The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-16 00:00:00

ucation.

SEA-VIEW, BOOTLE, NEAR L 'ERPOOL,
• (Former! y the- Residence of thA Rev T. Bold, Air.)
R. FLEMING, of Trinity Col ge, Dublin, and Three
111, Years Classical and Alathe • :cal Tail in the School
of the Rey. W."Rawsoti, A.M., of eaforth: rect,ives into his
House a. limited number of. YO ;G GEN TL E-3IEN. The
Course of Instruction embraces the English, Latin, and Greek
Classics, Mathematics, Writing, Arithmetic, History, Geogra-
phy, Use of the Globes,

TERMS.
Pupils, under 12 years of aie:.4o Guineas per annum.
Pupils above 12 years of age..W.Guineas annum.
The situation is near the sea and peculiarly nealthy. Each,
pupil has a single bed.
Refereneb is permitted to the Rev. Dr. GANNON, Fellow of
Trinity College; the Rev. W. RAwsoN, A.M.; and T. I..ruN,
Esq., of Appleton-hall, near Warrington.

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MR. M. HERRING bees leave t nnonuee, that his
BOARDING ACADEMY iv. Reop?a on MONDAY
next, the 19111 instant, at 5, IWY-STR r, Birkenhead.
For Cards and piirficular3 apply a Messrs. Russ and NIGHT-
ING•LVS, Booksellers, Lord-street.

71/IR. JOIINSTQNE respectfully begs 1.) inform his Friends
-.LTA and the Public, he commence is ACADEMY, 42,
Soho-street, 011'SATURDAT 11eX4 1 'l7th instant; and in
-Wariington on the 21st.

• S'o be Atsolti.

MO be DISPOSED OF, the GOODWILL -STOCK IN
TRADE, and FiX MILES of an icld- ablished Retail
Business, in one of the most respectable and ntralsituations in
Liverpool, of which a female would b oropetent to take the
management. A person possessed of out,l3(JO would find
this an escelleut opportunity for investinunt.—Address (post-
paid) X. B. Z., at the Standard-office.
N.B.—This advertisement will not lie repeated.

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LIVERPOOL LADIES' CHXITY.
Instituted in the year 1796, Jr the Reit of Poor Married
ll'omen during their Confil men:.
di
ITIIIE ANNUAL .MEETING of e SUBSCRIBERS
I will be held at the Matron's., s. ElliSon's.House, 59,
Duke-street, on TUESDAY next, the 20th iustant, at 'Twelve
o'clock. - JAMES PO WNALL, President.

fTillE ANNUAL MEETINGOPHTHALMIC of thINFIUMAII.
13SCRIBERS
will be held on MONDAY next, th 9th instant, at the
Infirmary, in Slater-street, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon,
fur the Election of a President, Vice-Presidents, Committee,
and Officers for the ensuing year, and on other general business.
I'. J. Il YCILOFT, Secretary.

BANK OF LIVERPOOL.
rrIIIE DIRECTORS of the BANK of LIVERPOOL do
4. HEREBY GIVE' NQTICE, that a SPECIAL GENE,
HAL MEETING of the Proprietors will, he held on Wan-
' NESI) AY, the Fourth day of February rkeyt;at (inc o'Clock in
the Afternoon precisely, at the CLAti*finoN=Roosts, in South
John-street, Liverpool. •to• take into consideration. a Proposi-
tion, which will be then submitted to the Meeting, for increas-
ing the Capital of the Company, and for raising such increased
Capital by the creation of an additional number of Shares. •
Dated at Liverpool, this 13th day of January, 1535.
' ' By order of the Board, •
JOSEPII LANGTON, Manager.

THE COMPANY OF PROPRIETORS O THE MAN.
' CHESTER, 'BOLTON, AND BUILVC . -AL NAVL
'T : • GATION AND RAILW r. , ,
XTOTICE IS'IfEIiEBY GIVEN, t a DIVIDEND of
111. ONE' POUND .PER SHARE be paid at the Com-
pan v's Office, in Harrington-street, Liverpool, on and after the
first day of 'February next, between the hours tl.Teu and Two
on each day, and that the Transfer Books of the Company will
be closed from the 25th instant to the 10th Fenruary next in-
clusive.
' By order of the General Committee of Management,
JAMES ItITSON, Treasurer.
Conintittec-room, Liverpool, 171/. Janwiry, 1631
Proprietors will be expected, if required, on applying for the
Dividend to produce their Certificate or Certificates of
Shares.

