The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-13 00:00:00

FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1843

We have been somewhat struck—we might almost
say startled—with the tone of an article in the London
Times of Tuesday last, commenting upon the beautiful
and convincing inaugural address, delivered by Mr.
W. E. Gladstone at the opening of our Collegiate
Institution. It is not often that the Times lays itself
open to the suspicion of ignorance, upon any question
with respect to which public opinion has been strongly
moved ; and Mr. Gladstone is not the man, to depre-
ciate whose efforts in behalf of any good cause, that
journal would be likely to step out of its way to affect
such ignorance. But the tone of the article in ques-
tion is so singularly inconsistent with the opinions
avowedly held by our contemporary, upon the im-
portant subject of education, that we are compelled to
fix its authorship upon some recluse, whose mind has
never pierced beyond the walls of his study, or the
cloisters of his college; or to suspect, unwillingly, that
its writer had a concealed purpose in view, which most
sincere churchmen would be inclined to regard with
fear and jealousy.

Referring to the distinctness, with which Mr. Glad-
stone had laid it down, as a " great indestructible
principle," that " Education," if it is to be effectual, if
it is to be valuable, if it is to be deserving of the name,
must be a RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ; and that, in order
to deserve the name of a religious education, it must be
founded not upon those vague generalities which are
supposed to be common to all men, or at least to all men
who assume the name of Christians—but upon the de-
finite Revelation which it has pleased God to give, and
whereby each man amongst us must s: and or fall," the
Times remarks—

" We suppose Mr. Gladstone is too well acquainted with
the people of Liverpool to utter redundant truisms in their
presence. Still, we confess that we should hardly have
thought it necessary in a speech addressed to the middle
classes of the second city in the empire—a body of people
possessing a more than average amount of wealth, intelli-
gence and attainments—addressed to them, too; by one who
made it his boast that he was sprung from their order—we
should hardly have thought it necessary to put it forth, as a
new startling truth, that education to be effectual, must
be based upon religion—that this religion must be the reli-
gion of Revelation. Whatever may be the doubts and dark-
ness of the lower classes upon this subject, surely the middle
classes did not need this information" (!)

Now the Times is not ignorant of the fact that the
principle laid down by Mr. Gladstone is by no means
regarded as a " redundant truism" by many parties,
far removed in intelligence and station from the lower
classes. In his publication of the following day—
Wednesday—he recognises the fact, and deprecates its
existence—that a religious education based upon Re-
velation is not the education given in the Irish schools
supported by government. He knows, moreover, that
it is not the system of the mechanics' institutions and
other similar educating bodies in this country; and he
might have known that it is not the system most in
favour with a portion of the middle class philosophers—
the exclusively wise—of the town of Liverpool. Mr.
Gladstone may therefore have uttered a " truism"—
for there is little in this world which is true, and at the
same time very " new" and " startling"—but we can-
not conceive that it was a truism, at all " redundant"
in the utterance, in the place where uttered, or which,
coming from the lips of a statesman, so eminent in
chi ratter, and talent, and position in Sir Robert Peel's
government, was likely to be received with less than
the most unqualified delight and gratitude. We, for
our part, should not complain of the redundancy, if
we were to hear the same sentiments from the lips of
every member of the cabinet.

There is a peevishness in the paragraph which we
have quoted, which it is difficult to reconcile with the
writer's understood opinions upon the subject of edu-
cation, unless we are to suppose the existence of some
secret bias hitherto undeveloped. Let us endeavour
to trace this from the context. In a subsequent pas-
sage of the article in question we find it seriously
doubted that Liverpool is " in want of any Collegiate
Institution like this ;" or, at least, denied that " the
want has been proved :" and again we have the writer's
lament " that Mr. Gladstone has given the support of
his name" to a scheme which is " unnecessary and
uncalled for by the exigencies of the times." Really,
the man who can deliberately give utterance to such
an absurdity may almost be suspected of being no
very strenuous believer in the necessity of education at
all ! For only glance for a moment at the outrageously-
absurd or blindly-bigotted reason alleged fur the
opinion in question.

