The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-13 00:00:00

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

PORT FLEETWOOD-ON-WYRE HARBOUR LEAD-
ING LIGHTS.
Bearings—Magnetic.
_ _

Fleetwood-on-Wyre, Lancaster Bay, Nov. 1,1840.
rr HE Directors of the Preston and Wyre Railway Harbour
JL and Dock Company hereby give notice, that the har-
bour improvements having been so far completed, under the
plans of Captain Henry Mangles Denham, R.N., F.R.S.,
as to permit a straight course direct from sea into the har-
bour : the same will be denoted, on and after the Ist day of
December next, by the exhibition of TWO HARBOUR
LIGHTS, from which date the shore beacon, known as
Wyre Mark, will be discontinued. These Lights (of fixed
white character) will appear to the Mariner in upper and
lower-order when brought in line upon the bearing of south,
to which bearing their brilliancy is limited, and will guide
him right up the sea-reach of Wyre according to his draught
' and time of tide, instead of depending on daylight for navi-
gating the buoyed but serpentine deep. The said Lighthouse
structures are in addition to the Screw-pile Lighthouse
erected at the western point of entrance last June ; and pre-
sent for a day leading-line two columns of die reative alti-
tudes of 104 and 44 feet above half-tide level : The inner
and higher column rises conspicuously from the town-site,
is of red sand-stone colour, and when in line of the lower
light, appears between the Custom-house and the Sea-view
Hotel, with a spired church half a point westward. The
lower Lighthouse stands at H.W. mark 850 feet in advance
of the higher Lighthouse : it is of light coloured stone,
springing from a square colonnade, and makes out in relief
when in line of the higher column. The two lights by night,
Or a black ball at the lower column of the two by day, indicate
at the present stage of harbour improvements nine feet water
right up, which increases to eighteen upon neaps, and twenty-
live feet upon spring tides ; whilst in the buoyed deep eighteen
at half-tide, twenty-four at H.W. neaps, and thirty-one feet
on H.W. springs. The relative height of lights are so ar-
ranged as to dip the higher below the lower when you have
passed through the new Cut, and may haul south-eastward for
the mooring-buoys, where twenty feet water is retained at
low-water springs. Two black buoys mark the eastern side
of the Cut, and a black and white chequered buoy the western
side. The Cut lies at the inner, i.e. southern, portion of the
leading line of lights.*
H. M. DENHAM, Consulting Marine Surveyor.
N.B.—Whenever the above shore Lighthouses are ob-
scured from the entrance by haze during day tides, the lamps
will be lighted to assist the Mariner's eye.
* Vide " Denham's Sailing Directions for Port Fleet-
wood," published at Mawdsley's, Liverpool, and Bates's,
London.

AT a GENERAL MEETING of the SUBSCRIBERS
to SAINT GEORGE'S HALL, held in the Cotton
Sales Room, on Wednesday, the 4th November instant,
The REVEREND RECTOR BROOKS in the Chair,
A REPORT from the Committee was read, wherein they
communicated to the Subscribers the Minutes of their con-
ference with the Law Courts Committee of the Council, at
which a MUTUAL PROPOSAL was adopted, to the effect, that
the Saint George's Hall Society shall give up the Land voted
to them by the Council, on condition that the Erection of the
Council shall comprise a Hall as well as the proposed Law
Courts ; the St. George's-Hall Company raising or satisfac-
torily securing to the Council, a Fund, of such an amount
as shall be mutually agreed on between the Company and
the Council, to defray the expense of the Erection, so far as
shall extend to the fair proportion of the intended Hall.
And the Committee in their Report concluded, by express-
ing their opinion, tbat the Scheme contained in that Proposal,
was one which merited the most favourable consideration of
the Shareholders. _ _

It was then, on the motion of Mr. LAWRNCE HEYWORTH,
seconded by Mr. JOHN H. TURNER,
Resoltthd unanimously,

That the Scheme embodied in the Proposal which has been
read to this Meeting, presents, in the opinion of the Meeting,
the most advantageous mode which, under existing circum-
stances, could be devised, for carrying into effect the object
for which this Company was formed.
On the motion of Mr. W. SHAND, seconded by Mr.