The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-07 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL. STANDARD.

The letter is therefore referred to the committee.
The proceedings of the Health Committee contained
reports, at which the following are extracts :

CELLAR OCCUPATIONS

On the 31st iklarch, 1841, there were 7325 cellars
separately occupied in streets in the borough, containing
a population of 24,072 souls; and, of these cellars, 488
were conformable to the provisions of the Health Act,
and contained 1706 souls, leaving at that time about
23,364 persons living in cellars In streets not in con-
formity with this act. There were also at that time 1252
cellars in courts, separately occupied, containing about
5008 souls. That portion of the Health Act relating to
cellars in courts, came into operation on the lt;th of No-
vember, 1842, and shortly after nearly all the cellars in
cousts were cleared of inmates, and attention being lately
called to the subject, very few cellars were found re-
occupied in courts.. The clause relating to cellars in
streets, came into operation on the Ist of July, 1841, and
shortly afterwards a special survey of cellars which were
separately occupied was made, and it was found that the
total number of cellars inhabited in streets, both con-
formable and not conformable to the Health Act, was
6630—namely, cellars not conformable to the act, 6011 ;
cellars conformable to the act, and altered, 619. And,
assuming the same amount of population as was exhibited
in 1841. when the ascertained number of inmates ran
about 3; to each cellar, the total number of persons then
living in cellars in streets, would be about 23.205, and
the total number living in cellars not conformable to the
Health Act, remaining separately occupied in streets,
with a population of about 12,670 persons. In clearing
cellars, hitherto, the worst and most unhealthy ones, in
the closest streets and lowest neighbourhoods have been
taken first. The report added that 372 informations had
been laid against parties who have allowed cellars to be
re-occupied, and the whole of the streets cleared are
now under the notice of the police, to whom lists have
been furnished.

Mr. and Mrs. Clarke were appointed superintendent
and matron of the baths in Paul-street, which, it appears,
will cost £6500. The salary of Mr. and Mrs. Clarke,
who are removed from the baths in Frederick.street, will
be increased from £9O to £l2O, with house, coal.
candles, &c.

Mr, TINNZ moved the confirm ation of the proceedings,
and in doing so said that, during the past year, the baths
had been used by 20,567 persons, being an increase of
6763 over the preceding year. During the last four weeks
the number of bathers have averaged about 100 per week.
The receipts for the year had been £383, being an increase
of £lO3. He gave notice that he should move at the
next, or one of the following councils, that additional
baths be erected in other parts of the town, on the same
principle as those in Paul-street.
Mr. EARLe sail be had a question- to ask; rather- en-
affecting one to some: of the gentlemen present. He
wished to know whether the Highway Board was defunct.
The MAYOR said he believed it still existed.

Mr. EAnt.E.—l fear some people's necks will be
broken between the operation of the act and the death of
these gentlemen. (Laughter.)
The MAYOR read a letter from the King of the French,
acknowledging the address of congratulation lately for-
warded by the Council to him.

A letter from the Highway Board, calling the attention
of the Council to the de:liability of providing tanks for
supplying cattle with water, and fountains for the use of
the public, was referred to the special committee on the
Sanitary Bill.

The MAYOR read a portion of a letter received from
Mr. T. B. Horsfall, thanking the Council for the vote of
condolence on the death of his father.

GENERAL MISCELLANY

The import duty on wheat is now 55.
A testimonial of £3,000 has been subscribed for Mr
Waghorn, the discoverer of the overland route.

'the Rambler steamer, which struck on the Maiden
Rocks, Ireland, will prove a complete wreck.
On Saturday week, a flock of 74 sheep were killed by
lightning near Priddy, in Somersetshire.
In London, there were lately 996.000 females to 878,000
males, or an excess of 118,000 ladies.
The personal estate of the late Col. the Hon. F. G.
Howard has been valued for probate duty at £120,000.
On Thursday, Ibrahim Paella paid a visit to Woolwich,
and was much interested with everything he saw.

The abandonment of the proxy iysteria in the House of
Lords is now considered a necessary act of reform.
The Duke of Sutherland has subscribed £2OO to the
fund for the family of Mr. Haydon._

Upwards of 78,0e0 quarters of wheat and 4000 of oats
were liberated at Hull last week. At Preston, upwards
of 30,000 quarters of wheat were also taken out.
On Thursday, a boy, named Joseph Wood, aged 14,
whilst sculling a boat in the river Feryd, Flintshire, fell
overboard and was drowned.

