The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-07 00:00:00

dßarleyQrs
I Corn. Qrs

land and Ca

qrs.; Oats,

twise.—Wheat

22 qrs.) Oat

meal, 93

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Whe.f-
-6 ars. : Oats

37 qrs
294 brl

, Barley,— qrs. ; Pease;
Indian Corn, qrs.; Oatmeal, 30
—lreland. Wheat, 43 qrs. ; Bars
Oats, qrs ; Indian Corn, 6121
7 scks, brls. —Coastwise.
, Malt, 531 qrs.; Oats. 15
Beans, 210 qrs. ; Pease, 511 qrs. ; Oatmeal, sacks ;
faclian Corn, 78 qrs. ; Flour, 318 sacks 691 brls.

qrs.; Beans,
Oatmeal,l242 sk:
Barle

Wheat, 62 qrs

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending April 6, 1846.
Wheat 548. 3d. I Barley 305. led. I Oats 215. 7d. I Rye 345. 2d.
Beans.. 355. Pd. j Pease.. 355. dd.
Aggregate average ot the six weeks.
arley 295. Bd. I Oats 21s. cid. I Rye 334. 7d
4s. 9d. I Pease.. 345. Id.

Wheats4s.
Beaus

Duty on For

Reads ss 6d 1 Pease

Produce this week

gs ed
I
Oats .. . 6s Oct Rye.. 95 6d
I . 8s 6d Ind. Corn Is Od Flour 10s10d
Duty on Canadian. _

Wheat.

Is. Od. I Barley.. is. 6d. I Oats .. 25.0 d. Rye.. Is Od
s Os. 6d I Pease es.6d. I Ind. Corn es.od. I Flour . Os 74d
Duty on other British Colonial.

. Ss. Od. I Barley.. Is. 6c1:1 Oats, 2s. d. I Rye... Is. Od
Beans.. Os. 6d. I Pease.. s 6d. I Flour. 3s. ed.
Liverpool Averages, week ending March 24, 1846.
Barley, 24 qrs., price 28s Od
qrs., price —s. d
—d.

Wheat, 6542 qrs

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FRAGMENT OF AN ORATION.
aRT OF MR. WHITBREAD'S SPEECH, ON THE TRIAL OF LORD

MELVILLE, PUT INTO VERSE BY MB. CANNING, AT THE TIME

From Bell's Life of Canning.)

I'm like Arehime

les for science and skill

I'm like a young prince going straight up a hill;
I'm like (with respect to the fair be it said).
I'm like a young lady just bringing to bed.

If you ask why the 11th of June I remember,
Much better than April, or May, or November,
On that day, mp lords, with truth I assure ye,
My sainted progenitor set up his brewery ;
On that day, in the morn, he began brewing beer;
'Oa that day, too, commenced his c nnubial career;
On that day he received and he issued his bills ;
On that day he cleared out the cash from his tills ;
On that day he died, having finished his summing,
And the angels all cried, " Here's old lk hitbread a-coming 1"
So that day still I hail with a smi'e and a sigh,
For his beer with an E, and his bier w than I;
And still on that day, in the hottest of weather,
The whole Whitbread family dine altogether.—
long as the beams at this house shall support
roof which o'ershades this respectable court,
en Hastings was Wed for oppressing the Hindoos ;
at sun shalt shine in at those windows,
11 shine bright ,s my ancestor's shines,
recorded in journals, his blazoned on signs 1

,ong as th,
name sha]

OF A BAD SANITARY CONDITION'
oin the Liverpool Health of Towns' Advocate.)
with the loss entailed on the community
It is always an expensive
either in the neglect of natural laws or con-
have already proved that the low
v condition of the town proceeds from these very
timers, we m y infer that all the suffering and
,d death, which is taking place around us, cannot
-Aing a most serious pecuniary loss to
e have already shown that, assuming
,t as a standard of comparison, there are
than ~)11 deaths a year, in Liverpool, more than
o ,e, if we could raise its sanitary state to
s Dne. And we have also given 111 r. Play-
f the annual excess of cases of sickness at
space will not permit us to trace the bear-
these two facts on the wellbeing of the public
_oug,li all their ramifications; but we shall state a few
3f the more prominent results.
FIRST.—Out of these 3611 deaths, there are 2063 adults;
ind every individual born in the town loses, on an aver-
we. 211 years of life. There is a great mortality, as we

evils which now exis

to act,

to them ; and as we

;Kist without occash
be community. •

alverstone disTr

there ought to r

hat of U

matt:
Our s

have already seen, among chiliren ; and of those persons
who arrive at adut age, every individual loses 1.21. years
of the natural term of existence. The amount of peen-
aviary loss from these causes has been calculated by Dr:
Plavfair as follows ;—lst. Taking the ordinary expense of
the annual extra cost under this head
2d. If the productive labour of each

individual be assumed as worth 10s. a week, the total
annual loss of labour would amount to £953,225.-3d.
-oposing each case of sickness to involve an expense of
•ve should have an annual loss of £lOl,lOB from this
So that the first direct loss to the community is
n'79,388 per annum, in addition to the
•al charities, which, in Liverpool,
,re for existence, on account of the
Javy demands on them, from the bad sanitary state of
he town.

