The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-25 00:00:00

MRLANCHOLY LOBE OF LIFt

We regret much to have to record an occurrence which, as
bringing deep affliction to several respectable families in this.
city, could scarcely be exceeded. In the month of Novem-
ber, 1840, three or four -families of this city, remarkable
for their industry and prosperity in their respective lines of
business, including Mr. James Salter, his wife and ten chil-
dren, a respectable jeweller, residing for many years on the
Grand Parade—Mr. John Wilkinson, wife and four children,
boot and shoemaker, of Daunt's-square—and Mr. Stannard,
of Hammond's marsh, we believe a cabinetmaker—broke up
their respective establishments, and sailed in the ship

tune, for Sydney, their place of destination being New
Zealand. Mr. Salter had made an extensive purchase of
property at New Zealand, through the agency of a friend
who had been there and reported most favourably of the
country, and took out a 'considerable quantity of plate and
other property. The Neptune arrived at Sydney in good
order, and the emigrants; landed, and sojourned there some
three or four months, during which period Mr. Salter made
provision there for one o' his sons. Matters being in readi-
ness, and all arrangements perfected, the families of Messrs.
Salter, Wilkinson, and Stannard, proceeded in the month of
August last, in the clip* Sophia Pate, from Sydney, and
arrived, after a run of about three weeks, in the Bay of
Islands. Here having stopped a short time, Mr. Stannard
proposed to walk across the country, about fifteen miles dis-
tant, to the spot towards which they had looked for months
in that spirit of anxiety and solicitude natural under the cir-
cumstances. The proposition to proceed overland was not
agreed to by Mr. Salter or Mr. Wilkinson, upon the ground
that it might not be prudent in them to leave their trunks
and boxes to the care of others, and Mr. Stannard, accom-
panied by one of Mr. Wilkinson's sons, set off, leaving the
remainder to proceed coastways. Upon arriving at the
destined spot he was astonished that no tidings of the
vessel had been received, and he immediately proceeded
to the residence of the chief, of whom the property had
been purchased for Salter, and whose welcome was most gra-
cious. Accompanied by a Methodist missionary, in con-
nexion with the London institution, and a number of follow-
ers, the chief proceeded to the harbour likely to be selected
as a landing-place by the clipper, when they were met by the
master and crew, wearing Mr. Salter's clothes. Explanation
quickly followed. The master reported that when close to
shore the vessel struck, and had gone to pieces, and that all
on board, except himself, the hands, and a child of Mr. Wil-
kinson, had perished.—The chief, an extremely intelligent
man, instantly suspected that all was not right ' • his suspi-
cions extended to his followers, and it was only by the great-
est exertions of the missionary that the natives were pre-
vented tearing the crew limb from limb. A portion of poor
Mr. Salter's property, in plate, was found on the captain ;
and he and his crew being first stripped of the clothes on
them, were conveyed to Auckland. a principal town in New
Zealand, to await their trials. Young Mr. Wilkinson is
stated to have represented that when the ship struck Mr.
Salter entreated the captain to lower the long boat, and he
did lower her, but it was to send her adrift; upon which he
was asked to let down the jolly boat. He refused at first;
but upon letting her down he and the crew lowered them-
selves into her, providentially pushing young Wilkinson, in
the confusion, before them. He got to the bottom of the
boat, and thus escaped, the last scene he witnessed on board
being Mr. Salter and family at prayer in the cabin, which at
this time was filling fast with water. There are some of the
particulars of this severe calamity, derived from a source upon
which we implicitly rely.—Cork paper.

THE NIGER EXPEDITION

(From the Morning Herald.)

