The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-26 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE.

great captain of the age, as he was called, the Duke of
Wellington. said to some soldiers in the Peninsular war:
—" I have seen there fellows before." He supported
missions br csuse missions were a true mink of the Catho-
lic Church. Up to 200 years before the Reformation there

Foi: 200 years after the

were no rnibsions

here was no missions

but most gratifying it was

;,z) see s

log into existence in the present century. He proceeded
to show that this was, strictly speaking. a Church Society,
and that it was deservlng of the fullest support of her mem-
bers. The fact that clergy and laity were on its commit-
tee, were a proof of its being a church scc'ety ; the fact.
also, that twentp•three bishops were its patrons, proved

The Rev. HUGH NPNEILE seconeed the resolution.
The first public act he was called upon to do was, to hand
£25 to the tieasurer from Mr. Tuton. At the mee'ing
of the Church Missionary Society in London. a week ago,
the Bisho
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iristiattity abroad, we must exhibit its spirit at home.
The middle and lower classes of the church were the ma-
jority of its members, and yet efforts were being con-
stantly made to shake their attachment to the chu,ch.
(Hear, hear.) Statements against her were made with a
zeal worthy of a better cause. Active counteraction was,
therefore, called for. He held the proof-sheet of the first
number of the Cheirchnoon's Penny Iligpozine in Lig.
hand, and he called upon all who Lad information to
render to send contributions to the editor of that maga-
Il also called upon all who had influence to spread
dote. for he found the first number to be a

and every tin

but a failure

communi

mument—unhea

ON THE SANITARY STATE OF SOME PARTS
OF LIVERPOOL—Lin-ma VIII.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

" Sicut

Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris
Ore trahit quodcurique potcst, atque addit acervo
Quem struit, hand ignara ac non incauta futuri."
DISTRICT OF EDGE-RILL.

King -street.—ln a blank portion of this street, occupy-
ing both sides of the road, there exists a most filthy stag-
nant puddle of many waters There is a communication,
strange to say, from one plash of water to the other,
across the footpath. This state of matters exists now,
and has been so ever since I can remember it. I have
known the footpath and horseroad to be impassable, owi!:g
to an overflooding of these lakes, and their grand-junction,
except at the certainty of being over shoetops; or, fail-
ing to pick the higher ridges of ground, or friendly stone,
you must put up with the annoyance or go down another
street. A stranger to the locality would hardly believe
that such a nuisance could have been permitted to remain
for years; but anything is allowed in Liverpool, that all
other towns would scout of their own common sense—
law letting, or law quiescent on the matter. If the autho-
rities do not attend to their duty, or, as it often happens,
recognise no duty at all in the case, why don't the inhabi-
tants determine to put an end to such a stale of things.
A voluntary association has great power, though none le-
gally speaking ; yet the moral weight of the orderly, cleanly,
benevolent, and monied class, would, if properly exerted,
produce better effects often that, a cLuse in an act of
Parliament. The people ought to know and feel that they
have this innate control over their own interests and af-
fairs, by means of voluntary union, which, if rightly
worked, would rapidly effect its ends, and the tedious for.
mality of getting and working an act of Parliament mitt
spew itself' in its true light, as a great blunder for remedy.
ing a thousand ills to which such is applied. It is cleanly
a mistake for acts of Parliament to be relied upon
initiative; if rightly understood, their allotted

safe and wholesome working would be found to be the
consolidating and regulating of national interests, t mbo-
dying past experience, and analysing the present stain.: o
the nation for the bent-fit of the succ,-eding

generations

Ireland is just a case in point, where a government at
tempts the initiative on parchment before the people them-

selves are ripe for it. The people must help themselves
and cease to expect great things out of themselves
There are a hundred poin►s in which the people are un
wisely waiting for acts of Parliament instead of passing at

act of their ,own, which could do all they want to Lace

lours or da

of waiting monihs

•fate an hair's breadth from his parchment ruler, though
a latitude, if left, might promote essentially the beneficial
working of the act. In a voluntary association, common
sense might be relied on, with science for a handmaid,
and the law of reciprocal kindness as a spirit ro actuate
all. shame would tell upon the refractory and stupid, for