BANK OF LIVERPOOL.
FIFTH DIVIDEND.
rirllE DIRECTORS of the BANK of LIVERPOOL do
it. HEREBY GIVE NOTICE to the PROPRIETORS,
that they have declared a 11A IX-YEARLY DIVIDEND, at
the rato of £6 per Cent. per Annum, on thelizep.tip Capital of
the Company, from the Ist of July to the 3 of December,
183 t
1; and that such Dividend wilt be Deja le at the Bank of
tho Company in Water-street, on and eer TUESDAY, the 3d
day of February next, between the hours of Ten and Tlareeou
each day.
Dated at Liverpool, this 13th day of January, 18.35..
By order of the board,
JOSEPH LANGTON, Manager.
Each Proprietor will be expected, (if required; I on applying
for his Dividend, to produce the Certificate or Certificates of
his Shares.
The Transfer Books will be closed until the 4th of February,
inclusive.

The Music Book of Beauty for lo 35; coutaining twelve Origh?al
Songs and a set of Quadrilles, the Music written e eq xpr ,siy by
the following eminent Conip(wrs :—John Ba ril ett, 'J. Blewitt,
Henry R. Bishop, J. A. Barnett, L.- Myers, T. FL Sevens
and the Chevalier Neukonun. • '
On no one work published during the last ccutury have we
such a record of the uniformity of eeiticisth as is here presented
in the instance of the Music Book of Beauty. This publication
has now been favourably reviewed in Upwards, of on-e 'hundred
provincial newspapers, many of them old and distinguished
chroniclers of the beauties of literature and the fine arts ; and
there is scarcely a song in the collection' but what has been
introduced with distinguished success at the nobility's converts.
As the limited space Lyre allotted us precludes the possibility of
our giving the extracts from the country newspapers, the opi-
nions of some of tire London press must suffice. •
Arnold's Magazine if the Puff.: Arts says,- " We 'cannot dis-
miss the work without expressing our adruira4tin of its embossed
title-page, which is brilliant beyond any t gof the kind we
have seen :it is even curious as av. ork ine art."—The True
Sun reports, " Indeed, indeed, this is "at it purports to be,—
i
The Music Book of Beauty.' ~The rds--tbe title—the mu-
sic—the binding—are all in perfect ' ping,---tasteful, spirited,
and beautiful."—Bell's Life aflif *4 As a present to a mils'. _
cal friend, it equals in appearance the most tasteful -of our
annuals."—The Court Journathas, '" W e have not for a long
time seen a musical work produced in so .splendid a style as
this : it is truly 4 The Music Book of Beauty.' The title-page
1 is in most delicate white and gold enamel, magnificently orna-
mented with gold. In truth, these compositions are distin-
guished by taste, spirit, and beauty."—The New Bell's Messen-
ger gives : " This is truly a book for a fair lady's boudoir ; the
gorgeousness of its watered silk binding, gold enrichments,
and title-page is dazzling ; the melodies are graceful and flow-
ing, and many are the fair fingers and pretty lips that will be
employed in repeating them."—From the Weekly Dispatch':
" One of the most elegant ornaments that ever graced the bou-
doir. Whiting's proverbial taste was never inure beautifully ‘
displayed than on this occasion. The whole of the poetry is by k \
Edmund Smith, Esq. This gentleman possesses a vivid iina- Ni)
gination and great depth of thoUght, arising from a proper and
a necessary observation of nature as it is."—From- the Sunday
Times : " [his elegant publication is likely to be a great favou-
rite with the Ladies, combining, as it does, the names of the most
eminent composers of the day. No expense has been spared
in the getting up; and the Gentleman who
,wants an elegant
present for his adored, need seek no fuither.— The Satirist pays
the following tribute: "It is evident no .expense; has been spared
to produce an elegant, unique, and novel vvoik.under this title;
which is splendidly ornamented and got up with extreme care
and taste. It is impossible too highly to extol the graceful and
pleasing form of this work, and no language can do sufficient
justice to its intellectual merit."—The Monthly Magatine re-
marks: "One of the most splendid productiofis we have ever ("`.,, ,
seen even in the bright World of Music. It is positively daz- Nee
zling, and casts the entire host of Annuals into shade. The
poetry is by Edmund Smith, Fsq., a gentleman who has been
successfully before the public as Isilyepoct ; and the music by
the very hest of our musicians, containing some of their hap
ff-
piest eo Th rts."—e Old Bell's Weekly Messenger remarks: 6' We
have not had till now an opportunity of noticing what we (tn-
-bider a great treat to the lovers of harmi,ny, under the title of
the Music Book, of Beauty for lts&n. ,Independent of its con-
tents, we eronounce it one of the most tasteful and splendidly
got-up books extant, and a fit ornament for the boudoir of the
first families in the kingdom."—And the Morning I ;era& adds
as follows: "This publication might with more propriety be
called the Beautiful Music Book; for its appoiutruents could
scarcely be sinpissed in richness and elegance. Its more nil--
portant contents are not wholly unworthy of some such dis-
tinction, as they arc, fur the most part, compositions of merit—
the contributions of, amongst others, Bishop, Neukernm, and
.the Barnette. They are agreeable subjects, cleverly har-
monized, and adapted to the Piano-forte. The poetry of the
volume is wholly from the pen of a gentleman named Smith,
sacnhdooisl
ofof stheeuitioniliecillitinaf
seghnancratet.e, r, w_hich distinguishes the Bayley
London : Smith and .185 Oxford-street; and SimPkin
.
and Marshall. Co., ' • 1

