The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-18 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

DISGRACEFUL TREATMENT OF EMIGRANTS
-CAUTION TO STEERAGE PASSENGERS AND
OTHERS.

Yesterday, at the Police-court, informations were ex-
hibited against Rafferty, and Hackit, by two
Irishmen, Michael Hengan and another, on behalf of
themselves and others, for having received their money
for a passage to New York, under false pretences, and
afterwards refusing them places in the ship, agreed upon,
or any other. The case was before Mr. Rushton last
week, but the evidence being then incomplete, little of
moment transpired, and the facts were therefore yesterday
gone into de-novo . Mr. Davenport appeared for the de-
fendants, who were not in custody, and Lieutenant Hodder
was present on behalf of the emigrants, he being the
Government Emigration Agent, for the protection of emi-
grants leaving this port. The complainant Hengan said
that they had paid for himself and others to Rafferty the
sum of £4B, for their respective passages to New York,
in the ship " Forest Monarch." Tne money was paid into
the hands of Rafferty, in the presence of Hackit, and at
their office. The ship had since gone to sea. They had
applied to get on board the snip, but were refused, and no
other had been provided. Mr. Davenport endeavoured to
show that a mistake existed, and that Messrs. Shaw and
Saul were owners or agents of the vessel, and ought to
have looked into the matter for the complainants. Mr.
Rushton said that Mr. Davenport's clients had basely
robbed the parties. They had no authority whatever to
procure passengers for the ship in question, or to receive
money from them. Both Mr. Shaw and Mr. Saul on
being applied to for that purpose, told Rafferty that they
would have nothing to do with either of the defendants in
the matter.
The Clerk of the court then stated that, that the de-
fendants would have to pay as follows :—To be repaid,
£4B ; subsistence money -for the passengers (detained),
£ll ; penalty, £lO ; total, £69.
Mr. RUSHTON said the license of both, Rafferty and
Hackett should be immediately withdrawn ; and hethought
the other similar cases formed a good plea for the law
requiring that each of those who received licenses should
be required to lodge securities to the amount of £2OO.
Lieut. HODDER said there were other impositions upon
emigrants equally bad, but some of them could not be
punished here. He produced a letter, dated New York,
29th January, from a man named Samuel Gray, by which
it appeared that he had there paid to an agent 61 dollars
and 50 cents. for the passage from this port to New York
for his wife and children, out of which they had been
totally defrauded. On the front page of the letter (which
was affectionately written) was a printed order filled up
in ink, with the names of the family, the wife, Mary
Gray, aged 40, and Margaret, James, Samuel, Eleanor,
and John Gray, their children, aged from 10 to 2 years.
It was addressed from the firm of Olney and Cotterall,
who were represented here by a person named Rayners,
and the parties deluded by it. Lieut. Hodder also pro-
duced the Boston Vindicator of the 31st January, in
which the public are cautioned against a fellow named
Herdman, who was under heavy bonds in Boston for
robbing poor emigrants, and who had fled to Liverpool,
" to act for Olney and Co., in the capacity of mancatcher."
The Irish Emigrant Society in Boston had discovered a
number of other similar cases of defrauding. He had in
vain endeavoured to stop the practice, and warned the
public against paying any monies for drafts in Ireland or
Liverpool to the said Herdman and Co., now of 20, Wall-
street, New York. One of the informations against
Rafferty and Hacket was for refusing the complainants a
passage as stated ; another was fraudulently representing
themselves-as authorised by Messrs. Saul and Shaw, to
contract for passengers in their ship, and inducing com-
plainants and others to engage steerage passengers—well
knowing they were not authorised. Messrs. Saul and
Shaw appeared, and said they had given no such autho-
rity. The officers received instructions to apprehend the
delinquents by warrant.

A sermon on behalf of the Liverpool Church of England
School Society, was preached at St. Augustine's Church
on Sunday morning by the Rev. Henry H. Higgins. The
collection somewhat exceeded twenty-five pounds.
The body of a man unknown was found floating, on
Friday morning, near to the new lock in the canal. De-
ceased was nearly six feet high, and was dressed in a dark
frieze coat, brown plush vest, and corded trowsers.
JUST TOO LATE.—We are told that the Acadia, which
arrived here on Wednesday week from New York, brought
for M. Lamartine a cap of liberty and a stand of colours,
as a present from his fellow-republicans in America. The
gift might have created some enthusiasm had it arrived a
few weeks earlier.

STABBING CASE. —At the Police-court, yesterday,
Patrick Grimes, Anthony Kelly, and two females, were
charged with taking part in wounding and stabbing John
Joyce, in Sawney Pope-street. It appeared from a sur-
geon's certificate, that Joyce is " dangerously wounded,"
and will for some time at least be unable to appear. The
prisoners were all consequently remanded.
COMMITMENTS, YESTERDAY, AT THE POLICE-COURT.
—Margaret Murphy, for picking pockets, and upon whom
£2 7s. was found, was committed for three months.—
Peter Hagar and W. Kelly, for robbing a poor woman in
Paradise-street of ls. ; and Richard Lawler and Edward
Humphries, for daringly stealing a table from the shop of
Mr. W. Williams, in Renshaw-street, on Saturday
night, were committed for trial.

