The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-02-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MORTALITY OF IRISH EMIGRANTS.—We find the following statement as to the clnss of emigrants amongst whom the deadly Mortality of last year occurred, in a letter addressed to the president of the board of trade, by Messrs. J. and W. Robinson, of this port :—" We crave your especial attention to the fact, that the great mortality last year did not occur amongst the ordinary class of emigrants, viz.:—those who .pay their own passages, and generally have means to provide suitable bedding, clothing, and food, but was confined almost exclusively to that unfortunateclass whose:passages were paid by Irish landed proprietors :—thousands of this class were s3nt out last season, both from this port and various Irish ports, and we can state from our own observation of those who sailed hence, that they were, for the most part, entirely without bedding, ill-clad, and literally half starved, and const quently predisposed to sickness ;—" poor naked wretches, " their unfed sides, and looped and windowed raggedness' was most distressing to behold ;—ejected from the littl, plots of lands they had held for years—, necessity from their native country, whit  evident reluctance—they weredispirited and beart-broken, and having neither physical strength nor mental vigour to 'resist the first s feeble attack 'of diseae, they speedily be,  came a sacrifice to its ravages. Great and fearful as was the mortality even among this class, it must he borne in mind, that it was equally great among the same class at  . ~, , ..... home in Ireland. 'What humanity requires of government appears to us to be, special regulations for the emigrants cleared off Irish estates, and sent out at the expense of the landlords,—and not new and needless, but expensive, regulations affecting emigration generally.  MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF LIEUTENANT PEREGRINE Bowiert, R.N.--A painful amount of sensation was created at the Mansion-house, London, on Wednesday, by the announcement of the suicide of this unfortunate gentleman, charged with forging .a will, who was to have undergone a second and final examinaion 1  ore the  Lord Mayor on that day. He held, up to his apprehension, the Admiralty agency of one of her Majesty's mail packets trading between Liverpool and Dublin. His brother, Lieut. William Boiven, R.N., died in China in March, 1846. Previous to his departnre there he made a will, which was proved by the executor. but after this will had been admitted to t  r will was  3roduced by  • Peregrine Bowen, by which all the property was left to him. Subsequently a person, attires as a sailor, presented himself at Doctor's Commons as an attesting witness to the will, an himself in  gave as  lis name  ohn Wooc  h en ded  The forgery of the second will was subsiantfaied  but he persisted in declaring that he knew nothing of the fraudulent transaction. He was remanded till Wednesday, when he would have seen fully committed to Newgate for trial. All the parties were in attendance at the Mansion-house at twelve o'clock, and shortly after the Lord Mayor had taken his seat, a message arrived, communicating to his lordship the self-destruction of the unfortunate man. It appeared that he rose that morning at the usual hour, and from the conversation he had with his fellow prisoners, itseemed that he had made up his mind for the worst. His conduct, apparently, was not different to that he had generally evinced, and about nine o'clock he was missing. One of the warders proceeded in quest of him, and soon discovered his body suspended to the iron gratings of the window, with slips cut from his shirt. He was immediately cut down, and the prison surgeon called in, but life was quite extinct. The deceased was between sixty and seventy years old, and at Liverpool, where he resided, was much respected.