The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-10 00:00:00

HOUSE AND COTTAGE OWNERS' SOCIETY.

AT a PUBLIC MEETING, held on Thursday Evening, the
sth of th:ceniber, at the Blue_ Bell Inn,. London-road,

Mr. WM. wALTHEw in the Chair,

The following Resolutions were unanimously adopted :
Moved by Mr. ROBT. ELLIS, and seconded by Mr. ALLEN,
That this Meeting is of opinion, that the offer made by the
Churchwardens and Overseers to accept one-half of the hates
chargeable on small Tenements' if paid by the 16th instant, will
be very prejudicial to the Parish at large if the time be not ex-
tended, as a great number of the occupants, at this season of the
year, can scarcely obtain food, many of whom have been, and
now are, out of employment, owing to the misunderstandings
with their employers; their rents are unpaid, consequently,
the mejoeity of Owners, will be unable to meet the demand at
so early 'a period, unless they distress their Tenants, as it would
be the only means of enabling them to
~pay the Rates ; and
which Must, therefore, have the effect of throeing numbers of
families upon the Parish who would of rwise have been able
to support themselves through the en . g winter.
flMoved by Mr. FORD, and seconde v Mr. 11ORGAN,
it
That the Assessments upon small Tenements at the rack
rent in the present Rate is 35 per cent. higher than they ought
to be, 10 per cent. being taken from the larger property, whilst
the smaller property is charged at rack rent, which is, taking
the avelage, 35 per cent. more than the bona fide value, making
a reduction of 3o per cent. upon the present Assessment, to re-
medy the evil mentioned in the foregoing resolution. And, to
prevent the expense of an appeal to the Sessions, that a Memo-
rial be presented to the Appeal Committee on Monday next.
Moved by Mr. KNAPPER, and seconded by Mr. BELL,
That the Secretary now read the Memorial, and that Mr.
Walthew, Mr. Ford, Mr. Knapper, and Mr. M‘Gee be deputed
to present the same to the Select Vestry on Monday next.
Moved by Mr. DUCKWORTH, and seconded by Mr. HOBERT
Eeele,
That the following gentlemen, members of this Associa-
tion, be appointed as a Committee to watch the progress of
the Repeal of the Liverpool Local Small Tenement Act, and
that they adopt such measures as they judge expedient to ac-
complish this most desirable object. •
Mr. Walthew, Mr. Rae,
Mr. Ellis, Mr. M`Gee„
Mr. Knapper, Mr. Hilliard,
Mr. Ford, 1 Mr.-George Ashby,
Mr. Duckworth, I Mr.- Allen,
Mr. Jones, Soho-street, I With power to add to their
Mr. Jones, Virgil-street, I number.
Moved by Mr. Hitt.tano, and seconded by Mr. STUBBS,
That it is expedient that all Members of the Association pay
their Monthly Subscriptions and Contributions as soon as pos-
sible, that ail lawful Demands on the Association may be
discharged.
Moved by Mr. ALIEN, and seconded by Mr. M‘Gee,
That this Meeting be adjourned, to receive the Report of the
Deputation, to next Wednesday Evening.
To the Churchwardens, Overseers, and Select Vestry of the
Parish of Liverpool.
GENTLEMEN,—We, the undersigned Rate-payers under the
local act for the assessment of small Tenements at £l2 and un-
der, beg leave most respectfully to call your attention to the fact,
that our tenantry, the occupiers thereof, are unable, at present,
to pay their reuts, by reason of their extreme poverty; and,
consequently, the majority of persons assessed as owners, and
liable, by the oeforementioned act, to the payment of the rates,
humbly request that you wilt be pleased to extend the time of
payment to the latest period allowed by law. so that we may
escape the utter ruin wherewith we are threatened if the full
amount be enforced.
We beg also to state, that Cottage Property is rated at the
rack rent, whereas it is not really and beneficially worth to the
owners more than 65 per cent. on the rack rent, the remaining
35 per cent. being lost by the inability of the tenantry to pay
the whole of the rents, and by the perpetual expense of repairs,
which fall more heavily upon property of this description than
upon that of higher value, the wear and tear being greater; add
to which, the continual change of tenantry, partial occupation,
the immense trouble and expence of collecting such rents, and
the additional burden of the rate demanded. We, therefore,
urge the necessity of reducing the assessment to thirty-five pc
cent.,.as the rate is, in fact, ten per cent. higher than more
valuable property, as may be seen in the deduction from the last
year's assessment on the larger property; thus we should obtain
material relief from the oppressive operation of an act, the re-
peal of which the Parishioners are about to seek from Parlia-
ment, as the only means of saving this property from utter
annihilation.
We beg further to submit to the consideration of the Select
Vestry the policy of encouraging the investment of capital in
cottage property, by which the condition of the labouring poor
has already been much ameliorated by removing them from un-
wholesome cellars in the lower parts of the town to better habi-
tations, to the great increase of their comforts, and, conse-
quently, of their health. This is a matter of acknowledged
public concern, when it is borne in mind, that, in the opinion
of the best medical authorities, the visitation of the Cholera is
likely, for some years, to be annual; and in proportion as the
poor are wretched, in the tame proportion will they be unable
to resist the ravages of that scourge, which will inevitabletiavel
from them to the rich.
A kindly feeling had also grown up between landlord and
tenant, which this heavy rate has destroyed; for the landlord
canned now afford to forego his claim ; he is compelled to dis-
true his tenants, and they are thus thrown on the parish for
support. The landlord will also cease to erect cottages, and the
labouring population must again be exposed (if this rate be
rigidly enforced) to all the attacks of disease, and to the crowd-
ing of whole families in rooms, to the destruction of health,
morals, and the public peace. .
[The Memorial was numerously signed by the principal Cot-
tage Owners of the town and neighbourhood.)