The Niger Expedition is at an end. • Sir Fowell Buxton
has had his say ; his philanthropic scheme has been fairly
tried ; government has " lead and felt the way," as Lord
Brougham recommended, into the interior of Africa by its
g
highway; £lOO,OOO more have been expended
by
and
eaon what is termed African civilisation;
establishment of factories and the acquisition of land
t the
theenatural
British
nation
have been attempted : the result is sad and mournful disap-
pointment.
On the 20th of August last the three fine steamers, the
Soudan, the Wilberforce; and the Albert, built for the pur-
pose, commenced the ascent of the Quorra; ere six days had
elapsed they received warning of the fate which impended
over them ; death was already hovering about his victims,
Before a month had closed, one vessel—the Soudan—was
converted into an hospital for the sick, and compelled to de-
scend from the regions of disease to the open sea. Two more
days had not gone by until one—the Wilberforce—of the re-
maining ascending steamers had likewise to turn its head
down the stream with a dying cargo; thirteen days longer
did the Albert persevere, but in vain ; the " belt of malaria,"
—the boulevart of death is perhaps the more appropriate de-
scription—Lord Brougham's ingenious suggestion—was not
to be passed through ; and after forty-six days of dreadful
suffering from bhe commencement of the ascent, the Albert
was also compelled to return, and the expedition was baffled
by disease and death. The three steamers, with the sur-
viving commanders, officers, and men—how small a minority
of those who left England we do not stop to detail—are now
gasping and inhaling the purer atmosphere of the Ascension
Island and Clarence Cove. They will doubtless, in due
course, record the melancholy detail of this last sacrifice to
the schemes of dreamers,—to the worst, because the most
injudicious, friends of Africa.
The Albert, under Captain Trotter's gallant command,
ascended between fifty and sixty miles beyond the contluencg
of the Chadda and the Niger, and about 320 miles from the
sea. The ascent to that point ; the selection of a spot for a
model farm, never to be cultivated, a little above the conflu-
ence ; the purchase of treaties with the rulers of Eboe and
Iddah for the suppression of the slave trade, which legiti-
mate commerce had previously driven from the Bight of Bia-
fra and the mouths of the Quorra •, and the abolition of hu-
man sacrifices—treaties which will be implemented, so far
as the internal traffic is concerned, only by the pressure of
personal influence ;—and a better acquaintance with the course
of the Quorra and the countries through which it flows—such
are the costly achievements of this ill-fated expedition, to
which continental extravagance had assigned the entire sub-
jection of the African continent to British dominion. En-
tirely failed the expedition has not ; because its precise ob-
jects as a pioneering attempt—though in that respect the it would be difficult to state—it was, perhaps, to be re-
garded
equally disastrous enterprise of Laird and Oldfield bad ren-
dered it unnecessary. The knowledge gained will, doubtless
be a contribution, however small and infinitesimal, to
to the information of .Europe. But that
..the

.... ....._ _ _
dition is a disappointmelt in the most mournful and deso-
lating shape, cannot be denied by its promoters, and their
dupe, Lord John Russell. Malaria and death have practi-
cally refuted the scheme of the African Colonisation Society.
If the civilisation of Africa depend on European expeditions
up the Quorra, that great continent is destined to remain in
darkness, in desolation, and paganism.
The defeated expedition had every advantage ;all that mo-
dern science and human skill, all that undaunted courage and
determined enterprise, could contribute to success, it pos-
sessed—in vain. To its officers and men—dead as well as
living—the highest credit appears to be due ; they " con-
quered everything but impossibilities;" nature they could
not conquer; they only ceased to persevere when the survi-
vors had almost ceased to live. Mr. Jamieson, too, of Liver-
pool, who raised a warning voice when the expedition was
first projected, which
was answered by imputations of self-
interest, can now shame his calumniators—[Sir George Ste-
phen will surely buy up and burn his pamphlets 0 —by
pointing to his instructed conduct of his agent. Mr. Beecroft,
who, by his employer's directions, withdrew his little palm-
oil steamer, the Ethiope, from her trading avocations, and
generously ascended the Quorra to assist the Albert in the
moment of need. To Mr. Jamieson and Mr. Beecroft,
government most certainly owe a tribute of national acknow-
ledgment.

THE LEAMIEtt

Mr, Oastler, in the current number of' ids excellent "Fleet
Papers.," has graphically drawn a very proper distinction be.
tween the_ manufacturers and the agitating anti-corn law

are the saute pantie

A greater tai;ta

e error of Juppos

inn that

Ilia is so

Those who have not been closely

merchants—no such thins
engaged in the strife which has been now kept up for twelve
long years, between them and the ten hours factory bill
men, or who have not carefully attended to 0a,..

—persons at a distance, mere lookers on, very naturally ima.
gine, from the constant boasting and blustering of tin
leaguers, that they are a very important party,
than the manufacturers and merchants of England ! Nevt
was there a greater mistake !

"'That the enemy which now threatens to eat up your
rentals,' should be thoroughly known to all parties, it will be
useful that I should explain, iu simple, intelligible language,
who and what these leaguers are. It is necessary, then, i,n
the outset, that I should inform you, that there are two dis-
tinct classes of manufacturers and merchants. The one is
composed of honest, honourable, industrious men, who would
disdain to build their fortunes upon the ruin of others ; men
who are imbued with a strong desire to produce and obtain
articles that will stand the test of wear and use, for which
they are always willing to give a fair remunerating price ;
these men always eschew every kind of deception in their
dealings with mankind, never permitting the love of gain to
drag them into the paths of dishonour.

