The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-28 00:00:00

NEW BRIGHTON.
To the south of the Battery, and near to the base of the
sand hills, on which New Brighton stands, there is a valuable
spring of fresh water, in the sand, which is frequently
covered by the tide. Two barrels, one within the other, are
here inserted, to prevent the sand from falling in upon it, or,
in other words, to deepen the well and keep it clear. The
water is quite fresh and pellucid, and may be seen at the bot-
tom forcing up little bubbles of sand to the height of an
inch or two. The overflow, which is not great, runs a few
yards in a furrow, cut in the sand, by which it is immediately
afterwards absorbed. In summer time an aged female gene-
rally attends at this well to keep it clear, and receives, on
serving water from it, any trifle which visiters may choose to
bestow.
Close by, and near the beach, there is a range of houses,
known as Union-buildings, from their having been built by
a building company. Leaving these on the right, the pedes-
trian may mount the sand-hills, towards a hotel on the south
side of the pviincipal street or road leading from the ferry-
house. The whole of these heights are irregular, being full of
hill and dale. They are covered for the most part with
the wiry grasses common to such ground, including star-
grass, much of which has been planted of late years. The
sand is thus bound, and the blowing or drifting checked, so
that an earthy superstratum may in time be established.
This has been effected to a great extent in this quarter, and
there are even amongst the barest of these hills, patches of
pretty thick grass,
In a few years, what with fencing in,
forming, and forcing gardens, turfing, &c. the before arid
appearance of New Brighton will be completely changed.
I know of no place near the town more salubrious and
cheerful in passable weather. The hills rise to a consi-
derable height, and there are detached houses perched even
on some of the highest peaks, around which verdure has al-
ready been taught to afford its shelter and its shade. The
views, particularly of the river and the whole expanse of sea
northward and westward, are superb, affording an ever-
changing panorama. A little above the inn, on the west, a
rude seat, made from a plank of an old vessel, is placed
against an old thorn bush. There seated, I witnessed, within
an hour, the sailing, or rather towing out by steam vessels,
of several large vessels to various parts of the world, down
the Formby Channel, and many more arrived both by that
and the Rock or Horse Channel. Two of the crack Glasgow
steamers also came down the river, and stood direct to the
north, one following the track of the other. They appeared
tolbe antagonist, but of equal and great power, neither gain-
ing any apparent advantage for a succession of miles. The
smoke they sent forth, drawn in trails by the now easterly
wind, darkened the ocean for a long distance to the west-
ward. The Actmon another fine Glasgow steam-ship, also
passed up the river from the north in gallant style. Nume-
rous vessels were seen indistinctly on the distant horizon,
and as the evening proceeded many of them came up under
sail, of large and small degree. Late in the afternoon a
number of steamers, bound to various parts n Ireland, fol-
lowed each other in rapid succession round the Rock, tor-
turing the water with their paddle wheels, and holding their
course to the west.
On the higher ground on the north side of New Brighton
there are six or seven large houses or buildings, forming se-
veral houses each, including a hotel, with frontages both to
the north, overlooking the houses below, and also to the
south. The first house in the lower street or terrace is a
neat pavilion roofed cottage, the property of Mr. Rowson,
with ground both on the north, where it is one storey in
height, and the south, where it is of two stories. Next to it
are two conjoint elegant houses, in the tasteful English Go-
thic or Elizabethan style. Beyond are several handsome
villas on the cliffs or eminences immediately over the preci-
pitous rocks, known as

THE RED NOSES.
To view these romantic rocks I descended to the sands
below, which here extend in a beatiful smooth surface for
several miles, from east to west, between the Mersey and the
Dee. These sands are a favourite and healthful resort of
parties in search of health-or recreation ; and here, when the
wind is high, " the lone enthusiast" (to use the words of
Beattie)

