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

No. 10.—CHAGRES STATION.—ONE SCHOONER

Out mails for Santa Martha, Carthagena, and Chagres
arrive at Jamaica in 25 days from England, when this
schooner proceeds with them to Santa Martha, Carthagena,
Chagres, and Jamaica. Total going from and returning to
Jamaica, 27 days 21 hours.
REMARKS ON TABLE No. 10.

On the arri;al 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. Mott's Evidence upon the Sanitary
Condition of the Labouriny 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 41. 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
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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 obtain 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 an-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
dad stopped just before for a glass of beer, burst open the
oor. 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 lie 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
his 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, and the traces of the poor boy's struggles were dis-
tinctly shown in his own blood marks.
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and shy, but no apprehensions of her injuring herself were
entertained. She had been heard, however, to say that her
husband would do very well without her and the child. She
also frequently expressed her fears that she should come to
poverty, and as her husband had borrowed money to enable
him to finish his houses, at Cummer, she seemed afraid that
he never would be able to repay it, although there was not
the slightest ground for her misgivings.
We have since heard that the unfortunate woman attempted
her own destruction and that of her child some years since,
when she strapped the boy on her back, and walked into the
river. They were then saved, to experience if possible, a
dreadful fate.

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