The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-27 00:00:00

REVIEW OF THE TRADE OF THE KINGDOM.

Official tables of imports arid exports have been pub-
lished by the Board of Trade. The period embraced in
the official tables is to the sth of September, but with a
comparison of the same periods of the two preceding
years. Under the heads of cattle and grain some idea
may be formed of the progress made under the recent
changes of the tariff in the anticipated increase of our
supply of provisions from abroad. It is shown that we
base added to our own stores, in the first eight months
of the present year, from foreign sources, no less than
3,043,505 qrs. of wheat, and 2,905,252 cwts. of flour and
meal. Within the same period, 58,559 head of live ani-
mals have been imported into this country. Including
bacon, beef salted and fresh, hams and pork salted and
fresh, 185,447 cwts. have also been imported under the
head of " provisions." In timber, the increase of trade
is enormous, being 1,117,758 loads in 1846, against
929,429 in 1845, and 642,9U0 loads in 1844, showing an
increase in two years of 100 per cent. The importation
of linseed is extremely small. The quantity of foreign
wool of all kinds retained for consumption in the present
year, is fully 2,000,000 lbs. less than last rear. Of the
export trade in which the national industry is meat con-
cerned, there is in a few articles an increase, but on th 6
whole a reduction equal to two millions has taken place.
The following table will show the account more clearly :
INCREASED.
Declared value exported.
1845. 1846.
to sth Sept. to sth Sept. Inc.
Cotton yarn .
Hardwares and cutlery 1,455,884 1,501.491 45,607
Machinery
Iron and steel
Silk manufactures 557,075 614,720 57,645

9,589,432 10,900,328 1,310,896• -
DECRE A SE D.
Declared value exported.
1845. 1846. •
to sth Sept. to sth Sept. Deer.
Cotton manufactures 12,920,189 11,759,662 1,130,527
Earthen ware . 580,045 569.917 10,128-
Glass
Leather wrcught and
237,801 222,768 15,033
unwrought
Linen manufactures .. 2,080,373 1,854,062 226,311
Linen yarn ..... 708,500 548,121 160,379' ,
Copper and brass 1,230,407 998,769 231,638-
Soap
Refined sugar
Wool, sheep or lambs'
Woollen yarn
Woollen manufactures . 5,567,349 4,601,699 965,650

25,145,820 21,887,881 3,257,939 -
The largest decrease in 1846, as compared with 1845, in
the exports of cottons and woollens, is to Belgium, to the •
United States, and to China; the increase is to Cuba and
the Brazils. There is an increase, particularly of cottons,.
to France.—Halifax Guardian.

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER.—The same causes which have contributed re-
cently to produce depression in this market remaining unabated,
it cannot be expected that any improvement, either iu the ex-
tent of business done or in prices, can be noted. Ihe position
of spinners and manufacturers is every day getting worse, for
as their stocks of cotton, laid in before the advance. become ex-
hausted, their means of supplying the market with yarns and
w prett;cc
goods .at the low rates of the day are rendered still more dniffit:
cult. The advance on Cotton is now fully 25 to 30
advance of 5 p cent. ng the inevita
whilst buyers refuse to concede on the manufabcteurteednda
the market, eer were the fiForeseeirst to recommend
manufacturers
by reducing supply. Slowly and enci
reluctantlyto our Contemporaries
esaonf
revert to the first principles of commercial policy ,n such case,
have followed in our wake, but at length ail parties are becom-
ing agreed as to the tendency of acting upon the suggestion.
Already a considerable number of factories hare been put en
short time at Preston, Bolton, Oldham. &c., but to-day (Friday)
meetings of manufacturers are being herd at Stockport and
Blackburn, ann which will doubtless be followed here and in
other surrounding towns, for the purpose of adopting the rule
throughout the manufacturing districts. The unsettled condi-
tion of foreign markets at the present time holds out no pros-
pects"" • 4
of encouragement to shippers, and certainly the prospects
of the home trade are gloomy enough, whilst the present sPe-
culations arc operating on the prices of food. It is therefore
highly inexpedient to go on producing stock at the high rates of
the raw material, whilst the great vents of commerce are noW
choked up with excess of supplies. If production be limited to
eight hours per day, it will be some time before there will be
that diminution of stock, both here and abroad, that will restore •
an equilibrium between supply and demand, and subsequently
enhance prices proportionately to the recent advance In cotton.
Reductions in wages would be an unmixed evil, at once cruel.
uncalled for, and impolitic; the speculator in cotton has no
right to a profit out of the wages of labour—the corn speculator •
is making the poor man's loaf small enough already—and be-
sides the paltry reduction in this element of cost, alth,ugh it
might reduc' the workman to extreme privation, would be a
miserable nibble from the advance on cotton ;—furthermore, it
would not create a demand (the thing wanted) for a single piece
more. With respect to the operations of this week we may sal,
after the fullest Inquiry, that they have been even more limited
than those of the week before. Printing cloths have continued
in moderate request; prices are unchanged, although a hard
struggle was made on Tuesday to effect an advance on previous
rates. Within the last two or three days there has been a little
more inquiry for both 36 and 41-inch shirtings. but as holders
have been rather firm in their endeavours to effect a small ad-
vance, the business done has not been large. In yarns therehas
been no material alteration, but, on the whole, the transactions
have been at least equal to those of last week. We quote the ••
following as the current rates demanded ;-26 inch ; rioters,
4S. 6d. to 4s. 70.; 27 inch, 65 reed ditto, 4s. Gd. to Is. lid, ; 27
inch, 72 reeds, Ss. 3d. to Is. lOad ; 36 inch, 66 reed shirtings.
7s. gd. to Bs. 6d. ; 72 reed d tto, gs. to les 40 inch G. E India •
Longcloths. 66 reed, at Bs. ;ad togs. 3d. (superior makes of this
fabric have been sold in moderate quantities this week at gs. for
printing ;) 40 inch, 72 reed ditto, are held at gs. 6d. to 105.
HUDDERSFIELD.—Our market continues much in the same
state as last week ; if any thing a little more doing. Prices the
same.

