The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-06-24 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

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" Quis Terabit."
LIVERPOOL AND NEW YORK STEAM-PACKET

COMPAN Y.
Capital £200,000. in 10,000 Shares of .C2O each:
rin HE object of this Company is to establish a S om-
munication between the Ports of Liverpool ew 1 ork.
Its projectors have long entertained th st sanguine opi-
nions as to the success likely to atten such an enterprize,
when liberally backed by public patronage ; and this, the pre-
sent prospectus, it is confidently hoped, will be the means of
inducing, for it is a truism, that without its fostering aid all
such associations must signally fail in the attainment of their
object.
'Twenty years ago the idea was derided of successfully effect-
ing an intercourse by Steam between this country and Ireland.
Nevertheless, we are now in a position of exposing the fallacy
of so contracted a view, as science, aided by wealth, perse-
verance, and enterprise have prevailed, and the existing esta-
blishments nre in the most prosperous condition.
The assertion, then, may fairly be hazarded, that Steam Na-
vigation, in the really efficient form it has assumed in the pre.
sent day, is capable in an eminent degree of developing the
vast resources of those fertile, densly populated, and commer-
cially important districts of North America, (to which the ope-
rations of this CoMpany will be directed,) by affording that
superior facility of intercourse between them and Great Bri-
tain, for which Steam in other parts of the world has become so
justly celebrated, and which, alike to the Merchant and the
Emigrant, must be a matter of the most paramount interest.
The projectors are justifiable in stating, (inasmuch as it is
the expressed opinion of scientific and experienced men,) that,
with suitably constructed and powerful vessels, the run out to
New York may, in ordinary weather, be accomplished in about
Sixteen days. So quick a run by other means, it is believed,
would be without a parallel.
An ample supply of Fuel may be always calculated upon, as
the great improvement lately introduced in the engineer and
boiler department (the invention of the scientific Mr. Hall) has
caused a most extraordinary decrease in the consumption of that
very important article.
In order to disseminate as widely as possible the advantages
likely to accrue from such an association as this, well, respect-
ably, and spiritedly conducted,—a prominent feature in its for-
mation has been, that of dividing the shares into the moderate
amount of Twenty Pounds each ; thus, not precluding the
tradesman or small capitalist from investing in an establish-
ment which cannot hut augment the commercial importance of
this enterprising community.
The Company will be considered as constituted, as soon as
bona fide applications to the extent of 5000 shares shall have
been made.

Five Shillings per Share will be required upon enrolment;
and, in one week after Directors have been chosen, it will be
necessary for Proprietors to pay £2 per Share into the Union
Bank, to the credit of the Company. The remainder of the
calls to be made as the direction may deem expedient, in sums
not exceeding £2 per Share, and at periods of not less than six
weeks between each call.

The management of the Company shall be intrusted to Six
Dire&ors, to be chosen by the Proprietors. Three of the-,P4-
rectors to retire annually, but to be eligible for re-election.
The holding of Fifty Shares to constitute the eligibility of a
Director, and Auditors shall not be deemed competent to act as
Directors.

The usual means to secure Proprietors by the restriction of
liability will be adopted.
A Provisional Committee will be formed immediately, to
whom all applications for Shares must be addressed, care of
Mr. JOHN CHEYNE, Solicitor, Lord-street.
Tr, It is believed, that two of the most speedy and powerful
Steaml,Ships in the Kiugdom can be chartered so as to enable
the Company to commence immediate operations.

PROSPECTUS
OF THE
8R1T114,011 AMERICAN STEAM NAVIGATION
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4' COMPANY.
Ccipqg rOOO,OOO, in 10,000 Shares of £lOO *ads,
CHAIRMAN.

Isaac Solly, Esq.
DIRECTORS.
Capti/Larkins
Geo. unell, Esq., Bristol
J. R. Pim, Esq., Liverpool
Junius Smith, Esq.
Paul Twigg, Esq., Dublin

Joseph Allen, Esq.
Colonel Aspinwall
Henry Bainbridge, Esq.
Jas. Beak, Esq., Cork
Charles Enderby, Esq.
William Haigh, Esq.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Prescot, Grote, and Co.
The London and Westminster Bank, London.
Union Bank, Liverpool.
Agricultural and Commercial Bank. of Ireland, Dublin.
SECRETARY.

