The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-03 00:00:00

NORTHERN HOSPITAL REPORT. JUNE 30.

ADMITTED: Accidents, 33; Medical and Surgical Cases upon
recommendation, 27; Total, GO.—(DISCHARGED: Cured, 22 ;
Relieved and at own request, 6; Attending as Out Patients, 29;
Irregular, 3 ; Died, 3; Remaining in the Hospital; 79.
onsulting Surgeon, J. M. Banner, Esq.; Physician and
Surgeon for the ensuing week, Dr. Scott and Mr. Ban-
brigga ; House Visitors, Charles Inman and John Hig: -
field, Esqrs. ; House Surgeons, Mr. Tearne and Mr.
Wall; Treasurer, B. H. Jones, Esq. ; Chaplain, Rev.
Win. Hughes.

SOUTHERN & TOXTETH HOSPITAL, JUNE 27.
INDOOR: Cured and Relieved. 1; Dead, 1; Irregular, 0; 4
Entered, 4 ; Under treatment, 33.—OUTDOOR : Cured and
relieved, 33; Dead, 0; Entered, 44 ; Under treatment, 34. '
President, Jos. B. Yates, Esq. ; Treasurer, B. Platt, Esq. ;
Hon. Chaplain, Rev. T. Nolan, A.M.; House Surgeons,
Mr. T. Morris and Mr. W. Philip Harrison; Visitors,
Mr. Chaltoner and Mr. Gilbert Harrison.

WEEKLY REPORT OF THE FEVER AND WORK-
HOUSE HOSPITALS.
WORKHOUSE.—Remaining per last week, 476; Admitted,
248 ; Cured and discharged, 160; Died, 18; Remaining under
treatment, 546.
FEVER HOSPlTAL.—Remaining per last week, 87; Admit-
ted, 37; Cured and discharged, 85 ; Died, 4; Remaining un-
der treatment, 85.
Apothecary, Mr. Lingley ; Resident Medical Officer, Mr.
Taylor; Non-resident Medical Officers, Dr. Burgess,
Dr. Gee, and Mr. Leather; Chaplain, Rev. D. Anderson ;
Governor, Mr. J. W. Evans.

LIVERPOOL INDUSTRIAL RAGGED SCHOOLS,

68, SOHO- STREET.
WEEKLY REPORT, JUNE 30.
Number of Boys on the books 9O
Average daily attendance ..
On the sick list
Treasurer, T. D. Anderson, Esq.; Honorary Secretary, Jos.
Hubback, Esq. ; Superintendent, J. B. Orris; Visitors,
E. Heath and H. H. Statham, Esqrs.
—....

LATEST DATES AT LIVERPOOL, JULY 2.
I !Direct! Indirect.l {Direct. Indirect.
,-1 .
Australia .. I .. IFeb. 26' Maranham .. May 8 ..
Bahia IMay 9' .. Mauritius ..1 .. ,April 18
Barbadoes .. May 27 Mobile June 10
Bombay.... .. 21 hlonte Video' .. (April
B. Ayres .. .. April 25j New Orleans .. June 18
Calcutta .. .. May 12. New York ! .. 19
C. G. Hope. .. April 51Pernambuco. May 101 ..
Charleston . .. June ltntio Janeiro.. .. May I
China iApril 244 Savannah ..1 .. (June 15
Demerara .. May 18iSt. Helena .. .. April 23
Havana .. June B:SanFrancisco .. May I
Jamaica .. May 23:Valparaiso .. ; .. (March 29
Limo ' .. Anril 317., Crwr .. .. May 16

THE 13IRKENIIEA.D AND WOODSIDE FERRIES.

