The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-08 00:00:00

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER, 8, 1853.

TIIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL, ADVERTISER.

Qtrror PASSAGE.—The fine new ship Lincluder Castle,
arrived at this port on Wednesday from Miramichi, having
performed the passage in fourteen days nine hours. She
was built by Messrs. Johnston and Mackie, the builders of
the Indian Queen.
THE EMIGRANT-SHIP. Jacob A. Westervelt, Capt.
Hoodless, which sailed from this port on the sth October
put back on Thursday last. She had 695 emigrants on
board, and encountered very severe gales. She had pro-
ceeded nearly to the banks of Newfoundland, where she
became leaky, and on her arrival in the river she was mak-
ing eighteen inches of water per hour.
SHIPBUILDING ON A LARGE SCALE.—Mr. Mare, the
iron ship-builder, of Blackwall, is building a ship of 1500
tons, for Colonel Wooldridge, to beat the Marco Polo, and
to carry 400 tons more cargo. Mr. Taylor is also building
an iron ship, of 1300 tons, at Grimsby ; Mr. John Smith,
of Sunderland, a thirteen years' 1000 ton ship, of British
oak ; and Mr. Kelly, a 1000 ton ship at Dartmouth, of the
same materials —all for the same gentleman ; which, with
the tonnage already owned by him, will class him amongst
the largest shipowners of the present day.
WRECK OF THE ANNIE JANE.—Mr. Munro, messenger-
at-arms, from Glasgow, and Mr. Nichol, Crenan Canal,
proceeded from Tobermorey in the smack Dream, on the
29th ult., for Barra, to take possession of the materials
saved from the wreck of the Annie Jane. They met the
smack Alexis Kerr, in Canna Harbour, and took from her
above four tons old and new cordage, which she had on
freight for Glasgow, being part of the wreck of the unfor-
tunate Annie Jane. The above was bought and paid for
at the public sale of said wreck.
TREATY WITH PARAGUAY.—The London Gazette, of
Friday, contains the terms of the treaty of "friendship,
commerce, and navigation," between her Majesty and the
Republic of Paraguay, which was ratified on Wednesday
last. It consists of 17 articles, and is signed by Sir Charles
Hotham, and "the Paraguayan citizen Francisco Solano
Lopez," the President of the Republic, on behalf of the
two high contracting parties. The Republic concedes to
the merchant flag of British subjects the free navigation of
the river Paraguay as far as Assumption, the capital, and
of the right side of the Parana, from where it belongs to
her, as far as the city of Encarnacion. British goods are
to be admitted on, the terms of the most favoured nations;
and, in case of. any rupture between the two contracting
parties, the subjects of either who may be established in
the dominions of the other are to be allowed to remain in
the continuance of their employment, and in full enjoy-
ment of their liberty and property, while the public funds
of the two countries are never to be confiscated, sequestered,
or detained. Full liberty of conscience is guaranteed to
British residents in Paraguay.
BURNING OF A BARQUE ON THE CLYDE.-011 Friday
afternoon, the barque Victoria, 600 tons, of New York,
left the Broomielaw, in tow of a tug, for New York.
When nearly opposite to Whiteinch, three miles down the
river, the master of a tug passing up the river called to
the master of a tug which had the Victoria in tow that
his ship was on fire. About this time the discovery had
also been made on board the ship, and on the opening
of the afterhatch, it was found that the flames had made
so great progress as to render any attempt at saving the
vessel hopeless. She was run ashore, and the crew and
passengers were taken on board the tug, the cook in irons,
charged with being the cause of the catastrophe. He
states that a dismissed steward had declared that the ves-
sel would never reach New York, and the whole crew,
several of whom are Frenchmen, have, in the meantime,
been taken into custody. The master was not on board.
The second mate says he has no doubt, from the disar-
ranged state of the bales in the hold, on the discovery of
the fire, that it has been the work of an incendiary, and
that the vessel must have been on fire before she left the
Broomielaw.

