The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-05 00:00:00

Korai anb probintiat grius.

On Tuesday, the body of a male child was found wrap-
ped in flannel on some vacant ground in Toxteth-park.
An iron steamer, called the Tynwald, intended to ply
between Liverpool and the Isle of Man, was launched
from Mr. Napier's building-yard on Tuesday.
- On Tuesday, a beautiful little iron steamer, for the
Woodside Ferry, to be called The Wirral!, was launched
from the yard of John Laird, Esq., Birkenhead.
NOBLE COLLECTIONS.-At Christ Church. Salford,
'on Sunday week, after sermons by the Rev. H. Stowell,
Incumbent, the sum of £258 was collected in aid of the
schools.

A deserter from the Bth Regiment of Foot gave himself
up to the police on Monday. Mr. Rushton remanded
him until communication could be had with the War
Office.

On Saturday, a poor old woman, aged 74, residing in
Beresford-place, Wellington-road, trod upon a piece of
oraoze-peel lying upon the footway, fell, and broke one
of her thighs.
WEST DERBY UNION.—At the meeting on Tuesday
the business was unimportant. Mr. Smith's motion for
prohibiting the guardians dining in the union house was
lost, no member seconding it.
ART UNION PRIZE DRAWING.— At the drawing in
London, on Tuesday, through W. Cole, Esq., Honour-
able Secretary, Birkenhead, our t)wnsman, Mr. J. B.
'Cooper, drew a £7O prize; and Mr. J. Brittain, of Bir-
kenhead, one of £2OO.
Stirling is dramatising " Raby Rattler," the work of
one of our townsmen, and is going to produce it at the
Surrey, in the most brilliant style, after which Ar.
Ham-
mond intends to give a Liverpool audience an opportunity
of judging of its merits at the Adeiphi.
On Friday night week, Joseph Pritt, first mate of the
Provincialist, from this port, was drowned off the North
Quay, Londonderry, through falling into the water whilst
going down a ladder into a small boat which was going
to his ship.
GERMAN EMIGRATION.—It is expected that upwards
of 80,000 persons will emigrate from Germany during the
present season. There are over 500 of them in the neigh-
bourhood of the London docks, waiting the sailing of
the New York liners.

Madame Celeste is said to be the wealthiest actress on
the stage. Besides enjoying a large revenue from her
past and present exertions, she has just taken possession
of her late husband's property, amounting to upwards of
£lO,OOO.

On Tuesday, as a poor soldier's wife was crossing to
Cheshire, with the view of travellino. to Woolwich, to join
her husband, she fainted on board one of the Woodside
boats from sheer exhaustion and want of the necessaries
of life.

On Tuesday, three lads, named Matthew M'Coy, Jas.
Williams, and Jas. M`Keown, were committed for trial
by Mr. Rushton, on a charge of having stolen several ar-
ticles of plate, the property of Mrs. Mary Ann Langley, a
Widow, residing at No. 113, Field-street.
On Tuesday, a middle-aged female, of respectable ex-
terior, named Mary Harvey, was committed for trial by
Mr. Rushton, on a charge of having stolen about eighty
yards of silk, the property of Mr. William White, silk
mercer, of Ranelagh-street.
SMUGGLING. On Tuesday, three Belgians, named
Eagle Bart, John Peters, and Jaffer Soffer, were brought
!IP on a charge of smuggling tobacco. Peters, who had
in his possession 341b.was fined 405., and to be imprisoned
ten days in default. The other two prisoners, who had
201 b., were fined £lOO each.
The Prince Albert, American line.of-packet-ship, 1,000
tons, Captain Sebor, arrived at Spithead, on Sunday night,
about 12 o'clock, bringing three days later intelligence
from America. She left Sandy Hook on the sth, in com-
pany with the Roscius, of Liverpool, which arrived here
On Sunday.
A STRANGE STORY.—On the 7th ultimo, Joseph
Ba!ley, a youth about sixteen years of age, son of Henry
Bailey, a Shadow Moss, in Northern Etchells, near
Liverpool, vomited a living reptile of the L'zard tribe,
the body of which was about seven inches. It was the
Consequence of drinking at a brook, in a field in which he
Was at work as a plough driver, in the autumn of 1844.
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS.—The new street which will
form a continuation of Coperas-hill, is about to be opened
Huniediltely. The workmen have entirely razed to the
ground Messrs. Hughes's workshops, in Gill-street, and
are now bri,kly employed removing the materials. This
new street will form an extensive thoroughfare, as it will
be the most direct way down into the town to all persons
frequenting Gill-street market.
the 24th ‘17(31" BURNED TO DEATH IN BRIDEWELL.—On
bride:j tilt., Johanna Gallagher was put into Rose-hill
el, for being drunk and disorderly. On the fol-
lowing_ morning she was removed to the main bridewell,
with the view of being brought before the magistrates,
and tearing off a piece of her handkerchief to light her
pipe, threw it carelessly down, where communicating with
her clothes, she was speedily in a blaze. She was so se-
riously burnt that she had to be removed to the Northern
Hospital, where she died on Monday last.

