The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-20 00:00:00

LIMERICK

We have to add to the total loss of the. Pladda, hence to
Gleason-dock, on the coast of Donegal. Her cargo was
1,091 barrels of wheat, 431 barrels of oats, and 294 barrels of
beans, F. Spaight ; and what will be learned with much re-
gret is the loss of the Lansdowne, a new and handsome
model of a schooner, built at Mr. Russell's Patent Slip, in
this port, and returning from Liverpool, when driven on the
Scottish coast, where she went to pieces. Several pieces of
timber were seen off the Kilkee coast in the last week, but
the weather was so boisterous it could not be ascertained if
they constituted part of a wreck.—Limerick Chronicle.

SLIGO

- - -
The schooner Tampico, Gregg, of Workington, laden
with wheat. oats, and beans, from Limerick, and bound for
Glassondock, after having been on her beam ends, and lost
binnacle, with compasses, &c„ was running for this harbour
on the night of the sth instant, in a thick shower, struck on
Harbowling, near Roughley Point, and became a total wreck.
The master and two of the crew were saved by a boat which
put off from the Roughley pilot station. Four of the sailors
were drowned. Two of the bodies were washed ashore at
Roughley, and an inquest, held by Alexander Burrows, Esq.,
on them. The following evidence was given :—Thomas
Curry, sailor, who, being duly sworn, saith. that he was
foremast man on board the schooner Tampico, bound from
Limerick to Glassondock, from which port (Tarbet Roads)
he sailed in said vessel, on Tuesday, the 2d January instant,
with a cargo of wheat, oats, and beans, and .that on the
second day after leaving Tarbet Roads the vessel sustained

some damage in a gale, which obliged the captain to hear
up for the harbour of Sligo, near which, off Roughley, the
vessel struck, at about 10 p.m., on the sth instant, in a
fog, upon Harbowling rock, upon which she remained for
some hours, and went to pieces; three of the crew, consisting
of seven persons, namely, the captain, William Gregg, the
above named Thomas Curry, and Charles Jay, having been
saved ; the remaining four, namely, William Cohne, the
mate, Simon Flanagan, James Curry, and James Walker,
were washed off the wreck and drowned ; the deceased, Simon
Flanagan, was washed overboard about 5 o'clock a.m., on
the 6th ; the remaining three, namely, William Gregg,
Thomas Curry, and Charles Jay, having been rescued by
Thomas Carway and his crew in a boat. He states further,
that they were so exhausted by fatigue and exposure to cold
and wet, that they could not possibly have survived much
longer. Charles Jay sworn—ls one of the survivors who
was on board of the Tampico schooner, and corroborates the
above statement.—Sligo Journal.

(From the Cork Constitution.)

The mischief caused by the late storm has been very great.
Trees, to the amount of from four to five hundred, and up-
wards of two hundred years old, consisting of oak, ash,
beech, and elm, were levelled to the ground, in a park
in this neighbourhood. It appears that during Thursday
night or early on Friday morning, the hurricane broke
over a bill to the rear of the demesne house, on which a
cabin was erected. The inmates were in bed at the southern
side of the house, and the storm which came in a south-
westerly direction, carried away the northern portion of the
house from the centre, and to this circumstance is owing the
safety of its inhabitants. It then entered the demesne of
Pembroke, and swept the timber on the slope of the hill be-
fore it like straws. Following the slope it rushed along the
valley with fearful violence, and tore up every tree that im-
peded its progress. In the valley it diverged slightly, but
still might be said to have kept almost in a straight line from
the south-west. It passed through the orchard tearing up the
fruit trees, and strewing them about in all directions as if they
were small bushes. It raged through the demesne, keeping a
straight line, in its onward course. Such trees as withstood the
blast had the branches blown off and scattered in all directions.
At length it made its exit at Tourin, which adjoins Pem-
broke, passed the row of cottages on Tourin without doing
any material injury, crossed the river, and entered the de-
mesne of Merino, the seat of T. G. French, Esq. Here its
violence was abated, but not until some injury was done, se-
veral hundred panes of glass having been broken in the
green-house, conservatories, &c. With the exception of
Pembroke and Merino, no other place suffered injury in the
neighbourhood of Passage. The singular and fantastic man-
ner in which immense trunks of trees are thrown about at
Pembroke is really surprising. Some are torn frcm the place
they grew, about 30 yards ; others are chopped at the base
as if some handy woodman had been at work on them.
Others may be seen actually turned upside down, and many
which were not blown down, are bereft of branches, which
were hurled off to the distance of several yards. In fact,
not a tree for half a mile of the demesne over which the
tornado passed but bears some indelible marks of the pitiless
storm. The- most singular thing to notice is, that, during
the destructive ravages of the hurricane, it made a regular
passage for itself through the demesne, clearing a space of
about forty feet wide, while the trees, on either side have
escaped the slightest injury ! The trees that have been
blown down are of little value, owing to the trunks being
riven in several places by the violence of the concussion
when coming in contact with the ground.
We regret that there has been a loss of life in some degree
attributable to the effects of the storm. During the night of
Thursday, the house of a farmer, named Robert Hourahan,
residing in the parish of Ahabollogue, about ten miles from
the city, was unroofed, and one end blown down. In con-
sequence of the dilapidated state of the building, the family
were compelled to seek shelter in the house of a neighbour,
while three farm labourers went to sleep in the barn. Not
having taken anv rest on Thursday night, they lay down in
the straw in the barn, about nine o'clock on Friday evening,
having taken a small bit of lighted candle in with them,
which, it is supposed, they neglected to put out. However,
about eleven o'clock, flames were perceived to issue from the
house, and, before any assistance could be rendered, it was
burned to the ground, and with it the three unfortunate men.
Saturday their frames, for almost all the flesh was consumed,
were dug from the ruins.

