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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 222, 30 May 1873, Page 6

Mr. Plimsoll's attack upon the shipowners is causing mucii excitement among the members of that interest in the northern ports. At a special meeting of the Sunderland Shipowners' Society, held on February 24, Mr. Plimsoll's statements were comdemned as greatly exaggerated, and a memorial to G-overnment" was adopted, asking for a Hoyal Commission of Inquiry. The memorialists stated that they had heard with surprise and in* dignation Mr. Plimsoll's statements, and that, as persons largely interested in ship* ping and representatives of an important shipping port in tne north of England, where the capital invested in shipping is for the most part mutually insured, they challenged the fullest inquiry possible, and asked that it be entered upon with the least possible delay. A similar pe* tition has been drawn up by the Sunderland Town Council. On the other hand, a largely attended meeting was held on Wednesday, at Sheffield, Under the Presidency of the Mayor, at which resolutions" were passed thanking Mr. Plimsoll for his exertions on behalf of merchant sea» men, approving the appointment of a Royal Commission to enquire into the condition of, and the practice connected with the merchant navy; and recommending that > without waiting for the final report of the Commission, Parliament should this session enact the compulsory survey of all merchant "ships, and the adoption of a maximum load-line to prevent over loading. Mr. Plimsoll has acknowledged in : the l Times' the receipt of an. anonymous" donation of £IOO and another £lO towards the expenses of his book or in defend* ing any legal proceedings which may be taken against him. A Mrs. Day, of Springfield, Ifh, lately gave birth to quadruplets. The fortunate > (?) father says Shakespeare was; quite' right when he said, "We do not* know what a. may bring forth}"