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

REMARKS ON TABLE No. 10.

On the arrival of each alternate Havana steamer at Ja-
maica this schooner proceeds, as shown in the table No. 10,
to Santa Martha, Carthagena, and Chagres, stopping about
two days at each of the two former places, and about four days
at Chagres, to collect home and inter-colonial mails. She
must leave Chagres on her return to Jamaica in precisely 43
days 13 hours from the time the out mails left Falmouth.
On reaching Jamaica she receives the next out mails, and
proceeds as before delivering her home mails, so as to be
taken to St. Thomas by the steamer employed on table No. 4.

No. 11.— HONDURAS STATION.,—ONE SCHOONER.

Out mails for Honduras arrive at Havana in 30 days from
England, when the schooner proceeds with them to Hondu-
ras and Havana. Total going from and returning to Havana,
27 days 20 hours.
REMARKS ON TABLE No. 11.

On the arrival of each alternate out steamer at Havana
this schooner receives the out and inter-colonial mails, and
proceeds with them to Belize, Honduras. She leaves Hon-
duras again with home and inter-colonial mails in 46 days
22 hours after the out mails for that place left Falmouth.
This allows a stoppage of about a week at Belize. On reach-
ing Havana she delivers the home and inter-colonial mails to
the proper steamers, receives the next out mails for Hon-
duras, and proceeds as before.

THE BUILDING SOCIETIES OF MANCHESTER.

(Extract from Mr. Molt's Evidence upon the Sanitory
Condition of the Labouring Population of England and
Wales.)

" DWELLINGS.

" An immense number of the small houses occupied by
the poorer classes in the suburbs of Manchester are of the
most unsubstantial character ; they are built by the members
of building clubs, and other individuals, and new cottages
are erected with a rapidity that astonishes persons who are
unacquainted with their flimsy structure. They have cer-
tainly avoided the objectionable mode of forming under-
ground dwellings, but have run into the opposite extreme,
having neither cellar nor foundation.
" The walls are only half-brick thick, or what the brick-
layers call brick noggin,' and the whole of the materials
are slight and unfit for the purpose.
" I have been told of a man who had built a row of these
houses ; and on visiting them one morning after a storm,
found the whole of them levelled with the ground; and in
another part of Manchester a place with houses even of a
better order has obtained the appellation of ' Pickpocket-
row,' from the known insecure nature of the buildings.
" I recollect a bricklayer near London complaining loudly
of having to risk his credit by building a house with 9-inch
walls, and declared it would be like Jack Straw's house,'
neither wind tight nor water tight !' His astonishment
would have been great had he been told that thousands of
houses occupied by the labouring classes are erected with
walls of 4 inch thickness.
" The building land is not let, as in the south, on lease,
but on a perpetual ground-rent, or chief-rent, as is called
here, at per square yard, and not, as in London, at per foot
frontage.
" The chief rents differ materially according to the situa-
tion, but are in all cases high ; and thus arises the induce-
ment to pack the houses so close.
" They are built back to back, without ventilation or
drainage ; and, like a honeycomb, every particle of space is
occupied. Double rows of these houses form courts, with
perhaps a pump at one end and a privy at the other, common
to the occupants of about 20 houses.
" I have not been able to obtain any correct return of the
number of houses built by the various building clubs or
societies.

" A gentleman conversant with these subjects informed
me that there had probably been, from the commencement,
150 of these building societies. Taking each club at 100
shares of £lOO :each, there must have been raised in this
manner for building cottages £1,500,000; and calculating
each house to cost £6O, which is a higher average, there have
been not less than 25,00 houses erected by building societies
in Manchester and the adjacent townships.
" These building clubs have doubtless induced many to
adopt frugal habits, in order to become owners of cottages ;
but I am afraid it will be found that the promoters of them
are not free from selfish and interested motives.
" The members engage to pay by subscription or instal-
ment 10s. per month.
"Thus every second month, in a club of 100 shares, they
have £lOO available for building ; and this is disposed of in
the following manner : . _

" A day is fixed when the amount is to be tendered for,
and those who will make the greatest sacrifice, or allow the
largest discount, may obtai❑ the amount.
" If a member have fixed upon a spot and is desirous of
building a cottage, he is perhaps induced to offer £lO for the
immediate payment of the £lOO ; another may, probably,
offer £l5 or £2O, that is to say, they are willing to receive
£BO, £B5, or £9O present payment for their £lOO share in
the society. _ _

" Their monthly instalments, to complete their engage-
ments to the club, are secured by a mortgage upon the
houses, the money being only advanced as the building pro-
gresses. In this manner a member is enabled to get a house
built in his own name by the time he has paid 20s. to the
society.

" The first applicants for the money are those who have
the strongest inducements to procure the advance and offer
the largest discounts. The heavy discounts allowed for the
advances, and the forfeitures by non-performance of the con-
ditions, enable those members who can wait, and are inte-
rested in establishing these societies, to get abundantly paid
for their outlay and exertions."

FRIGHTFUL MURDER OF A CHILD BY ITS MO-
THER, AND SUICIDE OF THE MURDERESS.

