The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-08 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO JOSEPH MALLABY, ESQ.

Stn,—You will-wonder why I should address you through the
coiumns of a public newspaper; and I freely own that I would
not have done so if I did not think that the hint I ant about to
throw out would thus be seen by others, to whom it is necessary,
as well ass to you. You are a man of husiness, and chief direc-
tor of the Woodside Perry, and 'hAve displayed thronghont, so
laudable it desire to promote the public 'convenience,. that to
name to you a want on board your packets will 'ensare its
supply.
The facility of taking horses'across the river is now such, that
myself, and many of ins, friends, are in the constant habit of
availing ourselves of it: but we hardly ever do so, but our horses
suffer from mere cold, and many valuable animals have been
ruined by standing in the rain on a chilly day on the deck of a
steam-packet, after having been ridden hard for many miles,
or, probably, hunted fora whole day.
beg to suggest, that each of your packets be provided with
three or four large oil cloths, lined with woollen, .which will
cost a mere trifle, and be found of most essentiabserrice.
The complaints of horses, suffering when crossing the river
have become loud and general. Your attention to this will
oblige many, and amongst others, yours, &c.
Liverpool, Nov.- 7, 18.36.

NIMROD.

LI VERPOOT, POLICE?,

UNWHOLESONT EA T.—On Saturday last. John llittimer
appeared before Mr. Hail, to answer a summons issued en
itt-
formation from the InSpetors of Meat, for having-exposed for
sale, in a pub'ie s:aughter-house, six hundred pounds of beef,
which wa, unfit. for- food. The Inspector said, that the deferid-
antivas a cOw-keeper. One of his cows having been taken ill,
he had tried Various remedies, hut finding that the animal would
itievitable lie 'of the disease if he did not anticipate the catas-
trophe, he had sent for a botcher, and, just as she was at her
last gasii. th'elatter• arrived and " stuck her," by this process
intendin, I:, Make her into beef instead of carrion- After her
death it was foetal that she had been afflicted With an obstruc-
tion in the bevels, which had produced au inflammation of
which she would inevitably have died, had not the butcher's
knife anticipated the disease. A jury of butchers had con-
demned the carcass which the inspector had, according to rule
condemned. The defendant endeavoured to excuse himself
as
follows :—" Well, yo. see, I've nou't to do wi' •hutcherin'.
A'm a kaa keeper. Hoo was a good kaa, Worth sixteen paand
o' ony man's munney, but hoo got louse one neet shippin,
and hoo a:rained hersell like, an' aw Couldn't get a passage
through her at non rate. Aw geeve her some trail ile, an' a
greet lump o' fat bacon, an' a lot o' soft soap, hut it did her na
good. But hoo wor rare an' fat loike, so aw (hoot t'best thing
aw could do was t'tnek beef on her. She war loike to die at
wunce, so eve said to t' maw missus, send away fort' butcher
d'rectly, an' le 't him stick yon kaa, for boo's welly deed. Soa
she sent for't butcher an' he count an' he stuck her. She wor.
taen to't slowterthasse, an' dress'd, and foiner beef aw neever
saw-neever! A chap offered me tuppetice hawvenny a paand
for her, hut that theerentp wouldn't let me sell her." (Laugh-
ter.) Mr. Hall said. the price offered showed that the intended
purchaser did not think very highly of the meat. He did not
think the defendant would have liked to eat the cow himself.—
Defendant': " Wouldn't I? Aye, I Would a yeaten every bit
o' her. Our missus would ha' took her an' a pickled her, an'
kep her for ourSellettiyeca, but that theer chap wouldn't let us
hey her." (Laughter.) Mr. Hall* said, that as the iletendant
was not a butcher, and had sustained a great loss by the death of
his cow, he Would be lenient. The defendant was fined ss. and
costs.