The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-20 00:00:00

SHIPPING A 117 D VERCANTILE

MISCELLANY.

LAIINCIT.—On Wednesday there was launched from the
abip-building yard of Messrs. Sloan and Gemmell a fine
little schooner. of about eighty tons burden the property
of Messrs. Fullarton and Hunter, merchants; of Ayre.
21rs. Lawson, of the Commercial Hotel, performed the
customary ceremony of naming the neat craft, and be-
atovved upon it the designation of the Fairley and Jane.
TILE FREIGHTS ON THE TYNE were recently reported
as becoming excessive, and during the Last few days have
even reached a more exorbitant pitch. The almost fabu-
lous rates of 125.-9 d. and 13s. per ton have been obtained
for coals for London ; £lB 10s. per keel for Hamburg.
Such freights as those have never been had by the ship-
owner since the time of the war. It would seem that the
rate of freights to London does not arise from the mono-
Poly of the London coal trade by our English shipowners,
but rather from a scarcity of vessels, as the Hamburg
rates are equally high in proportion.
FOEEIGN BUTTONS. The application of the new tariff
duties to foreign articles on importation from abroad,
necessarily originates a variety of questions as to the
duties to be levied on particular articles. Buttons are
declared by the new tariff to be free of duty, and it has
been decided that porcelain moulds for making buttons,
and also buttons of glass, for coat-links, without the
shank or connecting chain, are no less free of duty under
that head, although not completely ready for use, with
-reference to the purpose for which they are evidently in-
andtended their completion being effected in this country.
NoricE To MiRINERS.—The Lightship stationed off
Martin's Industry, which was removed on the Gth ult., to
re Paired, resumed her station on the 27th ult. A bright
1-,ghtand, varied by red flashes, has been placed on Sisargas
Island in 43
deg. 21 min. 50 sec. N., and 8 deg. 55 mm,
Sea
aoc. W. of Greenwich, at the height of 363 feet above the
- A fixed light is to be exhibted during the present
month on the " Torre-visia," in Alhucemas Bay, on the
(:)t of Barbary. Alhucemas Bay, in the Spanish chart,
is as
in.ch 35
One.d 15 min. N., and 3 deg. 48 min. W. of Green-
white-head
.of Jones's fog-bells has just been erected at
, Mc., west side of entrance to Penobscot Bay,
tuirxretihe direction of the Lighthouse Board.
quantities of each
' uR'-"s•—The following table exhibits the
Kingdom during the United
articleha charged with duty in the
responding half of 1852 Year, as comp . .
ared with the cor-
fo2or home consumption and also the quantities retained

Charged With Retaine t
Duty. for Consumption.
_..._____._
Malt (bus.) ino. 1853.
0i 1852. 1833.
Paper ****** 24,794,651 25 637.71 24,70 t,651 23,637,710
(lb.)
.....
80,11(1b.)
... . • 75 392473 88,495.313,7'2,383,843 83,599.271
Spirits (gals.) ..
...
.106,489,592' 74,735,623 99,173,601 64,077,661
387 12,118,333 11,437.334 11,953,281
Sugar (cm.) . • 11,467,
----__ —____ ••• 90 1,196' 90 1,196

