The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-29 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

TUE WHALE SHIPS.

On Thursday last a public meeting was held at Newcastle-on-
Tyne, over which the Mayor of that town presided, for the pur-
pose of considering the best means of furthering, the expedition
about to sail from Hull in the hope of rescuing the ships -Sup-
Imsed to be ice-bound in Baffin's Bay. -After the Mayor, Mr.
Chapman, and Mr. flodgson.had addressed the meeting,-Mr.
Hutt (M.P. for Hull) delivered the following speech which we
transcribe from Ova Newcastle Journul:—Mr. Mayor and Gen-
tlemen,--On any other occasion I should have considered some
'apology necessary
-from rte, had I presumed to interfere in the
public proceedings of this town, but-under the circumstances in
which we are this day assembled here, I am sure that no such
form will by you be considered requisite. (Hear,-hear.) The
humane and liberal inhabitants of Newcastle are this day called,
on to actin common cause with those with whom I am, in pub-
lic, more .itinediately connected. At Hull a public meeting
has already been held for the purpose of taking measures to
rescue or relieve the unfortunate crews detained in Davis'
Straits. I have come hither to explain and support the views
.my constituents entertain on that subject; and, if I had not
that motive, I should still wish to take with you an humble part
in the cause of suffering humanity—a cause which levels all
distinctions of place and of party, and if it do not make us all
members of the same town, at least hinds us all together in sen-
timents of common solicitude. (Loud cheers.) It was ob-:
served, Sir, by you, with great propriety, that some advantage
had arisen from the, peculiar period at which this meeting had
been assembled. Since the meeting was convened, the arrival
of the Duncombe, Capt. Scoffin, at the port of Hull, has added
some important information to the knowledge we possessed of
the vessels detained in the ice. Capt. Scoffin left the ice on the
11th of November. On the 7th he had been able to make out
the other six ships detained under similar circumstances to
himself. They were in. the open Straits, and, as he supposed,
but thirty mlies distant from the water. They were drifting
southward with the ice, which had already carried them nearly
five degrees of latitude, being about 350 miles, and the captain
of the. Duncombe entertained little doubt that they must in
process of a short time be liberated. (Cheers.) Such is the
faveurable view of the case as relates to the Abraham, the Dor-
.don,,and the Harmony, of Hull, the Lady Jane and Grenville
-Bay; of Newcastle, and the Norfolk, a ship out of the port of
Berwick. . On the other hand, Capt. Scoffin felt no confidence
in anticipating the precise time at whiCh these vessels might be
released; at the shortest period the dews must be exposed to
great suffering and privation ; and the scurvy, which had al•
ready broken out among the crew of the Duncombe, would per-
haps every day render the men less capable of exertion- whore
'the utmost would be needed from them. (hear, hear.) With
'respect to those four vessels-frozen up on the western coast
Baffin's Bay I fear I have even a less cheering statement t 9
submit to you. Those persons at Hull, who are most conversant
with the subject, hardly seem to expect that the hand of stic-
cour can approach them till the breaking up of the ice in the
month of July or August. Everything, however, that man can
do is to be expected from the gallant fellows who have volun-
teered for the expedition of relief. (Loud cheers.) Underall
circumstances Captain Scoffin has recommended that an expe-
dition, for the purpose of relieving the sufferers, should be pre-
pared without delay. 'Phis view has been warmly Seconded by
the gallant and enterprising. Ross, and has been adopted in
consequence by the government and the merchants anclihip-
owners of Hull. (Loud cheers.) In less than ten days I
expect the Cove will put to sea. The admiralty, which' has
acted with so much liberality and benevolence in regard to
commissioning the Cove, has gone yet f i urther, and it 'is un-
derstood that two smaller vessels will be ordered 'to co-
operate with her in this very arduous service. (Loud cheers.)
Much, however, remains .for the generosity of private indivi-
duals. In Hull the call has been most feelingly responded to
by various individuals and the chartered corporations, but most
signally and honourably by the Trinity House, which has sub-
scribed the sum of £lOOO. (Loud cheering.) The people of
Hull know they will be warmly supported by their neighbours
of Newcastle—(cheers)—by a community that is never inac-
tive or indifferent when it is necessary to relieve the unfortunate.
(Applause.) Sir, we are about to draw round our Christmas
firesides, and I trust all of us will contemplate a family circle
collected there which has neither been contracted by mitfor-
tune nor by death. (Cheers.) Oh! let us remember that some
-homes are now desolate—that there are hearts which, but for
our exertions under God, may be left hopeless for ever.—
(Applause.)
. A subscription was then entered into for the double object of
relieving the wives and families of the sailors, and also to pur-
chase the necessary. stores to be forwarded by the expedition
about to sail for their relief.

MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK, AND TEN PERSONS

DROWNED.-JERSEY.

It is our painful duty to record the loss of the Margaret, one
of the regular trading cutters from Granville to Jersey, with
five stock and provisions, which took place on Sunday-se'nnight;
between eleven and twelve o'clock, by- which lamentable oc-
currence ten persons met with a watery grave It appears the
Margaret left Granville early on Sunday morning, in company
with two'ot her cutters, from the same port, bound to this island;
they arrived safe in the course of the afternoon, and made in-
quiries respecting the Margaret, she being the fastest vessel of
the three; the weather being very thick and foggy, she had not
been seen by either of the other vessels, nor could any account
•be given of her till about the middle of the night, when Mr. Le
Veslet, of the Union Hotel, in the Royal-square, was aroused
by the arrival of two gentlemen, without bats or other covering,
who gave the following account of the catastrophe. After being
out at sea some hours, driftiug about in the fog, with very little
wind, they at last made the island, and, having lost the tide,
came to an anchor off St. Clement's, near La Roque, where
they remained all the afternoon and part of the night, waiting
for the ebb tide, which turned just at twelve o'clock. They
then up sails, intending to make the harbour of St. Helier, but
had not proceeded many hundred yards before the vessel slightly
struck and hung on a rock for a moment or two, when she gave
a heavy lurch, and went down immediately, throwing those on
deck into the water. The only persons saved out of fifteen,
were two passengers (gentlemen) and the master, and two
seamen. master of the Margaret, Captain Le Seltrur,-
and tho" pilot, Benest,-differed in opinion respecting alight very
distinctly seen from the-vessel; the pilot said it was the pier
light, while the-captain expressed his doubt, they being too far
out to see it so plain, and in casting his eyes downwards, per-
ceived breakers a-head; which words were hesrdly out of his
mouth, before the vessel struck and immediately capsised. This
is the same light that deceived the captain of the Aurora cut-
ter, which was wrecked a shed time since on the beach at
havre-des-Pas. It is one of the new gas-lights erected last
summer, iu Regent-road, near' Clio Cottage; being in an ele-
vated situation, it is very distinctly seen a long way out at sea.
The five men were saved in the cutter's boat, which had been
towed astern during the passage; and though in a leaky state,
she was sculled to the shore in safety, after an hour's passage.
—Sherburne Journal.

COMPENSATIONS TO DISPLACED TOWN CLERKS
AND OTHER RETIRING OFFICERS OF THE OLD
CORPORATIONS.

The following minutes of the Lords of the Treasury, of-the
date of the 10th oLSeptember, after a communication with the
town-clerks, on tire passing of the corporation bill, will be also
subject to the 64th and 67th sections of the act:—
" My Lords itOW the 60th clause of the act, rot the reform
-of municipal (*Orations, by which compensathin is provided
for all corporate: officers, whose office shall be abolished, or who
shall be remove'd;:froca his office under the provision of the act,
or who shall nut, tie re-appointed as aforesaid; in certain cases,
an, appeal is gbien to the Lords of the Treasury, who shall
make such order as may appear to them just, which order shall
be binding on all parties.
" Lord Melbourne 'and the Chancellor of the Exchequer in-
form the board that, in the discussion which took place in par,
liament on this clause, At was stated by them, that in fixing
the amount of compensation, it would be right and equitable to
take into condsleration, not only the -salary and just emolu-
ments of the sfffibe of town-clerk, but also the profits lerived
from the perfinance of legal business of the several corpora-
tions executeliliy town-clerks in their official capacity, and the
just emolum* of any other corporate appointment held by
such town-cl , and usually held in conjunction with or at-
tached or anneFed to the office of town-clerk.
" My Lord concur in the views expressed by Lord Melbourne
and the ChaigoOlor of the Exchequer, and are pleased that their
opinion shoilk:be recorded for the future guidance of the
decisions on ''such cases as may be referred to them under the
act. ; •

