The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-23 00:00:00

To be sbolli or 'let.

"IVOR SALE.—A ar Chesnut
JU years old, 154 hands d
highk , a good Hack and H uEnter.i
To be seen at the George Hotel, Dale-street.

CLAYTON-lIALL, CLAYTON-SQUARE.—TO be
LET. the above HALL, for Public Meetings, Concerts,
Lectures, &c. Terms moderate.—Apply to JOHN INHITE,
19, Clayton-square.
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HOLLY-ROAD, PAIRFIELD.--To be SOLD,
a Detached COTTAGE and GARDEN, situate on the
south side of Holly-road, Fairfield, near Beech-street., con
well
-
taining 1,800 yards of Land. Copyhold. The Cottage is
adapted for a Bachelor, or a small amily, but
ore
may be
enlarged at little expense.—Apply to MrF. HUNTER, it
6, Brunswick-street.

IAR3.IS, IN THORNTON AND LUNT.-
ON SALE, by PRIVATK TREATY, Two 'FREEHOLD
FARMS, in Thornton and Lunt, distant six miles from Liver-
pool, one 56A. 3a. Ile. statute measure, in the occupation of
Mr. Blackburne, the Other 39A. la. 7e., statute measure, in
the occupation of Mr. Tyrer. Also, several FIELDS, in
Thornton, of various dimensions, we'll adapted, from their
pleasant site, for Building upon. Thornton is one mile from
Great Crosby. The Tenants will show the Land • and for
further particulars apply to Mr. WILLIAM WAREING,
Solicitor, Eldon-chambers, South John-street. Liverpool.

nro be LET, by TENDER, the REFRESHMENT
11 ROOMS, in itirkenhead Park. The Birkenhead Improve-
ment Commissioners are prepared to receive Tenders from
Confectioners and others willing to undertake the supply of
Refreshments, stating the amount of Rent proposed to be
given for the above Rooms for a term of one or more years
from the first of August next. Tenders, addressed to the
Chairman of the Improvement Committee, must he left at
the Office of the Clerk of the Commissioners, Hamilton-
square, Birkenhead, on or before WEDNESDAY, the 24th
instant. The Commissioners do not bind themselves toaccept
the highest tender.
AMBROSE WALN, Clerk of the Commissioners.
Commissioner's Offices, 11th Mac, 1854.

TO be •SOLD'or LET, a.splendid MANSION,
near Aightirth, containing Three Eniertaining.rooms,
'Ten Bad. rooms, Dressing-rooms, &c. Coach-house, Stables,
with about' Two Acres of Land, tastefully laid out in
Pleasure Grounds and Garden. More Land may be had if
required.
p) be SOLD by PRIVATE TREATY, a compact
ESTATE, near Liverpool, with 75 acres of LAND.
One DITTO, with 10 acres of LAND. A splendid MANSION
3 miles east of Liverpool. with 10,00' yards of LAND. One
DITTO, near Walton, with about 5.000 yards of LAND. One
DITTO, at Mosley-vale, with 7,000 yards of LAND. An
excellnt FARM-HUSE, at
An West Kirby, Cheshire. with up-
wardse O
of 8 acres of LAND . excellent COTTAG'E at Lis-
card, with 4 Acres of LAND. An excellent MANSION in
Rodney-street, with about 1,000 square yards of LAND. Also
-several other HOUSES in the same street.
9110 be LET, an excellent FAMILY *HOUSE,
Netherfield-road. One DITTO. Kensington. One DITTO,
Bedford-street. A few excellent FURNISHI'D HOUSE-Sin
the Country. One large MANSION with LAND. A capital
HOUSE and SHOP, Ranelagh-street. One DI PTO, Great
George-street. One DI 11'0, Renshaw-street. One DITTO,
Birkenhead, with Fixtures complete.
Further particulars may be had on application tan Mr. WM.
WILLIAMF, Estate Agent, 47, Ranelagh.street, d No. 3,
Hackin's-hey, where an excellent DOUBLE OFFICE is to
be LET.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

PROPOSED NEW CHURCH.—The correspondence between the
Committee and the Bishop of Chester will be found in

our 6th page.
"PAIR PLAY complains that, having a drunken lodger,
who beat his wife, he had no remedy for hawing been
assaulted, although he applied to the magistrates. He
should be more particular in having a good character of
those he admits into his house as lodgers, and not so ar-
dent a penchant for obtaining his rights by his own

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TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1854.

MERCHANT SHIPPING.-THE APPREN-

TICESHIP SYSTEM.

IN commenting last week on the Merchant
Shipping Bill, now before Parliament, we omitted
any allusion to a subject of peculiar interest to the
future welfare of our merchant navy. It may have
been thought a hardship to render the taking of
apprentices to the merchant service compulsory,
but when the absence of compulsion results in
almost putting a stop to apprenticeship, the neces-
sity for its revival becomes apparent. Many ship-
owners have found that, after having undergone
the expense and trouble of training boys, they had
deserted at the very time when they have become
of any value, and in self-defence have refused to
take them at all ; so that the merchant service has
become comparatively valueless as a nursery for
seamen. If, however, the compulsory system were
restored, and every ship were bound to take a por-
tion of apprenticed boys, the temptation to desert
would be considerably lessened, and we might
reckon on a supply for the future, which theexten-
sion of commerce will render indispensable. Sailors
are not like soldiers, the result of a few months'
training, but to be really efficient must be brought
up from youth—must, indeed, serve an apprentice-
ship, which can only be efficacious when carried out
generally, for the voluntary systein has been mani-
festly a failure. In legislating, therefore, for the
shipping interestunder the comprehensive 'measure
known as the Merchant Shipping Bill, the question
of apprentices ought to form a part ; and we have
no doubt that if direct reference were made 'to ship-
owners, who are the parties more directly concerned,
the majority of them would concur in the advisa-
bility of restoring in some form the compulsory
system. It must be remembered that the interests
involved in this question are not solely those of the
merchant service. The time may not be very far
distant when further demand may be made for
manning the navy, in order to meet the exigencies
of war carried on upon a large scale on the northern
and southern extremities of the Russian empire.
We have no right to count upon so short a list of
killed and wounded as that which followed the
bombardment of Odessa, in future attacks 'upon the
strongholds of the CZAR ; and should any reverse
occur, so that 'the renewal or augmentation of a
fleet should become indispensable, it would then be
necessary to rely upon the merchant navy for sea-
men ; and this would be of little avail, unless
provision be made, by instantly recruiting the
merchant service with apprentices, which can only
be done by resorting to the compulsory -system.
It is a subject of too much importance to be passed
over. If England is to maintain her supremacy on
the ocean, it can only be by paying strict attention
to the material of her naval service, by providing
beforehand for ourfuture defenders, in a succession
of youth trained by early habits to the services
required of them ; and if this be done as it ought
to be done, the rapid extension of British commerce
will be rendering the merchant service by far the
best nursery for the royal navy.