" She .Sat within the Abbey Walls," and the companion song of
" Beauty's Queen,"
unlit a ,ortrait of the lady.
These, Barnett's two popular songs, still continue their most
extraordinary and successful career, find have already passed
through
.three editions. Being ,so
,zy uch sung at the various
evening concerts, the demand has Meently exceeded any thing
hitherto known. .Large supplies of .both have also left this
country for America, the East and West Indies, and nearly the
whole of our distant British possessions. Nearer home their
progress is still more rapid; throughout Scotland they hare
become universal favourites, and the Irish newspafiets siqqtk
loudly in praise of the words and Music of bath songs.
100 provinCial journals have recorded their admirationlif both
ballads, which were published in France within 24 hours (itoeir"
arrival, arranged both for Flute and Guitar, while in some parts
of the coot iuent their music has been transferred to the musical
snuffboxes, as a lasting monument of the composer's skilt.tA..;- •
London paper, Jannary, 1835.

JAMAICA PAPERS.

luNGs CON, NOVEMBER 7, 18.31.

PASSIVE RESISTANCE!—We are sorry to learn, that the ap-
prentices on a property in St. Thomas in the Vale were so very
refractory a few days ago, that the overseer made immediate
application to the stipendiary magistrate, who requested the
overseer to return and to convey to the deluded people his sen-
timents of disapprobation of their conduct, as he could not pro-
ceed immediately to the property. On this being made known
to them, the whole set up a shout of defiance, laughed in the
overseer's face, and the ladies were particularly obstreperous.
At Green Valley estate, in Port-Royal, the negroes are al-
most in a state of rebellion, fromihe conduct of Dr. Palmer—
so are those of Old England and Robertsfield ;—but the execu-
tive appears to be quite satisfied with passive resistance while
no actual violence is committed—forgetting, however, that if
cultivation ceases, the resources of this beautiful island will
never be developed. We have arrived at a pretty pitch. The
law is set at dehance—the special magistrates look tamely on,
apparently quite indifferent to the result; and when danger ap-
proaches they are not to be found ! ! this state of things can-
not last long if the special magistrates are to be screened while
they actually encourage rebellion._
It was stated in town yesterday, that Dr. Palmer had told
the people on several properties, when they had picked their
quantity of coffee, that they were not to carry it home to the
works. On this subject a representation is to be forwarded to
Lord Sligo, for his consideration, although we have no doubt it
will he 'treated as all other complaints have been—with neglect.
A petition from Sr. Thomas in the east was yesterday for-
warded to Spanish Town, for the purpose of being laid before
the house, imploring Lord Sligo, if he wish to see cultivation'
continued, to associate the local magistrates with the stipen-
diaries, for the purpose aforesaid, as well as for the maintenance
of public tranquill►ty. The result will soon be known ; but we
have no expectation whatever that any wish of the king, from
the most respectable inhabitants in the island, will be attended
to; but, at all events, the petition is to be placed in good hands;
and we have no doubt Mr. Barclay will urge the necessi'y of
its prayer being granted, with his usual talent, and with as little
delay as possible!