" We have at the present moment"—proceeds the Times
—" some fifty colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, amply en-
dowed, well provided with every encouragement to study
and learning, and, the majority of them at least, not confined
to any distinct or peculiar class of men. We have, besides,
innumerable public schools, each of which has a foundation
endowment sufficient to defray the expenses of a couple of
German principalities. What need, then, of these new
' Collegiate Institutions ?' We heretofore asserted, and we
still maintain, that the endowments of these old colleges and
schools were especially intended for the middle classes ; and
until Eton, Winchester, Westminster, and the Charter-
house, as well as both universities, are thronged to reple-
tion (.9 we see no reason for lavishing money on modern
fine buildings under pretence of furthering the cause of edu-

cation."

It is perhaps unnecessary to combat such sheer
nonsense as is contained in the above paragraph. The
notion that Oxford or Cambridge, or the other foun-
dations mentioned, could ever supply to Liverpool the
place of such an educational instrument as her " Col-
legiate Institution" is too ridiculous to deserve grave
treatment. But, may we ask, is there nothing signi-
ficant beneath the surface of the discontent manifested
by the Times ? We fear there is. The sincere friend
of sound scriptural education for the children of the
middle classes would gladly welcome the acquisition of
additional facilities, by which such an education is
afforded them at their very doors. The Times, how-
ever, and the party in the church of which that journal
is the organ, would perhaps prefer that that education
was provided and directed by the irresponsible heads of
our universities—that it embraced the reading of the
fathers, and inculcated a belief in tradition,—rather
than that it was directed by the bishop of the diocese,
the local clergy, and the life-governors of such an
educational establishment as the " Collegiate Institu-
tion" of Liverpool, and the religious teaching afforded

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or a word taken therefrom

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gard to the extent of the existing educational

of our country

Thanks to the munificent liberality of
our fathers, England is more richly provided with such

facilities, or rather with the means whereby they ought
to be afforded, than any other country

We cannot

wait, however, and throw our rising generation upon
the mechanics' institutes and other providers of a
baneful or a deficient education, until our foundation
schools and colleges choose to wake from their lethargy
and provide that pure and wholesome commodity for
which they were endowed. Rather let us, as we can
now proudly boast that we have done, imitate the
bountiful disposition of past generations; and strive
to plant, at our own doors, a tree whose branches will
shower down blessed fruit upon generations yet to come

We are not certain that we are warranted in taking,
as a *manifesto of the views of Sir Robert Peel's Cabinet,
even with respect to the immediate question of educa-
tion, the beautiful sentiments uttered by the Right
Hon. the Vice-President of the Board of Trade,
on Friday last, to which we have briefly referred in
another article. We much fear we are not so war-
ranted. Mr. Gladstone, it is true, has declared his
conviction that "there is no class of men who ought

to entertain a livelier interest in the prospects of all
schemes connected with public education than that
class which is connected with political office;
surely, this opinion is scarcely reconcileable with the
course pursued by her Majesty's Government, or by
the Central Board of Education, towards the schools
belonging to the Established Church in Ireland. Ile
has said, too, that " without the intelligent assent and
attachment of the people,' the institutions of the
country"—which he particularises as "the Monarchy,
the Church, and the Aristocracy"—cannot be sup-
ported ; but neither is this truth reconcileable with the

" but,

policy of Government, with respect to the same schools •
He has said, too, with regard to an education, different
to that " education based upon the pure revealed word
of God," and of which "religion must be the per-
vading principle—the principle to which all others must
be subordinated ;" "is it not paltering with the subject
—is it not giving stones to those who ask for bread, if
we give that, as education to man, which has no re-
ference to his higher faculties and estate, but is ex-
clusively conversant with objects which must perish in
the use ?" And; we ask, can this question be replied
satisfactorily by a Government which holds cut its
helping hand to a system, in which the revealed word
of God is emasculated, to appease the professors of a
faith, hostile to one at least of the established institu-
tions of the land—its Catholic Church—whilst that
helping hand is denied to a system, the supporters of
which are firm supporters=supporters to the Death—
of all those Institutions ?

