The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-29 00:00:00

THE LIVF,R#OOi
.STANDARD.

Lairds proposed was quite right ; and Mr. Howard, who
had tendered his resignation, was induced to withdraw it.
Some conversation ensued on the appointment an-
nounced in the report of a director to devote his whole
time to the company's concerns, and at four o'clock the
meeting was adjourned to the Bth; of April next. The ad-
journed meeting is also to be made special, to consider the
propositiOn for throwing open to the shareholders the book
in which.the number of shares held by each proprietor is
entered.

The vacant office of Admiralty 'agent for the mails at
this port,baa been conferred on Lieutenant W. T. Bellair.
Among the bills read the second time on Monday, were
the Birkenhead Dock Company, the Herculaneum Dock,
and the Liverpool Dock Bill.
The Rev. Edward Lawson Bowman, 8.A., of St. Pe-
ter's College, Cambridge, has been licensed to-the curtsey
of St. Philip's.
CAUTION To BOYS.—On Wednesday several boys were
sent to gaol for having been found throwing stones in
Park-lane, whereby a number of windows were broken.
The auxiliary screw steam-ship Sarah Sands, Captain
Thompson, hence, arrived off the bar of New I ork on the
night of the 9th instant, after a run of eighteen and a-half
days. 'She reached the city the following morning.
The royal mail steam-ship Cambria, Captain Harrison,
after having been detained one day by Admiralty order,
took her departure on Sunday for Halifax and New York,
with the usJal mails and a large number of passengers.
A deputation from the Manchester Commercial Asso-
ciation was to have an interview with the directors of the
East India Company yesterday, (Monday,) for the pur-
pose of laying before them some interesting information
as to the cultivation of cotton in India. •

EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES,-At a meet-
ing of the Board of Examiners held on the 25th instant,
Captain Anthony East' rby, late master of the screw
steamer Aram' of Liverpool, and Captain William Con-
nell, master of the Isabella, of Irvine, were examined and
both found duly qualifiA forfirst class masters' certificates.
On Tuesday an inquest was held at the Ship Inn, Great
Crosby,. on view of the body of John Rushton, who died
suddenly on Sunday week, at a beer-house in the same
village. The deceased had been drinking for some days,
and on Sunday afternoon week he was found quite dead
in bed at the beer-house.

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A. silver box, bearing the following inscription, has
been presented to Captain Postle, R.N.:—`• Presented to
Captain Charles James Postle, R.N., by Messrs. Charles
Horsfall and Sons, of Liverpool, as a slight acknowledg-
ment of the service ren•iered by him on the occasion of
the wreck of the cutter Lord Nt Lon, at Dun talk."
The Liverpool Health Committee have applied for, and
obtained, drawings of the pumps and apparatus used for

emptying cess-pools under the direction of the Metropoli-
tan Commissioners of Sewers. These pumps continue to
act so successfully as to give the utmost satisfaction, and
in every quarter an uncompromising war has been deciared
against filth. _ _

-LAUNCII.—On Tuesday last, at the building-yard of
Messrs. Smith and Rodger, Govan, near Glasgow, there
was launched a fine new screw steamer, named the Bri-
gand. She is intended as the consort to the Pirate, and
for the Glasgow and Liverpool trade. The

