The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-08 00:00:00

o was transported for the robbing of Mr

Carter, had, we learn, made a co.
implicating the prisoner, of whose guilt tl
surances in several other cases, but the police c
tain sufficient evidence to ensure a conviction until the pre-
sent case was investigated and pursued.

ere were strong as-
d not ob-

COURT OF PASSAGE.
The Court of Passage was held yesterday,
importance took place.

but no trials o:

IREI,AND

(FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Dublin, 6th Jana 1841

Emigration to the West Indies is altogether a novel specu-
lation in this country, and if it- should become a favourite,
will have conquered many prejudices and difficulties which
now throw a powerful barrier in its way. The Romanist
Peasantry, however willing to exercise their talents in merry
England, have never been greatly addicted to distant emigra-
tion. It has been. frequently remarked, and truly so, that
they cling to the natale solum with a desperate fidelity—pre-
ferring the poorest fare, and severest labour in it, to far
brighter prospects; or even certainties, out of it. The priest-
hood have invariably laboured to strengthen this feeling—
on a calculation, probably, that the larger their flocks, how-
ill in condition, the greater their own power and influence
must be. •

Notwithstanding these opposing influences, there is still

cell know, si tolerably large, and constantly increasing
emigration from Ireland—the law of necessity being more
powerful than that of either priest or prejudice.
As a proof of this fact, I refer to the sailing of the Robert
Kerr last week from the Shannon, with, in a 11,139 emigrants,
for Jamaica. Now in this case every dissuasion was used to
prevent the parties from taking—or persevering in—such a
step. Father Mathew bad plied his eloquence, and sundry
professing patriots had done their best to divert the stream.
from this course, but in vain. The Robert Kerr has not only
sailed with her full complimcntof passengers, but was obliged
to refuse many more from want of room. This is a striking
proof that the strongest prejudices may be overcome if due
means be put in,operation for the purpose. Mr. Pirrie, the
owner of the vessel, acted by the passengers in the most libe-
ral manner, offering to all liberty to depart without charge,
after they had been, some of them several days, on board at
his expense. They declined his offer however, and expressed
themselves perfectly content to remain.
There is a great want of correct information here with
regard to every thing connected with West Indian emigra-
tion. It is generally supposed that out-door labour at

Jamaica, or any other of the.islands, would be immediately
fatal' to European constitutions. No d;stinction is made be-
tween situations, and.no just conception is formed of the
nature of the work to be done. To remove this ignorance,
and disseminate more just notions, both with regard to
labour and climate, the press should be resorted to, through
its instrumentality, much might be done. At the same time,
we may rest assured, that in the experiment now in course
of trial succeed, it will do more to procure to supply of
labourers from Ireland for the west, than anything that could

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be achieved through the medium of printed publications.
I shall not sicken you by.repeating the echoes on the sub-
ject of " repeal" and " Irish manufactures." Here one's
ears are dinned eternally with them. On the 18th the agitator
goes to Belfast to partake of a feed, to be given him by the
radicals of that town—thence to Glasgow, and other places
on a like tour of excitation. He has established a Repeal
Rent, which turns in something between £5O and £lOO par
week. This is a point, which among all his turnings, he is
quite sure never to forget. It is one of the mainsprings of
all his movements. His funds, I suspect, are rather low at
present; at all events I,P ie mn,
smallest contribution

The new lev-y is a shilling a yea

he advantage of being payable by instalinents—" and
says Daniel, " so base as be a slave, that may be
emancipated on such cheap terms ? A shilling a year ! why,

it is but a farthing a week: and a whole mouth for nothir

—pay up, pay up." It is astonishing that so
transparent a cheat can still find such a multitude of soft-

horns to impose upon.
On Saturday morning last, the extensive printing-office of
Mr. Folds of Bachelor's-walk, was destroyed by fire. The
property consumed is suliposed to have been of the value of
£s,ooo—and not insured. The circumstance, however,
which gives most interest to the occurrence, is the suspicion
that it was the work of an incendiary. Mr. Folds has been

for some time at variance with the society of operative
printers, and this fact, in addition to the unexplained origin
of the fire, and something mysterious in the mode in which
it broke out, has led to this supposition. The matter will
undergo a strict investigation, and is likely to lead to much
discussion. That no ground will be discovered to charge the

working printers, as abody, with so abominable a crime, I.
feel quite persuaded : at the same time, combination amongst
workmen in this city has been, either immediately or re-
motely, the cause of so many disasters, that I should nut be
surprised if it should prove to have been in some way in-
strumental to the production of the calamitous result in
question._ . . _

Lord Morpeth has declared war against the Royal Dublin
Society—an institution founded solely for the promotion of
science and the arts. The members were obnoxious as
being too conservative, .and merely for this reason, the so-
ciety is threatened with destruction. Its general usefulness
depends on the grants which it receives from parliament,
and these the whig secretary threatens to withdraw, unless
his various plans of levelling and equalising all classes and
parties, be acceded to.
A horrible murder was committed in the generally quiet

and peaceable county of Armagh, near the village of New-
townhamilton' on Saturday last, on the person of Mr.
Powell, a land surveyor, in the employment of Mr. Quin.
He was attacked by a band of ruffians while .sitting at his
own fire-side, in company with his two daughters, dragged
thence and shot through the heart, just outside his owu
door ! His only offence was that of superintending the
building of a school-house, whose intended use was not
agreeable to the plans of that cursed power which reigns so
mightily yet mysteriously in this unhappy land.