LOSS OF ANOTHER EAST INDIAMAN.
Yesterday, information was received in the city that
another East India trader had been added to the melancholy
catalogue of losses occasioned by the late violent gales. The
vessel is named the Jessie Logan, the property of C. Logan,
Esq., a merchant at Liverpool, from which port she traded
to and from Calcutta ; she was 850 tons burden, and com-
manded by Captain Major. On Monday last, the vessel
being on her homeward voyage, was beatify, up channel, and
apparently making for Tintazell or Bude Bay,b on the Cornish
coast, for which the north-west wind would have been favour-
able but for its extreme violence, and at length she became
unmanageable, and was driven aground off Boscastle, formerly
Bottereau Castle, about seventeen miles from Launceston.
Blue lights and other signals of distress were made, but such
was the fury of the gale and the violence of the surf, that
none would venture to her assistance, and at length she drifted
on the rocks and soon became a total wreck. She had evi-
dently been abandoned by the crew and passengers, but from
the long-boat having been washed on shore, it is feared they
have all perished, as up to the time of writing this account
no information had been obtained respecting these ill-fated
persons, and from the fact of the Jessie Logan not being a
London trader, no account of the number of her crew or
passengers could be procured. She was a North American
built vessel, termed in commercial parlance a " Quebecker."
Her cargo, consisting of rum, sugar, spices, and general
East India produce, was being hourly washed ashore • but no
despatches or papers of any kind have, it is presumed, been
recovered, as none have as yet reached the East India House,
the Jerusalem Coffee-house, or Lloyd's. It is :lot at present
known whether she was uninsured, or whether underwritten
at Liverpool or London, nor till further accounts arrive can
any clue be given as to the value of the cargo.—Morning
Herald of yesterday.
The losses reported in the books at Lloyd's to-day present
a less formidable appearance in numbers, but still some of
them are of a serious description, involving the underwriters
and insurance companies to a great amount. The wreck of
the Jessie Logan, from Calcutta to Liverpool, at Boscastle,
will, it is stated, affect Lloyd's and the insurance offices to
the extent of about £IO,OOO. No accounts having vet been
received of the crew or passengers, it is feared the awful
catalogue of the sacrifice of life in the late disasters will have
to be increased by the addition of these to the numbers who
have perished.—Times of yesterday.

During the storm on Friday morning the new mill belong-
ing to Mr. Ashby, on Warlingharn-common, was struck by
the lightning, and severely injured. The electric fluid en-
tered at the top of the mill, and passed completely down the
building, conducted by the chain which is used to lift the
grain and flour from the bottom to the top. The chain,
which is of considerable substance, was broken into between
thirty and forty pieces, and exhibited the appearance as
though it had been subjected to the action of a very fierce
fire. One of the sails of the mill was also shattered to pieces
and thrown a considerable distance, and the main beams of
the building were likewise very much shaken, but fortunately
they did not ignite. The whole of the men employed had
only a few minutes before left to get their breakfasts.