THE SHIP CONTINENT, Captain Drummond, with 180
passengers from New York, arrived in the river on Thurs-
day. During her passage, she met with the following
disaster :—While lying to, on the morning of the 21st ult.,
in a heavy gale from W.N.W., it shifted suddenly to
N.N.W., laid her in the trough of the sea, she was boarded
by a heavy sea, from the main rigging to the taffrail,
which stove in her bulwarks, skylights, and companion-
ways, swept away the wheelhouse and everything contained
in it, all the boats except the longboat, and split the plank-
share to the length of sixty feet, the chasm being in many
parts a foot wide; she was now rapidly filling, when, by
loosening the foretopsail, she was got before the wind, with
her leeward toprail still under water. She came to the
wind on the other tack, but, as the sea was breaking
heavily over her, she was forced to be kept off again. On
sounding the pumps, nine feet of water was found in the
hold, and more than four in the 'tween decks. The
pumps were so choked with grain as to be useless in their
position. At this juncture the Philanthropist appeared in
sight, but was unable, from the roughness of the sea, to
render immediate assistance. Next morning she sent a
boat, as near as she could safely come, to say that she
would remain till the sea moderated, and then take the
passengers and crew on board. The pump was, in the
meantime, working well, and as the ship was considered
out of danger, the Philanthropist sailed away, having
taken 25 of the passengers, who availed themselves of the
kind offer.

LAuxcuEs.—On Tuesday, a vessel named the Spirit of
the Deep, A 1 thirteen years, and 733 tons register, was
launched from the yard of Mr. J. T. Alcock, Sunderland.
She measures, keel and rake, 171 feet ; extreme breadth,
31 feet 1 inch ; and depth, 19 feet 10 inches. She has
been purchased by an eminent firm in Liverpool, and is
intended for the China and Australian trade. Two very
handsome new vessels have been launched from the ship-
yard of Mr. John Westacott, Barnstaple, one a schooner
named Zenobia, built for Mr. Mudge, of Swansea, and
intended for the fruit trade, and the other a barque called
the Springbok, built for Messrs. Stewart and Co., Liver-
pool, and intended for the Cape trade. The screw steam-
ship Dinornis, built by Messrs. John Read and Co., at
Port Glasgow, for the Australasian Pacific Mail Steam
Packet Company, was launched on Wednesday last. Her
dimensions are as fol/bws :—Length over all, 274 feet ;
breadth, 36 feet ; depth, 28 feet 6 inches ; tonnage, 1,810.
The engines are to be 300-horse power. There was also
launched from the building-yard of Messrs. A. McMillan
and Son, Dunbarton, on Wednesday, a fine ship, named
the Margaret Mitchell, by Miss Jane Mitchell, daughter
of Thomas Mitchell, Esq., Glasgow, the owner. She is
intended for the West India trade, and is of the following
dimensions :—Length of keel, 170 feet ; breadth of beam,
324 feet; depth of hold, 21 feet; registered tonnage,
1,000. On Thursday was launched from the building-
yard of Mr. George Cox, Bideford, a ship of 750 tons
register, A 1 twelve years, built entirely of teak and
mahogany, for Messrs, Leech and Co., of Liverpool, and
was named the Jane Leech. Her dimensions are :
Length of keel and forerake, 184 feet ; depth of hold,
214 feet ; breadth of beam, 32 feet ; length over all, 200
feet. She is intended for the East India trade.

INLAND CARRIAGE OP TIMBER.—We have frequently
adverted (observe Messrs. Chaloner and Fleming in their
circular) to the disadvantages that Liverpool labours under,
as compared with other ports, through the greatly dis-
proportioned rates of inland carriage, by rail and water,
levied on her traffic to the manufacturing districts, where
she is brought into competition with rival ports, both east
and west, which have had the benefit of rates out of all
comparison favourable to their development; and our re-
monstrances have always been met by the declaration that
if other companies carried to a loss those out of Liverpool
would not. The trade, therefore, has been found to submit
to these exactions, not through any convictions on their
minds of the justice of the reasons assigned, but through
the despotic power exercised by a combined monopoly,
which, holding the only gates of exit from the town in
their control, enables them to dictate what terms they
please, as exemplified by a notification of a further advance
in the rates of carriage to take place on the Ist November,
equivalent to 11 per cent. on square timber, and 21 per
cent. on deals, the more manageable and much less cum-
brous article, but of which more than half the import
consists. This conduct on the part of the inland carriers
contrasts most unfavourably with that of the Dock Com-
mittee, whose exertions to cheapen the local expenses of
the port are entitled to a different return from the railway
interests, that have so largely benefited by their liberal
conduct regarding the dock lines, which they have made
available for the London and North Western traffic free of
charge ; and it now becomes a serious question, (seeing
that one of the chief influencing motives of Parliament in
sanctioning rival lines was the promotion of healthful
competition,) if it is not the duty of the trading com-
munity to bring the matter before Parliament for inquiry
and adjustment.