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, of which the following are extracts :—.
CELLAR OCCUPATIONS.
On the 31st March, 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 loth 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, 1844, and
shortly afterwards a special survey of cellars which were
separately occupied was made, and it was found that the
total number of cellars inhabi'ed 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 31 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. TINNE moved the confirmation of the proceedings,
and in doing so said that, during the past year, the baths
had been used Tay 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 acHitional
baths be erected in other parts of the town, on the same
principle as those in Paul-street.
Mr. EARLE sail he had a question to ask; rather an
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. EARLE.-1 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 fur-
warded by the Council to him.
A letter from the Highway Board, calling the attention
of the Council to the desi,ability 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 ss.
A testimonial of £3,000 has been subscribed for Mr.
Waghorn, the discoverer of the overland route.
'I he Rambler steamer, which struck on the Maiden
Rocks, Ireland. will prove a complete wreck.
On Saturday week, a flock of 7-1 sheep were killed by
lightning near Priddy, in Somerset-shire.
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 Pacha paid a visit to Woolwich,
and was much interested with everything he saw.
The abandonment of the proxy system 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 78:000 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 which 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.
Mr. Marsh, the celebrated chemist of Woolwich, and
inventor of the test for arsenic now generally used in me-
dical jurisprudence, died on bunday week.
Fresh herrings are now plentiful in Douglas market,
and of prime quality. The puce 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 mar-
A man of the world, that editor ! _ _

Mr. R. Greig, 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 [louse, 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 royal
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 publidthouses 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 Close, 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.

Parliament-stpeet 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 SERYENTINE.—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 Corincl of Leeds, on Wednesday week,
by a majority of 25 ro 2, a motion was carried for em-
powering the Street Committer to carry out an efficient
system of sewersge, and for placing a sum of not more
than £30.000 at its disposal for that purpose.
SOWING HALFPENCE FOR CORN.—Last evening, a
more than moderately eccentric citizen of Salisbury
evinced 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 Thursday morning, a
ball, about the size of au orange, apparently fire, was
noticed at Woodbridge, moving through the air from the
west to the southeast, with a long train cf light after it.
It greatly illumined the atmosphere during its transit,
but disappeared in a few seconds.—Bury /'oat.
The prospects of the grouse season in Perthshire are
represented to be of the most flattering kind. The young
birds a fortnight since were strong enough to find their
vvny to the burrnerme4l....r.tha saliJanca.....of_the parent bird.
and cocks of 8 to 12 each were started every thirty or
forty yards.

Thirteen houses were destroyed by fire, at Sobam,
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 Peace Society have forwarded an address
to the Earl of Aberdeen, on the settlement of the Oregon
question, in which they express their satisfaction that the
long pending negotiation between the government of this
country and that of the United Status, respecting the
Oregon territory, has been amicably adjusted.
MANSLAUGHTER.— A man named George Hocker has
been committed for trial at the next Stafford Assizes,
charged with the manslaughter of Joseph Mac duff, a butty
collier, who met with his death in consequence of alleged
inattention by Hecker to his duties as. under engineer at
a coal pit at Howley Reis.
Messrs. Bunn and Oxbury of Wicklarn 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 hours 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.
Onl'hursday week, a boy, named Stewart, son of Capt.
Stewart, R.N., went out to shoot, at Croydon, with ano-
ther 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 of frogs fell from one
A SHOWER or Fnocs!—During the heavy thunder
over the Humber, several dropped
sotto
therm surcharged yesterday
clouds
owueLk,
on the decks of vessels navigating the river, and a portion
of the coast near Killingholme Lights was for a time
covered by myriads of the strange arrivals.—Hull Adver-

liser.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—A married lady, named Bur-
tenshawe, was waiting, on yesterday week, at a station on
the London and Brighton Kailway. 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 from the body. The lady
was also killed upon the spot.

