The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-27 00:00:00

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whelmine loss to his lather, who, after passing a
intelligent industry, relied upon his two sons to carry on
these works, which have brought so much prosperity into the
Graudes Landes."

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—Yesterday afternoon, as four of
our fishermen were returning with a boat load of codfish,
during a heavy swell, the boat was capsized near the shore
by a breaker, and the men and cargo thrown into the water.
All the fishermen being expert swimmers, they not only
saved themselves but soon recovered their fish.

BRIGHTON, TUESDA

ARRIVALS FROM FRANCE.—If English outcasts infest
Boulogne and the nearest coast of France—if British vul-
garians and swindlers have desecrated Florence and other of
the most recherche- abodes of travelling virtuosi—it is well
known that, in return, foreign valets, couriers. swindlers,
and cheveliers d'industrie, are at this moment circulating in
more than usual numbers in England, passing themselves off
upon their dupes as counts, barons, and marquisses of the
highest lineage. But we have now to notice the arrival of
more dangerous visitors. A number of galley slaves have
escaped from the bagnes of France. They are men known
to stick at no crime to effect their purpose, and to possess,
at the same time, a degree of dexterity that borders on the
marvellous. We hear that a gang is already established at a
house of ill fame in St. James's, and we lose no time in
warning the public of this momentable invasion.—Post.
The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent, of Saturday
last, contains a very copious account of the causes which led
to the stoppage of the Sheffield Old Bank, known as the
firm of Messrs. Parker, Shore, and Co., which fully con-
firms the original statement in noticing their suspension of
payments, namely, that their stoppage was caused by the
decay of the trade of the town. When the era of bad trade
commenced many of their customers were in debt, and they
took securities which. a few years ago, would have been con-
sidered ample, but which now, for want of trade, have sunk
so low that they will not fetch half their original value. Our
contemporary adds that their prospects for the year, gloomy
as they were before, are fearfully darkened; and that in-
creased misery, overwhelming poor-rates, bankruptcies, and
insolvencies without number, may be expected. The favour-
able circumstance in the event of the week is, that the other
banks of the town have escaped a run. They are stated to
have been well prepared to haveoutstood the panic.
Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert have respectfully transmitted, through Henry Wheat-
ley and Mr. G. E. Anson, the sum of £5O in aid to the fund
for the establishment and erection of an-asylum at Denbigh,
for the reception of the insane poor of North Wales. There
are at the present time no less than 664 persons suffering from
insanity, without any provision for their protection or com-
fort. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales appears as a
doner of 100 guineas, and the Marquis of Westminster,
Bishop of St. Asaph, Dean of St. Asaph,
Lady Emma Peenant and the Hon. E. M. Lloyd Mostyn, have each givn
donations of £4OO. Through the above munificent contribu-
tions, and those of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart., Sir
Richard B. W. Bulkeley, Bart., M.P., Lord Mostyn, Lord
Dinorben, and the Hon. Colonel Douglas Pennant, M.P.,
each for £lOO ; and Lord Kenyon and Viscount Dungannon
for £5O respectively, and the liberal subscriptions of the clergy
and gentry through the principality, the fund already amounts
to upwards of £3,250.
MAstERS' AND MATES' BlLL.—Captain Fitzroy's bill for
ascertaining the qualifications of persons seeking to be masters
and mates in the merchant service is meeting with great and
determined opposition. A few days ago a meeting of ship-
owners was held at Hull to take the bill into consideration ;
Mr. E. Gibson, Mr. Alderman Thompson, and others con-
nected with the shipping interest took a part in the proceed-
ings. From the statements made by those gentlemen, it ap-
peared that there was a great demand for masters and mates,
and that more vessels have been lately lost than in former
years. From 1805 to 1815, including sea risk and water risk,
the average loss was a ship a day ; from 1820 to 1825 three-
and-a-half ships were on an average lost, and from 1826 to
1832 the loss was reduced to two ships a day. These losses
were attributed to the defective knowledge of masters and
mates. After a very lengthened and desultory discussion, it
was admitted by the speakers, that although they were op-
posed to the bill, yet a nautical education for masters, and
the establishment of government schools for the promotion
of education, were indispensably necessary. A petition,
signed by ninety-four shipmasters, against the bill, has been
confided to Sir J. Hamner and Sir W. C. Jervis for presen-
tation to the House of Commons, The chief objections
urged against the bill are, the appointment of navy officers to
be examiners, the emolument that would thereby arise to
Trinity-house, and the government patronage that would be
exerted.

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and that the Royal speech will be read by commissioners, as
upon many previous occasions. Her Majesty is desirous to
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The accouchenzent ..of her Majesty (an event which cannot
fail to be regarded by all classes of her Majesty's dutiful
,nd loyal subjects with the most intense and devotional in-
.) is expected to take place *bruit the latter end of March,
or very early in the month of Aprii. it is, therefore, ex-
pected that her Majesty will not take Jae,r departure from
Windsor for town until quite the termination of .the ensuing
month, or the commencement of March; but the perriod of
the Queen's leaving the Castle for Buckingham Palace 141
depend in a great measure upon the medical advisers of the
Sovereign. The Court will return to Windsor at as early a
period as may iac considered advisable (with a due regard to
the health of our beloved Monarch) after the important event
to which we have referred shall have taken place. It must
be-highly gratifying to our readers to be informed, that her
Majesty is In mast wrcellent iiealtb, and in the enjoyment of
her usual flow of spirits.—Times ,of Monday.

