The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-01 00:00:00

THE IRISH FAMINE

A has been carried

pact ; and if these interests are to be wisely and adequate.
ly legislated for in the forthvining substantive measures

a fair rent made what is ealleC

of parliament, we must all bear our part in the strife of
knowledge versus ignorance—good versus bad ; giving a
hale, pro Bono publico, versus taking a little, in selfish-

1, crud

, and vexatious interfeTence—in general rights
versus vested particularities ;—and upon the efforts of this
generation the tide of future prosperity, for those who
shall succeed us, will flow more or less advantageously.
I am, sir, yours truly,

G. C. WATSON.

Bedford-street, Nov. 30, 1846

THE STORM

From a letter received on Tuesday at the Underwri-
ters'-rooms, dated Boulogne-sur.Mer. 21st November,
we learn the total loss of the American ship Helen, of
New York, Capt. Hoyt, from New York to Antwerp,
with a cargo of rye and cotton, a few miles west of that
place. Out of a crew of seventeen, only six are saved.
The captain and officers are of the number lost. The
ovember, vessel has gone to pieces. _
_ _ _

The English schooner Devon, Beer, from Plymouth,
bound to London, with a cargo of lead, hemp, oie, &c.,
is also stranded near the same place. Crew saved. She
is still upright. Damage not known..
During Friday Dublin presented a most depressing
spectacle. The day being set apart for general humilia-
tion and prayer, on account of the fearful state of the
country, and the apprehended famine, the shops and offices
were for the most part closed, and the streets and thorough-
fares presented a most dreary appearance. In the sub-
urbs considerable damage has been done to propez ty.
At Rathgar trees were blown down, and houses com-
pletely unroofed.
At Ringsend the river Dodder was swollen to an im-
mense extent, but we are happy to say there was no loss
of life. Throughout the early part of the day several boats
were engaged in carrying provisions, &c., &c., to the oc-
cupants of those houses the lower storeys of which were
completely inundated.

The Jessie Torrens, William Skead, master, went on
shore on Friday morning, near the coast-guard station at
Dunny Cove, near the Galley Head, and will be a total
wreck ; 11 or 12 men are saved out of a crew of 20.
This vessel was timber laden, and bound from Quebec
to Liverpool. Another vessel, the Chester, from Quebec
for Liverpool, was seen near Clonakilty, at the west side
of the entrance to that harbour, and went down : all
hands perished. There were on board the Jessie Torrens 21
hands, including a gentleman's son on his return home to
Edinburgh ; the captain's wife, a young woman of 18 years,
was washed overboard, and not as yet found. More
would have been lost but for the courageous attempt of
Mr. E. C. Croker, of Ballyva-bouse, aided by his son
George, who, at the risk of their own lives, were let by a
rope down a cliff, at least 100 feet, and rescued ore of the
crew from destruction. Two lives have been preserved in
one week by these gentlemen.
The Sea Lark, in putting back into Limerick, was seen
to disappear immediately off Loop-head, and is supposed

Subjoined is an abridgment of an article which appears
in the Dublin Mail of Friday. The writer, it will be seen,
deals some " heavy blows" to the whole system of public
works, as carried on " under the extraordinary present-
ment" mode of doing business. The instances of squirean
jobbing and shammed distress are, unfortunately, of too
frequent occurrence to leave any doubts upon those deli.
cate topics.
" It has now been

oeei. _tarty developed, to the satisl...
of all not wilfully blind, that the most corrupt jobbing
speculation under the old grand jury system was purity