LEEDS.—There continues to be a complete absence of specu-
lation in our cloth market both on Saturday and to day. The
purchases at the Cloth Halls were confined to present demand
for the home trre'e, and with the exception of a few orders for
Spanish stripes, &c., for the India and China markets, wlrch
are out, ther, is little doing by the houses in the foreign trade.
Prices are steady, but the manufacturers complain loudly of the
want of remuneration. Business iu the warehouses is much
the -ame as for the last few weeks.
BRADFOIID.—WooI Nlarket.—The transactions to-day and
throughout the week have been extremely limited ; and as the
market is well supplied, the purchasers only take for inimeuiate
use. There is a great firmness manifested in the country,
which causes the staplers to hold for late prices. Yarn Market.
—We cannot learn that our market is any worse to-day and
the business may be considered very similar to several weeks
past. The very low prices for Yarn are telling upon our oper-
atives. The Wool c tubers are not so fully ernp:oyed, which
clearly indicates that the machinery is not fully in work.--
Piece Market.—There is nothing very particular in the demand
for goods to-day. Low mcreens and damasks are more in-
quired atter ; also Orleans, merinos, and paramattas are in'
steady request, without alteration in prices.
LEI cEsTritt.—We are sorry to hear complaints from the manu-
facturers principally engaged in the London trade, o, the con"
thin:A flatness of the demand. Considering thaqit is now the
height of the season for worsted arid wo, lien goods, it is nn"
usually dull. The country houses ire better oft, and are dola.g..
a hill average business in wrought hose : the supply is
.scarcely
equal to the demand. The straight-down branch is flat. cu
and Yarns are stationary, mith rather less doing.

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TFIE NAVIGATION LA od city
WS.—NIr. Cobden's -°
of Manchester is well disposed to do that bonortble ge
tleman's woik bravely. Whilst the former is busi4n_
France in making that kingdom a huge and general coin
vert to free trade, by pointing out to them that one of its
results will be the destruction of the colonial supremacy
of Great Britain. Man:hearer by her Chamber of Com-
merce, is aly.ut to lend a helping hand to our faithless
ally over the channel, by procuring from a Whig govern-
ment (if it can he done be menace or cajolery), a repeal,
of the navigation laws. For the sake of saving a trifling
impost now applied to those who complain, but who are
very far from being the real sufferers, these patriotic ma-
nufacturers are, in their insanity, committing an act of
suicide upon themselves. The repeal of these laws
would reduce Great Britain to a fifth-r ate power. We
owe their establishment to the Protector Cromwell : they
form one of the solitary flowers reared by him amid the
desolation which he had caused and cultivated on the soil
of the monarchy, and had he done nothing more. and left
undone all that he did besides, no one would have con-
tested his right to a statute as one among the benefactors
of England. The wise administration of these laws has
helped to establish the naval supremacy and the com-
mercial greatness of the empire. By them our vast car-
rying trade is secured to British suhjects, and the impor-
tant art or science of ship-building encouraged within our
own private and public establishments. By their repeal,
our ports would be filled by foreign vessels bearing our
produce ; foreign crews working the ships so employed ;
and we should not alone have distress among a wide class
who have not hitherto grievously felt that visitation, but
with it we should lose our nursery for seamen, and oar'
navy would, as long as it remained to us, be built in fo-
reign yards. There is no doubt but that, if this new de,
'nand for repeal be complied with, foreign seamen would
be engaged to woik at a considerably lower rate of wages
than our own, and vessels for English proprietors would
be built on French, and 'American stocks at much
less cost than they are now built on our own ; but these
adv sntages to begin with would be ruin in the end, and it
would be found that a repeal of the navigation laws would
be, in reality, an enactment fur enriching the foreigner st
the mortal and countless cost of the people of Great Bris
tain.—Church and Stale Gazette.

total anb probincial .t 1 6.

TH•E GREAT BRITAIN.—Some) hopes are still enter-
tained of the Great Britain being extricated from her
perilous position. It is stated that, at a board meeting
held at Bristol, on Tuesday last, the directors accepted a
proposal from a scientific party to raise and float her ;
that this party considers the leviathan steamer to be much
less strained, and not near so deep in the sand, as is com-
monly supposed, and that she could scarcely be in a more
favourable situation for being floated off, provided ade-
quate means and appliances be promptly and skilfully
used. The operator left Bristol for Dundrum that same
day.

HEROIC CONDUCT.—On Thursday the weather• was
exceedingly boisterous the whole day, but the evening set
in with a tremendous gale from the north-west. The
river was much rougher than had been known for several
years ; and indeed the waves ran so high that the Wood-
side ferry-boats could only ply between George's Pier
and the Cheshire shore hourly, instead of half-hourly.
The Birkenhead boats, however, whether from abetter
cxistruction, or from a greater skill of their• crews, or
probably from the courage inspired by a spirit of compe-
tition against their rivals of Woodside, maintained, during
the whole evening, their usual half-hourly communica-
tion with Liverpool. William Kane, one of the hands of
the half-past eight Birkenhead boat, jumped into the
river after a butcher of Birkenhead, named Goodall, and
fastened a rope round him, by which he was hauled out.
Kane has previously saved eight lives under similar cir-
cumstances.

The Birkenhead, steam-frigate, is reported to be ready
at Sheerness for commission in three weeks.

THE WIGAN CHIMNEY.—A chimney has lately been
erected by a chemist at Wigan, which is 420 feet high
and contains 3,000,000 bricks. _ _

On Wednesday, two publicans were fined by Mr. Rush-
ton 40s. each, for refusing to receive soldiers provided
with billets into their houses.
We are glad to learn that a number of gentlemen of
this town, have organised themselves into a provisional
committee to form an Anti-Tea-Tax League.
The potato disease has caused an immense increase in
the demand for milk, owing to the extensive use of rice,
meal, &c. Many farmers along the railways about here
bays abandoned cheesemaking.
Mr. Potter, Chairman of the Manchester Reform As-
socia:ion has resigned the Presidency, on the ground that
he cannot concur in the nomination of Mr. Bright as
M.P., for the borough.
At the Lancaster quarter sevions, yesterday week,
William Sharp, Esq.. of Linden Hall, and James Garth
Marshall, Esq., of Coniston Water Head, qualified as
magistrates for the county.
Cuatous FACT.—During the nights of Saturday and
Sunday, sixteen prisoners were lodged in the Birkenhead
Bridewell, out of which number there were no less than
fifteen Irishmen.
Samuel Woodhouse, Esq., of Liverpool, and Norley-
ball, Cheshire, at his last rent day, returned all his
Cheshire tenantry ten per cent. upon their respective
rents, in consequence of the potato blight.
At a meeting of the Manchester Town Council, on
Wednesday, a memorial to government, praying for the
immediate opening of the ports, was carried by a large