they would be left " alone in their glory" of filth and
wretchedn,ss, and the example of the industrious happy
and clta:i around them must tell eventually on their own
convictions, like sunshine on darkness.
To return; his flooded ground has been neglected all
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hose years, and various drainings base been suffeted to

comtantly removing by evaporation, &c. A shippon,
or something of the kind, is from time to time relieved of
its superfluous fluids by means of a regular pump, which
t-ansfers this fertilising agent to the said pool, where its
virtues are evidently far worse than lost. This refinement

on " conveyancing" is tolerated in this suburb proper of
Liverpool Proper. The inhabitants are very patient un-
der this infliction, for the surrounding neighbourhoods
have never roused themselves to shake off so fertile a
source of malaria. Yet it does not require a demonstra-
tion of facts to assure all that this disgusting accumulation
of impurity is far from healthy. I have my doubts whe-
re ther any other town not accustomed, like certain of the

finn% tribe, to certain processes, would put up with such a
proximate nuis.+nce. Perhaps this is the last analysis I
shall bring forward, for the chemical process itself is not
sanitary or agreeable, for my friend Dr. Brett, and more
over. if called for in future, ought to be done by public
authorities, and not undertaken by individuals. A fair
sampling of the various pools shvws as follows :
There werejortp strains Qf solid molierin4.la impenFel
pint. or 320 grains to the gallon. 01 the 40 grains there
were eighteen grains of oreanic matter azotised. During
the evaporation of the fluid, a most offensive vapour was
-latilised. Dr. Brett considers that it would be
of

anal)ze other specimens of a similar na,
fact that water collected from there various localities con-
tains a sufficient quantity of organic matter, most probably
of an animal nature, to develope, under a high tempera-
ture, malaria of a highly noxious quality.

ure, es

The Edgehitlians will think that the details, however
disgusting, of Freemason's-row, and of those degraded
streets of Liverpool Proper, are in character; but their
own suburb, from its elevated geozraphinal position. ought
to be otherwise. And I quite agree with this feeling, that
it ought to be far otherwise, and that there ii, moreover,

no excuse for its not being socially the antipodes of the
type of Liverpool Proper. Yet much effort is required
in order to remove disgraces which cluster thick around

thi- suburb, so favoured by nature, so fouled by art and
soi-disant civilisation. Every place must look to its own
cuisances, each district do its duty in this respect, before
the g►and total of L verpool cleansed can be gained.
Again 1 urge my deliberate conviction, that the 1

an act of Parliament never, will—never can do the
work ; the machinery even of such attempts will be slow
in operation, and indefinite in results alter all. It is a so-
cial duty which comes nearer home, for every individual in
this vast community must enter upon an aggressive war

Tilt reliance upon acts of Parqatnent is the

1 a an at

woman in

a ay endeavours to shirk a duty, and justify a neglect of that
which true enlightenment and real morali'y would acknow-
ledge as an obllation binding upon each individual of the

If this indolent exemption be urged by each individual
of soclety, why shculd we wonch r thht any collection of
individuals, even though clothed with local authorities

pow ei s, shoo

‘et, cx

nibit Clemselves as victims of

the incubus of this n oral arslct•is or ni:•htmste

leractso

there riot lions in the way? It need nest require acts of
legislation to set a good example, to urge a moral pro-
prie, y of conduct. to instigate to a vie tuners task which
may be shewn to bring its own reward with it. Convic-
ti, n and persuasion and encouragement are better spells
r I than compulsion and penalties. 1 could easily prove that

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penalties are but .bad at best. and more frequently
defrat their own ends than suh•erve them. Society
must take another view of this greet moral question
before the eml is gained of making their tellow•creatures
around them healthful and harpy. A magician's wand
might be shown to be more credit-worthy than than the

caphbility of an act of parliament to renter a people virtu-
ous and eh anly. Liverpool is what she is at this uresent

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