The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-13 00:00:00

as high water, and a bright morning. Numerous
earners were plying in every direction. The Che-
tst, with its hills, windmills, patches of green, and
tattle, presented a picturesque and refreshing object
:ye ; but Liverpool, with its lengthened forest of
s lofty warehouses, its numerous spires, and I know
—by-the-by, I was forget-

es of quayage—

the docks, the most splendid thing of all ; but Liver-
1, I say—why it was Liverpool, and that 's all I can set

is a peculiarity of this port that all the shipping is locked

) safe in docks, and that the navigation of the river lies
len and unimpeded at all times. Very few vessels have
ed to lie out in the river, and very few are to be seen at
There are berths for all that come, and all
D; and the Mersey ebbs and flows, rarely sus-

anchor without

at wait to g,

burden except in transilu, or for very short
It owes this freedom of its course to
he docks of Liverpool !—a noble piece of work
1. Here we have the great commercial instrumentality
of the world safely lodged in beautiful basins scooped out of

taining

f anchc

the solid earth, and surfaced over with accurate masonry.
Neither wave nor storm can disturb them here, and they

facility for receiving and discharging cargoes in
uays, stores, sheds, and whatever else can con-
peditc the great objects of trade, through the

arable harbour

But let us leave this mighty maze of lading' and unlading,
tips and sailors, carts, porters, waggons, bales, and boxes.

Only look up at those immense stores—five, six, and seven
stories high ! See that great bale of cotton slowly ascend-
ing; and only just think if the rope were to break, and that
heavy package were to come down souse upon your head,

Ett a fall would be there, my countrymen !" Let us

s bustling scene, I say. Some other time we may

return to it ; and then, only name that part of the world to
which you would wish to direct your course, and I will an-

swer for it you will find a vessel here to take you.
Here is the far-famed Water-street before us—let us into
the town, heave-to at an hotel, and have our breakfast.
Liverpool can boast of hotelerie without stint, and hotels of
every calibre and price ; but as ill luck would have it, we

lirected to one not exactly suited to our purposes o
bough a very excellent one, doubtless, in its kind. I
e much frequented by that order of travellers which
Sterne omitted to insert in his catalogue—namely
s for orders, and who certainly have
knack of introducing the perpetual motion, or something
'hey honour with their calls an

s a pia(

order which tray

into wh.

tever hous,

But we had a capital breakfast, notwithstandi

were in fine order to enjoy in all its luxury—a
having done ample justice, with " airs ne

" and toilet completed, we set forth on our excursio
a the town. We took a hasty view of the Town-hall

he Custom-house, and nearly all the public
'hick the churches certainly formed, by far,
on. The people of Liverpool, said we, must

nably be religious, for here we have a church in

y rtreet. As public edifices too, they are a]

from the antique affair, in St. Paul's-square, to
ul modern antique, St. Luke's, at the top of

ich cost upwards of forty-four thousai

I church-building is still a favourite " inve