A handle of the coffin that contained the unfortunate
Mary, Queen of Scots, was sold at the sale of the curiosi-
ties of W. Upcott, Esq., for two guineas.
The father of Major-General Littler kept a grocer's
shop at Nantwich, in Well town the late Lord Kenyon
served his articles to an attorney.

Three men were killed in the most shocking manner,
on Saturday week, on the Lancaster and Carlisle Rail-
way, by the train of waggons getting off the rails.

inventor of the test for arsenic now generally used in me-
dical jurisprudence, died on Sunday week.
Fresh herrings are now plentiful in Douglas market,
and of prime quality. The price in retail for the last few
days has been from 14 to 20 for a shilling. _ _ _ _

A worthy contemporary records, under the head of do-
mestic intelligence, nothing but births, deaths,-and-auar-
riaces. A man of the world, that editor !
'Mr. IL Grcig, recently appointed midshipman on board
the Dido, at Sheerness. committed suicide with a pistol
on Thursday.
A bull, and a pigeon which, at the moment, happened
to be flying over it, were both killed by the electric fluid,
on the farm of Mr. John Proud, at Car House, near Dur-
ham, during the thunder-storm of Thursday week.
Lieutenant William Peel, the son of Sir Robert Peel,
has been promoted to the rank of commander in the ro} al
navy. His lieutenant's commission was dated on the
13th of May, 1844.
In the year 1844, the number of public-houses and
beer-shops in England and Wales was 93,606, and in that
year alone no less than 117 public-houses and 272 beer-
shops were added to the previous number.
John Edwards, who is upwards of 107 years of age, and
lives in a cottage on the Wilton-road; near Salisbury,
was, on Thursday week, observed at work in a hay-field
near his residence. _ _ _

Forty new bishoprics were created during the Pontifi-
cate of Gregory XVI. In England, the deceased Pontiff
erected four new apostolic vicariates, committed to bishops
in parlibus.
On Saturday week, a woman in Abbey Closs, Glasgow,
fell into a sleep, and up to the following Thursday she
only once opened her eyes, but closed them again to sleep
on. The disease is called dumb palsy.
Parltament.street was crowded with persons on Monday
afternoon, and the Duke of Wellington and Fir Robert
Peel were both greeted with the most enthusiastic cheer-
ing on their respective arrival at the Houses of Parliament.
BATHING IN THE SERPENTINE.—The number of
bathers in the week ending on Sunday last, was 226,183.
Two persons were drowned, and eighteen were rescued.
The highest point of the thermometer was at noon, on
the 22nd ult., when it reached 81.

In the Town Council of Leeds, on Wednesday week,
by a majority of 25 to 2, a motion was carried for em-
powering the Street Committee to carry out an efficient
system of sewerage, and for placing a sum of not more
than £30,000 at its disposal for that purpose.
SOWING HALFPIENCE FOR CORN.—Last evening,
more than moderately eccentric citizen of Salisbury
evit.ced his enthusiasm on the passing of the Corn Bill

by parading the streets, and scattering halfpence broad-
cast amongst the mob, who of course accompanied him
in large numbers.—Salisbury Herald.
Between one and two o'clock on t hursday morning, a
ball, about the size of an orange, applrently fire, was
noticed at Woodbridge, moving through the air from the
west to the southeast, with a long train of light after it.
It greatly illumined the atmosphere during its transit,
but disappeared in a few seconds.—Bury Por.t. _ _ _

The prospects of the grouse season in Perthshire are
represented t) be of the most flattering kind. The young
birds a fortnight since were strong enough to find their
way to the burns, under the guidance of the parent bird,
and covies of 8 to 12 each were started every thirty or
forty yards.

