The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-04-10 00:00:00

THE PILOT COMMITTEE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND4RD.
SIR,—In your last number you inserted a letter addressed to
the pilots, which you say is "supposed to have emanated from
Mr. Aikin."
As I was ignorant of such a letter having been written until
I saw it in your paper, I must disavow the compliment you of
course intended to pay to me.
Allow me to take this opportunity to state, that during the
long period I acted as a member of the Pilot Committee I never
asked a pilot to vote on any occasion.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
JAMES AIKIN.

STEAM VOYAGE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC IN 1819.—0 n Sun-
day last arrived here, in 26 days from Savannah, the steam-
ship Savannah, Captain Rodgers, (brother to Commodore
Rodgers,) burthen 319 tons; her destination is said to be St.
Petersburgh. as a present to the Emperor Alexander.—(Gore's
Advertises, June 24, 1819.(—The Savannah, steam-ship, which
arrived here last week from Savannah, is the first steam-vessel
which had crossed the Atlantic. She is a beautiful vessel, and
was built at New York, under the inspection of her commander,
Captain Rodgers. Her burthen is 319 tons. Her destination
is said to be St. Petersburgh, as a present to the Emperor
Alexander. An amusing incident is related in the Irish papers
reapecting this vessel. When off the coast of Ireland, she was
observed by the Kite, revenue crusier, Lieutenant Bowie. The
Kite chased her during the day, going ten knots, supposing her
to be a ship on fire, when at length, perceiving the Kite in
chase, she stopped her engine till the latter came up.—( Liver-
pool Courier, June 30. 1819.) The ship mentioned above was
not a " genuine" steamer, having been fitted for sailing as
well as steaming. Besides, the marine steam engines built
twenty veals ago were greatly inferior to those manufactured
now-a-days. The performance of the Savannah, which took
twenty-six days on the passage from the American port of that
name, cannot, therefore, be compared with the expected per-
formance of the Sirius or the Great Western, both of which
will, it is tb,ught, reach New York in fifteen days.—Ed. Albion..
Music or Ting SUNBEAM.—The musical world will shortly
have a treat of a novel and most interesting nature. It appears
that the album of a distinguished songstress, about to quit the
German stage, contains many curious and unpublished relics of
the most celebrated poets of the age—viz Voss, Paul Flem-
ming, Korner, Von Stolberg. Mahltnann, Jean Paul, Gerhardt,
Goethe, Helmina,, Chezy, &c. &c., which have been set to
music by Haydn, Weber, Beethoven, Spohr, Lindpaintner,
Hummel, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, H. Marschner, T. Kohlau.
Chevalier Neukhinni, &c. &c. These valuable moreeaux have
been secured by the proprietors of that spirited literary and
musical periodical " THE SUN REAM." and will be published in
successive numbers of that already highly popular publication,
accompained by a metrical translation of the words.

THE GODS OF ROME.--Can there be imagined a more deplora-
ble prostitution of the human intellect, than the employment of
it to fix the era. the country, and the genealogy of the Roman
Jupiter, Juno, Vulcan, and Venus : to follow them through their
obscene and filthy adventures ; to luxuriate over the amours, or
to bewail the misfortunes of creatures, which, if they ever had
existed, would have been a disgrace to humanity, to say nothing
of divinity ? If such a study must have been degrading, even
in times of ignorance,' what can be thought of it, as an orna-
mental branch of learning,—as an exercise for the youthful
mind, in times and in a country upon which the true light,'
has dawned ? Fixing the birth-place, parentage, and educa-
tion, gloat* over the loves and debaucheries, of corrupted
HIEROGLYPHICS ! ! It would be difficult to turn to a more de-
grading chapter in the economy Of human life:—Mdrisori's
Beliyious Histurri of Morn

APRIL 10, IS3S

DIDSTON MARSH LEI FOR CATTLE, 11.138. Con-
-13 kssedly one of the finest Leys ni the Kingdom, the Land
bring of the best qualify, and plentifully supplied with excellent
Water in every part, now in the holding of Mr. James
Bidston