The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-04-25 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

SUGAR PROM NEW ORLEANS.—The New Orleans
Price Current announces that 1,000 hogsheads of sugar
had been shipped at that port for Liverpool—the first
shipment of sugar ever made.
GLASGOW AND LISBON.—A joint-stock company has
been formed for the purpose of opening up direct commu-
nication between Glasgow, Lisbon, and Oporto. Two
fine screw steamers are now building expressly for this
station.—Edinburgh Courant.
A SHIP DESTROYED BY ICEBERGS.—On Monday last
week, intelligence was received of the total destruction of
the ship Mary, in the Atlantic Ocean, whilst on her pas-
sage from Liverpool to Boston. On the 15th of February
she was suddenly beset by icebergs, and before the cap-
tain could extricate the vessel she was struck on the port
bow, and her timbers stove in. Through this aperture
the water rushed, and the crew had barely time to get
out the boats when the vessel went down. From the
suddenness of the catastrophe, they were unable to save
food or water, and for five days and four nights they were
tossed in open boats without sustenance, two dying from
exhaustion. On the 20th of February they were descried
by a fishing vessel, and they were landed at St. John's,
Newfoundland, where they received every attention that
their deplorable situation required.
THE SCREW-STEAMER BALTIC, which was launched
from the building-yard of Mr. Alexander Denny, about
ten days ago, has already received the greater portion of
her machinery, and is rapidly being finished for sea. The
entire operations are expected to be completed by the 30th
of this month, when she will take her departure for Hull,
between which port and Copenhagen she is intended to
ply, in consort with the Humber, also a new ship, just
about ready far launching. The Baltic's dimensions are
as follows : —Length between perpendiculars, 180 feet •
breadth of beam, 26 feet; depth, 15 feet; burden, 606
tons. Her engines, which are supplied by Messrs.
Tulloch illiDenny, are on the direct acting principle,
and of 111111bise power.—Dumbarton Herald.

On the 19th inst., at the Parish Church, Birkenhead, by
the Rev. H. M`Neile, D.D., honorary canon of Chester, the
Rev. Henry Gathorne to Caroline, third daughter of the
Rev. Andrew Knot, incumbent of Birkenhead.

On the 19th inst., at Holy Trinity Church, Birkenhead,
by the Rev. C. J. Hamilton, Mr. Leonard John Fosbrooke
to Miss Langton.

On the 20th inst., at the Parish Church, Blackburn, by
the Rev. William Fielden, assisted by the Rev. John Ran-
dall Fielden, brothers of the bride, the Rev. Robert
Atherton Rawstorne, incumbent of Penwortham, near
Preston, to Cecilia, the second daughter of J. Fielding, Esq.
On the 20th inst., at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev.
C. A. Swainson, M.A., principal of the Theological College,
Chichester, the Rev. C. Heatheote Carr, 8.A., incumbent
of St. John's, Lima- ouse, third son of the late Robert
L. Carr, Esq., to Diana, youngest daughter of Anthony
Swainson, Esq.

On the 20th inst., at Bebington Church, by the Rev.
J. Gaman, incumbent of St. Paul's, Chester, Mr. Joseph
Robson, of Valparaiso, to Emma Celeste, youngest daugh-
ter of the late John Glynn, Esq., of this town.
On the 20th inst., at Farnworth, by the Rev. J. Dyson,
Mr. David Crossley, relieving-officer, Rolton, to Miss Eli-
zabeth Wood Handley, Farnworth.