____ . •
"My Lords proceed to consider the principles upon Which
-such compeusation.Should be awarded. ' • '
"My Lords re4the act Ist William IV, c:•58; by which the
legislature have- secured compensation to office's- of the courts
of law upon abolition of office. "
My Lords read the 4th reason of the House of Commons
for dissenting to the amendment of the lords, proposing to con-
tinue the existing town-clerks for life, in which reason it is to
be stated that -„j„t and liberal construction cannot be given to
the compen 'ti fratsie proposed to the House of Commons.
. "My Lo .coiliidekthat the principle adopted by the legis-
laturein th ifeited act.,may fairly be applied to the cases of
the town-cle 4 and they 'ate of opinion that in all cases where.
such officer holds his office-r% life, or when the usage has been
such as to raises just expects i that the office should continue
for the.life oflhe holder, a corn sation of not less than two.
ttl/4
thirds of hi' 'rofits may be grad to such officer, estimated
upon the pr iples stated in the:c.. mencement of this minute,
-end caleul , ~alson.an live-rags:- :s Ju4 emoh.,roants, for ti-
five years vious to the Ist day iisf:4Liary, 1835."
FATAL ACIII)ENTS ON THE gl
N'EN PERSONS DR,

PENTINE
VNED.

tended greittly
in a number of
!ant distress, oe-
I ytle-park4on-
in
, we beligv the
;equenc+. the
previ " s •ght,
e Se: t. eat
1, ..! e. pt on of
-pleasarrtig until
I thousdnfl per-
mrd
.proceedin g
lonianto the
,k of river.
i the ha s, im-
iscovered that a
,ingerous" had,
men to prevent
way/ immersing
a), the foreman
is ssistants, by
it fiat-bottomed
mty
.minutes in
carried into the
r, Elsl,Tood, and

,
and the other
by the society,
; but we lament
!zertions of the
sir efforts were
I spark having
fears were en-

1 other
means.
were W
to say,
surgeor.
only soe
tied for
rortain
ST. iolyday, many
thousw olis assembled
_tptind , to witness the
co venture their
;h there were
hu dr, until about 12
o' ter, and eight
. others, the same fate.
Fortui the proMpt as.
,
imane Society,
tiie `pt This warning
'had no _ ___ as crowded as
ever. About threeecTOck sour persons fell in; three were got
out in a very weak state, but an hour having elapsed before the
body of the other was found, all attempts to restore animation
were ineffectual. About four o'clock five persons fell is ; three
were recovered, but the other two were not found until quite
dead. One of the bodies was removed to the Grapes public-
' house, and the other to the King's Head, Pimlico,

LIVER THEATRE, LIVERPOOL,

Air. 7 P. COOKE for a limited period.
PHIS present TUESDAY, the 29th, and TO-MOaROW,
J- (Wednesday,) the 30:h instant, will be perfornat'd
THE PILOT.
Long TOM Coffin Mr. T 7:Cooke.
Kate Plowden • Mrs. avmond.
After which, a new Interl l . called
THE MARRIED I KE.
Principal Characters by Mr. Melvil • and Mrs. Raymond.
To conclude with
• THE MONSTER;
OR, THE FATE OF FRANKENSTEIN,,
The Monster Mr. 'l'. P, Cooke.
See small Bills.

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

ITALIAN OPERAS.

SIGNOR DE BEGNIS has the honour to inform the
Nobility and Gentry of Liverpool, that the..-ITALIAN
OPERAS will commence on MONDAY ne ,-the 4th Jan:,
1836. rrit‘tA DONNAS.
Signora CONTESSA DEM.! TONI,
Miss WATERS,
(Pupil of Signor De 1 -nis,) and
Mademoiselle DE A GIOLI,
Signora OLDERICCI, and Signora MARIAN!.
Signor BERRETONI, Signor CURIONI,
Signor DE ANGIOLI, Signor GALLI,
Signor PLATONI, Signor 7,0171, • •
and
Signor DE BEGNIS. • •
Conductor—ll Cellebre Maestro Cavalier GABUSSI.

LIST OF THE OPERAS •
To be performed during the first Three Weeks.
FIRST WEEK
MONDAY, January 4 IL BARBIERE.
'• WEDNESDAY ......... CENERENTOLA.
FRIDAY LA SONNAMBULA.
SECOND WEEK.
• • MONDAY LA DONNA DEL LAGO.
WEDNESDAY L'ITALIANI IN ALGIERI
FRIDAY..... TANCREDI.
THIRD WEEK.
MONDAY L'ELISIR D'AMORE.

