The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-18 00:00:00

BY JOHANRBS itIISTICUS.

XI. Towic IMPROVEMENTS.—WhiIe so much has been
said and written about forming new streets, making new
thoroughfares. and widening old ones, it seems strange to
me that no one has suggested the desirableness of con-
verting sonic of the large plots of vacant ground lying
between Scotland-road and the canal into public gardens,
or open grounds for the recreation-of the working classes.
At present these pieces of land are mere reservoirs for
every description of filth from the surrounding cottages
and manufactories, filling the air with the most noisome
stench—insufferable almost at times to the passers by, and
to the resident in the vicinity no doubt a fruitful source
of disease and mortality. But how different 'would be the
aspect of this quarter of the town, were these grounds
brought to a proper level and planted with trees, or en-
closed for gardens, or adapted for manly exercises. These
open spaces would be as fountains of pure air in the midst
of a wilderness of thickly inhabited courtsi=promoting
health, banishing pestilence, and elevating the moral and
physical condition of the denizens of that most miserable
and neglected locality.
XII. A LIBERAL Towic Commix,Lon.—There is an
amusing specimen of Radical absurdity now to be seen on
the walls, in the shape of an address by Mr. Daniel Powell,
to the municipal electors of Vauxhall ward. This gentle-
man aspires to represent, in the Common Council, what
we may, I suppose, designate the Irish Roman Catholic
interest, so extensively located in this ward ; and in the
true Irish style of "speaking to the question," he puts
forward as his peculiar and only qualifications for the
office of town councillor, that he is " an ardent admirer of
the present Administration! in favour of financial
reform ! and a sincere friend of civil and religious
liberty !" So, if Mr. Powell be elected, we shall, no
doubt, see some excellent fun—the tactics of the Brigade
reacted on a small scale—every question made a peg to
hang some Irish or Popish grievance upon ! The Council
Chamber will be converted into an arena for our local
politicians to try their debating powers. Town improve-
ments will be discussed on the " broad" principle of civil and
religious liberty—(" broad is the road," &c.)—the smoke
nuisance will naturally call forth an eulogium on the
Coalition Cabinet—and an evasion of dock dues will in-
troduce a debate on financial reform.
XIII. BIBLE BURNING IN NEW YORK. -Talking of
civil and religious liberty, I see, by the late files of the
New York papers, that the Irish priests in that city are
comporting themselves in a manner that is likely to bring
Brother Jonathan down upon them " like a thousand of
bricks," if they do not mend their ways. It appears that,
true to their instincts, the Irish Romanista of Mott-street

have recently broken into the Protestant School, threat-
ened the teachers, dragged out the children, seized the
books of Holy Scripture, and, " with hooting's, cursings,
and yells, fit for Pandemonium itself," publicly burnt
them, and used the half-burnt leaves to light their pipes
with ! The Yankees will, no doubt, appreciate such con-
duct as this, and hail with delight the arrival of the first
batch of priestly emigrants that shall be sent out by the
Priests' Emigration Society, now in course of formation
in Dublin. By the way, I think the Protestant Associa-
tion might do worse than devote a portion of their funds
to the assistance of this society.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.