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misted of interfering with established
'doctrines. Their opponents were inexorable, and insisted
that no opportunity should be allowed them of doing any-
thing. Through the perseverance of some few mem-
bers of the Church, a step in advance has been made
by the appointment of Committees, and one of the first

*Tightest in tentic

vi the endeavours to obviate any reasonable ground for corn-
-IServices,_and which has been received with such general plaint on the part of the bar ; and, after quoting a note
-sipprobation. Here, then, arises the first difficulty. The from Mr. KNOWLES, the Attorney-General for the County
=iteration is acknowledged to be desirable, but it is unat- Palatine, in which that gentleman, on behalf of the bar,
lainable without the meeting of Convocation ; and there- says '—
fore those who desire to see it carried out must forego "I am inclined to think the final decision will he. in
their-objections to putting in action the machinery which favour
000mf theor oldo cionurt tose yony,dnlha2 ina
and
ci)pme
atl,iiantgb&t. giving
is indispensable to its accomplishment. The Canons of arrangement for ventilating the courts, we may get over
^rturch the ranch-dreaded atmosphere without serious results."
The MAYOR goes on to say :
" Your lordship is aware that the assizes for this county
are required to be held at Liverpool as well as at Lancas-
"nder an order of council, dated the 24th day of June,

Traits w3f their deliberations is the recommendation to
which-my

T shortening the dur:

the Chum.

which can alone constitute law on (

)y Convocation, and subsequently

oquestions,.were passed
.astiSed by Act of Parliament

By the same process only

can they be altered, amended, repealed, or added tc

1835, and published in the London Gazette of the 30th
xnendations of the Committee should be carried into effect, r June in that year. That order recites that 'it is certified
or, indeed, any alteration made in the mode of performing I
itihaavt proper ciourtds and lordegdingts
Lif?lr her Majesty's judges
Ermine Service, must be content to witness a revival of heree refeeerrlieda teoaare It)hreepcaourts in the'eSrpool.essions-house, repre.
The powers of Convocation, as the only means by which rented to the Lord Chief Justice as ' a place not unlike the
their wishes can be accomplished. , celebrated Black-hole of Calcutta,' and which courts are
now in a state at least as good as when so certified as
1 ' proper courts,' in 1835." _ _ .

therefore, those who are really anxious that the recom-

LIVERPOOL ASSIZES.

In the various averments as to the necessity for shutting
up the courts, his Worship is fully borne out by the resi-
dent assistant-architect and the contractors ; and referring
to the salubrity of the Sessions-house and its ♦icinity, he
adduces the following letter from the Medical Officer of
Health :

LORD CAMPBELL AND THE BAR v. THE COR-

PORATION OF LIVERPOOL,

Myna interest, and no little indignation, were excited
in Liverpool, on Wednesday morning, by a perusal of the 1
remarks made by Lord CAMPBELL, in his place in Parlia- '
anent, on the preceding evening. In those remarks his "Public-offices, 2, Cornwallis-street,
" Medical Officer of Health's Department,
Lordship, acting doubtlessly on the information of some " Liverpool, July '25, 1854.
indiscreet friend of the barristers who generally attend " The medical officer of health begs to report for the
the Northern Circuit, represented the Borough Sessions- information of the mayor, that the health of the town is
horse as situated in a swamp—as placed in a locality
at present in a satisfactory state, the mortality being
desolated by Asiatic cholera—and as so defective in its I rather below the average of the season. The recent
increase of temperature has been accompanied with an
ventilation, as to resemble the Black-hole of Calcutta. ; increase of bowel complaints, which always become prevar
These statements, which every one acquainted with the ; lent at this period of the year ; but as yet these have
_ ~. ',QC, knew to be as unfounded as they were ; chiefly affected children. Dnring last week 16 iniants
,wn, naturally created a strong feeling 1 crolefrarT the total baerindgfisvoemienwttts bacn.ldovronethe adultavefrrom
1, and his worship the MAYOR, as deaths from these diseases in the corresponding weeks of
blic interests, immediately took mea- former years. None of the deaths from cholera are stated
. by the medical attendants to have been " Asiatic" cholera.
's
-statements. For this purpose he
"NV. H. Dusicsx, M.D ,or."
- proceeded Medical Officer of llea 1 lth
.
satisfactory
statement of the whole " The Worshipful the MaY
Concurrently with Dr. Du sc.sx's testimony, his Wor-
the ship has been voluntarily and ably- aided by the valuable
evidence of WILLIAM BROWN, EMI., M.P., who, in a letter
to Lord CAMPBELL, says :
" Your lordship will, no doubt, recollect the rapid fall
in , there is in Chapel-street to the river ;so muchso that,
the
frequently bringing up a heavy load from the docks to
get up the hill, the poor horses are most unmercifully
progress of the flogged, or sometimes an extra horse is used to help them
--,.atly up. The Sessions-house being at the top of the hill, it
cannot be called a swamp. Briowx, SHIPLEY, and Co.'s
office is only a few doors below it, and to which my con-
" These various sittings are held at different periods stant walk has been since the year 1823, and I never heard
of the
of a case of cholera in the neighbourhood of the Sessions-
Tear, and during that time no work could be
prosecuted in any part of the building, the operations of
house. Rumford-street is altogether warehouses and
the workmen having on several occasions been peremp-and Chapel-street and the immediate neighbour-
torily stopped by order of the court, and this not merely offices..;
premises,
for short intervals, but furlong periods, as the sessions are dwelling-house‹. The magistrates would
hood is very much occupied by the same kind of pr • -
with a few
often held immediately before
and ot attend if they considered the place
ad immediately after the remonstrate
assizes—an arrangement made for the convenience of the of it. a dungeon. I have acted as
bar practising in both courts. During the whole t: unhealthy, cr an
occupied by the sitting of each a these courts, i
'r"' foreman of the grand jury in the `ze_ Fsiens-house, and we

merits

injurious

in the pubJ

guardian of the y

sures to reT

prepared a concise

facts and circumstances

a laying it before

to London w

and lost n(

LORD CHANCELLOR.

In this document

much dela:

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