The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-04 00:00:00

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overlooked, but involving cireun
legal investigation, must have conduced to add to the
Making, however, every allowance, it would appet
calling for inquisition on the part of the coro
creased, from various causes, in a ratio excee _
crease of our growing population. The total number of
Cases in 1831 was but 59. In 1833 they exceeded 200. In
1836, they exceeded 300; in 1840, 400 • and last year, the
cases were no fewer than 420! We shall shindy be en .bled
to submit a few valuable statistics on this subject.
In the London Gazelle, published on Saturday, appears
an order in council, constituting the- ports of St. John, in
the island of Antigua, and Plymouth, in the island of Mont-
serrat, free warehousing ports, under an act passed in the
third and fourth years of hi's late majesty, intituled " An
act to regulate the trade of the British possessions abroad."

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KESIIE.—This eminent personage, it is now beyond a
doubt, has been doomed to be beheaded. The imperial will
has been received. " I order that the already degraded from
being a great Minister ,of State, Keshen, according to the
Great Council of the Imperial Kindred, be detained in pris9n
until autumn (9th moon, October 15 to September 12,) when
he is to be beheaded according to his sentence. Respect
this."—Canton Register, of October 12.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY—WEEKLT
TURN OF TILAFFIC.—It is with much pleasure we announct
the increasing number of passengers on this line of Railwa'
Notwithstanding the boisterous state of th,;
the last week the number of passengers were as follows .
Passenger traffic from Monday 21st to Saturday 2Gth Feb.,
1142: Number of passengers, 5576; receipts,.£loool3s. 11d.
parcels, &c., £33 3s. 2d. ; total, £1032 17s. hi. No
trains. The The success of the first week is a sufficient
tee that the public fully appreciate the advar*
great national work, and during the summer
with pleasure trips and regular passengers, we c
number will be doubled. The success of tb-
,without doubt.—Edinburgh Standard.

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ISLE OF MAN.—From an authentic list 1-
ttappears, that the number of vessels wrecked on tn..
Man, between the years 1822' and 1841, amounts to 119
The number of lives lost is stated to 'be 62, and the h-..
property estimated at £207,902. A- meeting was held
Douglas, Isle of Man, on Tuesday week, for the pp,-
taking into consideration the best means of n 1"
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that the vital spark hsd sled. He has left •
helpless children.—Edinburgh Paper,
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TrtuE ECONOMY.—When chimnies were fir
in kitchens, with wide arched fire-places, over them was com-
monly written—" Waste not, want not," which exhorted
cooks to care and economy. This motto is placed over the
large mantel of the vast kitchen at Raby Castle, the magnifi-
cent seat of the Duke of Cleveland.

The Calcutta papers describe the money-market as re-
maining in a depressed state, notwithstanding several arrivals
of treasure from China, rates of interest and discount in the
bazaar remaining the same as before, and public confidence
not having recovered from the shock caused by the failure of
Messrs. Boyd and Co.
EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.—We understand
that the minority of the shareholders intend to present a bill
of suspension and interdict to the Court of Session against
the resolution of the majority sanctioning the running of a
morning and evening• train on Sunday. This application
will necessarily be founded on some of the old Scotch acts,
as to the compulsory observance of the Sabbath-day, and
must open a wide field of discussion, as many of the statutory
injunctions of that period on this subject have fallen Alto
desuetude.

THE CORK ELECTION AND EJECTION,—The howl of
despair has reached, from the Mansion-house of Dublin to the
Liberal Club-house of Cork. The petitioners against the
return of Messrs. O'Connell and Roach for the Irish York-
shire are provokingly determined to persevere ; and so well
furnished are they with money snd means—so certain is their
prospect of success—that.if the radicalCorlagians will not fork
out, and throw good money after bad—the two seats will be
abandoned ; for one penny of money the sitting members
will not expend on the defence of a hope so utterly forlorn.
—Dublin Evening Mail.

Tan Anmy.---In 'order to facilitate reliefs, six regiments
of infantry are to be augmented to 12 companions of 100 rank
and file each. Their establishment is to be as follows, viz. :
--I colonel, 1 lieutenant-colonel, 2 majors, 12 captains, 14
lieutenants, 10 ensigns, 1 paymaster, 1 adjutant, 1 quarter-
master, 1 surgeon, 2 assistant-surgeons; 1 sergeant-major, 1
paymaster-sergeant, 1 quartermaster-sergeant, 1 armourer-
sergeant, 1 scloolmaster-szrgeant, 1 hospital sergeant, 1
orderly-room clerk, 12 colour-sergeants, 48 sergeants, GO
corporals, 1 drum-major, 2-1 drummers and fifers, and 1,140
privates.—United Service Gazette.

