The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-29 00:00:00

for our readers

Mr. Foster, Lord Hobart reports, " in pursuance to a
plan which he had formed to obtain an insight into the
condition of Irish emigrants after leaving their country,

embarked as a steerage passenger on board the W

a hing-

3 to have so conducted himself on board as to re-
c;fve a sound thrashing from the mate. The worthy
gentleman made no complaint to the authorities in New
York, where he had all the witnesses within his rcach,
and where alone cognizance could be taken of the offence.
And Lieut. Hodder, the government emigration agent of
this port, from whom a letter is given, and who had in-
quired into the facts, remarks upon this omission as sin-
gular, and adds that Mr. Foster was advised not to do so
by the British Consul. The real fact is,

as we are in.

formed from good authority, that he went on b
scarcely a change of linen and no provisions He was
kept liberally by the captain of the , „, upon a'
ample diet, drawn from its stores. In pursuance of '
laudable curiosity, he sounded his fellow-passengers from
time to time for a list of their grievances, of which any-

hip upon an

knows

d in the ste

of an emigrant ship, and their utter disregard of necessary
discipline, will readily conceive he would receive in ample
quantity. It. was not, however, until he had, in a letter,
which out• informant has seen, endeavoured to raise an
ill feeling between the officers of the ship and the captain,
that his mischievous antics were iaterfered with.
We repeat that we do not know who Mr. Foster is.

The Daily News, which notices the'case. says that he is a
young gentleman of family and fortune.
know who Captain Page, of the Washington, is,—,
one of. the most respectable and best-known men in t
service between this port and New York. If Mr. Foste.
is not our old acquaintance, " the cabin passenger" of the

But w

London Times. he is a very indiscreet young man

Rumours are again rife of an impending resignation of
the ministry. Notwithstanding Lord Torrington's defence
of himself in the House of Lords, Lord John Russell

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.—On Saturday, the 26th
instant, Mr. B. Irving, 8.A., of Emmanuel College,
Cambridge, one of the assistant masters of the Royal
Institution School in this town, obtained the prizo for the
Norrisian Divinity Essay, open to all Bachelors of Arts
in the University of Cambridge.
AN EXCRUCIATING WORD.—Amongst the attractions
provided by Mr. Soyer, at his Universal Symi
Gore-house, we find set forth in his advertisement
grand staircase, containing the Maceloine of all z

being a Comigrotesquep,

Vienofu:

suchh-a getting up stairs to the!

Getting to the end of such a sixteen-syllabled word is no
joke, and it is to be hoped that Mr. Soyer's dinners will
be rather more digestible.
THE LIVER. ESTABLISHMENT.—It will ba seen by a❑
advertisement in our columns that this establishment has
now received its supply of spring goods. The Liver is
becoming a very favourite mart for many descriptions of
It has also the advantage to offer to purchasers

clothinz

Afars

and the corps of assistants are most attentive and civil to
their customers. The stock of fancy goods is particularly
tasteful and suitable for the season.
THE WORKHOUSE CHAPLAINCY.—We find that the
Rev. R. W. Wolseley, the painstaking curate of St. John's
Church, is a candidate for this vacancy. There is pro-
bably not a better training ground in Liverpool for a
workhouse chaplain than this district, with its large po-
pulation,—its numerously attended regular and ragged-
schools,- and its various useful and chiiritable institutions.
Mr. Wolseley has specially endeared himself to the poor
of the district:, by h

ate and conai.

derateintcrest in their behalf; and fits services deserve a
marked recognition at the hands of the Select Vestry.
ALLOWANCE OF REFRESHMENT TO THE JURORS.—In

Recorder on the subject of the allowance of some trifling
refreshment to jurors attending the borough sessions. It
wai represented that this had been the custom heretofore,
but that the Finance Committee did not think they had
the power to continuo the disbursement out of the borough
monies, and the jurors bad since been deprived of it.
The Recorder suggested that the jurymen should petition
the Town Council, through the Mayor, on the subject ;
and, probably, a different view might be taken of the
matter. The jury thanked the learned_gentleman_for the

suggestion, intimating that they would resort to it
they Were then, at half- wtst twelve yesterday, discharged
from further attendance at this session.
MAT•rttnw's en URC IT SCOTLAND • ROAD.—On
3 Rev. J. F. Witty, an English gentleman,

and formerly a clergyman or tu.
entered upon the office of colleague or assistant mit
to the Rev. Dr. Hilicoat, St. Matthew's Church,
land-road, by delivering two very faithful sermons, at the
close of which inconsiderable collections were made on

behalf of the school held underneath the church,
about eight feet below the level of the road
stood, that before the death of Mr.
respected steward to the Earl of Derby, sonic promise
was made of a piece of ground in the rear of the ed;fice
for educational purposes. The noble earl may probably
carry this out ; and if local efforts were made towards
school premises, so as to cope with the deplore,
ranee. &c., of the district, the committee of pi.
council on education would, doubtless, grant about £750
as a supplement.
A BOLD

