The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-11 00:00:00

SAFETY OF A LARGE STEAMER

BRISTOL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9.
Considerable excitement prevailed in our Commercial
Rooms, this morning, in consequence of a notice posted at
the bar that the Osprey steam-boat, of Waterford, one of the
packets of the Bristol Steam Navigation Company, which
arrived this morning, had brought intelligence of her having
seen, yesterday, an unusually large steam-boat in distress,
without mainmast or funnel, off the Saltee Islands. Upon
inquiry at the office of the company I found that the notice
was correct, and that Captain Burgess, the commander of
the Osprey, had seen a vessel under the circumstances stated
in the report, which, judging from her size, he presumes to
be some large trans-Atlantic steamer. Upon receiving this
information I lost no time in proceeding to the vessel. I
did not find the captain on board, but saw several of the
men, who confirmed the intelligence, and one of them says
he could see a large number of passengers on board.
Half-past Two o'Cluck.
_ . . . .

I have succeeded in seeing the captain of the Osprey, and
hasten to give you the particulars as stated by him to me.
He says, at fifteen minutes past two p.m. of yesterday, at
about eight leagues N.W. and by N. of the Saltee Islands,
or at about mid-channel between the Smalls and Saltee, he
saw a very large steamer, or to use his ow❑ words, " a tre-
mendous large steamer, which looked to be, between masts,
as long as the Osprey." She had a black hull, a foremast
set, a jib, which was set at her bowsprit end, and outside of
that a jib-boom without any jib; she had a fore and aft fore-
sail set, and a small fore-topsail, which appeared to be set at
the top of her foremast, as if she had no fore-topmast ; she
bad a mizen-mast, and a very small gaft-topsail set over it.
She was standing N.N.W., and, as far as could be made
out appeared to be steering well by the wind. Captain Bur-
gess adds, that she was rolling tremendously, and as she
pitched with her deck towards hie), he thought he could
distinguish that the inside of her bulwarks was painted
yellow. He thinks that he saw a boat at her stern,
but is not certain. He sent a man to the mast head to
observe her, but could see no persons on board himself.
She was, at the time she was thus seen, about 41 miles from
the Osprey, and dead in the wind's eye. She had a long
snook, or what sailors would call a " raking" head. She
had neither mainmast nor funnel. Captain Burgess says,
he has not the smallest hesitation in saying that she was a
tremendously large steamer, and his opinion is, that she was
in distress, and had come in from the Western Ocean with
the intention of reaching Milford, but finding that she could
not gain that port, she had tacked, and was fetching down
for the coast of Ireland. Upon examining the chart, and
comparing her course with it, he is of opinion that she could
not reach Waterford, and he was even doubtful whether she
could fetch Cork. Captain Burgess states, as a reason why
he did not himself go to her assistance, that she showed no
signals of distress either to him, or a large American ship
which sailed by her at the time; and as he had upwards of
20 passengers on board, some of whom were going to foreign
ports, he did not think it right to lose his tide, although he
would have done so at any risk had she showed him signals.
[We have been favoured by the superintendent of the
Ship Masters' Association with a letter received from the
Commercial Rooms, Bristol, which corroborates the above
statement, and adds that as two large steamers are coming
to this port from Hamburgh to be fitted up, this vessel will,
in all probability, prove to be one of them. On enquiring,
however, we find that neither of these steamers is nearly
so large as the Osprey ; but the refraction at sea is so great,
that at the distance at which the vessel was seen, we fear the
captain would scarcely be able to perceive her real size. It
will he remembered also, that on the passage of the Presi-
dent from London to this port to receive her equipments,
she sprung her mast, and was obliged to put into Ports-
mouth for repairs. It is not unlikely that a similar casualty
may have happened to one of the vessels from Hamburgh,
which would account for the disabled appearance of the
steamer seen. We leave our readers, however, to judge,
from what we have said, how far this intelligence is cal-
culated to relieve the public mind from the painful state of
suspense it has so long been kept in. We hope to have
some further information early in the morning, and shall lose
no time in making it known.]

PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO LIEUT.-COLONEL
EGERTON OF THE CHESHIRE YEOMANRY.

