Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-18 00:00:00

strongly with the remarks of the writer of the
city article in our excelleiZt cotemporary, the
Daily News, who observes—" When a man who
has borne a respectable character, during a
period of five-and-twenty or thirty yez.:
rs of pro-
fessional practice, is discovered to have thus
betrayed the trust reposed in him, the intimacy
of the relations subsisting between the client and
his confidential legal adviser renders the blow
more severe." Not only did Mr. DEAN ap-
propriate his client's money, but he forged deeds
and other legal instruments to enable him to
effect his dishonest and unholy purposes, and has
inflicted, it is said, great pecuniary distress upon
several respectable families, including some of
his relations. To this tale of Ave is to be added
the fact that he has left—for he has absconded
from justice—his wife without any means of
support; REDPATII and ROBSON were clever in
their way, but their dishonest practices were by
no means as nefarious as those of the King's
Bench Walk solicitor. Justice demands that
something should be done to put a stop to the
huge swindles which are practised in the metro-
polis. At the same time, surely we will hear
no more of the penny squakes of the Times about
the commercial morality of Liverpool. Let the
writers Jonk at home, Much, and be eilcnt.

THE LATE CAPTATN Roams.—lt will be seen, by an
advertisement in another part of our columns, that an
effort is being made in Liverpool to raise a hubscription in
relibf of the widow and children of the udortunate man
whose name heads this paragraph, and whose miserable
fate has not yet ceased to be matter of comment. We
have already expressed our opinion on the justice of the
ignomqdous punishment which closed his earthly career,
and need not again refer to it. Even if we were inclined
to do so, the prosent would nor be a fitting occasion,
when we are called upon to sympathise in a distress as
melancholf as can well be imagined. The sins of the
father should not be visited on the children ; and whatever
may be the opinion of the conduct of the unhappy man—
conduct wh ch he expiated on the public seaff,dd at Kirk-
dale—vc e feel assured that none amongst us will be found
to deny to his thrice miserable wife and children, whose
inheritance is shame and poverty, that commiseration
whic'i their lot calls for. The present effort to aid them in
their distress, has originated, and properly so, with the
members of the Mercantile Marine Association; but let us
hope that the appeal will not be unheeded by the commu-
nity at large. All the means which Mrs. Rogers had she
spent as a wife should do, in the defence of her husband ;
and, we must admit, that she and her children are now
true objects of charity.

CAUTION TO EMIGRANTS.

[CO3I)II:NICATED.]

We are glad to observe that the unprincipled attack
which appeared in the Liverpool Chronicle upon the
Pennsylvania Central Railway Company and its represen -
ta.ives has been the means of calling forth some able and
just replies ; and we gladly give publicity to the following
information which has coats to our, hands regarding one
of the most heartless systems of fraud ever practised on
poor env grants, in the hops that that it mty serve as a
caution to them.

The system alluded to, is that which is pursued with
apparent impunity by the commissioners at Castle Garden
New York, and by their understrappnrs in this country,
which has bsen brought the light of day by a special
committee appointed fir that pacp)se. Win is there in
this country, after a perusal of said report, which has been
published, that has not blushed to think that there are
parties in this country mean enough to act as the paid
hirelings, for .uph Ading the Cas.le Garden. practice of de—
liding and defrauding his fellow-countryman on his arrival
at New York.

The report of the committee speaks for itself, and is
backed by evidence conclusive as it is v'elunainous.
It appears that there is a clique in Sew York dubbed
"Emigration Commissioners," locate I in Castle Garden
where all emigrants must land, who have made arrange:
meats with some railway compalies to for ward all parties
Who desire to leave New York. The Pennsylvania Central
Railway Company refused to ag,,de to the proposal made
by the Castle Garden Committee, and was refue”d the
privilege of booking any passengers in C tstle Garden.
Tee Commissioners, dreading the consequences of that
railway company being able to book passengers at rates So
far below those charged by them, used every means to
damage that company's c edit, and if possible to put it
down, and finding the utter impossibility of doing so, they
have had recourse to a species of cowardly revenge which
unfortunately for themselves recoils back upon them with
redoubled force.

This claque has sent commissaries to Europe (who, with
the whole stock of commissioners, are well paid from the
money they overcharge the poor emigrant), to induce the
different governments to put down other companies, that
they may have the pie, crust and all, to themselves. We
imagine, that if some of the poor deluded emigrants could
lay hands on these gentry, that they would receive treat-
ment, not much batter than that which awaits the Sepoys
at the hands of our troops in India.
We shall content ourselves, in the present article, by
merely pointing out one or two glaring bits of testimony
which the committee's report has elicited.
It is state', in the sixth resolution, " that an emigrant
landing at Castle Garden, if going west, is compelled to
purchase a ticket, or pass, before he can leave the Castle
grounds, and for which he must pay about thirty per cent,'
additional to the price charged by the company"
Mr. Schucte testifies that thirteen dollars and thirty.five
cents are charged in Castle Gardens for a pass to Mil-
waukie, when the advertise nears of railroad prices are
ten dollars and sevenieen cents.

Leopold Lorenz swears th tt " the Pennsylvania railroad
charges twelve dollars and fifty cents to St. Louis, and
that the Commissioners charged for the same ticket fifteen
dollars; that emigrants are chargel sixteen dollars and
fifty cents if they go by the Erie railroad to St. Louis, and
they make no time thereby."
This, than, accounts for the milk in the cocoa-nut.
This, then, is the reason why Mr. Lorenz and'the Pennsyl-
vania Railway Company have been so maliciously reviled
in the recent article in the Liverpool Chronicle. 0 t eni-
polo, 0 mores!
It is also sworn to in a further evidence, that the Com-
missioners charge twenty per cent. upon the passage money
furnishe to the railroads, and where, on one occasion, as
brought out in proof, a poor emigrant disc)vered that he
had been defrauded, and applied for restitution of the
money he had been robbed of, referring to the advertised
rates in the ne vepapers, he was toll by the vendor of the
ticket, "He did not care for the papers, and would not
pay the difference, nor take back the ticket."
The report winds up as follows :—" Your committee
have stated sufficient herein to convince any candid mind
of the gross mismanagement, and constant impositions
practised at Castle Garden. Emigrants are defrauded
of their money, i►l-treatel, and imposed upon by
thong who profess to be their temporary guardians and
protectors." •
We shall conclude our present article by giving at
length—the evidence of Mr. Lorenz, agent for the Pen-
sylvania Ceara Railway Company, before the committee.