The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-02 00:00:00

a:ded in a space ten fee

were symptoms of
ke alluded to the

of Mr. Rowlands —who died from toyer, rem
dren, whom he hoped would be provided for
day and Wednesday last, 130 cases of fever came befo
the local hoard. In one house in Storkdale-!
seven inmates, only a little boy was left living
street six coffins were sent in one day this week
parts of that street were now subject to typhu

On Tues-

treet, out of
To Lace-
Three
Dryden-

street, St

at present s

pt by typhu

[here w

teen thousand poor creatures in Liverpool.now lying on
straw and shavings, and breathing an atmosphere which,
in another week, may send them -to their graves. In
Westmoreland-street thirteen persons of all ages and

sexes were found in one cellar: one plor creature was de-
livered of twins in this horrid abode. in Lace-street
sixty-nine persons were found in a house which contained

only two rooms

Mr. Holme sufficiently well to believe
hat the facts of his dreadful statement are strictly
correct. We admit, too, that our parish authorities,

We know

who have shown a noble exarnole to those of other

towns of th

to avert such suffering and mortality. The COm-
mittee of the Town Council are doing their best to
bring the provisions of the Sanatory Act into
effectual operation. But the combined efforts of
these two bodies are, it is clear, unequal to the
emergency before theni.. " Ten thousand to fifteen
thousand poor creatures in Liverpool now lying on
straw and shavings, and breathing an atmosphere
which in another week may send them to their
graves !" Nature shudders at the contemplation of

great seat of commerce and opulence. Can nothing
be done of a remedial cha

the han

benevolence effect nothing in the way of aid to our
harrassed and overhurthened authorities ? •
We submit .that something can be done, in a

or flfteen• thqusand poor beings, who are dying
amongst us, creating and spreading pestilence,
might be snatched from amongst our population
into more healthy localities. We have vessels
enough lying up in our dock, which might be
floated up the river and converted into fever hos-
pitals. Our quarantine vessels might be converted
from their present harassing purposes, to real use-
fulness. Or Mr. Samuel Holme himself, or any of

her in some convenient locality

night put tog
ashore, such temporary wooden erection, or erec-

townsmen, would, in mere self defence
higher motive, aid in such a work.
We cannot afford to wait until th
machinery of the Sanatory Act, or any other legis
lative effort, removes the evil from our doors.--

f with no

the pestilence from our doors. We cannot wait
until death sweeps away the wretched population
of our narrow streets and courts, or for the com-

pulsory measures of sanatory regulations, which
the Council are putting in force. For every coffin
_

e wretches, whose only
ilential hovels, which
ias just left—to lie upon the

sending us a .dozen desti

resource is to herd irithe pes

the fever-

tricken 1

will continue t

lers, ant

her agitators

Let such a course as we have proposed be adopt-
ed ; and then let the authorities .and the people of
Liverpool appeal to the justice of the legislature
for some contribution towards its expense, and for
a permanent and liberal poor law to prevent the
recurrence of a similar emergency. Liverpool, in-

dependent of her direct contribution of fUnds for
the relief of distress in Ireland, is just now paying

£750 per week to succour the mass of paulieiism-,
which the Irish people are shuffling off their hands.
The nation at large is to pay ten millions sterling,
to support that people up to the period of harvest
and Liverpool, which is the recipient of so large a
portion of Irish misery, and, we regret to add, of
Irish imposture, ought to have a share of that na-
tional contribution.

aware when the above was written,
that a proposition is to be made by Mr. Earl; at the
Council meeting to-morrow, to erect two new fever

We were not

iospitals, one at the north and the other at the south
he town, at the expense of the Corporation, for
the reception of patients, not being paupers, who

are to

y a small sum per

dation provided. Most cordially do we give our
support to such a proposition. In the meantime,
we press our own plan. It is more caculated to
meet the present emergency ; and its expense can
be no more than the workmen's wages, and the
hire of the necessary timber. Moreover, we would
make use of such erections, not only for fever patients,
but for the casual immigrant Irish, whose influx
into our already crowded streets is breeding fever.

We are just now in the midst of the first year
of our adoption of free trade measures, and of the
second year of that cerial difficulty; which startled
our Conservative statesmen from their consistency,
and precipitated the withdrawal of-protection from
native agriculture. It may not he inopportune at
such a time to attempt an examination of the
prospects before us, arising out of the conjoint
action of, these two changes in our past social
Let us first refer to the prospects of our

pOsition

_
supply of food.
From all the information which we can gather,
the preparations for the growth of bread stuffs
this year have been, in Great Britain, upon an en-
larged scale ; and, so far, we hear of nothing to
prevent our reaping in the same measure as we hay(
_ -
sown. We -

lave been favoured with an old Eng-
lish winter ; and we may reasonably hope for a
propitious spring seedtime. There is still every.
prospect _that our farmers, from their. abated confi-
dence in the soundness of the seed, and the disas-
trous experience of the past two years will restrict
their potato cultivation. Should this be the case
to any serious extent, a short crop of the root may,
be anticipated. There is the possibility, however,
thSt the action of the frosts, which have bound up
the soil during the last two months, and of the
snows, which cannot fail to haVe nourishes'

it, may

towards the eradication of the-disea
ever source arising by which the -pc

ihtlv

n averap:e crop, may po

From Ireland, he

to have

vation

almost abandoned ; few have th

aeans at hand to buy seed,. if they even had the
nergy yequired to' put it into the ground. The
Scottish highlands are

colter Tibpnulation of th

hopeless and helpless. From Ireland an
rop of Tereal products cannot be expected ;