•-•••••••••••,,,,•• ../u VeSSel is .I.OU
feet in length, breadth 24, and depth 15 feet. She is 370
tons, 'and propelled by a double acting screw-driver, by
two engines of 30-horse power each.
THE PEACE SOCIETY.—The more active members of
this association, in Liverpool, availed themselves of the
general unpopularity of the ministerial financial policy, to
get up a meeting on Friday. in the Music-hall, Bold-
street, to protest against the proposed increase in the esti-
mates for the army and navy, and to adopt a friendly ad-
dress to the people of Marseilles. Lawrence Heyworth,
Esq., took the chair, and Elihu Burritt and James Silk
Buckingham addressed the meeting.
A special meeting of the- Birkenhead Commissioners
was held on Thursday evening, to consider the propriety
of running the steamers from Woodside at fixed inter-
vals. A motion was proposed by Mr. R. Bryant, seconded
by Mr. J. H. Hind, that the steamers should start every
twenty minutes, thus retaining the hour boats, but dis-
pensing with the half-hour ones. An amendment proposed
by Mr. Watson, and seconded by Mr. Horner, that the
subject be referredto the Ferry Committee, was however
carried by a majority of one.
WALTON AND FAZAKERLY PLOUGHING MATCH.—
This match came off on the 17th instant, in a held be-
longing to J Naylor, Esq., Watton Hall, and occupied
by Mr. Richard Seddon. Eighteen ploughs started, and
finished their respective lots in the given time, namely
twelve hours to the statute acre. The field being cleared,
the judges, Mr. Robert Birch, farmer, Stand-park ; Mr.
John Johnson, Fazakerley-hall; and Mr. Dal id Caldwell,
Liverpool; after a minute and careful inspection, awarded
the prizes:-Ist. To Daniel M'lntyre,with Mr. Skirving.
2d. To Andrew Bell, with Mr- Richard Seddon. 3d. To
Edward Berry, ploughman to Mr. John Birch. 4th.
To William Howard, son of Mr. Thomas Howard,
Knowsley. sth. To Mr. Win. Lilley, foreman to Mr.
Smithies, Bickerstaffe-ball. About flue o'clock, the
judges, and upwards of forty gentlemen, proceeded to the
Plough Inn, Walton, and partook of an excellent dinner,
provided by Mr. Woolall. The chair was ably filled by
Mr. Muir, Walton ; vice-chair by Mr. Birch. It is
worthy of remark, that the ploughs which gained the
three first prizes were made by Mr. Honderwood, imple-
ment maker, Walton.

DEATH FROM ALLEGED IMPROPER MEDICAL TREAT-
MENT.—On Friday an. inquest was held on view of the

body of Anne Davies, 23 yeaas of age, wife of a laboOring
man in Toxteth-park. She had been attended by ,two
surgeons from the South Dispensary, and in some way a
repott got abroad that she had died-from improper medi-
cal treatment, which, reaching the tars of Mr. Appleby,
he Saw he eoroner uporythe subject. Mr. Appleby stated

that 'he was himself a subscribii: to that institution, and
he stated several instances where, after having been at-
tended once by the surgeons of the dispensaries, the
parties were referred to the parish-oflice. The prescrip-
tions (with one exception) which had been given for the
deceased were read, and the coroner made some rather
strong remarks upon the way in which they had been made
out. Mr. Appleby suggested that the surgeons of the dis-
pensary ought to have their prescriptions entered into a
book ; and the coroner said he should make a representa-
tion to the dispensary committee, and also inform them
of the cases in which parties had been referred to the
parish surgeons.
.Ultimately the jury returned a verdict
of

death by the visitation of God. The evidence of Mr.
Archer was to the effect that the surgeon's treatment was
judicious.

NORTH AMERICAN PASSENGERS.—A bill with the
above title has just been published on the subject of the
regulation of, and making further provision for, the car-
riage of passengers by sea to North Americl. It was in-
troduced into the House of Commons by Mr. Labouchere
and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The first clause
enacts that no ship shall carry more passengers on board
than in the proportion of one passenger to every two tons.
By the second clause it is provided that two children
under the age of 14 shall be computed as one passenger.
Each passenger is to be supplied at least twice a week with
3klbs. of beef or pork, or 31lbs. of bread or biscuit, and
in addition thereto, 6 lbs. of bread, flour, biscuit, oatmeal,
or rice. Potatoes, however, may be substituted. The
sixth clause provides that a superintendent of emigrants
is to be taken in every ship carrying as many as 100 pas-
sengers. By the eighth clause it is enacted that the su-
perintendent shall be provided with proper accommoda-

tion and messing by the owners of 'tlie ship, and that he
shall be entitled on each voyage to receive from the
master of the ship £2O, and the sum of ls. for every pas-

senger landed alive. The fifteenth clause enacts that ships
carrying fewer than one passenger to twenty-five tons
shall be exempted from the operation of this act.

