The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-21 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

water or food. We may send our scavengers daily
through these streets ; we may pour down their
sewers a flood of water daily; we may ventilate and
cleanse their dwellings, and even induce habits of
comfort and order amongst their inhabitants; but
we can never raise their health materially until we
have allowed the air to circulate freely through them,
in a pure state and in abundance. The expense of
such an effort on a large scale might be considerable;
but public convenience—view the question upon
this low scale—would be infinitely promoted; and,
at the same time, we should be adding years to
the duration of life of our population.
There are few, we feel convinced, who can have
read the able and, at the same time, the revolting
statistics of some of these localities contained in
the letters of Dr. Watson, from time to time pub-
lishing in our columns, or of other gentlemen who
have preceded him in similar arduous and highly
praise-worthy enquiries, without arriving at the con-
clusion that some such effort as we have pointed out
must be made to introduce amongst them not only
increased cleanliness but a purer atmosphere as well.
That as property in their present state they are
worthless, and ought not to be endured, is self-
apparent ; whereas, by a portion of them being ap-
propriated to the formation of good thoroughfares,
the value and salubrity of those remaining would
be greatly increased.

WEST INDIES.

The Severn. Royal Mail steam-ship, Captain Vincent,
arrived at Southampton on Sunday night, at half-past five
o'clock, after an umssually rapid passage of 19 days from
St. Thomas's, and five and a-half days from Fayal. After
leaving the tropics, the Severn encountered very severe
weather up to the time of reaching the latter place, and
even then she was prevented landing her mail for some
hours, in consequence of the gale.
The company's steam-ship Trent, Captain Rivett,
arrived at St. Thomas's with the homeward mail from
Barbadoes and the Northern Isles on the 30th March;
sailed on the same evening for Porto Rico. The Tweed
arrived at Grenada with the outward mail on the 26th
March. The Forth left Jamaica on the 20th March for
the Spanish Main.
The whole of the West India Islands were generally
healthy, but were suffering severely from a long-continued
drought. At Berbice, water was so scarce that it fetched
a high price even for drinking. The cattle in the agricul-
tural districts were dying of thirst. The same remarks
apply to Demerara, Barbadoes, Antigua, St. Kitt's, and
Jamaica.

The prospect of the crops, since the last advices, was
not so good. In St. Kitts there had been a considerable
falling off.
There was no appearance of a change of weather when
the Severn left. She has scarcely had a shower during
her passage, and should there not have been some altera-
tion ere this, the matter will have assumed a serious
aspect.

The Court is to leave Windsor Castle, for Buckingham
Palace, this afternoon.

Lord and Lady St.inley are expected to leave Knowsley
Park, where the noble lord and ►ady are visiting the Earl
of Derby, for town, on Wednesday or Thursday.
The Rev. W. Pollock, of St. Helens, has been appoint-
ed to the incumbency of St. Mark's, vacant by the death
of Mr. Blacow.

A special meeting of the Council will be held to-day, to
consider the report of the special committee on Lord Lin-
coln's bill, and the sanatory bill of the Council.
Several men were committed yesterday, in default of
the payment of heavy fines, for assaulting police officers,
for various terms of imprisonment.
The Earl of Erroll, hereditary Lord High Constable of
Scotland. expired on Sunday at the residence of his son-
in-law, Viscount Campden, in Portman-square. He
was 46.

The Rev. J. H. Stewart, of St. Bride's, in this town,
has been presented by the patron with the rectory of
Limpsfield, near Croydon, Surrey. The Rev. D. D.
Stewart, who has for some time officiated as curate
at St. Bride's, has been appointed to succeed his re-
spected father in the incumbency.
The New York Papers notice the launch of a splendid
new packet-ship, intended for the "old line" between
this port and New York. She has been named the Colum-
bia, and is 1100 tons burthen. She is to be commanded
by Captain Hathbone, late of the Oxford. Another fine
ship for the London line, called the Margaret Evans, has
also left the stocks.

