The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-08 00:00:00

TEE mrErccr, STANPAIRD

A SIGNIFICANT SIGN.—The present workhouse in
Sheffield, forme:ly an extensive cotton mill, is to be con-
siderably enlarged ; the estimated expense is £lO,OOO,
which will be advanced by the tr asury in Exchequer
Bills. at 4 per cent. The loan is to be repaid by annual
instalments.

The body of a gamekeeper, in the employ of George
Wilbraham, Esq., of Delamere House, Cheshire, was
found in a lonely road near Chester, on Friday week, in
such a mutilated condition as to Leave no doubt that he
had been murdered. The name of the unfortunate man
was Matthias Bailey, and he has left a wife and four chil-
dren.

At Durham assizes Thomas Lawson was indicted for
the murder of his brother William Lawson; it appeared
they had quarrelled about some money matters, and the
prisoner struck deceased three or four times on the back
of the head with a stone, from which he died. The jury
found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter. and Mr. Jus-
tice Wightman sentenced him to transportation for life.
An unfortunate child, at Colmar, staked himself on a
hay-hook, and died on Wednesday. For two days he re-
mained in a complete state of somnolency, till he made
one sudden turn, uttered one cry, and expired. On the
autopsy being made, it was found that the instrument had
entered his body to the length of ten inches, and that it
would have been impossbile to extract it without causing
his instant death.
An influx of water, involving the destruction of pro-
perty to the value of fifty thousand pounds, and the total
deprivation of employment to several hundreds of work-
people, took place on Tuesday evening, at the colliery of
Mr. J. Fitzgerald, situate in the township of Pendleton,
near Manchester, which supplied nearly 1,000 tons of
coal a day to the Manchester market.
WINDOW DUTY.—The following is a parliamentary
return of the duty on windows, for the year 1841, asses-
sed for the twelve towns in England paying the largest
amount ; Bath 21,898. Birmingham 11,093, Brighton
15,216, Bristol 15,056, Cheltenham 6,755, Clifton 7,850.
Leeds 7,514, Liverpool 30,790, Manchester 19,157,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 5,710, Norwich 7,141, Plymouth
11,391.

On Tuesday evening, Mr. C. Green made his 286th
ascent in his Albion Balloon, from the gardens attached
to Cremorne House, King's-road, Chelsea, accompanied
by Captain Currie, this being bis 41st ascent. The
greatest elevation attained was about 7,500 feet. The
landing was accomplished about seven miles from Chelms-
ford, the distance gone over being about 37 miles.

HERRING TRADE.—The herring fishing is going on
prosperously in all quarters of the west coast, but more
especially in the sound of Kilbrannan, near Campbletown.
The fish are of a superior quality, are extremely moderate
in price, they are purchased by the curers at 2s. 6d. per
long hundred. The price per barrel at the Glasgow mar-
ket is from £2 to £2. 55., but it is expected that the price
will soon be considerably lower.—Ayr Observer.
Dennis John Blake, the late landing-waiter, who was
so deeply implicated in the late Custom -house frauds, and
whose name has been repeatedly mentioned in the legal
proceedings adopted by the Commissioners of Customs
against Messrs. Candy and Dean, and other parties, was
attached in London the other day, and is detained by the
crown for £B,OOO, the amount of which he defrauded the
government. He has a fine estate near Dublin.
WiNnsoß BRIDGE TOLLS.—The tolls of this bridge,
which cost nearly £20,000 in its erection, dividing the two
towns of Windsor and Eton, were let for several years
previously to 1841 at £BOO and £9OO a-year. In that year
they were, for the first time, put up by auction, when the
former lessee gave £l,lOO for them ; and last year the
sum obtained by the trustees of the bridge was £1,500.
On Friday they were again let by public competition,
when they were knocked down for £1,400.
A subscription is raising in London for the orphan
family of the late Mr. Elton, who was lost in the fatal
wreck of the Pegasus. Amongst the donors we observe
the Queen, £25 ; Miss Bourdett Coutts, £10; Mr. Mac-
ready, £2l ; Proprietors of Punch, £lO ; and Mr. Charles
Kean, £lO. A benefit is shortly to take place at Drury
Lane Theatre for the same object.
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It is said that the expenses of Van Amburgh's exhi-
bition are upwards of £3OO a day. His tour in the North
has been very profitable, and he is reported to have
netted the following sums :—At Alnwick, £370 ; Belford,
£150; Kelso, £300; Coldstream, £200; Dunse, £150;
and at Berwick, £250; whilst at Blyth, Morpeth, Wooler,
and other minor places, his receipts were very satisfactory.

