The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-11 00:00:00

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The toast of " The Agents of the Vessel" was re-
sponded to by Mr. DE WOLF, and also by Mr. WALTHENV,
who said he never felt more pleasure or satisfaction in
submitting any ship to the public than he had in sub-
mitting the Prince Arthur, because he was certain the
accommodations were such as every one must be satisfied
with. The emigration from this port had increased won-
derfully within the last twelve months. He had taken a
memorandum of the number of passengers who had left
Liverpool for Australia within the last four years. That
morning, to make the return complete, he had sent to the
government emigration office to know the number who
left in 1852, up to the 31st December, but they were too
busy to furnish them. However, taking the number of
ships, and the average number of passengers in each, he
could form a near estimate. Before 1849, London almost
exclusively monopolised the Australian emigration trade ;
but in that year he found that 675 passengers left Liver-
pool • in 1850, when the trade wasenlarged, the number was
1,051. In 1851 the number was only 1,750 ; but when
we come to 1852, including free emigrants, those who
left amounted to no less than 40,000. In that year, thanks
to the exertions of Messrs. John S. do Wolf and Co., they
had got permission of the government to embark free
emigrants from Liverpool instead of Plymouth, and the
depot had been established at Birkenhead, in the first
instance, at the sole risk of Messrs. de Wolf and Co. He
would take the number of free emigrants at 20,000, and
that left 20,000 who had embarked from Liverpool at their
own expense ; and he found, on 'oohing over the books,
that he (Mr. Walthew) and those with whom lie was in
connexion, had sent about 5,000, or one-fourth ; and he
might say of those vessels that had arrived out, there had
been no mortality on board, except of infants. He
believed that in all instances (and it was a curious fact)
the number of children born on the passage, and landed
in Australia, had always equalled the number who died ;
so that they landed in Australia exactly the number of
passengers as had embarked on the Mersey. Now it was
curious that the mortality said to have taken place in
some vessels which had left here was confined to the
vessels which had embarked free emigrants from Birk-
enhead ; and this he thought was accounted for by the
fact that those passengers were of an inferior class, and
probably carried out with them the seeds of disease en-
gendered before leaving the Mersey. It was not owing to
the want of ventilation, for he had inspected some of those
ships, and had seen that the ventilation could not be sur-
passed ; besides, they had passed the inspection of Capt.
Patey, who was about to leave us, and who was known to
be a very strict man. Another subject to which he should
like to allude was, the wonderful passages which had been
made from Liverpool. He said, in the early part of the
year, that he was sure some of our Liverpool ships would
astonish in that respect. They had sent, in May last, a
vessel to Australia, built at St. John's, as was the Marco
Polo and the Eagle • and his brother, who was a pas-
senger, stated that die), fell in with a vessel called the
Abergeldie, an Aberdeen clipper, laden from London to
China ; that he was perfectly astonished at the way
that their ship ran away from the Abergeldie ; and
that she sailed in ten successive days 2,750 miles. It
proved the quality of these colonial-built ships. He had
heard men of experience say that the vessels built in the
colonies were only tubs. lie thought these " tubs"
would show them an example shortly which would open
their eyes, raise these ships in the estimation of the peo-
ple, and that even the celebrated American clippers would
not be able to surpass them in swiftness.
Mr. J. AMEY spoke of the estimation in which Liver-
pool ships for Australia were held by London brokers.
The great thing to satisfy passengers was to give them
good provisions, and this they had in vessels leaving this
port, for there was not one in twenty of which we received
any unfavourable account. The only complaint which had
been heard was that from the passengers in the Great
Britain ; and he believed that this was traceable only to
the fact that the gentlemen who were third-class passen-
gers would be satisfied with nothing less than turtle soup
and fresh steaks every day. He gave the health of Mr.
Gould.
Mr. GOtTLD said, as regarded the Great Britain, he
believed there never was a more groundless case of com-
plaint. There was not a 'more respectable firm than
Messrs. Gibbs, Bright and Co. They used extra pains to
have everything of the best quality, and the house was
noted for paying the highest price for their goods. To
his own knowledge, they paid higher prices for the stores
put on board that ship than the firm with which he was
connected had ever paid. They were men of a very nice
sense of honour ; and he had no doubt that they were
mortified at the infamous charge brought against them.
Mr. WALTHEW then proposed " The Press," in re-
sponding to which, Mr. BLAKE, of the Standard, spoke
of the fact that most of the complaints of the treatment
of emigrants had been in connection with London ships,
while Liverpool, in common with her general commercial
superiority, had taken the lead in emigration.
The company shortly afterwards broke up.

EARL GanNv------tu,E.—The Lord President of the Coun-
cil, while hunting on Tbursday at Woburn Abbey, Bed-
fordshire, experienced a fall which broke his collar-bone.
He is, however, progressing satisfactorily.
DIAMONDS IN AUSTRALIA.—Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thos.
Mitchell, Surveyor-General of New South Wales, has
brought with him a diamond of good form and of the
finest water, weighing three-quarters of a carat, found at
the gold diggings at Ophir, west of Bathurst; and also a
sapphire, found in the same locality.
NEW BISHOPRIC OF NATAL. The consent of her
Majesty's government has been obtained to the immediate
creation of an English bishopric at Natal, at present
under the episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Cape
Town. It is stated that the first appointment will be
given to the Rev. T. W. Weeks, M.A., incumbent of St.
Thomas's Church, Waterloo-road, London.
THE EAST INDIAN CHARTER.—A very important peti-
from
tion to parliament has been forwarded to this country
practical working of the Indian Ba. The petitioners pray
overnme n for inquiry into the
, and suggest
many reforms. The existing system of the despotic and
secret method in which the administration of the local
governments is conducted is reprobated ; the claims of
natives to fill judicial positions are urged ; the cost of the
civil service is complained of ; the deficient means of in-
ternal communication are pointed out ; and stress is laid
thenuo Cher fact that, although the net revenue is £1,028,285,
ne devotes only £12,000 for educational pur-
poses. The petition has already received 3,000 signatures.
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