The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-20 00:00:00

If the owners of property Will not prot-ect and cleanse
it—will not close up tlieir tiaTk and filthy passages—
the authorities, we presume, are fully empowered to
compel them, or to proceed themselves to do so. The
want of a proper legislative protection has entailed
upon us the existence, in the heart of the borough, of
a mass of crowded, ill-ventilated, ill-wwered buildings.
We cannot now remove them. They constitute an es-
tablished evil. Their owners are, to a certain extent,
beyond the control of law; but they are not entirely so.
When this property becomes a nuisance, dangerous to
the public health, and obnoxious to the sight of every
passer-by, we can at least compel its owners to abate
the nuisance if we cannot accomplish the far more de•
sirable consummation, the removal of the property.

Whilst upon this subject, may we ask what do the
authorities purpose doing with the large space of
ground fronting the post-office ? At present we ob-
serve that it is boarded round and converted into cart
sheds, timber yards, &c., with a reasonable number of
narrow passages for the bestowal of offal and the con-
venience of skulkers and thieves. It cannot surely be
for any object of profit that this valuable ground is.
this appropriated, and the property of the surround-
ing neighbourhood depreciated ; and we would respect-.
fully call the attention of the Council to its proper dis-
posal. We do not suggest to what it should be ap-
propriated. Building upon it, however, we presume
is out of the question. Some day we must connect by
a road through this very ground the north and south
parts of the town. In the mean time, throw down.
these cart sheds—sweep away these wooden alleys—
throw open this space and pave or flag it ; and imme-
diately you make the property at the bottom of Hano-
ver-street, in Cannirig-place, and in places adjacent—
at present in a most dilapidated condition—worth the
notice of the capitalist ; and our splendid Custom-
house, instead of being surrounded by unsightly ruins
and half-finished erections, will be surrounded by well-
built and well-occupied warehouses and offices, ana
become, as it ought to be, our central and best busi-
ness locality.

The city article of the limes contains the following
paragraph, announcing another failure in the Corn
Trade :

" The new scale of corn duties is extending its effects to
the continental speculators. Many failures in the north a
Europe, we are given to understand, have occurred, firma
the extensive fluctuations noted in the value of wheat in our
market, but none have occasioned so much regret as the
stoppage of Messrs. Lubienski and Co., at Dantzic, an-
nounced in the letters received thence yesterday. It has
been before rumoured that they would be obliged to arrange
with their creditors, but from their high connexions in
Poland it was not for a moment apprehended that they
would be reduced to the painful necessity of closing their
doors. From what has transpired on this subject in the
city, it does not seem that their whole burden of misfortune
has been created by the operation of the new scale of duties,
though there can be no doubt of its having hastened the
catastrophe, for it is universally believed that the firm had
sustained damage in connexion with failures which have taken
place here and in Ireland. The continental houses are ex-
pected to be the greatest sufferers by this event. It is yet
hoped that their family connexions will come to their assist-
ance. Their debts and liabilities are stated to spread over
£lOO,OOO to £150,000, and their assests are reckoned at not
more than a tenth of that amount."

To say that we did not anticipate many such failures
would be gross hypocrisy. We knew that speculation,
whether by the foreign or the home corn merchants,
would be heavily mulcted by the working of Sir Robt.
Peel's measure. The present sliding scale, and the
late jumping scale have, accordingly, been found to be
two vastly different affairs to deal with. The Quakers
of Mark-lane have been astonished, and their efforts to
victimize the native grower and the public paralized ;
and homfever much we may grieve for the fate of such
misled men as the parties mentioned in the remarks of
the Times, we augur every good result from the ex-
ample which it furnishes. In future " men who play
at bowls will expect rubbers."