- " oft will stray
Listening with pleasing dread to the loud roar
Of the wide weltering wave."
The Red Noses are points or promontories of freestone
rock, between which there are numerous indentures or little
hays, into which the tide frequently rises. The action of
the water, for ages, has worn the stone, which varies in its
quality, into small shelved caves and cavities, and having
undermined a great portion of it, it has left it in an abrupt
and fantastic overhanging masses and ledges. The first part
of this formation, going westward, is of a mouldering yellow-
ish sand stone, and the strata throughout inclines slightly to
the south. Further on, where the " Noses" are, the stone
is red, with light streaks, and being more resistible from its
hardness, has maintained its position in promontories. One
immense muss appears to be outwardly supported from fall-
ir g by two little points or knobs, worn to almost a point,
where they rest upon the shelving stratum below. One of
the caves, opening from a fissure in the rock, might give
shelter to a dozen or fifteen outlaws, if they did not aspire to
stand erect. This is four or five feet above the level of the
sand. There are several handsome villas just above, and from
these the owners have, in two instance, formed romantic
footways to the level of the strand through the rock, termi-
nating in iron gates. In this work nature has been the principal
and whimsical artificer. Behind these mansions there are
several smaller dwellings in the Elizabethan style. The
smaller caves are accessible to their recesses only by children.
Westward, the rock is streaked with white coloured stone,
and assumes many fantastic shapes. The largest cave re-
sembles an arched alcove, and faces the north. It is about
nine paces in length, and four to five in depth. This was
once much larger, and more covered in; and is I presume
" the ruins" or remains of the cave alluded to in a tale in the
Lancashire Literary Museum, entitled " The Fisherman's
Daughter." A short distance further to the west, the rock
gradually decreases in bulk, drawing towards the land, and
terminates in an abrupt point of yellowish stone, north of a
furze preserve, beyond which all is again a range of sand
hills to nearly Leasowe Castle.
I here turned southward from the shore, and enlvyd a plea-
sant walk through the fields to the ancient village of Wallasey,
and thence by Liscard to Woodside, which present scenes
worthy of notice ; but my sketch has insensibly so much
enlarged upon me that I must bid you farewell--merely
adding that there are several tine mansions at New Brighton
on the brow of the hill facing Liverpool, and on the road
leading thence to Liscard.

Cider is selling from £5 to £lO the hogshead, more than
double the usual price.—Worcester Journal.
A recent letter from Lord Brougham says that he will not
fail attending the house on the day that parliament recom-
mences its sittings.
Fanny Elssler is to receive the sum of 20,000 dollars from
the manager of the Park Theatre for six months' engage.
ment.

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NOVEL EscLostins.—A gentleman of this town, a few
days ago, received through the Post-office, from a friend at a
distance, a bird, of that rare species called the nutcracker,
ready prepared for stuffing, the postage being only fourpence.
A short dine previously, another gentleman received four
birds, ready stuffed, in one parcel, the postage of which was
eight-pence !—Preston Chronicle.
we understand that the Lords of the Treasury have fixed
the 6th of May for the day when the postage stamps are to
come into use. The issue of the stamps will, in the first
instance, begin in London, and be extended as speedily as
practicable throughout the whole of the kingdom ,• but let-
ters, properly stamped, posted in any part of the kingdom,
will pass free.—Morning Chronicle.
A remarkably fine oak was a short time since felled in the
park belonging to Sir T. E. Winnington, Bart., M.P., and
on Saturday week it was removed towards Liverpool, where
it is to form part of the keel of a vessel. It contained 370
cubic feet of timber ; was aft. 6in. long, loft. Bin. in cir-
cumference, when trimmed ; and took 23 horses to draw it
up the bank at Stanford, on its way to Stourport.—Worces-
ter Journal.