LICENSED VICTUALLERS PROTECTION SOCIETY.—
On Wednesday the annual public meeting of the mem-
bers of this society was held in the large room of Mr.
Whiteman's Brunswick Hotel, Hanover-street. The
chair was taken by Mr. Timothy Parkinson, who recom-
mended that an amalgamation should take place between
this society and the Licensed Victuallers' Society. Up-
on the motion of Mr. Luff, the two societies were amal-
gamated, and the members of the Protection. Soeiety were
strongly recommended to continue their subscriptions as
before. _ _

AN INCOMPETENT, STEWARD. —On Wednesday
Captain John Jennings, of the Swithamley, now lying hi
the Albert Dock, was summoned before M. Rushton,
by William Hughes, for £lO 25., the balance of wages
alleged'to be due. The complainant stated that he had
shipped as steward at Calcutta, on the 28th of May, at
£4 a month; but was thrown off duty on the 30th, and
appointed as cook's mate, at only £2 a month. The cap-
ta in stated that the complainant was found totally inca-
pable of discharging the duties of steward, and had
caused him much annoyance in consequence. He had
intended to return him to Calcutta with the pilot when
he left, but he kept out of the way, and the pilot refused
to take him. The complainant, in reply, said the inca-
pacity arose from sickness, and alleged various acts of
cruelty against the captain. Of fitty-one passengers
twenty-five died on the voyage. The mate strongly
confirmed the captain's statement. Mr. Rushton said,
if he had been in the place of the captain, he would not
have paid him any balance at all, and dismissed the com-
plaint.

majority.
Mr. Reynolds, insolvent commissioner, will pay his
autumnal visit to Lancaster on Nov. 11, Liverpool Nov.
18, Welshpool Nov. 21, Carnarvon Nov. 26, Beaumaris
Nov. 27, Ruthin Nov. 30, Mold Dec. 1, Chester Dec. 2.
On Wednesday afternoon, a house in Pembroke-place,
corner of Pembroke-street, fell with a tremendous crash.
It belonged to Mr. Booth. No life was lost, the workmen
engaged in converting it into three shops being at dinner.
CANADIAN FLOUR.—A vessel, named the Belinda,
arrived at the port of Liverpool from Quebec, has
brought, in addition to a quantity of wood goods, the large
number of 9540 barrels of flour, of Canadian produce.
A society is being formed in this town on the model of
the London Conversation Club, having for its object the
bringing together, at stated times, all professional men;
artists, literateurs, &c. to converse freely on the matters
studied by them.
On Monday, at Knutsford sessions, sixteen gentlemen
qualified as magistrates for the county of Chester. Among
them were John Somerville Jackson, Esq., John Laird,
Esq., of Birkenhead ; and Swann, Esq., of Back-
ford, in the hundred of Wirral.
Mr. R. B. Bate, agent for the admiralty charts says,
that " the admiralty has never published any cherts
whatever of Murray Firth. The chart used by Capt.
Hoskens was a Liverpool publication, and though sold by
my agent at Liverpool, has no authority on that account.i'
At the meeting of the Liverpool Literary and Philoso-
phical Society, last week, Mr. J. B. Yates res,giied the
presidents dp, and Dr. Booth was elected in his stead. A
votenf thanks was passed to Mr. Yates for his long and
valuable services.

SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL.—On Friday, a
meeting of the trustees of this hospital was heed in the
Clarendon Rooms. Jos. B. Yates, Esq., occupied the
chair. Mr. Yates explained that the object of the meeting
was to consider the present state of the hospital, and the
propriety of increasing the present accommodation. The
new docks that are about to be mr.de at the south end of
the town would render this step imperatively necessary.
To he enabled to do it, however, the committee must
have funds. The regular annual expenses of the hospital
were not less than £l6OO, to meet which the committee
received per annum in subscriptions £lOOO ; for the
remaining £6OO they were dependent on contingent con-
tributions. The committee applied to Mr. Ai thur Holme,
the architect, and he estimated the cost at £l9OO. The
funds which the committee had amounted only to .f.-100.
After a lengthened conversation, a resolution was unani-
mously agreed to, to appeal to the public for the means of
relieving the charity from debt, and that the intention of
extending the building be deferred till spring.
WORKING SHORT TIME:—We refire; we have this
week to extend our notice of the master spinners' deter-
mination to work their mills short time, in consequence
of the two-fold difficulties 11 ey have to encounter in the
greatly enhanced price of cotton, and the diminished de-
mand for their goods. The following mills in this town
and neighbourhood are already working short time, viz.,
Mr. 'John Cooper's (three mills) ; Mr. W. Eccles, Bom-
ber Bridee, (two) and the respective establishments of
Mr. George Smith, Messrs. Spencer and Barton, and
Mr. James Sleddon. Some of these work four full days
per week, lighting up each night. and others run six days,
but from light to dark only, which amounts to the same
thing. Notice has also been given of the change at the
following mills, viz., Mr. John Paleys, jun.; Mr. Postle-
thwaite's, Messrs. Gardner and Naylor's; Mr. Thomas
Clayton's and Mr. W. Evans'. These commence, we
believe, to-morrow or on Monday. Several other esta-
blishments are expected to resort to the short time expe-
dient next week. One weaving shop (Mr. Ralph Wor-
den's) has likewise been placed upon short time.—
Preston Guardian. .

WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—On Tuesday,
a letter was read from Mr. Austin, Assistant Poor Law
Commissioner, stating that he would attend the board on
the 27th, for the purpose of conferring on the long-pending
question of an increase of the number of guardians for
certain of the townships of the union. A conversation
took place upon the new act " to amend the laws relating
to the removal of the poor," the general disposition being
to treat the act as a dead letter, until explained and defined
by some competent legal authority. An instructional
letter was received from the Poor Law Commissioners,
apprising the guardians of the duties devolving on them
by the 9th and 10th Victoria, c. 96, for the removal of
unwholesome filth and nuisances from the habitations of
the people in their several localities. The medical officer
of 'foxteth-park reported that fever in general is now
assuming a much more mitigated form. The medical
officer of the temporary fever hospital in Smithdown-lane
reported that he expected soon to be able to remove the
whole of the patients. He also called the attention of the
board to the fact that most of the patients came from
Albert-street, Toxteth-park, and expressed an opinion
that such quarter of the town ought to be visited.
INQUESTS.—On Tuesday, three inquests were held be-
fore the borough coroner. The first was on Thomas
Spencer; 39 years of age, who accidentally fell off the
plank of a vessel, and was drowned in the Trafalgar Dock.
The second was on William Dale, who whilst lifting a
plate of iron, about 15 cwt, at Mr. Horsfall's forge, in Tox-
teth-park, had his leg broken by the falling of the plate
upon it. The third was on a new-born female child, who
was found floating in a pit at Kirkdale. On Saturday,
two inquests were held, the first on Michael Conley, aged
70 years. On Thursday evening, a labourer named Mur-
ray went down to the new North Docks, where he was

