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

SELECT VESTRY

On Tuesday the usual fortnightly meeting of the Select Ves-
try was held. The Rev. Rector Brooks presided.

The Building Committee reported that, after having duly
taken into consideration the plans adopted by the Poor-law
Commissioners for enlarging and rebuilding the Workhouse at
Brownlow-hill, they had come to the conclusion of recom-
mending the Select Vestry to purchase a quantity of land be-
yond the boundary of the parliamentary borough, and to erect

then at great length they set Tu. .0 the du-
ties of these several officers. They recommended that the
physician and surgeon should be non-resident, and be allowed
to introduce pupils into the house, because on theseconditions,
they say, men can be obtained of experience and standing,
superior to those who seek the position of house surgeons.
They believed that the following salaries would obtain the
services of suitable men : physician .elOO, surgeon £lOO,
--P. surgeon .ilOO, apothecary £io and rations, .e 370, say
,ns £4lO.

of this report at the next meeting of the board

CHARGE AGAINST AN IN-DOOR MEDICAL SURGEON

The Workhouse Sub-committee reported that they had in-
vestigated the case of Ellen Ashcroft, who '-ad died in the lock
ward, and that after the examination of various witnesses, in-
cluding Drs. Gee and Bingers, they were of opinion. that the

administration of acetate for nitrate of mercury was improner
under the circumstances of the case, and that it had caused the
death of the patient; and they, therefore, recommended that
Mr. Steel be discontinued in his office of in-door medical sur-
geon.

The CHAIRMAN produced a letter on the subject, which he
had received from Mr. Steel, and it was read by 11r. Hart.
Mr. Steel, in this letter, distinctly declared that he was able

Cooper, of London,and Dr. Parker, of Birmingham; and if
these high medical authorities were not deemed conclusive, he
would prove the excellency of his plan before any impartial
gentlemen of eminence. He suggested that the Poor-law Com-
missioners should be called upon to send down an inspector
and a medical man to investigate the whole case. _

Some conversation followed, in the course of ch Mr.
HonasoN suggested- that the investigation be conducted by
Drs. Bickersteth, Alton, and Bainbrigge.
Eventually, upon the motion of Mr. RIDING, seconded by
Mr. MELLOR' it was agreed to adopt Mr. Steel's suggestions,
and to request the Poor-law Commissioners to send down an
inspector and a medical man to investigate.
It was next agreed to suspend the minute of the committee
relative to the whole case until after the official inquiry has
taken place.

POLICE

INTELLIGENCE.

On Saturday a Sicilian sailor, named Lango, was re-
manded on a charge of smuggling 1.151b5. of tobacco, and
231bs of cigars, _

THE FRUIT SEASON.—Five young men were brought up
at the Police.court, on Tuesday last, charged with rob-
bing the gardens of Mr. Cropper and Mr. Yates, in Din-
gle-lane. They had plentifully filled their pockets with
fruit. As soon as they were discovered, they took to their
heels, and before they were captured the police had to pur-

sue them into the river. They were sent before the county
justices, the jurisdiction of the stipendiary not reaching to
the place where the depredations were committed.

INFORMATION UNDER THE BUILDING ACT.—On Wed-
nesday Mr. Samuel Marshall was summoned before the
magistrates for placing a beam of improper dimensions
over the front of two shops now being altered by him in
Renshaw-street. He had received notice from Mr. John-
son, surveyor, to remove the same within forty-eight
hours, but he neglected to do so. Mr. Rushton ordered
him to enter into his recognizance in the sum of £lOO to
make the required alteration to the satisfaction of the
Surveyor within three days.

YOUNG, BUT CLEVER.—A boy, about nine years old,
named Thomas Murphy, was committed for three months
on Tuesday, charged with picking ladies' pockets at the
Theatre Royal, on Monday evening. The officer who ap-
prehended him said that he was the cleverest pickpocket
in Liverpool. He had been three times committed and
four times discharged at the Liverpool offices for similar
offences. He was then just discharged from Knutsford
Gaol after three months' servitude. He travelled to Glas-
gow London, and all over the country, in pursuit of his
profession.

EXPULSION FROM A BURIAL SOCIETY.-011 Tuesday a
man named Thomas Holmes summoned the members of
the Philanthropic Burial Society, for expelling him from
the society. It appeared that ho had been an officer, and
was not content with his remuneration, which caused him
to make some severe remarks upon the society. The of-
ficers then met, and on one of the rules, which had no
application to the case, gravely came to a resolution to
expel him. Mr. Rushton rebuked the officers of the so-

ciety, who attended in court, for their disregard of law
and justice, and ordered the restoration of the suspended
member.