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A Jamaica paper of the 3d instant states that it is calcu-
lated that a sum of £23,000 will be received on the Import
"%reign Duty Bills beyond that of last year. The tax
upon hereditaments had been reduced from 2s. to 6d., thereby
relieving the population. especially the proprietary, of the
enormous burden of £53,000. A capitation tax had been
proposed, in order to meet the expenses of road communi-
cation through the island. A Vice Admiralty court had
been held in Spanish Town for the trial of an individual who
had kidnapped a boy in the island, and sold him into slavery
in Cuba, where he remained suffering all the ills attendant
upon that condition for ten years. He was found guilty,
and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Another trial
had been made to raise funds for African civilization, but it
was a failure. A strong disposition still prevails to encourage
immigration to the fullest extent, and to the expenditure we
may almost venture to say, of the last farthing ; and we be-
lieve that if the home government would take the measure
under its direction, the colony, distressed and oppressed as
it is, would make a great effort to be liberal in furthering an
object, upon which, there can be little doubt, its whole pros-
perity and future welfare and salvation depend. The agri-
cultural societies of the island were doing great service in the
promotion of good cultivation, and in the encouragement of
industrial habits. The House of Assembly had voted the
sum of 3,000 guineas towards the erection of a marble sta-
tue of Sir Charles Metcalfe, to be placed in the square in
Spanish Town. This grant, together with theTgeneral sub-
scriptions throughout the country, would enable the com-
mittee to perform a work that would acknowledge with due
honour a country's gratitude for the services of a good and
great man. Nothing more had been said about an Island
bank. Jamaica was tolerably healthy. Several storms of
thunder and lightning, accompanied with heavy rain, had
visited the island. A statement of the island revenue for
1843 bad been made out, and the expenditure is estimated at
£108,297, and the estimated amount of contingencies at
£360,751. The Jamaica House of Assembly had nearly
closed its session, and the best feeling existed between the
Governor and the Legislative Assembly. The crops through-
out the island looked well.

The following is a return of produce made on estates in
Grenada for a series of years :

Lbs

Molas- I Coffee I Cocoa. I Cotton

1841.4 6,901:64

Delightful showers of rain bad fallen at Barbadoes, which
were very refreshing, as the canes and provisions in many
parts had been suffering from drought.
The yellow fever still raged at Antigua. Oswald Wood,
Esq., Provost-Master General, his wife, and mother-in-law,
(who had not returned from England more than seven
months,) were taken off in the short space of 20 days.
A party of twelve persons (four men, two women, and six
children) had fled from a state of slavery in Martinique, and
had arrived at St. Lucia. A French schooner was sent in
quest of them, and arrived soon after the fugitives had
landed, and her officers would therefore see those whom they
were pursuing as slaves in the enjoyment of perfect freedom.
The Trinidad Standard contradicts the report of the ex-
istence of small-pox in that colony. On the 12th December
the Warwick arrived at Trinidad with emigrants, of whom
115 were for Trinidad, and 50 for Jamaica. The vessel was
fitted up at Sierra Leone for the voyage by her commander,
in preference to her lying there for some time idle, of which
he had every prospect. The commander reports that Trini-
dad had obtained a most decided preference with the labour-
ers at Sierra Leone, and that any vessel going in after he
came away would immediately get a cargo for that colony.
The following are extracts from the Jamaica Royal Ga-
zette:—" Among the acts passed at the late session of par-
liament there is one which will have the effect to defeat the
igimense tax now imposed by the Combined Court upon
flour, and to enable us to obtain that necessary of life at a
more moderate price. The act to which we refer is the one
by which foreign corn is allowed to be manufactured into
flour and bread in bond, and then exported without the pay-
ment of any duty. It is well known that ordinarily corn can
be imported from the Baltic to England considerably cheaper
than from the United States. Baltic flour, manufactured in
England under the new act, will therefore be at all times able
to compete with United States flour. Being manufactured
in England, it will come into the colony as a British manu-
facture, and will pay only the two per cent. duty ; and if the
present enormous duty of two dollars upon American flour
be continued, it will drive that article entirely out of our
market. Thus the Combined Court will be obliged to reduce
or rather to abolish altogether the present colonial duty upon
flour ; or if they choose to keep it up, will derive nothing
from it. The duty upon American flour, under the new Co-
lonial Customs Act, will be 2s. sterling per barrel, which is
quite as much as it will be able to pay, to compete at all
with the flour brought from England. We hope some of
our enterprising Water-street merchants will shortly make
the experiment of the importation from home of some of the
bonded flour manufactured under the new act. With the
present discrimination created in its favour by the heavy
colonial duty on American flour, it could hardly fail to be a
good speculation."