On Wednesday morning, two silver cups, manufactured by
Messrs. Hatfield and Hall, of Manchester, were presented
by the non-commissioned officers and privates of the Cheshire
yeomanry to the lieutenant-colonel in command of that ex-
cellent corps, Wilbraham Egerton, Esq. They were handed
to him about twelve o'clock, contiguous to the Bootle land-
marks, in presence of the corps, which was drawn into a
circle for that purpose. The artich's were of a chaste and
beautiful description, weighing about 150 ounces. We un-
derstand that the value of them was 100 guineas. The
lieutenant-colonel, on making his appearance, was received
with nine distinct rounds of. applause by his officers and
men. Among the officers present we noticed the following :
Major H. Brooks ; Captains Sir P. Egerton, W. T. Eger-
ton, G. C. Antrobus, E. J. Lloyd, Warburton, Worthing-
ton, Trafford, Townshend, Tatton, Ryle ; Lieutenants Wake-
field, Reade, Palin, Wallace, Court, Cave, Leycester, Dodd,
Richmond, Marsland ; Cornets Barker, Pownall, Thornton,
Potts, Wright, Ranigill, Read ; Adjutant Captain Hill, Sur-
geon Broadbent, and Assistant-Surgeon Dean.

„ -
- Sergeant-Major PASS spoke on the occasion to the fol-
lowing effect :—Colonel Egerton, I beg to assure You, sir,
that it is with no ordinary feelings that I appear before you
on the present occasion as the representative of the non-
commissioned officers and privates of the regiment under
your command. I have been requested so to appear, in or-
der that I might present to you a trifling testimonial of the
high esteem in which we hold you, both as an officer and a
gentleman. If I should appear to speak in a tone of voice
unusual, and which would appear unbecoming on other oc-
casions, it is that my comrades may hear the sentiments
which I have to advance, in order that they may approve of
the same. I believe, sir, I am sufficiently acquainted with
the feelings of every man in the regiment to enable me,
with confidence, to express the sentiments of the men, from
right to left, and from the centre to the flanks. As the co-
lonel-commandant of this regiment we look upon you with
great pleasure, and consider you a strict disciplinarian, and
as such, we approve of you; because we know what it was
that carried the great captain of the age through the penin-
sula of Europe triumphant, and brought him home again
covered with laurels of victory. And what is it, sir, that
moves yonder floating castles down this river and across the
trackless ocean, and, after having unladen their burdens, and
taken in the produce and commodities of other countries,
brings them back in safety and in peace to the haven where
they would be? It is discipline ; and I pledge myself, on behalf
of all present, that we are ready to answer your call and obey
your com mantis at any time, in any place, or under any eircum-
atances. But it is not merely as an officer that we esteem it as a
heartfelt pleasure to have the honour of knowing you. We can
carry our minds hack to scenes at home. We have seen you
as a statesman engaged in assisting in steering the vessel of
the state, and we have seen you also, sir, vested with magis-
terial authority, and in the exercise cf its functions we have
seen you acting with promptitude and decision in the punish-
ment of vice, but more particularly in the rewarding of virtue
and relieving the distressed. We have oftentimes seen a-cu,
with your excellent and benevolent lady by the hand, going
forth with determined purpose to attack the clenched fist of
abject poverty, wretchedness, and want ; and before your
mild and philanthrophic purposes, we have seen it loose its
iron grasp, and comfort and plenty have been the result.
We also know you as a landlord, bearing the government
and sway over large domains, and many who hear me can
bear testimony to the fact, that hundreds of families are at
this present moment under your government and care rising
into affluence and consideration in the world ; and we also
know you as the general philanthropist, contributing to the
support of every laudable institution which has for its pur-
pose the instruction of the ignorant or the amelioration of
the wretchedness of man. But coming back to the regiment
and to the circumstances in which we are now placed, we be
to state that we are at all times, under such feelings as I
have endeavoured to describe, prepared to act under your
command and to obey your directions; and actuated by suck
motives, we beg leave to come forward to a man to present
to you, through myself as the representative of the regiment,
the trifling token of our esteem and regard for you as an
officer and a gentleman ; and it is our sincere wish and
earnest prayer, that you and your lady may be long spared
to look upon and enjoy them—and as we know that all
things human are also mutable, we know that the time is
coining when you will be removed from this state of being,
but we look forward with pleasure, and we hail with glad-
ness, the prospect and the probability, that when that cir-
cumstance shall take place, the house of Tatton will then be
enabled to send forth its representative in the person of a
gentleman now present, who, nurtured under you fostering
and paternal care, and instructed in the excellent principles
by which you have been actuated for such a lengthened
series of years, will come forward to live as you have done,
for the benefit of mankind at large.
The Serjeant-Major having here presented the cups,
Lieut.-Col. EGERTON replied in the following terms. He
said—Brother yeomen, it is indeed with feelings such as I
cannot possibly express to you that I have this day received
this magnificent token of your respect and regard for me.
Gentlemen, to think that I merit your good opinion is to me
a source of the most heartfelt satisfaction. I can never for-
get this mark of your great kindness to me, in presenting me
with so magnificent a token of your regard. I feel lam not
in any way worthy of the many flattering compliments which
have been paid to me by Quartermaster Pass; but this I do
say, that I will yield to no man in my affection and regard
for the county of Chester ; indeed, it is equal to that of any
man in the kingdom. It has always been my endeavour,
during the time I was a resident in that county, to do my
duty in the situation in which I had been placed. I first came
into the yeomanry in 1819, and it is with pleasure I can say,
that during the 22 years I have had the honour of holding a
commission in that regiment, nothing could have exceeded
the steadiness evinced, and the attention invariably shown
rue by this regiment. It is particularly gratifying to me that
your present on this occasion should have been presented to
me by one who joined it at the same time. He was the first
to volunteer in the Dunham-Massey squadron, and I am truly
happy in having this opportunity of bearing my testimony to
the zeal, the activity, and the talent he has always shown
while he was connected with the corps. It would be fulsome
in me to say anything in regard of my own services, but this
I may say, that so long as I was in parliament, it was my en-
devour to do my duty always thoroughly, independently, and
as a man ought to do it. Gentlemen, this mark of your high
esteem and regard shall be handed down to my family as a
memorial of your great regard and affection towards me, and
I am sure that if anything were wanted to animate me in seal
towards this corps, what has this day occurred would add
double force to my exertions. It is not by my exertions, but
by those of my brother officers, non-commissioned officers,
and men, and their uniform, steady conduct, that any praise
has been gained. I was delighted to hear what Colonel
Napier said of us yesterday. He was delighted with our ap-
pearance ; and of all forces, he said, the yeomanry force was
the most constitutional. With such a force we may bid de-
fiance to all our enemies, and I only regret that the present
government reduced a force which was so thoroughly valuable
in the country. lam so overcome by this mark of your
kindness that I must draw to a close, assuring you that I feel
deeply and sincerely this very gratifying mark of your affec-
tion, and that it will be ever in my mind. Gentlemen, I
return you all my most hearty and warmest thanks for your
kindness.
The regiment then gave three hearty cheers for their lieu-
tenant-colonel, and shortly afterwards the regiment returned
to town. This excellent corps will be reviewed at Bootle this
morning, by Colonel White, of the Gth Dragoon Guards.
In our second edition we shall publish a description of the
proceedings.

