The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-07 00:00:00

LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY.

The market to-day was well supplied with English Wheat,
which met a brisk sale at fully the currency of this day week.
A fair extent of business was transacted in foreign at former
prices, which remark applies also to barrel Flour.
Indian Corn is in less demand ; but holders are firm, and do
not press sales under late rates.
Fine chevalier Barley is scarce, and the turn dearer, but no
improvement can be quoted in other descriptions. Malt has
met somewhat more attention.

All sorts of Peas and Beans must be noted 2s. lower.
Since last market day about half-a-dozen vessels have arrived
laden with Oats from Ireland. The Oat trade continues dull,
and the sales are chiefly in small parcels to necessitous buyers,
who 1 urchased without difficulty.

THE SARAH SANDS, AUXILIARY SCREW

STEAMER.

Now that this fine ship has completed four voyages to
New York, and is laid up for a short overhaul, pre-
vious to her next voyage in January, it may be interest-
ing to review the results of her performance.
She was built with a view to test the practicability of
carrying on the general trade between this country and
America, by means of auxiliary steam-power, and judging
by the results the experiment seems to have been entirely
successful.

In first attempts of this kind allowance must always be
made for difficulties in the machinery, arising from the
novelty of the various parts, and such difficulties, though
not of a serious nature, have been experienced in this
case no drawback has, however, appeared in the general
principle.
It is well known that the New York packets are
amongst the finest trading vessels in the world, and a
comparison with some of the best of these on the out-
ward voyage, where the greatest difficulties are encoun-
tered, will give a good idea of the performance of the
Sarah Sands :

S. Sands. Sailed Time. Pkts. passed aver. time
Ist voyage Jan. 20-47. 201 days 6 48 days
2d ditto April 6 „ 23 „ 6 361 ~.
3d ditto June 15 „ 34 „* 6 47
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4th ditto Sept. 3 „ 20 ;; 4 32
A fact connected with the last voyage is interesting.
She took out a valuable though light cargo—a large num-
ber of passengers, and coals sufficient to work her out and
home, with eighty tons to spare, steaming the entire dis-
tance—a performance, we believe, wholly without prece-
dent in the annals of steaming.
The Sarah Sands is an iron ship of 1,000 tons, builders'
measurement, and 1,300, new measurement, engines 180-
horse power, coupled direct to the screw. She has exten-
sive accommodation for first, second, and third-class
passengers, and can stow about 900 tons of goods, besides
coals, for the voyage.
The largest owners are Messrs. T. and J. Sands, of this
town. She was built from the plans of Mr. Grantham,
engineer, and is commanded by Captain W. C. Thompson,
(late of the Stephen Whitney,) who superintended her
outfit.
* Sarah Sands returned to Cork with machinery damaged,
and lest 14 days, making the voyage 20 days.

LAMENTABLE LOSS OF SIX LIVERPOOL
PILOTS, IN THE OUTWARD CHANNEL.

On Sunday morning, about tide-time, several pilots be-
longing to No. 4 pilot-boat embarked in boat No. 12, for
the purpose of proceeding to their own vessel, which was
on the Hoylake station. At half-past one o'clock, the
two vessels, being but a short distance from each other,
to that
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men ; and George Bennett, Joseph Ledder, and William
Charlton, apprentices. The body of Quayle was subse-
quently picked up by the crew of No. 4, and taken on
board. He was quite dead.