KINGSTON, NuvEmeea 20, 1534.
• We are extremely sorry to learn that Mr. Lloyd, the stipen-
diary magistrate for St. Andrew's, intends to resign his office
on the ground of the insufficiency of his salary for the main-
tenance of his family. He has, liowever, this -consolation, that
he has done his duty, and that he-will carry home with him the
esteem and respect of the parishioners. If any attempt was
made by the vestry or individuals to augment his salary. it would
be the certain means at once of securing his removal 150 miles
from his friends in St. Andrew's, as the Marquis of Sligo would
be obliged to do this in defence of his unwise policy.

JAMAICA, 13Tit NOVEMBER, 1831.
ExAminations on oath taken before a committee of the House
of Assembly appointed to inquire into the working of the new
system of labour, and to,rep:mt to the. house what regulations
are uecessary to enforce the industry of the manumitted
slaves, and what rate of wages would be equitable between the
apprentices and their masters for extra time of labour.
Mr. Reeves, sworn.

Q. Are you concerned in the management of landed property,
and to what extent?
A. Nine or ten estates and pens in Trelawny and St. James.
Q. What number of apprenticed labourers are under your
management ?
A About one thousand eight hundred.
Q. From the experience you have had of the new system of
labour established upon the abolition act; how is it succeeding?
A. Very ill.
Q. To what cause or causes do ynu attribute its failure ?
A. To a deficiency in number of special justices, and to their
not sufficiently en-11-acing the law.
Q. Do you consider that there has been any unwillingness on
the part of the managers of estates to enter fairly upon the new
system?
A.-On uo occasion to my knowledge; quite the contrary.
Q. Do you know of the managers or proprietors of estates
having directly or indirectly thrown apy obstacles in the way of
the special magistrates in the due performance of their duties
under the law?
A. To the contrary, I have seen them anxiously looked for,
and could not be obtained from the few appointed for the parish.
Q. Are the apprentices now performing what you consider to
he a fair and reasonable portion of labour during the limited
time required by law ?
. A. No, the deficiency is considerable; they are not performing
above two-thirds of the usual quantity of work which they formerly
did during the same time.
Q. Are they obedient to the authority of the managers.placed
over them, and conducting them themselves with due subor-
dination?
A. No, to the contrary, they evince a disposition to he insolent,
and hare no longer the same respect they formerly showed to thwe
• above them.
Q. Have you found the apprentices disposed to work for hire
during their own time ?
A. On all occasions when I have offered them reasonable hire,
they have refused to accede to it.
Q. Has sugar been made upon any estate under your charge
since the lst of August?
. . .

A. NONE!
Q. Can the crop of a sugar estate be taken off, and the field
cultivation continued by the labourers upon it working forty-
and-a-half hours in the week ?
A. Quite impossible.
Q. What number of hours out of the twenty-four do you con-
sider it necessary that a sugar factory should be k:lpt in conti-
nuous operation to enable the crop to be taken off?
A. To advantage not less than eighteen hours out of twenty-
four, for five days in the week.
Q. Do you, from your experience and knowledge of the ne-
groes, believe that they will be inclined voluntarily to give that
number of hours' labour for such rate of wages as you can afford
to pay them ?
A. From every knowledge I have, my opinion is that they
will not.
Q. What would you consider to be a fair and equitable rate
of wages to be paid to the apprenticed labourers for extra la-
bour in their own time?
A. I should suppose at the rate of about Is.Bd. for able people
for nine hours, and something less for weaker hands.
Q. Do you consider it possible to carry on the manufacture
of sugar under existing circumstances'
A. No, by no means.
Q. Looking at the present state of the country, what regula-
tions do you consider to be necessary to secure the peace of so-
ciety and the continued cultivation of the estates?
A. An increased number of special justices in•each parish, in
proportion to the extent and rpulation, and a more 'strict en-
forcement of the law, and such regulations as shall enable the
sugar factories to be kept in operation continuously for the num-
ber of hours I have stated, that is eighteen out ofM twenty-
ESfour.
WILLIA REEV.

Charles•Sinith, of St. Ann's, sworn.

Q. Are you concerned in the management of lauded property,
and to what extent?
A. I am concerned for six sugar estates and seven pens and
pimento walks in St. Ana's and St. Dorothy, but principally in
the former parish.
Q. What number of apprenticed labourers are under your
charge?
A. Between three and four thousand.
Q. From the experience you have had of the new system of
labour, established under the act, how is it succeeding ?