Macgregor Laird, Esq.
THE object of this Company is to establish a regular and
certain communication by Steam Vessels between Great
Britain and the United States of America.
It is intended to commence with a sufficient number of Steam
Vessels to keep up a communication between the two countries
on the Ist, Bth, 16th, and 24th of each month throughout the
year.
The vessels to depart alternately from London and Liverpool
to New York, and vice versa. - Their, average passage is not
expected to exceed fifteen days; the average passage of the
present Packet Ships exceeds twenty-nine days.
The Vessels departing from London, to touch at Portsmouth;
and those from Liverpool, at the Cove of Cork.
The subscribed Capital to be One Million. Five per cent. to
be paid on the allotment of the Shares, and the remainder at a
rate not exceeding twenty-five per cent. per annum.
Two mouths' notice to be given of each Call, and no call to
exceed £5 per Share.
The affairs of the Company to be managed by a Board of
Directors in London.

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goods. From these sources there is no doubt an ample return
will be made on the Capital invested.
Previous to any dividend being paid, interest on the calls to
be paid at the rate of five per cent. per annum from the date of
payment.
A considerable number of Shares having heen allotted, and
the deposits paid, under the original plan of establishing a
Line of Steam-ships from London only to New York, the
public will pdfceive that, in consequence of the increase of
Capital to meet the expense of the Line from Liverpool, a
further issue of Shares will be made. _

Applications for Shares to be made to the Bankers of the
Company, at Fen-court, Fenchurch-street, and at the St. George
Steam-packet Company's Offices, 137, Leadenhall-street, Lon
don ; Clarence Dock, Liverpool; Minerva-terrace, Hull; 1,
Quay, Bristol ; Cathedral-yard, Exeter; 11, Eden-quay, Dub-
lin Penrose-quay, Cork ; Leith, Newry, and Dundalk; G. C.
and R. W. Fox and Co., Falmouth; ALEXANDER LAIRD and
SON, Glasgow and Gerenock ; HILL CHARLEY, Esq., Belfast;
JOHN MALCOLMSON, Esq., Waterford; and EDWARD CARROLL,
Birmingham.
Shares may be secured upon payment of the first deposit
into the Union Bank of Ireland, and Agricultural and Com-
mercial Bank of Ireladd and its branches, who are authorised
to
.grant receipts for the same, which will be exchanged for
scrip Certificates on application to the Secretary.

THE LIVERPOOL, ABERYSTWITH, AND DUBLIN

STEAM PACKET COMPANY.

Ina Patrons, Provisional Committee, and Bankers will appear
in a future advertisement.]
CAPITAL £lOO,OOO, IN 10,000 SHARES OF £lO EACH.
nil HIS Company proposes to attain an object which has for
YY years occupied the attention of many influential persons
resident on the English Borders of the Principality, well as
in the Principality itself • viz., connecting LlvE • opt. and
DUBLIN with that delightful an incomparable wa ring. place,
ABERYSTWJTH, situate in the centre of the cresce . t forming the
Bay of Cardigan.
To those who have visited Aberystwith, in , rsuit of health
or recreation, it is needless to mention its ,tiful transparent
green sea, ever gently breaking over its m. rrinal boundary of
curious, varied, and valuable transparent p: ,bles. Its soft, salu-
brious air, its wild and magnificent scenery, delightful rides, and
the respectful attention and kindness anxiously tendered by all
classes in the neighbourhood, have in thirty years raised Abe-
rystwith to the very first position in the list of Fashionable Wa-
tering Places on the Western Coast, and thereby rendered it a
place of considerable business.
In 1805, the first Coach was established; in 1836, it maintains
Forty Coaches weekly to all the Inland Towns, and a Mail
Coach daily to London.
It is proposed to establish a Steam Packet Communication
from Liverpool to Aberystwith direct, and from Aberystwith to
Dublin and back to Aberystwith. It will enable all three places
to interchange, in a few hours, the produce of their respective
markets, and connect more closely the business of the Southern
Counties of the Principality with Liverpool and the Manufac-
turing Districts of Lancashire.
The voyage to or from Liverpool will occupy about thirteen
hours, from Aberystwith to Dublin about ten hours; thus ena-
bling visitors at Aberystwith to view the ELEGANT METROPOLI-
TAN CITY of the EMERALD ISLE ! one of the most beautiful in
the world. _ _ _ _ _ _