On Monday, John Gallagher was sentenced to two
month's imprisonment, for creating a disturbance in Bir-
kenhead, and beating the police. A man named Kelly,
for not assisting the police when called upon to do so, was
_ordered to pay 40s. and costs, or to be imprisoned for
one month. The money was paid. On the evening of
Saturday about 150 men assembled at the corner of Ivy-
street, making a disturbance, when the police interfered,
and the mob taking part against them, they were severely
abused. The prisoners were the primary movers in the
affray.

FATAL ACCIDENTS.—On Wednesday, as a little girl,
three years of age, named Catherine Molyneux, was sit-
ting in an excavation made for the purpose of laying wa-
ter-piping in Prussia-street, the wheel of a cart which was
passing slipped in, and the poor girl was so much injured
that she died shortly afterwards.—On Monday se'nnight,
as an aged female, named Ellen Langton, was going up
Brunswick-road with a basket on her head, a cow ran
against her, and trampled her down. Her left arm- was
fractured, and she received other injuries, of which she
died on Monday last.
CRARGE OF PERJURY.—On Tuesday, an elderly man
named George Spears was charged with this offence. The
Prisoner, it appeared, had been employed by Mr. George
Jones, a hatter, residing in Baxter's-court, to pawn for
.""' a watch. Jones was afterwards taken ill, and the
,Prisoner appeared and made affidavit before C. Rawdon,
• the magistrate, in conformity with the provisions of
an act for regulating the business of pawnbrokers, that he
Was himself the owner of the watch, and that he bad lost
ar mislaid the ticket which be had received. Upon the
faith'from of this affidavit he succeeded in obtaining the watch
'rota the pawnbroker ; but on the recovery of Jones, the
tove facts transired, and the prisoner was apprehended.
e was committed for trial at the assizes.
IRIgiI PROVISIONS.—The following is the list of pro-
ions imported into the port of Liverpool, from the prin-
`2,,• Dal Irish ports, during the past week, according to the
;maial returns being from the 9th to the 16th inclusive:—
.0948 firkins, 282 half firkins, 707 baskets and casks, and
193 boxes of butter; 387 sacks, 1,849 barrels, 325 tons
r
right, and 960 bushels of wheat; 5,524 sacks of flour;
Itons weight of oats; 1,717 sacks, 186 tons weight, and
,6 other packages of oatmeal; 44 tons weight of barley ;
9 sacks, and 343 barrels of malt; 141 casks of whiskey;
609 feathers
barrels and 3 tierces of bacon; several packages of
and seeds; 718 boxes, 27 parcels, and 49 bales of
12r41e,0s and cottons; 94 packages of hams; 480 barrels and
outegs of pork ,• 673 kegs, 63 firkins, 23 tierces, and 16
anis! of lard; 40 sacks of farina, flour, and various other
:les, too numerous to particularize, of no importance.
111. b°NcoßN.—On Wednesday, a workman, named
•Ltabert Jones, who had been in confinement in conse-
rtnee of derangement, effected his escape, and procured
a knife at a grocer's shop, with which he cut his throat,
21;1 soon after expired.—Joseph Pimblet, and Mary, his
ife, have been apprehended under circumstances of sus•
c,k°ll of having poisoned two of their children. On the
lo
of March last, an inquest was held on the body of
ames Pimblet, when a verdict was returned " Found
dead in bed." Within a fortnight afterwards another son
tied after a short illness, and was interred without any
nq.airY• About three weeks since a third child was taken
the circumstance arroused the suspicions of the chief
constable, who entered into communication with the
.2ttritY magistrates, and with the coroner. The result
Was, that the coroner issued his warrant for the disinter-
ment of the body of Richard Pimblet, and the affair is
undergoing investigation. An order for the disinterment
of James Pimblet, the child which first died, has also
been issued.
FEMALE PENITENTIARY.—At the annual meeting, on
Tuesday, Adam Hodgson, Esq., presided. During the
Past year, no fewer than thirty unhappy outcasts have
been-restored to -their friends and tilLgiatbs of virtue, by
Means of the society, and former inmates of the institu-
tion have frequently called to express their gratitude for
the benefits received through that instrumentality. In
the course of the past year there had been 90 applicants
for dmission'; 61 of these had been taken in the Proba-
tionary Wardthere was now remaining in the house
P. The total number since the commencement of the
~ustitution was as follows : Admitted since the first est ab-
rhment, 1,370; expelled, 167; eloped, 54; left at their
t•;„°11 suggestion, or dislike of rules,restored to their
or placed in service, 455; removed to other insti-
t;"'"s, 89 ; died, 17. Two years ago the committee ven-
cured to lay before the public, as far as prudence and dis-
cretion permitted, a brief statement of the sad extent and
us effects upon society at large of the crime which it
ththeir object to counteract. Last year they reiterated
e statement of the appalling fact, that every year 500
rmiserable creatures, in this town alone, fall into a prema-
rf.e grave, the victims of the horrible consequences of a
t%.! pf postitution. There is a balance to the credit of
L.epstitution of £lBl.
..0e,,,f1E GREAT BRITAIN STEAM SHlP.—This magnifi-
truol2..Tessel, which has been fitted up with one of Wood-
man'!6, Patent screw propellers, and had many changes
iteilri her rigging and machinery, made an experi-
ehaoll trip for the purpose of trying the effect of these
ohe °a Wednesday. She left the Cobourg Dock at
ton, tlk on Wednesday ; having on board Captain Clax-
Wood •, Mr. Brunel, Mr. Field, Mr. Guppy, Mr.
Other er°ft (the patentee of the screw), and a number of
Perfo gentlemen, who were desirous of witnessing her
rnance. She ran for Holyhead, which she reached
'.l4,PoOut• Saevme7 o'clocke
per ho ; beating the Cork steamer, Nimrod,
slowly t hur. During the night, she steamed
owarda Liverpool until daylight when sbe fell in
—lt4 the Dublin mail steamer Prince.' The full steam
was then reviouslturned on, and she left the Prince, as she had
nEtti y left the Nimrod. about a mile an hour. She
se_afterwards a short trial with the new iron steamer
,
aepreckoned the fastest boat out of Liverpool, and
Pre 'n Way with her until the vicinity of the banks
the vented fur her trial. The engines worked well, and
igi:icrew aPpeared to answer its purpose admirably the
rat 'Peed
mileshalf per hour ; and, with the assistance of
f~test vessel powerful sails, she bids fair to prove the
now afloat.

