The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-30 00:00:00

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tis and of future generations of
breaking up old party
apacts, or forming new ones, upon the st
or the policy of which may depend the future power
and the permanence of this great empire. And yet,
en at such a period, with these important national
our attention, we cannot
emus sympathies of our nature,

;ability

pestions pressing upon

resist those

which prompt us, at this festive season, hallowed
and endeared in memory by so many associations

ast, to turn for awhile to the survey of
luestions more purely domestic—to sit for awhile
by some of the thousa d Christmas hearths of once
merry England, and to ask of our legislators and of
statesmen, now so deeply immersed in the struggle
for political power and supremacy, what have you

of the

ear or series of yea
ffic,

re, in office or

to promot

Another circumstance which strikes us is, that
the various brokers, by whom our emigrating fel-
low-countrymen are usually shipped, have recently
been compelled, by act of Parliament, to take out
licenses. For what, we ask, are such licenses, un-
less they impose responsibilities which may avail
their poor clients in a case like this ? Here we have
133 poor beings embarked in a vessel which proved
herself incompetent to gain her desired port within
the period contemplated, and for which the necessary
sea stores bad been laid in. These exhausted, we
see the captain doling out supplies until the funds of
his wretched passengers were exhausted, and then
leaving them destitute on a foreign shore, hundreds
of miles away from their destination. Does the

law, wbi

h provides for the licensing of such men,
enact nothing to make them responsible for the
honesty or worthlessness of the advice which they

It is manifest that something is wrong in our pre-
sent syst.em of emigration. Such a calamity as that
upon which we are remarking could not have hap-

1 system

provided with

pened under a well regula
proper checks. With this, of course, Government
must deal. In the mean time, however, we have

crown upen
.our bounty

ourselves a duty to perform towards thes
late human beings. thus

and when can an appeal t

come more t

3 deso-

y, or w

ur charity in their behal

n ought it to be responded

to more readily, than at the Present festi

us for of

RPOOL STANDARD,

In the Albion there is a letter from a Shopkeeper, in
Castle-street, recommending a plan, which, if adopted,
might cause a general feeling throughout the town. His
plan, I must say. is a very good one ; but, at the same
time, and with all deference towards him, I would say,
if the " Tradesmen's Assistants' Association" was to
take it in hand and cause hills to be distributed to each
shopkeeper written, as he says,—" This shop will be
closed on" New Year's Day, it would, I am sure, prove
effectual. Trusting that either one or the other will be

ucceNsful, I am, sir,
A MENIBEIt AND YOUNG SHOPKEEPER
Paradise-street, 29th Dec., 1815.

Tbe subject of the lecture at St. Andrew's Church, this
evening, is " Self-examination."

NEW YEAR'S DAY.--All the Banks in this town have
given notice that their establishments will be closed for
business on Thursday next, New Year's Day. The Stock
Exchange will be closed from to-morrow, (Wednesday)
till Monday morning.
CHRISTIAN UNION.—THE ALLTANCI

—lt will be
observrd from an advertisement that the sermon of the
Rev. Hugh M Neile, on the perfected unity of the Church
of Christ, with some remarks on the Evangelical Alliance,
is now published. It is perhaps scarcely necessary to
observe that the observations of the reverend gentleman
on the latter subject, which have been already printed,
gain much additional force, when read in connection
with the previous part of the sermon, on the manifested
oneness of the church. Several important notes, further
illustrative of the subject, have been added, and now
when Ilse public mind is so agitated, we hope the present
appeal will contribute to " establish, strengthen, and

Excha,

LIVER

OOL SHARE-MARKET YESTERDAY.-
as closed from Wednesday last
he Christmas holidays, and only opened yesterday fo
•egular business. Nevertheless, the railway confidence
)f the public could not be restrained, and a considerable
business was done privately on Friday and Saturday, at
improved prices, for which, it will be admitted, therewas,
and remains, ample room. Yesterday, as will be• seen

by our list, elsewhere, a fair business was done, many of
the heavy stock being dealt in at advanced rates
some of the best Ecripa moving upwards

prices ru

than those of the sales

to quote the next sa

quoted ; and, of course,
ling MIS done, we expect to• have

at higher rates

THE ANNI7AL COTTON STATEMENT.—This document
uncerning which much interest generally prevails, will

be publ

fit will be out to-mdrr
rmation of bro

abstance

era and

('.Veduesday),

hers who may not

t eleven o'c

e sales and