These questions are staggering. The feeling which
they leave behind is humiliating, and sadly detrimental
to our previously-conceived opinions of Conservative
faithfulness. How strongly impelled are we to ex-
claim, as we sink back from the contrast between what
should be and what is, " Are these the watchers over
our Zion ? Are these the men to whom a Christian
people have committed the weal of the generation
which is to follow them in their career from this world
of temptation to the world beyond the grave—that
career of which `the main business' is, as so beau-
tifully described by Mr. Gladstone, reunion with
GOD'—the regaining of that which was the state of
our first parents before the the renovation of
the nature of God in a race that is fallen away' ? "
We cannot adopt a conclusion which would presup-
pose blindness and want of principle so great, on the
part of a Government of which Mr. Gladstone remains
a member. There must be some grateful surprise, as
to the future measures of that Government, in store
for their Conservative supporters.
We are the more encouraged to hold out this
pleasing hope to our readers, from a remembrance of
the sentiments expressed by a member of that govern-
ment—Mr. Sidney Herbert—on a recent occasion ;
sentiments in which we are assured one other member
of the same government would cordially aecond, and
which are, indeed, seconded in every paragraph of his
beautiful address now under notice. Mr. Herbert,
alluding to the unexampled depression under which
the labouring classes of the country are unfortunately
suffering, expressed, in language which we have not at
hand to copy, and which we shall not attempt to para-
phrase, his conviction that the duty of the rich man—
and how much more so of a government ?—was to
take forethought for the alleviation of such distress,
and the restoration of the sufferers to comfort, if not
to happiness. Such a sentiment is surely not recon-
cileable with the maintenance, in the conducting of the
government of the country, of those Malthusian prin-
ciples which dictated a New Poor-law Bill, and refused
protection to infant labour by a stringent Factory Bill;
and we cannot, viewing the opinions expressed by the
gentlemen to whom we have referred, lay aside the
hope that a better day for England, and for the cause
of truth and humanity, is approaching.

Mr. Peter Ainsworth, M.P. for the borough of
Bolton, has, it seems, committed an unpardonable
offence against their high mightinesses of the Anti-
Corn-law League. In reply to an invitation to attend
an anti-corn-law tea party in the enlightened borough in
question, Mr. Ainsworth declined, upon the grounds
that " having given his- assent, in the last session of
Parliament, to the new tariff, sanctioning the principle
of protection to the manufacturing, the mining and
the agricultural interests of this country, he feels—
as every honest man must feel---" that he cannot, with
any degree of justice, exclude the growers of corn from
a participation in the advantages of similar protection."
Mr. Ainsworth then proceeds to enumerate a few of
the duties established by the tariff in question, as fol-
lows--viz " On cotton goods, 10 per cent ; linen
ditto, 15 to 20 per cent; woollen ditto, 15 to 20 per
cent ; silk ditto, 25 to 30 per cent ; china and porce-
lain, 15 to 20 per cent; manufactures of iron, steel,
tin, lead, pewter, brass, and copper, 15 per cent;
ladies' boots and shoes, 12s. per dozen; men's ditto,
28s. per dozen ;" &c. &c.

And what, does the reader imagine, was the reply to
this very reasonable plea of the honourable member ?
How did the assembled leaguers of Bolton justify the
withdrawal of all protection from the corn-grower,
whilst it is retained by other branches of the national
industry ? Precisely as, in a recent article upon this
very subject, ,we anticipated they would do. They
said, by the mouth of that very conceited Quaker, Mr.
John Bright, "we, the cotton trade, want no protec-
tion. Do we not now sell our goods cheaper than any
one else ? Protection, to us, is a mere shadow—a
delusion." All very true. Mr. Bright and his fellow-
agitators belonging to the cotton trade want no pro-
tection; but what say the gentlemen engaged in the
linen trade ? Mr. John Brooks, we rather imagine,
gave a somewhat different account, in his celebrated
colloquy with Lord Stanley at Lancaster, of the power
of that trade to dispense with protection. What say
the silk manufacturers ? The fact announced at a
recent weekly meeting of the League, that the people
of the silk manufacturing town of Coventry had only
been induced to subscribe, in favour of the principle
of free trade, and in aid of the League tribute, the sum
of SEVEN SHILLINGS ! is a sufficient answer. And
what say the other trades enumerated, many of whom
are to be found in our own town ? Let their repre-
sentatives—many of them anti-monopoly men of the
first water—supply the world with their views upon
this important subject. Our working fellow-townsmen
will watch their reply with some interest.
We do not certainly attribute to the member for
Bolton the possession of any inordinate share of the
wisdOm which is to be found in the House of Com-
mons. We do, however, venture to predict, that the
just and honourable course which he has marked out
for himself, upon the subject of the corn-law, will be
that of a very great majority of the friends of free trade
in that house, whenever, during the ensuing session,
the ultra views of the League are brought distinctly
under consideration. Let the question once be dis-
cussed, in parliament or out of it, as between a fixed
protective duty and no duty at all ; and the country
will. he not a little amazed at the contemptible strength,
in station, character, and ',numbers, of the faction,
which now swaggers so outrageously, and menaces so
insolently with its vengeance all those who prefer the
straightforward path of honest independence to a
slavish submission to its tyrannical behests !