CORR E SPONDEN CE.

LOSS OF THE COLONIES

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Stewkley, Bzwks, April 29, 1846.
SIR,—A few days ago I received through the post-
office two or three copies of a printed letter, addressed to
you by Mr. Isaac Buchanan, of Glasgow, and dated
March 19, ]846. _ . .

Having myself been in two or three of the Colonies,
and resided some years in one of them, when I had an
especial opportunity of being acquainted with its laws
and commerce, the great value of these possessions has
made on my memory a deep impression, which the lapse
of many years and further acquaintance with the world
have had no tendency to obliterate.
The various important advantages of emigration forci-
bly presented themselves in promoting the wellbeing of
the emigrant, annually increasing the trade of Great Bri-
tain. and consequently its strength and resources.
As the noblest efforts of the human mind, in science
and every department of literature, are recorded in the
language of England, already spread over so considerable
a portion of the earth, I hope it would not be vanity to
wish it still more widely spread, diffusing civilization and
the blessings of Christian knowledge among the most
distant nations.

These previous impressions the admirable letter ad-
dresced to you by Mr. Isaac Buchanan has the mole
confirmed. His few hints with regard to emigration are
most valuable, and for my part I would willingly contri-
bute to an " income-tax of twenty per cent. for the first
year," &c.
Free-trade seems fully to deserve to be termed " sui-
cidal policy."
It is sad to reflect on the state of society in this coun-
try—the cool, undisguised want of integrity—the betray-
ing of vast intere,ts by those who had undertaken to
defend them. May the Almighty avert from us those
judgments we have so much reason to apprehend !
You will, I hope, pardon me for trespassing on your
time in this long letter, the purport of which is to thank
Mr. Isaac Buchanan very cordially for his able address to
the public, and yourself for its publication.