HEARTLESS FRAUD.—Two Irish emigrants came before
Mr. Rushton on Friday, to complain of imposition on the
part of a lodging-house keeper named Farrington. The
men stated that the defendant accosted them, and solicited
them to put up at his house, offering them lodgings at the
rate of fourpence each a night. After staying two nights
at his house, they signified their intention of leaving, when
Farrington made the unexpected claim of twelve shillings
for the storage of a few boxes belonging to them. Mr.
Rushton said he found, from daily experience, that no
sooner had persons of the description of the complainants
landed in this port than they were set upon by a parcel of
fellows whose object was to plunder them. He also told
Farrington that unless he paid the fine of £4 within a very
short time, he would cause him to be sold up.
USE OF THE KNIFE.—John Anthony, a man of colour,
was placed in the dock at the Police-court on Friday, on
the following charge :—Henry Stewart, a lad having the
appearance of an operative, stated that he was passing
along Paul-street between one and two o'clock on that
morning, when the prisoner, who was standing on the pa-
rapet talking to a number of females, pushed him into the
middle of the road, and followed up this unjustifiable con-
duct by stabbing him in the breast and back. A surgeon

apprehend

. .
any serious results from them. V The black, wliose shirt
was covered with blood, said he was struck first, and in so
violent a manner as to cause him to bleed profusely. The
surgeon found a slight wound on the man's head, but
could not account for its presence. Stewart admitted the
possibility of having struck the black after being wounded
himself. The prisoner was fined £5, or in default to be
imprisoned two months.

DR. S. LOEWE'S LECTURE ON THE VARIOUS
INCIDENTS OF HIS TRAVELS IN RUSSIA.

A very delightful and interesting lecture, which was
most attentively listened to by a very numerous and highly
respectable audience, was delivered by Dr. Loewe, in St.
Mary's National Schools, Kirkdale, on Wednesday even-
ing week. The subject was the various incidents of the doc-
tor's travels in Russia, which, he said, occupied an areal
of 347,4911 square miles, and was more than twice
the size of Europe, and one-eighth of the whole inhabited
globe. He stated that it was possessed of all the elements,
both moral and physical, which constituted the greatness
of a nation. It had possessions in Europe, Northern
Asia, and the North-western point of America ; and,
besides the most extensive forests, navigable rivers, a
grateful soil, and the richest mines ; its inhabitants, i. e.,
the Russian portion of them, possessed the character and
moral features of a superior nation, the whole number of
which amounted to 62,000,000, more than one-fourth of
them being peasants, while the whole population was a mix-
ture of more than one hundred different nations. No other
kingdom, he said, counted so great a variety of nations.
He further described the main features of the govern-
ment, which was autocratical; the emperor, czar, or samor-
dershits, being the high.est lawgiver, ruler, judge, and head
of all spiritual and physical, or political, affairs, from whom
there was no appeal. After mentioning the religion of
the state, which is Greek, and which binds the sove-
reign of that country and his family to profess it,
and is managed by 3 metropolitans, 28 archbishops, 38
bishops, and more than three hundred thousand priests
and monks, the former of which were called popes, and
betrayed great ignorance,—the doctor made some graphic
remarks on the character of the Russians, who were very
shrewd, hospitable, generous, quick in acquiring know-
ledge, persevering and plodding, and men of business
habits, but given much to drink and other vicious habits,
such as gambling, &c.
He then requested his audience to accompany him
.to
the Doitict especially to the city of Riga,a commercial

