The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-29 00:00:00

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take this amount that has
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dity as subject, and being an amount that has the same
relation to all parties interested would form a perfectly
just standard, and must continue always to retain this
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the emigrants to the inhabitants of the colonies to which
they flocked. The latter have, however, in this respect,
only suffered in common with Liverpool and various other
places in Great Britain, to which the natives of Ireland
have brought the fever which raged in that country."—
Blue Book, p. 28.

That the appalling mortality which has: taken
place may be regarded as only a temporaryy, inflic-
tion is abundantly proved by a return for the five
years ended 1846, contained in the same Blue Book,
page 52, in which a large emigration is sbiArn to
have been conducted, under the existing laiv, both
"healthily and prosperously," the deaths on board
not having exceeded half per cent. or five in 1000.
It is shown, also, (page 33) that whereas the German
emigrants last year arrived in the colonies healthy,
there having been no fever in Germany, and the
mortality was only slight in vessels from the more
healthy British and Irish ports, the disease 'in ves-
sels from Liverpool and Cork, where the fever pro-
duced by the famine was most extensive, was uni-
formly severe and fatal. And it is even 'shown
that there were instances of vessels from Cork,
carrying military pensioners, well fed and under
the care of their own surgeons, in which the pas-
sengers suffered quite as much as other emigrants
from the same locality. In short, the ordinary
arrangements were sufficient for vessels sailing from
healthy ports, whilst the best arrangements were
futile, if they sailed from infected ports. The fol-
lowing extract of a letter from Dr. Douglas a gen-
tleman who has had great opportunities of observing
the condition of the emigrants on their arrival in
Canada, is conclusive as to the cause of the high
rate of mortality observed :
" All the Cork and Liverpool passengers, he
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k: 22. 3:

We have the authority, too, of a highly respect-
able Liverpool firm, extensively engaged in the
passenger trade, for saying that—

" The great mortality last year did not occur amongst
the ordinary class of emigrants, viz., those who pay their

.ve means to provide suit-

usivilvio that unfortunate

1.4 proprietors. Thousands of this class
Ali for this port and various

season

We repeat, there is ample room for active and
useful exertion and judicious legislation, without
rushing upon the evils which we have pointed out.
Let government adopt the views of the shipowner,
more liberal than their own and more practical, as
to the space allowed each emigrant on ship-board,
and the dietary to be provided for them; and,
above all, let every passenger, before embarking,
undergo strict medical examination to test his fitness
to undergo the hardships of the voyage. This is
the utmost we can do with safety. Anything fur-
ther, by which the cost of transit to our colonies
will be increased, can only tend to keep at home,
in a condition of hopeless pauperism, a population
who might, by industry and enterprise, raise them-
selves to Comfort and competence in a new country.

An eventful week has passed over our heads. A dynasty
has been swept away ; and its founder—the Nestor of
monarchs—whom but yesterday we saw intriguing for
thrones for his family, is now an outcast from his king-
dom ; and, perhaps, by this time is indebted to shelter
and protection from his rebellious subjects to that very
Britain which sheltered the obscurity of his earlier days.
We give at length a detail of the strange occurrences of
the week, so far as they have yet reached us in a connected
shape. AS to their result, and a possible influence in
disturbing the peace of Europe, it would be premature
now to speculate. Unfortunately, we fear that they must
be productive of one result, little less disastrous to
Europe than war itself; viz. :—the adoption, by the great
powers, of that armed attitude which so effectually pro-
strates the industry, and checks the commerce of their
people, by the increase and prosperity of which the true
interests of mankind are alone effectually promoted.

