The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-03 00:00:00

LATER PARTICULARS

The short paragraph above, melancholy as are the particu- I
lars, does not give the full extent of the loss. It appears from
subsequent inquiries which we have made, that the accident
took place about half-past eleven o'clock on Monday morn-
ing, by the upsetting of the ferry-boat, which has been
accustomed to convey a considerable number of persons
across the channel to the Lavin Sands to gather cockles.
When on her return, at the beginning of flood tide, with
as nearly as has been ascertained fifteen persons on board,
the boat (a small one) shipped a large quantity of water,
when several of the passengers went suddenly to the oppo-
site side, causing her to capsize, only one individual escap-
ing by means of swimming back to the sands, a distance
of nearly 200 yards. Five of the unfortunate persons were
picked up in about twenty minutes, but life was wholly
extinct ; nine were picked up at low water, making fourteen
in all, who perished on the lamentable occasion. Great
blame is attributed to the unfortunate ferryman, who also
lost his life, in not using the regular ferry-boat, which
was at hand, instead of a small boat, which he generally
went in, and which was the cause of the loss of so many
lives.

PRINTING.-Our walls have been placarded during the
past week with a printed document, emanating from the
journeymen printers, in defence of their employers. This
town, like others, is pestered with a small fry of little masters,
who care nothing about the welfare of their neighbours, be
they working men or principals. It is high time that a stop
should be put to the cheap system of printing, and, in fact,
to every other cheap mode of transacting business. The
fault is not so much with the individuals who do the work
as with those who have to pay for it. We firmly bel eve
that one half the distress which now prevails throughout the
country is owing to the countenance which is given to
competition. We are not opposed to fair competition ;
but when we find that there are men who boast that they
can do printing at " 30 per cent." less than ally other es-
tablishment, we caonot but conclude that this is very much
Tike unfair competition. The individual who professes to
do this kind of work in Cheltenham, is a man named " Willey"
To whatever printed document his name may appear in
future, it will be easily gathered who are the individuals that
sanction such monstrous reductions. If profits are to be
reduced, wages must be reduced, and so it will go on till the
poor-rates are increased and our Unions are full of able
bodied men, who would otherwise get an honest living by
the sweat of their brow.—Cheltenham Chronicle.

MEETING OF THE BIRKENHEAD
COMMISSIONERS.

On Tuesday a general meeting of the commissioners for
carrying into execution the police act for Birkenhead was held
in the Town-hall, for the purpose of receiving the annual
statement of accounts, and a report of the proceedings of the
Ferry Committee, relative to the purchase of Woodside Ferry.
There was rather a numerous attendance. The chair was
taken by JOHN DEANE CASE, Esq.