.—Gatherings
from Grave Yards, by G. A. Walker, Surgeon.
FALLS OF THE CONWAY.—The sun was gently declin-
ing when I reached that point in the Holyhead-road, from
which I struck off across the fields to view the Falls of the
Conway. The ear of the wanderer is instructed of their
proximity by the noise of rushing waters, but the immediate
neighbourhood of this wonderful scene is more directly indi-
cated by a thin plantation of young timber, so widely dis-
persed as not to interrupt the growth of the green herbage,
and the pale primrOses and gay wild flowers that everywhere
invite his attention. A narrow path winds down the decli-
vity amongst the trees, that thicken into a forest as he ap-
proaches thetable rocks upon which he first pauses to con-
temp late a subject combining so many new features of the
sublime and beautiful. A vast circular opening in the high
lands, lined by perpendicular granite rocks, discloses a mag-
nificent hall, stupendous in height, and deepening into
almost impenetrable gloom. On each side rude masses of
rock project themselves, assuming something like architec-
tural shapes, and dividing at intervals the stern channelled
curtain of the gnlpb, give to the whole the character of a
building formed by a giant hand, and moulded after some
Two huge fragments, at the extreme l• •hr

savage taste. _
rear themselves like stern sentinels on opposite sides through
which the foaming cataract tumbles with headlong fury,giving
light and life to the supreme wildness and solitude of the
place. A capacious basin,• hollowed by time and the cease-
less action of the elements, receives the boiling flood, which
here for ,t while stays its headlong fury, and becomes distri-
buted amongst numerous stony billows. Again the accumu-
lated waters overleap their barriers, and when they rush for-
ward in one impatient current, spouting and springing over
riven rocks and through deep chasms, till they reach the
level bottom beyond the confluence of the Lledr with the
Conway, where they quietly subside into one calm clear
stream. At the time 1 paid my visit to the Falls the dry
season had considerably diminished the force of the waters :
the broad masses of rock which everywhere rear themselves,
and pave the floor of the first descent, afforded safe footing
for the Adventurer, and I
stepped from one to another in
perfect security.
...,-From Roscoe' North Waits, new edition.

'l'll OF M

On Sunday the King's Head public-house, in EaslelJeap,
was surrounded by a larger concourse of persons than has as-
sembled there since the time that elapsed between the cum-
.mittal of the murder and the holding of the coroner's-inquest
on the late Mr. James Burdon. 'The re• excitement was pro-
duced in consequence of its becoming generally known tint
Mrs. Sarah Blakesiey, the unfortunate widow of the man who

expiated his offence in front of Newgate on Monday morning
last, had expired. The unhappy woman's death makes flu
fourth life that has fallen a sacrifice to this domestic t

Blakesley and her male child, of
whom she was prematurely delivered, and the author of this
dire catastrophe, Robert Blakesley.
Mrs. Blakesley, his widow, was in the 25th year of her
age, and was the daughter of a Mr. Atkins, who for several
years carried on the trade of a respectable livery-stable
keeper. She was formerly in the service of Lord Surrey,
and quitted her situation to assist her sister and Mr. Burdon
in the public business. Blakesley's first acquaintance with
her arose out of his occasionally visiting the King's head
with some gentlemen connected with the Corn-Exchange. An
intimacy sprung up between them about 12 months since, and
it is said that a very strong attachment existed' between
them. It is already known that Blakesley, a few minutes
before he left the condemned cell for the last time, declared
that it was his intention to have murdered his wife, but no
explanation of his fatal purpose has been hitherto conveyed
to the public. The only declaration he made in this respect
was to the Ordinary of Nesvgate, to whom he stated that it
was his determination, as they could not live together, " to
dig at the same time," adding, that at the time and before
his commission of the offence it was his full conviction he
would be executed.

Burdon, Mrs

From all the inquiries that the reporter has made, it ap-
pears to be untrue that the intelligence of her husband's
execution was made known to her, but she informed her
medical attendant a few days before the extreme sentence
of the law was carried out that she dreamt of her husband's
ignominious death.

