... Capel Cure, Rector of St. George's, Hanover. Equare. THE MERCHANT SHIPPING BWLU The Daily «e7ws holds that Mr. Chamberlain's speech, in moving the second reading of the Merchant Shipping Bill yesterday, was one of the most striking and conclusive pleas ...

... number of ships lost, he said some shipowners had lost every ship they owned. One man had 12, and he had lost 11 ; another 19, had lost every one siuce 1875, and a curious incident In connection with this loss ...

... average by 129. Of these 2,662, 1,463 were lost in missing ships. The number of missingeships was 149-saihog ships 137, tonnage 33,316, lives lost 1,225 ; steamships 12, tonnage 6,868, lives lost 238-total lives ...

... to it. (Cheers.) From 1881 to 1388 there were 7,944 persons lost from ?? ships, and, deducting those lost feron fishing vessels, the ;ppallifng total of 6,805 remaiued. Doubtless many ships went to the bottom though everythintg was done whach humanity ...

... high, owing to the fact that 1,1721 cooliosavere lost irons two ships during that year ; hut even dedluctiur. theseO 1 172 livess-thouclo they were lives lost irons a 'peril ot thle seea,' and Biritih ships, are every year sops's I iii crsrri~ coolies-there ...

... Church.side), and had a thack-straw roof. The Corporation relieved him and voted him £10 from the town's kyst (chest). He lost his ships by the storms, and was brought to beggary. There is also a very affecting account given on his receiving the donation ...

... as to the feasibility of forming a fund for the c widows of seamen whose lives might have been lost whilst n serving on board any of Her Majesty's ships lost under exceptional circumstances, such as attended the cases of the Captain, of the Enrydice, and ...

... to-night that the Arseou (the flag-ship of Rear-Admniral D'Arcy-lrvine;, the Collisre- wood, and the Australia have been captured by Admiral Tryon's squadron, arid that they are nowV being accompaniedi to Mfilford by sh£ips of the British fleet. Thb Ainsoen ...

... number of ships lost by some reference to the number of ships owned. It is quite possible that so large a proportion of the shipping of the United Kingdom may be in the hands of these forty-seven gentlemen as to make the amount of loss,'both of ...

... of the owners for their ships to go to the bottomi ( Shame.) What die they think of the exposures that had been made. One sars had nine ships, and lost all, and was a rich and wealthy man; another had twelve ships, aud lost eleven, end was ...

... on 'tht LI' aaeootv to l? to I - subject liability. (Cheers.) 'I'hirtv ja r rent oath. lives lost from British ships during the I cat six years had been lost through overloading. if the I load-line which tie bad proc-i e'l isa P1sth onset bad Is ceo di ...

... erroneously . stated that lie was the owner of the steamer Stroinhuoi, which was lost, and also erroneously stated that the steamer Thessaly, of which he was the owner, was lost, Mr. CHAMBERLAIN.-I have already on two occa- sions answered the first question ...