The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-28 00:00:00

a penalty of .t'loo on masters refusing to

of the bonds and prosecutions

tnereon.
10th.—Confers the power of reducing the penalty imposed
under the former Act on pilots failing to report passengers
landed

......—Requires masters of ships to land their passengers free
of expense at the usual landing places, in the day time, and
defines the anchorage ground for ships with passengers.
Cabin passengers, and military pensioners and their families
carried in transports, or at the expense of Government, are
exempt. _ _

The remainder of the act is formal.
Government Emigration Office, Montreal,
2nd March, 1848.

The first and second clauses, it will be seen, im-
pose an absolute duty of 10s., currency, in lieu of
55., on each emigrant on landing in Canada, with
a maximum of 20s. additional, according to the
length of time the passengers are detained on board
by quarantine—or 30s. in all, instead of 205., the
maximum recommended by the Colonial office.
The shipowner has thus to make his arrangements
for the possible contingency of being called upon

ea..y ~ more than was required
from him by the old law; and as this exceeds con-
3iderably the nett amount which he has been re-
eiving for each passenger, its imposition upon
n.te to deter him from taking pas-

255. per pa

him must ope

angers at all.
The third clause, increasing the tax to 20s. per
ead on passengers arriving after the 10th of Sept.,
-id further increasing to 30s. on arrivals after the
are more severe than the
y the Colonial office; but as few
for the fail trade after the begin-
b ~. it will have little operation.
the sixth clause is a most oppressive one ; and
ne would have wondered how it could have been,
)osed by any set of men, having a knowledge of
nger trade, coupled as it is
, No. 5. The intended
find thus described in a
ztreal Herald—a very well.
It is enacted," he says,
ix-of one pound per head will be
of immigrants, viz..

pternber

ssels leave her
ng of August,

nature of the pa

th the pre

leration of the two we
acting article of the Mu

bat an e:
ied on t

raying to any immigrating family ;
d dumb, blind or infirm
imrson above the age of sixty ; or
ith a child or children, and wife with-
tt her husband ; and any such person or child who
fall be declared by the medical superintendent to be
__kely to become a charge on the public." In many
cases of families emigrating the husband goes first
to look out for a settlement, or the husband and
gether, and those left behind are sent for
ttlernent is obtained. Infirm children,

deaf

'hen that

Pat' and dumb, and aged parents also are sent for
Jy those who are ready to provide for them.
Widows may have friends and connexions
--Idy there ; and with respect to idiots, &c.,
—Pssarily go accompanied with friends,
so on the passage. To levy a

.ese will
iless they become

ax which thus tends to sever the ties of kindred
and affection is cruel ; and in hundreds of instances
will deter the best classes of emigrants—the pru-
-im is to live by their labour and en-
prise—from proceeding to Canada.
We shall have on another occasion a few words
to say upon the spirit which seemed to animate the
majority of the Canadian Parliament in the debates
on this measure—a spirit which warrants us in the
expectation that it will be carried out in its utmost
stringency. In the meantime we may remind the
British shipowner that an appeal to the Home
Legislature is still within their power. Such a
in e a sure, if the attention of the British Parliament
is called to its oppressive provisions, can never be
carried into operation.

ent whose

•
EXPORTS OF O
TEA
AT ND
SILK
IN FROM CANTON
T G BRITA, &c.

By a statement published by direction of the Chamber
Commerce at Canton, we find the following statistics
to the exports of tea from China to Great Britain, from
Ld the dates given:—

Tea. Silks.
lbs. lbs.
January, 1848.. 34,8(x,751.. 14,812
t January, 1847.. 35,380,235..15,774
t January, 1846.. 37,239,292..12,935
31st January, 1845.. 27,708,374..
tio'v; ing a decrease of tea to the extent of 3,134,000 lbs.
st year as compared with 1845. The shipments from
it July, 1847, up to 20th January, 1848, were—to Lon-
on, 22,572,727 lbs. as compared with 1,24,075,867 lbs.
ame period in the year preceding ; to Liverpool, 9,266,424
is. same period, against 7,365,908 lbs. previous year ; to
use outports, 2,786,620 lbs. against 3,9.38,460 lbs. previous
year. Of the total amount to 20th January, this year,
27,176,603 lbs. came from Canton, ant 7,629,148 lbs.
from Shanghae.
The following were the shipments to the United
totes in the past two years, viz.—Season 1845-6,
"02,092 lbs. Season 1846-7, 18,886,287 lbs. Season
-8, to 12,765,892 lbs., exhibiting a falling off of above
),000 lbs. last season, or one-third of previous
shipments. To the Continent the shipments were
ist 4,925,835 lbs. in the pre-

son Ist July, IS

t season

LIVERPOOL AND HOL
AT YHEA
NOPOLYD. ANOTHER
ATTEMPT MO.

We directed attention last year to a bill by which the
Chester and Holyhead Railway Company sought to be-
ome steam-boat proprietors, and thus establish in their
wn favour a monopoly of the carriage of passengers from
lolvhead to Ireland from the south, to the exclusion
steam-boat proprietors of Li-
The bill in question, however,
)n. On Friday night the same,

tition of U.

spool and

ports !

tor tue