The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-31 00:00:00

NOTICE.

History of the Kings and Queens of England, in verse,
from King Egbert t) Queen Victoria. By A. Rossen-
dale. London : Suuter and Law, 131, Fleet-street.
This is a pleasing little work, very neatly got up. The
writer has very briefly versified the history of our kings
and queens, so that it can be committed to memory by
the young, and thus serve the same purpose as the very
useful, and, to many, almost indispensable, rhymes—
" Thirty days have September," &c. It has also the ad-
vantage of being set to music, and may be either said or
sung. A genealogical descent of her Majesty, a chrono-
logy of our kings and queens, and correct versions of the
National Anthem and Rule Britannia, are added. The
remark of the poet, "dulce est di,ipere in loco," is nerve
more pleasingly fulfilled, than when we see a writer of evi-
dent talent unbend himself, like the author of this trifle,
to confer instruction and amusement upon the young.
We have pleasure in recognising in the writer a res-
pected clergyman of the Church of England, and one who
efficiently labours in our immediate neighbourhood.

CORRSPONDENCE.

ON THE SANITARY STATE OF SOME PARTS
OF LIVERPOOL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

LETTER 111.
FREEMASON'S ROW.

DEAR SIR,—A house was entered by us, the land-
ing place of which had a plank of the footing broken,
and covered by a loose slate. A child's leg might
have easily slipped through, if not the foot of an
adult. The front parlour was shut up, which the
woman was unable to let, from its untenant able con-
dition, it being infested with rats, &c. The back room
had several holes in the floor, some of which were
loosely covered with bits of boarding, temporarily placed
there. The whole flooring was very thin, and yielded to
a moderate pressure of the foot. The tats came up, even
whist the inmates wet ein the room. On descending in-
to the cellarage, which consisted of aback and front com-
partment, there was found accumulated a very large heap
of soot in one corner ; another coiner, on a former visit,
was occupied by sweepings and refuse, though now
cleared away. The accumulation of soot appears to be
not an uncommon thing in the cellars, and there is a pre-
valent o;:inian that this practice is rather conducive to
health than otherwise. Rats were reported to be nume-
rous and troublesome.

The front cellar had a dry well direetly opposite the
front door entrance, loosely covered by planks. It was
full of water, which, when stirred up, stunk abominably.
In another house, the tenant stated that the cellar was
flooded, and that it had been recently closed up by her
husband, to prevent parties from continuing to throw in
all sorts of refuse matters. The floor was covered with
double oil-cloth, to keep out the damp and currents of
cold air, which otherwise came through the chinks in the
floor, so as to render the room completely uninhabitable.
It is impossible to suppose, considering the cellar con-
tains a large accumulation of impure water, that currents
of air could be conveyed from it into the upper apart-
ment, without carrying with them noxious effluvia, in the
highest degree prejudicial to health. Some cellars, though
not apparently containing water, yet seemed the recep-
tacles of a variety of filthy deposits.
The condition of other cellars, which were not open to
inspection, may be fairly inferred to have been similarly
circumstanced.

A passage, one of the " declining ways" hereafter
alluded to, ended in a regular slough, the result of a
choking-up of a drain or drains, and the consequent accu-
mulation of filth from three separate sources—as many
yards contributing their streams to this focal point of con-
centrated muck. Over this slush, the dour of one of the
back yards was laid across, to form a bridge for the pur-
pose of a ready exit from one of the houses. Formerly,
in the exercise of professional duties, having been accus-
tomed to visit the worst part of the city of Dublin, viz.,
that called " The Liberty," I can state that 1 never ob-
served any condition of things worse than that above re-
faried to. From all the information that can be gathered,
there is reason to suppose that scavengers do not visit this
locality so often as ought to be.