The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-25 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL TIWITAI O.

DEATH OF Two PARTIES BY BEING BURNT.—Ory
Saturday an inquest was held before Mr. Curry on view
of the bodies of Sarah Bunnell and Mary Reeves, the
former aged 84 years, and the latter her grand-child, aged
6. They resided in the upper floor of a house in Work-
house-yard, Low-hill. On Thursday afternoon, a female
who lived below, heard a stamping on the floor, and on
running up, found them both in flames. She got a wet
sheet and put it over the old woman, while other persons),
called in, did their utmost for the child, and the fire
arising from their clothing was extinguished, though not
before both the unfortunates were severely burnt all over.
Two police-officers came and conveyed them to the Infir-
mary, where they both died from the injuries on Friday
morning. There was no evidence as to the ignition, and
a verdict was. returned accordingly.
DEATH FROM WANT OF THE NECESSARIES OF LIFEa
—On Saturday, an inquest was held before the borough
coroner, on view of the body of Esther Lynch, aged 35:
Deceased lodged in Wright-street. On Tuesday last, she
complained of pain in the bowels, and general weakness.
On Wednesday she was seized with labour pains, and was
shortly afterwards delivered of a child. On the following
day she became much worse, and died in the evening.
In reply to questions put to them (in consequence of
some information received), the inmates of the house
said that she had had a sufficiency of food, and had
never complained of want. But Mr. Arnold, the surgeon,
who had attended her stated, that as the deceased was not
suffering from any disease, he considered from what he
had observed, that death had been produced from want of
the common necessaries of life, especially in her condition.
The verdict was accordingly, to the effect that deceased
had died from want.

BATHS AND WASHHOUSES.—The Metropolitan Com-
mittee for erecting baths and washhouses, of which the
Bishop of London is president, have wisely built a model
establishment in a very destitute part of London, viz.. in
Goulston-square, Whitechapel. The cost of the building
amounts to £20,000. That large sums are necessary for
the proper establishment of baths and warehouses may be
sufficiently inferred from the fact that the corporation of
Liverpool, possessing already two establishments, one of
which cost between £3,000 and £4,000, and the other
about £12,000, adopted on the 11th instant a resolution
to raise £25,000 more, to carry Sir Henry Duckinfield's
Public Baths and Washhouses Act into execution. Our
friends in Liverpool are not the men to throw away
£25,000 after wasting £15,000 ; and we therefore have the
best assurance N‘e can wish that £40,000 is not too great
an outlay for a town resembling in many respects the
eastern portion of the metropolis. The bathers in the
incomplete building in Goulston-square exceeded 32,000
in the five months ending last Christmas, and the in-
quiries of the poor for the completion of the washhouse
are constant.—London Times. _ _ _

BOYDELL AND WILLIAMS BANKRUPTCY.—On Tuesday
these bankrupts appeared to pass their examination. Mr.
Slaney, the chief-clerk to the bankrupts, was further ex-
amined at considerable length by Mr. Evans, in reference
to the private and general letter book. In the general
letter book small statements and memorandums were
entered, in addition to the letters, which he had often
torn out when he wanted them for business purposes.
The letters he had torn out, if produced, would not at all
alter the accounts of the bankrupts. He never saw either
of the bankrupts tear any leaves out of the letter books.
The private letter book was kept by himself, under lock
and key, and no one could have access to it except he was
there. Mr. Evans then read over the evidence of a boy,
named Thomas Rigg, who had been in the office of the
bankrupts. The evidence stated that he bad been in the
habit of copying letters, memorandums, agreements, and
other things into the general letter-book, which he had
afterwards cut out of the book. His Honour, in adjudi-
cating upon the case, said that it was quite right that the
investigation should have taken place. The absence of
the letters in 1846 and 1847 were naturally calculated to
cause great suspicion. It was, however, satisfactory to
him and creditable to the bankrupts that none of the
missing letters had found their way into the hands of the
official assignee after the opening of the fiat. Looking
at the testimony of the witnesses Slaney and Rigg, he did
not think that any imputation could be fairly cast upon
the bankrupts. Therefore. without taking into considera-
sideration any further proceedings, he did not see any
grounds on which the bankrupts should not be allowed to
pass their examination. The bankrupts, therefore, passed
their examination.
TEA DUTIES—DEPUTATION TO LORD JOHN BUS-
SELL.—A deputation, composed of some of the most
influential merchants of Liverpool, and manufacturers of
Manchester, chairmen of the Chambers of Commerce,
and others, headed by Mr. Rawson and Mr. Heywood,
M.P. for North Lancashire, bad an interview with Lord
John Russell, at the Treasury, at one o'clock on Wed-
nesday, for the purpose of propounding the views of the
interests they represented, commercial, manufacturing,
and domestic, as to the policy and expediency of the
total abolition of the duties on tea. The leading repre-
sentatives of both towns having addressed his lordship,
Mr. Heywood stated that he had received deputations
from most of the principal manufacturing towns in Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, urging him to represent to the
government the necessity which existed for the abolition
of duties which so materially affected the interest of the
labouring classes. Lord John Russell received the depu-
tation with his usual courtesy, and, having heard the
arguments addressed to him, stated in reply that the
question was purely one of revenue, but refrained from
holding out any hope that the subject would be taken up
by the government with a view to the abolition so strongly
urged upon him. The deputation, after thanking his
lordship for the attention he had paid to their observa-
tions, retired, as it is understood, under the impression
that they had failed at any rate for the present, in the
object for which the interview had been sought.