ss than £I,U,

aort of a llrge number of widows
..ually entailed upon the public. In
.1 were 1895 widows, and 1834 children
of age, dependent on them, in the receipt
l'ef in the parish of Liverpool, in addition to
children in the Workhouse ; of the
wer.., at the same period, 341. Now,
,o not-mean to say that all of these were thrown upon
parish as a consequence of the low sanitary condition
the town, but that a very considerable proportion may
Ave been reduced to widowhood and orphanage from this
muse, we have alieady given sufficient evidence to show.
!Another serious item of parish expenditure arises from
h, to a r ^eat extent, attacks persons in the vi-
: and ,efulness. It has been ;roved, for in-
: the tuber of fever cases occurring between
of 20 ad 30, is nearly equal to the number
all other ages put together; and this
~healthy neighbourhoods does not choose the
sickly for its victims, but hardworking mecha-
ne v,-ry prime of their usefulness. Thus it was
, at Glasgow, out of 429
an fever, only 10 were emaCated and
^nice, and only 65 were of spare habit,
vigorous. Now, if we would form an
Dense of fever, a disease arising from
let it be remembered that, &trio, one

—The

s cont

1844, the

I and orphar.
If which tiler

that the ru

mind that, during an epidemic

IL the o

he North and South Dispensaries
end that we must add to these the
the Fever Hospital and by other cha-

in
epidemic Liverpool,
attended 5779 cases,

number attended
rities, as well a

ha by private practitioners. The parish
authorities of Juiverpool and West Derby are the most
,parties to estimate the amount of poor-rate
, to meet the expenses arising from fever, and
preventible diseases, in their boundaries. It was
that in two of the London parishes the cost of relief
alone, independent of every other disease,
is £2467 16s. in one year.

r fever cases

is a great mistak

to suppose that where there is a

to of mortality, the population must necessarily
It is, on the contrary, a law of nature, that the
more births there must be.
at the preservation of species
le and animal kingdoms ; so that,

re, the

treat number of infants born, we may
rate of mortality, while the sur-
ulation. There is thus
unity, for in Liver-

,re there is a t

_ -
vivors grow up into a sickly p

things are common

.11 the lett
Well, it

rrel and separate, each demanding

nts that ever passed between
haps ; pride is satisfied, and

o memorial remains to remind them of the past. It once
happened thus with a young girl, whom we shall call Isa-
bel, poor Isabel I It was a marvel how she could ever
quarrel with any one, and she never did exactly, but she
was proud and wilful, and he passionate and unjust. How
,ht have been explained at the time;
'n, no doubt, had they been left to
loved one another ; but friends
severed them so effectually that es-
went ended at length in separation. What could
Nothing, when the hour of reconcilia-
4, nothing hut be still, and die! And
these friends, that she seemed merrier
d than ever—seemed! Well, the affair
said, in a separation. And now it
'-- last links that bound them

easily everything m
and would have h

:I;e—mselves, for they

stepped betwe

o. a woman

ticn has once pa

only remained to send back t
to each other. Isabel had lo

nce ceased to wear any of

n sbe was once so proud, re-
glittering casket with scarcely a sigh
aed away in her eyes for ever! But
-s/—oh ! bow could she bear to pint
My dearest Isabel!" most of them corn-
-and what a mockery—bow like a dream it
—and yet she would fain have dreamt on.
girl, the struggle ended at length by her preserving
.—just one little one to comfort her—he would never
mw—never miss it—how should he ? And it would be
ach a consolation in her bereavement ! The rest were
,ent back and burned that same night by the angry and
disappointed lover—oh, he little thought it ! But she told
him everything afterwards-- years afterwards, for they
were finally reconciled and married—confessing with min-

storing them to

—their glory had pa:
the letters—his tette
with them ?
menced tht

ned nov

Bled tears and smiles how often she used to steal away
when she fancied herself unnoticed, and kiss and weep
over her treasure. It was more than he deserved for his
cold mistrust at the time ; and he felt it, all the deeper,
perhaps, that Isabel persisted in taking the blame entirely
to herself. No doubt there were faults on both sides ;
but at any rate it proved to be their first and last quarrel.
llin University.