It is under-
Earle, the late

'le 40110

" The working men" of this
country, the Timer: says, " never were so well off, so
fully employed, so well paid, so comfortably fed, and

SSERTION

Indeed

moment

chief complaint of employers, whether agricultural or ma-
nufacturing, is, that labourers are demandin
ing better wages than employers find it convenient to gig
The only political chloroform under which Bri-
'•lstry is suffering just now is full employment,

g and obtain

3 abundance of bread, and meat, and drink, and other
-nries of life !" We should be truly happy if, as the
resu►t of our own observations, we could endorse this
We hear, however, from every guar-

necess

itatemem

ter, of a very different state of things existing
the manufacturing districts, so little is the supply of labour
in excess of the demand for it, that a firm, whose works
have been standing for seven months

Even in

[uence of

a strike for wages, have just been able to fill them with
new hands ; and an authority, Manchester Guardian,
informs us that " this close of the contest leaves up-
wards of six hundred workpeople without a hope of em-
ployment; with their funds, anti those derived from the
Trades' Unions, exhausted, and their little household
furniture, clothing, and comforts rapidly disappearing, in
order to provide themselvts and their families with the
barest means of subsistence." No such circumstance
could occur, with the manufacturing interest in a state of
active prosperity. Moreover, it is rather an odd thing
that such crowds of people should be running away from
a country in which there was all the " full employment,"
and "abundance of bread, and meat, and drink," de-
:c ibed by the Times. _ _

PASSENGERS PER THE BALTIC.—From New York :
Messrs. IL and W. Darling, Mr. J. H. Mahony, Mr. C. S.
Smith, Mr. C. S. Beach and lady, Mr. J. Davidson, Mr.
J. Stotker. Mr. J. Hunt, Mr. Caldwell, Mr. D. M. Cat-
lin, Mr. H. H. Lee, Mr. A. G. Crarver, Mr. S. B. Chit-
tenden. Mr. J. D. Beers. Miss Curtis, Mr. 0. M. Shep-
herd, Mr. G. English, Mr. Leland, Mr. Bush and lady,
Miss Franklin, Mr. ost and lady, and Miss Post, Ma-
dame Richat, Madame Cassadaret and servant, Mr. J. M.
Stone, Mr. F. A. Chase, Mr. B. Johnson, Mr. R.
Loring, Mr. S. E. Howard, Mr. W. H. Cary, Mr.
James Crissey, Mr. G. Rugart, Mr. B. C. Townsend,
Mr. W. A. Bannister, Mr. W. S. Lowber, Mr. J.
D. Smith, lion. 11. Grnly, Mr. F. A. Robinson, Dr.
H. C. Hast, Mr. W. V. Anderson, Mr.- Bradbury,
Mr. W. Simpson, Mr. J. Eherhart, Miss Gib-
non, Mr. H. E. arke, Mr. L. T. Brady, Mr. L. G
Coles, Mr, W. B. Hook. Mr. Bonnisnn, Mr. R. M
Ulrici, lady, nod Miss.E. Ulrici, Mr. S. Lord, Mr. L. C
Duncan, Mr. W. S. King, Mr. I. Fallow, Miss Lord, Mr
F. S. V

Kinston, lady, and child, Mr. A. S. Brown, Mrs.
A. S. Brown, Mrs. W. 1-1. Cary, Miss A. B. Cary, Miss
Cary, Mr. L. A. Benoist, Mr. S. 11. Benoist, Miss E.
Gihon, Mr. C. Gihon, Master W. Gihon, and servant,
Mr. W. P. Resor, Mr. R. B. Bowler,Mr. F. Lawson, lady,

and child, Miss E. Simpson, Mr. T. Lawson, Mr. F..La,k.:
son, Mr. S. Nicholson, Mr. I. E. Holmes, Mr. I. B. Ire-
land. Mr. I. Gihon. Mr. I. Gihon, jun., Dr. W. Shelton,
Mr. T. Bell and lady. Mr. W. H. Gillings, Master Lord,
Mr. E. G. Roberts, Mr. W. A. Burt. Mr. S. P. Hale,Mr.
F. C. Wood, Mr. S. Davidson, Mr. W. B. Holbrook, Mrs.
J. West end son, Mr. A. M'Lachlan, ier. S. B. Guion,
Rev. W. Thorburn, Mr. P. F. Pistor, Mr. J. C. Meyer,

Mr. A. J. Guosphelins. Mr. T. Bearer, Mr. J. Acker, Mr.
T. Binghaw. Mr. W. L. Townsend, Mr. D. Po!lett and
lady, Mr. E. Barry, Mr. R. L. De Latre, Mr. J.