THE COTTON TRADE AND MANUFACTURES

From " Burn's Commercial Glance" for 1842, just pub-
lished, which may be viewed in the light of a quasi-official
review of the cotton trade and manufacture annually in all
its branches, the following facts, or figures, are collected il-
lustrative of the operations of the past year, and as compared
in general results with several former years.
Of raw cotton the total quantity taken
for consumption or burnt, during the Bags.
year 1842 is given at 1,221,693
Deduct —1 •

educt, destroyed in the great fire at
Liverpool 42,000 bags, less salvage
12,000 30,000
Real amount entering into consump-
tion
1,191,693
In 1811 the quantity taken for consumption was.. 1,118,717
1840....
1839 id 1,043,511
1838 id
1837 id. 1,061,931
In 1830 the quantity was only
To 1836 the increase gradually was to. 1,031,904
For the last year, 1842, it must be observed that in con-
sequence of the commotions in Lancashire arising out of the
strike and the Anti-Corn-Law League, there was a loss of
four weeks in the consumption, or only 48 weeks' mill work-
ing instead of 52. The quantities here enumerated comprise
all that was purchased, forwarded, and taken for consumption'
in London, Liverpool, and Glasgow, during the year. The
weekly average of cotton delivered from Liverpool to the
manufacturers in the Lancashire and neighbouring districts
for consumption is stated at 21,635 bags ; but this estimate
is made upon the 52 weeks, without allowance for the four
weeks when most of the factories were at a stand. Assum-
ing for those four weeks a corresponding rate of consump-
tion, or of 20,000 bags weekly only, the amount for 1842
should stand thus :
Bags.
Quantity actually delivered for consumption..... 1,191,693
Four weeks lost at 20,000 per week BO,OOO

1,271,
So that, but for the machinations of the anti-corn-law peo-
-693
ple, the consumption of raw cotton in the manufactories
would have exceeded that of any former year, 1840 excepted,
a year of extraordinary over-production.
The total weight of cotton yarn exported in the year-
-1812 is stated at
In 1811
115,665,483

Excess in 1842 .
The increase was chiefly to the following countries :-
1842. 1811.
To Russia
Holland 22,041,247 16,376,618
Hanse Towns
India and China
Turkey and Levant 8,987,786 6,467,694
Hanover 2,325,689 1,069,117
The total weight of yarn in manufactured
goods exported during the past year is
stated at 1 129,842,680 14
Add cotton yarn exported 136,537,162
cotton thread id 1,972,632

rota! export measured by weight of yarn 268,252,474
n 1811 the total export was equal to 258,871,745 lbs
1810 to 229,779,422
n the following flourishing years-
-1836 the export was
1837 id ' 207,576,839
1838 id 236,900,809
The total values of the goods and yarn exported were—
For 1842 £15,068,586
1841
1810......
1838
1837... 16,153,859
1836 20,656,408

QUANTITY Or's. CORN PAID DUTY SINCE THE NEW
LAW.—London, from Ist May to 30th December, 1842,--
Wheat, 853,230 quarters ; barley, 8,023 quarters ; oats,
185,301 quarters; rye, 893 quarters; beaus, 12,314' quarters;
pease, 16,639 quarters; flour, 255,866 cwt. United Kingdom,
from Ist May to sth December,—Wheat, 2,632,574 quarters ;
barley, 45,271, quarters ; oats, 281,612 quarters ; rye, 35,222
quarters; beans, 39,075 quarters; pease, 72,353 quarters;
flour, 978,310 cwt.

Istox TRADE.—The usual quarterly meetings of the iron-
masters were held during the last week. The anticipations
that a considerable demand would have arisen from the
settlement of affairs in the east and the commercial treaty
with China, were not realised, having been checked by the
delay in the completion of the arrangements with Spain and
Portugal, which caused hesitation on the part of purchasers
of iron, while the expectation of their being speedily and
favourably concluded induced the irontnasters and holders to
he firm, and but few sales were effected and no very large
contracts made. A confident expectation exists, however,
that as spring advances, and the arrangements alluded to are
completed, there will be an increased demand, with a full
maintenance of present prices, if not a considerable advance.
The sales made by needy individuals, under such suspense,
cannot be considered to form a criterion of the market prices.
Birmingham Gazette.