"-The other class of manufacturers and merchants consists
mainly of men in every respect the opposite of the former—
men who are speculators, reckless traders, and fraudulent
; dealers whose only object is to get what they can how they
can ; and then to keep what they have gotten. The ties of
honour and humanity never bind them—cheap-buying, at
any accumulation of distress to others, is their maxim. To
take advantage of the ignorance or poverty of their neigh-
bours, is their rule.

" The first-named class are those who would rather aid than
distress others, who, like themselves, are in the pursuit of
honourable gains ; whilst the last class know no friendship,
even amongst each other; but jealously strive, by every un-
der-hand means, to over-reach and ruin those with whom
they compete. The competition of these men is—War.
" The former act upon the principle of live and let live' the
latter adopt the maxim, thou shalt not live if I can hinder
thee.' The first are, by their opponents styled Tyrants and
Bigots,' the last call themselves ' Liberal and Enlightened.'
" The former pride themselves on dealing fairly and
liberally with their workpeople, and are always wishful to pay
just and reasonable wages, rather than endeavour to screw
down the remuneration of •their operatives ; they are as tem:.
cious, or Even wore so, of their honour, as they are of their
gains. Their boast is, a good article, not a tow price ; and
they ever have an honest pride in keeping up the fair fame
of England in foreign markets.
" The latter care not for their work-people, but resort to
all sorts of expedients to cheat them and reduce their wages.
They will rob them in weight and measure, by the truck sis-
tem, by forcing them to attend to extra duties in their ware-
houses without remuneration, and by a thousand tricks which
it would weary you to name. In their mills they will alter
clocks to gain time, charge their operatives lost time when
they are on the spot, make them pay even for water, and fine
them for the most trifling supposed neglect; they buy inferior
cotton and wool, and then fine their operatives because it will
not spin into good yarn, or weave into wearable cloths : in
short, Sir, the laws of their mills form the most tyrannical
code that avarice and selfishness can invent. They cheat
their customers by mixing, stretching, starching, and false
dyeing ; in fact, they practise every art to put a flash finish
on their goods. Appearance, not quality, is what they aim
at. The rubbish which they are thus able to bring to mar-
ket, they call cheap, because the price is low. They are
heedless of the honour of the nation, being. always willing,
for their own profit, to sacrifice the good name of the British
merchant in the markets of the world. The only question
with these men, at home and abroad, is, 'What can we make
or sell, on any terms, to yield us a greater profit?"
" The last class are those who, to cover their own extor-
tion and tyranny, are ever, to their operatives, railing against
the landlords. Whatever hardships their work-people have
to endure, their ready answer is, ' It is the tyrannical land-
lords, who, to protect themselves, and keep up their rents,
prevent us from having a free trade, and force us to work
long hours and pay low wages." This class of manufacturers
and merchants, are those who have always opposed any
limitation of the hours of labour in factories, or any legal
interference with their fraud and tyranny. It is these, also,
who, when they want the aid of the landlords to coerce the
operatives, tell you—That they are turbulent, seditious, and
idle ! Thus do they, for their own gain, exasperate the
labourers and aristocracy againtt each other : whilst the for-
mer class of manufacturers and merchants have been our
friends and yours.
" Now, Sir, it is natural that men who think and feel so
differently, whose aims and objects are so much at variance,
should not be upon the best terms—it is just so. These
two classes of manufacturers and merchants have been op-
posed for many years. The new system of trade, which
repudiates restraint of any kind, has, it is true, ruined many
of the former, because they could not compete with the
knavery of the swindlers, and it has added to the number of
the latter; but still, by far the most substantial, and incom-
parably the most influential portion of our manufacturers
.and merchants belong to the former class. 1 say the most
influential, I wish I could add that they used their influ-
ence."