The meeting held on Thursday last, to petition Parlia-

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sa s , are went against the monstrous Budget of her Majesty's
y
.• dead from starvation and want before embarking, Ministers; must exercise an important influence over the
and the least bowel complaint, which is sure to come with decision of the Legislature, if the calm, manly, and digni-
change of food, finishes them without a struggle. I
w people so indifferent to life. They would con- fled protest of the first commercial community in the
inue in the same berth with a dead person, until the empire is allowed to have its due weight. Seldom have
seamen or captain dragged out the corpse with boat-
hooks." And again, "It has been said, by people not in- we attended a meeting in this or any other town the pro-
hooks."
formed on the subject, that the frightful mortality and ceedings of which were conducted with greater decorum ;
sickness was caused by the over-crowded state of the and never did we attend one in which the feelings of those
passenger-vessels. and the want of proper food and medi- present were characterized by deeper earnestness and
cal attendance. Now, however much these miiht have unanimity, and which was in every respect so worthy of
mitigated the evil, it could be easily proved tha it was
being regarded as conveying the sentiments and the deter-
not caused by their want. The thousands of • German
emigrants who arrived this year, all came in good health, mined resolve of the, classes of which it was composed.
and they were more crowded in consequence of their Of the matter and manner of the various speeches ad-
greater quantity of baggage. The transports Blenheim dressed to the meeting we need say little ; for they are
and Maria Somes, with pensioners and their families from above all praise of ours, and not only reflect infinite credit
Cork, were just as sickly as other vessels, yet these had
plenty of room in well-ventilated vessels, good staff sur-
upon the speakers, but upon our town itself which can
geons, and were regularly supplied with good wholesome produce such men amongst its sons. We may refer,
food, animal and vegetable, daily. The disease was in
however, particularly, to the manly and eloquent, and at
all cases brought on board the vessels•(not generated the same time business-like speeches of his worship the
there), and it found fit subjects in the half-starved raise- Mayor, Mr. Hugh Hornby, and Mr. Robertson Glad-
:Aches who composed the mass.' - Mr. Perley, stone, which will bear a comparison with—aye, and even
_.,oe intelligence and zeal are favourably known to Lord shame, by their strict and undeviating pertinence to the
Grey, also concurs in chiefly attributing
-c the greatly in- question in hand—some of the more pretentious displays
of the more practised orators of the House of Commons
the emigrants
fatigues itself. Such ability, thus drawn from the shad,
g" -
-, ), which it is ordinarily concealed ; such 4^-`-•
rity of thought extemnd-s---

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us, as they did to Mr. Robertson Gladstone, and must
suggest to the community at large, the question,—why,
in this great commercial country, every step of whose
policy affects, for good or evil, not only our own commer-
cial and industrial interests, but those of the whole world
are men possessing them in such a large measure per,--'
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tea

.to remain in a private station, whilst demagogues and
cks occupy the seats which they ought to fill, and
strut and fret their little hour upon a stage which they
were never meant and never fitted to occupy.
A constituency which should voluntarily select any
one of these gentlemen as its representative in Parlianipnt

would do itselt immortal honour.
Not the least gratifying feature of the meeting, and or
calculated to add largely to the weight of the petition,

of men of both shades of politics, is the
onded by Mr. Harold Littledale

been s

As the Teprec:

sentative of one.of the most important interests in- the
port, and himself one of the leviathans of the commercial
world, the name and sanction of Mr. Littledale to such a
document avouches that the voice which has gone forth
from amongst us is not the petty and querulous whisper
of petty men, but the voice of the wealth and the enter-
prise of Liverpool uniting with the cry of her depressed
industry and her outraged sense of justice.

We beg to remind our readers that the Archbishop of
Canterbury elect will consecrate the new church in
Prince's Park, on Thursday next.
At the police-court yesterday a man named John Lucas
was sent to the sessions charged by John Farrell with
breaking into his house while he was at chapel on Sunday
evening, and attempting to rob it.
Joseph Napier, Esq., M.P. for the University of Dublin,
passed through this town yesterday on his way to London,
where he is to take his seat in the House of Commons
this evening. We understand the honourable gentleman
attended divine service at Christ Church in the forenoon.
ST. SIMON'SNEW CHURCH.—This church will be con-
secrated to-morrow (Wednesday), at three o'clock, when
a sermon in aid of the building fund will be preached by
his grace the Archbishop of Canterbury elect. In the
evening a sermon will be preached by the Rev. T. Nolan,
for the same object.
THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ELECT."--On
Sunday morning last, his Grace preached a sermon in
Christ Church, Flookersbrook, Chester, after which a
collection was made towards defraying the expenses of
conducting public worship. In the afternoon, his Grace
went to hold a confirmation in the Parish Church of
Tattenhall,

