The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

May 2,1848 k

TO ADVERTISERS.

'Fre, beg ?respectfully to call the attention of
Merchants, Brokers, Auctioneers, and others,
to the important fact that the
LIVERPOOL STANDARD
IS NOW THE
ONLY NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHED WEEKLY ON TUESDAY,
can be read on that day by the thousands

of Manufacturers and others attending
THE TUESDAY'S MARKET IN

MANCHESTER.

The STANDARD is taken at all the Newsrooms
and respectable Inns in that town and the
surrounding manufacturing district.
SECOND EDITION is published at Half-past
Two, in time for the North Mails, containing the
MARKETS, and any news of importance that
`may arrive in the course of the morning.

Elie Eitnrpoot &tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1848.

c.idW: gave, on their first proposal, very de-
go:te wave,
to our opinion of the inade-
to nature of the measures of Government
meet t11(1
our Wes - difficulties complained of by
t Indian fellow-subjects. A peddling
encouragement
gewent to immigration is too late now.
"e nitre let the time go past when even the most
liberal measure of the kind would have been prac-
tically of use. We have beggared the planters
Of our Colonies. We have mocked them with
delusive hopes until, were they even willing to place
confidence in our professions of 'a wish to aid them,
they have no longer the power to wait for the reali-
zation of our professions—as will be seen from an
article on the subject elsewhere. A supply of free
labour might have done wonders some few years

ago. It would have enabled the British planter to
protect himself against the competition, into which
We have forced him, with the slave trader and the
Owner of slave labour. But to ask him now to
enter upon such a struggle is wantonly
insulting. It is to ask him to start in a race,
in which his chances of success must inevitably be
lost before he gets within sight of the winning
Post.
It is not with surprise, therefore, that we find
such accounts coming by the last mail from our
West Indian Colonies as the following from Trim-
Wad
" Your letters of the 16th of February brought most
welcome and unexpected news of your sugar market,
Fid the miserably inefficient measures of relief proposed
IZlluner Majesty's Ministers are considered here as ta_nta,-
bee __.t
tilling absolute refusal of assistance. Sugars have
thThere is
ey n from 82.50 to 82.70, but now there are nei-
-11Vers nor money. Many estates are to be aban-
doned, even some that belong to merchants at home.
the no use in taking off the crop, since it will not pay
expense of making. The labourers, generally speak-
1n g, are behaving in the most kind and considerate manner
to the planters, but without Government relief our ruin is
sealed."
Or the following, from Jamaica :
" Since the arrival of the packet with the accounts of
the determination of Ministers not to
their grant any relief (for
promised aid in promoting immigration, and by this
'earls granting us a gradual supply of labour, is an actual
tcoekery) a sad gloom is cast over everything here, and
the planters are in utter despair. With few exceptions
'Pry
ned estate in the island will be thrown up and aban-
%o.”
In Demerara the same view is taken of the ineffi-
cient policy of the Home Government. Our ad-
l'ices by the last packet say
" It is almost needless to say that great distress exists
Illthe colony, and that- little or nothing is doing in the
waY of mercantile business any more than agricultural ;
luid the best proof of the inefficacy of the measures pro-
posed by the Home Government on the 3d ult., is that the
• t_oval of the packet which brought news of their having
Len submitted to the House of Commons has failed to
Part the slightest additional spirit to trade of any kind."
Such is the opinion of practical men in our West
Indian Colonies. And what is the opinion of
•Aitalists in our own country ? Why it is shewn
14 the fact that during the past week, in the Bank-
/111140Y Court of our own town, two of the Bar-
badoesfr Estates of Messrs. Barton, Irlam and Hig-
ii.4"ilson were handed over to the mortgagee for only
uve