THE MAYOR'S DINNER
THE YE OM O T THE OFFICERS OF
A

Last evening, the Mayor, (Thomas Bolton, Esq.), enter-
tained the officers of the regiment, and a few gentlemen, in
the town-hall. A splendid dinner was prepared for the oc-
casion by Mr. Lynn, of the Waterloo Hotel. The following
is a list of those preseut :
The Mayor, (who presided,) Colonel Egerton, Major
.Brooke ; Captains Egerton, Antrobus, Lloyd, Trafford,
Worthington, Townshend, Tatton, kyle, 'Warburton, Hill,
(Adjutant); Lieutenants Palin, Wallace, Marsland, Court,
Richmond, Dodd ; Cornets Barker, Pownall, Potts, Heade,
Wright; Colonel White, Cornet Fleming, 6th dragoons;
Col. Woolridge ; Reverends H. B. Jones, J. Park; Messrs.
W. Wood, George Loch, H. Littledale, Joseph Hornby,
George Grant, J. B. Clough, Thos. Crowder, John Myers,
Richard Alison, Thomas liodick, Joseph Greaves, Chris.
Bushell, James Parker, R. B. Blundell, James Aiken, N.
1). Bold, William Whitehouse, J. B. Moore, Wm. Banning,
Thomas Sudworth, William Maury, T. B.Barclay, William
Hathhone. A number of appropriate toasts were given, Po-
litics being, of course, especially excluded. The company
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se-
parated about eleven o'clock. The officers of the yeomasn,ry, a
we understand, will entertain his worship the mayor,
select party this day, (Friday).