THE WALSALL AND SOUTH BANKING COMPANY. —A
new issue of notes took place yesterday (Friday), distinguish-
able from the old notes by being printed in blue ink. This
step has been rendered necessary by the recent abstraction
of notes, and the subsequent legal proceedings against Mr.
T. F. Wood, the late manager. No re-issue of the old notes
has taken place for some months past, and the amount now
out is consequently very small; the directors thinking it ad-
visable, under the circumstances, to conduct the business of
the bank in gold until their arrangements for a new circula-
tion were fully completed.—Staffordshire Gazette.
The Water Witch, revenue cutter, has arrived in the Shan
non, with the diving-bell apparatus, and is to proceed round
the coast of Malbay, to endeavour to raise the guns, chains,
and anchors, of the Marten, sloop of war, wrecked on that
coast about 24 years ago. Mr. Deane, the inventor of the
diving helmet, attempted this feat in the summer of 1837,
but from the unsettled state of the weather, and insufficiency
of his assistance, was unable to bring up any of them.
There is every reason to hope the present attempts will be
attended with success.—Cork Constitutioti.
A CaLF.—Recently Messrs. Carlisle, of Wigton, and
Briggs, of Bassenthwaite, were called upon to perform the
operation of embryotomy, on a cow, the property of Mr. P.
Robinson, of Isalgate, near Bassenthwaite, and produced a
dead calf which had two heads, eight legs, and nine feet ; one
of the hind legs was club or double-footed. It had two
spines or backbones, and a double number of ribs ; also two
tails, one at the termination of each spine ; the ribs met at
the sides, and formed one cavity for the internal organs, of
which some were double. Mr. Robinson gave the calf to
Messrs. Carlisle and Briggs, and we understand it is their
intention to present it to the British 111450t1131.,—CarKqe
Patriot.

brought, in the cool of the sea-breeze, while the youngsters
amuse themselves catching crabs, in the pools left by the re-
tiring tide.

TRY; ROCK ls CORtipOIIS to the battery on the north-west. It is a
strong circular building, of a peculiar light-coloured Welsh
limestone, of great durability. Its height is about 92 feet
from the base to the middle of the ball at the top. The
foundation is sunk
.six feet in the rock. There is an admira-
ble, brilliant, and changeable light (red and white) at this
light-house ; and at the top, which is surrounded by a cop-
per railed balcony, there is a bell which is rung during hazy
weather, as a warning to vessels to keep an offing. The
building is wide at the base, like a bell, for the purpose of
additional strength; and it is of solid masonry up to the
door on the south side, or about half its height. The ladder
is of brass, and is let into the stone. The upper part is in
the form of a round pillar or monument. I have heard it
stated that the cost of the whole, including the revolving ap-
paratus, was upwards of £31,000. The view from the bal-
cony is beautiful, the spot being the key to the navigation of
the port. No vessel of any considerable burthen can either
enter or depart without passing near to this light-house, which
is an excellent substitute for the clumsy perch, with a bell to
be rung by the wind, that previously occupied its site and
which was known as " The Rock Perch." ,
There are many pleasing, and some melancholy associa-
tions connected with the Black Rock, so called probably
from the sea-weed growing upon it—the stone itself being
red. "To round the Rock," whether outward or homeward-
bound, is equivalent to leaving or entering the boundaries of
the port. Seamen's advance notes become payable so long
after the ship has passed the Rock outwards. Insurances,
too, I am informed, have frequent reference to the Rock, as
to the hour or date of passing it. Parties who have friends
or relatives going to sea not unfrequently convoy them as
far as the Rock, and return in their boat. Others, looking
anxiously for vessels, in the cargoes, crews, or passengers in
which they are interested, gaze from the quays towards the
Rock, as the first point at which a vessel from the westward
becomes fully visible ; and if telescopes fired cannon-balls, as
well as assisted eye-balls, the Rock battery, though recently
erected, would long since have been battered down. The
Rock is a joyous sight to the returning mariner. To those
who adventure themselves for the first time on board ship,
it rouses some apprehensions of the advent of watery sick-
ness, for the waves on the other side of it are no respecters
of persons, and toss their snowy crests with all imaginable
haughtiness, on the impulse of the gale, which has there free
ingress. lam here reminded of my quaint friend's allusion
to this fact, with which I shall " pass the Rock :"--
'Tis sweet to sail upon the Mersey's breast,
Not when the sluggish wave is lull'd asleep,
But when it lifts its living snowy crest,
To kiss the summer gales that o'er it sweep :
'Tis sweet on deck, when the full sail is press'd,
And wings the bark all foaming through the deep ;
All this is well till round the " Rock" you go,—
Then you'll get sea-sick, and must go below.