Noyes, Mr. S. K. Smith. Mr. R. S. Henderson, Mr. J.
Shaffer, Hon. A. Smith, Mr. J. W. Decourey and lady,
Mr. A. D. Fenton, Mrs. S. W. Waterbury, Mrs. L.
Sfaine, Mr. P. A. Melt:lday, Mr. J. C. Liana and lady,
Mr. C. Lambert, Mr. E. Brown, Mr. IL B. Lathan),
huly, and child, Mr. T. Vadenign.. Mr. .1. M. I) ebar,
Mr. W. Durnbre rind lady. Mr. N. Ki.lesburv, Rev. G. L.
Hovey, Mr. W. Benjamin, jun., and lady, Mr. H. Sap-
per. Mr. C. Bowrey. Mr. E. Cuttro, Mr. W

Mr. G. Guinn, Mr. 1.1. Dubosy, Mrs. Gruger, Miss Lamb
Mr. Greenway. Mr. C. Moue, Mr. S. Conning, Mr. J
I,2resne. Mr. P. J. Anshaty, Mr. J. Zabriskie, Mr.

S. Dlincaa, 111

Annorowd

eaver, Mr. 11. Weaver, Mr. U. H. veers" ~•
C..Goodyer, Mr. S. A. Bisplinm, Mr. .1. M. Stewart. Mr
Mr. F. Nevrfit-id, Mr. J. C. Bronn, Mr. W. A
In, Mr. .1. .1. thgzerty,_ Mr. E. Hannon, Mr. M
c:

:Fathoms, and servant.
SUiPECTED POISONING.—A man, named Jenkins, and
a Mis. Wilde, who kept the house where he lodged, have
been apprehended at Newcastle-upo-i-Tyne, on suspicion
of having poisoned a widow, named Anderson, with whom
the man cohabited. It was stated by the surgeon at the
inquest that death had been caused by essential oil of
almonds. The stopper of a bottle strongly impregnated
with this poison had been found in an ashpit adjoining the
house. The prisoners were, however, on Thursday. set
at liberty, as there wag no proof of their haying admi-
nistered the poiison.

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Saes mail steam-ship Baltic. Capt. Coln'
stock, arrived in the river, last nitht. with advice 3 from
New York to the 16th instant, which port she left at ncon
on that day. She was off the bar at two o'clock, but did
not reach the river until seven. For the first five days
she experienced very heavy easterly winds, amounting to
a storm. She attempted to make the north pasage, but,
in consequence of the strong head winds, Capt. Comstock
deemed it advisable to go to the south of Ireland. The
Baltic has brought 204 passengers, a greater number than
was ever conveyed by a steamer amoss the Atlantic.
She has on board, in specie, 150,000 dollars, and £514
worth of silver bar.
The steam-ship Washington arrived at New York on
the 10th instant.

ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC.

LATER FROM AMERICA

The Ur

The case of Simms,.the fugitive slave from Georgia,
arrested in Boston recently, terminated in the decision of
the Court that he should be sent back to the Sate from
which he had escaped.

The intelligence taken cat by the Africa, reporting
another advance here in the Cotton Market, produced
great satisfaction in America.
_

The New York and Erie Railroad is nearly completed.
No fewer than 10.749 emigrants arrived at New York
during the first fortnight of the present month.
An invitation had been received by the Mayor of
_

New York from the Mayor and citizens of Limerick
questing the former, awl the friends by whom he r

tie accompanied to the Great Exhibition, to make
Limerick, as the nearest point. to America, their port of
deharcation, and to partake there of an entertainment.
On Saturday evening the sixth anniversary of the
Henry Clay F.,stival was celebrated by a company of

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upwards of five hundred gentlemen, who sat claim 'to a
sumptuous repast.
The British ship Duke recently cleared from Mobile
for Liverpool. with 4,101 hales cotton, weighing 2,072,108
lbs., and valued at. 5214,517 44e.
The Welland Canal was again opened to American as
well as English vessels, and a revised rate of tolls has
been agreed upon.

Jenny Lind was at Cincinnati on the 14th inst.. 2.180
persons were present at. the concert the previous evening,
which realised 15,000 dollars. Parodi had arrived at New