A -woman murdered her own child,-six months of age,
in the Brighton 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 WRs the wife of a man
named Norman, who is tow in the House of Correction,
undergoing a sentence for felony.
FISHING EiVRAORDINARV.-A few
members of the celebrated Wakefield Ang'
flying their art in- one of the reservoirs o
Water Works, when one of them

days ago some

full-sized wheelbarrow ! Had we been present we should
have advised the gentleman to have baited his hook with
the wheelbarrow in the hope of catching a railway carriage !

THE LATE MR. HAYDON.—The subscriptions in aid
of the proposed fund for the relief of the widow and chil-
dren of the late Benjamin Robert Haydon, the historical
painter, now amount, together with the donations re-
ceived, to nearly £700: This sum is exclusive of the res-
pective pensions of £5O from the Queen, and £25 from
Lady Peel, already settled upon Mrs. Hayden.
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
into the Three Compa.ses for refreshment. He was sit-
ting at the window when the lambs were driven past ; one
of them recognised his late master, sprang through the
window, breaking two panes, and fell at his feet. The
little creature was removed, but not without casting many

a pitiful look at Mr. Thomas.—Hereford Journal.
UNUSUAL CHARGE.—On Friday, Leman Cohen, a
jobber in furriery, was committed for trial at Guildhall;
London, upon the unusual charge of being an accessory
before the fact to a felony, which was committed in his
absence, but which he abetted, as it was alleged, by seek-
ing out aforetiand a buyer for the stolen goods, to pur-
chaSe them immediately upon their being stolen, so that
the thief might more easily escape justice.
A ROBIN'S NEST IN AN ORGAN.—On Sunday, during
divine service in St. Michael's Church, in this town, the
organist found some obstruction in the organ that pre-
vented him playing, and, on searching for the cause, after
the congregation were dismissed, discovered, to his no
small astonishment, a robin's nest, with three young ones
in it. They were not disturbed in their singular retreat.—
Skiopshire Conservative.: _ . _

It is proposed to erect, ;n St. Giles's, London, on a site
recently otvained from the Woodland Forests, a lodging-
house for one hundred labouring men, in which, at the
lowest rate ever paid for lodgings, they may have accom-
modation of a perfectly clean character. The whole cost
is estimated at .£5OOO. Among the subscribers are Prince
Albert, the Bishop of Lo(idon, Duke of Sutherland, Earl
Harrowbe,
OLD ALE.—At the celebration of the coming of age of
Lord Burghley, at Stamford, last week, the tapping of
the " Great Lord Burghley Vat" excited much interest.
This immense vessel of ale, which was tapped at twelve
o'clock by Lord Burghley, contained 1200 gallons; it was
brewed in October 1825

Each of the GOO tenants a

dined had placed before him, besides wines, a quart of old
" John."

The setting in of the wool-season is again effecting a
change in the nature of the cargoes of the Hamburg
steamers. The Queen of ,Scotland, last week, had only
room for two cows on deck, and the Helen Macgregor,
which arrived on Sunday last, was piled up with as much
wool as her tsrpau ings would secure from the sea—hav-
ing no less than eight hundred bales on board. Since
writing the above, the Victoria has arrived with a full
deck cargo of wool.—Hull paper.
CONSISTENCY.—There was great rejoicing in Hasling-
den on Friday night last, on the arrival of the news that
the new corn bill had passed. The bells rang, and a mob

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requested !) gave three cheers for Sir R. Peel. It was ob-
served that there were amongst the mob many persons
who not more than five years ago assisted to burn Sir

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NEW WAY OF RECOVERING DEIITS.—On Friday, a
mob assembled near the Archbishop of Canterbury's
palace, at Lambeth, in consequence of a man walking
backward and forward opposite a house by the water sid
with the fo