Mrs. Blakesley expired on Thursday last, and on Saturday
an inquest was held on the body, when the surgeon stated
that the deceased did not die from miscarriage though it was
consequent upon the wound. If she had not been stabbed,
he said, it was not likely she would have miscarried. After
some further evidence, the jury without hesitation returned
a verdict of wilful murder against Robert Blakesley..
Mr. Burdon, it is stated, gave £3OOO for the purchase of
the lease of the King's Head, Eastcheap, and since the mur-
der several persons have offered, under the impression that
Mrs. Burden would leave the house, an increased premium
of from £5OO to £lOOO ; but she has stated, in answer to the
inquiries of the ward beadle, that it is her intention to carry
on the business, and for that purpose to apply to the
licensing aldermen for a renewal of the licence on the next
licensing day.

THE LAST CENSU

The total population of England, according to the census
just completed, is 7,321,875 males ; 7,673,633 females—total,
14,995,508; that of Wales, 447.533 males; 463,788 females
total, 911.321; that of Scotland, 1,246,427 males ; 1,382,530
females—total, 2,628,957 ; and that of the islands of Jersey,
Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jothon, and Man, 57,598
males ; 66,481 females—total, 124,079. These numbers,
including 4,003 males, and 893 females, ascertained to have
been travelling by railways and canals on the night of June
6. make the grand totals 9,077,436 males ; and 9,587,325
females. The population, therefore, of Great Britain,
amounts to 18,664,761 persons.

. . _
The returns only include such parts of the army, navy,
and merchant seamen as were at the time of the census
within the kingdom on shore.

The increase-of the population, as compared with the re-
turns of 1831, is at the rate of 14.5 per cent. for England ;
13 per cent. for Wales ; for Scotland, 11.1 ; for the islands
in the British seas, 19.6; making the increase for the whole
of Great Britain 14 per cent., being less than that of the 10
years ending 1831, which was 15 per cent.
In 1811 the increase during the previous 10 years in
England, was 144 per cent. ; in Wales, 13 per cent. ;
and in Scotland, 14 per cent. In 1821, the increase for
England was 174 per cent.; for Wales, 17 per cent; and for
Scotland, 16 per cent. In 1831, the increase was for Eng-
land, 16 per cent.; for Wales, 12 per cent.; for Scotland, 13
per cent.; and for the islands in the British seas, 15.8 per
cent.

The number of houses in England is, inhabited, 2,758,295;
uninhabited, 162,756 ; building, 25,882. The number in
Wales, inhabited, 188,196; uninhabited, 10,133; building,
1,709. In Scotland, inhabited, 503,357; uninhabited, 24,307;
building, 2,760. In the islands of the British Seas, 19,159
inhabited; 865 uninhabited; and 220 building. Grand
totals for the whole of Great Britain-3,464,007 inhabited ;
198,061 uninhabited ; 30,631 building,—altogether, 3,682,699
houses.

In 1831 the number of inhabited houses was 2,866,595 ;
uninhabited, 133,331; building, 27,553 ; total, 3,027,479.

POPULATION OF THE ENGLISH COUNTIES.
In 1831. In 1841.
95483 .. 107937
145389 .. ]60226
146529 .. 155989
143955 .. 164509
334391 .. 395300
300938 .. 341269
169681 .. 177913
237170 .. 272202
494478 .. 533731
159252 .. 174743
253910 .. 324277
317507 .. 344995
387019 .. 431307
111211 .. 114438

