The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-10-05 00:00:00

That jealousy has just been manifested in the
shape of an application to Mr. HENLEY, at the Board of

States

Trade, by a deputation, consistin

of P. Roll, Esq.,
Messrs. H. J. Prin.

, J. H. Maddock, Esq., M

R. Gillespie

and their secretary, Mr. J. Nelson, for a grant of a Royal

Charter, with limited liabilities

s, to a company forming to

East and

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United States. The communication, it is stated, is to be
alternate weekly from each port, that is, the day the United
States steamer sails from the east side, the Canada boat
will sail from the west side, the former from London and

the latter from Liverpool. We are not told what was the
reply of the President of the Board of Trade in answer to

a have certainly no diffi.

culty in determining what it ought to be, viz.: that the
Royal Charter proposed is neither required nor justifiable.
Private enterprize has already provided Liverpool with
the Cunard Company's fine fleet of nine splendid steamers,
which perform the mail service weekly between Great Bri-
tain and the United States with unprecedented speed and
regularity ; and the same company will shortly have six
additional and powerfulscrew steamers, which will trade to
the principal Canadian ports. We have also the Collins'
(U.S.) line, consisting of four magnificent vessels ; the
Philadelphia line, consisting of two fine screw steamers,
and some other transient screw vessels. If more are re-
quired for the wants of our trade, the same private enter-

prize will supply them ; and we certainly cannot see that
because the port of London has not exhibited such enter-
prize, it should be afforded the special privileges of a
limited liability to those engaged in supplying another
line, conferred by a Royal Charter. The days are gone
by for an interference of this kind with individual exer-
tion and spirit. Limited liability in a company engaged
in the ownership of large steam ships is not a safe prin-
ciple for the public. For example, if one of the ships
built by this company were to run down two or three

vessels with valuable cargoes, and afterwards be lost itself,
and the liability of the shareowners only extends to their
specified portion of the amount necessary to construct and
fit such vessel for sea, the owners of those whom she has
sent to the bottom will have no chance whatever of re-
dress ; whereas, the members of any private firm or com-
pany would, under similar circumstances, be liable to
the last shilling of their fortune.

MR. W. FORBES MACKENZIE, M.P., IN

LIVERPOOL.
0

As we announced last week, our respected representative,
Mr. MACKENZIE, 1V1.P., with his colleague, Mr. C. TUR-
NER, M.P., attended it the Town-hall yesterday, for the
purpose of receiving visits from deputations and members
of the constituency of the borough. Durinz the day the
honourable gentlemen had interviews with several of
their friends amongst the commercial body.

THE BISHOPRIC OF MEATH.

A RUMOUR reached us yesterday, that the Reverend Dr.
M'NEILE was likely to be selected as successor to the
late Reverend Dr. TOWNSEND, Bishop of Meath, who
died at Malaga on the 16th ultimo. We have no idea of
the source from which the rumour in question first ema-
nated, and are inclined to doubt its correctness, not be-
cause the Reverend Doctor would not be an acquisition to
the Bench of Bishops, but because we scarcely think that
he would leave Liverpool for an Irish See.

