The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-02 00:00:00

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their boats in crossing the ricer free of a

FIRES IN LIVERPOOL.—On Saturday, about nine
o'clock, a fire broke out on board the ship Belcarrig,
lying in the Sandon Dock. It assumed a serious aspect ;
but, oning to the exertions of Superintendent Hewitt and
the fire brigade, the flames were extinguished before much
damage had been occasioned. The fire is supposed to have
been the result of spontaneous combustion among a cargo
of charcoal.—About one o'clock on Sunday morning a fire
broke out in the shed of the nilway station at Sand-hill,
which was only saved from destruction by the great acti-
vity of the fire brigade. The West of England fire-engine
attended both fires, and rendered good service in extin-
guishing the one at Bootle. Several wagons full of coal,
we believe, were burnt on the line near the building.
MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.—The submarine
cable, consisting of six insulated wires, laid in May last,
between Donaghadee and Port Patrick, is in perfect work-
ing order. The Irish lines between Dublin, Galway, and
the intermediate towns, from Cork to Thurles, and from
Belfast to Newry, Portadown, and Newtownards, are com-
pleted ; and the main lines connecting the principal En-
glish, Scotch, and Irish towns will, in a short time, be
ready for the transmission of messages. Liverpool, es-
pecially, may anticipate much advantage from the estab-
lishment of this new company.

THE CONIMITTEE OF THE LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND
HUMANE SOCIETY, at their meeting on Saturday,
awarded a silver medal, of the first class, to Capt. Sands,
and £3O for distribution among the crew of the Oracle,
the number of whom are supposed to be from 15 to 20
men, for their noble exertions in saving the passengers by
the ill-fated William and Mary, bound from Liverpool to
New °deans. The committee would have awarded a
larger sum, but the case having been brought under the
notice of Lloyd's, by their agents at Nassau, it was pre-
sumed that the committee of that institution would not
only give a reward themselves, but would bring the case
before the Royal Humane Society.

GRANTS LEAVING LIVERPOOL.
The subjoined statement for the past month will be found
interestine :—The Star of the East cleared out on the 6th,
for Melbourne, with 386 souls on board ; the Goldfinder,
on the 221, for the same destination, with 484 passengers;
the Tasmania, also for Melbourne, with 400 emigrants, on
the 25th ; and the Caroline, government ship, on the
6th, with 317 souls on board, making a tot
who were 'despatched from the
an ports in the past month. TI
Canada, during the same period, were the Conqueror, on
the 2d, 156 passengers ; Charles Chaloner, 12th, 301 ;
Sarah Sands, `7.lst, 115 ; Milicete, 27th, 3'91; and the
Helen Oliver,t 6th, 58 ; all bound for Quebec

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THU ELI' TION OF DOCK CONIMITTEE-NIEN.—The
vacancies caused by the retirement of Messrs. Henry
Steele, -William Nicol, William Healing, and T. Bold,
who go out by rotation, will be filled up to-morrow. The
Shipowners' Association recommend the election of
Messrs. H. Steele, Adam Gladstone, J.Sralth, and either
Mr. Healing or Mr. Bold 3 the East India Association
have unanimously recommended Mr. A. Gladstone as
the successor of Mr. Nicol, who deolines to be again
placed in nomination and the American Chamber of
Commerce have made a similar recommendation. Mr.
Palmer, chairman of The Shipowners' Association and
Underwriters' Association, will be nominated, on behalf
of an influential body of rate-payers, as the successor to
Mr. Nicol.

TRANSATLANTrt 'STEAIIfERS.-The screw steam -ship
City of Glasgow, Captain W. Wrlie, sailed at OM o'clock
,on Wednesday, far Philadelphia, with 131 passengers and
a full cargo.—The steamer Argentina sailed en the same
day. Site took above twenty passengers, and about
£15,000 in specie on freight. Among those en board was
Mr. Hadfield, the secretary of the company. The Argen-
tina's route w1:1 be,--Lisbon, Madeira, Cape de Verds,
Pernambuco. 'Bahia Rio Ataneiro, Monte Video, and
Buenos Ayres, eventually remaining to ply between the
two latter ports. A large number of merchants interested
in the Bravilian trade assembled on the Prince's Pierto
witness the departure of the Argentina. The next vessel
will be the-screw-steamer Braziliera, to-be despatched en
the 24th 'of next moufn.—On ThursEay morning, the
Royal Mail screw steam-ship Lady Eglinton, Capt.Taten,
arrived in the river with the Canadian mails. She left
Montrea/ an the 13th, and Quebec -en the,l6th instant.
The royal mail steam-chip Africa, Harrison, commander,
took her departure hence for New York on Saturday
afternoon, at three .O'clock, with ;'714: passengers, a full
cargo, and the usual -mails on boare. The' Glasgow and
New 'York screw steam-ship Glasgow arri'ved at'Greenock
on Saturday, at S'Bt.i' , p.m.
Ntr7cL PnOTOCLAPTlV.—Yesterfity, Mr. Robt. Lang-
ton, wood engraver and draughtsman, of Coss-street,
brought to our effrce some very -successful and beautiful
specimensof photnraphy, taken by himself, not on metal
plates, or on paper, or on glass; but on blocks of box-
wood, such as are ordinarily-used in his awn art for wood
engravings. Ono was a FA-Acing pottrait efthimself ;
another was a•view of the beautiful little church at
Vrorsley, ere -ted a few years age-by the'Earl andeountess
orEllesmere. 'The latter was compressed withip the ordi-
nary dimensions -of a circle'3".±.j inches in diameter • and,
as the image of the church is thus reversed,' the design,
in Efil its elegant proportions, an reduced to miniature
such as no bane; of human artist,can ever hope to rival, in
'its exquisite delicacy of liert and shade and its elaborate
'minuteness aria detail,—th-is'photograph, so /liken on a
block of box=wood, is quiteready for the application of the
"wood-engraver=s burin. itisimpossible to sayhow greatly
this will advance the process of •wood-engraving, es-
pecially by swing all the preliminary labour of ' the
.oraughtsmare; which, in many cases, constitute: the chief
element in both the time and the cost attendant on the
production of ,wood-engravings of a high clase. 'Even in
'ninny of the lower branches of' tise art, the newnisplication
'o sun-drawing will be an ineuluable auxiliary. For in-
stance, it is an extremely- dill.calt matter to get accurate
=drawings of mach in ery, perspective ; mechanicaldaughts-
Teen only represent it in plane; and artists are generally
found extremely reluctmat to-employ a lerge.amount of
'time so unprtif_tably as the drawing of a complicated ma-
chine in perspective demands. Mr. Langton's daguerreo-
type can now in a few second:: accomplish what it would
revire hours for the artist-to effect; and in point of
'accuracy, the instrument must ever have the, preference.
But great as will eventually be the boon-which this new
application,ofphotography will confer on the practical art
'of wood-engraving, it may .be made more-extensively
vdiaiable, as cheap form of producing pictorial objects.
'Ey Mr.' Langtan's prooess, portraits, landscapes, &e.,
could be produced on any emsoth piece of wocd, duly
prepared ; and thus even wooden snuff-boxes, hand-
seneens, &c.,.m.sy be decorated with portraits, or scenes
,frost nature, or, copies of works of art, at a cost-much less
than dagueri-entypes on mettil,pletes. Indeed, it, is diffi-
milt to say where the applications and uses of this new
process may notextend. '.Mr. Langton does not limit bis
invention to its-.use in wood-engraving, but claims for it
au equally useful and valuable application in other di-
rections. in connection with practical art.--,3l,ne.ziter
Guardian.