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These objects may be easily attained by two first-class Steam
Packets, until the trade shall justify an extension of the opera-
tions of the Company.
The capital of this Company shall be raised in manner fol-
lowing viz. :—One Pound per Share shall be paid into one of
the Company's Bankers upon notice of allotment, together with
2s. 6d. per Share to meet the expenses of raising the Company,
and all further call. (which shall not exceed £1 at anyone tuna,
and of which 21 days .notice shall be given) shall be at the dis-
cretion-of the'Directors.
The Company shall be considered formed as soon as 3,000
Shares are taken and the Deed of Settlement executed, and a
meeting for choice of Directors shall be held at Liverpool on
Tuesday, the day of July next, for the election of nine
Directors ; four of whom shall be resident in Liverpool, three
in Aberystwith, and two in Dublin; who shall have full power to
conduct the business of the Company.
Many Noblemen and Gentlemen are known to be very
desirous for the accomplishment of the grand objects of this
Company, it is, therefore, suggested that they may become
Patrons or Trustees without being Shareholders, and t hat a
Subscriber of £5O and upwards shall be qualified for the former
office, and be entitled to a Silver Ticket.
Holders of five Shares to have one vote,—twenty Shares,
three votes,—and for every ten shares above twenty, one vote
in addition. In voting by proxy, no person shall hold more
proxies than five, nor vote by proxy unless he is a Shareholder.
All transfers of Shares to be under the hands of the Directors
at a Special Board.
The books of the Company shall be made up half yearly, and
as soon as may be afterwards, a general meeting of the Share-
holders shall be held at Liverpool, when a balance sheet of the
affairs of the Company shall be exhibited • ' and if at any time it
shall appear that one-third- of the subscribed capital shalt have
been lost, the Company shall be dissolved, its affairs wound up,
and the remaining Capital divided amongst the Shareholders.
Applications for Shares, under seal, to be made to Mr. J.
BACH, Share Broker, Clarendon-buildings. or Mr. JOHN
BERRY, Liverpool; MY. EDWARD WILSON, Collllore-YOW Bir-
mingham • Mr. WELi.s, For egate-street, Worcester; Mr.
Hereford i Mr. Shrewsbury; Mr. Welshpool ;
Mr. HANCE, Ludlow ; Mr. RIM ARD EVANS, or Mr. Cox,
Aberystwith; Mr. HOBERT HOLMES, Solicitor, 58, Stephen-
street, Dublin ; and further particulars known at the office of
Mr. HENRY BUSHELL WALKER, Solicitor, Liverpool; or
Messrs. -- Solicitors, Aberystwith.
June 21, 1836.

FORM OF APPLICATIONS.
To the Provisional Committee of Liverpool, Aberystwyth, and
Dublin Steam.packet Company.

Gentlemen,
Please to secure me Shares in this Company,
agreeable to the Prospectus dated the 21st June, 1836.
Name.
Profession.
Residence.
Dated

The Mayor of Aberystwith has called a public meeting of the
inhabitants, to be held on the Ist July, to consider the best means of
carrying this project into effect, and it is the intention of the Liver.
pool Committee to arrive there the day before in a Steam-beat,
chartered for the voyaye,•and they will take a limited number of
Passengers. Apply to Mr. Bach, as abuse.

Elie TLiberpool ,Stanbarti.

FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1836.

By the Harkaway, which arrived in this port yester-
day, after an unusually short passage, we have received
New Orleans papers to the 25th May. They contain
what is called an "official report" of the battle between
General HOUSTON, commanding the Texians, and Ge-
neral SANTA ANNA, commanding the Mexicans, in which
the former claims a complete victory. The Mexicans
are stated to have been about 1,500 strong, while the
Texian army did not much exceed 700 men. The details
are so replete with empty swagger that we cannot place
the slightest reliance upon them. General HOUSEON
says that his loss amounts only to 2 men killed and 23
wounded, while he rates that of the enemy to be 630
killed (no wounded!) and 730 prisoners, among whom
are SANTA ANNA himself, General Cos, four colonels,
six lieutenant colonels, a private secretary, and twelve
thousand dollars in specie ! The report is altogether
absurd and ridiculous.

