The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-22 00:00:00

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pation

when he came down to the house with his three
per cent income tax in one hand, and a grand mo-
ion of our commercial tariff in the other,
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lon the springs of
petition of the ex-

of the Caffre war, which amount, for the
ast year, to the large sum of £1,100,000; and
ins a considerable surplus will be created. An
•` statesman would have anticipated such a
concession, which would have ren-
,red more palatable the demand he had to make
pon our pockets; but Lord John is neither an
Adroit nor a wise, but only a bold statesman. The
concession most likely to swallow the draught ad-
ministered was ready pointed out to his hands. A
reduction of the tea duties would have been received

by the community with universal satisfaction. It
was a measure which would have at once given life
and activity to our depressed manufacturing inte-
rest ; which would have tended to give to the na-

tional industry the benefit of more extended com-
munication with 300,000,000 of the human race.
It was a measure, besides, the beneficial influ-
ence of which would have been felt by every class,
from the wealthy merchant to the humble labourer.
To the latter, however, it would have been more
Twin, fPnriirigL aq it would do. to wean
him from the uproar and the dissipation of the
tavern to the refreshing meal by his own humble
fireside, shared with his wife and his children, which
at present our absurdly enormous duty has placed
above their reach. Lord John should have dared
this step. It would have been a popular one.
The public had almost with one voice demanded it
from him; and had the first year's result been a
trifling loss of revenue—which we do not think it
—he had but to say to the public, " it was
>ur will."

would-

Of_ course, we cannot at present predict the fate

of this budget, or the amount of opposition likely
to be directed against it. Already, however, it is

r that it has no friends; and if it is defended
at all, it must be on the ground of an utter want of
confidence in the existence of elasticity sufficient in
onal resources to enable them to recover
eir present undue depression. In the
e, one fact his been clearly proclaimed to
1, viz., the complete financial incompetence
resent Whig, party in power. If Whig
are to continue to sway the councils of
this realm, the wornout aristocratic elves of Hol-
land-house must give place to the more energetic
though plebeian spirits, whom their own reforming
policy has conjured into the arena to push them
from their stools.

Dn Thursday Mr. John Orred, of this town, passed his
imination at Apothecaries' Hall.
We received on Saturday, at half-past eleven, A.M., by
pecial express of Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son, the
,nclon papers of that morning.

EXAMI)TATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.—At a
meeting tif the Board, held on the 18th instant., Mr.
Henry Theodore Cox, second officer of the British and
North American Royal Mail steam-ship Cambria, was
examined and found duly qualified for a first-class Certi-
ficate as Master.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has agreed to propose
a grant of £4,200 to the print department of the British
Museum, for the purchase of a collection of rare Eng-
lish portraits, &c., and of an extensive selection from
the Aylesford collection of Rembrandt's etchings, which
will render our national collection of the works of that
*der equal to any of the kind in Europe.

of statistics are given, modifying, in a slight
degree, this calculation, and showing that, by proper
collecting, managing, and h usbandingofthis kind of manure,
our lands might be so fertilized that we need not require

ms of guano, nor drain our coffers for the im.

potation of foreign grain or other edibles

'or at least

many years to come, if ever

Our author is of opinion that all noxious effluviw arising
from sewers may be averted by chemical exhibitions, and
he is himself the originator of a patented liquid of ad-
mitted deodorising power on the manures, the gases from
which would otherwise be unwholesome. He adduces
evidence, proving, from Mr. Chadwick and others, " that
all smell of decomposing matter (as relates to agriculture)
may be said to indicate loss of money."
Mr. Ellerman next advocates water-closets (in lieu of
the present general plan in all dwellings) with cisterns
containing the patent fluid, to keep them sweet as regards
health, and the expense, if such were adopted, would be
below that of the present cess-pool system even in cot-
tage-houses. A lithographic sketch is given of the inte-
rior of a set of these water-closets, and showing the
manner in which the fertilizing substance may be carted
away without injury to health, or offence to the nasal

Turning back to the middle of the pamphlet, as afford-
ing us a more suitable finale to this hasty notice than its
conclusion, we give the outline of the plan suggested by
the author. It proposes—
" Ist. The preservation of the Thames and other waters
flowing through towns and populous districts, from pol-
lution by human exuvku and other decomposing sub-
stances.

"2nd. The improvement of the land, by bestowing
upon it the matter thus diverted from the water.

"3rd. The promotion of -public—health, TY causing
greater abundance of food and increased industrial occu-

"4th. The collection, removal, and final distribution
of the substances referred to, in a manner which shall
render them inodorous and innocuous in every stage of
the process.
" 3th. The prevention of all deterioration of the fer-
tilizing matter by excessive dilutio:
substances inimical to vegetation.
" 6th. The preservation of the lar
mit some of those I lizi

quantity of ferti-

g matter which is now wasted, irrespectively of that
consigned to rivers or streams or suffered to remain in
unemptied cesspools—viz. ; the portion sacrificed through
insufficient public urinaria, ill-regulated cloacae, constant
evaporation, &c. ; and,
" 7th. The saving of the whole in such a form that it
may be conveyed to distant tracts of country as well as
adjacent lands, and applied to the earth in the more or
less liquified or concentrated condition, which the state
of the weather or the peculiar nature of soil and crop
may render expedient."