The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-06 00:00:00

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De really destitute was allowed to wan

it practical lesson
H

3 we to draw from
it occurred a year later, or had the
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should have be

.pare'd to

meet it. All that the health committee

)until had power to do under the circumstances was
'omptly done. _ Arranpzements were made for n. dniai

supply of water in the infected districts ; the streets,—and
courts, and passages were cleansed daily ; and filthy
houses were whitewashed wherever practicable. The
parish authorities, with the assistance of government,
provided hospital accommodation for 1600 patients, and
made efficient arrangements for freely supplying the
wants of the necessitous. But unfortunately, the most
important powers conferred on the health committee by
the Sanitary Act were unavailable at the time when they
were most required. These powers, however, have since
been most energetically enforced. Seven thousand eight
hundred and forty condemned cellars have been closed ;
within the last four months, 1616 filthy houses have been
cleansed by the owners on notices under the Sanitary
Act ; the streets and courts in the poorer districts of the
town are daily visited by the. lgers ; a better supply
additional baths and

of water

about to be introduced

washhouses are to be unit,
tern of sewerage and drainage is being carried out underth_
direction of our talented borough engineer; the inferior
lodging-houses are placed under proper regulation, a maxi-
mum number of lodgers being fixed for each ; nuisances, of
all kinds, prejudicial to health, are daily sought out, and re-
medied ; and everything promises that, at no distant day,
Liverpool will present an example of the benefits which
may be derived from sanatory legislation.

REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON
SUGAR AND COFFEE PLANTING.

The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the
present condition and prospects of the interests connected
with, and dependent on, sugar and coffee planting in her
Majesty's East and West India possessions and the Mau-
ritius, and to consider whether any and what measures
can be adopted by parliament for their relief, and who
were empowered to report the minutes of evidence taken
before them from time to time, to the house,'and also
their opinion thereupon, have agreed to the following re-
report :

Y our corn

11i1,11V4 Iry
them, and have agreed to the following resolutions :
Resolved,—That it is the opinion of this committee,
1. That great distress undoubtedly prevails amongst all
who are interested in the production of sugar in the Bri-
tish colonies.

2. That distress has partially existed for several years;
and though it has been much more severely experienced
within the last twelve months, it cannot be exclusively
attributed to causes of only recent operation.
3. That slave emancipation was carried into effect with-
out sufficient provision having been made for providing
many of the colonies with an adequate command of free-
labour, and the rate of wages therein has consequently
11, and the cost of production unduly en-

been very big
!lanced.

considerable diminution in the wage
of the Walsh tropical colonies, whi
to except on the_ part of the Creol

of labour in many

who, it may be hoped, v

the exam

already set them by the African and Portuguese jinn.
grants of that colony. And with respect to Jamaic
there is an absence of official reports s to any 1,-
reduction of wages, and the evidence i-
success on particular estates

s to any presei t
.4 to partial

5. That the British possessions have

abilities for th

supply of sugar

iucers, rather than upon
r produce in the British

market

Or 1641
culties

i, by aggro-
d from the

Monies have been

Lre now in course of

of this diminution will

sugar, and the ultimate

growth of sup

,r in slave

the richer estates remaining in cultivation will have the
several advantages of a larger command of labour, of
lower wages, of a lessened entire cost of production, and,
if such exists, of a higher price. That a share of the
advantages of a higher price in this market by the foreign
producer is a consequence inseparable from the policy of
reduced protection, esta)lished by the changes in the
sugar duties by the acts of 1844, 1845, and 1846.
9. That the greatest necessity exists for an immediate
application of relief.

10. That from the evidence taken by the committee, it
appears clear that the present mode of levying the duties
on sugar imposes a great practical disadvant
many of the producers in the British col

ge upon

11. That whereas considerable time must elapse before
any measures proposed for securing an ample supply of
labour, or laws to be enacted against vagrancy and squat-
ting, can be carried into effect, and the success of those
measures will depend mainly upon the co-operation and
assistance of the resident planters and agents, and the
state of distress to which the planter 'ow redurP-1
such as to preclude the possibility of a outlay

rs are now reduced is

a their

parts for the reception, still more for the payment or
maintenance, however short the contracts, of any immi-
grants placed by the government within their reach ; and
whereas they are unable at present to bear any portion of
the expense of enforcing laws for the suppression of va-
grancy, and the removal of persons from lands of which
they may have illegally taken possession, but, on the con-
trary, they have in many instances, in order to prevent
further loss, already determined upon abandoning their
own properties. To meet these difficulties, your com-
mittee recommend a differential duty of 10s. in favour of
sugar the produce of British-possessions for a period of
six years ; being of opinion that this temporary encourage-
ment would have the effect of preventing the immediate
and otherwise inevitable abandonment of the majority of

the estate

nd secure time for bring

the intended measures of re

,ing into operation

12. That your committee are of opinion that in any
system of immigration which may be adopted, great
must be taken by her Majesty's govex
any renewal of African slave dealing.—

THE COTTON Tit.

Lt. to in
'l3 184 E

-May z

The following able resume of the state of the Cotter

market since the French Revolution, its present condition

and H

and future prospects, we extract from
Littledale's circular of the 3rd instant :
" The article of Cotton, and the position of all branches
of this important trade, have suffered perhaps more than
any other, from the extraordinary political events, com-
mencing with the French Revolution in February last,
and the consequent disorganization of commercial rela-
tions in all parts of the Continent. The exports of Cot-
ton from the United States to France, and the markets of
the North of Europe, have since that period been all but
suspended, and credits and exchanges have been com-
pletely disorganized—so sudden a check to the regular
course of business in the height of the shipping season
his been much felt in the United States, and the appre-
hension of what might be the position of this country
under the circumstances caused a complete panic
great fall in prices of the staple in all the A
kets. On a full re-
stitutions, and the credit of this cot
of Cotton have continned so b
the execution of orders at th
ment, or as remittances

ssurance of the

.owest limit

erlcan mar-

of our in-

shipments

either in

on consig

" The prediction of a small crop in ti
effect of an unusually late spring, seen
the picking season has been interrup
appears now to promise 2,250,000 to 2,300,000
little more than 2,200,000 may reach the port:
present prospects for the •
reported of

-`4 Our home trade has continued st

Id the yield

and the

improving; and the account
been, on the whole, more sg
want of the usual demand for var

ly, and rather
,d China have
inners feel the

which, as well as goods, are now h
former period. At the correspor''
material (also as low as
do not seem to fear
to this date our consumption of cotton, I.‘
creased this year 4,658 bales per week.
19,000 againstl4,B9o; total. 24.264
which is satisfactory.
more steady in the early

ly previous time), they

ome accumu

:ock. Up
h has in-

being of American

rile market, which was looking
v, has gradually be-

come more and more heav
port demand, which sust

e better qualities, h

now nearly ceased, and the v

by spinn

talists, low as prices are, do n
position to interfere. The sz

and capi-

amount to 151,130 bales,
6100—leaving for the trac
" The import has be
294,948 bales, of which

Sort 12,35

States, and there are still at

The stock of

against

,culatior

)re to ex-

CTION

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