TFie WI:ATI-lea AND Tsi CROPS.—The weather has been
changeable since our last, and not so favourable for out-door
labours as the week previous, heavy rains having fallen at
different times : still a good deal of work has been accom-
plished. The sowing of wheat has been actively proceeded
with ' • and on a considerable breadth of land where the seed
could not be got in last autumn, the planting has now been
completed under tolerably auspicious circumstances: this,
together with ploughing and preparing the soil for spring
corn, has given, and will for some time continue to give,
busy occupation to the farmer. The reports respecting the
appearance of autumn sown wheat still vary greatly : on the
whole, they are rather unfavourable; but we consider it yet
too early to venture on an opinion, as a ,fine spring may do
much to remedy the damage complained of.—Mark Lane
E.vpress.

The fate of our troops at Cabul is now, we fear, almost
certainly decided; for unless some special intervention of
Providence relieves them from the dilemma in which they are
placed, human aid is all unavailing. Accounts have been re-
ceived from the city to the Bth of December, which represent
the state of affairs there to be much worse than they were
before ; provisions were becoming scarce, an,
more daring every clay. They had closely Inv
trenched camp at Seca-Sung. and, it is said, had made over-
tures of surrender to the Envoy, the conditions of which
were, that he should deliver Schah Soojah over to the .Aff-
ghat's, and leave the country with our troops. God help our
poor fellows, for they are indeed in a critical position !—Ben-
gal Herald, Jan. Bth.
EXTENSIVE OMNIBUS. ROBBERY.—On Saturday morn-
ing, as a gentleman was proceeding from the Bank in one of
the Hammersmith omnibuses, he was robbed of a Russian
leather pocket-book, containing a Bank of England note for
£5OO. No. 93,551; a Bank of England note for £2OO, No.
54,837 ; and a Bank of England note for £5O, No. 92,575.
These robberies, which are almost inexplicable, continue to
be on the increase, and persons cannot be too cautious how
they proceed by such conveyance, as a number of well-dressed
thieves. y'clept swell mobmen, constantly pass to and fro in
these vehicles for the purpose of plundering the unwary.
DECLINE OF SOCIALISM.—Out of the 85 places wheett so-
cialism formerly was progressing, there are only 39 left in
which its principles are openly taught and acknowledged !
In only three out of these thirty-nine branches do their num-
bers exceed 100; in eight others their numbers are 50, and
below 100 ; in thirteen the numbers are 20, and under 50 ;
and in neither of the remaining fifteen branches does the
mprythrn: rea eh 90_ while it goes down so low as

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are considerably in arrears with the executs4
in some instances, approaching very nearly tc,
old Bristol has died in debt to the tune of £37 19s
decease was otlicially -announced in the New
January 29, 1842. What do our let-them--- )
to this, as well as to all the other sterling facts connected
with this report ? Finally, the grand sum total of socialist
members throughout the kingdom has dwindled down to less
than 2,000 !—And we have it on the authority of Robert
Owen himself, " that there is not one member, among all the
branches of this society, whose experience has been suffici-
ently expanded to enable him to comprehend the principles
of the system in all their extent and bearing, and much less
to understand the spirit, mode, and manner, by which they
can alone be successfully carried into execution, and wisely
applied to practice!" (Robert Owen's Address to his Dis-
ciples, New Moral Wenld, Jan. 22, 1842.) A pretty set.
therefore, of ignoramuses they must be. They are a lot of
dull, impenetrable blockheads, and it is Robert Owen says
so.—Anti-Socialist Gazelle.

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TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS,

The Town Council held their usual monthly meeting for
the despatch of business on Wednesday. The MAYOR pre-
sided.