LOCAL. NEWS

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CUSTOM-ROUSE R EV EN U E.—The receipts at the Custom-
house at this port for the year ending sth January instan
amount to X 3,904,379, being a decrease, as compared with
1841, of £200,514, and with the preceding year of X 702,947.

LORD SANDON.-Our excellent representative Lord San-
don arrived in Liverpool on Wednesday morning, and is at
present on a visit at the residence of Charles Lawrence, Esq.,
Mosley Hill. His lordship dined with his Worship the
Mayor and a select party last evening. His lordship will,
we believe, remain in town for some days to come.

INQUEST.—On Wednesday last, an inquest was held on
view of the body of Elizabeth Doyle, a child six months old.
The deceased, who was a healthy child, was found dead in
her mother's arms in bed on Tuesday morning. The parents
were sober quiet people. Mr. Leech, surgeon, saw the body,
and being unable to account for death, made a post mortem
examination, when it appeared the deceased had died of con-
vulsions. Verdict accordingly.

"LOOK ON THIS PICTURE AND ON THAT."—The sup-
porters of the Mechanics' Institution held a soiree on Friday
last, when a Frenchman of the name of Sears, who is a
teacher there, was permitted to sing the revolutionary com-
position called the Marseillaise Hymn, in character. The
Collegiate Institution was formally opened the same day,
when the beautiful and loyal hymn, beginning "Lord of
Heaven and Earth and Ocean," was sang by the assembly
to Haydn's sacred music of " The Hymn to the Emperor."
Those who know the two compositions will not fail to discern
in these apparently trivial circumstances, the difference be-
tween the principles of the two institutions.

THE Sovrtztu.N HOSPITAL.—We, a few weeks ago, no-
ticed the Northern Hospital, showing, with reference to the
number of patients, the great utility of that institution, par-
ticularly as regards acc'dents occurring at or about the docks
at the north end of the town. We have now to commend no
less strongly to the attention and support of our humane
townsmen the sister instituf on—the Southern Hospital, a
fine building, admirably designed and fitted up for the re-
ception of unfortunate persons in that quarter of the town,
where casualties, &c., at the docks are proportionately
numerous. We can state, from authority, that, though
the hospital has not yet been fully open twelve months, (the
anniversary being on the 18th of the present month) the
number of patients admitted has already been no fewer than
624, including 119 cases of fracture and 43 cases of scalp
wounds. The beautiful order of both establishments, and
the skill, attention, and kindness of the medical attendants
are beyond all praise.

SUNDAY TRADING.
Woods, of Chadwick-

t the police-court yesterday, Wm

treet, arip-eared to answer an informa-
tion a7aitlst him, laid by police-Weer No. 462, for pursuing
his calling on Sunday. The information stated that on Sun-
day last, between eleven and twelve o'clock, he was standing
opposite the defendant's house, when he saw the servant
hand out of the window a halfpenny worth of sweet milk,
for which a penny was handed in, and a halfpenny received
out in change. He had previously cautioned the defendant
not to sell on Sundays. Mr. Rushton said that according to
the act of Charles 11 (under which this information was laid).
no person was allowed to sell milk after nine o'clock in the
morning, under a penalty of 55., which he had not the power
to mitigate. We understand that a great number of in-
formations, laid by common informers, have been laid against
car drivers and others, for following their usual occupations
on Sunday ; and that the keepers of the Exchange, the
Lyceum, and other newsrooms, also club-houses, and even
the coachman of his Worship the Mayor, are amongst the
number.