MORTALITY OF IRISH EMIGRANTS.—We find the fol-
lowing statement as to the clnss of emigrants amongst
whom the deadly Mortality of last year occurred, in a let-
ter addressed to the president of the board of trade, by
Messrs. J. and W. Robinson, of this port :—" We crave
your especial attention to the fact, that the great mortality
last year did not occur amongst the ordinary class of emi-
grants, viz.:—those who
.pay their own passages, and ge-
nerally have means to provide suitable bedding, clothing,
and food, but was confined almost exclusively to that un-
fortunateclass whose:passages were paid by Irish landed pro-
prietors :—thousands of this class were s3nt out last sea-
son, both from this port and various Irish ports, and we
can state from our own observation of those who sailed
hence, that they were, for the most part, entirely without
bedding, ill-clad, and literally half starved, and const
quently predisposed to sickness ;—" poor naked wretches,
" their unfed sides, and looped and windowed raggedness'
was most distressing to behold ;—ejected from the littl,
plots of lands they had held for years—,
necessity from their native country, whit

evident reluctance—they weredispirited and beart-broken,
and having neither physical strength nor mental vigour to
'resist the first s feeble attack 'of diseae, they speedily be,

came a sacrifice to its ravages. Great and fearful as was
the mortality even among this class, it must he borne in
mind, that it was equally great among the same class at

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home in Ireland. 'What humanity requires of govern-
ment appears to us to be, special regulations for the emi-
grants cleared off Irish estates, and sent out at the ex-
pense of the landlords,—and not new and needless, but
expensive, regulations affecting emigration generally.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF LIEUTENANT PEREGRINE
Bowiert, R.N.--A painful amount of sensation was
created at the Mansion-house, London, on Wednesday,
by the announcement of the suicide of this unfortunate
gentleman, charged with forging .a will, who was to have
undergone a second and final examinaion 1

ore the

Lord Mayor on that day. He held, up to his apprehen-
sion, the Admiralty agency of one of her Majesty's mail
packets trading between Liverpool and Dublin. His
brother, Lieut. William Boiven, R.N., died in China in
March, 1846. Previous to his departnre there he made a
will, which was proved by the executor. but after this will
had been admitted to t

r will was

3roduced by

•
Peregrine Bowen, by which all the property was left to
him. Subsequently a person, attires as a sailor, presented
himself at Doctor's Commons as an attesting witness to
the will, an
himself in

gave as

lis name

ohn Wooc

h en ded

The forgery of the second will was subsiantfaied

but he persisted in declaring that he knew nothing of the
fraudulent transaction. He was remanded till Wednes-
day, when he would have seen fully committed to New-
gate for trial. All the parties were in attendance at the
Mansion-house at twelve o'clock, and shortly after the
Lord Mayor had taken his seat, a message arrived, com-
municating to his lordship the self-destruction of the un-
fortunate man. It appeared that he rose that morning
at the usual hour, and from the conversation he had with
his fellow prisoners, itseemed that he had made up his mind
for the worst. His conduct, apparently, was not different
to that he had generally evinced, and about nine o'clock
he was missing. One of the warders proceeded in quest
of him, and soon discovered his body suspended to the
iron gratings of the window, with slips cut from his
shirt. He was immediately cut down, and the prison
surgeon called in, but life was quite extinct. The de-
ceased was between sixty and seventy years old, and at
Liverpool, where he resided, was much respected.

