The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

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Every

th end of the town and

its centre, must pass close to its windows, from
which fever will be streaming instead of the guano,
which is being removed to make room for the

human masses of decaying matt(
and the hospital sedan will jostle
with the cotton lorry and the coal. waggon
bhe crowded omnibus and the chaise, the cab,
and the whitechapel. The newly landed vagrant
from the sister country can step up from the
Clarence Dock ; and the dingy trappings of a pau-
per funeral will sadly and solemnly intimate to him

The hearse
beautifully

,te which is in store for him in the locality, to
he has resorted in search of the solid food

and the health wl

ich he has found it vain to seek

in his own desolate land

We trust the Heal

trey sanction t

h Committee will think of the

nposed upon them before

.ity, as a permanent Hospital

or the cure of fever. It may do for its spread: It
nay do to strike alarm into the hearts of visitors
d to drive respectable householders
from the neighbourhood of a Skibbereen ; but it
will not do as a proper and satisfactory sanitory

to our town

arrange

WE have been so long accustomed to look upon
our Police Force as the most efficient of its kind
which the country could boast of, for the important
ends for which such bodies are organized, namely,

the prevention of crime and the detection of crimi-
nals, that we can hardly persuade ourselves that
for these purposes it has latterly become sadly
deficient. Yet with the fact staring us in the face
that numerous assaults and robberies of the most
aggravated kind have recently been committed in

our streets with impunity, we regret that we can
come to no other conclusion than this ; that there is
something wrong ; something in the system of

police management which calls for amendment in
the government of the force. We are not disposed
to place implicit reliance on all the information

which has been communicated to us on this most
important subject, but if a tithe of what we have
heard is correct, it is high time that the Watch
Committee instituted an investigation as to the
present working of the force. Many of the oldest

trustworthy officers

by no

) efficient as it ought to be

The worthy Recorder in a charge which he re-
cently made to the Grand Jury, declared himself
altogether unable to account for the great increase
of crime which had taken place since August 1845.
Had that gentleman been aware that at that period
great changes were effected in the government and
organization of the police force (of the nature of
which we are not fully cognizant, but we are given
to understand that they have produced a had effect
on the efficiency of the force), the mystery would,
it is said, have been solved. We trust we have said
enough to stimulate enquiry on this subject, and if
the committee find that injudicious changes have

been made in the performance of the police duties,
we feel well assured that these will be promptly

remedied

THE REV. W. WITHERS EwnANK.--This eloquent mi-
nister of the Gospel preached a sermon, on Sunday last,
to his congregation, at St. George's Church, Everton, on
behalf of the Liverpool Dispensaries, taking his text from
the Bth chapter of St. Matthew, and the latter part of the
17th verse : " Himself took our infirmities, and bare our
sicknesses." He drew an affecting picture of the poor,
struggling with sickness and disease; and appealed to his
wealthy auditors to bestow their aid, liberally, in support
of an institution which had exhausted its funds in giving
assistance to the largely-increased number of sick and
destitute inhabitants of the town. The collection amounted
to the handsome sum of £4O.