The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-11-15 00:00:00

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

Sir James Graham has now fully entered the lists in
rivalry of Lord Grey and Lord Plunkett, and, although
the undertaking is a most arduous one, there are really
some grounds for thinking that he may prove successful.
The manner in which he has employed his brother, Capt.
Charles Graham, in the Rattlesnake, affords a favourable
specimen of his capability for the conception and execu-
tion of a systematic and most impudent job. The facts
are these :—Captain Charles Graham commissioned the
Rattlesnake, 28, in April, 18.31, and sailed in the follow-
ing August for Rio Janeiro, which port she left on De-
cember 2, for the Pacific, and arrived at Valparaiso in
May, 1832. She immediately commenced a search for
freight, visiting the various ports, and, we believe, pet-
forming no public duty till the spring of 1833, when hav-
ing scraped together upwards of 2,000,000 of dollars, on
freight, for England, she made sail for Spithead, where
she has just arrived.
Thus than it would appear that a frigate has been em-
ployed two rears to make a purse for a brother of the
irst Lord of the Admiralty ; for our readers will not fail
to bear in mind that all money brought to England in a
King's ship from any port in the Pacific, pays for freight
21 per cent., of which the captain of the ship receives
one-half.

In anotherpoint of view also the transaction must be
noticed, in order fully to explain the merits of the job.
The Pacific is the only station from which of late years
large freights have been brought, and it has been the
practice for a captain having completed his period of
service on that station, three years, to be put in the way
re um: be ready.
Captain Graham had not served three years, even in col-
lecting freight; but the Tyne, still on the Pacific station,
had actually served four years, and the Algerine had
completed her time.
Comment upon such a prostitution of public means,
and recompense intended for service, would only weaken
the effect the facts when unencumbered must produce.—
Old England.

• THE FACTORY ACT.—Mr. Rickards, the inspector ap-
pointed under the act for the regulation of factories, is
now in Manchester. This gentleman's district includes
North Derbyshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire,
Westmoreland, and Cumberland; and we understand
that his visit here at this time is to advise the mill-owners
and others of the measures which will be necessary for
the due execution of the -act. • Few of our Manchester
readers, probably, are aware of all that is required for
this purpose. It has been estimated that in the parish of
Manchester from twenty to thirty thousand children are
employed in factories. Supposing that the lowest of these
numbers should be of that description which comes under
the protection of the act, and allowing 500 children for
each school, forty schools will be required for their edu-
cation. But no provision has been made for supporting
these establishments, beyond the weekly deductions of
one penny in the shilling from the wages of those child-
ren whose parents or guardians do not provide schools for
them.

We understand that each factory and school will be
visited twice a-week ; hence the number of superintend-
ents to be employed under the inspector will necessarily
be considerable ; and as these gentlemen are to be ap-
pointed by the Secretary of State, the Factory Bill is
likely to prove a valuable source of patronage to his Ma-
jesty's M i nisters.—Manchester Herald.