I am, Sir, your faithful servant,

RICHARD ROBERTS,
Vicar of Stewkley, Bucks

ON THE SANITARY STATE OF SOME PARTS
OF LIVERPOOL-LETTER VI.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

BRUNSWICK-ROAD

The lower portion of this drain was covered over,
grated, and turned from its course, to run under a back
lane, in order to build cottages on a plot of ground which
formed part of its bed. This was done by one individual,
at an expense of £4O. Why is a drain, which is altoge-
ther a public affair, suffered to remain a nuisance, in mul-
tiplied senses, and to become a burthen on a private purse.
The mud at the bottom end is sometimes two or three feet
deep, and no scavengers ever see after it, on the testimony
of the party who, in self-defence, has often done the su-
pererogatory work of getting it cleansed out. It is a
favourite jumping-place for school-boys, and they could
scarcely select a less happy quarter. The authorities
appear undecided, from accounts, as to whose duty it
is to attend properly to this escaped watercourse ; and
whilst they contend, and each party endeavours to re-
move the burthen from its shoulders, disuse, like the
fox in the fable, where the lion and bear contend for a
carcase, carries away the victim. This is a reproach to
society, and would not be tolerated in many other coun-
tries to which we are in the habit of considering ourselves
superior. Ancient Rome would not have suffered such
danger of delay. We must copy them before we excel
them ; at present, in these matters, we are immensely be-
hind them, let people think as they will. A Roman
CEdile had powers as summary as a coroner possesses now
in his own court. This officer, in ancient Rome, would
soon have settled these disputed points ; and the cases of
fever which have occurred there during the continuance
of the nuisance, and will yet occur before it is done away,
would not have presented themselves as victims of mis-
management and ignorance of the elementary principles
of sanitary measures. Such a study for political charac-
ters would prove more advantageous to themselves and
society, than party janglings and unmeaning watchwords.
The Whig and Tory are no longer contradistinguishing
terms ; and disputes about these decaying schools are only
like lost time ; and in the present non-sanitary condition
of society, are children's pastimes on the blink of a river
or precipice. Suppose the cholera were to revisit us : it has
already proceeded from India anti Persia, so far as to have
invaded Russia, if accounts be correct. Now the ques-
tion ought to be asked, in contemplating such a possibi-
lity, how are we prepared to receive this scourge ? As
far as one can judge, worse than ever. The cellars emp-
tied of human beings, but filled with filth—sewers neglected
right and left—every sanitary regulation waiting to be
fully enforced. Then whenever it comes the evil will
drive the public to the services, gratuitous or otherwise,
of medical men, and Cholera Boards would have again to
be formed, perhaps in as much haste as formerly. Let
them do what they can now, and take the proper advice
and suggestions whilst there is time to do it; if delayed,
all might be bustle and imperfectiori, instead of the deli-
beration requisite for the efficient removal of the predis-
posing causes.

A neat row of houses near Brunswick-road is open at
one end to the current of air from the drain, and has had,
I am told, typhus fever in several of its houses last
summer. There was also a great deal of fe ;er in Ep-
worth-street, at the back of the burying

round of

why is no effort made to economise human sacrifices to the
minimum ? The lesson lies broadly open before us; if we
do not take the warning, the sybilline leaves of cholera or
other pestilence may diminish the chances of immunity
and exalt the cost!

