The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-07-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE LIVERPOOL. STANDARD.  The letter is therefore referred to the committee. The proceedings of the Health Committee contained reports, at which the following are extracts :  CELLAR OCCUPATIONS  On the 31st iklarch, 1841, there were 7325 cellars separately occupied in streets in the borough, containing a population of 24,072 souls; and, of these cellars, 488 were conformable to the provisions of the Health Act, and contained 1706 souls, leaving at that time about 23,364 persons living in cellars In streets not in conformity with this act. There were also at that time 1252 cellars in courts, separately occupied, containing about 5008 souls. That portion of the Health Act relating to cellars in courts, came into operation on the lt;th of November, 1842, and shortly after nearly all the cellars in cousts were cleared of inmates, and attention being lately called to the subject, very few cellars were found reoccupied in courts.. The clause relating to cellars in streets, came into operation on the Ist of July, 1841, and shortly afterwards a special survey of cellars which were separately occupied was made, and it was found that the total number of cellars inhabited in streets, both conformable and not conformable to the Health Act, was 6630—namely, cellars not conformable to the act, 6011 ; cellars conformable to the act, and altered, 619. And, assuming the same amount of population as was exhibited in 1841. when the ascertained number of inmates ran about 3; to each cellar, the total number of persons then living in cellars in streets, would be about 23.205, and the total number living in cellars not conformable to the Health Act, remaining separately occupied in streets, with a population of about 12,670 persons. In clearing cellars, hitherto, the worst and most unhealthy ones, in the closest streets and lowest neighbourhoods have been taken first. The report added that 372 informations had been laid against parties who have allowed cellars to be re-occupied, and the whole of the streets cleared are now under the notice of the police, to whom lists have been furnished.  Mr. and Mrs. Clarke were appointed superintendent and matron of the baths in Paul-street, which, it appears, will cost £6500. The salary of Mr. and Mrs. Clarke, who are removed from the baths in Frederick.street, will be increased from £9O to £l2O, with house, coal. candles, &c.  Mr, TINNZ moved the confirm ation of the proceedings, and in doing so said that, during the past year, the baths had been used by 20,567 persons, being an increase of 6763 over the preceding year. During the last four weeks the number of bathers have averaged about 100 per week. The receipts for the year had been £383, being an increase of £lO3. He gave notice that he should move at the next, or one of the following councils, that additional baths be erected in other parts of the town, on the same principle as those in Paul-street. Mr. EARLe sail be had a question- to ask; rather- enaffecting one to some: of the gentlemen present. He wished to know whether the Highway Board was defunct. The MAYOR said he believed it still existed.  Mr. EAnt.E.—l fear some people's necks will be broken between the operation of the act and the death of these gentlemen. (Laughter.) The MAYOR read a letter from the King of the French, acknowledging the address of congratulation lately forwarded by the Council to him.  A letter from the Highway Board, calling the attention of the Council to the de:liability of providing tanks for supplying cattle with water, and fountains for the use of the public, was referred to the special committee on the Sanitary Bill.  The MAYOR read a portion of a letter received from Mr. T. B. Horsfall, thanking the Council for the vote of condolence on the death of his father.  GENERAL MISCELLANY  The import duty on wheat is now 55. A testimonial of £3,000 has been subscribed for Mr Waghorn, the discoverer of the overland route.  'the Rambler steamer, which struck on the Maiden Rocks, Ireland, will prove a complete wreck. On Saturday week, a flock of 74 sheep were killed by lightning near Priddy, in Somersetshire. In London, there were lately 996.000 females to 878,000 males, or an excess of 118,000 ladies. The personal estate of the late Col. the Hon. F. G. Howard has been valued for probate duty at £120,000. On Thursday, Ibrahim Paella paid a visit to Woolwich, and was much interested with everything he saw.  The abandonment of the proxy iysteria in the House of Lords is now considered a necessary act of reform. The Duke of Sutherland has subscribed £2OO to the fund for the family of Mr. Haydon._  Upwards of 78,0e0 quarters of wheat and 4000 of oats were liberated at Hull last week. At Preston, upwards of 30,000 quarters of wheat were also taken out. On Thursday, a boy, named Joseph Wood, aged 14, whilst sculling a boat in the river Feryd, Flintshire, fell overboard and was drowned.  A handle of the coffin that contained the unfortunate Mary, Queen of Scots, was sold at the sale of the curiosities of W. Upcott, Esq., for two guineas. The father of Major-General Littler kept a grocer's shop at Nantwich, in Well town the late Lord Kenyon served his articles to an attorney.  Three men were killed in the most shocking manner, on Saturday week, on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, by the train of waggons getting off the rails.  inventor of the test for arsenic now generally used in medical jurisprudence, died on Sunday week. Fresh herrings are now plentiful in Douglas market, and of prime quality. The price in retail for the last few days has been from 14 to 20 for a shilling. _ _ _ _  A worthy contemporary records, under the head of domestic intelligence, nothing but births, deaths,-and-auarriaces. A man of the world, that editor ! 'Mr. IL Grcig, recently appointed midshipman on board the Dido, at Sheerness. committed suicide with a pistol on Thursday. A bull, and a pigeon which, at the moment, happened to be flying over it, were both killed by the electric fluid, on the farm of Mr. John Proud, at Car House, near Durham, during the thunder-storm of Thursday week. Lieutenant William Peel, the son of Sir Robert Peel, has been promoted to the rank of commander in the ro} al navy. His lieutenant's commission was dated on the 13th of May, 1844. In the year 1844, the number of public-houses and beer-shops in England and Wales was 93,606, and in that year alone no less than 117 public-houses and 272 beershops were added to the previous number. John Edwards, who is upwards of 107 years of age, and lives in a cottage on the Wilton-road; near Salisbury, was, on Thursday week, observed at work in a hay-field near his residence. _ _ _  Forty new bishoprics were created during the Pontificate of Gregory