EXTENSIVE ROBBLRY OF SUGAII..-At the police-court,
on Wednesday and (the prisoners being remanded for further
evidence) yesterday, four prisoners were brought up
namely, Thomas Harrison, Sarah Harrison, his wife, Eliza-
beth Johnson, and Thomas Scott, on a charge of stealing a
large quantity of sugar. It appeared that on Monday night
last, about 16 cwt. of sugar was stolen from Dover's ware-
house in Edmund-street. From information received.
Police-officer Grisenthwaite went to the shop of a person
named Scott, provision dealer, Johnson-street. He stated
his errand, and Scott told him that if he went into the cel-
lar, he would find a bag of sugar which two men brought into
the shop, and, after quarreling with each other, had thrown
there on the top of the coals, and had gone off and left it.
The officer went below, and found the sugar as stated. From
further information, the police went to a house in Beving-
ton, where they found a number of sugar bags burning on the
fire. This was the house inhabited by the prisoner Harrison
and his wife, who were accordingly taken into custody. The
evidence went to implicate all the prisoners, with the excep-
tion of Elizabeth Johnson; who was discharged. The other
three wero committed for trial.

SHIPMASTERS' ASSOCIATION.—A meeting of this asso-
ciation was held on Tuesday, in the committee-rooms be-
longing to the society, for the purpose of concerting measures
for releasing it from the difficulties in which it has been
placed, and for establishing it upon a permanent footing for
the future. The meeting was respectably attended, and
Captain Oglevy was called to the chair. A resolution pro-
posed by Captain Bisset was carried unanimously, to the ef-
fect that the association be continued to the 31st March, and
that a committee of shipmasters be appointed to consider
the propriety, and to devise the best means of remodeling the
association. Captain Bisset said he was still not without
hopes that the association might yet go on prosper, and be-
come an honour to those who had fostered it into existence,
and a source of great benefit and convenience to the ship-
masters of Liverpool. He thought if proper modifications
were made in the existing system, and proper alterations in
the subscriptions, the society would succeed. A committee
was then formed to carry into effect the objects of Captain
Bisset's resolution. The subscriptions up to the close of the
meeting, including what was subscribed on the spot, exceeded
£2OO. We shall be exceedingly sorry if through want of
support this useful society is allowed to be broken up—it has
already rendered essential service to the shipmasters of the
port, and would if liberally assisted, afford further advantages
to them. We shall be glad to hear that the labours of the
committee are attended with that success which they ought
to meet with.

FOREIGN AID SOCIETY.—We perceive that a meeting of
this society will be held at the Music-hall this evening, when
its claims, which are not sufficiently recognised by the pub-
lic, will be brought before the protestant community of
Liverpool through the able advocacy of the Rev. R. Burgess,
rector of Chelsea, the Rev. Hugh 111`Neile, Major Thorpe,
and others. Our best recommendation of the society's
labours and objects will be to reprint the following extract,
from the letter of the Rev. Edward Bickersteth, published at
the close of the last month, recommendatory of a sermon,
preached at Geneva by Mr. D'Aubigne, president of the
Theological School there :—" It is peculiarly delightful to
those who love the Saviour, to see a revival of reformation
truth at Geneva. Amidst the awful prevalence of Neologian
and other heretical errors in that city, God has graciously
refreshed the hearts of his people, by raising up faithful men
to bear witness to pure evangelical doctrine, and institutions
have been formed there for diffusing that doctrine among
those reformed churches which had so grievously fallen from
the heavenly truths maintained by their protestant fore-
fathers. The Geneva Evangelical Society, with its able in
structors, Gaussen, D'Aubigne, and others, has led the way
in this blessed work, and deserves the warm sympathy and
support of all who truly love oar Lord. The Foreign Aid
Society was formed for the purpose of affording Christians
in this country the opportunity of showing this sympathy. It
is a society that in these days claims from all British Chris-
tians a far more efficient support than it has yet received.
Not having yet been fully brought before true Christians, it
has had little comparative support. I shall be glad if this
notice of it bring it before the minds of Christians, and they
become interested in the good doing among our brethren on
the continent."

CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.-It will be seen from
an advertisement that a sermon will be preached in Christ
Church, on Sunday next, in aid of the funds of this important
society, and valuable auxiliary to the Church of England.
The benefits conterrcd by the society upon the people of this
country and the clergy are various ; and, we learn from the
occasional papers issued by the committee, that a spiritual
work of the most encouraging description is going on exten-
sively in many places where the society's aid is received. A
clergyman, having charge of a manufacturing population of
7500 souls, and an income of only £9O, without any parsonage
house, but aided with a grant for a curate, writes, that "his
congregation is a satisfactory illustration of the benefits of
church principles of subordination and order. Not one of
the congregation took part in the late riots, and to a man
they offered themselves to serve as constables for the protec-
tion of property." Another clergyman states that though his
parish was under grievious apprehension during the same
disturbances, and expected to he the most disturbed locality,
no actual outbreak took place in the town itself, and adds,
that since the society:s grant of a curate, there are now
" three large congregations in the church on Sundays—a
steady and increasing attendance at the weekly service—in-
stances continually occurring of persons attracted to the
Sabbath worship through the instrumentality of cottage and
school lectures—upwards of 500 children in the schools, and
an attendance at the Lord's Supper, which has at least
quadrupled the number antecedent to the society aid." Ano-
ther incumbent of a mai:kliae:uring district informs the corn-
inittee, that he had infidelity, socialism, and dissent, in al-
most every form to contend with. Prior to the grant of a
curate from the society, " there was no school in connection
with the church in all the district, whilst there is now
school of 184 children, and the congregations have much in-
creased." We might multiply such gratifying statement
as these, if we thought them necessary; but, we must re-
mind our readers that the amount which Liverpool transmits
to the parent society, is extremely disproportionate to the
amount of either spiritual or pecuniary benefit conferred in
return.

NORTHERN HOSPITAL.—In extracting the following par-
ticulars from a paper on the treatment of Fractures of the
Extremities, by Mr. Banner, surgeon of the Northern Hos-
pital, of this town, published in the present January number
of the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Quarterly, the pub-
lic will have an opportunity of judging of the extraordinary
results emanating from the efforts made by the founders of
this valuable charity, and the subscribers the gratification of
knowing that their benevolent aid has been
well bestowed,
These extracts must conceive all those who take an interest
in the relief of suffering humanity, even the most sceptical,
of the great usefulness of this hospital. We the more parti-
cularly draw attention to the facts contained in Mr. Banners
paper, as the supporters of the hospital contemplate making
a great effort to obtain a fund sufficient for building a new
Northern Hospital, which, we trust, will be a building wore
thy so great a cause, and so situated as to be an ornament to
Liverpool. In the erection of the medical institutions of
this town, sufficient attention has not been paid to their site,
each having been placed in back situations. Buildings well
demanding conspicuous and prominent positions, from their
beauty of design, are lost as public edifices. We sincerely
hope this will not be the case in the erection of the conten3,
plated Northern Hospital. We are informed that the town
council is again about to forward, by its liberality, the objects
of charity, in bestowing land for the erection of this hospital..
In doing so, we hope it will not be forgotten that a hospital
is a public huilding intended for future ages, as well as for
the present,, and should form a conspicuous and handsome
edifice worthy the flourishing town of Liverpool. To gain
this end it should be stipulated by the council that the de-
sign be approved by them.—There have been admitted into
the Northern Hospital in Leeds-street, from March 1834 to
December 1841, eight hundred and nineteen cases of fracture
of the long bones of the extremities, or. in other words, brt)"
ken limbs. Of these, 279 were of the arm, 479 of the leg,
and 61 were fractures, complicated with other severe injuries.
The general results were-279 cases •of fractures of the arm
were cured ; 471 cases of fractures of the leg were cured ; 21
cases of fractures with severe complications, cured ; out t 2:
819 cases, 28 wed. There have been 47 limbs amputated
resulting from the foregoing injuries ; of these 34 recovered,
18 died; 11 were of the arm, 32 were of the leg, 3 were eases
m.
of double amputation, or where two limbs were removed fro.,
one person, and 1 was a partial amputation of the foot.
amputations were on persons between the ages of 10 and 30sof these 17 recovered, 1 died : 15 were on persons betwe;
the ages of 30 and 45 ; of these 9 recovered, 6 died ; 5 we
on persons between the ages of 45 and 55 ; of these 4 were
6
cured, and 1 died : 8 were on persons between the ages Of
and 70; of these 5 were cured, 3 died. Of these cases, 4°
were males, 2 were females. It must be remembered
these cases are confined exclusively to the extremities ; tbef
do not include other bones, which, if enumerated, 1'
wc)tbao
swell the catalogue to a great degree. We may say
there is not a provincial hospital in the United King
which admits so great a number of severe accidents as
of
Liverpool Northern Hospital ; and, with the exception b
about two in the metropolis, it might be applied genera P,
throughout the kingdom.