A. Very badly.
Q. To what cause or causes do you attribute its failure?
A. Principally to the leniency of some of the stipendiary
magistrates in not enforcing the law; and in some cases con-
trary to law, and to the interference of the dissenters with the
apprentices.
Q. What reasons have you for thinking that the dissenters
have so interfered, and to what class of dissenters do you

uliude ?
A. Because some of the apprentices on Southfield estate told
the overseer that they could not work for money at night, as the
minister had told them it would ruin their constitutions, and
that they would soouldie in consequence.. The baptists are the
class I allude to.
Q. Do you consider that there has been any unwillingness
on the part of the managers of estates to enter fairly upon the

new system?
A. None in the least; every person to my knowledge has
done everything-in his power to enter fairly upon it.
Q. Do you know of the managers or proprietors of estates
having directly or indirectly thrown-any obstacles in the way of
the special magistrates in the due performance of their duties
under the law ?
A. None in the least.
Q. Are the apprentices now performing what you consider
to be a fair and reasonable portion of labour during the limited
time required by law ?
A. They .are now only doing, where I am concerned, about
one third of what they used to do under the old system.
Q. What is the general disposition of the negroes; are they
obedient to the authority of the managers placed over them, and
conducting themselves with due subordination ?
A. No, they are not; they are very impertinent when found
fault with for not doing more work and, in many cases, they
have told the overseers that they could no; compel them to work,
and that they would not do better for them.
Q. Have you found the apprentices disposed to work for hire
during their own time ?
A. They have absolutely refused to work for any consideration.
Dm.riny the recent gathering in the pimento crop, they were
.fre-
quently ofred a dollar a barrel for green pimento, and this they
refused in. many instances, and particularly on their master's pro-
perties; in consequence of which, I am certain, that on many
properties, one-third of the crop was lost, and in some instances
even one half
• Q. You allude to their• refusal to work in their own time;
what quantity of pimento did they usually pick formerly as a
clay's work, and what quantity did they pick this season ?
A. On some properties they have only picked half, and on
other properties not one third of the quantity they formerly
used to do as a day's work.
Q. At the rate of a dollar per barrel-, which you offered for
picking pimento, what could an industrious person have earned
p& dad.?
A. live shillings per day.
Q. Has sugar been made upon any estate under your charge
since the Ist of August
A. Yes, they have made sugar upon four estates under my

Management.
Q. What number of hours out of the twenty-four have you
been able to keep the factory in operation ?

A. Nine hours..
Q. Do you consider that time sufficient ?
A. Certainly not. 1 have offered the apprentices money to
grind a certain quantity of liquor; their answer was, "that they
would nut work for any consideration in their own time." We
vow make only eight hogsheads of sugar a week, where les formerly
made twenty-eight.
Q. What number of hours out of the twenty-four do you con-
sider it necessary that a sugar factory should be kept in con-
tinuous operation to enable the crop to be taken off ?
A. I shoup say nineteen hours out of the twenty-four for five
days in the week. '
Q. What would you consider to he a fair and equitable rate
of wages to be paid to the apprenticed labourers for extra la-
bour in their own time ?
A. I should say Is. Bd. would be ample wages for six hours
for night work for able persons, provided they would work as
they formerly did; but I consider it would be better to pay them
by the jab, say at the rase of about 15s. for each pan of liquor
off' five hundred gallons.
Q. Do you mean that the 15s. should pay also the people in
the boiling house ?
A. Certainly, up to the time the mill stops. I would then
allow the boilers and stockers sd. each for boiling off any liquor
that might be on hand.
Q. Do you consider it possible to carry on the cultivation
and manufacture of sugar under existing circumstances ?
A. Certainly not to the advantage of proprietors. •
Q. Looking at the present state of the country, what regula-
tions do you consider to he necessary •to secure the peace of
society. and the enfltinued cultivation of the estates ?
A. To secure the peace of society, and keep up the cultivation
of estates, cannot be accomplished; unless the civil magistrates
are empowered, in a great measure, with the same authority as
the stipendiary. I would therefore recommend that such au-
thority should be given to the civil magistrates, and that the

police in the different parishes should be stationed in the most
populous parts, which is not the case in St. Ann's. to be ready
to act promptly in case of necessity. I would also recommend
that a part of the police should be mounted.
CHARLES SMITH.