THE LATE GALES.

WRECK OF THE CITY OF LIMERICK SCHOONER—
Cooper, master, a constant trader between this port and
London—and plunder of her cargo, consisting of the
following:-100 tierces beef, J. Kelly and Co.; 430 fir-
kins butter, 50 bales bacon, 150 barrels pork, M'Don
nells; 1060 firkins butter, Gunsons ; 60 puncheons whis-
key, Stein and Co. This vessel was off the Heads on
Thursday night, and out for sea, when a tremendous
wave struck her on the bows, clearing the decks of bul-
warks, stancheons, and every portable article, so as to
render her almost unmanageable. Her mast was also
sprung by the violence of the storm. Nevertheless, the
master and crew endeavoured to keep her off the coast, but
the wind blowing furiously from the west, and a violent
sea setting in, drove her nearer to land; as a last re-
source on Friday morning, day-light appearing, and still
nearing the coast, anchors and cables were let out, under
which the vessel dragged for some time, but eventually
was swept in upon the sands at Ballybunnion, on the
Kerry side of the Shannon, by the overwhelming fury
of both wind and tide. For some minutes before this the
prominent points of the coast were covered with hun-
dreds of the peasantry, anxiously watching the fate of
the vessel, and so soon as she struck they rushed down
upon the strand, where the ill-fated schooner was already
dashing to pieces at each succeeding shock from the com-
bined force of both elements. The master, mate, and
crew escaped ashore, with no other casualty but the frac-
ture of a limb to one of the latter, but as soon as those
shipwrecked mariners gained terra firma, the savage pea-
santry surrounded them, knocked down the master,
robbed him of a small parcel he had saved from the
wreck, deprived the mate of his watch, and attempted
also to strip the unfortunate sailors. Some of the Coast
Guards had now arrived, and lent their assistance to save
the crew from violence and protect whatever -portion of
the cargo remained from plunder, for the number of the
peasantry had rapidly increased, and, as the bottom of the
vessel had broken up, the puncheons of whiskey floated
towards shore, and those were eagerly broached by the
crowds assembled, when the Coast "Guards, striving to
cover the property from absolute ruin and spoliation,
fired on the plunderers, by which one man was shot.—
This inflamed the passion of the wreckers to desperation,
already excited by the taste of ardent spirits, and they
made a simultaneous attack upon the small Coast Guard
party, who were obliged to fly for their lives. Then com-
menced a scene of indiscriminate wreck and plunder—
axes, sledges, and saws were employed to cut up the
schooner's decks, and get at the residue of the cargo, con-
sisting of beef, pork, bacon, and butter, which they hur-
ried away into the interior, upon horses and cars, &c.,
with perfect impunity. Many of those inhuman wretches
were seen stretched upon the beach like pigs, in a beastly
state of stupefaction from the liberal draughts of whiskey
they bad imbibed, and seven more are returned as dead
from too freely indulging in this poisonous liquid ! Sun-
day morning Mr. Sandes, a magistrate of Kerry, arrived
to witness this revolting spectacle, and adopted every .
means in his powee-to save the wreck and property from
utter destruction. Kateif forcement of police and mili-
tary came to the aid of tle water guards, and the whole-
sale plunder was at length checked ; but, on collecting
the relics of what had escaped the rude grasp of those
barbarous marauders, the sum total of what was saved
for the benefit of the.owners and underwriters did not, it
appears, exceed nine puncheons of whiskey and about
sixty firkins of butter ! The police and military have
since commenced a search through the surrounding
country for the immense property which has been car-
ried off.—Limerick Chronicle.
The Anna Letitia, from Limerick for London, was
forced out of Tarbert Roads in the storm of Thursday
night, and ran foul of the Thomas, bound for Liverpool.
The Anna Letitia carried away her own bowsprit, and
the bulwarks and stancheons of the Thomas, which lost
beside her anchor and cable.
The Robert, Owen, from Limerick to Hull, laden with
grain, lost both anchors and cable in the Shannon.
The works of the new ship canal, at Tralee, have been
injured by the late high tide, which rose to an unusual
height, and the great storm which prevailed. A vessel,
the Sarah, of 140 tons, which had been lying at anchor
near the quay of Blenerville, was forced from her an-
chorage, and left by the tide so high on the strand as to
render it a matter of much difficulty to get her off.
A West Indiaman, bound from London to Barbadoes,
was wrecked on Thursday off Ardfry, on the county Gal-
