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

BA N ASTRE STREET.

Near to one end of this street was a privy common
to seven houses, which was cleaned by the the night
scavengers. It was in the most abominable condition—
or, as the neighbours described it, " scandalous and
shameful." A trap-door was formed in the floor, just fac-
ing the door, and a heap of straw was strewn over the
floor. This trap-door was for obvious purposes ; hut,
from neglect of being closed properly, had, according to
the neighbours' account, eventuated more than once in
becoming a man trap, in one of which cases death by
asphyxia appears nearly to have ensued ; and, in another
instance, the rescued wretch loaded the rescuer with
abuse, charging such person with having placed a trap on
purpose. Fleas and rata, and such like vermin, are said
to have infested the adjoining premises.
A court in this street deserves notice specially. The
approach to it is by a step descent from the street,
and presents the frequently to be met with covered arch-
way, in passing along which stooping is a wife posture.
This leads into a court containing six or seven houses,
and, before landing in the court, you are met by an over-
flow of dirty stagnant water, resulting from the blocking
up of the drain, as stated by the inhabitants. On inquir-
ing how long this state may have existed, a period of about
twelve months was alleged for its duration, and the land-
lord appears to have disregarded the request of his tenants
to have this nuisance rectified. They themselves had done
what they could, from time to time, to remedy the matter,
and even, as they said, had taken up the flags all the
length of the passage, and cleaned it out with their own
hands. This chews that the inhabitants of these locali-

ties are not averse to making some efforts at improving
their sanitory condition. The police bad been more than
once notified formally of the persistence of the nuisance,
but with unsuccessful issue. Now, what has been the
consequence of this neglect, from the testimony of the
residents of the court. Fever, as might have been natu-
rally expected, made its appearance in the court, and one
entire family were seized, of which the head of the house-
hold, the father, fell a victim. " Another family had two
or three children down with it."

This single specimen, of which there can be no doubt,
is a very common occurrence in the regions of LIVERPOOL
PROPER, requires not a word of comment. But the fact
of the passage running on a lower level than that of the
street, is a very unfavourable circumstance in all attempts
at improving the sanitory condition of the court. The
fact of several courts and their entrances being consider-
ably lower than the street level, is a common thing, either
in the shape of an abruptly sudden fall, or of a gradually
declining transition from the footpath, Freemasons'-row
presents several of the latter, and there are the remains of
one of the former modes near the North Dispensary end
of the street, which was formerly a passage to a privy and
ash-pit for the houses fronting the street. It was four or
five stone steps down from the level of the pavement, and
so cramped was the archway, that the key of the arch
scarcely rises above the level of the footpath itself, so that
it must have been a task of no inconsiderable adroitness
to effect an entrance, without striking the head against the
archway, and for almost a certainty, any hat or other covering
worn upon it. In fact, I cannot imagine how they ever
did avoid such a mischance in getting down such a scram-
bling hole. The flood-tide of accumulations, operating
upon these circumstantial disadvantages, has at last re-
sulted in approximating the ash-pit, &v., to the street,
and now it presents the curious aspect of an ash-pit under
two front houses, having the ornament of four or five use-
less steps descending to it, down which the ashes are now
shot, in place of human footsteps. The interested resi-
dents complain loudly of it, but are in despair at present
of any remedy.
The fact of these declining ways are not particularized
in the excellent report of Dr. Duncan, " On the Physical
Causes of the High Rate of Mortality in Liverpool," be-
cause he confined himself to a general outline of non-
sani,ary modes of building. I Joust stop for the present,
and remain, Yours, &c.,

G. C. WATSON

.-,..--.
DIVINE SERVICE ON EASTER EVE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Slll,—Next week is the solemn season of Passion Week,
and in many of our churches there will be Divine Service
every evening up to Good Friday ; but why should not
the service cuntinue to the end of the week ? why not on
Saturday evening as well as on the other evenings of the
week ? Surely the eve of our Lord's Resurrection is a
very appropriate time for the hallowed occupation of
worship. The practice has been occasionally pursued at
Edge UM Church. I shall be very glad if the hint cause
the adoption of the practice at all the churches where
there is service on the other days of the week.—Yours. &c.
CONSISTENCY.
Liverpool, March 30, 1846.