I have given the analysis by Dr. Brett, which suffi-
ciently proves the deleterious qualities of the drainage
water. and relying upon the immutability of physical laws,
which, when suspended in man's favour, constitute a
miracle ; it can hardly be requisite to go into any demon-
stration of the efiecta following the operation of these
causes, I have however stated, from the lips of many
residents, the fact that fever has been common in the
vicinity. But lest the testimony of non-professional wit-
nesses should be taken exception at—although their evi-
dence is valid enough for proving the occurrence of ill-
health, and would only break down in the question of
specification as to what kind of disease; and as I have
stated not only the effects in general terms, as sicknets,
but also in particular as being fever—l turn to profes-
sional evidence, which will be satisfactorily conclusive.
Mr. C. B. Greatrex, who is medical officer for the rural
and municipal districts of the' township of West Derby,
has kindly permitted me to state that he has attended
four cases in private practice in this immediate locality,
during the year from May 1, 1845, to May 1, 1846. Now,
though this number is not great—yet as it gives only
the cases attended by one medical man—it would be
necessary to multiply this figure by some other term
from 2,3, and 4 upwards, which should represent the
number of other medical practitioners in the habit of at-
tending patients thereabouts, and who had prescibed for
fever there during the year, in order to get a true estimate
of the proportion of cases per annum ; but as this cannot
readily be determined, another way lies open to me, in or-
der to gain an idea of the fever cases which are to be lo-
gically attributed to the proved adequate and existing
cause. Multiply this individual experience by the num-
ber of years the cause may have been in active opera-
tion, and the result will be too many for the philanthro-
pist to contemplate, even if the low figure of six be
adopted, a figure which represents the time I know it to
have been existing from personal observation. I can only
at present appeal to my own knowledge in the absence of
other actual data, although I doubt not that this might be
multiplied again by another six or still higher term. Take
then, the low mark of twenty-four cases of fever, as very
fairly inferred to have occurred. Very fairly, I repeat,
because the year of winter and spring 1843-44 was the
epidemic year, when so many cases of fever surprised the
inhabitants living upon all the higher ridges of land upon
which Liverpool and its suburbs are built. Take further,
the most probable, I may say indeed the most certain
fact, that one of these twenty-four cases was fatal, and we
have a great fact, though a very common fact too
common, for caring about but though the crowd-
ing and jostling cares and interests of life consign too
often the departed to the grave, and to oblivion at
one and the same time : yet in vital statistics the unit is
a figure which may work out serious results :—Yet further,
in morals how stands the unit of a life lapsed through
disregard of the first dictates of sanatory common sense.
In fact, one in twenty-four cases of fever is far too favour-
able a-tnertafttr.- Parts teach MC that in typhus fever one
in twelve is a common average, which would give Iwo
lives as sacrificed, literally, to the persistence o causes
which are, and have been all along, remediable, and capable
of complete neutralisation. But, revert 'to the single
solitary death as inevitably deducible from the facts
already before us. Is society just towards itself to allow
the continuance of the cause? The former generations
have suffered these evils to accumulate around. One
excuse may have been urged for them :—they were much
engaged in wars, and reeling Europe occupied their chief
attention. Their descendants are permitted to cultivate
the arts of peace and therefore we have more leisure to at-
tend to pressing social and domestic duties. The motto
of the arms of Liverpool ("Deus nobis hen otia
fecit") asserts the conviction of the fact that God
bath given Ler the enjoyment of a plentiful leisure
Is there not a correlative conviction possessing the minds
of this busy community of a still more pious character,
viz., that blessings entail a stewardship of them, and
stewardship-duties, to be accounted for both at the bar of
earth and heaven ? If so, and it must be so, then, in the
name of rationality, of goodwill, and of a piety even no
more exalted than that of the heathen from whose poetry
the motto quoted has been borrowed,—let every effort be
made to render back that " duty" towards society which
Admiral Nelson well said " England expects of every
man." Then only, and rightfully, can those in office enjoy
that ofium which otherwise never is what it would seem to
be. For those in office to cease from their public minis-
trations, is but to enter upon a new chapter of ennui, un-
less they have won their • otia" and their dignities by
untiring zeal and labour in the rectification of every evil,
and in using their utmost endeavour to change a merely
sub-ventive for a strenuously pre-ventive system of relief
and cure. Then will the legion of preventible diseases be
prevented. When, in municipal economy, the salutary
preventive, supplants the merely expedient, subventive
plan of management, then the practical wisdom of pre-
vention over cure will be illustrated, and its cornucopia
of blessings be emptied forth in a shower of good results,
incalculable and unforeseen. Our charities towards our
indigent neighbours or fellow-creatures, wherever they are
asking for assistance, or pining away without even the
petition of a complaint, should assume always, as far as
possible, this healthy direction. It is nobler than the
other. The preventive rouses our own energies, as well
as those of the party we seek to benefit ; therefore, it is

better for them and for us. This is a sterling and unal-
loyed virtue; the other may become possibly so adulte-
rated, so indiscreet, so thwarting to natural and moral
principles, as to pander to a vice, and be almost a vice in
the bestower—at all events an idle and sentimental virtue,
partaking of the ideal more than the real, and therefore
bad in humanity.—l am, sir, &c.
G. C. WATSON.
Bedford-street, May 2nd, 1846.