AGENTS FOR IRON WORKS PERQUISITES

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SIR,—Perceiving that the columns of your valuable journal
are devoted to the advancement of shipping and general com -
mercial affairs, and that they are at all times ready to dis
cover any irregularity of an obnoxious tendency to those
interests, I have determined to address you, in order to
reveal to the mercantile public an instance of discrepancY
that has, for many interests, been too long overlooked and
concealed.

Having occasion in the course of my profession as a ship-
broker to visit the ports of Cardiff and Newport, places where
the most extensive iron export business in the united kingdom
is carried on, I was somewhat surprised upon learning the
singular manner in which the agents for the iron proprietors
conduct business, as regards the interests of the consignees,
or parties at a' distance, who give their orders to• the iron-
masters, the said agents employers, and which are confided
to the latter gentlemen to execute. Now it appears that
these agents for the iron works; either upon their own re-
sponsibility, or by the permission of their employers, assimi-
lated the occupation of the shipbroker with that of reir own
situation as agent; and I find that they not only connect the
professions, but blend the profits arising from both callings.
In the character of a broker they scrupulously exact the com-
missions arising upon the freight of all vessels chartered there,
or by them, thereby affording the shipmaster or owner no
alleviation from expense, although materially interrupting the
business of :the fair and legitimate shipbrokers, and what is
more flagitious than all, subjecting the interest of the con-
signee, which they are by every principle of commerce, as
friends of their employers, bound to protect, to a species of
speculation which I shall now endeavour to explain.
1 find that the rate of freight which is paid by the con-
signees is left entirely in the hands of the agents to regula
as per orders from the consignees• with the shipmaster. upirn
which occasion they assume the functions of the broker. The
difficulty for one agent to represent the consignee and the
shipmaster's interests became obvious to me, and must be so
to the minus of all those conversant on these matters. I was
therefore naturally led to inquire into the subject, when, as
1 suspected, I found discrepancies that fortunately must exist
when the affairs of the seller are placed at the disposal of the
buyer. Of these malpractices, when at Cardiff and Newport,
I received convincing demonstration in several instances.
I have known sixpence and one shilling put on extra freight
to have been sacrificed as a matter of •per feet indifference to
the ship's benefit by the agent, in order to secure a commis-
sion upon the freight, without any reference or attention to
the consignee's interests, but entirely subverting-it to the
sh p's—a lavish mode of proceeding that commercial enter-
prise can at the present but ill afford to tolerate, but which
must ensue, when the iron master's agent makes for himself
au individual interest iu the ship's advantage.
When shipping at these ports becomes scarce, the afore-
said agents, as a last resource, apply to the established bro-
kers for tonnage, from whom they exact one-half of their
commission as brokerage. In fact, an intelligent firm would
have long since addressed the consignees upon this subject,
but, allowing themselves to be absorbed by the trifling advan-
tages that these agents occasionally allow them, together with
their timidity at losing them, has restrained them from doing
so. However, as I am convinced, from the spirit already
evinced by some of the most respectable iron proprietors,
that this malpractice needs only to be generally known to be
immediately remedied, I beg to request that you will afford
publicity to this communication, as 1 believe you will agree
with me that such'a desirable alteration is not unworthy of
being obtained through the medium of your influential and
impartial paper.—l remain, &c.,
A LIVERPOOL SHIP BROKER
AND SUBSCRIBER.

FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES

Duties paid to government by the fire insurance offices for
the year 1839 :

SUN (established in 1710) £158,688
Alliance
Atlas
British
,
County
Globe 33,320
'
Guardian
Hand-in-hand 10,993
Imperia 1....
Independent and W '4iiddlesex 2,071
Licensed Victuall 5,209
London - 13,258
Phoenix -
130,149
Protector scontinued) 1
Union..
Westminster 18,662

COUNTRY OFFICES

Birmingham X 8,278
Birmingham District 3,151
Bristol (discontinued) 3,407
Bristol Union
Caledonian 6,185
Essex Economic
Essex and Suffolk 5,698
Hants, Sussex, and Dorset .... 2,614
Kent
Leeds and Yorkshire. 11,659
Leicestershire
Liverpool
Manchester
Newcastle-upon-Tyne...
New Norwich Equitable
Norwich Union
North British
Reading
Salop
Sheffield
United
Suffolk East 1
Suffolk West I
West of England
Yorkshire
York and London
Scottish Union
Hibernian(discontinued)
Irish Offices National ........ 5,135
1
Patriotic
THIRTY-FOUR FIRE-OFFICES (chid!), those lately est.
blished) have discontinued their business.

5,886
1,512
66,873
8,185

11,296

11,583
20,502

The Royal Agricultural Society of England has put the
sum of £2OO per annum at the disposal of the Veterinary
College, for the express purpose of improving the system of
education in reference to the diseases of cattle, sheep, and
}4s.