way coast. On the same night two fishing-boats were•
driven in on the coast of Spuldle, without a being on
board. It is presumed their crews perished
We have received another account of a vessel (name
unknown) lost on the. same night in Cliggan Bay, Con-
nemara. There were on board eight persons, including
three boys, sons of the coast-guards, all of whom perished
except the captain. The vessel was laden with butter.
The Lion, Griffiths, from New Ross to Glasgow, was
put on shore at the Isle of Man, the 25th instant, leaky
and pumps choaked, and must discharge.
NARROW ESCAPE OF THE ALBION, OF CORK.—The Al-
bion, steamer, Captain Finlayson, not having arrived up
to Saturday night last, and no account having been re-
ceived of her having put into any port, there was natu-
rally some anxiety to obtain intelligence of her, and this
was happily relieved by her entering the harbour on
Sunday morning, thus, under Providence, justifying the
strong confidence which every body felt in the skill and
intrepidity of the captain—a seamen with a stout and
good heart—and the sufficiency of the vessel to meet a
heavy gale. We gather the following particulars from
one of the passengers, of whom there were several, in-
cluding six ladies :—The .Albion sailed from Bristol, on
Wednesday evening last, with a side breeze, and was
pursuing her way until Thutsday morning, when indica-
tions or severe weather became too manifest to be mis-
taken. As the day advanced the wind increased in
strength, veering from S.S.W. to W.N.W. Towards
evening it was clear that a heavy gale was coming on ;
but it was little expected that such a dreadful one was at
hand. From ten o'clock P.M. it blew tremendously—sea
succeeding sea in mountain height, and clearing over the
decks every ten or twelve minutes. At about twelve or
one, when the elements were raging with awful fury, a
portion of the horse stalls was carried away, and in an in-
stant several of the passengers ran on deck, and clung
round the intrepid commander, Captain Finlayson, as if
to procure from him solace or consolation. The captain,
collected and calm, besought them to leave him, or he
would not be accountable for their lives or the safety of
the ship ; but it was not until some of them were torn
from him that he was permitted to resume giving direc-
tions to the crew. Our informant states that the efforts
of the captain during the night were beyond all belief.—
He was every where, doing every thing, and encourag-
ing others to follow his example. At about three o'clock
on Friday morning, when the steamer was within about
thirty miles of Cori: harbour, the storm continuing with
unabated violence, the captain was obliged to veer for
Milford, which he made in about nine hours, and lay there
till Saturday, when he again put to sea, and reached
Cove on Sunday morning, in perfect safety, and without
~ any loss except that stated.—Cork Reporter.
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SINGULAR ELOPEMENT.—A brother and sister of the name
of Conway, and a brother and sister of the name of Nash,
(mountaineers,) rode into Newcastle on Saturday last, repaired
to a public-house, and drank five jugs of good whiskey punch,
after which an exchange of sisters was deliberately agreed to.
The party then arose, went out, mounted their horses, kissed,
shook hands, rode off in different directions, and have not since
been heard of.—Limerick Herald.
We understand that letters haveheen received at the Foreign
Office, from the English Embassy at ienna, communicating
the departure of Sir Federick Limb, our minister there, on a
tour for the recovery of his health. The right honourable gen-
tleman and suite were gone to Syria, whence he would per-
haps travel to Milan. The Hon. W. H. Strap ;ways, Secretary
of Legation, was accredited Charge d'Affaires at the Court of
his Imperial Majesty, during the absence of the ambassador.
THE DUKE OF WI34,LINGTON'S WATERLOO CHARGER.—
The charger which the Duke of Wellington rode at Waterloo
is kept in a small paddock adjoining a flower garden at Strath-
fieldsaye, from which the late Duchess used frequently to feed
him with bread from her own hauds. During.the battle the
Duke was on this horse fifteen hours without once dismounting,
and it has never been ridden since that day. It is a small Ches-
nut horse, slightly made, and as it was quite a colt at the tone
of the battle, it is wonderful how its strength was equal to the
excessive fatigue it must have undergone. There is a proverb
in som• parts of England, that a cliesnut horse is always a good
one, and that it will always do more work than any horse of the
same size of any other colour, and this horse seems to furnish
an illustration of its truth.—Gardener's Magazin*.