____.,..._.
MOLD JUNCTION RAILWAY

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

before Parliament for making a railway from Mold, in
this county, to the Hooton station of the Chester and
Birkenhead Railway, called the Mold Junction Railway.
The object of this railway is to give to a very valuable
mineral district the most direct communication with Bir-

ject, it is necessary to cross the river Dee at King's
Ferry, following, in fact, precisely the same route as the
passengers from Flintshire and Denbighshire take at pre-

March 81, 184 d.

prepared to prove at the prciptr time, that it is perfectly
practicable to cross the Dee *iMout inflicting the
slightest injury upon its traffic. It may suit the purpose
of their Chester opponents to make the navigation of the
river the ostensible ground of objection to the railway,
keeping the real motives of their opposition out of sight;
but this misleads no on'e, and certainly will not succeed.
The Chester Chronicle may rail on, bat the Directors of
the Mold Junction Railway, confident of the justice of

their cause, will, I trust, persevere to the end ; and that
success may crown their exertions is the sincere wish of,
sir, your most obedient servant.

' ' AN INHABITANT OF FLINTSHIRE.
Mold, March 24th, 1816.

CANADIAN

MATTERS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE COLONIAL GAZETTE

Glasgow

23d March, 1846

SIR,—You are quite mistaken in supposinz that I have
insinuated that, compared with the population of any
county in England, in the same circumstances, the people
of Canada would be found less loyal.

I believe, on the contrary, that the people of Canada
are more intelligently loyal than the population of any
county or town in Great Britain and Ireland.
So sincere, indeed, is my admiration of the Canadian
character, in this respect. that your advocacy of it has
already laid me under obligations to you, and certainly
made me overlook the personalities which you have in-

dulged in against me

ii" disloyal man, talking of a colony of doubtful loyalty,
dare not have used the plain language I have done.
Had I descended to particulars, I must have more grie-
vously offended those parties in the province for whores
alone your correspondent has the slightest right to speak.
But for more active loyalists than them, Toronto would
have fallen into AV Kenzie's hands on the night of the 4th
December, 1837.

I speak confidently, as having been on the spot, and
under arms ; and I appeal for corroboration to Sir Francis
Botut• Head (now in London), who is the last man to do
injustice to the brave population of Canr.da.
You may depend that the whole population of Upper
Canada will deeply regret Sir Robert Peel's measure, ex-
cept a few Republicans and their newsapers, who
pwill re-
joice, knowing that the introduction of Free Trade into
England is just the breaking down of the colonial system.
and the dissolution of the tie between the mother c'untry
and the colony.—l am, sir, you obedient humble servant,
ISAAC BUCHANAN.

CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY

COMPANY

At twelve o'clock. on Wednesday, the half-yearly
general meeting of this company was held at the Claren-
don-rooms, South John-street. The meeting was nume-
rously attended. William Jackson, Esq., presided.
The CHAIRMAN commenced by reporting that the re-
ceipts for the last eleven weeks had avenged £lO5 a week
more than they did this time last year, and by stating that
it was the intention of the Directors to make a consider-
able reduction in fares, and to open the new road stations
as soon as possible. _ _

The retiring Directors—Messrs. Bentham, J. S. Jack-
son, and Burt, were re-elected, and Mr. Cochrane was
appointed a Director in the room of Sir Joshua Walmsley,

resigned

Upon the motion of the CHAIRMAN, the following re-
solution was unanimously adopted : " That as consider-
able inconvenience will be occasioned owing to the last

y not being pay-
he call thereon
6th day of July

call on the new £5O shares in this comp.
able until January, 1849, resolved, that tt
would become due and payable on the
next, be £2 per share, the whole amount then due."
The CHAIRMAN then craved the indulgence of the
meeting for a few moments, while he alluded to a matter
of a personal nature. The proprieturs were aware that at
the general meeting held on the 29th of January last, a
charge was brought against him of having forstalled the
Company in the purchase of some land, by which he re-
alised a large profit. He was taken by surprise on that
occasion ; and when the following meeting was held, and
be was prepared to render an account of his stewardship,
his mouth was stopped in consequence of Mr. M'Gregor
Laird having given notice of his intention to commence a
suit in Chancery. Since then, Mr. Laird had published
a circular, in which he left the whole matter in the hands
of the Proprietors. He (the Chairman) therefore felt
,elf at liberty to state the circumstances under which
land had been purchased ; for hitherto he had met all
ttacks made upon him in leading articles in railway