SHIPMASTERS' ASSOCIATION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THR LIVERPOOL ST-4N1141,,

SIR,--Observing in yeur publication of the Bth instant a
letter from "A Friend to Sailors," on the subject of Shipping
Offices, and the imposition to which sailors are exposed under
the present system, or rather scent of system, I have the
pleasure to inform you that the Committee of the Ships's-
ters' Association, ever anxious for their welfare, hay. for
some time bad the subject under consideration, and have ap-
pointed a sub-committee to carry into effect their plans, eo.
inciding in some respects with the views of your correspon-
dent. I have no doubt, if they are well supported by the
ship owners and ship masters, whose interests are identical,
and which will, of necessity, be promoted by the welfare and
good conduct of the seamen,—their efforts will be snecessfal,
the character of the seaman will be raised, his services en-
hanced, and the safety of the cargo and passengers ensured.
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
SAMUEL MOSS,
Master of tie Riaass.
Old Hall-street, June 9, 1841.

THE ADDRESSES OF THE REPRESENTATIVES

TO TPfl EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—I beg to be allowed to draw particular attention to
the addresses of Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell, espeeially
the former, which now meet the eye on all the walls and in
all the newspapers, but which, from that very redundance of
publication, fail, perhaps, of receiving earnest consideration
by the thoughtful and competent of those to whom they are
addressed. It has always been a great gratification to me to
read Lord Sandon's addresses. Not Canning's graft, nor
the force of Huskissonie style, has so satisfied my jndgment
and expectation of what a candidate's address ought to be,
as the admirable performances of Lord Sandon. Indeed,
their task was easy compared with his ;—their lines truly fell
in pleasant places ;—they had to deal with generalities, and
to address them to those, the great majority of whom would
have received anything with approbation which they chose
to deliver. We are now in far other times. Lord Sandon
has to address a constituency, no inconsiderable portion of
whom have been made to regard him as the very reverse of
all that he really is ; to regard one of the honestest men in
public life, deceitful—one of the most sagacious, weak and
wavering—one of the most righteous and high-minded man
breathing, the tool of a party, for selfish aggrandisement;—
while even, of those who understand and appreciate his real
character, not a few there are to whose interests his convic-
tions oppose themselves, and in whom he mav fear to fkud
opponents, even after having made them friends.

- With these difficulties of his position bow ably he contends
in his address. One sees him reasoning there with the sear-
dians of tee poor, with the Brazil Association, with the Corn-
law Repeal League, with all the candoar of ons convince/I
himself, but fully respecting the convictions of others, and
with an ability which makes it impossible even for an oppo-
nent not to admit the force of what he says. Each clause of
his address comprehends a pithy treatise on the particular
topic which it handles, and leaves, in fact, not much wore to
be said on the subject; while, on all these subjects, as there
is doubt, therefore there is circumspection in every sentence
Lord Sandon writes—as there are opposing interests, there-
fore he is conciliatory—as there is excitement, tkersfore is
he temperate.

1 ach:nire not less the frank confidence with which, when
the ground is certain, he challenges friends end opponents
alike on his whole stewardship to kis constituents and to his

country

No man may make the appeal with more confidence. The
constituency of Liverpool—and it is the most exacting is the
kingdom—had not an abler or more useful representative in
either of the great men already named, and the wise and the
good in the country at large mark and distinguish Lord San.
don as a representative of the purest patriotism, a man whose
serious impressions, that the great and the less duties of life
are discharged to God as well as our neighbour, secure his
public and his private path alike in that course to which error
indeed is not inevitable, but wrong is.
The partisans of the expiring ministry will, of coarse, And
his lordship's language, when speaking of their conduct and
principles, a little strong. Here there is no room for tom.
promise. He abhors the character of the ministry, and he
says so ; he believes their government unprincipled, and he
calls it so. Their unworthy alliances, their shifting 'healing
positions, their indifference to any fixed principle in any pub.
lic interest whatever (serious or trivial), and their total in-
competency, have never, in all the debates in parliament,
been more ably exposed than in the few lines of Lord San.
don's address which he has written on that subject ; and the
promise of a good government, in the ministry that will dis-
place them, has not, in any of these debates, been mere fairly
or judiciously presented than in the concluding palings of
the address.

