The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-12 00:00:00

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G. F. Cooke, Eeq., b do,
R. Beihouse, Esq, b do.
S. Birch, Esq., c Hornby, 1

MANCHESTER

E. H. Biaybiu-cke, o l2
Rowley, Esq., c Ballas,b Reynolds 9
J. H. Birley, Esq., c do., b do. 0

Total ....67

let Inning
n, Esq., b I

2nd Innings

C. Lan,,
G. F. Dallas, Esq
F. Hornby, Esq., b 1
C. J. Cameron, Esq., b L. Birch .. 13
A. Potter. Esq.. c Earl. b do. .. 1

C. E. Ashton,-Esq., b Eaton
S. Blain, Esq., b L. Birch
E. Reynolds, Esq., b do.
A. Tod, Esq., n o ,
E. H. Deane, Esq., b L. Bircl
E. Haigh, Esq., c Wr
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PROJECTED CHAMBER OF

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COMMERCE,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Bre.,—The projected formation of a general Chamber of
Commerce in Liverpool is evidently calculated to render
a great practical benefit to this commercial community.
It is intended to unite, with one object, the various branches
of trade. and simultaneously work for the progress and
prosperity of the commercial interests of the town. With
a view to reconcile opposite views of commercial policy,
to support with energy measures necessary to the welfare
of the town and the country, and to remonstrate against
public wrongs, the formation of such a chamber would be
of an immense weight. Numerous advantages would
flow from such a public body whose direction would com-
prehend the elected representatives of every department
of business. When we observe how often the princi-
pal interests of Liverpool are sacrificed to partial legisla-
tion, and when we see the standing of the town compro-
mised through the want of a proper body forwarding its
progress, it cannot but unanimously be agreed that unity
of action is the best means to promote her welfare, and
that a representation of the commercial interests thus con-
stituted would tend to promote wonderfully her real ad-
vancement. Let the public clearly understand that there
is no counterbalance in the commercial interests; that each
prospers through the prosperity of the other, {or falls
through the other's fall; that the best means of contri-
buting to one's own interest is by supporting and advanc-
ing the other's interests, and then the universal good will
be attained. Party feelings have been a great check to
commercial prosperity. They have operated already with
too much farce in the various momentous questions lately
discussed in Parliament.
The proposal of ,creating a tribunal of commerce for all
commercial questions, composed of commercial men, with
a stipendiary judge as a president, cannot but too earnestly
be inculcated. It would be an immense boon to the pub-

quish any to obtain justice by the court of laws,
through the enormous costs that they must incur, but are
deprived even of the protection of the laws through
their not being administered when the immediate enforce-

• ment is wanted.
As the co-operation of all the leaders of the public
mind is of the utmost value for obtaining any great and
comprehensive reform, I shall be very happy if you will
lend your assistance.—Yours, A MERCHANT.

OBSERVATIONS DURING A RECENT TOUR
THROUGH SIX COUNTIES OF IRELAND.

We are indebted to an Irish gentleman, resident in
Liverpool, but well qualified to form an opinion of the
real condition of his fellow countrymen, for a few facts
and observations, collected during a recent tour through
the counties of Waterford, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Carlow,
Kildare, and Dublin. These counties. together with
Wexford, may be said to comprise the finest agricultural
portions of Ireland ; and hence this may be said to pre-

sent a view of the state of the country in its most favour-

able light

Never, we learn, have the agricultural prospects of

these counties been greats

r than they now are.

Abund-

ance, splendid crops of every description, presented them
selves on all sides. The potatoe crop, in particular, was
most promising, and not the least symptom of blight had
made its appearance. The grass crops were also most
luxuriant. Never, within the experience of our inform-
ant, did the whole district present so beautiful a spectacle ;
yet, here and there, the effect was painfully marred by the
sight of the bare walls of deserted dwellings, or the traces
of recent ejections and clearances. In the midst of all
this shew of agricultural wealth, the population were en-
during most trying distress; absolutely living on the

hope Of enjoying a portion of the food by which they were
surrounded, and eking out a sorry subsistence by the sad
dest shifts. On(

;tice was

families to contribute their butter
the purpose of making up a solita
immediate necessities. The pros

n ors dozen
it was churned, for

a, to be sold for
ter being divided,

pon Whiet

7 with the roots

wag laid out in meal
and herbage of the fields, they managed to get over two
or three days, until the sarne process could be repeated.
A few, who owned a sufficient number of cows, raised a
fi •kin of their own, which, however, was obliged to he
marketed at once to provide a supply of the coarsest ft od
Tue patience of the peoph
plary ; and it is a gratifyin

r distress was exem-
nee to remark that

tiroughout the whole of these counties political and party
f *Tina- had entirely ceased to exist. The cry for repeal
and other similar bubbles has given way to the conviction
that individual advanc
be effected by individual enterprise as

e social

ale can only
y industry.

Of course, there is a reverse to this picture of the state
of feeling, among the Irish people, and a painfnl one.
The question is stirring in their minds, what is to be done
with the harvest when it is got in ? And the answer is

beginning to be made that it must not be allowed to go
out of the country to pay the demands of the landlord
We cannot, they say, perry

LI rselves

to within an hair's breadth of sta
are being agitated by which their

ce, it is

let one f

ain to be reduced

Various moi

be gained

a a dozen pay his

round, e

bring their green crops daily to feed them. Others advo-
cate passive resistance, and allowing the landowner to take
the crops off the fields himself instead of rent. It is to
be hoped, however, that none of these plans may be acted
upon, and that a little mutual forbearance may bring about
ultimately a better state of things. The great majority of
landlords in these counties have acted with great conside-
ration towards their suffering tenantry. But the collec-
tion of poor rates has been rigidly enforced, dispossessing
hundreds of the only feeble hopes to which they could
cling.

great s

It is remarkable, our informant stet
may of live stock in Ireland. I
seen, unless you meet a few in drove
of shipment; and
_c
is feared a total 1

now o
to be abating; and the impression of our
that a prosperous harve
remain, and stru

:es, to observe the

s are scarcely to be
to a port
Hence

very few

he ground. The rage for emi

Teen crops

311 was observed

ltormant was,

duce many to

a on in t

native land, if encourage-

ment of any description could be held out to them.
rested that, if emigration is still required, it tri
vantage be carried on by the aid of the landl
their own prof"
sensible plan adopted I
proprietor, who 1

with aCI.

nunificent and vet
the celebrated car

led many of his tenantry to leave
the best men, and improving their

the country, retainth,
dwellings and their condition generally.
tion, also, of better modes of clIt”-out,
sirable, the bulk of the present farmer 'n T
very ignorant of their own business.

The introc

a would be most de-

•eland beir

THE SCREW STI

NIER " VICTORY

The recent visit of C
;ent) has called the att
gs experienced by som

men t ever

credit for t

(as Gove
)ol to the

,d feeling of human

has been anticipat

team • pac

crease of shelter for the poorer
those vessels carrying Irish ca
by the great introduction of for
jug only half lath

3 to England, are,

production, !env-
ie to

cargo

suppose that though not
senger trade, they are

COllllll,

and Ireland can, m
special bills, find fa'

,ent interference and

passeng

of Ireland Union $'

m Comp

Id powerful steam vessel

h in every v

s to obviate tt

ut it is now even que

ity of parliamentaryreStric-
ionable whether the shelter
passengers will not (under
tual tonnage. The Victory,

iL•st

he superintend

connexion wit

T 1 navi-

mantiMe-
;srs. Hick

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