aving narrated a very interesting interview he had
with the Countess *l4*, the Doctor begged of his audi-
ence to accompany him on his way to the second metro-
polis of Russia—Moscow. The road from Petersburg to
Moscow having been described, which, said the lecturer,
was more than 500 English miles in extent, macadamised,
and intersected by numerous rivers or rivulets, across
which were constructed the most elegant bridges,
built of granite, and ornamented with gilt iron railings
from the factory of an Englishman, who, he said, had
amassed immense wealth by this and other underta-
kings, he brought his audience to Twer, Volagda, No-
vogorod, in one of the churches of which latter place the
lecturer saw a solid silver altar, which had been presented
to it by the present Emperor of Russia. And having
dwelt in this place, which had formerly been a Swedish
fortress, and during the middle ages a place of considera-
ble importance in a mercantile point of view, and an ally
of the Hanseatic towns, but became Russian in conse-
quence of the bad policy and ill fate of Charles XII.,
King of Sweden,—we ere long find the learned Doctor at
Moscow, which was, according to his description, com-
posed of huts and palaces, in which the trade was in a most
flourishing state, and the wealth immense. '
He presently referred to the commercial intercourse of the
Muscovites with the Chinese, and many eastern nations,
especially the Persians and Turks, which was very con-
siderable. He also dwelt on the fortress, called the
Kremlin, which, he said, was a curious construction, betray-
ing strongly its Eastern origin. Having there spent Easter
week, the doctor described the noise of the thousands
of bells during that period as most terrific, as the "trump
of doom," as Carlyle hath it, and so much excited
the temper of a Frenchman that he wished the Mus-
covites had the bell-ropes on their necks, instead of
having them in their hands, and causing this infernal
noise and tumult. He also referred to the amusing cus-
tom of the Russians in exchanging eggs and kisses during
the Easter week. This takes place between both sexes,
and awakening the members of each sex separately, without
the slightest sense of indecorum, &c. In this place too,
the propensity to drunkenness is very great, and the
doctor gave an instance of a Russian princess, whom he
found greatly intoxicated. He then described the battle
field of Moshaisk which was near Moscow, and on which
more than 2,000 guns were vomiting death and destruc-
tion on the French army under Napoleon, and the
combatants that were there assembled in the ;ear 1812,
which ended in the defeat of the modern Alexander the
Great, and the ruin of his empire.
The lecturer then proceeded to Tula, (which is the
Russian Birmingham,) Nishni, Novogorod, Simbersk,
&c. We regret that our space will not permit us to dwell
on any of his pointed remarks concerning them. At the
conclusion of the lecture, the doctor was vehemently
cheered by his delighted audience, who regretted much the
shortness of the lecture, although it had lasted rather
more than two hours.

A vote of thanks, moved by Mr. Roskell, and seconded
by Mr. Hampson, was carried by acclamation.

Eistrirt jleltls.

The potatoes about Ormskirk promise to be most
abundant. Not a single indication of disease has ap-
peared.
The Scarth-hill corn-mill, near Ormskirk, was destroyed
by fire on Thursday. It was insured for about half the
value.

Yesterday week the greater part of the cotton-manu-
facturers in Stockport commenced working full time,
having for several months back only been running three
or four days a week.

EMPLOYMENT AT MANCHESTER.--The number work-
ing full time last week was 32,409; this week, 32,611 ;
the number working short time last week, 5,127; this
week, 4,702 ;—showing an increase in those working full
time of 212, and a decrease of those working short time
of 425.

So large has been the supply of potatoes in the
Manchester market, this week, that good potatoes have
been sold as low as is. 6d. per load, of 2521b5. The breadth
sown by some individuals is almost incredible : a single
farmer, near High Legh, has planted no fewer than 2000
loads ; so that, with a fair Crop, he may expect to gather
20,000 loads ! ! !

The Bolton Times, a radical paper, expired on Satur-
day week. In its concluding number the editor says,
" There is no reform party to lead, no party to defend,
no party to support," and, 0 worse than all, so sunk are
the reformers in Bolton, as deposed to by one who knows
them well, that " their conduct as a party is not worthy
of support."

DISTRESSING EVENT.—On Thursday night or Friday
morning, at Manchester, Ann Davis, whose husband
died on the previous Tuesday, killed her child by drown-
ing it in a tub of water, and afterwards made attempts
to hang herself. She afterwards drowned herself in the
rain tub. Her grief for the loss of her husband, which
was of the most poignant character, is supposed to have
overturned her reason.