so as to tax the faith of the reader as little as possible. I t
extraordinary presentment' mode of doing business. A
would certainly have preferred rendering to the public ten years' burthen has been entailed upon a vast extent of
simply the statements briefly of my own conclusions and the country, nominally for the support of the poor—but
opinions, for obvious reasons; but, in that case, the con- have the poor the really poor, been the gainers by it?
elusions would have been only worth exactly what my We emphatically answer,—No. Many of them have ding
reader, judgment might fetch in the mind of the enabled to clear scores with the rapacious and grinding
reader, which might be infinitesimally small, and the middleman, as regarded their cabin and con acre; and
value of the facts themselves been at a discount, through
the slightly influential weight of the judgment of the not a few with the no less oppressive spiritual tyrants
party reporting. But, at the risk of being often tedious, who lord it over their souls, and who appear to have
taken special care of their own interests during the hub-
I have endeavoured to publish facts so faithfully, so well been But the fact is there was not, as there should have
authenticated by the witness and even by the reporting of been any preliminary inquiry, not searching the wretched
others, as to place the possibly erring judgment of the out,' nor any subsequent classification—mob law and mob
fact reporter out of request, and almost out of exercise. interest forbad the exercise ofjudgment and reason in the
If I have hitherto succeeded in throwing out of the case- matter. There is something talismanically mischievous
gory of conclusions by others, any of my own as need- in the word ' public money.' The moment it was men-
less, though acquiring at the same time a certain definite boned, what would have been a struggle—a putting of the
valise when they proved concurrent with that of the shoulder to the wheel—attended with, perhaps, a hoping
reader ; then have I so far attained the main point at in God, became at once a scramble, with all eyes fixed
which these letters have been aimed, and I shall stand in upon the Treasury. There seems little doubt that, but
the simple light of a faithful witness, not in that of a for this, private liberality would have done its duty—the
iudge, or a jury empanelled to examine the merits of the really poor would have been supported—and, perhaps,
cause. And further, before I proceed, I may he allowed been taught to feel some gratitude even to the Sassenach,
to urge, that, in the endeavour to discharge with faithful whose generosity has been so frequently experienced on
accuracy the varying duties of witness, if ever I have such trying occasions. A good-sized volume would
trusted myself beyond that imaginary boundary line of hardly contain the multiplied and multiplying instances of
delicacy, which society, by the dicta of prescription or the misapplication of these ' presentment' funds, as de-
usages of custom, has always felt to be laid down as a tailed both in private communications and the most inde-
canon, whoever infringes which does so at his social pendent of the provincial journals. One thing we must
peril,—if ever I have rendered myself obnoxious to the observe with regard to those n f tb. --:- •
peril of this penalty, I should regret it myself, wherever
the essential nature of the subject and the preeminent
value of human life did not exculpate me from blame, in
the matter of a law which, however proper as a general
guide, yet, when humanity has to assert her venerable
rights, is occasionally " more honoured in the breach
than in the observance." Where I have seemingly
broached upon this part of the social code, the
public will excuse the medical man, whose mixed
mission for the welfare of his fellow•creatures may
not be stayed by the etiquettes of polished life, or
swamped in the sensitive tutoring of " ears polite."
Our fellow-men and fellow-women, our joint beritors of
this, and it may be of another world, have great interests
staked, as valuable as our own, in the great social com-

apacni uuy WllO
sought, and in many instances obtained, ctheu name of the
patriots—bless the mark !—by lending themselves to the
outcry, and falling in apparently with the views of their
reverences and their mob hounds. These gentry passed
numbers of these precious presentments,' being perfectly
certain that the ultimate carrying out of them was what
neither the law nor the Government could sanction. It is
a pleasing part of our public duty to take the borrowed
feathers out of such jays.' Some landlords, too, are be-
ginning to back out of the t eduction system, by clogging
it with certain conditions, which they well know are most
unlikely to be complied with.

" While on this subject we will relate a couple of anec-
the literal trnth of which we have no reason to
holding a good farm at

landlord, on the ground of his potato crop being a failure.
The landlord at once offered to make a reduction from
his rent, provided that in years of plenty he would obtain
a valuation of his crone and sin inrreasaP in the rPrit- in

exact proportion to the present reduction, which was de-
clined and the rent paid. The fact is, a man takes his
land, as he takes his wife, ' for better for worse,' and it
would be hard upon the landlord to come in only for the
latter part of the bargain.
" The second case is that of a gentleman of moderate
income, nearly every farthing of which is spent at home.
Finding some of his tenants inclined to bold back, more
from design than necessity, he at once assembled his
labourers, to the number of about 20, whom he kept in
constant employ, attended with sundry advantages, and
acquainted them that the non-payment of his rents must
lead to the reduction of his establishment, involving their
dismissal from employment. The men were aware of the
fact ; they knew, moreover that nothing short of necessity
could actuate a kind employer. What steps they adopted
isbest known to themselves ; but the rent has been forth-
coming."

