The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-15 00:00:00

tient. It was fatal. Three other cases followed
immediately. Opposite one of the worst gutterages of
the street, a fatal case of the English cholera has occurred
in a newborn infant, over a cellar which, I am told, is
overcrowded with night occupants in the winter time,
and next door to a scarlatina case formerly alluded to.

King-street, if it is improved at all, has undergone no
thorough cure, or else the waste grass-covered plot would
not be, at the moment of my writing, the commo❑ reci-
pient of the surface drainage of Little Derby-street.
There, on this waste, the stinking and black water re-
main's, to be removed by evaporation alone !
The pools of Crown-street continue just as they always
were, except as buildings gradually encroach upon the
pools, which are the resort of hosts of idle boys skilled in
drowning cats and dogs. The policemen seldom do duty
there, the inhabitants opposite affirm ! On Sunday
afternoons aquatic diversions of all kinds are seldom
interrupted by the devious footsteps of a policeman.
In Back Bedford-street, a blind alley runs out of the
street, on a gradient declining from the level of the street,
and a sewerage untrapped is inefficient to afford vent to
the stagnant mud and dirt which usually blockades the
opening, to the risk of the health of the neighbourhood.
The smell is loudly complained of. At times windows
cannot be opened in oonsequence which could let in the
effluvia. I have had to attend illness close to these dis-
graceful precincts, which I accuse of being the ostensible
cause.

Back Peach-street is quite as bad ; in fact worse, be-
cause presenting a longer range of filthy gutterage. I
have had several cases of the epidemic to look after close
to these gutters, which are cleverly arranged so as to pre-
vent them cleaning themselves. Water will not find a
proper course from the defective gutter; and though I
have warned as much as I could, yet the parties are un-
able to maintain an unremitting and fruitless struggle
against natural laws. Whenever water will run up hill.
they will not suffer what they tic) at present. A vacant
plot of land flanks a part of this street, and until society
can devise some compulsive remedial plans for waste
land pollutions, &c., any individual's health lies not
only at a risk from their own imprudence or ignor-
ance, but at the mercy of any other person whose dirty
habits and recklessness of natural laws may be cow-
pared to so many plots against the life, health, or happi-
ness of their fellow creatures living within reach of their
baneful focus. In one house alone here, every inmate, to
the number of seven or eight, has been attacked with
cholera or dysentery ; and in two or three cases, the ex-
tremes of life, the disease threatened to prove fatal.
I accuse filthy gutters, and so on, especially in the
matter of relapses.
I remain, Sir, yours, faithfully,
GEO. C. WATSON, M.D.
Bedford-street, Sept. 9.

LIVERPOOL CHURCH-BUILDING SOCIETIES

TO TILE REY. THE RECTORS AND CLERGY.
REV. Sras,—The accomplishment of this great under-
taking, to supply spiritual instruction for the poorer dis-
tricts of the town, would, I presume, be more readily at-
tained if an undivided and strenuous effort were made by
the amalgamation of these bodies into one. I allude to
that which originated, at the meeting held last winter,
under the auspices of our worthy Bishop, to provide four
additional churches for Toxteth-park, and another more
recently, for the same number at the northern part of
Liverpool, where the Senior Rector presided.
In furtherance of this object, I would propose that ser-
mons be preached at least half-yearly in all the churches
of the Establishment. Thus, by ringing the subject
continually before their several congregations, each z.nd
every well-disposed member thereof might have an oppor-
tunity of contributing according to his means, and this
great work would not be allowed to be dormant. Sui..ly,
when such large sums are annually raised towards the
support of foreign missions, a, portion should be appro-
priated to the enlightenment of our poor at home, many
of whom, it is to be feared, are in as destitute a condi: ion
as the heathen abroad, and are actually perishing for lack
of spiritual knowledge, communicated only by the Word of
Life. _ _ .

In addition to the building of churches, it will be rerpii-
site to attach to each a day and Sunday school. that the
rising generation may have the seeds of religion and virtue
instilled at an early age, which, it is hoped, may have a
tendency to check and counteract the. growth of vice ;Ind
irreligion, which grows with our growth, if not timely
prevented, as 1 have pointed out.
September 8, 1846

LECTOR

RAILWAY TRAVELLING

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD,

SIR,—Liverpool is yet behind her neighbours in rail'vsy
accommodation; in some matters she may excel, 1 tit
not in this particular.
Coming from Preston a few days ago by the six o'cl ek
evening train, I arrived a quarter of an hour befor,.
the time, and saw the train start a quarter before
six for Bolton, Manchester, &c., (East Lancashire hoe)
and observed how much superior the 2nd class carri,ves
were to those on the Liverpool line—in that the corona. t-
ments were divided, so that the passengers in one divi jun
were not annoyed by the misbehaviour or squalling of
children in another division, and moreover the seats I:ad
the benefit of a stuffed leather cushion. In addition to
this. I learned that the spirited directors of this new line
had arranged to grant day tickets for a single fare, from
Manchester or Bolton, &c., to Fleetwood, Blackpool. &c ,
with this additional boon, that a day ticket on a Sat or-
day will last until Monday evening. This is as it shonid
be, and is an encouragement to persons to locate their fa-
milies at those delightful watering places—Lytham,
Blackpool, and Fleetwood. I hope this hint will not be
lost. Yours, &c.,
A TRAVELLER.
Liverpool, Sept. 9, 1846.