jvlessrs. Evans, Son and Co. of this town, have written
a letter to a contemporary in which they state that
" rough Epsom Salts, in a strong solution are an absolute
preventative to the future progress of the disease in po-
tatoes, saving even those which are taken up with the
surface quite rotten and offensive."
BREAD STUFFS.—In the Sheridan, from New York,
which arrived on Monday, there are : 1678 barrels flour,
335 barrels Indian corn meal, 10,400 bushels Indian corn,
9000 bushels wheat : and in the Wyoming, from Philadel-
phia, arrived some time, 1000 barrels flour, 563 barrels
corn meal, 14,700 bushels Indian corn, 6400 bush. wheat.
A MAN DROWNED.—On Tuesday, a man unknown
jumped into the lock of the Prince's Dock. A grapnel
was thrown to him, but he refused to take hold of it. A
man afterwards jumped in to his assistance, but he re-
fused his aid, and sunk. He was taken out in about ten
minutes, awl every effort was made to restore animation,
but without effect.
DEATH FROM A SCALD.—On Tuesday week, Daniel
O'Neill, who is in the employ of Messrs. Hime and Son,
music-sellers, Church-street, was boiling some oil in a
field in Myrtle-street; on taking the pot off the fire he
upset it, and the contents went over his face and body,
scalding him severely. He was taken to the Infirmary,
where he died on Tuesday.
A statue of Shakespere for the Theatre Royal, Man-
chester, has arrived in that town. It has been chiselled
from one immense and apparently very pure and perfect
specimen of the white statuary marble at Carrara. It is a
copy of the celebrated statue of the poet in Westminster
Abbey, which represents him as standing by the side of a
round pillar or pedestal, on which his right arm rests.
CHEAP SUGAR.—On the application of Messrs. Chris-
tian and Wilkinson, Commission Agents, Liverpool,
through Dr. Bowring M.P., the Lords Commissioners of
her Majesty's Treasury have been pleased to permit the
importation of slave grown sugar into this island, and at
the same duty as free labour sugar, viz., Is. per cwt.—
.Manx Liberal.
KAFFIRS IN Livznroon.—A party of five Kaffirs,
consisting of two males, two females, and
during the voyage to this country, arrivec
on INlonilay, in the ship Fanny, from the
Hope. The position of affairs on the Cape frontier at
this moment lends a considerable degree of interest to
this arrival.

DESPERATE OUTRAGE.—On Friday. at noonday, near
the highroad between Knutsford and Northwich, as Mr.
M'Gill, a tea•dealer, of Manchester, was passing Water-
less-brook, near the house of Mr. John Foster, at Tablev,
he was met by a man who formerly travelled for him,
who, having saluted and passed him, turned round, and
fired a pistol at his head. Fortunately the ball did not
precisely hit the mark aimed at, but struck Mr. M'Gill
at the back of his neck, and immediately brought him
motionless, but not senseless, to the ground. the wretch
hastily rifled his intended victim, robbing him of upwards
of £BO, and leaving him for dead, immediately hastened
to Northwich, where he made Lis appearance in the pub-
lic streets, and to many persons who knew him, in two
hours after the commission of the crime. Mr. M`Gill,
when found in the road, was able to give full particulars of
the transaction, and to describe the assassin, whom he
well knew, and who, being well acquainted with the habits,
route, and business transactions of his former employer,
had no doubt premeditated the act. The assassin was
taken into custody in the public room of the Crown

engaged to work, and on going down to the shore outside
the wall, he found the body of the deceased lyine on the
bank. lle informed a police-officer, and the body was
taken to the dead-house. A m trried female, named
Fagan, recognized the body as that of her father. He
had been missing for a fortnight.—On view of the body
of Robert Blair, aged 21, a seaman on board the schooner
Grimaldi. The mate stated in his evidence, that on
Thursday forenoon, when the vessel was off Point
Lynas, on her way to Glasgow, she shipped a sea,
which nearly washed him overboard, and sent the

boat which was over the hatchway against the rails. O

Hotel, Northwich, in the presence of a large company.
He denied the charge. Mr. M'Gill's friends removed him
to his house id Manchester.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday last a dreadful
oc-
t„ntr Weston. in the quarry of John

recovering himself be found deceasod clinging to the
rigging, but could not say that the boat was touching him.
He (deceased) gave a loud cry, and put his hand to the

de, but wasunableto more iiimser

low, and afterwards into the cabin

lie was tllcen

The vessel returned

Tomkinson, Esq., of this town, the celebrated contrac-
tor. A number of men were engaged in cutting under a
portion of rock, which suddenly fell, bringing with it the
seam, or " back," that is the stratum intervening between
the two strata of solid rock, and a portion of the adjacent
upper surface, burying 6 individuals. The mass that fell
might weigh 5 tons. The last brought out had died from
suffocation, but no injury was observed except a fracture
of the cheek bone. An inquest was held on Thursday.
It appeared that the men had been instructed to fix an-
other beam against the breast to support it, but this they
had somehow neglects;). The verdict was, " Accidentally
killed," with a recommendation that Mr. Tomkinson
should adopt all practicable securities for the preservation
of human life hereafter. The coroner said he knew Mr.
Tomkinson had given such directions. Some dissatisfac-
tion has, however, been expressed at the fact that the
foreman of the quarry, Dlr. J. Shaw, was also made
foreman of the jury, on which there were others of Mr.
Tomkinson's men. The following were the other suf-

