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

he fire is supposed to have

been the result of spontaneous combust'

[on among a cargo

of charcoal.—About one o'clock on Sunday morning a
broke out in the shed of the railway station at Sand-hit,
• was only saved from destruction by the great acti.
;,•.gie. The West of England fire-engine

d the fire 1
ded both fi

and rendered

good service in extin-
guishing the one at Bootle. Several wagons full of coal,
we believe, were burnt ou the line near the building.
MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.—The submarine
cable, consisting of six insulated wires, laid in May last,
between ➢onaghadee 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 Nevvtownards, 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 COMMITTEE OF THE LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND

meeting on Saturday,
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
for their noble exertions in saving the passengers by
—1 William and Marv, bound from Liverpool to
The committee would have awarded a
-.case having been brought under the

awarded a silver me

New (Means.
larger sum, but t

notice of Lloyd'

3y their agents at Nass;u, it was pre-.
mmittee of that institution would not
themselves, but would bring the case
e Royal Humane Society.

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TEE NUMBER OF EMIGRANTS LEAVING LIVERPOOL.--
The subjoined statement for the past month will be found
interesting :—The Star of the East cleared out on the Gth,
for Melbourne, with 386 souls on board:, the Goldiinder,
on the 22d, for toe same destination, with 484 passengers;
the Tasmania, also for Melbourne, with 400 emigrants, on
the 25th ; and the Caroline, government ship, on the

h, with" 317 souls on board, making a total of 1,587

ao were despatched from the Mersey for the
ports in the past month. The departures for
Canada, during the same period, were the Conqueror, on
the 2d, 156 passengers ; Charles Chaloneri 12th, 301 ;
Sarah Sands, 21st, 115 I Milicete, 2;th, 301 ; and the
Helen Oliver, 26th, 58 ; all bound for Quebec.
ON Or DOCK COMMITTEE-MEN.--'-Tho
caused by the retirement of Messrs. Henry
illiam Nicol, William Healing, and T. Bold,
who go out by rotation, will be filled up to-morrow. The
Shipowners Association recommend the election of
Messre. H. Steele, Adam Gladstone, J. Smith, and either
Mr. Healing or Mr. Bold ; the East India Association
have unanimously recommended Mr. A. Gladstone as
the successor of Mr. Nicol, who declines 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 nomionted, on behalf
of an influential body of rate-payers, as the successor to

Ci ELE

vacancies

Steele,

Mr. Nicol

MAN-SAT/ANTIC STEAMERS...,-The screw steam-ship
City of Glasgow, Captain W. Wylie, sailed at one o'clock
on Wednesday, for Philadelphia, with 131 passengers and
a full cargo.—The steamer Argentina sailed on the same
day. She took above twenty passengers, and about
£-15,000 in specie on freight. Among those on board was
Mr. Harlf.eld, the secretary of thecompany. The Argen-
tina's rotte will be,—Lisbon, Madeira, Cape de herds,
Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio janeivo, Monte Video, and
Buenos Ayres, eventually remaining to ply between the
two latter ports. A large nurn'ner of merchants interested
in the Brazilian trade assembled on the Prince's Pier to
witness the departure of the Argentina. The nett vessel
will be the screw-steamer Eraziliera, to be despatched on
the *-24th of next month.-.,0a Thursday morning, the
Royal Mail screw steam=ship Lady Eglinton, Capt. Paton,
Ihoen
royaltr eal omn a
itihsetela3mt
rn dQ
Aricaueb,
arrived in the river with the Canadian mails. She left
mi nasnt adner
took her departure t
hence for New York on Saturday
zel-1%7 rnistrohne,lc6otmil
m.ternoon, at three o'clock, with 74 passengers, a full
cargo, and the usual mails on board. 'the Glasgow and
tv York screw steam--ship Glasgow arrived at Greenock
on Saturday, at S 30, p.m.
NOVEL PFIOTOGRAt

l'...—Yesterday, Mr. Robt."Lang-
ton, wood engraver and draughtsman, of Cross-street,
brought to our ofEce -some very successful and beautiful
specimens of photography, taken by himself, not 311 Metal
plates, or on paper, or on glass, ' but on blocks of"boi-
wood, such as are .ordinarily used in his own art fonvood
engravings. One was a st,iking portrait of himself ;
another was a vies of the beautiful little church at
Worstey, ere ted a• few veers ago by the Earl and Countess
of Ellesmere. The Tatter was compressed within the ordi-
nary dimensions e'

