The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-17 00:00:00

of mere

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The first step of the committee, we conceive,, should be,
to h.vp ^ and geological examination of the

a proper survey

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whole of our outskirts, before they are further built upon,

in order that some comprehensive plan may be adopted of
getting rid of the underground moisture. When this is
effectually provided for, and indeed at once, proper ' ffi-

—to exercise a diligent supervision over the, building

going on, and, at the same time, to see to the effectual eures
of evils existing in houses and neighbourhoods, where
their presence is scarcely suspected. There will be abun-
dant work for such officers; and their districts need not
be very large. One great nuisance and inducing cause
• 'hey shout(' --

of disease th at once set about removing, viz.,
the collection, in pit., of surface and stagnant water. No
such places should be Allowed as those which abound in
some of our outskirts, nth as the neighbourhood of Edge-
bill. Crown-street, Windsor, Victoria-road, &c.
We shall have a few more observations to make; but
for the present we have overrun our space.

RAPID STEAMING.--At ten minutes before three this
ternoon, we received a copy of the Lieernool Standard

steamer, which made the passage from Liverpool in eight
hours ! This was her first experimental trip. She will
again leave Liverpool to-morrow morning, at seven o'clock
in company with the mail.—Dublin Evening Packet. Nov.

g, we scarcely expectedthis f

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vessel would make

She left Dublin at half-past' sev

for Holyhead: where al

four hours and twenty-five minutes, against a strong head
wind and tide. She remained therefor an hour and twenty

minutesvesse
quarter past seven, having, in consequence of one o f the
cranks becoming heated, stopped for seventeen minutes
mbeet.rwleinen,
foHroLlyihveeardpooainddirLecivte:lpeofotlbublinM. steam -vessel
before the Princess, and did not arrive untilanbour after.
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of time by the beating of the crank, in addition to the
sevens -
great deviation from the usual course, caused by going into
Holyhead, cannot be calculated at less than three hours'
atonrn inn. w01,i"4. .......1-11 t__— ',iced.

the passage of the
Princess- from Kingston to Liverpool to eight limns and
three quarters, against a strong head wind and sea, with
unfavourable tides.—Extract of a letter from Holyhead,
dated November 12th :—" H.M. packet Dotrel was 8
hours 12 minutes making her passage from Kingston to
Holyhead, on Wednesday last; the Princess Clementina,
therefore, beating her 3 hours 47 minutes." The distance
is 55 miles. The Princess Clementine is a new iron yes-

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kenhead, for the South Eastern Steam Navigation Corn.
pony; and fitted with engines by Messrs. Geo. Forrester
and Co., of this town. She is intended for the Ramsgate
and Ostend, or Folkeston and Boulogne station.l

THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE. MEETINGS Ow
BRITISH ORGANIZATION. -At the several sessions
recently held at Manchester, a number of resolutions

were I

bus summed

United Kingdom was formed by the conference into
five divisions, and a committee appeared for each—their
first meetings to be in London, Bristol, Birmingham,
Leeds, Manchester, Edinburgh, and Dublin respectively.
There is to be no money analifientinn

but those who can afford h, It is hoped,-will contribute
each ss. per annum. The conference remitted the fol-
lowing subjects for investigation :—tbat is to say. Po.

pery, to the Scottish division—lnfidelity, to the Southern,
and Sabbath Observance to the North Western. None
of the results are to be published, except by direction of

an aggre

meeting.

A series of eight resolutions
adopted by the Alliance in reference to the cultivation of
the spirit of Christian union, especially in the manage-
ment of religious controversy, and in efforts for the ex-
tension of the kingdom of Christ, was.passed with great
cordiality. No member is to be admitted, unless recom-

mended by two members of the committee as a pers

xtment, and no one

doaitted without signifying his adhesion to the

An interim committee was appointed, to engage an office
in London; receive the minutes of divisional committees,
conduct the correspondence, &c. The divisional com-
mittees are to originate sub-divisional committees in such
places• as the following :—London, Norwich, Bristol,
Birmingham, Lincoln, Leeds, Sheffield. Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, Livern,,,,t Manchester, Derby, Chester. Ed;

—such com-
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to BARTON,

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