The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-01 00:00:00

day in the great works o:

Co., for the construction of locomotive engines for tl

Grand Trunk Railway in Canada. These are all signs of

great improvement, and must conduce in a material degree

to the prosperity of the port on both sides of the Mersey

THE LIMERICK AND KERET estates of the Knight of
Kerry was sold, on Friday, in the Encumbered Estates
Court. They realized close upon £57,000, about twenty

years' purchase on the net rental.
THE DEATH of the Hon. and Right Rey. Dr. Ponsonby
Lord Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, occurred at the Palace
Derry, on Thursday morning last.
THE GREAT ExunixioN.—As Saturday was the last o
the sixpenny admission days, and but one day more a

half-a-crown until the final closing of the Exhibition, ti;
desire of the public to have a "last fond look" seemed tl

Ettion of Dublin

There were 18,863 present on Friday, and the r
amounted to £450.

NT.-OT

son of Alderman Egan, of Dublin, met his deaf_
whilst shooting. His gun accidentally exploded, and t_
whole charge lodged in his heart. The deceased was i
his 17th year.

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DRATIi OF LORD CLorrcunaY.—Another of the men
who figured remarkably in the troublous period which
preceded the union between Great Britain and Ireland,
has passed to his final account. Lord Cloncurry died on
Friday night, at his residence, county Dublin, at the ad-
vanced age of 80 years.

PRORC;GATIONOP CONVOCATION.—The Convocation of
the prelates and clergy of the province of Canterbury,
which stood prorogued to Friday, the 28th ultimo, was
further prorogued to Saturday, November 30th, according
to the tenor of a royal writ, by the Vicar-general of the
Most Rev. the Archbishop of Canterbury, primate, and
the metropolitan, under a special commission from his
grace to that effect.

A WARNING.—A labourer, named Otway, of Harptree
North Somerset, left his home on Sunday week to go to his
work, which was at a distance. Some time afterwards he
was found lying in a corn-field with his clothes in flames,
and his flesh was so burnt that he never recovered. Be-
fore he died, he stated that he had called at a cider-shop,
drunk freely, and then lain down to sleep with a lighted
pipe. This had set his clothes on fire, and was the cause
of his miserable death.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. A gentleman, named
William Rigby, residing with his friends at 130, Falkner-
street, committed suicide on Thursday last, by taking a
quantity of sulphuric acid. He had been for some years
past in a very desponding state of mind, and was of very
intemperate habits. He had, however, latterly improved,
but on the night of the 13th instant his gold watch was
stolen from him while in liquor, by a party of prostitutes
and artillerymen. The case was brought before the
magistrates some time since, and the publicity of the
affair seems to have driven him back to his former de-
sponding state, and he had been drinking to excess since
the occurrence. His friends endeavoured to calm him as
much as possible, and on Saturday last he left home and
did not return until Monday, when he was again in a
state of inebriation, and was put to bed, where he re-
mained until the Wednesday, when he appeared altogther
much better. On Wednesday night be again retired to rest,
and on Thursday morning he relapsed to his former bad
state, imagining that some person was in the house for
the purpose of carrying him away in a car and locking
him up. In the course of the afternoon the inmates
were alarmed by cries of " John, John," and met the de-
ceased running down-stairs, with his hands across his
stomach, having on only his shirt. He went into the
parlour and threw himself on the sofa, still keeping his
hand in the same position. The impression was that he
had been seized with cholera, and Dr. Patterson was sent
for, but did not do him any good. Dr. Bickersteth and
his son were then called in, and remained with him till
nine o'clock the same evening, when he expired. It was
concluded that he had taken sulphuric acid, and a bottle
containing some of that liquid was found upon the mantle-
piece of his bedroom.
CALIFORNIAN NOMENCLATURE.—Some of our people
in the interior have a most extraordinary taste in nomen-
clature. The recent election has brought to light such
delectable localities as Whisky Creek, Jackass Golch,
Humbug City, One Horse Town, One Mule Town, Drunk-
ard's Bar, Murderer's Bar, Shirt-tail Canon, Lower
Humbug, Negro Hill, Fiddletown Coen Hollow Jay
Hawk, Condemned Bar, Grizzly Flat, Musquito Canon,
Poverty Bar, Mule Canon, Greenhorn, Mugginsville, Mad
Muletown, Sucker Flat, Rattlesnake Bar, Yankey Jim's,
Peppermint Bar, Mad Canon, Humbug Canon, Rough
and Ready, French Corral, &c. For the love of posterity,
reform your nomenclature, good people, before it is too
late. Unlike the settlers of most of the other new States,
tour people have retained very few of the Indian names for
localities. Most of the rivers and counties in the State,
and many of the settlements south of Sacramento, are
still known by the high-sounding Spanish titles given
them by the early Californians. They were a very devout
People, and sprinkled the names of their favourite saints
allover the country. Thus we have San Francisco, San
Joaquin, San Diego, Santa Clara, Santa. Cruz, Santa
Barbara, San Bernardino, Santa Isabel, San Louis Obispo,
San Andreas, San Jose, San Antonio, San Rafael, San
Leancice, Santa Ynez, San Gabriel, San Miguel, and a
whole ,calolar more of Sans and Santas. Of their un-
ecclesiastical names, what more euphonous than Mendocino,
Mariposa, Alameda, Nevada, Bolinas, Sacramento, Alviso,
Salines, Sonora, Sierra, Sancelito, Vallecito, Martinez,
Franciscolc 0,000 tons)
recently launched
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at Boston, was designed built, and will be sailed by the
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indomitable Domain tne milder of the Sovereign
of the Seas. hi the construction of the Great Republic
1,500,000 feet of hard pine have been used, 2,056 tons of
e I hard oak, 336 f toos4of iron, 56 tons of cAny.T for bolts. (Szii

She will spread 16,000 yards o)
4. new feature on board is s
intended to do all the
*bag in and discharg.
topsail, &c.: it is

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steam engine of 15-horse pow(
heavy work of the shim. such as

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also connected with an apparatus for distilling fresh watt.
from salt water. It will diminish, too, the number of
men required to work the ship, her crew consisting of only
100 men and 30 boys. The keel, for 60 feet forward, is
gradually raised from a straight line, and curves upwards
into an arch, so that the gripe of the fore-foot is the arc
of the circle, and not angular, like other vessels. The
lines are concave forward and aft, up to a few feet above
the load displacement line ; the sides are arched something
like a man of war, but not so much in proportion to her
size ; the stern is semi-ecliptical in form, and, instead of
bulwarks, the outline of her spar-deck is protected by a
rail supported by turned oak stanchions. She has four
complete decks, and four houses on her spar-deck, erected
for the use andi comfort of the crew. All her beams,
masts, spars, &c., are in proportion to her enormous size :
the mainmast and foremast are 44 inches in diameter,
the mainyard 28 inches and 120 feet long, carrying a sail
120 feet square. It is' stated that so enormous is her
length that if it were possible to raise her on end along-
side the monument on Fishaiill-street, she Would tower
above it more than 120 feet, •