The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

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THE "BOTTLE."—This is the title of a series of eight
plates, designed and etched by Mr. George Cruikshank, in
which the progress and result of drunkenness are illus-
trated by the artist in his best manner. In the first plate

the wretched "herd' of the tale induces his wife "just

to take a drop ;" the result is immediate, for in plate the
second, they pawn their clothes to support the bottle."

In plate the third an execution is in the.liouse, but " they
comfort themselves with the bottle." The consequences
are natural, or rather unnatural—violence, brutality,
habitual drunkenness, quarrels, and ultimately murder.
The wife is killed and the husband consigned to a lunatic
asylum—in other words, the bottle has done its work,"
and all is misery and despair. As a work of art, the
plates are deserving of much praise. As a warning against
intemperance in the class in which, unfortunately, the
vice is most prevalent, these prints can scarcely fail of
having the same effect as the celebrated series of Hogarth.

COTTON CULTIVATION IN AUSTRALIA.—A prospectus
has been issued for the formation of a Company, to pro-
mote the cultivation of Cotton and other tropical produce
by means of European free labour in the territory of Coo-
lisland, in North-eastern Australia, with a capital of
of £250,000 in 10,000 shares of £25 each. The capital is
to be expended, first, in providing a free passage out to
Australia for suitable persons and families, of the class of
farmers and farm labourers, to cultivate cotton and other
tropical produce, for the home market ' • and second, in
the formation and maintenance of model farms, under the
superintendence of fit and proper persons, to be engaged
for the purpose, from the cotton-growing States of North
America ; in the erection of the requisite machinery for
cleaning and packing the cotton, and in whatever else may
be necessary to ensure the success of the endertaking.
Interest at the rate of seven and a-half per cent. per an-
num is to be allowed from the formation of the Company,
on all the paid up capital.

DEATH FROM IMPURE AIR.—An inquest was held in
Rosemary-lane, London, on Thursday, at the instance of
the medical officer of the Whitechapel Union, on the body
of a female child, aged tvh) years, who died at the house
of her mother, in Haye's-court. It appeared that the
child and its mother had been ill of fever and diarrhoea
for two months. The whole of the inhabitants of the
court were equally affected. The officer had prescribed
for the deceased, but the medicines would not act as they
would have done in a healthy atmosphere. He attributed
death to the poisonous effluvia of the atmosphere, from
the want of drainage. It had been proved that decom-
posed animal matter in its pure state is fatal, and M.
Thenard, a French chymist, has found that 1-800 of its
volume will destroy a dog, and 1 volume in 250 is suffi-
cient to destroy a horse. Some course ought to be
adopted, as the whole neighbourhood was liable to be at-
tacked with fever. The jury returned a verdict to the effect
that the child died from disease caused by the noxious
effluvium, from want of drainage ; and it was urged that
the coroner should write to the Home Secretary, enclos-
ing a copy of the depositions.
TILE LOVE OF FILTH.—An inquiry was gone into on
Friday, as to the death of a woman named Elizabeth
Meuritt, one of those old straggling creatures who are
found about the streets, in London, wandering about the
kennels for their daily subsistence. The woman lived in
Jacob-street, Bermondsey, close to the island Mr. Dickens
has made memorable as the dwelling of " Quilp."
She would never allow any one to enter her room. She
gloated iu filth and avoided all cleanliness. About eleven
weeks ago she fell, whilst in a fit, on the grate, in which
there was a large fire. She was most seriously injured,
but she would have no medical advice. At first the
noxious smells from the burns induced the neighbours
to interfere, and they insisted she would go to the work-
house. It was found necessary to force her into a parish
chair, as she declared she would sooner die than go to the
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with the most noxious vermin. Upon her admission into
the hospital she was attended by Dr. Paul, who found her
flesh clotted in masses with insects. She lingered until
Wednesday, when death removed her.
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