Council, Order in, further, July, 1826, directed against the action of Congress, p. 63
, Lascars employed in, are not to count as British seamen, and a certain proportion of English sailors required according to ship's tonnage, p. 105
East India Company (Dutch) practically prevents English vessels from trading with Dutch settlements in the East, p. 400 Education needed even more for sailors than for landsmen, but England has done little yet in this direction, p. 541 Ellenborough, Lord, unwilling to diminish our navy, at the present period, by a single ship, p. 274 , the more so, that by the new agency of railways, great forces can be suddenly concentrated on any one place, p. 275 moves in Committee of May 24 that the operation of the Bill be deferred for one year, but is beaten by twelve, pp. 280-2 urges that the effect of such undue haste will be to throw 45,000 seamen out of employ, p. 281 , on third reading, points out many things that ought at once to be done for the relief of the Shipowner, pp. 283-4 Emigrant ships, the year 1854, the most fatal to them on record, no less than nine having been then lost, p. 324 , no less than sixty-one lost in seven years ending Dec. 1853, ibid.
, disgraceful state of the early, pp. 330-1
, great mortality on board, noticed by Congress in Jan. 1854, p. 331
, order by United States Passenger Act, that every master shall pay a fine of ten dollars for each passenger who may die on the voyage, p. 334
Emigrants, average annual number of, between 1815 and 1854, 102,923 persons, p. 323
, medical inspection of, unsatisfactory, p. 328
, various rules drawn out to secure the safety and comfort of, pp. 331-3
, caution to, not to purchase "through" tickets, p. 337
, but "through" tickets by the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada perfectly reliable, ibid.
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