WEDNESDAY IL DON GIOVANNI
FANATICO PER LA MUSICA.
And MONDAY....IL PURITANI, &c. •
The CHORUSES will be upon a most extensive scale.
Further particJers may be known by applying at WEtss'
Music Warehouse, 2, Church-street, and in future Advertise•
ments.

The Box-office will be open on SATURDAY next, the 2d Jan.,
where Places may be taken from Eleven till Three o'clock.
• Notwithstanding the great expense attending this under-
taking, the Prices of Admission will remain as usual, viz.:—
Boxes, -Is.—Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d.—Pit, 2s. 6d.—Gallery, Is.

Ebe TLiberpool *tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1835

The packet ship, the Independence of New York,
having the President's Message on board, passed Holy-
head yesterday, at one o'clock, P. M., but she had not
reached the river IA hen we went to press. The state of
the weather, and the time °Nile tide, will most probably
prevent any communication with her until a late hour in
the morning, for a steamer that was despatched in quest
of her last night returned without having seen her. If
she should arrive at the time we calculate, we shall pub-
lish the more interesting parts of the Message in our
Second Edition.

The New York Advertiser of the Ist December, has
The following :

THE NAVY YARD.—The Philadelphia Gazette says : Besides
the line of battle ship Pennsylvania, now on the stocks at our
navy yard, there is a frigate in a state of considerable forward-
ness, called the Raritan. ller Model is pronounced by seamen
to be of the highest order of beauty. She is rated as a forty-
four, but will carry GO guns.
The Warren sloop of war is getting out for service, and is
expected before the Delaware closes, to go round to Norfolk,
where she is to get a part of her crew. She carries twenty-four
long twenty-four pounder, and will be commanded by Master
Commandant Taylor.
The old frigate Cyane, which was captured from the British
during the war, is now in the course of beingbroken up, having
fora long time been unseaworthy.

In the yard are to be seen eight very gunet'iong
twenty fours we believe, which have upoa them the British
crown, proving that they once had different owners.
LIVE Oda TimnEu.—The navy commissioners have adver-
tised for farther proposals to be received at their office till the
4th January next, for the following live oak timber, embraced
in their advertisement of 19th September, for which satisfactory
offers have not been made:—
For the frame timber, beam and keelson pieces, and for the
promiscuous pieces for one ship of the line, one frigate,.one
sloop of war, and one schooner, to be delivered at the navy
yard, near Portsmouth, N. 11.
For the frame timber, beam and keelson pieces, and for the
promiscuous timber for two frigates and one steamer, at the
navy yard, Charlestown, Massachussets.
For frame timber, beam and keelson pieces, and for the pro-
miscuous timber for one steamer and one schooner, at the navy
yard, Philadelphia.
For the frame timber, beam and keelson pieces, and for the
promiscuous timber for one ship of the line and one sloop of
war, at the navy yard, Gosport, Va.
For the frame timber, beam and -keelson pieces, and for the
promiscuous timber for one frigate, one steamer, and one
schooner, at the navy yard, Gosport, Va.
( From the New Orleans Bulletin, Nov. 14).

Tax as.—We have received froM our correspondent at Nat-
chitucees, an extract from the Red Ricer Herald, containing, two
days later news from Texas, butfO later intelligence from the
seat of the present warlike oper 'tions, San Antonio. The ge-
neral council have put forth eloquent address, appealing to
their brethren of the Unit States of the north for succour,
which we take pleasure-g Ipublishing below. The rewards of-
fered to volunteers in sacred cause for which they are bat-
tling are liberal, and,linited with other nobler motives, love of
liberty and sympatil for an oppressed and gallant people, will
we doubt not, calirlo their aid thousands of brave hearts and
strong arms fro `our own division of the land.

The new' iunicipal bill, concocted by certain needy
Whig rs for the purpose of obtaining power for a
faction
la ' place and pay for themselves, has, as far as
Liverp 1 is concerned, proved eminently successful.
Theeletction took place on Saturday last, the result of
whit was declared by the Mayor yesterday, and it ap-
pear that of the whole eight-and-forty councillors only
fiv' are conservatives and forty-three radicals and de-
,.
s uttives !
The victory is most complete ! The corporation of
41,.iierpool is now in the hands of unitarians, Roman ca-
r tbolicOquakers, anabaptists, and other dissenters, so
that of the whole members not six are to be depended
Upon who are friendly to the institutions of the Church
of tngland. All that we foresaw, all that we feared, all
that we perdicted, has come to pass. A hand of avowed
and furious levell9-s are in possession of the Town-ball ;
the credit of the town and the bonds of the creditors of
the corporation are at their mercy ; and we wish those
who have anything at stake, as well as those who have
nothing to lose, great joy un the occasion and the com-
pliments of the season!

