The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-19 00:00:00

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sional avocations with her usual vivacity and success
although she had been indisposed, and troubled with pre-

nonitory diarrhoea, for about a week previous

having taken the requisite means for having this stopped

in its earlier stag

on the morning of Monday last she

within twel

ye hours sunk under the attack,

Alarmed at the continuance and increasing, rather than
abating, virulence of the disease, a deputation, from All
Saints, Poplar, waited on Sir BENJAMIN HALL, the newly
appointed President of the Board of Health, requesting his
interference to cause an improvement in the draining and

the district ; representing

among other

grounds of complaint, that a large amount of sewerage
was turned into the canal, rendering that a fetid ditch,
rank with pestilential effluvia, and dangerous to the
health of the neighbourhood. Sir BENJAMIN received
the deputation with his customary official courtesy,
expressed his sympathy in their object ; his regret that
they should have such well-founded cause of complaint ;
and concluded by affording them the valuable information,
id the honour (he

that the departm
lid not add and the profit) of presiding, had no controul

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The deputation

retired, much wondering what were the value and func-
tions of the board so efficiently presided over by Sir
BENJAMIN ; the subject presenting itself to their bewil-
dered and justifiably alarmed faculties after a fashion
somewhat akin to the following : A dangerous nuisance
is created by the improper sewerage of the district. The
Board of health orders the removal of all nuisances, and
professes to render aid in the compulsory or other removal
of such nuisances. A complaint is made to the President of
the board, who does not deny the existence of the nuisance,
fully admits the desirableness of having it removed, and
then coolly tells them that neither he nor his board has
any controul over the matter; and the deputation, as well
as the inhabitants of the district, indignantly demand to
know what is the use of such a board, if it cannot act in

such an emergency

Among the curious on dits in connexion with our peace-
ful war, is a rumour to the effect, that the soldiers' wives
and children, who accompanied the expeditionary army to
Turkey, are on their way home, if they have not already

arrived in this country, temporary accommodation having
been provided for them in the casemate barracks near Cha-
tham; and it is added that they will be forwarded to their
friends—that is, the parish overseers, all the Irish being,
it is said, to be sent to Dublin—so that, after all the fuss
which was made, and all the wire-drawn distinctions which
were drawn between the military legality and non-legality
of regimental marriages, these poor women, whose devoted
affection found its proud reward in being permitted to
share danger and brave hardship in the companionship of
their valorous husbands, have been merely deluded with a
ray of hope, and are now, like their less favoured sister-
hood, to be thrown with their helpless little ones for de-
pendence upon

The cold hand of charity,

or the still colder refuge provided for the parish pauper;
yet, the husbands and fathers of these outcasts are ex-
pected to fight our battles, and, by pouring out their life-
blood, perpetuate the verdure of our laurels, and uphold
our national renown.

So far as present appearances seem to warrant a conclu-
sion, the year 1854 has been entirely lost as regards the
practical objects of the war. Operations in the Baltic
have been suspended for the season, and, although neither
very brilliant, nor of striking importance, they as yet con-
stitute the only indications of our prowess in connexion

with the Turko-Russian war. It is true that, after a
frightful contest with disease and death, and no slight
struggle with elemental strife, our ships and armies have
made a move towards the Crimea, and are now, in all like-
lihood, within a short distance of Sebastopol. The proba-
bilities arising out of the Sebastopol contingency are vari-
ously estimated ; but those whose opinions seem entitled to
most weight on such matters, look with deadened hope on
any important beneficial result from that expedition under
circumstances. To reduce Sebastopol it is generally
admitted will be the work of time as well as of conduct,
and military authorities conversant with the 'Black Sea and
its varying climate and stormy atmosphere pronounce
authoritatively that nothing can be done this season in
the Crimea beyond the mere reduction of Sebastopol,
which they say will not have the effect of bringing Russia
to the position of a suppliant for that peace which she has
wantonly broken ; and, without bringing her to that posi-
tion, the safety of Europe and of the world cannot be
secured. In their view of the case, then, the military and
naval achievements of the year will have done but little
in bringing about that conclusion of the war—
Which, like the circle bounding earth and skies,
Lures from afar, but as we follow flies.

presev

Dissatisfaction, widely speading and loudly expressed, is
the natural consequence of such a " lame and impotent
and Ministers are loudly blamed as weak
and incompetent, or as insincere and anti-national in their
conduct of the war. Another campaign, with its concomi-
tail expense—its commercial sacrifices and social draw-
backs and disruptions—has now become inevitable. It is
for the country to determine that the second shall not be
unproductive and inglorious as the first campaign. If we
have been cajoled into fatal inactivity by the irresolute
and timoOns policy into
Austria, and the somewhat more
equivocal conduct observed by Prussia, we lust no longer
be so &hided. In the meantime, as generally happens
towards the conclusion of an unlucky enterprise, all
Parties look anxiously, but without expectation, for the
conclusion of the present operations ; and, in hopeful
anticipations of future success, endeavour to forget the
pain and anger excited by past mismanagement.
Public jonnuilists are often called on to chronicle „1/4cu-
rious events, cgs) among thee, not the lsayt remakablo is

conclusion