The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

CRUELTY OF OUR PHILANTHROPY.

The awful sacrifice of human life which attends our
insane efforts to put down the slave trade, by means of
our blockading squadron, whilst we encourage the slaver
by giving him almost the monopoly of our markets for
his slave-raised produce, seems not at all to affect the
British philanthropist and free-trader. It is nothing to
them that vessel after vessel comes back from the pesti-
ferous shores of Africa, leaving behind them half the fine
fellows who trod their decks victims of fever and ague,
whilst the survivors only reach us with constitutions
shattered, and half the promise of a life cut off. We
must not abandon this cruel and absurd experiment, for
we are, par excellence, the friends of the negro—the
champions of freedom throughout the world !
The statistics of the cost at which we purchase these
sounding titles may perhaps startle some of our readers.
The following is the average mortality of 21 years on the
different naval stations of the English service, calculated
per 1,000 of the mean force employed :
South America .
Mediterranean 9.3
Home
East India.. .
West Indies
Coast of Africa .
—(Report on the Climate and Diseases of the African
Station, p. 178.)
Nearly six per cent. of our crews employed in this pes-
tilential service are thus yearly cut off, and the seeds of
premature death implanted in thousands of once vigorous
constitutions ; and yet the slave trade is increasing in
spite of all our efforts !

AMATEUR PERFORMANCE BY THE OFFICERS
OF THE GARRISON.

Undoubtedly the most attractive of the efforts made in
our town, in behalf of the poor sufferers from the burning
of the Ocean Monarch, was the amateur performance,
given on Wednesday evening at :he Royal Amphitheatre,
by the officers of the regiments now stationed in camp at
Everton.

The first piece was the comedy of " Charles the Second,
or the Merry Monarch," the parts being supported as
follows 1— Charles the Second, Capt. Campbell ; Earl of
Rochester, Capt. Garrett ; Captain Copp, Mr. Liddell,
81st Regt. ; Edward, (a page,) by Mr. Wolridge, 46th
Regt. ; the female characters by members of Mr. Cope-
land's establishment. The piece was excellently put on
the stage, the dresses perfect, and the whole was gone
through most artistically. In particular, the Capt. Copp
of Mr. Liddell was an excellently-sustained character.
That gentleman might, indeed, have been an old stager.
Mr. Wolridge's page was also a good character, as was
Capt. Campbell's " merry monarch," and Capt. Garrett's
Rochester. We would recommend to not a few of our
regular theatrical people to study the mien of these two
gentlemen, when playing monarchs and their favourites.
There is something, after all, in " walking the stage."
A monarch ought to walk, as well as dress, like a gentle-
man.

The ballet of " Myrna" was very ably produced, and
followed by the farce of " The Unfinished Gentleman,"
Lord Totterly being supported by Mr. Nicholls, 46th
Regt. ' • The Hon. Mr. Frisk Flammer, by Capt. Camp-
bell ; Mr. Danvers, by Capt. Wombwell ; Bill Downey,
by Capt. Fyffe; Jem Miller, by Mr. Piper. 46th Regt. ;
Nibble, by Mr. Crookshank, D.A.C. ; and Robert, by
Mr. Steele, 46th Regt. We cannot say that we ever saw
the play much better performed. Bill Downey and Jem
Miller were especially well played. _

The house Was a crowded One ; and we learn that a
considerable gain will accrue to the fund for the relief of
the poor sufferers, the receipts having been about £140..
which, deducting the charge for the house, expenses, &c.,
will leave a little over £lOO for the Fund.

Mr. Rushton has declined to take bail in Mr. Chubb's
case.

SINGULAR DEATH.-On Thursday last, a boy eight
years of age, named Michael Lanagham, who resided in
Bispham-street, was sent by his parents to purchase some
tea and sugar at a grocer's shop. In about an hour after
his return, he complained of being very ill, and said that
he had taken a piece of white stuff off the counter, which
he said was sugar, and which he ate. He, soon after
stating this, began to vomit, and a dose of castor oil was
given to him. On the following day his body became
swollen, and a doctor from the dispensary was called in,
and prescribed for him. He, however, kept getting
worse, and on Saturday complained much of a burning
sensation in the throat and stomach. Shortly afterwards
he became unable to speak, and languished until Sunday,
when he died. The inquest will be held to-day. The
substance which he said he had eaten has not yet been
ascertained.

LIVERPOOL LOCK-UP HOUSES.—Recommendations by
Mr. F. Hill, in the Thirteenth Report on Prisons, just
issued :—" I made the following recommendations, appli-
cable to all the lock-up houses in Liverpool: —l. A
uniform dietary to be adopted of a pound and a half of
bread per day to each prisoner, to be given in three meals
of half a pound each; and no prisoner to be required to
pay for his food. 2. No keeper or other officer of a lock-
up house to be allowed to have any interest in the supply
of food, or in furnishing beds to prisoners, or in any
other way whatever to receive payments from prisoners.
3. Rugs or blankets to be supplied for prisoners during
the night, except to such as are in a state of filth or
drunkenress. 4. Where there are no water-closets,
night-stools to be provided, on a simple plan adopted in
many other lock-up houses, and explained by me to the
keepers of the lock-up houses. 5. Provision to be made
fcr the prisoners to wash themselves, and no prisoner to
be allowed any food until he has washed himself."
CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS.—The celebrated eques-
trian troop of Mons. Dejean will, we understand, com-
mence another season in this town early in the month of
October, and we have no doubt but our townspeople and
the gentry of the neighbourhood will again throng to see
the performances of this highly respectable and unequalled
company, which has done so much in England to raise
the character of equestrian performances. We believe we
shall again have the precedence, as last year, to the Me-
tropolitan season. It will be remembered after leaving
this town they commenced a most brilliant career at the
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, where the performances were
honoured by the Royal Family and nobility of the Metro-
polis, who attended in great numbers the day and night
performances. We understand that little Maria Annate
has astonished the Parisian public by the rapid advances
she has made in her profession, and by her grace and ease
upon the saddle of the horse has merited the title of a
little Cerito a cheval.
WHITSTABLE OYSTERS.—Mr. :Duffy, of Hanover-
street. advertises a daily supply of native London oysters,
the excellence of which, owing to the rapidity of transit,
is quite equal to those vended in the metropolis itself.