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

EMIGRATION.

The number of emigrants leaving this district for America
increases yearly, and (luting the past season it has been unu-
sually large. We lay before our readers, as we have been
annually in the habit of doing, a return of the emigrant vessels
that have sailed from this port, with the number of passengers
in each, besides an estimate of the number of those who choose
Liverpool as the place of embarkation ; the latter we have had
on the authority of some of the Liverpool agents.

UNITED STATES.

Ships. Tons. Adults and Children.
Onyx ..
Ontario
Marys
Carouge . 391
Emanuel 424
Great Britain 494
Prudence 28l
Hector 322
Scotland 645
Caroline

183
Adelaide),_ to sail -:::: 457 451
Amy ,

19:►1
By way of Liverpool (at the least) l2OO-3151
QUEBEC..
Hawkesbury 410
Charlotte Douglas 574
'Farb°Row.— 197
Ewen
Regalia
Ariadne .... ....... , ... 332
ST. JOHN'S, N.B.
Leslie Gault 245
Aimwell
Charity
Felicity
Highlander ' 241
Edward Reid 333
Formosa 535

2853
By way of Liverpool (at the least) 5OO-3363

Many of the emigrants were respectable farmers in affluent
circumstances from the counties of Tyrone, Fermanagh, Done-
gal, and Derry, and an immense majority of the whole were
protestant yeomen, who were too proud to submit to the rule of
King Dan, and at the same time too fond of social order to give
expression to theit feelings by acts 'of insubordination. They
viewed with disgust and apprehension the stride that popery
was making towards domination ;:'they saw that to profess the
religion by which Europe had been civilized and elevated in the
scale of human greatness was to eXpose themselves to insult;
and a pretext to their factious rulers for being regarded as ene-
mies instead of loyal subjects; and they accordingly resolved to
abandon the land of their nativity for the wilds and marshes of
the transatlantic world.' But these are the persons whoinll Ire-
land is most in need of—men of peaceable and moral habits;
men who were firmly attached to the "altar and throne," and
who, if rebellion were again to raise its head, would be found in
the hottest of the battle, warring for both. But the country has
not only lost the benefit of their example, their industry, and
fidelity, but, in a pecuniary point of view; also, the departure of
so large a number from our shores will be serious loss. Many
of them as we said before,"were in affluent circumstances, and
every individual among them possessed property of some value;
so that a sum of fifty or sixty thousand pounds, at the least, has
been taken out of circulation, and this, be it remembered, from
a single port. The two emigrant ships now in the harbour
have their full complement of passengers, and it is likely that a
few more may sail before the autumn.—Derry Sentinel.

MUNICIPAL REFORM BILL.—The Northampton town coun-
cil have taken an opinion as to the power they possess to sub-
scribe from their funds to charities, races, &c., and the following
was the result :—" I am of opinion that the corporation cannot
legally continue to give a plate to the races, or subscribe to any
charities. (Signed) "F. POLLOCK."

At Coventry great show fair, on Friday, the procession of
Lady Godiva was revived with great splendour, the knights and
armed men in the cavalcade were in armour, and the whole had
a very fine effect. More than 150,000 persons assembled to
witness the pageant.
HIDDEN TREASURE.—A large quantity of silver coin .has
been recently found concealed in a beam in the chamber floor
of an old house in the parish of Fillongley, near Coventry, un-
dergoing repairs. There are in the whole above 800 pieces,
consisting, of sixpences, shillings, and half-crowns, of the six-
teenth and seventeenth centuries, but in a very imperfect state
of preservation, weighing together about eleven pounds and a
half. The mode of concealment was by an excavation made in
the beam, into which the silver was deposited, after which a
piece of wood was ingeniously fitted in so as to preserve the ap-
pearance of an undisturbed surface.
The Rev. Dr. Charles Taylor, chancellor of the diocese of
Hereford, and lately head master of the grammar school of that
city, met his death on Thursday evening in the following me-
lancholy manner. He had been in the city on business, and was
about to return to his residence at Madley, when the horse in
his phaeton took fright at the hootings of some boys, and
plunged so much as to throw the driver from his seat, and being
without restraint, he ran to the middle of Wye Bridge, where
the Doctor leapt out, and fell with great violence on his
head. When assistance arrived the unfortunate gentleman
was found to he dreadfully injured and insensible. Medi-
cal advice was instantly procured, but he died in about two
hours. Dr. Taylor was 56 years of age, and, in addition to the
Chancellorship of the diocese, he was a prebend of Hereford
Cathedral, vicar of Hanley, and perpetual curate of Madley
with Tibberton, Herefordshire.