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died. Witness thought deceased must have been jammed
between the rails by the boat when it was washed out cf
its place.
DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—A conversation, as
to the storing of saltpetre at the new Albert Docks, took
place, during which it was mentioned that room bad been
provided at the north end of the dock for the purpose, a
portion of that part being separated by a br;ck wall from
any connexion with the other parts of the building.—A
letter was read from Messrs. Cwhhert and Grindley, com-
plaining of having been overcharged the sum of £25 10s. Gd.
It stated that the ship Lena, from Singapore, belonging to
them, had entered the Albert Dock for the purpose of un-
loading with an understanding that 9:1. per ton, registered
measurement, was to be charged. In addition, however,
the above sum was demanded. A discussion ensued, and
it was stated that the vessel was laden with gambia, which,
during the voyage, had gone into a del'quescent state, in
consequence of which, crowbars and hammers had to be

ape o

require amputation; George Hampton, fractured leg, but
not very severely ; William Parker, several severe contu-
sions en the shoulders and back ; James Norman, con-
tused wounds of the leg and back; Fletcher Gayter,
fracture of the hip bone. Mr. Pye, surgeon, gave most
assiduous gratuitous attention to the sufferers.
CAPTURE EXTRAORDINARY.—On Monday week in-
formation was received by the Brighton police that two
men who had absconded from Liverpool, and were charged
with fraud, had arrived at Brighton, and were about to
sail by the Fame packet for Dieppe; but the police having
no certain information of the men, and no particulars of
the charge, suffered them to depart by the steamer, which
left the harbour on Tuesday morning. The packet had
got half way over, and the men, no doubt, congratulated
themselves on having effected their escape, when some
accident occurred to the machinery, and the weather
being boisterous, the captain determined on returning to
England. On learning this fact, Mr. Chase, the chief
officer of the pollee, directed Superintendent White to pro-