The Rev. JONATHAN BROOKS then addressed the as-
sembly nearly as follows :—I beg leave to assure you, sir,
that I feel a great gratification in being present on this
occasion, assembled as we are to lay tne foundation stone
of whet I trust and believe will be a real blessing to this
neighbourhood. Sir, I feel obliged to you for the kind
manner in which you have been pleased to allude to my
services. There is nothing which gives me greater plea-
sure than to see the extension of God's Word over this
country, more especially in this parish, and to see the
erection of buildings dedicated to the worship of God
amongst the great mass of the population. I need not
say that in this country the great body of the population
has far out grown the extent of accommodation provided
for them by the Church. Sufficient attention was not
paid to this subject, and the consequence was that for
some years the increase of Churches stood still; but the
eyes of all have been opened, and the finances of all have
been used to provide for these wants. In this country there
was no part where this want was more felt than in the ma-
nufacturing districts, and in our great commercial towns.
The respected Prelate who has lately been elevated to another
sphere of labour—when he first came to reside amongst us,
could not but be struck with this want, nor did he fail to do
all which lay in his power to make provision for it. His lord-
ship has acted for a great length of time as president of a
society called the Diocesan Church Building Society, and
during the time he has presided over this diocese has con-
secrated bOween 230 and 240 churches in connection with
the established religion of this country—a much greater
number than has ever been consecrated by any other pre-
late. lam one among those who keenly feel the loss of
such a bishop, and I will take this opportunity of express-
ing my regret at the removal of his lordship ; but I believe
and hope that what will be our loss will be the church's
gain, I believe the untiring zeal, patient discrimination,
and the more than usual kindliness of disposition and con-
ciliatory temper which he enjoys, qualifies at all times, but
more especially at this time, its possessor for the high sta-
tion his lordship is called upon to fill ; I believe his carry-
ing these qualifications along with him will be the means
of using aright the power and authority with which he has
been entrusted by the Sovereign, and that he will rule the
church with that discretion we shall have reason to rejoice
at. His lordship, seeing the wants of the diocese, imme-
diately took active measures to supply it; and it will be
in your recollection that immediately after he came
amongst us he established a society, called the Diocesan
Church ißuilding Society. It is with an honest feeling of
pride that this town of Liverpool, without any hope of a
compensatory return to itself, supplied a large portion
of the funds of that society. Its success has been most
eminent, and many churches have been erected by its
means, particularly in the large town of Manchester. It
would be doing injustice to Manchester, however, not to
notice what had been done in that town in behalf of the
object. They had raised there upwards of £lO,OOO for
new churches. Before that, the dearth of church accom-
modation was much greater than amongst us, but it hai
now been in a great measure supplied. From Manchester
we must come to our own town. You ( Mr. Molyneux)
took the lead in this great object—you and your co-as-
sistant, Mr. Groves, as treasurers of the society, have
set a noble example by which wealth may be applied for
the benefit of others by the hundreds. God grant that
others who may be placed in similar circumstances may
have the zeal to go and do likewise. We raised £20,000
with the intention of building four new churches. You
know that • this experiment has been most successful.

The churches have been built—are open—and are now
filled. So far from there being any want of inclination on
the part of the people to fill them, the churches are so
crowded that they want enlarging. The success of the
plan has been so great that we have been induced to es-
tablish a second society for the purpose of building four
more churches in districts three of which have no place of
worship whatever. These contain a large mass of people
who may literally be said to be without government in
the world. For the first of these churches the Rev. Mr.

Connor, aided by some members of his congregation, not
of the higher classes, have raised no less than £4,000 to-
wards the erection of St. Simon's Church. Most gladly

have we voted £2,000 towards that object. That church
is now open and will be consecrated in a short time. We
have now arrived at this point, that we are now about to
lay the foundation stone of a new church here, and soon
do we hope to see it opened and attended by the population
of this neighbourhood ; but that is not all—there is a church
building, and it will soon be opened, at the sole cost and ex-
pense of our present worthy chief magistrate. That church
will be a lasting memorial of the advantages derived from
an earthly father, and of the pious zeal the sons have
manifested in behalf of their fellow-men. In a few weeks
more, 1 hope we shall be able to open, in connexion with
the established church of this country, a church that was
to be built to be occupied by members of the Church of
Scotland, and hone in the course of_a few weeks more we

shall have the pleasure of opening this building ; but still
our work is not yet complete. We have, districts in the
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the neighbouring districts of Bevington and Vauxhall—
about which you have seen such a lamentable statement
in the local newspapers—in these two districts there are

must so

and were well re-

the expression, we found great succ(
ceived whereever we went, and we had raised between
£13,000 and £14,000, when the present disastrous panic
took place in our commercial affairs. That is an event
which I am sure we all rezrot_ hat T nns-tm,4-

•vvniita tut wuru, EMU ueneving mat tne time is not tar
distant when we shall see a favourable change in the pre-
sent aspect of affairs, and that there will be no difficulty
in raising the necessary funds for those two churches. 1

say that we have been encouraged in this ex-
by the provisions of an act of parliament,

passed some time ago, by which enactment a sum 01
£l5O a-year is granted as an income to all churches
built in destitute neighbourhoods. Now this is. a very

great assis

irevious to this act

passing, we

raise