The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

Jan. 26, 1847.

PROPOSED REMEbY FOR THE IRRUPTION OF
IRISH PAUPERISM INTO LIVERPOOL.

We insert the following letter which we have received
from London, signed "An Old NaVal Officer," for the
purpose of offering a few remarks upon the recommenda-
tion which it contains :

• London, January 22, 1847.
SlR,—Observing in the Si. James's Chronicle an
extract from your valuable paper, relating to the influx- of
paupers from Ireland into Liverpool, and sensible of the
great evils arising from it, not only to the population of
your great commercial town, but, eventually, as- adding to
the great pressure of paupers here and other parts of the
kingdom, I take the liberty of suggesting that the remedy
lies in the power of the Mayor and Corporation of Liver-
pool, as also with the authorities of Glasgow, and other
ports under similar circumstances,' who, in such times as
these, should act with some energy, and press upon the
steam-packet companies, and other owners, the necessity
of giving strict orders to their captains to take no paupers
on board at the Irish ports ; and. if any are found on
board, on arrival in England, by the police authorities
stationed for the purpose, the captain commanding such
vessel should be charged in his account with the mainte-
nance and expense of the return of such paupers by hit
vessel: Unless this or some such plan is adopted the mis-
chief will go on, and the increasing evil must be borne as
the necessary result.

Remaining your well-wisher, •
AN OLD NAVAL OFFICER,
To the Editor of the Livenivol •
standard.

Our correspondent is doubtless aware that something
very like his plan is adopted by the United States towards
the commanders of vessels bringing emigrants to their
ports. In every case of a ship arriving in New York, or
any other American port, with passengers, the charterer
or his agents must give bond that he will either find em-
ployment for them, or take them back—in other words,
that. he will bear the city harmless for any charges to
which the authorities may be put in respect to them. In
the case of packets bringing emigrants from Ireland, we
have no power to insist upon any regulation of this kind,
that country being an integral portion of the British
empire. With an efficient poor-law for Ireland wc, might
pass them back to the parish from which they sailed, as
is done with paupers in our own country. Any arrange-
ment of the kind proposed between steam-packet compa-
nies and their captains, is, we fear, out of the question;. an
offer having been already made by our authorities to-take
the decks of all steamers plying from Ireland to Liver-
pool, and refused by the companies.

LIVERPOOL CHURCH OP ENGLAND SCHOOL
SOCIETY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'LIVERPOOL STANDARD..
SlR,—The report of this valuable institution for 1846
has been lately published, and I am anxious that the
following extract should be brought prominently before
the clergy, who, in my humble judgment, have not given
to the society the support it deserves, nor the support
originally promised to it :
" In presenting the tenth Report of the proceedings of
the Liverpool Church of England School Society, the
Committee are enabled to state that in consequence of the
increased amount of the Confr'regatidnal Collections, the
funds of the Society are in a better condition than they
were in last year. In 1845 the Collections were only
£l4O 4s. 7d. from nine Churches ; • and in 1846 they
amount to £289 Bs. 3d. from thirteen Churches. They
return their very grateful acknowledgments to those Cler-
gymen who have preached and made Collections, and
take this opportunity of stating that the continuance of
the Society in anything like a state of efficiency, seems to
depend, under Providence, entirely upon the exertions of
the Clergy, and the success of their Church Collections.
If the Clergy are able to preach and make Church Collec-
tions, and increase the funds by soliciting. Annual Sub-
scriptions, the Schools can be maintained ; if not, it is
hardly possible to imagine how Schools in such poor
neighbourhoods as Broad-street and Naylor-Ma-ea can be
kept up at all, as the Congregations are of course quite in-
competent to maintain them. They trust, therefore, that
the Clergy will kindly continue to • bring the Society an-
nually before their Congregations, and so continue to
assert the great and important principle .of Scriptural
Education for the labouring Poor in the Principles of the
Church of. England."

I have alwa'is looked upon church collections as a very'
desirable as well as very easy 'mode of levjoing contribu-
tions for charitable purposes ; and after the acknowledg-
ment in the above extract, and the great good which has
resulted from a few extra collections, I trust that the
'Present year will see a great accession of church contribu-
tions. I affi not too bold. in suggesting that there ought
to be collections at half the churches in
.Liverpool this
year, and at the other half next year ; indeed, I think it
would be well if the committee sent a copy of the above
extract to every clergyman in Liverpool and its neigh-
bourhood, calling his particular attention to it.—Yours,
&c., A LAYMAN.
Liverpool, January 23, 1847.