The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-25 00:00:00

FRIENDS

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
WHATEVER opinion may have been formed of the
Brandies hitherto presented by other Houses, under
various denominations, to your notice, such opinion can
have no reference in fact to BRETT'S IMPROVED
COGNAC, inasmuch as this very salutary Spirit, from a just
apprehension of its lessening the demand for the more costly
productions of France, has never been avowedly introduced
by the trade.
As Proprietors of an article possessing strong claims to
public favour, we are desirous only that every commodity
should be appreciated according to its intrinsic merits, and
therefore undertake to forward, by Pickford and Co., to
Manchester, Liverpool, or Birmingham, paying carriage
here, a Single Gallon or any larger quantity of our genuine
IMPROVED BRANDY, at 18s. per Imperial Gallon, if
previously settled for in London, including is. per Gallon
for packages.

Earnestly solicitous of such portion of your esteemed pa-
tronage and recommendation as you shall find us to deserve,
we remain, with due respect,.
Ladies and. Gentlemen, your obliged, obedient servants,
HENRY BRETT and CO.
Old Furnival's-inn, Holborn, Ist Feb., 1840.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS
COMMISSIONERS OF HER MAJESTY'S
TREASURY.
•

THE MEMORIAL OF THE UNDERSIGNED BANKERS, MER-
CHANTS, TRADESMEN, AND OTHERS, RESIDENT AT THE
PORT OF LIVERPOOL..
Sheweth,
THAT your Memorialists being deeply interested in the
welfare and prosperity of the West India Islands and
Colonies, have learned, with great satisfaction that it is the
intention of her Majesty's government to establish a commu-
nication, by Steam Vessels, between those dependencies and
Great Britain.

That in establishing such a communication, it is highly
desirable that the Port to be selected for the departure and
arrival of the Steam Vessels should be such as to afford ge-
neral convenience to the public service, and to all classes of
persons likely to take advantage of such communication,
safety to the navigation of the vessels: to he employed, faci-
lities for the building and repairing such vessels and their en-
gines, and cheapness in procuring their fuel and general
outfit.

That your petitioners submit that the Port Of Liverpool,
in an eminent degree, combines all the requisites for the
above qualifications.
It is not only the most central, but the most accessible
port for the whole United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland. The several Railroads between Liverpool and Man-
chester, Liverpool and Preston, Liverpool and Bolton, Liver-
pool and Birmingham, and thence to London, being already
completed and in active operation ; and the several Railroads
between London and Southampton, Birmingham and Bris-
tol, and thence to Exeter, Manchester, and Leeds, and
thence to Hull, between Manchester and Derby, Sheffield
and Derby, and Preston and Lancaster, being now in pro-
gress, and which will be opened in the course of the present
year—thereby affording a direct and rapid communication
with all parts of the north, south, east, and west ; besides
which there are powerful Steam-boats plying daily between
Glasgow and Liverpool, Dublin and Liverpool, and all the
other principal ports in Ireland, some of which have exten-
sive intercourse with the West India Islands and Colonies.

That, in addition to the trade carried on by Liverpool with
the West India Islands and Colonies, the port is the great
outlet for all the manufacturing districts of Lancashire,
Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire,
including a population of upwards of 3,000,000 persons,
which have also extensive connexions with the West India
Islands and colonies, and the Gulf of Mexico and Brazils.
That the entrance to the Port of Liverpool, for vessels of
all sizes, is commodious and safe through the new Channel,
called the Victoria Channel—the depth of water on the bar
at low water ordinary spring tides being 11 feet, and at low
water of neap tides 17 feet. At the first quarter,. 11 hours'
flood, there is 18 feet at ordinary springs, and 24 feet at neaps ;
and so on progressively increasing until high water. And
for thirty-four days only out of 365 will there be so little as
11 feet water at low water, and that only for one half hour.
The said channel is also now well lighted and buoyed, and in
addition to the Lightship, Buoys, and Lighthouse, lately
placed in connexion with this new channel, another Lightship
will be placed therein as soon as possible, which has met with
the unqualified approbation of the Trinity Board, and of Cap-
tain ,Beaufort, Hydrographer to the Board of Admiralty,
thereby affording at all times of the tide, both night and day,
a convenient access to the port. This is fully borne out by
the fact, that her Majesty's Post-office Packets (two of which
leave Liverpool for Dublin every day at fixed hours, and two
Dublin for Liverpool,) regularly use this channel, and have
met with no detention from a want of water.
That Liverpooi has at all times had extensive conveniences
for Steamers of large sizes, and these conveniences are now
considerably increased; anew Dock having been lately com-
pleted sufficient to take Steamers of the largest class, having
Gates 70 feet wide, and one of the Graving Docks being now
in progress of alteration to admit Steamers of the same size ;
besides which, Foundries and Manufactories for Marine Steam-
engines, and all the other necessary equipments for Steam-
boats, f high character and reputation have long been esta-
blished at Liverpool, and the Engines there made will bear
comparison with those of the first makers in the world. The
Marine Engines of several of her Majesty's Post-office Packets
have been made there. and others are now in progress of ma-
nufacture for other vessels belonging to her Majesty.
That Liverpool also affords great convenience for procuring
fuel, the coals to be had there being of good quality, in great
abundance, and on moderate terms, which are used by Steam-
ers frequenting the port, and are sent for the use of Steamers
to all parts of the world. It also affords all other necessa-
ries for the vessels' outfit at as moderate rates, as good in
quality, and in as great abundance as any other port in the
kingdom.
Your memorialists therefore pray that your lordships will
take the same into your lordships consideration, and give
directions that Liverpool may be appointed the port from
which the Steam Vessels to be employed in any communica-
tion between the West India Islands and Colonies and this
country shall depart, and at which they shall arrive.
And your Memorialists Will ever pray, &c.
N.B.—The above Memorial is now lying for Signature at
the different News Rooms.
Liverpool, February, 1840.