The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-21 00:00:00

PRESENT,
JOHN. HOLMES, Esq., in the Chair,

Resolved unanimously.—
That the Commissioners cannot separate without re- -
cording their unfeigned sorrow at the melancholy event
which has deprived them, and the inhabitants of the town
at large, of the highly valuable services of their late Col-
league and respected Townsman, JOSEPH GIBBONS,
, Esq. ; who, for a period of upwards of eleven years,
has unweariedly devoted a large portion of his time, as
well in promoting the interests of this Trust, as the
Parochial interests of the town.
Resolved.—
That the foregoing Resolution be advertised once in
t- each of the Liverpool Newspapers.
By order of the Commissioners,
EDWD. G. DEANE,
Clerk.
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&c., &c., &c.,

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EGREMONT STEAM-PACKET COMPANI

CAUTION TO TRADESMEN AND OTHERS,

ATOTICE IS H ERE BY GIVEN, that I;ileundersigned,
.1.1 have no connection with any Person or Persons calling
themselves the Egremont Steam-packet Company ; or the
undermentioned Persons, calling themselves the Directors
of the Egremont Steam-packet Company, or with any of
them, viz. :

THOMAS PEERS, of Liverpool, Cotton Broker.
THOMAS HIBBERT, of Liverpool, Merchant.
JAMES SEDDON, of Liverpool, Cotton Broker.
WILLIAM LAYCOCK, of Liverpool, Merchant.
JOHN CLAYPOLE, of Liverpool, Merchant.
HENRY KREBS CLAYPOLE♦ of Liverpool, Merchant; and
JAMES KELSHAW, of Woolton, near Liverpool, Saddler
or with

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GEORGE SroNn, Attorney, of Liverpool, their Secretary
and Solicitor.

The Public are cautioned not to give credit to, Pr trust, on
my responsibility, the above persons, or any of them, or any
Body. Society, Partnership, or Company of Persons carrying
on, or assuming to carry on the business of a Ferrying or
Carrying Company under the name of the Egremont Steam-
packet Company, or any other name whatever.

And to take Notice, that I disclaim all acts done by the
abovementioned persons, or by any such Society, or Coro pally,
as aforeslid. And that I disclaim the same as illegal, and
that I will not he libale in any manner for any acts done, or
to be done, or for any debts or liabilities whatever, contracted
or to be contracted by the aboveinentioned persons, or any of
them, as alleged Directors of the said Company, or on behalf
of the alleged Company, or in any manner whatever.

- G. VINCENT, Temple, Londo
Dated this twentieth day of December, 1841.

THE OASTLER TESTIMONIAL.
Trustees.
The Rt. Hon. Lord Feversham John Fielders , Esq., M.P.
Sir George Sinclair, Bart. W. Busfield Ferrand, Esq.,
John Walter, Esq. M.P.
Honorary Secretary—Mr. William Atkinson.
rpHE object contemplated by the supporters of this fund
is that of providing for the well-known advocate of
public rights, Mr. RICHARD OASTLER, and his family.
Having been impressed very early in life with the extreme
importance of those principles which conduce to the general
welfare of society, and encouraging constantly in his mind a
feeling hostile to every infractien of those principles, Mr.
Oastler became a strenuous supporter of the cause of the
weak and the oppressed, as well as an ardent opponent of ail
who attempted to exercise injustice and cruelty.
The sphere of his private duties being the great manufac-
turing districts of England, Mr. Oastler's sympathies were
necessarily excited by the sufferings of children of tender
years who were employed in the manufactories, and the ener-
gies of his mind were directed to the great question of legis-
lative regulation of factory labour. To all who have exerted
themselves in this interesting and momentous question, Mr.
Oastler has given the most efficient support ; and those who
have watched the progress of the subject are gratified by
knowing that the question having obtained the sanction of
the legislature of Great Britain. has also been adopted in
France, Prussia, Austria, Russia, Switzerland, and a part of
the United States of America. Mr. Oastler, as is well known,
has also contended for a just and humane system of Poor
Laws ; and his advocacy of the great and sacred principle
upon which all Poor Laws should be founded, in contradis-
tinction to the modern attempt to innovate and encroach
upon the constitutional right of the poor to relief, may be
characterised as strenuous, constant, and most successful.

