The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-16 00:00:00

" PLAN NO. 1.

The cost of the river basin, the three entrance locks,
the intermediate dock, together with the minor
locks and passage, the wall at the east end of the
pool, together with the necessary bridges, culverts,
&c., &c., are estimated at ab0ut...... ............ ......£595,500
The cost of the 70-feet lock between the pool and the
Egerton Dock at about...
The cost of the two docks and the half-tide basin
upon the south reserve, at
The cost of the four Graving Docks

60,600

.. 282,4.00
.. 116,500

Makin.. the total estimated cost about 1,055,000
The estimated cost of Plan No. 2, all the items above,
excepting the first, remaining the same, will amout
to about 1,078,000
" I have not entered at all into any estimate of the cost of
excavating the pool or of building the wall along its north
margin, as I am not in possession of such information as
would enable him to do so ; and as it is a matter which has
been already sanctioned by Parliament, and not proposed to
conceive tilni a t
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plans withinan any
the scope of this inquiry.
be altered lltehraevdeinalsaoriya-
bws abstained leddonot
including from
design for docks upon the north reserve, as I am of opinion
a considerable time must elapse before such can be needed;
and
nee ;
and as, when that time arrives, the requirements of the trade
may be different, I think it will be well to abstain from the
appropriation of that ground for the present.
" I may mention that the estimates which I have given you
are based upon the calculation that all the surplus excavations
are to be laid upon•the north reserve.—l am, sir, yours, very
respectfully, . " JOHN B. HARTLEY.
Dockyard, Liverpool, 4th Oct., 1855."

At the suggestion of the Chairman, after a brief but desul-
tory conversation as to the plans, &c., the consideration of the
report and plans was referred to the works sub-committee,
the names of Mr. Brocklebank and Mr. Mann being added.
Another resolution from the special committee of the
Council was read, authorising Mr. Hartley to let the Birken-
head docks run dry, effecting the operation gradually, and
executing the necessary repairs to the river wall at the north
side of the Woodside basin. The sanction of the committee
to Mr. Hartley's proceeding with the necessary repairs was
then given, and the proeedings of the committee terminated.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC,

BY the United States mail steam-ship Baltic, Captain Com-
stock, which arrived on Sunday, we have intelligence from New
York to the 3rd instant. She brought 174 passengers, and
$249,162 in specie.
The Pacific arrived at New York on the 3rd instant, having
been detained outside the Hook all the previous night on ac-
count of a severe storm.
The news of the fall of Sebastopol (says the New York
Herald) took this city by surprise on Thursday, and spread
with the greatest rapidity, and especially among the French
and English residents of New York, who were greatly excited
and rejoiced. At one place, in the vicinity of Wall-street,
where the news was publicly read out to a promiscuous crowd
of merchants, including some English and French business
men, three hearty cheers were given for the fall of Sebastopol.
On 'Change the great event formed the principal theme of
conversation, and many mutual congratulations were ex-
changed. In the evening the usual resorts of our French ci-
tizens, including Delmonico's and several other restaurants,
were crowded, and the greatest hilarity displayed, enhanced
by the free use of champagne and other wines, which was kept
up until a late hour of the night.
The New York papers publish the charge of Judge Kane,
of the United States district court at Philadelphia, to the jury
in the case of Hertz and Perkins, tried upon the charge of
violating the neutrality laws in enlisting men to serve in the
British Foreign Legion. Hertz was convicted, but Perkins,
who seems to have been a mere boaster, was acquitted. The
judge alludes pointedly to the part taken by Mr. Crampton,
the British envoy, who, he says, carefully
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trated, and several lives lost. Mr. Givens, 'son of G. W.
Givens, and Mr. Prentiss, both of New Orleans, were killed at
Mississippi City, and a number of others were injured severely
at the same place. At Mobile a violent storm prevailed from
the 15th instant until the night of the 17th. Vast quantities
of rain fell, flooding the lower streets, and inundating the low-
lands. From the direction of the wind—south by west—
fears were entertained for the safety of the shipping in the
Gulf.
The yellow fever was abating at Norfolk and Portsmouth.
CALIFORNIA.—The Star of the West and George Law had
arrived at New York with advices from New California to the
sth of September, and a total of 1,768,699 dollars in specie.
The news from California is unimportant except in a political
point of view. The elections were going on at the time the
steamer sailed, on the sth ult., and the greatest excitement
was manifested by the members of all parties; but the papers
predicted that it would nevertheless passoff without any breach
of the public peace being attempted. At the democratic pri-
mary elections, on the 21st August, a sanguinary affray oc-
curred, which resulted in a number of persons being shot and
stabbed,amongst whom were J. W. Bagley and James Cushing,
who were severely wounded. The shock of an earthquake was
felt in San Francisco on the 28th August, which it was sup-
posed had extended to other parts of the state.
The most important intelligence by the Star of the West is
that from Nicaragua. Colonel Kinney was chosen provisional
civil and military governor of Greytown, and the territory
thereunto belonging, on the 6th instant, by the citizens in
mass meeting assembled. Colonel Walker has turned up vic-
torious at last. On the 3rd nit. he proceeded from San Juan
del Sud with 150 men, to Virgin Bay, where he was attacked
by General Guardiola, with 400 men. The government troops
were handsomely beaten, with a loss of fifty men, while Walker
lost only one white man and four natives. It was reported
that he had returned to San Juan, with the intention of
attacking Rivas, the headquarters of the government forces.
We have news from Oregon to the 27th of August. The
Willamette valley had nearly become depopulated by the rush
for the Colville gold diggings, which are now said to be very
productive. An emigrant train, numbering 300 persons, was
attacked by the Indians at Devil's Gate, and 150 slain, and all
the stock and provisions captured. Among the killed was a
brother of General Lane, together with his family.
The island of New Caledonia, in the Pacific, has been
formally declared part of the colonial domain of the French
empire.
The steamship Uncle Sam had arrived at San Juan del Sud
from Acapulco. During the voyage she lost thirty-three
passengers from cholera. At San Juan the British mail-
steamer Teviot and frigate Eurydice were lying in the harbour.
The entire of a Pacific cargo, valued at $70,000, had been
carried by the Panama Railroad to Aspinwall and re-shipped
to New York.
MEXlCo.—Letters from the city of Mexico, of the 16th
ult., report the resignation of General Carrera, in consequence
of differences with Alvarez, Comonfort, and Llave. Yucatan,
Carmen, and other places, are reported to have deelared for
the revolution. Lazcano's brigade, about 1,000 strong, had
been compelled to surrender at discretion to the new national
forces. The garrison of Mexico had chosen General La Vega
their chief. Garza and Tamarez were fighting. Jose Lopez
de Santa Anna, nephew of the ex-President, had been
arrested, and would likely suffer death. General Casanova
had gone from Tampico to Vera Cruz, as his supporters had
ignored the plan of Ayutla. A party of Americans, named
" Bowles," had caused much disturbance at Acapulco and
other places. Viduarri had published «new and more liberal