Hamlet,

Osrick,

STRANGE CASE.-ALLEGED LOSS OF A LETTER
CONTAINING £115:

A case has occurred here, with reference to the supposed
loss of a letter in the Post-office, which, from the circum-
stances, deserve every publicity to be given to it. On the Ist
December last, a Mr. T. H. Sledge, of No. 5, Crown-court,
Cheapside, London,—who is stated to be the agent or ser-
vant there of Mr. Edmund Howarth, whose warehouse is
No. 1, Church-street, Manchester, and who calls himself an
agent also,—remitted to Mr. Howarth, his principal, the
sum of £ll5, in six Bank of England notes enclosed in a
letter, which he posted at the General Post Office, London,
on that day. Not receiving from Mr. Howarth any acknow-
ledgement of this remittance, Mr. Sledge wrote to him on
the subject; and what answer he received does not appear.
However, on the 6th December, Mr. Sledge made a com-
plaint at the General Post Office London, that the letter had
never reached its destination. Of course the authorities at
the postoffice instituted rigid inquiries, which were not only
prosecuted in London, but the solicitor of the postoffice was
sent down here to investigate the matter ; and the Bank of
England were also apprised of the loss, and furnished with
the amounts, dates, and numbers of the notes, which were
the following •, all being of the Bank of England :
No. 45,141, dated June 7, 1841
, ~ ££3o
No. 58,342, „ Aug. 9, £2o
No. 13,833
No. 30,405, t:10 „'
. - •

No. 94,30 f
/1 Pt

Several most respectable parties in Manchester, who were
supposed to have received part of the contents of the letter,
employed themselves and their clerks in making diligent
search' when, at last it was discovered, on inquiry at the
South Lancashire Bank, that on the 2d December, the day
on which Mr. Sledge's letter with its enclosure would reach
this town, Mr. Edward Howarth himself paid .£loo'into the
South Lancashire Bank, to his own credit; such £lOO con-
sisting of four of the six notes remitted by Mr. Sledge, viz.,
the identical £4O, £3O. £2O, and £lO notes, the numbers of
which we have given above. This fact was communicated to
the police, and Mr. Howarth, when requested, appeared be-
fore the magistrates. The superintendent of police stated
the above facts, and added that Mr. Howarth had come to
the Manchester Post-office himself to make inquiries for the
letter, which he stated had never reached him. The expense
had been very great indeed, of making these inquiries, espe-
cially on the part of the post-office authorities, who had sent
their solicitor down from London. Mr. Willock, the post-
master, had been put to great trouble and inconvenience ;
other parties had also had the trouble of going through their
books to search out the different payments they might have
received and made since the Ist December ; the clerks in
various establishments for atime were subjected to suspicion ;
and two gentlemen, from different concerns, were in court to
complain of this. Several gentlemen gave a detail of the
trouble they had been put to. In reply to the magistrates,
Mr. Howarth persisted in saying that to that moment he had
no recollection of receiving the notes, and that the first inti-
mation he remembered receiving of the money was the letter
from Mr. Sledge, stating that he had not sent an acknow-
ledgment of it gir Charles Shaw said, on account of Mr.
Howarth's conduct, a great many innocent persons have been
suspected ; and had one of the notes been traced to a gentle.
man in any way connected with the post-office, or had the
gentleman been unable to show how he received it and paid
it away, the matter might have assumed a more serious shape.
I trust the gentlemen present will take this into their seri-
' ous consideration, that if inquiries had been made by the po-
lice at all painful or unpleasant to them, and productive of
trouble or inconvenience, these inquiries were all, in fact,
the result of the conduct of Mr. Howarth himself.—On a
recommendation from the magistrates that Mr. Howarth
should reimburse the expenses, the parties left the court.—
Manchester Guardian.

THEATRE.ROYAL, LIVETWOOt

.1. H. ANDERSON and W. J. HAMMOND,
who have become the Lessees of this Establishment, and of

the Theatre-Royal, Manchester.
THE SEASON WILL COMMENCE IN LIVERPOOL
On MONDAY next, January 31, 1842.

The Public is res

leetfully informed, that it is the intention

of the Management, in compliance with the exnressed
wishes of numerous Friends of the Drama, to establish
SECOND PRICE, as customary at the Theatres-Royal,
Drury-lane, Covent-garden, and Haymarket, which will be
taken at the termination of an Act, generally between .Ninc
nu less I and a Quarter-past Nine o'clock.

ON MONDAY, January 31, -1842, will be -performed
Shakspeare's Tragedy of
HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK.
Mr. G. V. Erooke, (his first' arrance at this
Theatre.)