(From the Merthyr Guardian of Saturday.)

The unfortunate woman who was principal actor in the
mournful scene was named Mary Evan. She lived with her
husband at the Red Cow, a decent public-house, situate
about four miles from Llantrissent, and one mile from Tonyr-
Efel. The inn is well known on the road, and none who
frequented it ever suspected that Mrs. Evan was a person
at all likely to commit so dreadful an act. She had formerly
been a servant in the family of Mr. Harris, of Treverig—in
that occupation she continued three years—and faithfully
performed her duties. She was 44 years of age.
On arriving at the Red Cow a frightful spectacle presented
itself. The house was filled with weeping and wailing friends.
The wretched husband sat groaning in a chair by his desolate
fire-side, and the shrieks of the neighbours who, now and
then, ventured into the rooms where the bodies lay, were
absolutely appalling. We first went into the room in which
lay the dead body of the poor little fellow, William Evan.
He was six years of age, and as the neighbours touchingly
remarked, " his mother's boy." He was her only child,
and she was passionately fond of him.
On Wednesday morning, Mr. Evan got up for the pur-
pose of proceeding to Cummer, at which place he had built
some houses. His object in going was to receive some rent
due to him. He left the Red Cow, between seven and eight
o'clock in the morning.. Before his quitting the house, his
wife went to the child's bedside and kissed him twice. After
this, what passed within the house is merely a matter of con-
jecture. The only two persons why could give au account
are no more.
At about ten o'clock, a little boy who had been in the
habit of taking the poor murdered child to school for him.
the door and windows were closed. He fancied he heard a
noise as of knocking in the house, but supposing that the
people within were busy, he went off. At that moment, it is
most probable the child was being murdered.
The Red Cow is not a much-frequented house, and thus
may account for the unnoticed closed doors and windows
during the hours of ten and three o'clock, at which time the
husband returned from Cummer. When he got to his own
door it was closed, and so were the window shutters. After
ineffectual knockings he, with a gentleman of Aberdare, who
had stopped just before for a glass of beer, burst open the
door. The room below was quiet and clean ; all was in
order. His wife having been of late subject to low spirits,
a fear flashed on Mr. Evan's mind, and he went up stairs.
The first object which he saw was the lifeless body of his
wife. She was suspended from a beam, and quite dead.
Two persons, named Thomas Williams and Evan Matthew,
cut her down. At first it was supposed that she was alive,
as both her feet trailed on the floor. On a closer examina-
tion it was found, that before placing the cord round her
neck, her throat had been cut. The manner in which the
cord had been placed over the beam was striking. Mrs.
Evan must have made two turns, and then fixed a noose at
the end of the rope on a peg, which was in the timber, thus
preventing the noose slipping, and frustrating her deadly
purpose.
When the husband saw the body he had no idea of the
death of his child, but the blood on the hands of his wife ex-
cited his fears. He proceeded to the parlour, and there lay
lSis son with his throat cut in a shocking manner, and quite
dead. He lay in a pool of blood. When we saw the poor
child he had been removed to a table, but the appearance of
the room was terrific—the blood covered the floor. In a
pool of gore lay the razor with which the murder was com-
mitted,
s shown
mndostthiepnrtotri
probable
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bloodhthaet poor
adrbkroia.
It i a' s struggles were dis-
tinctlymitted immediately Mr. Evans left his
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when the person who found his body entered the room, he
stumbled over it.

It is not a little singularhat although Mrs. Evan's hands
an d arms
o lweren nd w
covered s
found with
in
n n blood to the elbows, yet not a
trace f blood was
have cut her throat down
the room where she hung her-
tto
her-
self. She must it is
supposed,
stairs, and then, finding that he
ineffectual, she hung herself, a!empt destroy life was
adjusted it before-hand. having provided the rope and
Mrs. Evan had of late been observed
and shy, but no apprehensions of her injuring herself were
to be low spirited
however,
entertained. She had been heard, he
husband would do very well without her vsnr(„i to say that her
,
also frequently expressed her fears that she t
should come to
e child. She
poverty, and as her husband had borrowed Ennne
enable
him to finish his houses, at Cummer, she seemed toafraid that
lie never would be able to repay it, although
there was not
the slightest ground for her misgivings.
We have since beard that the unfortunate woman attempted
her own destruction and that of her child some yearssince,
when she strapped the boy on her back, and walked intoossible,
river. They were then saved, to experience if p • the
a
dreadful fate.

The following curious inscription is copied from a tomb-
stone in Lincoln Cathedral :—" Here lieth ye body of
Michael Iloneywood, D.D., who was grand-child, and one
did
of ye 367 persons that Mary the wife of Ricbd. H.,
see before she died, lawfully descended from lier—that!s,
16 of her own body, 114 grand-children, 228 of the third
generation, and 9 of ye fourth."

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Three o'clock.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,—This DAY.

(From Messrs. R. MAKIN dr SONS' Circular.)

