The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-08 00:00:00

of a sir igle article

Whi m we endeavoured, some months ago, to impress
upon t he Council and the inhabitants of Liverpool the
import ante of prompt and powerful efforts being made
to pro, ::ure the transfer of the West India mail steamers
from :3outhampton to Liverpool, as the best point of
arrival. and departure, it was urged against us that the
contr act with the proprietors had been already com-
pleted: by government, and that the terms specified in
that •zontract were such as to render any further repre-
sentation of the superior advantages possessed by our
port entirely useless. We have now, however, the
satisfaction of knowing, that, upon every point, we were
justified in the remarks which we then made. The
contract in question was not definitely completed until
the Ist of January of the present year; and by the
govern vent itself the prudence of that contract, so far
as regal •ds the best points for the mails to depart from,
is more than doubted, as will be evident from a perusal
of the following remarks, by ,the Secretary of the
Admire ilty, upon the subject, whilst bringing in the
navy e, aimates on Friday last :

" Tix at contract was made on the Ist January of this year,
and wa: ; now being carried into effect. Ile did not say that
the pre sent routes and lines were the best. It was obvious
that th: government were justified in doing what they had
done, t then they gave to the parties who entered en the spe-
culatick a in so spirited a manner every possible indulgence,
and EN I not restrict them rigorously to the letter of the con-
tract a ; to their routes and lines. At the end of a few
month: ; only, experience would show what were the best
points for them to depart from, and enable government to

complete ell the ether errengettletste connected with this
department; and ha (Tsfi, g, Harbert) felt no doubt that,
from the manner in which it had hitherto been conducted,
it would be conducive of a most beneficial effect upon our
colonies and upon the mother country as well." (Hear, hear.)

In addition to the intimation here conveyed, we have
reason to know, from other sources, that a strong feel-
ing exists, in a quarter where the influence over the
regulation of these vessels is very strong, in favour of
the transfer of the whole or a considerable portion of
their number to Liverpool. Already a striking tribute
to the advantages, which this port possesses for trans-
atlantic steam navigation, has been paid by the pro-
posed transmission of the Great Western line to New
York, every alternate voyage, from Liverpool. In the
same speech, from which we have quoted above, the
satisfaction of government with the admirable manner
in which the Cunard line of mails from this port is
managed is unequivocally expressed; and we entertain
not a shadow of doubt that, if the subject is kept
before government by the proper parties to move in
such matters, we shall in a few months have the satis-
faction of seeing the West India mails brought to con-
tribute the vast benefits which they are calculated to
confer upon our mercantile and local interests, by the
selection of Liverpool as their port of arrival and de-
parture. Might we urge upon Messrs. G. H. Law-
rence and James Aikin, the active members of the
deputation to the parliamentary committee upon this
question last year, to agitate anew the claims of Liver-
pool to the consideration of government, and thus to
strengthen the hands of those parties who are favour-
able to the transfer in Ontemplation ?

The following extract from a leading article in yes-
terday's Albion, upon the subject of the emigration of
the Hill Coolies to the Mauritius, is so admirably de-
scriptive of the feelings of the pseudo-philanthropists
of the present age, that we cannot resist the temptation
of presenting it to our readers. The latter portion of
it especially, we recommend to the perusal of that
eminent philanthropist, Mr. George Thompson—only
remarking that to the " white paupers who may be
shipped away by thousands, to be set down among
swamps, sandbeds, kangaroos, tigers, or anthrop-
ophagi," (by the authority of the whig triumvirate of
Somerset House) might have been added the hun-
dreds of thousands of white slaves, who languish away
their infant years in the factories of the Anti-corn Law
Leaguers :

" We may here pause, for an instant, to remark on the
exclusive channels to which the tide of benevolence is some-
times confined. Our own people leave our shores in thou-
sands, and no man troubles himself further as to their where-
about. The only object is to get them away, and then, since
they can no longer increase the public burdens, they may
sink or swim. There is a sort of balancing of sympathies in
the world which has in it something marvellous, and, per-
haps, philosophy may, one day, throw some light on the
mystery. As in the western hemisphere all feeling is regu-
lated by the tincture of the skin, so it is with us in the
eastern, but in the inverse ratio. The miserable black
challenges no emotion of pity or kindly feeling in America :
all commiseration is reserved exclusively for the sons of
the pale faces.' In England, to preserve the balance of
humanity, the white is scarcely considered, while the negro
has universal regard. Let it be known, that a tribe tinged
with the hue of the torrid zone is likely to suffer wrong, and
straight the milk of human kindness flows abundantly;
while white paupers may be shipped away by thousands, to
be set down amongst swamps, sandbeds, kangaroos, tigers,
or anthropophagi."