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periodicals and circulars (and all by tie same Land) with
a simple denial of the charge. As an instance of the mode
in which he had been attacked, he had. received a letter
from his son, who was at Harrow School, a lad only 14

years of age, in which he stated that a copy of one o(tbe
fiercest attacks which had appeared against him (his
father) in the public prints had been enclosed to. him.
(Cries of " Shame.") He (the Chairman) treated such
attacks as he would a wasp—he brushed them off, and had

done with them. The Circumstances under which he
purchased the land were these :—ln the month of July,
1844, a young man, with whom he had been acquainted
for years, called upon him and stated that he was desirous
of having a shop built at the corner of Argyle and Con-
way-streets, Birkenhead ; and he was asked to build the
shop for him. Negotiations were accordingly opened
with Mr. Cole, the agent for Penny and Watson, for the
purchase, and he (Mr. Jackson) went so far as to cause
plans to be drawn out for the erection of shops upon the
land. He had bought it for a fixed purpose, and at a time
when the Railway Company had no power to purchase it.
Nine months afterwards the Company obtained the power,
and it was subsequent to that time the Board agreed to
run the Extension Line throulth the land, and to
purchase it from him (the Chairman). He assured the
meeting that when he originally erltered into the contract,
he had no knowledge that the Board would ever require
it ; and he also assured them that the rrice be obtained
from the Board was the real val

of the- lani

SO
Mr. BENTHAM corroborated the • chairman's statement
as to the land having been originally purchased with the
view of erecting shops thereon. He informed the meet-
ing that Mr. M'Gregor Laird held but a very small interest
in the Birkenhead line, and that, in fact, his last half-
yearly dividend only amounted to 6s. Bd. He pitied the
motives which had dictated the present attack upon the
chairman. _

Mr. WGREGOR LAIRD denied that he had ever written
anything in railway periodicals to which he had not affixed
his name. He confessed that he felt considerable surprise
at finding that Mr. Jackson had been paid £4 a yard for
the land in question, when no such price had been paid
for land similarly circumstanced. He contended that
long before Jackson made the purchase from Penny encl.
Watson, it was well known that that very piece of. land
would be required fur the railway extension. Moreoverr
Mr. Jackson had purchased land at both sides of the
street, and it was impossible for any engineer to extend
the line without taking it through some portion of that
land. Mr. Laird went on to contend that the case made
out on a former occasion had been proved ; and he re:
minded the meeting that though he had heretofore asked
for

co
granted.
A discussion of an hour and a half's duration followea•
in which several directors and proprietors took an ant'
mated part.
The CHAIRMAN then stated that he was anxious for in-
quiry into the general, but not into the particular question,
Mr. M. LAIRD, after an ineffectual attempt to have the
inquiry particular, as well as general, at length agreed t°
have an inquiry under any circumstances.
Much conversation took place as to who should for
the committee; whether proprietors of the Birkenhead
board, or gentlemen wholly unconnected with the nnai"

mmittee orinquiry, thitt committee-bed-1i- otbeeu

ejected to the Cheshire Junction 131;
rectors nominating any of the committee, and after alue
contention upon this point
The CHAIRMAN nominated Mr. Ge

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VESSELS SPOKEN.
Edward Bowstead, Arnold, from Sh-naghae for this port. 14th
geh :n the Straits of Sunda; John Gray, from Calcutta, 19th
loth ,n lat. 1 S, long 21 W ; Persia. from Bombay f. ‘r London,
14arehn.rell, in lat. 38 N, lang. 31 W ; Thomas Hunter, 18th
Ildarch' in
lat.
51'
long. 8: St. Vincent, from Glasgow, 19th
lurch. off Waterford ; Mary Wood, hence for Valparaiso, 1011 i
late 'l4 lat. 42 N, long. 13 W ; Spirit, hence,l th March, in
jan. o
lon. 14 ; Bitannia, from Sincpore or Londn, 10th
In the Straitsr of Sunda; Thetis,a fromf Calcutta for the
pi ladies 14th Jan. in la. 24 S, lon 61 E, and Isbella
Ylh, from, London for Maur g.
itius, same day; Pandora,a from
•nanghae for London, in lat. 30 5, long. 40 E; Kelso, from
a.endon for Calcutta, 27th Feb., in lat 5 N, long. 22 W ; She-
bnllga, 2 st March. in lat. 51 N, long. 10 W ; John Dalton, for
the Red Sea, 29th Dec.. in lat. as S, long. 55 E ; Brothers, of
Hewrs, for New York, 19th instant, in lat. 48, long. if,; Lau-
?lna, outward bound 23rd instant, off Tuskar ; Plizabeth. hence
for Savannah. in lat. 23, long. 37; Demerist, hence for St
..John, N.B. short of provisions and water, in lat. 45, long. 46;
Stroyan, from China for London, 16th instant, in lat.
47, lone. 10; Amity, from London for the Red Sea, 21st Dec. i
lat. in lat. 26 S, long. 50 E ; Armenia, from Fernando Po for St.
Helena, with loss of four men from sickness; Dudley, fr lm
Calcutta for London, 7th instant, in let. in lat. 38 N, long. 34
W : Mary Nixon, from Madras for London, in lat. 28, long. 33 ;
Wary Ray, of Whitehaven, 12th inst. in lat. 51, long. 9%V ;
Superior, 20th instant. in lat. 51, long. 7; La ,y Fitzherbert,
from Sierra Leone, 2nd March, in lat. CO N, long. 35; Mon-
mouth, for Liverpool, 9th Match, in lat. 38 N, long. 25 W;
Ryder Ali. from New York for Malaga, 10th March, in lat. 38
long. 25 W ; Azorian, for St. Michael's, 13 h March, in lat. 42.
long. 23; Sole, 22nd March, in lat. 51, long. 81 Thalia, from
Smyrna for Liver. 001, 22nd Feb. ofl Matapan • Star of the
'West, from Lor,don for Malta, 27th Feb. off Pantilarie ; Corne-
tas, for the Mediterranean, Ist March, in lat. aO, long. 7 E ;
t'abt, hence for Corfu, 2nd march, off Algiers; Elizabeth
ose, from Leghorn for Falmouth, Bth March, off Cape de
I"; William, from Gibraltar for Newfoundland; Leda, from
Vona for Falmouth; Maria Jane, Arethusa, Marchioness of
de, Britain's Pride, and Margaret. all 12th March, in the
lat lt of. Gibraltar ; Nile, with loss of bulwarks, 18th March, in
idt_:l4, long. 8; Frisk, from Liverpool for Constantinople, 20th
4.lch, In lat. 46 N, long. 7 W