A most important movement has just been made by the
Corporation of Liverpool, as proprietors of the Birkenhead
estate and ferry, the result of which must, we fear, have
a very serious effect upon other similar property in the
neighbourhood, and especially upon the interests of the
ratepayers, and the Commissioners of Birkenhead. The
Liverpool Corporation, our local readers are well aware,
were recently compelled to take into their own hands the
management of the Birkenhead ferry, as the only resource-
left them in order to keep up its rights, and to preserve-
their other property in the locality from dilapidation.
On taking possession of the ferry, from which nearly the
whole of the contractors had been removed, they were
driven to the step of reducing the ferryage to a penny
each, in which they were promptly followed by the
Woodside and Tranmere ferries,—all three, however,
keeping up their charge to contractors at the former rate
of 255. for a single individual per annum, with a gradu,
ated scale for families. The Corporation have now,
however, determined to reduce the rate to contractors
to 16s. for the head of a family, and 7s. each for others,
a reduction of above 33 per cent.
With respect to the propriety of this course much may
be and has been said. We have always deprecated the
justice of such public bodies as the Corporation of Liver-
pool using their large resources in competition with private
traders. In this, however, the Corporation and the
Birkenhead Commissioners occupy the same position.
Both are public bodies; and the former are blameable for
first setting the example, by entering into a rivalry with
the Messrs. Willoughby, the Corporation tenants, and
ultimately driving them to leave the ferry, as the alterna-
tive of not having conceded to them a decrease in rent.
Having entered, however, upon the business, the Corpo- -
ration may, perhaps, be justified in seeking to attract a
trade to their ferry and hotel, and a population to the
neighbourhood of their property, by the step which they
have taken. The most important subject for enquiry is
one in which the inhabitants of Birkenhead are vitally
interested. It has always been contended, although
doubted by some, that the profits of the Woodside ferry
contributed largely towards the payment of the interest of
the bonded debt of the township ; and it will be very
questionable whether, with a reduction of 33 per cent.
from the rates charged the contractors, it can hereafter
pay its own expenses, wear and tear of boats, Sze. .Ano-
titer heavy blow will then be dealt against a locality,
which has already sufficient difficulties to encounter. We
shall be heartily sorry for the case of the owners of pro-
perty in Birkenhead, if our fears should:be realized. They
will not, however, have to blame the step now taken by
our Corporation for this result, but rather the conduct of
their Commissioners in times past, whose conduct through-
out was any thing but tending to preserve a good under-
standing with their powerful nei4hbeurs on this side ur"_
the Mersey.
We learn that it was received at a meeting of the Birk-,.
enhead Commissioners, held on Saturday, that it is inex-
pedient for the present to reduce the contracts at Wood-
side Ferry.

A SAMPLE OF PUSEYITE TENDENCIES.—FroTI letters-
to the Rev. Charles Fustian, an Anglo-Catholic :—" You
object to be called a Puseyite, or a Tractroian ; and as I
believe you never read any of the Tracts, nor were lucky
enough to comprehend any of Dr. Pusey's writings, you •
were right to decline the names. But it is easy to per-
ceive, even from your outward man, that some peat
change has taken place upon you. It is not for nothing.
that you wear so tight a neckcloth, and so very low-col-
lared a coat ; your buttons also are peculiarly placed, and
there is a solemnity in your manner of refusing an invita-
tion to pot-luck on Friday which it is edifying to behold.
But all this surely must have a name. You were intended
by Tour father to be a clergyman of the Church of Eng-
lano,—that worthy gentleman toasted Church and King
till a female reign and premonitory symptoms of apoplexy
reduced him to silence and watergruel; but he is as true
a defender of the faith in his easy gown and slippers a 3
ever, and looks with still increasing surprise at the ap-
pearance of his eldest son, so often as occasional help in
your curacy enables you to run home. But don't fancy
for a moment that I attribute these frequent visits to your
regard for the fifth commandment alone : no, dear Charles
for though I grant you are an excellent son and a praise-
worthy brother, I consider you shine with still greater
lustre in the character of a neighbour, especially. to the
family of Hellebore Park. Gradually I have seen a change •
almost equal to your own in the seven fair daughters of
that house; and it is very evident that with this change,
in some way or otter, you are intimately connected. The
five daughters of our neighbour in the Lodge. are also
very different from what they were ; and only Miss Latti- •
plus—who is fifty years old, and believes good works to
be sueh filthy rags, that she would be ashamed if she
were seen putting half a crown into the plate, or sending.
coal and flannel to the poor, arid therefore never does it—
continues the even tenor of her way, and sighs for a gos-
pel ministry to tell her how few will achieve the kingdom
of heaven. Every other house in the parish feels the ef-
fects of your visits. We must have a new almanac if you
come among us much more ; for the very days of the
week are no longer to be recoenised. Tuesday, instead of
being the lineal desseendant of Monday, is now known as
the heir presumptive of Wednesday, and does duty as the
n invited
'us of something else. The wife of our physician .
'us to dinner on the Feast of St. °hope', which, after
great inquiry, we found meant Monday, the 22nd. The
months will not long escape—the - weeks- arc alrtaly '-
doomed—and in a few-years our parish register will he
as difficult reading as the inscriptions of Niniroud."—
13iackwood.