SUGAR REFINERIES.—A large plot of land has been
bought by Messrs. Fairie and Co., Greenock, on the Ca-
nal-bank, near Bury'sfoundry, and also a quantity of land
near the Birkenhead Docks, by a joint stock company, to
be under the superintendence of Mr. Beho, sugar-boiler
in the late concern of Messrs. Brancker and Co. Messrs.
Macfie and Sons house is to be built fire-proof also.
A commission from the Court of Chancery for the exa-
mination of witnesses in connexion with Lady Hewley's
charity sat last week at the Adelphi Hotel. The suit,
since its original institution, has changed its character. It
is not an affair in which the Unitarian body is interested.
The Kirk of Scotland and the Secession Church of that
kingdom, have each asserted a right to the estates in
question.
On Thursday, the election of an honorary surgeon to
the Northern Hospital, took place at the Clarendon-
rooms. Thomas A. Ashcroft, Esq., M.D., physician to
the Eastern Dispensary, was elected honorary physician.
We congratulate Thomas Ashcroft on his appointment.
A better selection could not have been made. For the
office of surgeon a poll took place, which resulted as
followsee :—Mr. Ellis Jones, 230 ; Mr. Chalmers, 190 ;
Mr. "igginson, 102 ; and Mr. Balman, 45.
gi:'', iteltieneree SHIPPING DISASTER.—On Tuesday, the
'1) vCyoming, Captain Miercken, arrived in the Mersey
fronte Philadelphia, with loss of maintoprnast and a num-
ber of her crew. It appears that she encountered a dread-
ful storm in the Atlantic, and that during the time 20 of
the hands were on the yards, a heavy sea struck the ship,
and knocked five of them overboard. No efforts could be
made to save them, and they were drowned. Three
others were very seriously injured in the legs and various
Parts of the body.
,WATER.—The Council have decided on abandoning
tne Bala Lake water scheme, in consequence of being too
late for next session. They have determined to adopt
Mr. Hawkesley's plan, which is this :—ln the high lands
above Horwich, at Rivington Pike, a few miles from Bol-
ton, there are half a dozen brooks—no rivers,—and
these brooks he proposes to conduct into a valley, im-
Pound the water, and form an artificial lake, the con-
tents of which are to be augmented, of course, by the
drainage, when it rains, from the high lands around.
From this pond a covered canal is to bring the water
Within twenty miles of Liverpool, and it is to flow along
these twenty miles in a single pipe, of four feet diameter.
The quantity is estimated at 10,000,000 gallons per day.
,MANCHESTER JUVENILE REFUGE AND SCHOOL or Eliza Ann Hill, with whom he had £500; but, in conse- law-clerk. Mr. Mallaby read an extract trout
hall, Manchester,
washeld intheTown. quence of his ill treatment, she also left him, in about notes of the proceedings of the Chester and Birkenhead
°all, Manchester, for the purpose of promoting this insti.. five months afterwards. Mr. Earle having lately visited Railway Company, at a special general meeting, held in
tution, and was attended by the archbishop of D •
istingu
several d. ' ished visitors to the a " i This comprised documents cont lining
taken by W. B.Watkins, Esq., mayor, who opened the although he bad represented her as dead, and hence the' heads of arrange-
, 'meat proposed 'between the railway company named and
the commissioners, as to the railway goods traffic between
proceedings briefly, and called on Dr. Whately to move attempt at prosecution. After hearing the statement of
Liverpool and Birkenhead, namely, (in brief :)
" That the railway company should be at liberty (subject to
the first resolution, which the most rev. prelate did in a Mr. Earle, who was. sub cened the occasion, the
claims to protect the ferry rights of the
feeling address. The resolution merely approved of the magistrates decided that the's, could not send the prisoner
carry their own goods, or contract with the I%lTeillsiPriounSeres)
too
objects of the institution, which was to provide an asylum to trial upon such unsatisfactory evidence as that of the
r,o,ils:;wregleeetlgtrtehAectombgneeanisceseii.raorinie;erisete'roamt
Monk'searry iniferrthye,mte;
pre_
for the children of the destitute poor, in which they would first wife's paramour. A local contemporary publishes the
ep,itsesne=trsr;aitihis be taught the principles of morality and industry. The following particulars respecting this gentleman :—" Mr.
Rev. Hugh Stowell seconded the resolution, which was Earle's life is romantic, and one chapter of it relates to
mveenitactoentjueskioen
effectivitb Tose
soon as etihrey
Grange-lane to the docks should be opened, and dee"d'asytofflcl7
agree-
carried unanimously. Several other resolutions were Liverpool. Some two months since he arrived here in a
adopted, and the meeting was addressed by Edwin Chad- packet-ship from New York, and, although not encum- effect to be proposed and settled. This arrangement was zip-
wick,Esq., the Rev. Canon Clifton, William Chambers, bered with superfluous luggage, he patronised Mr. Lynn, , proved
iby the meeting in question. It was also proposed, that
Esq., and several other gentlemen. at the Waterloo. Ile had all the ease and elegant apps-
MELANCHOLY DEATH.—On Friday, an inquiry be- tite of an accomplished gentleman, and the cook was de- ' tfolretf'hetsiter and Birkenhead Railway Company sliould proceed
forthwith litil).klellee.lNlnnceafmrne Garnatiii gi.ta:ln
rteo then docks,t()
Junction
7:11 d
fore the Borough Coroner took place, touching the death lighted in having in the hotel so admirable a critic of the- that
liar'} should agree to transfer one-half of the station land,i neat'n:
of James 1 atlock, formerly a saddler in this town, but ' productions of his cuisine. He drank rio wine but claret, Bridge-end flock, to the Chester and Birkenhead Company, on
lately in destitute circumstances. It was stated that on save and except a pint bottle of champagne during the tiletienigeTid thel cost of the land,. interest, and expenses: proper
The docu-
Saturday afternoon the deceased was found by one of the process of mastigation, and his habits were exceedingly
ni.el'lt'salCaott o
further it l re
i stated,ared and
thetas signed
ne
°Nutt o '''
ttth ei point.siat i
police-officers, at the upper end of the town, in a very regular. like the Irish Dragoon of Washiegton Irving,
distressed state, trying to get to the Infirmary, for which 1 he gave the house a world of trouble, but every body was at that meeting to conclude a contracrti•orethe comeleilnelligeoirthde.
le had an order. When taken there the surgeon recom- I delighted with him. He talked so pleasantly, and pro-
extension line, upon which contract being entered into the ar-
rangements to carry the goods' trallic for the Cheshire .Tunction
mended him to be taken to the workhouse; but on being , mised so liberally, that the waiters were delighted to Company might commence; and that, subject to this inoditica-
conducted thither, the governor relused him admission ' obey his orders. To us he described himself as being
eonni,,etalw arrangements Commissioners and the iiir-
without an order from the Parish-office, and stating that i the agent of a great American land company ; the VLancashire,anadltaetsVire Junction railway should be
the disease under which the deceased laboured was more ; lessee of two theatres; the proprietor of one newspa. confirmed."
fitted for the Lockups, and the workhouse being quite per in New York, and the editor of another. His The CHAIRMAN said there had been some modification
full, he did not like to exercise any discretionary power. I means were ample, and no one asked him for money. in the terms of the arrangement, the question having
He died on Monday morning. The jury brought in ai To the Mayor, on his arrival, he applied respecting the been subsequently discussed at a meeting of the Dock
verdict of delirium tremens, brought on by excessive police, and he invited half the Town Council, from time Commissioners, a body composed of the same persons as
drinking, to time, to dine with him ; almost every day a guest or that board, when it was agreed to support the modifica-
INSURANCE ON THE GREAT BRITAIN.—A private two honoured him to dinner, and the resources of the tions proposed, en condition that the plan came into
;fleeting of some of the proprietors of the Great Western Waterloo were sufficient to satisfy them all. Among operation when the extension line,
to the docks should be
Steam-ship Company was held in Bristol, on Monday other projects which brought him to England, was to ne- opened. This was objected to by the company, and a
week, for the purpose of taking into consideration the gotiate wills the Londunassurance-office to open an office committee was appointed consisting of two members of
course adopted by the directors of the company in not in- in America, and, in the way of business, he appointed an that board and three of the directors of the railway corn.
miring the vessel. It appears that at a late meeting of the advertising agent in the Goree. In his moments of lei- Pony, all anxious to have the arrangements carried out
company. at their offices, in Princess-street, and before the sure he sauntered up and down Bold.street, and got quite without delay, and it would be for the meeting to decide
Great. Britain left Liverpool. a 'question was put to the familiar with several shopkeepers. To them he repre- whether they would adopt the resolutions to be submitted
to them. Since the meeting alluded to it had been agreed
chairman_ as to whether the ship was fully insured or not. sented himself as a man of fortune ; and, by way of en-
'robe chairman, in reply, stated it was not, beyond the sum couragement, he gave an order to one for a £l5O worth of that the extension line should be proceeded with immede,
ately. He concluded by proposing the following resolu-
-1 £lB,OOO, to secure Mr. Mitosis mortgage to that ladies' stays, and from another he ordered a twenty gut- stele
:
amount on the vessel, as there was some difficulty or nea shawl. He received them, but did not pay for them!
"That this board. approves of the proposals now read, as mo-
difference as to effecting the insurance. One of the pro- In due time, be announced his intention of departing, dified by the meeting of the proprietors of the Chester and
Prietors then observed, that if the insurance should not took his berth in the Halifax boat, and ordered his bill. _ Birkenhead Railway Company, provided proper instruments be
be effected before the shipstarotefditfrothma America, the pro- He expressed his astonishment at the moderation of toe. executed by both parties, whereby the ferry right shall be
prietors ought to be informed charges, put the bill in his pocket, walked out, and did amply secured and protected, and time details of the existing ar.
himself , t each, :by a sepa-
rate insurance, might secure to the extent of his not return that day nor the next. He will no doubt re- rangements between the Commissioners and the Railway
share from loss. The chairman concur
propriety of this course, and said concurred at once in the .turn—for he is an honourable man—pay the bill for the Company for the purchase
i of the
conductingfor of the railway traffic as
that a minute should be stays, and for the shawl!"
made to that effect, and the proprietors furnished with the HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—Coughs, colds, asthmas, and now modified, shall be at the same time stated and formally
necessary information in ratified; anti that Messrs. Brownrigg, Cole, Adamson, Hind,
intimation, however • and anti W. Laird, be a committee for carrying this resolution into
aground, was only insured ttoethe
fit extent we have stated, cases of asthmas, of many years' standing, have been Mr. John LAIRD denied that the delay in carrying out
hold the:chairman or di-
prietors conceive that they circumstancesmay
completelybys
.
high legal opinion is about to procured on the doubt but that they are a sovereign remedy when taken obstacles thrown in the way of the Ferry Committee, and
1;1; and we have heard that for any wheezing or shortness of breath, even of twenty also positively denied that there hod been any compro-
On the merits of the case we doe not presume to dpeceiideet.
are pretty accurate in the general state-' • ' rid
yt
the
etivr sb'
be, it
ai
tn dnienegd ian
onlyd
bees
tthoecwouogrkbsoafnad few days yheowtoevgeert beand. mthiesecteetswteerenantdheßCirokmenn.hieassdionßearisiwaanyd. the Directors of
)314 we believe we
tirely of them by the means o
stmt.—Bris Cl Journal. '
of this astonishing me- The resolutions were then passed unanimously, and
the meeting adjourned.
dicine.

OS THE SANITARY STATE OF SOME PARTS
OF LIVERPOOL.