IHE SHIPPING TRADE.—By a return just printed it
thattaPilerePearswere
in 2
in the year ended the sth of January last
vessels built, of 167,491 tonnage, and
registered in the United Kingdom. Last year the total
number for the United Kingdom Channel Islands,
thetand
hplantations,mid registered, was 1,382, and
tonnage was 293,679. The number of men and boys
nn2PloYed in navigating the vessels belonging to the seve-
-I.lu Ports of the United Kingdom, at the end of 1852, was
243,512. The vessels in which they were so employed
liurabered 34,402, and the tonnage 4,424,392. The ton-
nage of vessels in the foreipm trade of the United King-
dom lastl year, that entered inwards, was 6,730,169, and
0,87258 cleared outwards. Last year in the coasting
trade, including the trade between Great Britain and Ire-
. 186 the tonnage was 12,475,401 that entered inwards,
23,441,815 that cleared outwards. It appears that in
the number of ships built in foreign countries, pur-
We chased bY British owners, and to which British registers
•
re• given, was 28, and the tonnage was 6,724.
Qta CAPEIVIAns.—The Lords of the Admiralty have
naw under consideration a new series of arrangements
With reference to the dates on which the ships of the Ge-
ne,ral Screw. Steam Shipping Company are to leave Cal-
eon, da, the terminus of their voyages. When these
cethterations take effect, the several ports touched at by
ded shins will have increased postal communication pro-
ed for them, and the new system will be especially
ass/?_lcial to the Cape and South African trade, inasmuch
reach
s, we believe proposed that the outward mails shall
or e Ca Town 'in sufficient time—viz., about the 20th
e2i r2d f
each month—to enable the merchants to send
will Ones to Englandby the homeward packets, which
after 4.1,- rande due at the Cape within two or three days
of Dg'4.`lecarrival there of the outward ships. The course
due"ea'f,"
.'rora Southampton to the Cape will thus be re-
Mr' ninety-five to seventy-five days, and if we may
th- el'ul the remarkable punctuality already secured by
-ne shins, as exhibited in their recent voyages,there
themeoe little
vessels h, if aaveny, nger of failure. The dates to which
✓rdeaspectively reached the Cape on their
4011111 from India during the past months will show how
SelY their time has been hitherto adhered to. The date
2, Which the steamers should, under existing regulations,
.reapi. the Cape is the 19th of each month.
anenT °E4MRLDODRNE, VICTORIA.—VesseIs, tonnage,
and Pamassengers inwards for the months of March, April,
No. of Passen- Ton-
_ rort. Vessels gers. Births. Deaths nage.
37 4461 .. 63 .. 100 .. 20822
.IgerPool .... .. .. 3O .. 6647 ••58 • • 100 • • 22339
`"er POrts in England 6.. 824 .. 11 .. 12 .. 2336
AClloltelrread l9 .. 1490 .. 18
,r 4
Rea"
• 21:, 12014
Sweden•
India
'China
Rio Janeiro
batavia
2 .. 8 948
'Society Islands
Cadiz
valPnr •
alBo 9 5 703
A2O chip
IL'Ovtk°
New " Aqlerle,
Zeula
'Vessels ~,"t1
SYdn:y"ise—
delaide ...... 69:21
73118
VW.At.llB.ir.al .. -11468 .. 11840 —• •
Vietorisian• • • 155
..... 28
1. Total —
654 2870-3 150 280 159370
4110/‘ SHIP TORNADO was launched from the bulldi -
3• s'ard of Messrs. William Symons and Co., Whitewic
atnio,.
nim.„--aY, and is, says the Glasgow Citizen, a very
• sPecimen of an iron Clyde-built ship. Her
2ralensions are as follow :—Length of keel and fore-rake,
• 4,sut6feet ; breadth, extreme, 33 feet ; depth of hold, 20 feet ;
Wit.iage, old measurement, 1,090, new, 1,230 tons. In
wThuition to what is comprehended in the above, the Tor-
long a poop seven feet high from deck to deck, 74 feet
trom the taffrail to the break of the quarter, and the
t breadth of the ship, the same being brought in with
yne ship's sides, and forming a homogeneous part of the
he„ssel, instead of being detached in any way, like a round-
'llse. It may therefore be conceived what her accommo-
LIVon for cabin passengers must be, there being, withint
i;;„41. POO% a splendidly fitted-up saloon, about fifty fee
fifteen
While arounnd, there are large, light, airy state-rooms,
in number, ventilated by windows from the side,
TOMB,
besides two large state cabins aft, as well as officers' Pantries stewards' bars, bath-rooms, and conveniences of
every
descripro not even forgetting a piano for the
4utes. Forw,rdn:the forecastle is built of a like elevation
...-tod construction to what distinguish the poop, and will
lave full accommodation to the crew and cooking depart-
-slent, while at the same time affording on its deck a
Pleasant promenade to the steerage as well as
passengers,ec when re-
a look-out for the watch. The 'tween
.—tlnired, will be fitted out in the most approved style for
+7ond-class passengers, and will then range frpan.forwardd
(7„.„t_t,,ft, while having every requisite for ventilation ahn
under all circumstances connected with weather
and
climate- In the meantime, however, the space is
intended to be devoted to cargo.
ritish Aeaysoeia'lamtN'
the Vln xs.—.ln the geographical section of
laY• Rag., pat 4 ion, just held in Hull, A. G. Find-
and their e. 'B. a read a paper on " Oceanic Currents,
co
with the proposed Central American
n Pre Thlhe Progress of meteorological science having]
'"
was thou meetly fostered by the British Association,
pert,Thrglit that one hitherto much-neglected but very
ennsitieZ branch of it would form a fitting subject for
hog ~--LOn• When it was rememberd that the propo lr-
east water to land on the surface of our planet is at
that t3h9° tOlOO, or nearly four times greater in area, and
hibitede phenomena of the atmosphere must be there
tbse Much nearer their normal condition. than what is
aedisturiv•beda, on land, amid the infinite variety of terresrial
flees, the nature of oceanic circulation must be
1' kat;"„wiedged to be of no small importance in the generai
e15,,,11 of atmospheric herromena and the distribution o
fe Yet this branchP of natural science had had but
• tcw, votaries. The labours of Lieut. Maury and his toad
airs,„t the National Observatory. of the United States
ho of late, drawn attention to it, and.. it
.was with the
• alr 914 our own nation might participate in an hono.ur-
. this
in domain of science that the ensuing
butrks were offered, not as a perfect series of deductions,._t
date rather as a sketch drawn up from the very imperfect
eaterials at present recorded. Though he would abstain
anY remarks on atmospheric circulation (with which,
rent -ever, he would presently show that surface cur-
te action was closely connected), it was with defe-
liallae, urged that the labours of our American brethren
the but little to our knowledge of the currents of
Of Atlantic, as it was left to us by the personal labours
Rennell, who had given us the first contribu-
'no the science as it then stood in 1778 and 1793.
restift74_eilts of the Atlantic alone had been tolerably in-
thati. —04,73, Yet it could not for a moment be maintained
Which „„'uquaintance approached to that complete state
4°l' f• or thaw sufficient either for the advancement of science,
• "Linlg Par Poses of navigation. We surface, fact, no-
. 'nieh knowledgewhat was going on beneath the s although
ticks was attainable. If, then, these observa-
the 6aQP,Plieci to the Atlantic, with which we were by far
L'acie"aoeuainted, much more did they belong to the
The "'a Asiatic Archipelago, and the Indian Ocean.
InertOowledge of their phenomena, which the pm-
" both —Liwogress of the age and requirements of science
-of al,...l.,Peratively demanded, will be the real harveste
'obearneoline meteorology, and the pursuit of which
e hoped would be, immediately entered . upon;
tan..!xamPle might demonstrate its practical unpoi-
nia,Tt -ta ship sailing from Shanghai, in China, to Panama,
direct ignorance, endeavour to follow the apparently
otatir
,eo.....,ttzilangtter
eaeoth,`,"rse by the chart, a distance really 8,982
adverse winds and currents the whole dis-
probably to the extent of 600 or 800 miles,
illtLjether less than an equivalent to 1,800 or 2,000 miles,
inifevaTing thus her distance to about 10.000 or 11,000
anal, while, if our acquaintance were more familiar, and
(4,137 Y be borne out by facts, by taking a prop er course
alight the great circle, or about 8,500 miles), she
rents be assisted about 1200, miles on the voyage by cur-
thus 'Thallid probably have fair winds the whole distance;
Inilon;l4ing the ordinary voyage 11,000 miles, and that
slow Le't nn correct principles 7,300 miles, a difference not
a)eathitto be appreciated in this commercial age. In the
ebaidlTlB Work on the Atlantic currents, by Major
eornple it Was affirmed that this work still gave the most
there to view of the motion of the surface waters, but
the isj!iv.,re some difficulties to be encountered. He made
%ha'V Stream, and other waters, to set always into the
tf,e'eA no tithe parallel of 30°. The Thwart Channel current,
satialltra current, and the Guinea current, were not
tiou, „CL,°rilY accounted for ; but, by additional observa-
we rann., bY comparison with the phenomena of the Pacific,
wh,,, 4Y De enabled to supply these deficiencies or explain
-."‘
Was OtherviLe anomalous.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1853