SEND AWAY

OUR ABLE-BODIED

PAUPERS!
4,

AFTER all the boasting of the Free-trade party on the
subject of an alleged decline in the cost of supporting
our able-bodied poor, little perceptible effect has been
produced until this present year. It is now a fact that
Pauperism is decreasing. Emigration to the United States
has taken off that portion of our surplus labour which
pressed most heavily upon the market. Competition for
employment from Ireland has almost ceased. In fact,
the population of the western districts of that country is
being extensively recruited by English and Scottish agri-
culturists. Another year or two will increase the drain
from Ireland, as the parties already in America become
enabled to remit the funds required to carry out their
friends and relations ; and, in the mean time, the falling
off in births must go on in an increasing ratio. Another
Class of our population, of a more respectable character,
yet composed to a great extent of young persons, for
whom there seems little chance of a mvourable opening
in our overcrowded walks of industry and commerce, is
being rapidly taken off by the stream of emigration to
Australia ; and there is still an opening in that fertile and
golden country for hundreds of thousands of the indus-
trious and enterprising of every grade of life.
Under such circumstances, it is not to be wondered at
that the burthen of able-bodied pauperism is decreasing.
Yet there still remains in our workhouses throughout the
country a class of paupers of whom it may with too great
certainty be predicted that they will, from time to time,
at least, if not permanently, have to be supported by the
public. These are principally young persons, both male
and female, some of them orphans, who have either com-
mitted some indiscretion, or are without the connexions
which would enable them to combat the temptations and
difficulties which beset those who have to enter life with
the brand of a workhouse training attached to their names.
For these classes Australia presents a wide field; and there
they would form a valuable addition to the population,
fulfilling the situations of domestic servants, farm labour-
ers, and shepherds. At present the stringency of the
system upon which our poor-laws are administered has
prevented any extensive steps being taken to relieve the
country of the burthen of supporting these parties in our
workhouses ; and the few of them who have been pro-
vided with passages to Australia have been assisted by
private funds. There is no reason, except such strin-
gency of the commissioners' rules, and the fact that it
might operate as a premium upon pauperism, why all
willing and fit to emigrate should not besent off. The latter
objection might probably be, in a great measure, removed,
if a hiring for a term were insisted upon, from the period
of their arrival in the colony. In a financial point of
view it would be a very material saving to the ratepayers
if, at little more than the cost of a year's maintenance in a
union workhouse, a burthen, likely to prove almost a per-
manent one, could be got rid of.

Our attention has been drawn to this subject by the fact
that twelve young females from the Liverpool Workhouse
have, during the last week, been put on board the
Catherine Mitchell, emigrant vessel, bound for Australia,
by the overseers. It so occurred that they had at their
disposal a balance of £lBO, arising from a voluntary rate
levied about two years ago, and they have adopted this

plan for disposing of the sum in question. The girls have
been selected for their good behaviour whilst in the work-
house, of which they are provided with certificates under
the hand of the MAYOR ; and it would be a great means of
holding out a premium to the well-behaved if the plan
could be adopted on a more extended scale. The great
difficulty, however, would be with respect to the mode of
raising the required funds, and the project has been
mootid of laying a voluntary rate for the purpose. Few
people, we should imagine, would object to its payment if
they reflected that it was to be used for the purpose of
relieving the parish from a considerable permanent charge,
and would, probably, in the end, limit the workhouse
expenditure of all save the old and infirm paupers.
The project is one which we trust will receive the serious
consideration of the Select Vestry. The MAYOR, we
understand, spoke in highly complimentary terms to
the deputation which waited upon him, upon the sub-
ject, composed of Dr. BRADLEY, Dr. M'ICNIGHT, mem-
ber of the equitable rating committee, the Rev. I. HOLMES,
chaplain, and Mr. G. CARR, governor of the workhouse.
We are glad to be enabled to add that, of the twelve girls
sent by the Catherine Mitchell, ten were engaged as
servants on board.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT IN A DELF.—Susan Sanderson,
woman, went, on Friday last, to one of the

a marrie
stone

elfs in the neighbourhood of Elygeia•street, to get
rubbing•stones, and whilst in the delf a large crane used
for hoisting stones gave way, and the deceased and two
others were seriously injured. She was taken to the
Infirmary, where she died the same day.

A WARNING TO DRUNKARDS.—As Police-constable
573 was passing along Crosshall-street, about midnight on
Saturday, his attention was called to a glaring light in
one of the houses in No, 4, Court. He broke open the
door, and found Alice Neal, a married woman, all in
flames, and various articles in the room also on fire. After
putting out the flames a car was brought, and she was re-
moved instanter to the Northern Hospital, where she was
immediately attended to by Mr. Wall, the house surgeon.
She lingered a few hours, when death put an end to her
misery,—another victim to strong drink.—lsabella Wat-
son was taken to the Northern Hospital on Friday, found
burnt under the influence also of drink, She died on
Sunday.