ha., hundred pounds over the amount which he
i; lent upon it as upon a first-class security.
wc,",r We may even go further ; for, although this
th-ellid be the conclusion of any party, in reading
on report of the proceedings of our Bankruptcy
1„:11rt, the facts were more disastrous still, and
t're clearly traceable to our recent legisla-
n. The two estates referred to are those of
Pliiighead and Tates, in Barbadoes, which were
purchased by Messrs. Barton, Irlam, and Rig-
51"°n, so recently as in 1846, subject to certain
•annuities or other incumbrance, for £32,000.
Fourteen thousand pounds was the sum originally
borrowed upon them, as upon a first-class security,
of which £7,500 was repaid by the bankrupts,
leaving £6,500 as the mortgage. Adding the £5OO
rd, therefore, the amount for which the estates
toavhe been handed over to the mortgagee, is £7)000
No_ e taken, subject to the same incumbrances with
/11, 'eh they were bought in 1846, by Messrs. Barton,
01'11:11_, and Co., for £32,000? thus chewing a loss
ad,„9a Purchase, within two years, and since the
Pen scion of foreign slave sugar, of £25,000, inde-
the e'at of what may have been sunk in working
"tate
We 8'
havenies__L ruined, then, these once splendid colo-
utter is of no use to blink the truth as to their
feetjunl—to gratify in the first instance an af-
ex,):! abhorrence of slavery, and to try, at the
'col; ease of the British planter, an experiment,
.
e had not virtue enough to persevere in
fora moment after its result began to press pecuni-
rlY upon ourselves. We set about the creation of
4colonial Utopia, which was to be an example and
Proof to the world of the superior economy of free
er slave labour ; but we closed that Utopia
against the whole African race, whom we handed
Over to the chains and the lash of the foreign
Planter. We surrounded the British planter with
restrictions, harassed him with unworthy suspi-
e 'na, ,beat back the tide of immigration which was
Betting in from the African Continent, and which
Would long ere this have filled our West Indian
colonies with a free, a happy, and an industrious
tPulation ; and when, as the natural result of so
aind, a policy, we found their productiveness
hce_eKed, and were made to pay dearer for tropical
duel "ries, our boasted virtue gave way, our horror
av-
and slave products vanished, and we put
r max to our folly and injustice by opening
vator arkets to the foreign slave trader and culti-
rualitt' ,and thus riveted for another century the
col, cies upon the limbs of millions of our
the
ired brethren. In proof that such ,has been
so reesult, we ask of the pseudo philanthropist, who
in, Li cently babbled of imaginary negro sufferings
neLue British Colonies, and boasted of the
and civilization to be established there, to
'oupm.pare the condition of those colonies with that
04thrfe. foreigner whom we have aggrandized by
Qr. ,a. la d Policy. The following is an extract from
test advices from Havannah :
cro"l22.e,Er.9.duction of sugar continues to increase, and the
ne,c `-'„12b!40-7 has been the largest ever gathered. Many
plantatiogt°
rich
,7,Lats are coming into cultivation, there is much
.elany.iiiluevial soil on the very coast not yet broken up,
es have been turned over from coffee to sugar
blare
or 1, and the present prices, which seem likely to be
(*ous less maintained, are still sufficiently high to en-
weqldgt the production. The only check it could receive
able
on ea occasioned by plantation labour not being attain-
moderate terms as formerly ; but this planters
em
Ito!? Jesllm_edy by the adoption of the most perfect classes
coupledB
results eq, some of which have given the most brilliant
d- • It is not surprising that with the enormous pro
_w,ietrhatll ole_etxteraordmary high prices which
to 25 last year,
451yPperr oedetinct cotestates have yielded net 20
heir actual value, and some have cer-
Thus
hslave cultivation prospers; and the only check
'eu ar told it can receive, arises from our u, to e
into coffee
an increased supply o, f slaves to be
421_ increased bonn
-orked up
to and
man sautgaalri.n
Waendhaavlethgivehn
our cruisers may rend r t', -etrade ; more difficultg