ROYAL LIVER THEATRE.
THIS present FRIDAY EVENING, the 20th instant,
1. the Evening's Entertainments will commence with

THE BEG(
Captain Macheath

• A R.' S OPERA

After which,
HUNTING A TURTLE.
To be followed by
A LOAN OF A IdcWER.
Mrs. Honey

Gertrude
The whole to conclude with
THE SPIRIT OF THE RHINE
Irma.... Mr,. Honey.
In the course of the Evening Mrs. Honey will Sing several
of her popular and admired Songs.

TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, &c,

The largely increased and most respectable circulation
which the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL
STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile
body in Manchester affords its proprietors the gratify-
ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable
claims which it possesSes, upon the favor of that portion
of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to
bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in
the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of
the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of
the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester,
however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our
publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most im-
portant market day of the Colton Trade, when its
Exchange and hotels arc thronged with country manu-
facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly
established in circulation, and is perused with increased
and increasing interest.

Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to
receive an increased measure of support from the mer-
chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords
us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst
those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver-
tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability
to do justice to the interests committed to their care.

We are quite aware, it may he urged, as a reason
fur the superior liberality of our ance:;tors in the devo-
tion of their means to God, that with theih'the erection
of a church was a fancied passport to Heaven. But
there is little in this argument. Our most beautiful

cathedrals were erected at a time when the Anglican
church was comparatively free from the defilements
with which Popery subsequently sought to darken the
national faith ; and with respect to the existing
churches of the city of London—many of them such
rare specimens of beautiful architecture and finish--
these were built subsequent to the great fire which, in
the time of the second Charles, laid that city in ashes.
And upon this hint we may, not inappropriately, re-
mark that if, in such a day of calamity—with such
ruin and suffering around them—the citizens and the
government of the day could resolve, not only upon
the re-erection of the great mart of commerce itself,
but of its religious edifices, as well, as a part, and an
all-important 'part of that haunt of busy life and in-
dustry—what a lesson does the fact teach to us, and to
our own government ! Can Sir Robert Peel look
round him, in whatever quarter of populated England
he . may stand, and see the awful destitution of the
means of religious instruction which prevails, and say,
with such an example before him, that because that
commercial greatness—which has never, in prosperity,
done its duty to its country or its God—is just now
temporarily obscured, any Government is justified in
holding back from at least the effort to supply, at the
national cost, those religious wants wnich he and
every virtuous man must deplore ?

It is too late, now, to tell us of the voluntary prin-
ciple, as that to be relied upon to supply such wants.
The experience of a hundred years, and more, has
proved the utter insufficiency of that principle! The
wealthy will not: the poor man cannot, thus dedicate
to God. Upon the Government, then, we rely ; and
we trust that we shall not be. disappointed. If, how-
ever, we are so disappointed, we must rely upon the
sound religious feeling of the Conservative consti-

tuencies, acting, as it ultimately must act, even upon
an unwilling legislature.

We really thought that the wretched quality and
amount of the accommodation afforded by the wealthy
corporation of Liverpool to the vast mass of human
beings who cross daily from shore to shore of the
Mersey, was so indelibly fixed upon the mind of every
man, woman, and child belonging to that community,
and felt by them as a disgrace and a shame, that it
needed no startling array of figures, such as that
brought before the last council meeting by Mr. S.
Holme, to impel at least the Conservative members of
the council, to a prompt effort to repair past omissions.
" ACCOMMODATION", indeed ! Why the very term is
a mockery, when applied to a system by which TWO
MILLION AND THIRTY-EIGHT THOUSAND HUMAN
BEINGS in a year—many of them persons of feeble
age—many of them timid females, or giddy or helpless
children—are made to land from or embark on board
our packets, in glimmering lamplight, fog, or hurri-
cane, across a single frail or slippery plank. Yet such
is the state of things at present, at our principal land-
ing and embarking place, George's Pier. At that
place, it is calculated by Mr. Holme, 6,112,700 persons
annually embark or land from the various Cheshire
and other packet boats ; and that as it is low water at
least one-third of the day, one-third of the gross num-
ber, or as we have stated above, 2,038,000 persons
must submit to be jostled, to the imminent danger of
life, putting nerves out of the question, upon a plank !
Yet the majority of the council, upon narrow consi-
derations of pounds, shillings, and pence, refuse the
appointment of a committee to examine into -the steps
to be taken to repair an evil so frightful.
And what, let us ask, is the plea which is urged by
the majority which refuses the appointment of such a
committee ? Let us take it from the amendment pro-
posed by Mr. Birkett. It is, then, that it is expedient
to wait " until the council shall have ascertained how
far the landing-stage, now in course of erection and
nearly completed at the Seacombe slip, will be effici-
ent." Mr. G. H. Lawrence, the seconder of th 6 mo-

