The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-08 00:00:00

LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE

Closing quotations :—Caledonians, 32a # ; East Lancashire,
19; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 77/; Leeds Northern, 15k;
Midland, 711.1 ; York and North Midland, 27i ; Carson's Creek,
4pm ; Colonial Gold, 3.

ARRIVAL OF THE BLOOMER :FROM
AUSTRALIA.

Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.'s packet-ship the
Bloomer arrived at this port yesterday (Monday) from
Sydney, after a passage of 95 days, having left Sydney on
the 3d of November ; she brings £42,800 in gold. The
Oriental left Sydney for London on the 21st of October,
and the Alert, for the same port, two days. before the
Bloomer, but neither of them have yet arrived ; and the
Bloomer would, in all likelihood, have reached her desti.
nation sooner than she has done, had it not been for con-
trary winds from the other side of the line and coming
into the Channel. The Bloomer brought two. passengers
home from the land of gold.

ROBERT HERD, A LUNATIC, escaped from Rainhill
Asylum on Friday afternoon.
THE COACHMAKERS,--On Saturday, a deputation of
coachmakers, among whom was Mr. Healey, of the firm of
Bennison and Healey, of this town, had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
MR. THOMAS'S CONCERTS.—The series of cheap con-
certs at the Philharmonic Hall was brought to a close last
night, when there was an overflowing audience. It con-
cluded with the National Anthem, and three enthusiastic
cheers for Mr. Thomas.
ENGLISH MISERY versus AMERICAN SLAVERY.—IR
commenting on the recent response to the Stafford-house
ladies, Douglas Jerrold says :—" There can be no doubt
that there is much truth in what Mrs. America is made
to speak. But the moral destitution, the moral blackness
of a thousand English outcasts do not make five hundred
free negroes of as many slaves. Very true is it that we
have wretched, wo-begone children im our alleys; that we
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nothing to the all-blighting curse and all-encompassing
horror of slavery ! There is something still left—some
drop of comfort, some ray of light in this misery—this
bitterness—this darkness where slavery is not. We may
not snatch one of those alley children from the dirt, and
sell it like a young hog; we may not separate coster-
monger Joe from his frail companion Sal. Poor Sal may
have a child at her breast, and one or two at what they
call a home ; yet Joe and. Sal are safe from the slave-
buyer, and may love on and quarrel on, and their " young
barbarians" may still dispute with the pigs on the dust-
heap,—no human flesh-dealer daring to cast his blood-
bargaining eyes upon them.
IMPORTANCE OF TOWN DRAINAGE.—It is impossible
to over-estimate the importance to a community of having
the soil and the buildings kept in a state free from mois-
ture, not only as regards the health and comfort of the
inhabitants, but also in reference to the preservation of
property of almost every description ; but the removal of
the offensive refuse arising from dwelling-houses, stables,
&c., and the thousand deleterious compounds discharged
from manufactories, form a still more important deside-
ratum. The consequences of a good system of sewerage
are not confined to mere bodily comforts or advantages,
but produce an important effect in elevating the whole tone
of society ; while an inefficient one not only furnishes a fer-
tile source of disease and discomfort of a physical character
to all classes of the community, but renders the moral
degradation of an otherwise degraded population more
hopeless and complete. This, then, is the main object of
draining a town—not that the soil bei rendered free from
damp—not that the town should be put beyond the reach
of being damaged by an occasional flood—but that one
great cause of that squalor and misery, to which every one
is frequently an unwilling witness, should be removed,
and the air in the poorer and more densely-populated
districts rendered pure and wholesome.—The Builder.

LIVERPOOL :
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1853.

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