and hazardous, the sure result will be to impel the
foreign planter to double the tasks of the wretched
labourers whom he holds already in his toils.
"The most perfect classes of machinery" which
we have encouraged him to adopt will be found in
nine cases out of ten to consist of a whip or a
goad of increased severity.

The congregation of St. Luke's Church in this town
has presented the Rev. B. A. Marshall, M. A., with a
purse, containing 100 sovereigns, as a token of their
esteem.
On Wednesday night, James O'Neill, 54 years old, was
found to have died in bed of apoplexy.
The Rev. Dr. M`Neile is announced to attend the an-
nual meeting of the British Reformation Society, at the
Hanover-square Rooms, on Thursday, the 11th instant.
PUBLIC BATHS.—On Thursday, it was agreed that Mr.
Parker and Mr. Bennett should, in conjunction with the
engineer, proceed to London, to view the baths and wash-
houses there, which the engineer has strongly recom-
mended. .

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A woman, named Catherine Gorman, is in custody at
Birkenhead, charged by Dr. Vaughan with kicking ano-
ther female, named Eliza Cochrane, so seriously in the
abdomen that she is not expected to recover. The parties
lived in Gilbertson-court, Albion-street, and the brutal
violence originated in a quarrel.
DEATH FROM BURNING.—On the 26th March, Eliza-
beth Benson, aged 16, living in Lower Mersey View,
North Shore, was found in the road, all in flames. The
fire was extinguished, but deceased was much burnt. She
died from the injuries on Thursday in the Northern Hos-
pitol. She was of weak intellect.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, PRINCE'S PARK.—An exten-
sive building, in Mill-street, Toxteth-park, capable of
accommodating between 200 and 300 children, is being
fitted up as a temporary school, in connexion with this
church. The premises, which possess a convenient access,
are well lighted, and will be neatly finished inside and out
in a Gothic style.
NEW MAGISTRATES.—On Tuesday, at Kirkdale ses-
sions, Ralph A. Thicknesse, Esq., M.P., of Beech-hill,
Wigan ; William Gillibrand Unsworth, Esq., of the
Manor House, Maghull ; and James Culshaw, Esq., of
Frenchfield, Ormskirk, qualified as justices of the peace
for the county. On Thursday, W. Brown, Esq., M.P.,
of Richmond-hill, Liverpool, also qualified. On Friday,
the Rev. John Atherton Kershaw. of Ormskirk, Qualified.
IRISH PIKES.—On Thursday, two specimens of the pikes
recommended for use by the physical force Repealers of
Ireland were shownlin the Fxcbange News-room. One of
them is a blade about a foot long, apparently made of
well-tempered steel. The other is of a similar shape, with
the addition of a hook, which might be applied in certain
cases where a thrust from the pike would not be available.
Both are dangerous-looking weapons, and much more
likely to do injury than the 63d. cutlasses of the Chartist
ironmonger.
HIGGINSON V. SHAND.—In this case the plaintiff has
obtained an injunction ex parte to restrain the Royal
bank from proceeding against him upon a guarantee, for
advances made by the bank to the firm of Messrs. Barton,
Irlam, and Higginson, merchants at Liverpool. The
plaintiff, being the brother of one of the partners, dis-
puted his liability, after the transactions which had taken
place between the firm and the bank. The Vice-Chan-
cellor was of opinion that the injunction ought to be con-
tinued, but reserved the consideration of the costs until
the hearing of the cause.
INQUESTS.—On Tuesday, William Rutter came down
from Birmingham in one of the trains to the Lime-street
station. On getting out of the carriage he complained of
indisposition, when a surgeon was sent for immediately.
The deceased became gradually worse, and died shortly
afterwards.—On Tuesday, Charles Beresford, a child ten
years old, living in Eldon-street, was found drowned in a
pond near Victoria-road. The deceased went out on Sun-
day afternoon to angle for small fish, and nothing was
heard of him until he was found, after a long search, as
above stated.—About three weeks ago, a young man,
named Peter Hunt, a painter, was working at two new
houses in West Derby, when he fell from a ladder, and
received a compound fracture of the left leg and right foot.
He died of his injuries on Wednesday.
DEFEATING THE LEVY OF A COUNTY COURT.—On
Saturday, Cecilia Slinger, a middle-aged woman, was
charged with having stolen a considerable quantity of fish.
That morning, it appeared, Patrick Maher, one of the
officers of the county court, had made a levy, in the fish-
market, upon the stall of Mr. John Wheaton. He had
given Wheaton a short time to make up the amount due,
and left the fish on the stall in the charge of an assistant,
when the prisoner came and carried off a considerable
number of soles, which formed the chief part of the stock.
The prisoner, who appeared much agitated, stated that
she was a servant of Mr. John Bird, who keeps a stall in
St. John's Market. Mr. Wheaton had that morning, in
Mrs. Bird's absence, obtained thirty dozen of soles, but,
as a former order had not been paid for, she had been sent
to bring back the fish. She knew nothing of any levy
whatever. Mr. Bird corroborated the prisoner's state-
ment, and she was discharged.
INCREASED BATES.—From estimates submitted by the
engineer and surveyor, the sub-committee of the Health
Committee recommend that the rates for 1848-9, under
the sanatory act, shall be :—Liverpool paving rate ls. in
the pound, sewerage Id., water Id., general 5d., total
Is. 7d. The paving rate is increased 2d., and the general
rate Id. as compared with last year.—The Kirkdale pav-
ing rate is to be Is. Bd. in the pound, sewerage 2d., water
ld., general 10d., total 2s. 9d. These rates are double
those of last year.—The Everton paving rate is to be Is. 7d.
sewerage Id., water ld., general Sd., total 2s. 6d.—West
Derby, paving ls. Sd., sewerage 2d., water Id., general
9d., total 2s. Bd.—The Tosteth-park paving rate is to be
Is. 5d., sewerage 3d., water Id., general Is. Id., total
2s. 10d.
In all these districts the rates exhibit a consider-
able increase. Surely we cannot afford to go on with the
Rivington Pike scheme with such a prospect as this before
us.