CEMETERY

LETTER xvrr,

NUISANCE-POUR •CABEB

Two young ladies, a short time ago, took a walk into
one of our cemeteries ; they saw three or four graves
open, one of which was supposed to be a parish grave,
kept open for receiving the mortality of paupers, These
individuals were relatives of some patients of mime. I
have the facts from their own bps. They, passed' out at
the gate, when, just as they were crossing the road, they
perceived a most disgusting stench for• several yards of
walking, and whilst passing the grating of a sewer ; they
set off and ran to get away as fast as possible from the
annoyance. They felt overcome with the odour, and had
about a quarter of a mile to go before reaching home,
when they. both felt sick and both vomited. One of them
fell down, and cut her face in several places ; she was
rallied, and fainted again and again;, in fact, it was with
difficulty she could be prevented from fainting away. The
other did not stop with her friend, but walked on some
streets further to call upon a relative she was anxious to
' see. On the road, and when passing along ilope•street,
she felt dizzy, and did not know where she was, or what
she did—in tact, was " insensible,"' until she found her-
self at the bottom of Duke-street. When she arrived at
her relative's house, she was seized with vomiting, which
partly relieved her. She was able to return back to her
companion, when she learnt that they both had been
similarly made sick. They could take no food the re-
mainder of that day; they passed a disturbed night, and
could eat nothing at breakfast the next morning. They
took a little medicine, and gradually regained their
usual health. They were both in good health when they
entered the cemetery, and the fact of both sickening
together gives a great weight to the conclusion that the
alluvia they encountered was the cause. Either the
graves they had passed,, or the sewerage, was naturally
accused. The drain, the stench from which was so re-
pugnant, passes near to the front of the cemetery ; and I,
teal no doubt but that its waters may have some partial
source from the drainage of the burial-place. One of the
parties had once in Manchester attended the funeral of a
friend in the Rusholme Cemetery, and was made ill for a
whole night afterwards from the odour of the grave.
Another party, then in delicate health, told me about
that time that she had been walking in the same cemetery,
and had distinctly perceived an offensive heavy odour
from the ground, and did not feel as well as usual after.
I forbade her ever going there again, under ordinary cir-
cumstances.
The fourth instance occurred to a member of my own
family, who had been walking round St. Mary's Ceme-
tery, at Kirkdabs, and felt the odour oppressive, so as
hardly to be able to reach my house, from sudden languor
and headache.

I will not say these are demonstrations of cause and
effect in a rigorous philosophical sense, but, for the prac-
tical purposes of life, they are, I think, nevertheless,
sufficiently convincing ; and the impression upon the
minds of all is so strong, that all three parties declared
they would be very cautious bow they perambulated
grave-yards again. I put the fourth case out of the
question, because my own opinion was added in the
shape of a veto.
The husband of the patient just mentioned, whilt at-
tending the funeral of a sister in St. James's Cemetery,
standing close to the borders of the grave, suddenly per-
ceived such an offensive odour rising up from the ground
as almost to overpower him. He hardly could remain
throughout the service, and felt distinctly the horrible
odour in his nostrils for four or five days after. He was
nauseated for a long time after, and states that he would
have been very glad on that night or the following morn-
ing if he could have actually vomitted for relief. A ne-
phew at the same funeral was also similarly affected with
the smell, which he had perceived before he reached the
grave :" it left a bad pain in his chest for an hour or two
afterwards," as if from a sense of constriction or opposi-
tion to the foul air remaining in the lungs. He was a tee-
totaller, and would have been compelled to break the
pledge if he had not struggled hard with the nuisance,
aided by copious draughts of cold water. Of course he
would have been fully justified in departing from the rule
self-imposed, in " using a little wine for his stomach's
sake." In fact, every party forming the funeral company
complained of the stench on the ground, with one excep-
tion, for whose hardihood of the faculty of smell, &c. there
were some adequate reasons. A friend, Mr. G., tells me
that three weeks ago he had crossed the river early from
the Seacombe ferry, and passed through St. Nicholas's
churchyard as he was wont. One part of this old, crowded
burial-ground of the mother church of Liverpool is lower
than the rest. The reader will recollect"that this lowest
part is towards the docks; perhaps it is a yard or more
below the remainder. Three stone steps mark the dif-
ference at the north end of the burial ground. The
rain had been very plentiful for some days previous,
and whilst crossing this lower part to gain the steps, Mr.
G— perceived a most disgusting smell coming off the
higher ground, which gave him an immediate headache,
lasting the whole of that day and night. He has felt
since uneasiness at the stomach, which he attributes to
this source. He called the attention of a companion who
was along with him to the fact, and who assured him that
such, in his daily experience, was no novelty, especially
early in the morning, and that he had encountered more
intolerable grave salutes than in the present case on the
same site. This churchyard is a common thoroughfare,
without a common beaten path ! What would a Turk,
or any other heathen, think of the decencies of life in
Christendom, where the hurrying footsteps of the busy
crowd re-echo through the desecrated roofs of the other-
wise silent halls of the dead ? In the name of health to

the living, decen'

these things so to be ?" Chapel-street bounds this church-
yard on tue north, many yards below the level of the
burial ground, and here the passers along frequently
detect the noxious °clouts of the spot. Moreover, this
peipendicular side of the churchyard was once the un

selected locality for planting a receptacle for

chance dead—a morgue, as the French term-it—presenting
through its gloomy and loathsome grated portal the pain-
ful and disgusting spectacles within to every passer-by,
most unsuitably—nay, barbarously. There was no venti-
lation, save through the grilled gate itself, for the stagnant
horrors entombed therein; the light scarcely discovered
the dark blank walls or their unconscious tenants. To
what purpose, then. such publicity, unless the seal of
darkness could be lifted off, or the horrid effiuvisi miti-
gated ? How could the claiming recognition of the found
dead be accomplished adequately to counterbalance the
inevitable evils of such exhibition of the frequently putrid
and irrecognisable wrecks of humanity ? For this slight
chance of difficult recognition, the footpath was contami-
nated by unseen dangers planted in ambush, or the sus-
ceptibilities of expecting maternity liable to be startled
and hideously impressed. In ancient Persia, Greece, or
Rome, this refinement of civilised Britain would have
been a stronger argument against our claims to reputation,
than anything short of cannibalism itself can be now
urged against those nations we choose to denominate