The original plan of coercion and robbery, as it came
from the mint of Lord Jock RUSSELL, has been faith-
fully adhered to. The old freemen were first disfran-
chised, and most dishonestly and wantonly deprived of
the rights they had received by inheritance or acquired by
servitude—the natives of the town were punished and
degraded unnecessarily and unjustly—in order that the
elective power might devolve upon comparative stran-
gers—upon. Irishmen who keep dram-shops, beer shops,
slop-shops, and houses of a still inure disreputable cha-
racter—and who, instigated by missives from Ireland,
and persuaded if not compelled by their priests, have
joined the English raiicals in this struggle and have car-
ried the day. It is a fact that cannot be too often or tco
strongly proclaimed, that Liverpool iS now, as far as mu-
nicipal government is involved, completely in the hands
of the popish priests and the Irish hucksters. The work-
ing classes of Liverpool, including the old operative free-
men, who support the keepers of beer-shops, gm-pa-
laces, and wl►isky booths, are displaced in the scale of so-
ciety by the strangers they spend their money- upon, and
who, thus supported, tyrannise over them, their employ-
ers, the merchants, shipowners, and all the respectability
and intelligence of this great commercial community.

That the unitarian faction have been assisted in their
revolutionary proceedings by men of a different station,
and who have disgraced themselves by their conduct, we
and shall prove, when the proper time comes. It
is with feelings of shame and sorrow that we are called

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most melancholy and fatal accidenthich
it the pleasures of the clay, artk htt throw]
,y resp ile -families into th' oatii.oigna
d on F •at the Serpentine r'm 113
From risries we have made ",t spot,
vintr pa • 'rs•may be relied tysr.,:f.l„. cons(
ratlekd ::4,si,t yof the frost 4tir * the i
?e,t,Zif pe ..igoiiimenced, skit A n the
irlfitour y ,trynroing, `,•,,, ith, ti
ustoiliary tarts, ' ing we ~ ery. -10
t halfpast 12 o'cloc , tch time' everal
were on the ice, when lou shriec.:.. •re bet
the vffeinily, of the Receivi... ...ase belt
ttl A Hui aneAkiety,. on the;. 4. . bank
dreds persillitV•bAh to tbe•. and on 1
ately h teitd to die .spitit,:-wh,72— was dis
.piece i,i4e which: had. tikoe;-u-.., -edo. 7. Da
ithstan igtistd, the exertion society's r
been ' r 'ed b •,iika , it: d given w
y the ' e oft ' ' ter. Besot
e Hun 'e" Soc. - i .;;Ar''' mmoned hi:
Is of.hi . peakh 41'irch 4-, •ho with their
drags, acid ro • ~tte,,q.",'..,in about (wet
caring it) pe ~- .7.s,illia ~A, .N. immediately c
ving-hOuse,. 4 en Me - —4;• oolley, Sawyer,
surgeons, -4-;:.---.• *Cc' cc. Hot-baths
,s for rest ;'. lag anin ~U' , recommended
with the :4,,,,....: :est li ;*tiess resorted to;.
i'f, that nt-.71, stall,l. . lii :' the unretnitted ex
:ohs and •k, • nttapthafear two hours, tbei
sttcressfu 77p,
eigisrout of the 15; the vital
o reverfr,:":: . e remaining seven. Strong
ned that : 1.,:r bodies were left under the ice
. ,3Asi E.':414 PAax.—Friday being a h.
lands of 4. e inhabitants of the inetropc
i ,the sh ~,4 of water in St. James's-park.
duns d , - skaters who had the hardihood tc
on its.:, . ightly• frozen' surface. • A !thong!
re d% up the ice, it remained unbroken
k,-: when young man fell into the wate
s, in at ipting ~to rescue him, shared t
inately 't ' life-boat was at hand, and by i
ice of the rkempleyed bv the Royal Hut
vhole were rescued from being drowned.
o effect, as dther,dorts of the ice continued