STRIKE of SEAMEn—Great pre,,paratns are making
by the merchant sailors for a strike on the let of October,
when, among other things to oppose the new act which
then comes into operation to allow the employment of
foreign sailors in British ships, they intend to demand
more wages, increased hands according to tonnage, to re-
fuse to ship with a foreigner, and, finally, to enter as
Yankees, and thus defeat the Registration Act.
IMPORTANT TO E GRANTS.—The attorney-general
for the colony of Victoria has decided, with regard to con-
tract tickets made out to convey passengers to the port of
Port Phillip or port of Melbourne, that the ship's contract
is terminated upon dropping her anchor, and that passen-
gers holding such tickets must land themselves and lug-
gage at their own expense.
NEW PASSENGERS ACT.—On the 20th ult. an act was
passed to amend the Passengers Act of 1852, so far as
relates to the passages of natives of Asia or Africa, and
also passages between the island of Ceylon and certain
parts of the East Indies. By the Passengers Act it is
provided that no ship shall convey a greater number of
passengers, exclusive of bond fide cabin passengers, than
after the rate of one passenger for every 15 superficial feet
of the passenger-deck, if such ship be intended to pass
within the tropics. The object of this act is to alter the
provision alluded to with regard to the native of Asia or
Africa. The governors of Her Majesty's possessions
abroad are empowed to alter the rates for the conveyance
of passengers. The act exempts from the operation of the
Passengers Act vessels carrying passengers between Ceylon
and certain parts of the East Indies.