THURSDAY, MARCH 26.—Wind W N.W.
ItatlVED.—Lehigh, Young, from Philadelphia—Montezuma,
Wber, from New York ; sailed 4th March—Marrnion, Ed.
from New York ; sailed sth March—Huma, Fulford, from
..!.ottga—Grecian, O'Hea, from Ithaca.
Itto.—Doctor, Luke, for Gibraltar—Mahaica, Jump, and
~,,..W,
"'aguet, Morron, for Montreal.

Archibald , Wilkie, and Klein Maria, Umlaup, hence at Dantzic
Zer,
hence for Africa, at Kingstown
.08s of
oclustry William hence for Hayle, at St. Bride's Bay, with
sat's, &c.
iiea, hence off New York sth instant
t IYlPhide Kohler, hence at Sierra Leone, and sailed 12th Jan.
0
%,..BtePhen, Murchie, hence at ditto, and sailed 6th Jan. to wind-
.rd

er,ence ditto
fag
rachuM sects (arhk diaryat steamer) hence at New York 4th
ILA
"enot. Goodhue, hence at ditto
,realt. Long, for this port, put back to Denia 9th instant
Dot4LPAsT, March 24.—The schoonerßoberts, of New-
so,' from Wales for Londonderry, ran on shore on the North
ks 22nd instant, and is likely to become a wreck
(11.2vr WILLIAM, March 22.—The Jane & Grace, Wylie, from
VIEOW for I.iverpool, is en shore in the Bay of Luce.
11thk,88
La SPOKEN.—The Lord Seaton, hence for New Orleans
lit ~.Insstant, hi lat. 41, long. IS; Captain Ross, 19th instant, in
le isr, Long. 9; Sultan, from Hull for Calcutta, sth Dec. in lat.
, long. 85 E ; Mir.erva, from Madras, 21st Dec. in lat. 15
it"t• E ; China, from London for Norfolk Island, Ist
—44. In lat. 4 N, 10ng.21 W

FRIDAY, MARCH 27.—Wind W.N.W., moderate.
alye-riv,zl..—Coronution,—, from Savannah-Elizabeth Hall,
e. lia•timole—Mary, Sanders, and Prima Donna. Howarth,
at,,'"lchaePs—St. George, Martin, Smyrna—Vorwarts, Czar,
la, Trieste—Partenotia, Marsco, Naples—Tally
.Ho !
l'actoer Cala' ia- Georgina, Campbell. Villa Nova—Chtus,
"
Cur,,'
et te, arseilles—Dorothea, Erestina, Hamburg—Fern fides,
Lisbon.