WIIAT GIBSON, OF LIVERPOOL, IS DOING IN ROME.
—A correspondent from Rome informs us that Prince
Albert bas given a commission for one of Wyatt's
Nymphs. " Indeed," he adds, " the countenance of
royalty seems to smile on sculpture at present ; as Wyatt,
Gibson, Tbeed, Tenernani, and Woolfe, all have orders

at this moment from one or other of the royal pair. Gib-
sons statue of the Queen will he shortly finished. He
has handled his subject well. The likeness is admirably
preserved, whilst royalty loses nothing in his bands. He
is about to hazard, however, a novelty, at least as far as
English sculpture is concerned, which, I confess, my
eyes are unable to endure with pleasure. Her Majesty
wears a slight diadem, and her drapery, which is very de-
licate and light, is thrown loosely over her left arm, in-
clining gracefully towards her feet in front. The diadem
and the bordering of the drapery are tinged with blue,
and some part is even pricked out in gold cOlour.—Athe-
titettifi.

Sir R. Bonnycastle says, in his " Canada in 1846," that
the word " Yankee " is most properly Yankeese, the
old Indian word for English ; so that by parity of reason-
ing, John Bull is after all a Yankee.

A TIT OF LUCK.—LOOK TO YOUR POCKETS.—On
Saturday week, Mr. William Russell, of the Bean-
House, Cradley, left home for Worcester, with two hun-
dred sovereigns loose in his packet, to pay the deposit on
a small estate he had purchased in the above parish. His
cash was safe when at Bransford Bridge, but be felt, on
his arrival at Clap-hill Gate, near St. John's, a distance
of about four miles, a sovereign fall from his pocket, and
on making a search he found he had lost the whole of his
gold, having a hole at the bottom of his pocket. Mr. R,
turned back and commenced picking up sovereign atter
sovereign until he met a man who had found between se-
venty and eighty, and on proceeding further he met a
woman and girl who had picked up a good round num-
ber, and ultimately he recovered 196 out of the 200 lost
overeigne.—Hercford paper,

Fon DUBLIN, BELFAST, BANGOR,
BF.AUNIARIS, and CARNARVON. '
,k )41w, THE CITY OPDUBLINMTBAM-PACKET
COMPANY,
INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT.
The above Company sail their Vessels, (with or without
Pilots,) taking Goods and Passengers.
For DUBLIN,

THE PRINCE, PRINCESS, IRON DUKE, or other First
Class Steamers, sail EVERY EVENING, at Seven o'clock, from
George's Pierhead, LIVERPOOL, for KINGSTOWN HAR-
BOUR, carrying Her Majesty's Mail and Cabin Passengers
only.
Whey also sail their Cargo Vessels (as below) from the Clarence
Dock to DUBLIN QUAY :
THIS DAY, December 1, at 8 o'clock P.M.
WEDNESDAY, ~ 2, 9 „ P.K.
THURSDAY, ~ 3, 9 „ P.M.
FRIDAY, „ 4, 10 „ P.M.
SATURDAY, ~ 5, 10 „ P.M.
MONDAY, „ 7, 12 „ NOON.

For BELFAST, the WINDSOR.
WEDNESDAY, December 2, at 10 o'clock P.M.
MONDAY, 7, 10 „ P.M.
Returning from Belfast to Liverpool every Monday, Wednesday,

and Friday.

