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of Captain Manby, for conveying a rope
from the shore to the ship, in cases of
paratus of Mr. Trengrouse, for convey
nication from the ship to the shore, or
another, are deserving of national encou
Jilted to rescue many lives ham desi
speedily and judiciously applied.
45. AMERICAN SHIPPING.—That the Committee! can.
not conclude its labours without calling attention to the
fact, that the ships of the United States of Araerice, fre-
quenting the ports of England, are stated by several wit,.
nesses to be super:or to those of a similar class Amongst
the ships of Great Britain, the commanders and officers:
being generally considered to be more competent as s.urn.cis
and navigators, and more uniformly persons of educator'
than the commanders and officers of British ships of a situ-
lar size and class trading from England to America; white
the seamen of the United States arc considered to be mom
carefully selected, and to be more efficient ; that American
ships sailing from Liverpool to New York have a prefers
over English vessels sailing to the same port, both as the
freight and to rate of insurance ; and, higher wages being
given, their whole equipment is maintained in a higher
state of perfection, so that fewer losses occur ; and as the
American shipping have increased of late years in the pro-
portion of 12:i per cent. per annum, while the British ship-
ping have increased within the same period only per
cent. per annum, the constantly increasing demand for sea-
men by the increasing maritime service of the whole world.
the numbers cut off by shipwreck, and the temptations of-
fered by the superior wages of American vessels, cause a
large number of British seamen every year to leave the ser-
vice of their own country, and to embark in that of the
United States, and these comprising chiefly the most skil-
ful and
improving
of our mariners, produce the double ef-
Feet of the efficiency of the American crews, arid
in the same ratio, diminishing the efficiency of the Britislt
merchant service.

46. LEGISLATIVE ENACTIVIENTS.—That it is, therefore
the opinion of this Committee, that the earliest opportunity
should be taken, in the next session of Parliament, to call
the attention of the attention of the Legislature to the pre-
sent state of British ships and British seamen, with a view
to the introduction of such enactments as may be best cal-
culated to elevate and improve the general character of tha
British mercantile marine, and to place it in such a state of
safety and efficelley as to make its ships the most perfect
structures that art and science can form ; its officers the
most distinguished le' their competency and skill, and its
seamen as respectable air character and as happy in the en-
joyment of adequate rcmckeration for their toils, as their de-
votion to their country in wer, and their services to com-
merce in peace so just!yentitle them to expect.
J. S. BUCKINGHAM, Chairman.

COUNTY AGRICULTURAL

ASSOCIATION.

(From the Cork Southern
,Reporter, Aug. 4.)
:refer We had not space to at th,l length we could have
desired to the interesting proceedings of our County Agri-
cultural Dinner on Thursday last. We are anxious to pro-
mote the objects of the Society, and havtl no doubt of its
working great good, if supported by these who, in the
county of Cork, are directly or indirectly, dependent on
agricultural prosperity ; not the county of Cork alone, but
the majority of-the inhabitants of this large ant! populous
city mainly depend on the cultivation of the soil, and we
look up to all parties for the support of so valuable an In-
stitution. In condensing, to meet the space we could
afford, the many appropriate speeches made at the dini.,er,
we were obliged to omit a most interesting communication
made by J. W. Anderson, Esq. We allude to his having
stated that a Company had been formed in London for the
purpose of manufacturing sugar from beet-root, and that it
was their intention, as soon as the necessary arrangements
could be made, to establish beet-root manufactories in Ire-
land. This is as it ought to be ; Englishmen coming for-
ward with English capital, to promote the mutual interest
of themselves and their sister country. We promise them
a hearty welcome ; and we do so with the greater satisfac-
tion, as they have been pleased to make the communication
through our intelligent and highly respectable countryman,
Mr. Anderson, to whose father Ireland owes a debt of
gratitude that it would be impossible to repay. The Com-
pany to which Mr. Anderson referred has been established
in London, with a capital of 250,000/., for the manufacture
of sugar from beet-root, by a patented apparatus and pro-
cess imported from France ; in which country, and in
Germany, extraordinary success has attended the produc-
tion of sugar from beet-root. Our own soil and climate are
peculiarly calculated for the production of beet—a species
of cultivation of the utmost importance to the farmer, being
capable of yielding a much greater remuneration than is
obtained from any other crop now produced on his land ;
and it has this additional advantage, that successive crops
can be taken from the same ground without any deteriora-
tion of either the soil or the produce. Mr. Anderson's
interesting communication on this subject at the dinner was
received with inu.ch attention. In conclusion, we would
rnpress on the country gentry, that it is only by active and
vig.:%rous exertions agricultural produce can be raised from
the depressed state which it exhibited during the last season.

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