After a sermon, on Sunday morning, in St. Andrew's
Church, by the Rev. John Jones, the respected incum-
bent, in behalf of the schools connected with that church,
the liberal sum of £72 was collected, which, in addition
to the sum of £62 previously collected, after a sermon by
the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, on Sunday fortnight, makes a
total of £134.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Mr. Philip Weld, a stu-
dent of St. Edmund's Roman Catholic College, near
Ware, and nephew of the late Cardinal Weld, was on
Thursday last accidentally drowned while engaged in the
amusement of boating with some of his fellow-collegians
at the Rye-hoese, near Broxbounre. He was a very
promising youth, about 17 years of age.
Dn. WESLEY.—The lectures of this great man at the
Collegiate Institution are well attended. All parties speak
in the most extatic strains respecting his performance on
the organ. We understand that he has consented to give
one more performance before he leaves us—after his con-
cluding lecture, when he will give the overture of the
Gatzberflote.
On Sunday morning last, handsome collections were
made in St. Nicholas', St. Jude's, St. Barnabas', and
several other churches, on behalf of the Church of Eng-
land Schools, established at the time of the introduction
of the liberal system of education into the corporation
schools, and since continued in very efficient operation.
We trust the excellent object will not be lost sight of in
the remaining churches
MAKING BASE MONEY.—Yesterday, at the Police-
court, a rough-looking customer named Patrick Roche,
was committed for trial, charged with having been acces-
sary to the uttering of a base sixpence, and also with
having in his possession implements for the making of
base coin. The prisoner lodged at Lace-street, and there
was found up the chimney in his room a plaster-of-Paris
mould, and other articles, used in the manufacture of
base money.
We are happy to find that there is every probability that
the ministerial services of the Rev. B. A. Marshall, who
will shortly be unconnected with St. Mark's district, by
the appointment of Mr. Pollock to the incumbency of that
church, are not likely to be lost to our town. The most
strenuous exertions are making for the erection or pur.
chase of a church, to which it is intended to appoint Mr.
Marshall, and already one gentleman has put down his
name for £5OO, and two others for £3OO each ; and last
evening a meeting was held in furtherance of the good
work, at which steps were taken to bring the object to a
successful termination. We wish its promoters. God
speed.
INHABITING UNWHOLESOME CELLARS.—Yesterday,
at the Police Court, no fewer than 57 persons, owners or
tenants of premises chiefly in Lace's-street, and Free-
mason's-row, appeared before Mr. Rushton to answer
summonses for allowing persons to live and sleep in cel-
lars of dimensions in height, size, windows, &c., below
what is allowed by the local act affecting uch domiciles.
The parties had all received legal notice—some of them
nearly twelve months ago—and as every case was proved,
they were each and severally fined 55., and costs 4s. 6d.
(Os. 6d. in all); and it was intimated to them by the Ma-
gistrate, that the same amount of fine would be imposed
for every day hereafter, during which they permitted
parties to reside in such confined and unwholesome
abodes. He added that poor individuals ejected, would
be taken care of by the parish authorities, until they could
find other homes.
THE TIPPERARY RIOTS.—In another page we have
given the particulars of an outbreak in Tipperary, and of
some rioting in Clonmel. The Tipperary Constitution
of Saturday contains further intelligence from the excited
districts. On Wednesday an attack was made on Tuber-
sheena Mills, but the attacking harty was repulsed by the
police, one of whom had to fire, but fortunately without
injuring any one. The flour carts were escorted into
Clonmel by military and police, and the streets were
thronged by idle persons. On Thursday morning an im-
mense mob began plundering the boats at Kilshellan within
four miles of Clonmel, and before they could be subdued
a vast quantity of Indian corn was destroyed or made away
with, and a quantity of wheat. Thirteen of the rioters
were apprehended, and have been lodged in gaol. Stones
were flying in all directions, and several soldiers were
struck. One hundred pigs on their way from Fethard to
Carrick-on-Suir were seized by the country people and
carried off. Meetings were being held daily, and com-
mittees have been appointed, for the purpose of giving
employment to the poor at the rate of 4s. per day ; and
at the time the last advice left hundreds were at work,
and the districts were again peaceable.
THE BRIG LADY SALE.--WC some time ago noticed
with feelinzs of indignation, the detention, and finally
the condemnation, by the Portuguese authorities' of
the brig Lady Sale, of this port, the property of our re-
spected townsman, Mr. Horsfall, on the absurd allega-
tion that she was fitted up for the slave trade. The Lis-
bon correspondent of a London paper, in a letter dated
the 10th instant, fully explains the whole facts in a man-
ner entirely exculpatory of the owner, and showing the
great injustice of condemning the vessel on such a plea.
It appears when the treaty of 1812 opened the Pert's-
guese colonial ports to British vessels, Mr. Ilorsfall sent
out the brig Lalla to Angola, with a suitable cargo, to be
excharged for the produce of the country. The return
cargo had to be collected from various ports, by other
vessels, as British vessels are not allowed to trade at any
port but the capital, " Loanda." The detention being
necessarily great, the Lalla was very fully provisioned,
had a number of casks for palm oil, and large coppers for
boiling and purifying it. The fitting out somewhat re-
sembled that of a slave ship, and this the Pprtuguese au-
thorities knew, and did not detain her. She made a suc-
cessful voyage, bringing chiefly palm oil. Mr. Horsfall
having found the speculation successful, sent out the
Lady Sale, on a similar adventure last autumn, and simi-
larly fitted out, and she was detained and condemned, on
the ground that the coppers, &c., were destined for
slaves, though no such trade was at all contemplated.
The writer of the letter says in conclusion —" It
is scarcely possible that the British government will
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for no English speculator will venture to send a vessel
there, and the immense resources and capabilities !ditch
those colonies possess, and which our commercial inter-
course would be so tendent to develope and bring into
action, will continue, as hitherto, dormant and unprofita-
ble."