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am waiting here t; be paid the sum of £1 13s. 6d. for one
dozen of wine, or else to hive the bottles returned." On
the board was al.‘o mentioned the name of the party oppo-
site whose house the men was parading. The debt was
understood to have been paid, and the mob dispersed.
ERRORS OF THE PIiESS.-Our contemporary, the
Silurian, has the following :—" Owing to a column having
been accidentally laid on the press uncorrected, several

errors passed in a few copies of s impression
before they were noticed. Among others. our devil,'
with his head, we suppose. full of Irish matters, had stated
that refreshing showers' had given an impulse to ' agita-
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TIIE VICTORIA Docic —The contracts for the excava-
tion and construction of this dock—by far the largest
which has hitherto been made at Hull, and which will
have its own independant entrances, both from the Hum-
ber and the Old Harbour or river of Hull, and be accessi-
bl 1, -.nt

Le at a lower state of the tide than any of our pr.._
docks—has been taken by Messrs. Bowers and Murray,
who have just completed the Albert Dock, at Liverpool,
and are on the eve of finishing the Railway Dock at this
port.—Hull Packet.
A CANINE MESSENGER.—At the present time a little
black bull-headed terrier, belonging to Mr. Powell, car-
pet-manufacturer, of the Cross, comes to Deightun's li-
brary every evening of publication for the Journal, with-
out an attendant, and fetches the paper, which it duly
conveys, with all punctuality and dispatch, to i s master.
If the publication has not commenced, it will leave the
premises and return ; and on one or two occasions it has
dropped the paper in the street, when it immediately
started back to the shop, and would not go without a se-
cond copy.—Worcester Journal.
MELANCHOLY RESULF OF UNDROTHERLY CONDUCT.
—Two boys. sons of T. Williams, residing at Tyddyn
Celargan, Anglesey, quarrelled, as brothers often do, and
in his passion, one kicked the other in the eye. The
complaints of the injured child induced some severe
threats from the mother, which caused the offender to de-
camp. No more was heard of him, and all search seemed
fruitless, until the d3vening cf Friday, the 19th, when be
was found dead, and in a putritied state, in the parish of
Llanfairmathafarneithaf. There was grass in his hands,
and he had obviously fallen over the cliffs in the dark.
The poor lad had reached his twelfth year.
THE NEW CORN DUTIES.—The following is the rate
of duties now in operation :—When the six weeks average
is under
485. the duty i 5.......

Above 53

Below this it never recedes. This scale remains in
operation until the Ist of February, 1949, after which a
nominal duty of 1 per quarter is to be levied.
THE Pore.—Dr. Wolff, in a letter to a friend, says-
-" It is curious that the present Pope, when only Conte
Ferretti, was my fellow pupil in the Collegio Romano, at
Rome, from the year 1816 to 1817, when I went over to
the Propaganda. He is an amiable, zealous, talented,
shrewd, pious, and liberal gent:emar, and it is therefore to
be hoped that he has transferred these qualities from the
simple Conte Ferretti to the throne of Benedict IX."
Thus goes the world ; one of two students, on almost
equal ground, becomes a " Sovereign Pontiff," the other,
though filling the world with his name, is the humble
vicar of the small parish of Isle Brewers, in a retired part
of the county of Somerset; where, however, he has the
sweeter reward of ministering to the spiritual wants of an
attached congregation, anxious to be taught.
RELIGIOUS PEACE.—The following, from the Tablet
Roman Catholic newspaper, contains more truth than
our contemporary find it convenient always to disclose.
"There are worse things in the world than religious ani-
mosities—bad and uncomfortable as these are—and what
is equally certain is, that the road to a better state of
llsinoslls.s-ila.rouah at course of cunduct_which enders re-
ligious animosities certain. When a lii-ice—pir-O-r-the
world is unjust, and only a small minority so much as
struggling towards justice—when piety is the exception
and demoralisation is the rule—when the faith is broken
into a thousand pieces, and the enemies of truth are la-
bouring to suppress it altosether —when some of the profes-
sors of that woich is true are its bitterest enemies—how
can religious animosities be avoided ?—unless, indeed, all

the guardians of faith and justice are asleep at their costs,
and there be none to lift up his voice or to wield a battle-
axe in behalf of the oppressed cause of God."
SHOCKING TRAGEDv.-011 Wednesday morning last,
the bodies of two young men, brothers, of the name of
Collyer, jliners,
the neck, under the shec

hanging