For BANGOR, BEAUMARIS, and CARNARVON,
The PRINCE OF WALES,
W. H. WARREN, R.N., Commander.
The PRINCE OF WALES will sail from George's Pierhead
every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY, at Ten o'clock in the
Morning; and from MENAI BRIDGE every MONDAY and
FRIDAY, at Nine o'clock in the Morning.

The ERIN-GO•BRAGH will sail from CLARENCE Dock,
For CARNARVON,
THURSDAY, December 3, at 9 o'clock A.M.
MONDAY, 7, 2 , A.M.
Returning from Carnarvon every Tuesday and Friday morning.

Further informationven at the Company'sgi Office, 24, Water-
street JOHN K. ROUIVTHWAITE, Agent.

SCOTTISH WIDOWS' FUND AND LIFE

ASSURANCE SOCIETY

PRESIDENT,

The Rigkt Honourable the Earl of Rosebery, K.T.

. ,
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
His Grace the Duke of Buccleugh, K.G.
The Right Honourable the Earl of Dalhousie
William Gibson Craig, Esq., ➢I.P.
The Honourable Lord Cockburn.

INVESTED CAPITAL,

Arising from the Accumulation of the Primiums,upwards of
ONE MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS.

ANNUAL REVENUE, UPWARDS OF

TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY THOUSAND POUNDS.
OWING to the great amount of business done by
this Society, to the economy with which its affairs are
conducted, to the careful selection of the lives, to the equity of
the principles upon which it is based, to the facilities afforded
in the settlement of claims, and to other circumstances peculiar
to itself, the Members are entitled to look for the greatest bene-
fits which such an Institution can bestow, and, it is confidently
believed, that hitherto their expectations have not been disap-
pointed.
The declaration of Additions made at last period of investiga-
tion, 31st December, 1845, showed that to the oldest Policies
there had been added, as a Bonus, more than Eighty per Cent.
on the original Insurance, and to the later Policies in a corre-
sponding ratio, and this independently of the current additions.
In the event of one of the members, insured before the year
1820, dying in the year 18.52, after payment of the premium of
that year, there would be paid £206 ss. 6d. for each £lOO in-
sured, the Bonus Additions thus being greater than the original
Insurance.

The details of the principles upon which the additions are
ascertained and appropriated among the members cannot be
given in an advertisement ; they will, however, be found fully
explained in the Society's printed Prospectus, copies of which
may be had on application at the Head Office, or at any of the
Society's Agencies.

Benefit Insurances passed before the 31st December
will be entitled to participate in the Profits of the current year.
JOHN MACKENZIE, slanager.
WM. GEORGE, Chief-clerk.
Head Office, 5, ST. ANDREW-SQUARE, EDINBURGH.
LONDON : City Office, 4, ROYAL EXCHANGE-BUILDINGS,
West End Office, 7, PALL-MALL WEST.
AGENTS FOR LIVERPOOL AND VICINITY.

Messrs. BELL, GOULDIE and CO., Brokers,
Exchange-street East.

20a Novanber,lB46.

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CARLETT PARK, EASTHAM.
THIS Park, consisting of 200 Acres of Land, well-
wooded, is laid out to a fixed plan for the erection of
Double and Single Villas, in convenient-sized lots for pur-
chasers.
It is situated on a gentle rise of ground, sloping to the south,
between the villages of Bromborough and Eastham, and from
every point commands rine views of the head of the River
Mersey, of the Helsby Hills, of Beeston Castle, the Welsh
Mountains, and the River Dee. From the north and east winds
it is effectuallyprotected by Eastham or Corlett Wood.
It is within a quarter of a mile of Eastham Ferry to which
place boats run every two hours from George's Pier, Liverpool;
and from the Bromborough Station of the Chester and Birken-
head Railway, where eighteen trains a day stop, it is distant
only half a mile; from Birkenhead, by the Turnpike Road, it is
distant five miles. _ _ _ _

The wfiole of' the Park lies on a bed of fine red sandstone
which purchasers will have the privilege of quarrying, and
using for their buildings.
For plans and particulars apply to Mr. W. LAIRD, 38, Hamil-
ton-square, Birkenhead.