Thirteen houses were destroyed by fire, at Soham,
Cambridgeshire, on Friday. Among them is the old
Globe public house. The loss is said to be £5,000. The

fire is Said to have broken out in various places at the
same time, from which it is thought that it has originated
in incendiarism.
The London Pence Society have forwarded an aldress
to the Earl of Aberdeen, on the settlement of the Oregon
question, in which they express their satisfaction that the
long pending negociation between the government of this
country and that of the United Statos, respecting the
Oregon territory, has been amicably adjusted.
MANSLAUGHTER.—A man named George locker bas
been committed for trial at the next Stafford Assizes,
charged with the manslaughter of Joseph Macduff, a butty
collier, who met with his death in consequence of alleged

inattention by Rocker to his duties as under engineer at
a coal pit at Rowley Reis. _ ___. _ -.

Mes;rs. Bunn and Oxbury of Wicklam Market, coach
builders, undertook for a trifling wager, to go to London,
a distance of eighty-three miles, on velocipedes, during
the hours of daylight. They started at three in the morn-
ing, rested six Lours on the way, and arrived at eight in
the evening._

On Saturday, a live toad was found by some of the
workmen employed in making the tunnel through the
mountain in the neighbourhood of Bangor, in a solid
rock, eighty yards from the surface, and about the middle
of the mountain. It is very large, and was living two
hours after it was found.

On Thursday week, a boy, named Stewart, son of Capt
Stewart, R.N., went out to I.loot, at Croydon, with arm:
they young gentleman. Going under a shed, to take off
his boot, he laid his gun on his shoulder, the muzzle
pointed towards him. He accidentally touched the trigger
with his foot, and his head was blown to pieces.
A SHOWER or FROGS I—During the heavy thunder
storm of yesterday week, a shower of frogs fell from one
of the surcharged clouds over the Humber, several dropped
on the decks of vessels navigating the river, and a portion
of the coast near Killingbolme Lights was for a time
covered by myriads of the strange arrivals.—Hull Adver-
tiser.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—A married lady, named Bur-
tenshawe, was waiting, on yesterday week, at a station on
the London and Brighton Railway. The train was in
sight, and as she was crossing the rails, the whistle of the
engine produced such an effect upon her that she fell
down. The station-clerk attempted to drag her away,
but, in the attempt, the buffer of the engine struck him
on the head, almost severing it front the body. The lady
waa also killed upon the spot.

A woman murdered her own child, six months of age,
in the Brighten Workhouse, on Tuesday last, by cutting
its throat, and then committed suicide by cutting.her own.
The name of the murderer was Norman, and she was
about thirty. years of age, and WIC the wife of a man
named Norman, who is ❑ow in the House of C

rection,

undergoing a sentence for felony
FISHING EXTRAORDIN A RY.—A few- days ago some
members of the celebrated Wakefield Angler's Club were
plying their art in one of the reservoirs of the •Wakefield
Water Works, when one of them caught instead of fish a
full-sized wheelbarrow ! Had we been present we should
have advised the gentleman to have baited his book with
the wheelbarrow in the hope of catching a railway carriage !
THE LATE MR. 11 Arrows.--The subscriptions in aid

of the proposed fund for the relief of the widO

painter, now amount, together with the donations re-
ceived, to hearly. £7.00. This sum is exclusive of the res-
pective pensions of £5O from the Queen, and £25 from
Lady Peel, already settled upon Mrs. Haydon.
There died, throughout England and Wales, between
the Ist of July, 1839, and 30th of June, 1840, 5247 females
aged 85 and upwards; whereas, of the same age, there
died only 3954 gentlemen, leaving, what is called in the

city, a ': balance" in favour of the old ladies of 1293.
Among the females who died, 71 had passed the age of
100, but only 40 males.
SAGACITY OF A LAMB. Mr. Thomas, of Gilvach,
having sold at Carmarthen Fair a number of lambs, went

Taw LEAGUE IN ABEYANCE.—The Council of the
League have agreed that although they will not at once
dissolve, their operations and functions shall cease, unless
in case of future emergency the League should be recalled
into existence. Mr. Cobden is stated to have been in fa-
vour of immediate dissolution, but itowas considered' by

Ithe majority.that it would be impolitic to break up the
association so long as the object for which it was orga6
nised—namely, the repeal of the Corn L'aWs—had not yet
been fully and entirely accomplished. It was, therefore,

ultimately agreed that th

act of dissolution shoal(

postponed, to be rendered coeval, perhaps. with the ex-
Wry of the Corn Laws in 180. Mr. Cobden has inti-
mated to his, friends that he shall altogether retire from

aid, requires-much-recruit

me additional a

tention