We have always considered it unfortunate for the cha-
racter of the newspapers that their management has been
too generally under the control of a class of tradesmen
of very limited means, of indifferent education, and
equally narrow understanding. The onerous liabilities
of the journals have probably conduced to bring about
this state of things. It is too true that the press has
been fettered, taxed, and degraded in a most shameful
and oppressive manner. It has been so bound by penal-
ties and fiscal regulations, and exposed withal to so many
serious and dangerous responsibilities, that few men of
any property or respectability have had the courage to
connect themselves with it.

Where honourable and wealthy men are afraid to tread,
those who venture, whether they deserve it or not, may
expect to incur some odium. The House of Commons
have always been jealous of the press. Both factions
have sought its aid, and both have frequently conspired
to shackle it. Whig and tory are both to blame in this
respect, with this difference, that the latter never con-
cealed their absurd jealousy of its rising power, whereas
the former, while professing to be its warmest friends,
and calling a free press " the air we breathe," were ever
its bitterest enemies and most unrelenting persecutors.
The consequences of this combined jealousy on the
part of the two great political parties have been that
certain liberal members of parliament have hit upon a
scheme which they think will destroy most effectually
whatever degree of respectability still remains connected
with the press. That their scheme will fail and recoil
upon themselves we most firmly believe. They imagine
that by reducing the stamp from threepence-farthing. to
one penny they will be enabled to bring their puny ta-
lents to bear upon the politics of the day, and pick up a
dismal living in those coffee•shops, taverns, and other
places from which they are excluded at present. The
stupendous orators and sages who make this sanguine
calculation are at the best but scurvy politicians. They
do not perceive that they are the dupes of their own va-
nity. They are so silly as to think that because they
have obtained a seat in the House of Commons they are
also able to fight their way to affluence and renown
through the pages of a newspaper. We can tell them
they never committed a greater mistake since they were
born. Any coxcomb may jabber by the hour in the
House of Commons, and, despite the nonsense he utters,
the malignity he betrays, the laughter he provokes, or
the "disgust" he excites, may still flatter himself that
he is a human steamer of immense power--a BURKE in
the form of a quaker—a CHATHAM revived in Jon
ABSURDITY ROEBUCK!

To talk is an easy task, and, as the house is at present
constituted, any sort of talk is listened to, provided it
have no reference to the subject under discussion and as
little respect as possible to truth; but if these persons
think that they can convert their parliamentary ribaldry
into a saleable article by means of what they call a cheap
pressithey are only deceiving themselves. Depend upon
it this is not the way to impose upon the public. Pro-
tected by the laws of parliament against any responsibi•

rintr.o=tat,

lity, its members may indulge in general invectives
or personal scurrilities without any fear of being called
to account ; but beyond the pale of the house it is quite
a different thing. It is not petulance, it is not bluster,
it is not petty snarling, it is not foul abuse, or a system
of wholesale lying and misrepresentation, as practised by
some members of the House of Commons, which can bp
made profitable in an appeal to the public through the
press. To reach any honourable position there it is in-
dispensably necessary that the candidate should possess
superior talent. The few who have attained that posi-
tion are a proof that the necessary talent is rare. It is
a kind of talent which most unquestionably is not pos-
sessed by any of the ambitious persons who hope to be-
nefit by a reduction of the newspaper stamp duty. Let
us see who they are.
If we mistake not, those who have most strenuously
advocated a reduction, or, rather, a total repeal of the
stamp duty, are members of the House of Commons,
and their friends,who have endeavoured to make a living
by the press and have failed. They have therefore the
consummate impudence to blame the fiscal regulations of
the newspapers instead of that natural dullness, blind-
ness, and instinctive stupidity with which GOD, for good
reasons, has visited them. BUCKINGHAM, of begging
and lecturing renown, has had his newspaper, and has
written himself down. WAKLEY, the honourable and
flaring member for Finsbury, started his newspaper,
called it the Ballot, and very speedily was black-balled.
Neither his principles nor his admitted talents could
command the requisite support. BULLER, of Liskeard,
is another of the unstamped—a would-be literary per-
son—but whose pretensions are only ridiculous. As a
public writer he would be laughed down in a week, and„
if forced to seek a livelihood among the newspapers, the
workhouse would be the inevitable result. ROEBUCK
has also piped his penny whistle in political journalism,
and has been, as Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH said of his
(RoEßucK's) challenge to Mr. KEARSLEY, "smoked out."
He has paid quite as much as he could afford for his folly.
His threehalfpenny trash bad no admirers. Contraband
articles generally bring a better price, and, consequently,
a better profit than those lawfully imported; but, in ROE-
BUCK'S case, though his articles were contraband—
though they were admitted by an infraction of the reve-
nue laws—though he had the advantage of the duty im-
posed upon the regular trader, still his smuggled wares
would not sell—it was dear rubbish in a cheap form—
Brummagem goods of tin passing for silver—but no pur-
chasers. ROEBUCK'S paper accordingly " went down."
The members we have named do not stand alone.
There are some twenty others who all aspire to be con-
ductors of papers under the new regime. JOSEPH Huhn
himself actually imagines he can write ! FIELDEN, of

