The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-06 00:00:00

THE LODGING HOUSES OF MANCHESTER.

(Front Mr. Notes Evidence on the sanatory condition of
the labouring population.)
" The occupants of the night asylums are chiefly tramps
and beggars, the customary tenants of the lowest lodging-
houses, who find a mug of coffee, with half a pound of
bread, a warm room, and a blanket, far preferable to the
filthy crowded lodging-houses, with four or five inmates in a
miserable bod, at 3d. each.
" Mr. Walker, the proprietor of an extensive silk-mill at
Patricroft, near Manchester. describes the crowded state of
an Irishman's house near his mill some time back. The
man was employed by Mr. Walker as watchman, and lived
in a cottage of three small rooms, near the premises, without
back door or windows. Mr. Walker had engaged some
fresh hands from a distance, and was desirous of procuring
lodgings for them near their work ; he asked the Irishman
, if ,be could accommodate them in his house •, Paddy re-
-Atetted that he had not ioorn, and added, Faith, I turned
out thirty of them to the mills this morning ;' so that at 9d.
`per weer each, he would receive at the rate of near £4O per
annum, as rent for the house for which he probably paid
• 2s. 6d. per week.
" One shilling may be considered as a minimum weekly
rent at which the owners or landlords will let their cellars or
rooms, or take the trouble to collect ; but on inquiry I have
found that a second or intermediate class of landlords are
interested, and that these shilling rentals are again sub-let
and divided by the tenants to a still more needy class ; and
the rooms are not considered fully occupied while there is
space for others to ' pig,' or stow themselves on the floor ;
and the accommodation is sought by men and women of the
lowest grade, without reference to sex or decency."

STRANGE OPERATION OF THE ROGUES
IN GRAIN.

As before observed, some forced sales of Mexican stock at
what was regarded a considerable sacrifice in the price
naturally attracted attention and led to inquiries as to the
sellers and their objects. In the result it is stated to have
transpired that the sales were on account of certain parties,
Quakers, largely embarked in the corn trade, and more
largely, perhaps, engaged in corn speculations. The infer-
ence of course was, that Mexican stock was sacrificed in
order to keep up, or to raise, the price of corn in Mark-lane,
where these Quaker corn gentry are well known. On re-
ferring to the state of the corn market during the week, a
strong suspicion cannot fail to be excited that such was the
fact. All last week Mark-lane was in a panic, what with
failures of corn merchants and the ascertained consummation
of a bounteous harvest. Prices of wheat fell a long way
down, even so late as Monday last as much as four shillings
per quarter, and many demure visages on the Corn Exchange
were observed to fall longer still. What was to be done in
such an extremity ? Speculative stocks of foreign corn heavy
and unsaleable on hand ; bills approaching maturity • specu-
lators passing into the Gazette; and prices down maturity
If
prices were to be rallied and strung up ; if market credit was
to be bolstered up so that discount brokers might be propiti-
• aced, it was clear that sellers must be routed from the Corn Ex-
change, or at least reduced to a minority by a host of buyers.
To effect these important objects, some ready money must be
forthcoming, and to raise this only two modes were apparent,
either to sell Mexican Bonds or unbonded corn. The latter
process would only have exasperated the mischief, and so the
sacrifice of Mexican was resolved upon as the most if not
the only feasible scheme. Of this, sort of stock it is well
known that the speculative, and certainly not the most cre-
ditable, portion of theQuakercommunity, are and have always
been large holders, and therefore the recourse was easy and
. at hand. The effect of these sales of Mexican stock is already
apparent in the Mark-lane manoeuvres of the day. The
"Corn-Exchange report" thus records them :—" We have
to note a further arrival of about 15,000 quarters foreign
wheat, which, however, has been met by a most animated
' demand. The tone of the market is completely changed.
* * * * All descriptions (of corn) have improved in value
43. per quarter, and even ss. higher than sales forced off this
day week." In order fully to appreciate the dexterous des-
peration of this sort of double operation, and the extent of
damage voluntarily submitted to in order to accomplish, by
the sale of the stock in bonds, an exorbitant monopoly price
for t
sihe stock of grain, it is necessary to reme
comber that Mex-
ican bond.
the Te weae generally thought to beconsiderably below
likely to 'value, and the value to which ere long they were
monthdividen any in hand,
attain,_ For one dividend upon them is due next
hilst a large proportion of the
Exchange to April next is also in hand, not in Corn
much for one neutrArticle: —Morn-
. bills, but in Lard dollars. So
iny Herald. f rogues in grain.—City

GRAMMATICAL Virrcisit. —We don't know who
originated the following,,lant les
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a ood one at all events :
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right ; compare it."—pn.;.,
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surperlative, buret.---A
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in Herefor s e
d hir lasi .---4, servant maid, in a small
town ' 'weft left her situation in conse-
to" reconciling her feelings
bY her mistress."
quence of her grammarable, spokes
bad apexes,
the—very
of bachelors, from the sees of 30 to 45, is
Ins
mthoereagaterikothres,
The mortality
27 per cent. Of married men of the same 18 per
22
4:12 age ad-
0, there are
cent. For 41 bachTelhoersd
78 married men. who
orencattae
vances. At the age of 60 there are but
ors alive
t 70 years, 11 bachelors for 27 ma •
or 48 married men ; a for 3 bachelors there are 9 marred
men ; and at 80 years, • married
Caspar, of L
men.—Dr. ,erlin.
On the 9th April last, a person named Bremond, a tobac-
conist, at Vaucheres, in the Basses Alpes, made an attempt
co on
named Maurel,
same c
to murder a farmer, of the
on an illicit intercourse,
with whose wife he had been carryingt
the
ball having taken an
by firing at him from behind, bu
rove mortal. The
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oblique direction the wound did
andoffender was brought to trial on
the sth instant,
twenty ears, and also
demned to hard labour at the hulks for
On they 12th instant
to stand in the pillory at Vauchi;res.
the convict was being conveyed in a cart from Digne, the
assize town, to Vaucheres, where he was to undergo his ex-
posure on the 16th ; but while on the way, and still more
intermediate town, he
than a league from Farcalquier, an
endarmes
became deadly pale, and, turning to one of theg
do better to
who were in charge of him, said—" You would
for
take me to an hospital than to prison. lam a lost man,
I have got a wooden spoon in my belly." The gendarmes
stooped, and having examined their prisoner, found that he
had, In her, Contrived to cut the handle of a wooden spoon
to a sharp *Ant, and had forced it up to the bowl into the
lower part of hit abdomen. The man had already sustained
the severe pain this must have caused him upwards of half
an hour, and had to endure it an hour and a half longer be-
fore he readied- Parcalkitiet. On arriving there, he was
d in the handl ofluwho with t d'
rgeons,
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