The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-21 00:00:00

STEAM VESSELS-PILOTAGE.

A Petition to the House of Commons, from the Owners of Steam Vessels
trading to the Port of Liverpool in support of a Bill Introduced by
her ➢fajesty's Government, for the " Regulation of Pilotage
throughout the United Kingdom."
Unto the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Groat

Bri:aln and Ireland in Parliament assembled.
The humble Petition of those whose names are hereto attached resi.
dent in Liverpool :

Sheweth,
That your Petitioners roprescnt that portion of the Liverpool Coast.
ing Trade which is carried on by means of Steam Vessels.
That your Petitioners view with satisfaction and approval, the Bill
that is now lief 're your Honourable Rouse, entitled, " A Bill for the
Regulation of Pilotage throughout the Kingdom."
That your Petitioners did first from necessity sail, and have now fur
tears back sailed their Steamers independent of the services of the body
of profcssing, Pilots of this Port. Their Steamers arriving and sailing
witlmt reference to the state of Tide or Weather, they do not look for;
nor place any reliance on, the services of the prefessing Pilots of Liver-
pool,

That your Petitioners have for years submitted to the grievous tax
an.l imposition of paying for services alleged, but seldom performed, and
thus contributed to the support of the Liverpool Pilots, from whom it is
notorious they dei ire no benefit.
Your Petitioners humbly submit, that the Coasting Trade by Steen
Vessels, where the advantages to be obtained are 'deed and a saving of
time, ought not to be fettered by the ordinary rules of the existing Pilot
Act for Liverpool, which requires these vessels first to take, and then Po
stop and land the Pilots.
That your Petitioners humbly submit the urgent necessity for such a
change in the present system of Liverpool Pilotage as would exempt the
Coasting Steam Vessels from the necessity of taking or paying for the
pretended services of professing Pilots. And your Petitioners shall
ever pray.
David Mae Ives'. and Co.—for the City of Glasgow Steam Packet Co.
William Heap Hutchinson—for the Saint George Steam Packet Co.
Charles %V. Williams—for the City of Dublin Steam Packet Co.
Thoinrs Mae Fear—for the Dundalk and the Wexford Steam Packet COs.
Martin and Co.—for the Glasgow and Liverpool Steam Packet Cs.
Henry Halton—for the Carlisle and Liverpool Steam Navigation Co:
William Moore—for the Nihrth-West of Ireland Steam Packet Co.
J. and A. Forshaw_for the Port Rush Steam Navigation Co.
Daniel Bannon—for the Newry Steam Packet Co.
Moore and Christian—for the Isle of Man Steam Co.
Thomas Richards, jun.—for the Wexford Steamer.
A. Laurie and Co.—for the Galloway and Stranrter Steam Navigation
Company.
Samuel AP Kean—for the Liverpool and Dumfries-Steam Navigation Co.
William Dowson—for the Whitehaven and Liverpool Steam Naviga-
tion Co.
Joins Douglas Thompson—for the Carlisle, Annan, and Liverpool Steam
Navigation Co.
Crozier rnd Co.—for the County Down and Liverpool Steam Packet Co.
F. M`Filly—foi the Swansea and Liverpool Steam Packet Co.
Laugtrys and Co. =for the Steamers to Belfast.
_ _ _

John Pollock and Co.—for the British and Irish Steam Co.
Walter Crosse—for the Drogheda Steam Packet Co.
Liverpool, June 9, 1838.

CLIUftCH-RATES.

The following are the articles alluded to by Mr. Hindi
on Thursday night, on presenting the petition of Mr
CIIILDS of Bungay, a% having been seized under a distress
for Church-rates by ti!e Churchwardens of Bungay

Seventeen yards and a half of carpet, six print dresses, featherbed and
bolster, two mahogany hair.seat elbow chairs, polished makogauy hair.
seat child's chair, tea urn, four copper tea kettles, iron boiler, six
spades, twenty.three yards and a half of green baize, thirty japan bread
and cheese trays, two umbrellas, thirty pair of worsted and cotton hose,
eight cotton shawls, four pair of pattens and clogs, four kitchen chairs,
two brass candlesticks, two copper boll,rs, e event nn volumes of books,
11.41 f ream of letter and three reams of demy paper, ten double-twill nets,
half womb of grey peas, and half coomb of oats.

THE LATE LIEUTENANT BENNETT.--Tile late
Lieutenant Itennett, of the 45th, who behaved with such gallantry at
Canteibury, and whose untimely death list caused so much regret, was
son of Lieutenant-Colonel Bennett, now on the Continent, and had
been spending his leave of absence, between four and five months, with
his uncle, Mr. J. Bennett, at Platanus, Upper Leeson.street. till within
a short period of his return to England. He had been in India for the
last twelve years, end had just joined his regiment about five weeks at
Canteshury. Flo distinguished himself against the Burmese, and few
officers were more e teemed than Mr. Bennett for his gentlemanlike con-
duct and smiable qualities. It is rather a singular circumstance that
his grandfather was killed by rebels, and his own father, when a mere
bny, was situ engaged in the battle of Wexford, in which all the officers
of his CAilpaity, with one exception, were killed. He was reconimendest
in coniequcnce Of the military t:dents he displayed ut tl.e engagement,
by the Co:woman- of the troops, to command the corps, and the Lord
Lieutenant approved of the same, and gave him his commission. About
the same these a brother of Lieutenant-Colonel Bennett (Lieutenant in
the 63,1 Regiment) seas killed-in the battle of the Helder, in the expe-
dition commanded by the late bulte of York. This family have now
had thr,e members of it who were killed in the service of their
country, and have yet five or six snare serving in a military line
D if tan Paper.

MATHEMATICAL CHAIR —Mr. Philip Kelland
was yesterday (last Tuesday) appointed Professor of Mathematios in the
Ueiversity of Eeinburgh. Of eleven, or rather nine candidates, two
having withdraien previous to the elecsion, four only were nominated—
Messrs. Kelland, Gregory, Russell, and Gime. On the first vote; the
numbers were—for Mr. Eseland, Mr. Gregory, 8; Mr. Russell, 7 ;
said Mr. G:oag, 3. Mr. (Hoag'; name having then been struck off, the
rests:t of the second division gave an additional vote to each of the re.
maining candidates. The contest then lay between Messrs. Kellam! and
Gregory, when the numbers were—for Mr. Kelland, 21 ; for Mr.
Gregory, 10. We have abstained from giving any opinion on
the seeres of the respective candidates, because we know that
ieterfe,renee of the press generally lies under the suspicion of
being erompted by private interests, and, unless under very peculiar cir-
cumstanc..‘s, shies more ill than good. This opinion is strengthened by
the ex reordinary eflbete'made on the very eve of the election, to infiu.
once the Council in favour of one of the candidates. It is most honour.
able to the Council that it resisted thls pressure from without, and
e'ected, by so large a majority, Mr. Kellend, the candidate in whose fa.
veer, it maybe truly said, no influence wiestever was employed. New,
wins the tleetion is completed, there is no fustier need of reserve, and
we have no hesitation in expressing cur conviction, that the successful
cen.l d..te is decidedly the best quatilad man. We have great -respect
for Mr. Russell ; and, had the vaeent Chair been one of Natural Philo.
Eopey, we have no doubt that he would have carried it ,over all conipeti.
tors. As it we think the Council have have done their duty in pre.
fearing Mr. Kellam'. —Seeteman,