The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-18 00:00:00

ounds which had been spent in
tion. - We ceased, however, our sybarite

rose in aromatic pain ;"
c of Liverpool was no longer it
ica ; the sanatory toscin was
vin Chadwick, and we forth-
be a very foul community,
ye need of extensive and fre-
ad endured, poor misguided
ry the bad smells of badly-

wers ; but now, our sensitive sto-
turned by imaginary ill odours. We

7 all along what we thought to he
l now we discovered all at once that
'ord's buck basket was otto of
) the perfume of our stock of
aste of our disgust at our un-
et out on a crusade for water :

Jake and Rivington, the Dee and
tle, Harrington, and Kensington
•erless to " wash out the spot"
) untarnished reputation for
bled freely, paid handsome
and are likely to have to

culty,

particular hobby, provided
are so fortunate as to be able to

t been discovered that another
_ le Select Vestry—think that they
in common fairness, to have a hobby to ride,
'i'ourts of Law Committee and the
eof the Town Council. So, we
k been treated with a reso-
) proceed to the erection of a
In the words of the
report upon which this resolution is founded, the
Select Vestry is recommended to purchase a quart

t has

veil as

ith Co
durin

last w

3 wor

nd the Parliamentary borough, and
hereon suitable for all the pur-
Lunatic Asylum, and recep-

tity of land b
to erect buildings t

of a WOrihouse,

—the latter of whom
must be rather numerous among the ratepayers of
Liverpool, and the building required to contain

and imbeciles,

We are told, in reply to the money question,
that we shall have none to pay ; that we shall save
by the adoption of this great scheme. The esti-
mates furnished us are so loose that we attach not
the slightest weight to them. For instance, we
are told that we shall be able to keep lunatics, for
which we are paying at present from Bs. to 10s. per
week each, for the same sum per head which we
now pay for the keel) of paupers—viz., three shil-
lings. The reply of the Rev. Rector Brooks, the
Chairman of the Vestry, to this calculation, that
the lunatics in the Lancaster Asylum cost Bs. 9d.
per head, and that " no profit whatever is realized
by them," is a fact worth a hundred opinions and
estimates. Again, we have no faith in the alleged
value of the site of the existing workhouse. Con-
tiguous, as it is now, to a number of paltry hack
streets, and the prestige of the neighbourhood for
respectability entirely gone, we doubt if twelve
=flings a yard could be got .for it within any
--,able time; and even then, as Mr. Earle rb-
`he Vestry, we must bear in mind that in
of a plot of building land we
ltion "P • be set

mincteU t

ust tat-

:g the prOdu

bile space to
part for the formation of streets. We doubt too
whether, as is assumed, twenty-seven acres of
land, the quantity required in an eligible site, can

_
Derby, or any. other place
within four or five miles of Liverpool, for £B,OOO,
or less than three hundred pounds per acre ; and
we dislike the disingenuousness of parties who, in
' '

be secured in

making such an estimate of comparative cost, put
ten per cent. as the allowance for the excess over
estimate upon a matured plan, and allow for no
excess in the estimate of their own plan, which is
altogether in nubibus.

Supposing, however, that a trifling saving could
be effected, there still remain insuperable objections
to the project. We object to the transporting of
our unfortunate poor to a distance so far from the
every-day inspection of the Vestry, their legitimate
protectors, and from the visits of their immediate
friends. We have some idea, too, that these un-
fortunate beings are allowed occasionally a day out
of the workhouse; and such holiday would be of

little value if they had to enjoy it at the expense
of a walk ,of four or five miles. Then there are
cases in which proximity to the workhouse is
essential to the charitable purpose of such an in-
stitution; and we are not inclined to " extend our
-- with Mr. Poole, "to one hundred years
or one hundred and fifty years hence ;" and, were
we ever so inclined, we are not so sanguine as to
expect to find West Derby village or its vicinity
the centre of the parish of Liverpool, or " as near
to it as the workhouse in Brownlow-hill when
originally built." Under all circumstances, we
protest most decidedly against this wild proposal;
and, especially, we wonder with what face gen-
tlemen can make themselves prominent in their
opposition to an expenditure for water for sanatory
purposes, who are prepared to hurry us into an ex-
penditure whose necessity nobody ever dreamt of.

" Lord Clarendon has taken the bull by the
horns," exclaims a Whig contemporary of Satur-
day—the Journal ;—and some timid and deluded
Conservatives are congratulating themselves upon
the fact a his lordship's tardy energy, A few of
the most prominent bullies of the Repeal press have
succeeded, by the loudness and rabidness of their
bawling, in attracting the notice of her Majesty's
Irish vernment. Messrs. Duffy and Meagher of
the sword, with a few more gentry of similar kidney,
whose trade is furious writing and spouting—who
live by the sale of sedition, and cry for pikes and
pennies in a breath—are about to be submitted to
the not very dangerous chance of not having a
Papist on the jury, sworn to "give a true verdict
according to the evidence" produced against them.
This is energetic government ! This paltering with
a few of the blown bladders of agitation is to put
down an extensively organised conspiracy ; to blunt
the pikes, and render innocuous the muskets of
some tens of thousands of rebels, avowedly pre-
pared to level them, at the first convenient oppor-
tunity, against the breasts of her Majesty's loyal
Irish subjects, and to embark in a struggle to the
death for the subversion of her Majesty's rule and
authority in that distracted land. With the rebels
themselves, their clubs, and their arming, Lord
Clarendon hesitates to interfere. The trumpeters of
the rebel army are dealt with by the arm of autho-
rity; but the army itself is left to strengthen and
intrench its force unmolested.
We have hope, however, left yet of safety for
Ireland, let her Majesty's Government neglect their
duty as they may. There is a loyal Protestant
strength in Ireland, which exhibited itself on the
glorious twelfth of this month of July, throughout
the province of Ulster, against which treason
directs menace and hyrocritical wheedling equally
in vain. The much-maligned Orange body in
Ireland, faithful still throughout half a century of
misrepresentation and actual persecution, stands
forward now, with the old spirit of 1688 glowing
yet in the breasts of its members, to act as the
barrier against the demon, raised by Popish in-
trigues and fostered by Protestant concession. On
that loyal body, and on those actuated by the same
loyal and Protestant feelings, Lord Clarendon
might just now rely in safety, if he would throw
himself upon it for support, and treat its members
with the consideration which is due to them.
But the moral courage, we fear, is not in Whiggery
to treat disaffection as it deserves to he treated.
It will be allowed to smoulder, unchecked, until at
length it blazes forth, and spreads bloodshed and
desolation over the land. In that last disastrous
crisis, our faithful, though abused, Orange bre-
thren will have to save, and will save, the empire
which has trampled upon them.

Are we in England, aye, in Liverpool, under no
obligation to this body, which has so admirably
conducted itself during the past week ? The
magistracy of our town could answer the
question. The feeling of hostility is rife even
here, amongst our Irish population, against the
country which has received and fostered them, to
the neglect of the claims of its own suffering in-
dustry. We have Irishmen here providing pikes
for our destruction, organizing themselves in clubs,
and in their secret conclaves talking of fire and

1 who are they, amongst our