I could wish this address of Lord Sandon's could be ex-
tensively circulated in the country generally. It would do
good service upon the coming elections.
Of Mr. Cresswell's address, I need only say that it is a
meet companion of the other—less reasoning and mere gene-
ral, as is the manner of addresses of candidates generally, yet
having more argument than is often met with in theseeppeals
to constituencies. The friends of both the candidates will
regard with particular satisfaction the entire harmony of opi-
nion and feeling between the noble lord and his honourable
colleague, and we may take Lord Sandon's word for sufficient
assurance that we could not give him a colleague more accept-
able than his present. Let us unite heartily, then, in our
exertions to strengthen the ministry that is about to succeed
to the government of the country, by giving them the two
votes for Liverpool, in the persons of two men eminently
fitted by every qualification to represent an enlightened con-
stituency.

If any thing more worthy of note than the present phan-
tom of an opposition to our present representatives should
appear, I shall perhaps tronble you again. _

10th June, 1811

THE CORN LAWS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Sin,—The writer of a long letter on the corn laws, irc the
last Liverpool Times, inquires " in what way the farmers,
who pay rent for the land they cultivate, derive proteetioa
from the system which these laws uphold ?" and, with yoar
permission, I will inform him.
Suppose a farmer pays £2OO rent for a farm, and that he
further expends £5OO in the labour, keep of horses, and ma-
nure, for its cultivation, he will be £730 out of pocket,inde-
pendent of interest on the capital invested in stock, imple-
ments, ; and we will suppose the farm yields a produce
equivalent to 300 quarters of wheat. The present system of
corn laws then is, that the farmer is protected, in the sale o.
his produce, from all competition except our own farmers
England, Ireland, and Scotland (probably three millions)
competitors, although some wiseacres call them monopolists)
whereby our farmer probably sells his 300 quarter' of wheat
at GUs. per quarter, producing £9OO. Thus the !Resent sys,
tern encourages the cultivation of our own soil, enables far-
mers to pay rent to the landlords, affords healthy employment
to some millions of bold peasantry, and yields some return
to the farmer for his capital and time. Nearly the whole
amount thus produced is again expended by the landlords,
farmers, and labourers, amongst the manufacturers, trades-
men, and mechanics, constituting the home trade. Is addi-
tion, the present system secures a most important political
consideration, by rendering us independent of foreign states
for food at all times, except occasionally for the deficiency
contingent on a bad harvest. Another great advantage of
the corn laws is, that they induce merchants to accumulate.
in stores in this country, heavy stocks of the limiest foreign
wheat, which is a security against scarcity, and also tends to
keen down the price. • •
_ • • _•_ _

On the subject of timber, as Luff professes himself a dia.
ciple of M'Culloch, it not deeply 'versed in statistics, he nsust
pardon me for considering him one of " the insidious pro-
moters of delusion," or, more charitably I would any, he Is
totally ignorant of the subjects he has had the folly to write
upon.

He gtves a long quotation from M'Culloch, admirably
adapted to catch shallow theorists of no practical knowledge.
Amidst comparisons, strained to make out a case, the quota-
tion asserts, that in 1814 an increase of 25 per cent. in the
duty on Baltic timber caused a diminution in the British
shipping inwards from the Baltic, and diminished our ex-
ports in the same proportion. Luff, with great self eons-
placency assumes, and with pompous diction announces,
that this fact accounts for the present falling off in the amount
of our exports. _

Now I beg to inform Luff, as he does net appear to have
found it in his ;M'Culloeli studies, that since 1114 a person
named Huskisson has figured in England, and was President
of the Board of Trade ; that about 1821 he made treaties with
Prussia, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, by which the di,.
criminating duties were removed. Subsequently, namely,
in 1824 and 1825, he imposed a duty on British Nertit Ameri-
can timber; the practical effect of which changes has been,
that in 1839 the shipping entered inwards from those four
countries (exclusive of Russia) was upwards of 620,000 tons,
of which 494,000 tons were foreign, so unwise and disastrous
have Huskisson's reciprocity treaties proved for this country.
Possibly Luff will consult M'Culloch, and inform us the
value of 620,000 tons of grain, timber, &c. And if he finds
that our imports from these countries have increased from
about £200,000, in 1814, up to XlOO,OOO or upwards, in 1/39,
whereas that on exports to those countries have diminished
down to £250,000, as he states, he will perhaps inform na
why these Baltic nations are diminishing their paltry inipdrta
of our manufactures, whilst we are increasing our imports of
their produce, to the great injury of our own shipping and
colonies. Truly this TREE TRADE THING is a TINI Turns
for FOREIGNERS, but lIOST DISASTROUS to the best interests
of ENGLAND. DICKY SAM.

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