SINGULAR ADVENTURE.—There is at present a poor
woman in the Bolton Workhouse, who left her home
about a fortnight ago, and had an amusing adventure.
She is the wife of a gardener named Steward, residing in
Kearsley, and she left her house on Thursday fortnight
unobserved by any of the family, in order to visit Lady
Ellesmere, before whom she wished to lay some petition
or complaint. At the railway station at Clifden„ the car-
riage of Jacob Fletcher Esq., of Peel-hall, was in waiting
for a French gentleman, who was com'ng on a visit to Mr.
Fletcher. The gentleman in question arrived in the same
train as the poor lunatic, and being rather peculiarly
dressed, Mr. Fletcher's servants appear to have taken her
for a friend or companion of the foreign visitor. She
marched forward from the railway to Mr. Fletcher's car-
riage, followed by the Frenchman. When the gentleman
got into the carriage, he bowed to her with Parisian po-
liteness, under the impression that she was one of Mr.
Fletcher's household sent to escort him to Peel-hall.
When the carriage :arrived at Mr. Fletcher's residence,
the lunatic still passed as a friend of the French gentle-
man ; but a feeling of delicacy prevented either from ask-
ing for an explanation. At length the party sat down to
an elegant repast, when the conduct of the lunatic became
so marked and extraordinary that Mr. Fletcher and his
French friend looked at each other in mute astonishment.
An explanation ensued. The French gentleman declared
that he knew nothing of Mr. Fletcher's visitor, having
found her in the carriage when he entered. -The poor
creature was then requested to withdraw, but she was too
fond of her new quarters, and obstinately refused to move.
A policeman, however was sent for, who took the unfor-
tunate woman away.

THE TWELFTH OF JULY-THE ORANGE
INSTITUTION.

The Orange demonstration which took place in the
North of Ireland on the 12th instant, must, on several
accounts, be regarded as one of the most important events
f the times, Not meant, in the first instance, to be a
unteraction to the Confederate Club system which is
now pervading the country, it will eventually have that
effect ; for it displays the loyal and well-affected subjects
of the Northern province in a state of organization, ar-
mament, and discipline (all gained from long experience)
far superior to any that can be suddenly arrayed against
the peace, order, and law, or the safety of the Crown and
.Government of the realm. And we venture to say that,
let Her Majesty's Ministers frown as they may, or their
literary organs growl as they will, they would, one and
all of them—were they to speak the truth from their se-
cret heart—confess their deep satisfaction at a display of
loyalty, and an array of force, which gives such strength
to their hands in their endeavours to suppress treason,
and prevent an impending rebellion.
The Dublin papers overflow with accounts of the mag-
nitude and the sincerity of this great movement—the
order with which it was conducted—the unanimity which
pervaded the numerous assemblies—the loyalty which
marked all the speeches and proceedings, and the perfect
peace which prevailed in every direction, and at all times
of the day, and in all parts of the routes taken by the
several lodges to their respective rendezvous, whether
going or returning. We are not yet able to ascertain,
with a near approach to exactness, the aggregate number
of those who, at various distances scattered all over the
province of Ulster, assembled on this grand occasion. A
cotemporary calculates on it as exceeding 120,000. This
we are able to say, that the muster at several points, with
which we happen to be acquainted, greatly exceeded the
anticipations formed by persons thought to be well ac-
quainted with th,e locality.
Many 91 tItA Misklat nubility and sentry (Lord Roden,

The advocates of the Rivington Pike water then may
ask us what we recommend. For my part it appears to
me that the feeling of the town has been too clearly ex-
pressed to leave much doubt as to which course they
would lean—but if the council are not satisfied of this let
them take some simple means of ascertaining in each
ward the wishes of the ratepayers.
What object are the people seeking to obtain ? Simply
this —That such measures shall be adopted as shall prove
sati,ifactory whether the local supply is sufficient for the
town or not. We contend that this question is not
proved, and that there are grave reasons why the new
project should not be persevered in until it is proved.
Is this unreasonable ? I will first consider what this en-
quiry will involve, and then attempt to shew the reasons
which make it one of rather serious importance. The
enquiry involves delay, and two circumstances have been
urged as arguments against delay.
First.—The Act limits the Corporation to time in the
purchase of land, and in the completion of the works ;
and twelve months delay, (the least period required for a
satisfactory test of the local supply)would involve an Act
for extending the time of the present one. The answer
to this objection is, that there are quite sufficient grounds
why such an extension is reasonable, and would, therefore,
be granted—although I beileve a new Act might not.
Secondly.—lt is stated that if the Corporation do not
go on, a private company will start and carry out the
project, and thus injure the Corporation Water-works,
and cause great embarrassment. I think a few minutes
consideration of the prospects of the gross receipts from
water rents will shew us the best security against any such
attempts: .

These being the principal reasons against delay, let us
now turn to those which seem to favour such a step, and
we think they will be seen to be of a very serious nature—
should the time thus given hold
.out a prospect of post-
poning for some years the gigantic scheme which is now
contemplated.
The following simple table may give some general idea
of the pecuniary position of the relative methods of sup-
ply. In considering this I shall follow the estimates given
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