Although the advocacy of the great public questions before
mentioned has placed Mr. Oastler in the position of an in-
fluential supporter of popular rights, yet he has not attempt-
ed either to increase or to uphold his influence by appealing
or yielding to the selfish passions of any section of the com-
munity ; but he has boldly and emphatically, and often in
the midst of great personal danger, denounced oppression
and injustice in whatever quarter they appeared to him to
originate, whether it was in the case of the rich against the
poor, or in that of the poor against the rich, his object being
to instil into the minds of the whole people the great truth
of RELATIVE duties, and the paramount necessity of fulfil-
ling them ; the source from which he has derived his know-
ledge of those duties being the will of God, as revealed to
mankind in the Holy Scriptures.
Thus Mr. Oastler's constant endeavour has been to main-
tain the principles upon which the British Constitution is
founded uniting the monarchy, the aristocracy, and the
entire body of the people in a mutual and just support of
each other, that bond of union being the Church of Christ.
It will not excite surprise, that, seeing systematic tyranny
and cruelty practised upon the most helpless of our race in
the extent to which Mr. Oastler has witnessed it, he should
have been driven, by the enthusiastic ardour of his nature,
to utter expressions which those who have not been similarly
circumstanced might well condemn ; but on this point he
has been the subject of much misrepresentation, and also of
much wilful detraction ; notwithstanding which he has con-
tinued in an undeviating course of public duty, not permit-
ting his exertions to sustain the least check on account of
opposition and difficulties which would have overwhelmed
most men. One very important fact, sliming the true and
valuable nature of his services, should here be mentioned,
which is, that those who have been so placed as to be best
acquainted with his motives and his proceedings, have proved
themselves to be his warmest and most constant public sup-
porters, as well as his private friends, amongst whom 019'
be reckoned proprietors of some of the largest factories 'a
the kingdom.
for his
The great efforts which Mr. Oastler has m
country, have, however, cost him much. No co
nel:tileavours
of private interest have ever restrained him in his its
to This
to fulfil that which he conceived to be his public
inmate of a
great, benevolent, and patriotic man is now !
°those ad mi ra-
debtors' prison ; debarred the full exercise ofwe
II adapted to
ble faculties of mind and body which are
'ulcerations
A most
procure au ample provision for himself anttdacihwed
earnest appeal is made to those who area to the cause
of British Constitutional Government to :ontribOastler,a s
his
n raising a fund for the purpose of i
• ircomfortan b;e circum-
ute towrd
wife, and their adopted daughter,
will be under the con-
stances. The money which is ra
Riredbefore mentioned, who
trol of the Trustees whose names f fulfilling the object in-
will decide on the best method 0
tended.
stimonial beg to suggest to all
The projectors of this
Tea Mr. Oastler's principles,
L.smediateiy to form themselves into
the
the friends and supporte_.
3Puor,Praunicating the results to the Ho-
neighbourhoods, safia..cdtwthoogabine
tpbaeritricluivlaiirl'glybr‘e,
and that many
norary Secretary ; '
that the wellbeing
in
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included in this cause,
equally esteemed as those of much larger
it,whose contributions, how-
labour is esperielis:l::
ever small,
them feel a war° i°nterest

atnount. will be received by Messrs. DRUMMONDS
.
Charing-cross, London;and by the Honorary Se:
B a 't'kare; WM. ATKINSON, No. 16, Doughty-street,
London, to whom all inquiries and communications are to
be addressed; and at the office of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Stiliscrip_ll,Oanrisn

CONTRIBUTIONS ANNOUNCED

The Right Bon. Lord Feversbain
Lord Ashley, 111. p
Sir George Sinclair, Bart.
Sir Alexander flood, Bart., Compton Castle,
Somersetshire .
John Walter, Esq '
W. B. Ferranti, Esq., \1 P
The Rev. J. D. Schoenberg, Polesworth,
Ten worth
Mr. William Atkinson
A Rutlandshire Rector uod,bis Wife. ......
London, January 1, 1842.

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