With the exception of a few thousand quarters of foreign
Wheat, and about 5000 barrels States and Canadian Flour,
our supplies are not much increased since Friday ; and from
granary we had not so large a show of samples at this day's
market as last week. The reaction which has occurred
throughout the country, particularly at those places where the
large i mports have been received, has not been followed up here
by a degree of spirit such improvement would seem to war-
rant; the advance required has materially limited the pur-
chases, and we can only state a moderate amount of business
in Wheats to-day, at an average of 3d per bushel over the
rates of this day se'nnight. A few parcels of new Irish red
Wheat have appeared. and brought about 7s, and one lot of
very prime Scotch white as high as 8s 6d per 70Ib.

. .
States Flour is ls. Gd., and Canadian is. per barrel
dearer, but a less ready sale than previous to the advance.
The few samples of new Irish Oats at market were taken
off at 2s. 10d. to 3s. per ,15lbs. We had litile inquiry for
old Oats, but do not alter our quotations. The demand for
old Oatmeal has a good deal subsided, and the above stated
advance is now barely obtainable. The value of new Oat-
meal is about 2Ss. per load.
In other articles of the trade there is no material change
to note.

_
The following are the quantities of Grain, Flour, and Oat-
meal computed to remain in Liverpool, on the 31st August,
1842 :

In Bond—Barley, 91i 5 qrs. ; Oats, 8399 qrs. ; Rye, 172
qrs. ; Beans, 33,938 qrs. ; Pease, 17,274 qrs. ; Flour, 9016

barrels.

Frce—Wheat, 380,000 qrs. ; Barley, 2000 qrs. ; Oats,
3000 qrs. ; Rye, 500 vs.; Beans, 10,000 qrs. ; Pease, 7000
qrs. ; Flour, 150,000 brls. and 1000 sacks ; Oatmeal, 15,000
loads.

Duties paid in Liverpool upon Wheat and Flour from thl
Ist to the 31st August, 1842:—Foreign Wheat, 443,541 qrs.,
Colonial Wheat, 2 564 qrs., Foreign Flour, 80,454 brls.,
and Colonial Flour, 67,502 barrels.
Wheat and Flour imported into Liverpool from the Ist to
the 31st August, 1842 :—Foreign Wheat, 87,272 qrs., Colo-
nial and British, 11,717 qrs., Foreign Flour, 13,322 brls.,
Colonial, 69,836 brls., British, 2,830 sacks.

ARRIVALS OF CORN.
From the 30th August to the sth Sept., 1842, inclusive,

DESCRIPTION. IRE- COAST- CANADA PO-
LAND. WISE. 8z U.STS. REIGN. TOTAL,
Wheat Qrs. 990 534 10137 11961
Barley Qrs. 10 49 700 f 759
Malt Qrs. 10 1419 1459
Oats Qrs. 973 21 550 1544
Rye Qrs.
Beans Qrs. 710 25 735
Pease. Qrs. 11 420 431
Shelled Barley . Qrs.
Indian Corn
Rapeseed
Oatmeal .... Loads 993 i
993
Flour . Sacks 54 34 1484 1572
Ditto Brls. 5231 8231

Into Runcorn, Irell
1190 qrs.; Oatmeal,

[and and
Ids; Flo

Coastwi
)ur, sa

sc :—Wheat, qrs.; Oats
Lcks.

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat, qrs.; Barley, qrs.; Malt,
qrs. ; Oats, 217 qrs.; Pease, 50 qrs. ; Indian Corn, 227 qrs. ; Oat-
meal, loads; Flour, sacks, 126 brls.—lreland. Wheat, 970
qrs. ; Barley, qrs.; Oats, qrs. ; Beans, qrs. ; Indian
Corn, 746 qrs. ; Oatmeal, Ids. ; Flour, sacks 570 hrls.--
Coastwise. Wheat, 2go qrs.; Barley, qrs.; Malt, 12 qrs. ;
Oats, 90 qrs. ; Rye, qrs. ; Beans, 25 qrs. ; Pease, 61 qrs. ;
Indian Corn, 32 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 160 Ids. ; Flour, 214 sacks 1_47
barrels.

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Aug. 27, 1842.
Wheat 555. Od. I Barley 275. 3d. I Oats.. 18s. 7d. I Rye.. 31s. 6d,
Beans.. 335. 11d. I Pease.. 325. 6d.

Aggregate average of the six weeks

Wheat— 60s. ICI Barley 275. 6a. I Oats.. 20s. 3d. I Rye.. 345. Gd,
Beans.. 345. 3d. Pease.. 335. Bd.

Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week.

Wheat 123.0 d. I Barley gs. Od. Oats . 6s. Od. I Rye.. Si. 6d,
Beans Ss. 6a. I Pease.. Ss. od. I Ind. Corn Os. Od. 1 Flour 75.'2 d.

Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
Wheat Is. Od. I Barley.. 2s. tid. I Oats ..2s. Od. I Rye.... Os. 6d,
Beans.. us 6d I Pease.. Os. 6d. I Indian Corn.. Os. Od. Flour.. ;id,
Liverpool Averages, week ending Aug. 33. 1842.
Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I Beans. Pease.
Qr, 529 272 j 25
Prices