On the 20th inst .at Edinburgh, by the Rev. J. J.
Wood, John M`Diarmid, Esq., of this town, to Margaret
Affleck, youngest daughter of the late Alexander Robson,
Esq., Dumfries.
On the 21st inst., at the Parish Church, Llangollen, Mr.
A. Roberts, of Ruthin, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late
Mr. Davies, Ty Coch,
Llangollen.
On the 22nd inst., at St. David's Church, by the Rev.
W. Hughes. 8.D., Mr. Owen Rowlands to Miss E. Jones,
both of this town ; at the same time and place, Mr. R.
Roberts to Miss J. Williams, both of this town
On the 23d inst., at St. Nicholas's Church, Mr. Henry
David Stewart, chief cook of the steam-ship Great Britain,
to Miss Elizabeth Eyer, of Duke-street in this town.
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Gar—An opinion is widely Rrevalent that gas is un-
fitted for the illumination of private dwellings, owing to
the heat and noxious gasses it evolves : nothing can be
more erroneous. The heat, ft is true, is in proportion to
the light given off; and if, -as has been found to be the
case, a four-inch pipe will supply burners sufficient to ont-
vie the blaze of 2,000 meuld candles, (each candle ton-
sinning 175 grains of tallow per minute,) the quantity of
adoric and of carbonic acid given off will be found to be
in each case pretty nearly identical. Argand, or shadow-
'less gas-burner; if encircled by a pale blue glass, yields a
'perfectly homogeneous white light, as pure almost -as that
of day, enabling artists to pursue their labours as satis-
factorily during the-night as during the blaze of a southern
summer's day. The expense of artificial light is in the
following order—coal-gas being by far the cheapest, then
vegetable oil, sperm oil, tallow, stearine, wax. There are
various qualities 'of gas, the finest and brightest, but by
far the most cosily, being that from olive-oil, which yields
nearly 80 per cent. of carbon. Next comes -the gas from
resin, a pound of which will yield 20 cubic 'feet ; whereas
one ton of thelest coal will give 0,000 feet of gas (worth,
in London, 4s. per 1,000 cubic feet,) besides pitch, tar, and
coke. The (inhabitants of London consume two thousand
eight hundred million cubic feet ; and niehtly, in winter,
about fourteen million of feet are burnt.--New Quarterly
Review.

On the 23d inst., at St. Michael's Church, Upper Pitt-
street, by the Rev. H. Carpenter, M.A., Mr. Samuel Diver
to Miss Sarah Jane Irving.

On the 23d inst., at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. G.
L. Roberts, M.A., Mr. John Davies to Miss Lydia Lame;
same day, Mr. John RaNlinson to Miss Elizabeth
Tacker; also on the 24th, Mr, Thomas Owens to Miss
Jane Evans.

VALEIVELE STONE QUARRE,—A aistotery of three very
yaluableand extensive beds efoolite, of the purest descrip-
tion, has just been made in the immediate vicinity of
Dunclis-, near Bristol. They extend over a surface of
nearly ten acres, and consist of Blocksffully 30 feet thick.
The quality of the stone is so superior that the architects
who lit've examined it pronounce it afar before the Port-
land,aind invaluable for Gothic architecture and sculpture
fromiits hardness and closeness of -grain, it being entirely:
without veins and not fraying. Itis singular enough that
these valuable beds should have remained so long hidden,
as from the quarries in the almost immediate neighbour-
hood the stone was taken with which Redcliff Church
was built, and workmen's wages but id. per day. The,
architects employed in the restoration of "ye pride and
-g4orye of ye westernelande," St. Mary Redcliff, have, from'
the unsatisfactory quality of the free-stone in the neigh-
tourhood, been obliged to send, at a great expense, to
I--Caen, in Normandy, Tor stone, in order that the edifice,
I=may not be subject to premature ,aecay. This necessity
-will now be entirely avoided, as -these beds are found'to
be fully equal to the Caen in working and other qualities.
We understand thatthe crop of the quarry is within two,
feet of the surface.-="Sherborne Mercury.

Evan Harries, Tredegar, Monmouthshire, draper.—John
Denbigh, Bradford, Yorkshire, woolstapler.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.—J. Fleming and G. War-
burton, Rusholme, Lancashire, grocers.—S. and C. C.
Johnston, A. and E. Comber, and J. Pater, Liverpool,
merchants ; as far as regards E. Comber.—G. and J.
Bramall, Stockport, corn-dealers.—Gregg and Co., Liver-
pool, grocers.—Winning and Williams, Manchester, small-
ware manufacturers.—R. and J. Heaton, Little Bolton,
Lancashire, or elsewhere, pawnbrokers.
DIVIDEND.—May 5, W. Brook, Manchester, stuff mer-
chant.

April MEETINGS IN BANKRUPTCY. Hour
25, William Ellis (proof and div) District Court, 11
25, William Billinge (2nd)
26, Robert Rimmer (proof and div.)
28, William Jones (2nd)
28, James Hughes (2nd)
May 1, Robert Roberts (Ist)
1, Joseph Moss (Ist) Ditto, 11
2, Henry Carter (Ist)
4, Robert Williams (Ist)
4, Thomas Clements (Ist) Ditto, 11
5, R. Isherwood & Strethill Foden (2nd) Ditto, 11
5, John Sagar (2nd)