LORD PALMERSTON AND MR. BANCROFT,

TO TILE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—The correspondence between Mr. Bancroft, the
American minister, and Lord Palmerston, on ere Naviga-
tion Laws, presents to my mind the most remarkable in-
stance of Yankee impudence on the one part, and Whig-
gish simplicity or sometbing worse on the other, that it
has ever fallen to my lot to witness. Here we have the
representative of a self-styled great nation (great certainly
with reference to repudiating notoriety) coolly addressing
Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs with assertions and offers that cannot but be con-
demned by the unprejudiced as an insult to a British
statesman in the indifferent estimation of his mental powers
and amor patrice that they evince. Nations, even as in-
dividuals, having their own interests at heart, should cer-
tainly in all bargains take care that they are not over-
reached by giving more than they receive in return. Now
what equivalent, may I ask, have the Americans to offer
in return for the privileges at present so justly exclusively
enjoyed by the British shipping interest in the extensive
colonial and coasting trade of this country, and in the
prohibition to foreigners of the " indirect" trade ? Where
are the American colonies ? Would not her coasting
trade, even as her trade with this country, be almoit mo-
nopolised by her own ships ? Let our rulers look to the
effects already produced in this respect by the spirit of
reciprocity th"•s tar indulged in. Is not the carrying trade
between England and America which employs the major
part of the shipping of the latter al►nost entirely in the
hands of the Americans ? The cause of this lies not, as
many have asserted, in the superiority of their vessels
and their captains, but in the anti-English spirit that per-
vades American society, the commercial community of
the United States almost to a man giving the ships of
their country a preference both in the shipments of Ame-
rican produce, and by orderis.g return shipments of
British produce and manufactures to be made in
American bottoms. is not American produce, of
which we take the major part, admitted duty-free into
consumption in this country with the exception of their
filthy useless weed, and are not British manufactures taxed
in America with an almost prohibitive duty ? Can this be
called reciprocity ? Mr. Bancroft says nothing with re-
ference to a reduction of duties on British goods, all that
he holds out in return for the abrogation of our naviga-
tion laws, and the consequent opening of a splendid pros-
pect to the shipping interest of the United States, in a
participation in the benefits of a trade created and hitherto
sustained by British capital and industry, is in fact, from
its limited extent, the nearly worthless privilege of carry-
ing goods from foreign parts to America, arm which the
British shipowner need never expect to be able to avail
himself Of, so long as an American ship is to be found in

the same port. The advantages to the citizen.; of the
United States that the contemplated bargain exhibits, are
well understood; they have been long and eagerly sought

mere moonshine

The advocates of free-trade must not imagine that the
navigation laws come within their rules, they are essenti-
ally an exception, as not affecting the consumer of foreign
produce to an appreciable extent. and as not haviru nn

rqui va....L in any privileges of a nice nakure that can be
offered by foreign nations. Let it also be borne in mind
that the wealth these laws are the means of securing to
the British shipowner, is expended in England amongst
her tradesmen and artizans, whereas on their repeal the
foreigner will he enriched at their expence. May our
rulers pause ere thay commit so suicidal an act as the
abrogation of these laws would be.

Abler pens than mine have descanted upon the impor-
tance of the navigation laws, as affecting our maritime su-
premacy and national safety, and on the impossibility of
British shipowners competing . with foreigners—with re-
ference to their advantages in cheapness of material, and
their low scale of wages. I will not, therefore, occupy
more of your time in this matter than toexpressa fervent
hope that parliament will entertai.: a proper view of the
value to England of her navigation a,t.

Respectfully yours,
QUID PAO QUO

Liverpool, 23d February, 1848

INCOME TAX APPLICABLE TO IRELAND,

TO THE EDITOR OF 771 E LIVERPOOL ,STANDARD.

SlR,—Thousands,feel as do the injustice of the pro-
posal of the Prime Minister to exempt Ireland from the
operation of the property tax. but no person has yet
taken the trouble to enforce the remedy.