FINANCE COMMITTEE PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings, resolutions, and reports of the Finance
Committee were read, comprising a further proposal from
the committee of the Botanic Gardens, and the resolution
thereon • purchase of H. Jones's land for the improvement
of Limekiln-lane; resolution relative to the landing-stage
and vessel at the Seacombe Pier ; and a petition against the
Birkenhead Improvement Bill.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said, that before he moved the
confirmation of these proceeding, he would take the liberty
of calling the attention_ of the council to several matters
which had occupied the attention of the Finance Committee
during the last month. It would be a want of courtesy in
him if, in alluding to the proposals made by the committee
of management of the Botanic Gardens, he did not express
the regret he felt that the Finance Committee could not
recommend the council to accept them. Into the details of
of those proposals be should not then enter, but he should
reserve io himself the power of answering any question which

might be asked in the course of discussion by any member
of the council. He was fully sensible of the importance of
the Botanic Gardens, and of the obligations under which the
public lay to those gentlemen who had so long, and under so

many difficulties, maintained them ; but at ,the same time he
did.not think that this council would be justified in sanction-
ing so large an outlay of public money as the purchase would
involve in continuing to support them. The next subject to
which he would call attention was the Seacombe slip ; and
the Finance Committee asked the confirmation of the council
'to empower them to alter it. This subject was referred to
the Finance Committee by the council, and it sprung out of
the report made by the Irish Mail Packet Committee, which
was composed of several gentlemen belonging to the com-
mittee for managing the affairs of the docks. • The object of
the committee was to prevent the Irish steam-packets being
removed to the Cheshire side of the river ; and though the
committee failed in this instance, they did not do so without
urging upon the council the necessity of increasing the ac-
commodation for passengers upon the Liverpool side of the
river, feeling that that would be one main step towards in-
ducing government, at some future period, to bring the Irish
mail packets again to this side of the water. The council
approved of their recommendation, and it was upon financial
considerations that the subject was referred to the committee.
The subject, however, invoked a great deal of difficulty,—he
had almost said of dispute. The Finance Committee con-
sidered that they ought not to recommend the council to
embark in the outlay of money which would be required with-
out first making some arrangements with the Dock Com-
mittee to secure tolhe public generally the advantages- of
accommodation which several of the slips in the town afforded,
and without coming to some arrangement with them to place
the expense on the shoulders of those who ought to bear it.
The council had, year after year, spent many thousands on
slips, stages, and landing vessels. They had, he thought,
fully fulfilled all the obligations which the legislature imposed

on them ; and though the Dock Committee might have done
something, he thought they had fallen short of what the
legislature required from them on their part. In 1825, when
th Dock Act was passed, the legislature required that the
trustees should provide additional piers, jetties, inclined
planes, and such, too, as should from time to time be
proper and sufficient for the use and accommodation of pas-
sengers. In the year 1841, when the last dock act was
passed, the legislature made it incumbent upon the Dock
Committee to provide still further accommodation. This
act confirmed the previous act ; and they were to
make, from either the new dock or George's Dock, suffi-
cient accommodation to land passengers at low water.
The legislature required this from the Dock Committee as
the price of privileges which were conceded to them. For
instance, they gave them the power of building walls for their
new dock, and it was but right that the public should have
the privilege of landing at those walls, at the expense of the
dock trustees. When this clause was inserted in the last
dock act, the Finance Committee, in a letter which they
wrote to Mr. Eyre Evans in London, said they had no with
to throw the whole burden upon the Dock Committee, but
that, when the proper period arrived, they would be ready
to recommend the council to enter with the Dock Committee
into some fair and reasonable arrangement for the accommo-
dation to the public being continued, as well as with regard
to the expense. This was the proposal and the arrangement
made in London in 1841. The Finance Committee thought
this was the proper time to make the arrangement—when
the Irish Mail Packet Committee had reported, and taken a
general view of the whole circumstances of the case. They
did not wish to throw the whole expense upon the Dock
Committee, but they proposed to the latter to enter into the
joint expense for the Seacombe slip. &c. The Dock Com-
mittee hail not acceded to the proposal, although they never
had a Finance Committee more disposed to deal liberally
with them than the present. The next subject recommended
by the committee was a petition against the Birkenhead im-
provement bill, the object of which was to enable the com-
missioners of Birkenhead to purchase the Woodside Perry
at the expense of the township ; and to such a bill the com-
mittee objected on public and private grounds. Mr. Law-
rence concluded by reading the principal portion of the peti-
tion at length, and moving the confirmation of the proceed-