BARTON, IRLAM, AND HIGGINSON'S AFFAIRS.—On
Wednesday, the case of these bankrupts again came be-
fore Mr. Sergeant Ludlow, at the Bankruptcy Court.
Several new proofs of debts were tendered, amongst others
one for 600 dollars, stated to be due upon the property of
the bankrupts' estate.: Mr. Lowndes, for the assignees,
objected to the debt being allowed • and,i after a somewhat
lengthy argument, this claim, and others of a similar
character, were not allowed.—lt was expected that the
bankrupts' balance sheet would have been ready for this
meeting ; but it was not yet filed. The commissioner
said he understood the balance sheet was to be filed on
Saturday ; but, from the size which it would neces-
necessarily be, he suggested that a sufficient time should
be taken for its examination. Two sugar plantations •in
the West Indies, belonging to the estate of the bankrupts
were put up by auction under an order of the court. Sir
Semuel Osborne Gibbes, Bart., the mortgagee, who was
present, offered £5OO for the property; and there being
no other bidder, it was knocked down to him for that sum.
STREET ACCIDENT.—On Saturday, an inquest was held
before the Borough Coroner, on view of the body of
Eleanor Batty Quince, aged 3 years, and daughter of a
pilot. On Friday afternoon, deceased was run over by a
spring cart in Fazakerley-street. One of the wheels
passed over her head, and she died almost instantly. The
cart was going at rather a rapid rate, according to one
witness ; but merely walking, according to some other
evidence. The coroner explained that there was no rate
of driving defined by law. If a party were driving along
the North Shore, to wit, he might go as fast as he pleased
provided he did not endanger human life ; but if driving
in a narrow, crowded thoroughfare, a snail's pace might
be illegal. If the person in charge of a vehicle displayed
gross negligence, or gross want of caution, and death
ensued, he was clearly guilty of manslaughter. The
street in this case was very narrow; there was no direct
evidence to shew how the accident actually occurred ; and
if they did not deem it a case of manslaughter, it would
come within the category of accidents. Verdict—" Acci-
dental death." The coroner admonished the driver,
Simpson, who was in custody, to be more cautious in
future.
ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. ENGAGEMENT OF MISS
CUSHMAN.—The announcement of the appearance of this
talented actress, in some of the most admired characters,
has attracted excellent houses, during the week, notwith-
standing the numerous other attractions provided for the
festive season. On Monday,Wednesday, and Saturday the
musicalplay of "Guy Mannering" was performed, the great
feature being, of course, the striking delineation of the
gipsy Meg Merrilies' by Miss Cushman herself. In ad-
dition, however, the last was a very good one, developing
the very considerable accession of talent with which the
manager has commenced the season. In particular, we
cannot but point to Mr. C. Rice's Dandie Dinmont which,
though a little overdone, perhaps, assures that, of this line
of characters, the amphitheatre possesses an able repre-
sentative. The Bailie Xucklethrift of Mr. T. Taylor is
clever ; and Mr. Gilbeigh, who played Gabriel, possesses
an excellent voice, and will be an excellent actor. Two
ladies, also, Miss Connor and Miss Phillips, we do not re-
member to have seen before. Their execution of the parts
allotted to them—Lucy Bertram and Julia Mannering—
was very meritorious. In the Dominie, Mr. James Brown
was very happy; and at times most affecting. The calls
for the favourites were many and enthusiastic after each
performance. On Tuesday "The Stranger" was played ;
and on Thursday and Friday " Henry the Eighth," in
which Miss Cushman's Queen Katharine was a most
striking impersonation. The production of the " Scornful
Lady" was postponed until Wednesday (to-morrow) night,
in order to afford time for ample rehearsal.
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—The week ending
this day has been characterized chiefly by extremely cold
frosty winds—particularly on the few first days. The
winds were variable, ranging round and back from S.E. to
N.W. Friday—with the wind from the latter quarter—
was a bitter cold day, more piercing indeed than any, but
one or two, which we remember since Christmas, such not
being expected, especially aftet the sultry atmosphere pre-
ceding and during the thunder storm in March. Satur-
day, Sunday, and yesterday, were fine and clear, but the
air, in the shade, was still cold ; and in the country slight
frosts were experienced before daybreak each day. The
Carnarvonshire mountains are still partially covered with
snow, and no doubt much snow has fallen in the moun-
tainous districts in the north of England and in Scotland.
The effect of the cold wind alluded to, superadded to an
unusually wet spring, has had, in the districts surround-
ing us, an effect on the field crops, especially wheats and
grasses, which is to be deplored. In some fields the for-
mer has assumed a yellowish tint, and the latter is much
retarded, and less vividly green than it was three weeks
ago. Congenial weather henceforth would, however, re-
deem much of, if not all the damage. The early potatoes
have also suffered from the frosty winds, which have
bordered the leaf with a yellow tinge. Fruit trees not
being forward, have been but little affected. It is proba-
ble that we shall have an early and favourable change, for
at Wallasey, a rather exposed situation, the Cuckoo was
frequently heard and seen on Sunday evening on the
sand-hills; and at the same time three swallows were
observed in the same locality. Generally, however,
vegetation is backward for the season, in this county and
in Cheshire.