The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-15 00:00:00

racter, we can
" Badly

why, her Majesty's Navy canna
produce vessels so well constructed for the trade
they are built for. "Badly frilind" I cnrennr nno of

constructed

these vessels has to pass the strictest surdveiiianee
of a government officer, unremitting in his atten-
tion to his duties; and they are moreover regarded
by the entire mercantile world as amongst the best
found vessels sailing the ocean. " Badly com-
manded" ! the bulk of the emigrant vessels sail-
ing from this port are American ; and every cap-
tain is part owner. As a class they are most supe-
rior men, treated by their consignees in this country
as gentlemen, and bearing out the character by
their conduct both afloat and ashore. Of the effi-
both of ships and commanders we have
evidence in the fact of the small amount of casual-
ties attending the emigrant vessels from this port.
We sent out last year 153,902 emigrants, of whom
147,745 went to the United States. The number
-of vessels employed was 565 ; and only eleven sus-
tained damage. The Atlantic was abandoned off
Ardrossan, where she had gone ashore ; the pas-
sengers were brought to Liverpool and forwarded
to America by other ships. The Larne was run
into at sea, put into Waterford. and her passengers
brought to Liverpool and forwarded to their desti-
nation. The Sailor Prince was wrecked on the
12th Nov. on a reef off the Island of Caucam, in
the Bay of Campeachy ; her passengers were got
ashore, and a few are reported to have died from
exposure. These, with the passengers by the un-
fortunate ship, Caleb Griinshaw, are the only parties
out. of nearly 154,000 who have suffered loss
of life. The Fingal, which touched on Burbo
Bank ; the Brandt, which lost her topsail off Cork,
and the. Governor Davis, the Lady Hobart, the
Ashland, which put into Cork, and the Wilson
Kennedy, which put into Milford, either proceeded
to sea after repairing, or had their passengers for-
warded from Liverpool. The Tuscarora alone—a
fine ship—was wrecked off the mouth of the Dela-
ware, and her passengers were all saved. Can the
British Government tell us of any 154,000 human
beings expatriated in admiralty vessels with less I

ciencv

loss of life.
Yet the Times has the assurance to say, " We can-
not but consider that the manner in which emigrant
ships are allowed to leave our outports is a national
disgrace ;" and that whether the emigrant " shall
arrive at his port of destination at all is quite an af-
fair of chance." More insolent falsehoods, so far as
this port is concerned, could scarcely be penned.
Most transparently false are the stories which the
Times relates of the unfortunate ship Caleb Grim-
shaw. " Her boats," he says, " few as they were,
turned out mere hencoops, and were stove in or
sunk." They were four in number, as certified by
the Government agent here, and none of them were
stellar or sunk. He says that the Caleb Grimshaw
had rya Fife-boat. The emigration agent here has
certifil., that she had a life-boat. The Times says,
" there was not a single one of those appliances
;r-Which modern ingenuity has invented for assisting
the ,struggles of shipwrecked men,"—no means for
trkl(ructing a raft, &c. There was every such tip_
eand a raft was constructed. Then, with to
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