a circle 3-1 inches in diameter ; and,
as the image of the church is thts-nlversed,- the design,
in all its elegant proportions, and-reduced to a Miniature
• such as no hand of human artist can ever hope to rival, in
its exquisite-delicacy of light and-shade and its elaborate
minuteness and detail,—this' photograph, so taken on a
block of box-wood, is quite ready for the application of the
wood-engraver's barin. It is impossible to say how greatly
this will advance the process •of wood engraving, es-
pecially by saving all the preliminary labour of the
draughtsman.; ,which, in manyoases, constitutes the chief
element in both •-the time and the cost attendant on the
production of -wooi-engravings of a high class. Even in
many of the lower branches of the art, the new application
of sun-tirawing be an invaluallle auxiliary. For in-
stance, it is an extremely diffi,:ult matter to get accurate
drawings-of-machinery, in perspective; mechanicaldaugh ts-
men ,only represent it in plane; and artists are generally
found extremely reluctant to-•-employ a large amount of
time so unprofitably as the drawing of a complicated ma-
chine in perspective demands. Mr. Langton's -d aguerr6o-
type -can now in a few seconds accomplish what it would
require hours -for the artist to effect; and in point of
accuracy., the instrument must-ever have the preference.
But greet as will eventually be the boon which this new
application of photography will confer on the practical art
of wood-engraving, it may be made more • extensively
valuable, as a cheap form of producing pictorial objects.
By Mr. I.angtofi's process, portraits, landscapes, &c.,
could be produced on any smooth piece of wood, duly
prepared; and thus even wooden snuff-boxes, hand-
screens, &c., may he decorated with portraits, or scenes
from nature, or-copies of works of-art, at a-cost much less
than daguerretynes-on metal plates. Indeed, it is diffi-
cult to say where- the applications and uses -of this new
process may not extend. Mr. Langton does not limit his
invention to its use in wood-engraving, but claims for it
•ful -and valuable application in other di-
with practical art.--,ll,anchester

an equally

rections. in conne
Guardian.

THE ELECTION PETI HON.

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The followinz is a cony of the petition presented by
Mr. ROBERT-C-3N GLADSTONE anti Mr. GEORGE BGLT :

Martin, 21,Q die :lulu,

A petition of the there-undersigned electors of the
hornagh of Liverpool, was delivered in and read ; setting
forth, That at the last election of members to serve in
parliament for the borough of Liverpool, the petitioners
were registered electors of the said borough, and had a
right to vote and did vote et the said election ; that-Sir
Easkine Perry, 'Knight, John Bramley-MooreaEsqaire,
Thomas Berry }angel!, Esquire, and the Honourgile
Henry Thomas Liddell, were candidates at the said elec-
tion, and that a poll was demanded and taken, and the
said Thomas Berry Horsfall and the Honourable Henry
Thomas Liddell were at the ease thereof declared by the
returning officer of the said borough to have the majority
of votes and to be elected, and were returned ,as members
to serve in parliament for the' barough of Liverpool; that
before and during the said election the said Thomas Berry
Horsfall and Henry Thomas Liddell were and each of
them respectively was hs himself,.big ngente, friends, and
managers, guilty of bribery and corruption, and did re-
spectively by gifts, presents, money, and rewards, and by
promises, agreements, and securities for gifts, presents,
money, and rewards, and by other illegal practices, cor-
rupt and procure divers persons being registered electors
of the said borough, and entitled to vote at the said elec-
tion, to give their votes in favour of the said Thomas
Berry Horsfall and Henry Thomas Liddell, or one of
them, and to forbear to give them in favour of the said
otter candidates, or one of them; that before, daring,
and after the-said election, the said Thomas Berry Hors-
fall,
and Henry Thomas Liddell
and each of themrespee-
lively did by themselves, their agents, friends, and par.
tisane, by divers ways and means, either partly or wholly
at their charge and on their behalf, directly et- indirectly
give, provide, present, and allow, and cause and know-
ingly permit to be given, provided, presented, and allowed
to registered electora cf the said borough, and persons
having a right to vote at the said election, money, meat,
drink, entertainment, provisions, and reward, and made
promises, agreements, and engagements to give .money,meat, drink, entertainment, provisions, and reward, to
taondvoftoerassUachforresegaisidte,reind
order
rorths
aatntdhpeesrasiodnsThialovrnas
having a right
Berry
Horsfall and Henry Thomas Liddell might have and re-
ceive the votes of the said registered electors and persons
entitled to vote at the said election, and might thereby
be elected members to serve in parliament for the said
borough of Liverpool; that gross, notorious, extensive,
and systematic bribery, treating, and corruption, were
practiced and carried on at the sold election by divers
azents, friends, managers, and partisans, of the said
Thomas Berry Horsfall and Henry Thomas Liddell, and
by others employed and sanctioned by them, with a view
to the election of the said Thomas Berry Horsfall and
Henry Thomas Liddell, and the election and return of
the said Thomas Berry Horsfall and Henry Thomas
Liddell were procured by means of such bribery, treating,
and corruption ; that by reason of such corrupt and illegal
practices, the said Thomas Berry Horsfall and Henry
Thomas Liddell were and are and each of them was and
is wholly incapacitated and ineligible to sit in this present
parliament for the said borough, and the election and re.
turn of the said Thomas Berry Horsfall and Henry Thomas
Liddell, were and are wholly null and void ; that by
the various illegal and corrupt practices as aforesaid, and
by coercion, intimidation, and other illegal and irregular
proceedings, the said Thomas Barry Horsfall and Henry
Thos. Liddell obtained a colourable majority of votes over
the said Sir Erskine Perry and John Bramlev-Moore, and
the return of the said Thomas Berry Horsfall and Henry
Thomas Liddell is illegal, and ought to be declared wholly
null and void ; and praying that the house will take the pre-
mises into consideration, and will declare that the said
Thomas Berry Horsfall and Henry Thomas Liddell were
not duly elected and returned, and that the return of the
said Thomas Berry Horsfall and Henry Thomas Liddell
was and is wholly null and void, and that the house will
give the petitioners such further and other relief as to the
house 21411 :eau meet.