Oldham, offers to do "political economy, and Weaving
and spinning statistics," in THOMAS DUNCOMBE'S new
Morning Fashionable Express for the operative classes.
Our own learned member proposes to establish a paper,

to be called The Law Reformer, for the benefit of the
" intelligent classes" while walking in the serpentine
paths of the new recreative promenades which are imme-
diately to be formed. Mr. EWART will be assisted in the
more abstruse department by the author of the Town-hall
proclamation, who threatens to fine " persons" who walk
the streets " unmuzzled," and destroy their dogs if "un-
attended."

But this is trifling. EWART and his law-traps, like.
PUNCH and JUDY, are perpetually in the way. Let us-
brush by them as fast as we can. To kick down the one
or upset the other can hardly be called a trespass.
We have endeavoured to explain our views of this ra-
ther curious question by showing the narrow and selfish,
but ignorant and mistaken feelings, which influence those
who have dunned the government into this reduction of
the newspaper stamp duty. Personally, we confess, we
are under great obligations to them. We have in our
ranks men who cannot see any thing but evil in change.
We are not of that class so far as fiscal changes go, for
we believe the present mode of taxation to be oppres-
sive, unequal, and unjust. With respect to organic
changes, affecting any tower, or mound, or ditch, orland-
mark of our monarchical institutions, that is a very dif-
ferent consideration. We earnestly desire that the to-
ries should keep this in mind. Why should any one
among them be opposed to the stamp reduction ? Do
they fully understand the question ? Do they mean to
say that popular fury will obtain an ascendancy by the
change from sevenpence to fivepence in the price of a
newspaper? Never was a greater mistake—never did
they utter a grosser libel, in the cravenness of fear, upon
the principles they profess. The present reform is in

their favour ! Had the tories had their eyes open they
would have accomplished the same reform more than
twelve years ago, as we advised them. As it is we are
content and thankful.

Reflect for a single moment! See who the parties are
who menace the tory prints, the old established papers,
the machinery, the agents, the various literary and poli-
tical ramifications, which could not be purchased or re-
placed for an hundred thousand pounds. The most pro-
minent belligerent is this bebreeched housemaid to
HUME, called ROEBUCK—called so simply because he is.
the smallest deer in the radical park, or, as Mr. HASTY,
the member for Paisley, calls him, the " musk rat of Ca-
nada." This small creature, as we have described, tried
his literary powers upon a contraband journal. lie
failed ! If then he (RoEnucx) could not gain readers
by means of smuggling, what chance has he in fair
trade ? None whatever. The animal has neither legs,
pluck, teeth, nor brains. It did not succeed, as a literary
costermonger selling rotten, ticketed as new-laid, eggs;
and we may depend upon it that he and his faction have
no chance 'in the open market. At any rate we are will-
ing to meet them, and are confident we shall beat them.
Our excellent contemporary of London, the Standard,
has very justly and concisely stated our case, conceding
all, as its able and learned editor knows, that we have
personally pressed upon him and others for several years,
The reduction, as we alwas contended it would, will be a
bonus in favour of the conservative press !

It requires some courage to believe that the document.
which we subjoin is of British origin, or that its contents
apply to the sons and daughters of want and infirmity
who are the inmates of our English work-houses. But
such is the fact; and if it do not. startle Englishmen from
their slumbers and show the working classes the fetters
that are forged for them by whig statesmen, and the gall-
ing persecution that is in operation against those who are
poor, and those who may hereafter be reduced t 9 pauper-
ism, then is the cup of our national debasement full—our
downfal at hand. We beg the most attentive perusal of
the following letter :