VISIT OF THE MAYOR AND TOWN COUNCIL TO THE
CHINESE COLLECTION.—Yesterday afternoon, by an in-
vitation from Mr. Langd on , the mayor and council, together
with the principal clergy and ministers of the town and
district, visited this superb collection, which we have
noticed elsewhere. After a lengthened examination of
the multitudinous articles of interest, with which the
great hall abounds, the distinguished visitors afforded
similar testimony to the grandeur and beauty of the
scene, which has so frequently been accorded to this really
matchless collection in London and Birmingham.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—When we entered this beau-
tiful retreat, a few evenings since, we could not help
remarking to a friend that it looked if possible more
beautiful than ever. The fresh-mown grass and neatly
trimmed walks—the gaiety of the flowers in never-ending
variety and loveliness—all combined to add an irresistible
charm to the whole scene. The unrivalled Madame
Warton will exhibit this evening a still more splendid
series of tableaux, being a selection from the most cele-
brated works of Rubens. The magnificent Bouquet de
Dames, got up at great expense, in order to do honor
to the patronage of the Earls of Sefton, Eglintoun, and
Glasgow, will be repeated. A trombone band of extra-
ordinary talent will produce the most beautiful harmony.
This is the first occasion of this novel treat; and for the
first time the shipping of the mighty Hudson will be
represented moving, which in passing and re-passing
appear wonderful and interesting. All the other attractive
portions of the exhibition may be seen as usual. A
fashionable morning performance will take place on
Friday next.

SUPPOSED SUICIDE BY A GIRL.—On Thursday, an
inquest was held in Salford before Mr. Rutter, the county
coroner, on the body of a girl named Sarah Anne Cassidy,
aged 13 years, who lived with her parents in Salford. It
appeared from the evidence given, that on Tuesday morn-
ing last deceased's mother, who had been lately confined,
got up at an early hour for the purpuse of getting a cup of
tea, and on going to the cupboard found that a quantity of
sugar had been taken out of the bowl. The deceased was at
this time out of the house, but on her return the mother
charged her with stealing the sugar. She denied that she
had done so but whilst lifting her hands and protesting en-
ergetically her innocence,a quantity of sugar dropped either
from her hands or some part of her clothes in which it
was concealed. The mother of the girl, who at this time
had gone to bed, on seeing the sugar fall, observed that
when she got up she would see about it ; and on making
this observation, she turned on her side and fell asleep,
but when she awoke, her daughter had left the house,
and was not heard of until Wednesday, when her body
was found in the river at the Throstle Nest. It is sup-
posed the girl threw herself into the water when she left
home ; but as no evidence was offered on this point, a
verdict of " Found drowned" was returned.—Manchester
Advertiser.

DELUSIONS.—A respectably dressed man, who de-
scribed himself as Robert Bell, 16, Crown-street, Wind-
sor, Liverpool, was charged, at the Marylebone Office,
London, on Wednesday, with having travelled in a
second class railway carriage, of the London and
Northwestern Railway, from Birmingham to London,
without paying his fare. He bad no money in his
possession. The prisoner, in reply to the charge,
produced a packet of letters, talked of large sums of
money due to him from the Emperor of Russia and the
Railway Company, and stated that he had long been
nsuccessfully pursuing his claims against the Russian
3vernment. Several letters were banded to Mr.
whom they were read. Two of them
from the secretary of
Lord Palmerston, who informed him in one of them
that his case was one in which he (Lord P.) could
not interfere, and in the other it was stated that
the claim should have been made long before. Mr.
Hume's reply to him was that he could do nothing for
him himself, and that his best course would be to apply
to the members for Liverpool, who would judge from any
statement which he might make to them as to whether
his case ought to be brought under the notice of Parlia-
ment. The prisoner said it was absolutely necessary that
he should see Lord Palmerston, but, if he-did not succeed,
he should resume painting, at which he had been recently
employed. He was ultimately discharged.
A FEMALE SAILOR. Yesterday, a good-looking
sailor youth, (as all in court took the prisoner to be,)
attired in a blue jacket, striped blue shirt, &c., was placed
at the bar of the Police-court, charged by a stout-whis-
kered seaman, named James Kitson, with having robbed
him in a lodging-house of £B. Mr. Parkinson, the
bridewell-keeper, intimated, before the case was gone
into, that the prisoner turned out to be a young woman.
The complainant then said that prisoner had accosted
him on Saturday, in the street, asking his assistance, as
he was in distress, and wanted a ship. Witness took him
and gave him his breakfast, and afterwards his dinner, at
Mr. Parker's cookshop, Wapping. It appeared that
complainant had afterwards introduced prisoner to some
of his shipmates, and that the whole had been drinking
together ratl2er cheerfully during the day. At night,
Jack invited his young companion to accept of part of his
bed, and they slept together. He had previously given
the prisoner a jacket, so as to appear more tidy than
before. In the morning, the sailor somehow suspected
the sex of his partner, and missing his money, went down
stairs to the landlord, and told him there was, he be-
lieved, a woman in his room, who had robbed him. The
landlord laughed, and said he must be mistaken, and had
perhaps had " the horrors." The prisoner was not, it
appears, really discovered to be a female until taken into
custody. Seven shillings were found on the prsoner,
and she said the jacket was given to her by complainant ;
and she found the money in it. Mr. Parkinson said he
had learned that prisoner's mother had gone from Man-
chester by a packet-ship from this port to New York,
that they had somehow missed each other in coming
here, and that the prisoner had come in disguise, in hopes
of working her way out as a sailor. Mr. Rushton re-
manded her, She save her name as Mary Ann Martin,