flushes and twitchings of the muscles ofi the'face and ral interesting anecdotes, and,making si strong appeal in
neck. He had lately come to a small house: On my behalf of'die society.
frrst or second visit, I perceived such a disagreeable The Rev. Mr. CRAIG also ably advocated the cause of
odour in,the house, that I,set to investigate shn order of the orphans, and dwelt upon the circumstance that not
things. I soon found, that ever since they had occupied only were the children rescued from misery and error,
the house, they had been annoyed by these foul smells, and made good members of society, but that it had fre-
and that they proceeded from the sink-hole of the front quently been found that they had been the means of
kitchen, which had a very short communication with the bringinz other children, and even adults, before
.lost in
drain from. several houses. This drain was not stink. the darkness-of Popery, to the light of true religion, by
restrained effluvia escaped up through every connecting ing juveniles. He stated that he had received an orphan
trapptd as it ought to have been, and therefore the un- the example and scriptural expositions of these interest-
orifice. Any one knowing what use the smaller cottages boy from his dying.father, and had promised to get him
often, nay systematically, make use of these out_, outsets, will into the Protestant school of the society on his responsi-
not be apt to underrate the quality of the odour. The br.try, which he could ill afford without their assi.•-
wife stated that this sink-stone always stunk, more espe- as the cost would be fie— • _

cially in any change of the: weather. at sucn the
whole house would become absolutely unbearable. The
only expedient they had adapted, and which she admitted

k eve with a we

nuisance

She had never

year tne applications for- the admission of orphans were
23,and, from the limited amount of the funds, only 10 of
these could be admitted, though most of the other cases

she had lived there. (TaFlo
The tracery. of the causation

lludes to the

for them both, in which they folly conourret]

five guir

rae fur-

ther medical details Lreservre
for more

I- congratulate the to upon the present prospect of
municipal improvement. The new candidates, wanting a
' ate now in seeming earnestness pledging them-

.4,0 to receive, oelore be left the room, the
for which he bad pleaded for his protege;
benevolent ladies who were oreetit 1

Cards were then distributed to ti

who unde-4rtook to

t their fr
eparated

s, the doxology was si

" cry,

()L. on Wednesday,

selves to us

their utmost endeavc

to carry out the

much needed sanitary requirements of our domestic state.
It is surprising to mark how soon a subject but very lately
absolutely so unpopular, is now the universal theme of all
classes ; so soon are the tables turned, that comparatively
a few months witness its full acknowledgment by all can-
didates for future office ;: nav, insomuch has this obtained,
that it proves a better " cry" than Toryism or Whiggism,
or ultra politics. Why so? Because the majority of the
reflecting portion of society are alive to the need of sani-
tary provisions. and regulations. Public opinion has dic-
tated the " cry" in reality, in which the convictions of the
candidates must coincide, in order that they may be at
one with the public mind. Hence, then, a day of " new
life" is dawning over Liverpool, and this municipal elec-
tion witnesses nothing short of a
tion, greater, as far as it extends, than

less, for good; fruitful but in evil strifes ;
heartburnings are found out at last to be bt
for the real feudal age of politicalnicknarnin

srecoverably before the adva

savages.
I remember this black hole—have endeavoured to re-
cognise human shape in its blackened tenants, but have
been repulsed as often by the intolerable stench, repent-
ing an exercise of otherwise objectless pursuit, than mere
medical curiosity arresting my attention in passing. The
same curiosity, in common with thousands of my class
and of the public at large, foreign and native, has led me
to the Morgue in Paris, where the dead (mostly the
drowned victims of the Seine) are suitably disposed on
benches, within a large, lofty, light, and ventilated hall
or chamber, having an access from the street, but not
obtruded upon the passers by. Those who have any
business, or object, or even mere curiosity, to inspect the
victims of chance or self destruction, must deviate from
the path, and then do as they list—receiving impressions
of horror which frequently are never erased from their
memories. Yet the risk to health, in spite of ventilation,
was not always slight; but they had only themselves to
blame for whatever moral lesson or physical annoyance
they might reap there. The authorities were not in fault.
In our own morgue, until removed, the public outrage
was an authorised sin against society. Happily, however,
this is now a matter of the past history of Liverpool Im-
proper. An appropriate building has been provided,
every way most suitable and convenient; the stigma has
been removed, and the authorities deserve great credit for
the improvement. Ventilation, light, public convenience
and decency, have been attended to.
To return to the eruptive fever cases. The public will
now be able to comprehend what relation such will hold
to the grand archetype of fever—the plague, and will re-
cognise in the milder form the same essential features of
poisoning of the blood with the less diluted poison cases.
The difference is one of degree then, not in kind, and the
shadings down even of these degrees to the smallest dis-
turbance of the harmony of the functions of our complex
framework, constituting deviations from health. I shall
give two or three brief examples—fresh facts around our
own homesteads, producing more conviction than others
more remote, though better told. lam inclined to view
this form as a species of typhoid fever hitherto very im-
perfectly described, and which perhaps may hereafter, in
honour of Liverpool, be denominated the cloacinal va-
riety, or species I was called upon to attend profes-
sionally a family where, from the dense packing of the
buildings in the heart of the town, there was no option
scarcely but to plant an ashpit and privy close to a back
kitchen, the access to which was through the kitchens.
The consequence was that the house was always more or
less obnoxious to the effluvia from a source so proximate.
My own attention was called to it from the fact of my
having to prescribe for a bowel complaint which both
heads of the house complained of. When I reached the
house, I had to complain of the intolerable smell. I
tracked it to the source above described. I told them that
little physic was wanted if they would only do away with
the nuisance, which, as I was peremptory, was forthwith
done. I amused them by saying that the only prescription
I should write would be the Latin terms for bricks and
mortar, to form a blockade. The thing was done imme-
diately: they were people of sense; they saw it when
pointed out. I may add that upon this
discovery another
tale hangs—that of the death of an infant in convulsions,
which I attended in the same house only a few months
Previously, the rightful and probable cause
infant of which I
could now accuse, and which they felt constrained to ad-
mit as most probable. The was in a fair and pro-
mising condition at first, until the health of the mother
began to deteriorate from the close atmosphere of the
vh
uo ul
ssi se sant
tad childetklies.
hseu dadt emnol ys
pshaenrk after e ,
used
three
to
to point
por finotuor con-
vulsive n-
at
the time as oppressive and bad. The rooms were dark,
from tall blocks of warehouses, &c., so as to compel them
in winter to burn gas on the stairs all day long, and half
the daytime in the chamber. Children do die in shoals
from convulsions, in
.Liverpool more than in other places,
at the epoch of teething, but this infant was not six weeks
old, and there were no signs of dentition as yet, so that
that the case in my mind stands out in clear relief, as an
effect pure and unambiguous of gaseous poisoning.
In another instance of Cloacma, nnpropitiated, I was
requested by a surgeon to see a patient of his suffering
from an accession of nervous disorders, occuring in a
journeyman painter. He bad every few minutes sudden