The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-08 00:00:00

SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE.

The TOWN-CLERK read the report of the Special.lm-
provement Committee, which stated that, in compliance
with a request, the Borough Engineer and Surveyor had
forwarded the following Vter, which the committee recom-
mended the Council to adopt :
Ste,—Having maturely considered the subject of the best
mode of improving the approaches to the town, we beg to re-
port the conclusion we have arrived at as follows, viz.
In a matter of such importance as the adjustment of leading
lines on which the future Liying cut of the land must be de-
pendant, we consider that it womd be well to obtain ideas front
as many sources as possible. With this view we beg to pro-
pose that an outline Plan (the cost of which will not he more
than or -E3O) of the Ilorough and its environs,
with contour lines, should be prepared and lithographed,
and architects,engincers, and others, invited to send suggestions
as to the laying out of the whole district, offering for the best a
sum of Fifty Pounds, and for the second best Twenty-five
Pounds. As a guide to the competitors, we propose to discri-
minate on the Plan, by peculiar shading, the various cl.sses of
property. in order that there maybe as little interference as
possible with existing rights. We prepuce to state in the adver-
tisement that the plan which may receive the premium may not
necessarily be adopted; all that is required being the sugges-
tions of the competitors.
We are, Sir, your obedient servants,
For Mr. NEWLA NDS and SELF,
JOHN WE IC HTMAN.
Upon the motion of Mr. EARLE, seconded by Mr. S.
HO IME, this report was adopted, and it was referred to
1 the committee to carry out.

MISCELLf:NE-US.

The Corcner's Account, amounting to Gs. Od. was
r..lerred to the Finance Committee for consideration and
payment.
A letter from ,John Gibson, Ef-q., WA., requesting the
Council to receive a Bust of Her Majesty the Qucen, was
read. The bust, preparatory to its being pled in St.
George's Hall, was ordered to be placed in the Town
Hall; and Mr. Gibson's letter was entered on the
minutes, and the thanks of the Council were tenderevl to
him.

A letter from the Rev. John Barclay, Vicar of Runcorn,
soliciting the aid of the Corporation towards re-building
the Parish Church of Runcorn, was reed, and Mr. Bar-
clay is to be informed that:tiie Council have no powers to
comply with his request.
A memorial of Joseph Thomas, respecting his sign
board ; a memorial of the inhabitants of Kirktiale, upon
the subject of the.local rates ; and resolutions agreed to at
a public meeting of the ratepayers of Weft. Derby,respect-
ing the paving end general rates of that warn, were all
read and referred. •

The Council, having dispcmcci of all the business before
them, adjourned at a quarter to fire o'clock.

A WOMAN KILLED BY HER IlusuAND.—On Sundays,
the neighbourhood of Cow-heel-alley. St. Luke'_;,Lon-
don, was tin-own into a state of considerable ex-
citement in consequence of the following occurrence: —lt
appears that a man named Merrick had been for
some time past residing with his wife, named Amelia
Men ick, in Maidenhead-court, Aldersgate-street. Owing
to their manner of living they,
,frequently quarrelled, and
about two o'clock on Sunday Merrick met his unfortu-
nate wife in Cow-heel-alley, amthavinti inquired the rea-
son of her not being et home cooking his dinner, he gave
her a blow under the left ear, which knocked her to the
ground. In falling, her head came in contact with the
palings facing one of the tenements in the court. The
iloor woman died aft,r making tore cr three convulsive
struggles. The husband, who obtains a living by jobbing
at the Post-office, was taken into custody. The only
excuse the man made for baying struck and killed his
wife was, that she had been out spending his money at
the " tape shops" in Golden-lane, instead of cooking his
dinner.

PARIS NEwsPArEn.s.—Among the many changes
which the republic has produced in Parisian manners,
that effected in the tone and habits of the lower classes,
by the inundation of these cheap prints, has been oue of
thee m
wontingstri
sgs. e s Aesxctihirhellyn,tende f
and writ
Ivor the
ritt l; pteorrusa of
partyl
purposes, to exercise an influence over the minds, and
prepare them fur the approach of that milleiduin of the
new prophets oft
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iv),rior.seclitipwt:ilosns,o
terror,lately near
d
its fulfilment, popularly called the " Red Republic," or
terms, the
at the price of one sou, and as none
iel;sloco.oetcjille—rtlfpcnice ul two sous, or a penny, these new papers
easily fail into the hands of eri-ry good patriot, who de-
sires his own enlightenment for the good of his country.
The niflueucci tiny cxereized may be seen in the kite in-
surrceton. Long before its outbreak Clay had contrived
to work their uhf in souring that. better spirit of decent
fraternity and conciliation, which mai Led flue manners of
the Pariian carriers of the better (list in the first days
of the Revolution. What the .Yoi-disent patriotic clubs,
nod the pretended friends of the people, with their violent
declamation and denunciation of all that possessed, did
not effect, was done by the frantic ultra-republican jour-
nals, that laboured so assiduously to install into the hearts
of the lower classes their venom and their spite. and that
hot poison of hatred and suspicion, that once admitted
into the body corporate, ran through every vein with, the
maddest fever. What a wild delirium of carnage and
cruelty that fever produced, we have seen.---Berdley.