The Ghost of Hamlet's Father. Ifr. Rif ounge, (from the
Theatre-Royal, Drury-la e.)
Mr. Bellingham, (from the Theatres-Royal, York
and Hull, his first appearance here.)
First Gravedigger...... Mr. W. J. Hammond. _

- evrt
Aphelia, Miss Julia Bennett, (from the Theatre Royal,
Southampton, her first appearance here.)
To conclude with the new Farce of

THE BOARDING SCHigIAOL,
As now performing at the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket, with

the greatest success

James (principal Tiger to Mrs. Gros de Nap's establishment)

Str. W

J. Hammond

The Box-office will be Opened on MONDAY next, the 31st
instant, when Places may be taken of Mr. COOKE, from
Ten until Three o'clock. No places can be secured unless
Tickets are taken. Doors to be open at Half-past Six, the
Performances to commence at Seven o'clock precisely.
Lower Boxes, :4s. ' • Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d. ; Pit, 2s. 6d-:;
Gallery, ls. Second Price.—Lower Boxes, 2s. Gd. ; Upper
Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. Gd. ; Gallery, 6d. A. limited number of
Season Tickets, not transferable, and not admissable on
Benefit Niqhts, maybe had, on application to Mr. CooKE, at
the Box-office.

On TUESDAY next, the Comedy of THE SOLDIER'S
DAUGHTER. After which the Musical Interlude of THE
WATERMAN. To conclude with the Musical Farce of A
ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. On WEDNESDAY,
Shakspeare's Tragedy of OTHELLO. To conclude with
the Popular Farce of the IRISH VALET. The celebrated
BOLENO FAMILY arc engaged, and will make their ap-
pearance On THURSDAY, in a favourite Ballet.
*** In preparation, and 'will ,be, `
produced on MONDAY,
Feb. 7th, an entirely original COMIC PANTOMIME, with
new and splendid Scenery, Machinery, Tricks, Dresses, and
Transformations, called the WORLD of COINS ; or, HAR-
LEQUIN SILVER SIXPENCE AND THE GIAI4I. PENNY
PrEcit ! Written, Invented, and Designed by Mr. G. DOR-
RINGTON, who is engaged expressly for this production.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET, LIVERPOOL

Under the Management of Mr..Ellerton, Sole Lessee.

DUCRO W'S,
WHICH WILL SHORTLY CLOSE.

GRAND NATIONAL FETE in honour of the ROYAL
CHRISTENING of the PRINCE OF WALES.
ENTIRE CHANGE!
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iyytt)
This present TUESDAY, the GREAT LIDAY, in
honour of the Royal Christening, a Gr d JUVEVILE
NIGHT, when, in consideration for the ounger Branches
of Families, the doors will be opened at Six, the Performance
commence at Half-past, and terminate before Eleven o'clock.

THIS present TUESDAY, and during the Week, the Per-
i- formance will commence with Mr. DUCROW'S new Lon-
don Grand Military, Historical, Equestrian, and Dramatic
Spectacle, founded on the most eventful epoch of British
History, (with new Scenery, Gorgeous Decorations and Ban-
ners, and every accessary of Splendour, introducing the
Treble Company and numerous Stud,) entitled
WARS OF OLIVER CROMWELL;

Or, ENGLAND'S 71-O—N- ARCH and the ROYAL OAK

To be followed an entire Change of
DUCROW'S SCENES OF THE CIRCLE!
The whole to conclude with the laughable Burletta of

THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK.
Principal characters by Messrs. 11. Beverly, Nunn, Gates,

Lennox, Mrs. V. Carman, and Mrs. Emery

A GRAND FANCY DRESS BALL,
in honour of the Christening of H. R. H. the Prince of
Wales, will be given at the ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, this
present TUESDAY Evening, the 25th instant.
Gentlemen's Tickets, ss. ; Ladies' ditto, 3s. ; Double
ditto, 7s.

ROYAL LIVER THEATRE,
CHURCH-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

Second Appearartf the celebrated Actress and Songstress
Mrs. NEY, for Five Nights only.
THIS present TUESDAY Evening, January 25, 1842,
the Entertainments will commence with a new and
beautiful Tale of. Romance, second time tt this Theatre,
entitled the

SPIRIT OF THE )1161E.
The principal Character written exp ly for Mrs. Honey,
and performed by her upward of 700 Nights !!!
Irma Mrs. Honey.
After which a new Farce, called
THE CHRISTENING.
To which will be added a new Drama, second time here
originally written for Mrs. Honey, and most successfully
produced at the various London Theatres, called
THE RUNAWAY.
The Evening's Entertainment will conclude with
the Drama of the
SERJEANT OF HUSSARS.
After which the NATIONAL ANTHEM will be sung by
the whole of the company. To conclude with a Magnificent
Display-of FIREWORKS, representing the Crown of
England and Prince's Plume, with other Allegorical De-
vices, in honour of the ROYAL CHRISTENING!!!