lion, opposes a committee, " on the ground that it was
unnecessary. The motion implied that the subject had

not been considered, but it had been considered ma-
turely. It had been amply reported upon by Mr.
Aiken and himself in 1841." We see nothing very
conclusive in the argument or Mr. Birkett's amend-

ment; and even less in Mr. Geo. Hall Lawrence's
support of it. Surely, in this advanced age of engi-
neering science, we have not to grope our way to the
construction of such simple works as would be required
to supply the desideratum of a safe landing stage, at

low water, at any of our piers ! And as to Mr. G. H.
Lawrence's plea that the subject has been "considered
maturely," and " reported upon in 1841," we ask—cui
bono ?—when not a step has been taken to base upon
that mature consideration and that report any practical
measure. Mr. Alderman Evans still more forcibly
illustrated the fact that consideration and even convic-
tion have nothing to do, in deliberative assemblies,
with action. He never knew the day when the council
was not impressed with the importance of this sub-
ject C) ; and yet—strange inconsistency of the collec-
tive wisdom of that body !—the work remains undone ;
and our fellow townsmen and townswomen are left to
this hour unproviderl with that ordinary protection to
life and health, which would have been conceded in a
moment had it been demanded for the protection of
Irish or Cheshire cattle, calves, or pigs.
Mr. Evans, however, lets us a little into the heart of
the mystery, and enables us to place this otherwise
unaccountable decision of the council to the proper
debit in our ledger. "He never knew a new corn-

mittee which did not cut out2zew works; and he never
knew new work which was not expensive." Oh, Mr.
Alderman, did you never know old works which were
expensive too,—works, designed in a hurry, and cor-
rected and botched into shape at leisure—which might
have been rendered infinitely less expensive and infi-
nitely more perfect by the supervision of such a com-
mittee as that moved for by Mr. S. Holme, aided by
the practical skill and sound judgment of such a prac-
tical man ? But we will not press you on your weak
side. Your plea of economy is the thing with which
we have now to do. The question distinctly at issue
now, between the supporters of Mr. S. Holrne's pro-
position and the supporters of the successful amend-
ment,—.and which we venture to say will be very
differently decided out of doors—is this : are we daily
to permit the lives and safety of some thousands of
our fellow-townsmen to be perished, when, by the
outlay of a few thousand pounds, ample security and
convenience might be afforded to all, and vast advan-
tages at the same time be conferred upon the port ?
Economy in the management of such an estate as
that of the corporation of Liverpool, we regard quite as
much as Mr. G. H. Lawrence, or all the Finance Comte
mittee put together ;—infinitely more, we suspect, than
Mr. Alderman Evans. It would have been an econo-
mical achievement, in our opinion, if the town could,
some six or seven years ago, have pensioned off the
latter gentleman

" In some far island of the Hebrides,"
ivhere he could have schemed docks and dock ware"
louses, and indulged his luxuriant fancy in shaping
..hem in the yellow sands, or in the clouds, with—as
pis reward—the power of exclaiming, at the termina"
ion of his arduous task, in the words of poor Crusoe)
"I atriTionarch of all I survey !"

wno can say to what proud station his genius of de-
sign,
or that quality which phrenologists term " con-
structiveness," might not have raised such an island'
Economy, we repeat, we regard as a thing essential 01
the honest management of the corporate estate ,
Liverpool; but there is an economy of human life and
wil
human comfort which we regard infinitely above thatl
mere economy of pounds, shillings, and pence, le
seems to have guided the council in this matter of the.
Cheshire ferries. Such economy would say "
urns:
t once this dreadful trifling and paltering with ai
?.knowledged evil by which life is daily perilled ; and
would not stop in its efforts until the work was done,

at whatever pecuniary sacrifice.
But why pre-suppose any such sacrifice, as the ne-
cessary result of the appointment of a committee t°
inquire into the subject ? We can discover no irre;
sistible connexion between a committee of practical
men—and yet we have a few such in the council—and
lavish expenditure of the funds of the corporatio.°;
Such a committee would be formed to inquire into the
efficiency, or rather non-efficiency of the existing 11;
pliances in use at the various piers. Before it Nu;
act it must report to the council; and its views Inu