prisoner

WHAT IS OUR MANUFACTURING SUPREMACY ?

A very valuable letter from a merchant in Havana,
contained in Simmond's Colonial Magazine for the pre-
sent month, gives us the following as the _

Importation of Linen and Caton Goods from Great
Britain, Hamburg, and Bremen into the Havana in
1847 :

Brabantes,

Britannias,
Creas, Linen,
_Do. Cotton,

Canvass,
Drill,

Great Britain. Hamburg Bremen

Estop" alos,

Hessians,

Islander

pieces 8,818
„ 3!2,253

Listadoes, Linen,
Do. Cotton,
Madapollams,

} 3,240

12,852
6,893

Osnaliurgs,
Platillas,

31.749

Ronans;

„ 13,862

17,461
2,896

Ravensduck,

Sheetings,
Silesias,
Hose,

;, 11

35,027

46,348

~ 7,822
„ 12,527

~ 53,209
, 18,400

13,368
72,532
3.340
1.270
12,355

~ 12,217
„ 6,989
dozens. 20,715

38,185

Now, we have always been given to understand—in
fact it has been received as an established fact—that
Great Britain possessed an absolute superiority, and al-
most a monopoly, in every market in which she was per-
mitted to meet the foreign manufacturer in any thing
like fair competition. Yet in this market of the Havana,
in 1847, after having admitted the slave-grown sugar of
Cuba into our own markets, and reduced the import duty
upon every other article which she produces—after having
aid for her commerce the ruin of our own sugar-growing
colonies—we find that of those very articles, in which our
free-traders boast a supremacy in manufacturing, she
takes more from the foreign than from the British ma-
nufacturer ! With some articles, too, of linen especially,
she supplies herself exclusively from the foreigner.
It may, we are well aware, be urged that Great Britain
has only recently encouraged reciprocal relations with the
Havana, whereas her intercourse with Hamburg and
Bremen, as the chief recipients of her produce, has been
of long standing. We admit that such is the case. But
if the manufactures imported from Hamburg and Bremen
were not preferred to, or cheaper than, British goods, we
know, and every freetrader will acknowledge, that they
would not be bought by the Cuban merchants. It may
be said too, and we grant, that a considerable portion of
the imports from Hamburg and Bremen may consist of
British goods sent, as remittance for Cuban produce,
from these ports. But it is significant, as to the extent
of the validity of this plea, that the particular goods of
which the excess from the Continent is greatest, the lead-
ing fabrics are those, in the production of which it has
long been more than suspected that the German manu-
facturer could beat us.

We have of course no right to expect that Cuba, or any
other country, will give us more for our goods than they
can get them for elsewhere, whatever may be the com-
mercial policy which we adopt. We may take all the
sugar which Cuba has to sell ; but it by no, means follows
that she shall bring the money for it to our shop, however
much we increase her ability to buy. We so increased her
ability by the prosperity which we conferred upon her in
1846 ; and what was the result ? Why, that she gave to
our rival manufacturers quite as large an increase of her
favours as she did to ourselves. Thus, in the article of
Linen Listadoes, there were imported into the Havana in
1846, from Hamburgh and Bremen, 17,538 pieces, and, in
1847, 35,027 pieces ; and from Great Britain, in the former
year, 844 pieces, and, in the latter, none. Of the same
article in Cotton the import from Hamburgh and Bremen
was, in 1846, 20,171, and, in 1847, 46,348 pieces. In ho-
siery the quantities were, from Hamburgh and Bremen,
in 1846, 15,126 dozen, and, in 1847, 38,185 dozen; and
from Great Britain, in 1846, 7,105 dozen, and in 1847,
20,715 dozen. The proportion of increase is nearly the
same in every other item, and shows clearly that, in our
pursuit of abstract theory, we are throwing away the na-
tion's strength and the basis of its prosperity—our colonies
—quite as much to advantage the foreign manufacturer
as our own industrious countrymen. We are eating slave-
grown Sugar to enable the Cuba planter to expend three
times his former amount with the Russian linen manufac-
turer and the Saxon hosier.