The letters of " B. S." and of " A 13',:0r .Barrister," in-
serted in the London Times, of the 24th and 25th instant,
may have more effect in calling public attention to the
subject than anything I can advance. The Prime Minister,
dreading the power of the aristocracy, and. fearing the
alienation of the votes of certain Irish members, proposes
the exemption of Ireland on the fallacious ground of recent
Irish distress, although England has more than equally
participated in such distress so far as the advance of money
was required for the removal of the evil.
Now, Sir, it is evident that an individual in Ireland, in
the receipt of an income exceeding £l5O per annum (the
result of mental exertion, independently of real property,)
can as well (or better,) afford to pay is. in the £1 on that
income than an individual in England earning by the same
exertion an income of similar amount. No one will have
the boldness to assert that the untaxed Irishman has con-
tributed to-alleviate Irish distress in the same degree as
the Englishman. Why, then, should the class of Irish-
men to whom 1 allude be exonerated !rum the imposition
laid upon the Englishman. It may be asserted that the
tax, if impo,ed in Ireland, would return only a stnail reve-
nue to blw Imperial Exch. quer. sir, that is no sufficient
or satisfactory answer to the laborious Englishman who
requires that equal justice should be done to Ireland as to
England also. •

In Liverpool there is an immense amount of wear and
tear of intellect to obtain au income by unwearied and
painful exertion, independently altogether of capital, and
I beg leave to urge the inhabitants of Liverpool to take
the lead in this righteous adjustment of taxation, as here-
tofore they have on ninny momentous questions promi-
nently stood forward.

I perceive, by an advertisement in your last impression,
that several influential gentlemen of Liverpool have already
recommended a National Confederation for the adju6t-
ment of taxation. - The ability and zeal displayed by these
gentlemen cannot be more usefully exercised at the pre-
sent important crisis than in promoting a petition to the
House of-Commons to compel the performance of this act
of justice to the suffering people of England and Scotland.

The example of Liverpool would be speedily and promptly
followed by other great towns in Lancashire, and the
effect of an extensive movement in this direction would
immediately be felt in the House of Commons, where
there are many coadjutors now silent, because, in the ab-
sence of petitions in support of their views, they cannot
advocate this important principle. But if public feeling
be once conducted in the right direction the result must
he decisive, because the object is honest, just, and rea-
sonable.

The petition might, as usual on such occasions, be
placed for signature in the Exchange News Room and
elsewhere. No time should be lost, for the occasion is

I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
A SUFFERER FROM IRISH DISTRESS

GRATIFYING PRESENTATION,

Ou Tuesday evening, at the close of the service, the I
members of St. John's Church congregation presented
their curate, the Rev. R. W, Wolseley, with a very hand-
some pocket communion service on the occasion of his
taking priest's orders, and as a small mark of their esteem
and r

rd for his zeal and assiduity in the performance
of his ministerial duties among them. The presentation
was accompanied with an affectionate address, of which
we subjoin a copy along with the reply to it. The surplus
that remained after the purchase of the service was handed
over at the same time in a purse to the reverend gentle-
man, who returned thanks in a very suitable and interest-

REVEREND AND DEAR SIR, We, the members of St. John's
conaregation, cannot allow the opportunity presented by your
admission to the high and holy order of Priest of the Church of
England, to pass, without testifying in some manner our high
esteem and regard for you as a Minister of Jesus Christ, and a

Thou,h your connexion with us, as curate, has been short,
yet it has keen long enough to assure us of y,ur zeal for your
your fervent desire to win souls to His
vation of all men," through
for this, we glorify God on

I's glory, at

desire you to-accept it as a small, but sincere proof of our re-
-.wet for yOu personally, and our gratitude for your unwearied
'a.ence and Ministerial exertions amongst the flock, during
-‘t eventful year; and we trust, that the Cod of all grace
noble you to abound yet more and more in your work and
Jr of love, and cause you to rejoice in the day of Christ
you have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
We or •Gr

that you

I to enrich you, by His Holy Spirit, with every
ft, to grant you unction and utterance, and
le you with His counsel, and cause His
that so, is your going in and
blessed in your own soul, and
of others.

nest wishes for the welfare of your dear wife

!ful. and affectionate friends