Bedford ,
Berks...
Bucks....
Cambridge
Chester ...
Cornwall
Cumberland
Derby
Devon .
Dorset
Durham
Essex
Gloucester
Hereford.
Herts
Huntingdon ....
Kent
Lancaster
Leicester.
Lincoln
Middlesex
Monmouth
Norfolk
Northampton
Northumberland
Nottingham
Oxford
Rutland
Salop
Somerset.... 404200
Southampton (Hants) 314280
Stafford 410512
Suffolk
Surrey . .
Sussex.
Warwick 336610 ..
Westmoreland 55041 ..
Wiltshire
Worcester: 211365 ..
York
POPULATION OF WALES.
Counties. Males.
Anglesea
Brecon
Cardigan
Carmarthen
Carnarvon .
Denbigh 44,617
Flint
.. 33,636
Glamorgan 89,028
Merioneth 19,247
Montgomery 34,252
Pembroke
Radnor
POPULATION OF SCOTLAND
Counties. Males.
Aberdeen
Argyle 47,654
Ayr
Banff
Berwick .
Bute
Caithness
Clackmannan
Dumbarton
Dumfries
Edinburgh 102,709
Elgin (Moray)
Fife 65,735
Forfar
Haddington
Inverness
Kincardine 15,804
Kinross
Kirkcudbright (Stewartry of)
Lanark 208,369
Linlithgow..
Nairn .
Orkr

143341
53192

157237
58699

479155
1336854
197003
317465
1358330
98130
390054
179336
222912
225327
152156

548161
1667064

215855
362717

1576616
1343-19
199055

249773

161573
21340
239614
436002
354940
510206
315129
582613
299770
402121
5 6469
260007
233484
1591574

T and Shetland

Peebles
Perth
Renfrew .
Ross and Cromarty
Roxburgh
Selkirk
Stirling
Sutherland
Wigtown
Barracks

26,564
5,122
65,339
72,725
36,442
21,957
3,972
41,070
11,307
20,421
3,432

LANCASHIRE

Ashton and Oldham (part of)
Blackburn
Bolton
Burnley
Bury
Chorley
Chorlton
Clitheroe (part of)
Pylde
Garstanz
Tl,laanscliansgtedren.
Leigh
Liverpool
Manchester ........
Ormskirk
Prescot
Preston
Rochdale
Salford
Stockport (part of)
Todmordeu (part of)
Ulverstone
Warrington
West Derby
Wigan
Wortley

FREE TRADE FALSEHOODS.--The sutterings which un-
fortunately at present exist in many of the manufacturing
towns are made the themes of grossly exaggerated tirades in
favour of free trade. Birmingham has, been represented to
be miserable enough ; but Sheffield in particular WAS said to
be literally depopulated and ruined. " Whole streets of shops
and houses remain tenantless. Trade comparatively is at a
stand-still. Bankruptcies, failures, and assignments are daily
events. The prison is choked with forty.shim
ng debtors,
and the artisans who have saved a fewpounds are selling their
few sticks of furniture to enable them to emigrate." But
cu houses, and reckon-
iwhat is the truth. according to an able and authentic
analysis given in the Sheffield Mercury, we find that—" In
SheffieldlnBg3lfiveinmates
each 18,131
house,
Isoecpied ,
the population would be
91,655. This is within 37 of the numbers given in the census
of that year, the actual population being 91,692. In 1841,
the census shows a population of 110,891, and, suppos-
ing these to be divided into families averaging five in
number, as in the year 1831, the inhabitauts of Shef-
field would be found occupying 22,178 houses. Now.
what is the actual number of houses occupied accord-
ing to the late returns? Not 22,178, but 22,753; so that
instead of there being ' whole streets of houses tenantless,'
as compared with the state of things in 1831, the people of
Sheffield occupy 575 houses over and above what they would
have occupied (allowing for the increase in population) had
their condition been neither better nor worse than in 1831.
That there is a great number of empty houses in Sheffield is
quite true, and it would be strange were it not so. since
1831, at which time only 19 houses out of 20 were tenanted,
the actual increase in population required the building of
3,840 houses, taking the families at rive, as in 1831, whereas
we have built 6,731 houses. In 1831, we had houses capable
of containing, at five to a family, 4,570 souls more than the
actual population, but we have now houses sufficient to
domicile 18,989 beyond the numbers given in the recent
census—in other words, we have built houses for 14,200
people beyond what were required.'