ings.
Mr. Councillor HOUGHTON seconded the motion.
Mr. PARKER said he had heard with extreme regret the
chairman of the Finance Committee state that they could
not come to terms with the committee of the Botanic Garden.
He hoped the council would be put in possession of the na-
ture of the second proposal which had bee❑ made by the lat-
ter. It would be a slur on the public spirit of the council if
the offer were not accepted, or, at all events, if a committee
were not appointed to treat with the gentlemen interested in
the Botanic Garden. Ile moved that a sub-committee be
appointed to treat with them, consisting of the chairman of
the Finance Committee and two other gentlemen whom he

might name.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said that two proposals had been
made. The -first was that the council should pUrchase the
Botanic Gardens at the price then owing, about £4,000, on
condition that they should be maintained as Botanic Gar-
deri. Of course the stipulation of maintaining them as Bo-
tanic Gardens implied at once that the public would no longer
continue to subscribe to them as they had heretofore. The
public bad subscribed about £BOO a-year to them, and this
£BOO, added ;to the interest on £4,000, would occasion an
annual expenditure to the council of about £l2OO or £l4OO
—an expense which the Finance Committee did not think it
right to incur; they therefore declined the proposal. The
next proposal was, that the council should pay off the £4,000,
.upon.coodition that the moment the public ceased to main-
tain the gardens as Botanic Gardens, they should revert to
the corporation to do with them as they pleased. There was
something plausible in this at first, but the Finance Com-
mittee thought they should never be able to take possession
of the gardens for the benefit of the public,—that was to say,
that they never should be able to convert them to any other
than their present purpose; as they should be called Goths
and Vandals if they turned them into streets.
Mr. GLADSTONE thought it would be exceedingly desira-
ble if some arrangement could be made with regard to the
Botanic Gardens. If the expense of keeping them up could
be materially reduced by disposing of a Portion of the con-
servatories, for they were the cause of the expense, and the
remainder kept as pleasure-grounds, it would be most satis-
factory to the public.
Mr. ATKIN was of the same opinion. He thought it
would be a disgrace to the council if the gardens were to
He wished the subject to be referred back for the
reconsideration of the Finance Committee.
Mr. BOLTON concurred in the view already arrived at by
the Finance Committee.
Mr. EVANS maintained that it was absolutely absurd to
suppose the council would undertake an annual expense of
£1,200 or £1,300, and that to maintain the Liverpool Botanic
Garden, " for all purposes of science," was a perfect farce.
There were larger gardens elsewhere in this country, and all
over Europe, and it was in those .gardens that botanical
research would be made and not in the garden at Liverpool.
Mr. ROBINSON expressed himself anxious to have the
purchase effected.
After a few remarks from Mr. TURNER, Mr. BIRKETT,
Mr. YATES, and Mr. SANnßAcit, it was understood that
the question of making the purchase would remain an open
one, and that the proceedings of the committee on the sub-
ject should be confirmed.
Mr. SANDS, in reply to what Mr. G. H. Lawrence had
stated respecting the Dock Committee, said that the latter
body had no wish to shrink from any obligation imposed
upon them by act of parliament. They wished to postpone
the further consideration of the subject until they bad bad
trial of the working of the Seacombe slip, and, if it worked
well, they would be happy to co-operate with the Finance
Committee in making another slip for the accommodation of
the public. The Dock Committee thought it right, however,
to keep' matters separate, and to make their slip either at the
new dock or George's Dock, leaving the Finance Committee
to make their slip in the first instance.
Mr. EVANS corroborated what had been stated by Mr.
Sands, and said it had been urged by members of the Dock
Committee that there would be no little danger in getting
into joint accounts with the council, the latter being a more
powerful body.
Mr. AIKIN followed on the same side.
A long discussion ensued, in which Mr. Bolton, Mr. Bir-
kett, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Sandbach took part.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE replied, after which the proceed-
ings of the Finance Committee were confirmed.
PASSENGERS IN EMIGRANT VESSELS,
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said he held a bill in his hand for
the regulation of passengers in merchant vessels. It con-
tained some good clauses, and he was happy to say it was not
likely to provoke any opposition. Although it was not ex-
actly before the council at present, he thought it ought to be
referred to the Finance Committee. It required that pas-
senger brokers should take out licenses. (Hear, hear.) In
conclusion. he observed that Lord Normanby's bills had
been referred to a select committee of the House of Com-
mons.
The TOWN-CLERK said this bill would stand referred to
the Finance Committee.

TUE LEASES

The leases were read and confirmed, after some observa-
tions from Mr. EARLE, in reference to the granting of one
for a house in Myrtle-street.