tretirnatvest Home, Heron, Calcutta, sailed 20th November, and
thet,he Cate of Good Hope 29th January.
1.,,,,,uar, Harrison, hence at Bombay gth ultimo.
Nr-ruY Flora Hastings, Wetherall, 25th ; Achilles. Goole, 27th
koth_e_rl Hastings, Mason, 28th; Success, Bail.e, 28th, and Do-
-17. Harrison, 28th January, all hence at Calcutta.
.Aa,.13 (2), Crawford, from Port Talbot at Calcutta
_4l",sath, Morton, hence at Calcutta.
utte Henderson, sailed from Saugor 27th January, and
Wriponl, Wickman, :ioth January, both for this port.
tOndniani Bathbone, Hoselson, from Calcutta at Madras, for
81)1a-in.
1,1.nx, hence at Alexandretta.
tiZY, Walker, hence at Smyrna.
4114 j art Jamieson, Harrison, sailed from Smyrna 4th instant,
ane Maria. Osborne, sth instant, both for this port.
tit.e,tkuiter. Searle, hence at Constantinople..
it''ciaasare, Randish, and Shepherdess, Craig, hence at Trieste
Fosit[tnabelle, Demestinir ; Nicholina. Percero ; Berwick Castle,
tr. and Maitland, Casson, hence at Malta.
Venr4t Bell, Bell, hence at Malta, and sailed Bth instant for
it"'
intbirtaret Gibson, Dockwood, hence at Malta, and sailed 7th
Eat for Beyrout.
Itik4ol Scotland, Bromarty, hence at Malta, and sailed Bth in-
...14e 0r Beyrout.
•t'lltri,".. Thompson, hence at Malta, and sailed 16th instant for
27th-"nah, Bartlett, sailed from Messina for this port on the
Feh
he le N:arY•
olek—unro, Watson, from Trieste, and Conte Stadin, Lu-
,414 '°lll Venice at Gibraltar, and both c'eared 12th instant for
1,.,1'.0tt, In company with the Isabella Dick, Watson.
IC), hence off Oporto 21st instant, for Lisbon.
annia, Burns, hence at Donaghadee, for Wicklow, with
iren'itt.
frotqar.Redmore, from Dragomenstre ; Wilsons, Campbell,
!Pins r;,.l3'dad ; Louisa Pallot, from Valparaiso—Wannan, Cor-
',Co4 "3,n Rio Grande—and Janet, Guthrie, from Patagonia
Plre
til,iVng, Wilson, hence for New York at Cove.
Triton'a„%Scolley, hence for Valparaiso at Cove.
Arat vleser, from Konigsberg, for this port, at Falmouth,
• Vka: nen" st Genoa.
lat. 3 SPOireN.—Agnes, hence to Valparaiso, 23d Feb., in
"l g. 21 W, Tweed, (steamer,) 7th instant, in lat. 23
1' 1at.".;36 W.—Herald, from Mauritius, to Cork, Bth instant.
letant,l7, 4' 1°,113'. 35 W.—Devonshire, (American ship,) 20th
Yrnr, ''t• 44 N., long 28 W., by the Orixa—Maeic, from
mcc,hai Letli instant, in la.t. 36 N, long 6 W—Water Witch, for
lath for vs, I.lth instant, in lat 46 N, long. 8 W—Water
dlan f_ m• Michael's, igth instant, in lat. 46 N. long. 8 W.—
IstjraLondo nto ombay, 19th instant, in long.
t nt, in lat. 38,1 ong. 7H, hence to Trieste. 9

, SATURDAY, 211111 MAnce.—Wind N.N.W., light.
4%leus. Starken, and General Sale, Johnson, from
.1."!,a. E.—Lahore, Burt, from Calcutta—Joseph Cunard,
ektitit `)lu Savannah—Gem, Proctor, from Newfoundland—
NAlL,,zabet.h Louise, Blurck, from Dan zic. ,e Ashford, Barbadoes—lrt, Young, Bat
'an a.....1z,;La
.”!.e . New Y,,rk—John Hutchinson, Potts kT-'"'"
.!. Auld ; Ann, M'Garry, and Milton, Ell
NrEinlaY, Quebec

Se7a(l,.n-lan, Stanford; Anna Airatika, De Boer; Alida Elizapaestah;
t a Mariaanabetti,lVVey ; Zorgv.lte% Berghuis;
voe Galway
14.)-3,.„,._.dowAdr ana, hence at 1t•
0,,,,,,,,73,,i.it0.r
Noe, hencet at Manilla.
, has put back, with loss of topmasts.
1144441'M Moorew9frayees, hence at olombo, and sailed for
kaaa 14th Peb. '
as 4n„ Wei
- -ism Uecerntier

--, hence for Shaue

iu Pitts Paw