STAFFORDSHIRE. POTTERIES, AUG. 2.—This evening
four colliers were killed at the Bapilan Deep Ash Pit by
what seems to be an act of great and criminal carelessness.
They were being lowered into the pit and they had nearly
reached the bottom, the action of the sawney (small en-
gine) instantaneously reversed, by which they were drawn
up again with such frightful velocity, that they were pro-
pelled a height of 40 yards into the air.

MAMMOTH ENGINE.—On Thursday week the enor-
mous cylinder of 144 inches in diameter for the great
engine designed to drain the Haarlem Lake, was cast at
the foundry of Messrs. Harvey and Co., at Hayle, Corn-
wall. It is 1y far the largest cylinder ever cast ent►re for
any purpose. The operation was completely successful.
More than twenty.five tons of iron were melted for the
occasion!

EXTRAORDINABY GROWTH OF MUSHROOMS.-011
the morning of Friday week, Mr. Taylor, of Golcar, weflt
out early to search fot mushrooms, and to one field in
particular, but could not see the least vestige of one. On
the same evening he repaired to the field again, where to
his surprise he gathered two, each of which measured 21
inches in circumference, and must have sprung up and
attained that size in less than 12 hours.

A very destructive fire occurred at Abington, in Cam-
bridgeshire, on Thursday last, by which the fine buildings
of the very extensive farm of Thomas Mortlock, Esq.,
were entirely consumed. One part of the premises con-
sisted of a large barn, 180 feet in length, which along with
140 quarters of wheat, threshed and dressed, w as destroyed.
The amount of damage is £2,000 but the property was
insured in the Sun office.

On Tuesday, whilst Mr. O'Connor was addressing a
chartist meeting at Frome, about fourteen miles from Bath,
in the loft of a large warehouse, the floor suddenly gave
way and the whole assembly was precipitated to the floor
beneath. One young woman had her leg broken, and Mr.
O'Conner had his left leg ane hip inlured ; his coat was
torn from his back, his trowsers were i educed to shreds,
and the sole of his boot was actually split in two. No life
was lost.

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—In May. 1838, the
society was formed with about 250 members. in Decem-
ber 1838, they had increased to 600, and its income to
£1,128. The following data indicate its progress since
then :—Dec. 1839, members 2,oo7—income, £2,226 ;
Dec. 1840, members 4,262—income, £3,598 ; Dec. 1841,
members s,2B2—income, £4,794; Dec. 1842, members
6,soo—income for last half year only, £,450. The meet-
ing for 1844 is to be held at Southampton.
EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.—At the Marylebone
police office, London, last week, a long inquiry was gone
into before the sitting magistrate relative to a charge of
attempting to extort money from a highly respectable
gentleman, by bringing forward the most indecent charges
against his dsughters , which he threatened, unless renu-
merated, to make public in court of justice in certain pro-
ceedings which he asserted he was instituting against the
keeper of a brothel.
ALLEGED MURDER.—On Saturday afternoon, an in-
vestigation, which lasted several hours, was gone into at
Spitalfields, London, before Mr. Baker and a respectable
jury, touching tha death of Eliza Slater, aged 18 years,
who, it was alleged, had come by her death in consequence
of the brutal treatment she had received from a man
named Facey, with whom she cohabited. The coroner
said that prima facie the evidence amounted to wilful
murder, but he should adjourn the case for a post mart fm
examination. The man had absconded since the morning
of her death, and has not since been heard of.

"THE LEAGUE."—We understand that one means
adopted by the league of furthering the anti-corn. law agi-
tation is this. They offer to the " liberal " journalists of
the district a report prepared by their own reporters,
agreeing, at the same time, to purchase 1000 copies of his
paper, of which number 500 are sent to the league, and
500 are left for distribution with the printer. If! this
statement be true—as we believe it to be—it throws con-
siderable light on the vaunted " success "—such as it is—
which has attended Mr. Cobdeu's proceedings.—Cam-
bridge Chronicle.
THE MINING DISTRICTS.—The state of the mining
districts does not improve. While works are successively
thrown out of employment in South Staffnrdshire poor-
rates increase enormously : one colliery is mentioned on
which the rate is £4OO ; on a single pit it is £25 ! There
is an extensive miners association, which was originally
established at Wakefield ; Newcastle-upon-Tyne is now
its head quarters ; and it is said to number between thirty
and forty thousand enrolled members, and to extend to
extend to Scotland and Ireland. A general strike for wa-
ges is contemplated.
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The Socinians have induced Sir Robert Peel and Sir
James Graham to introduce a bill into parliament for the
purpose of quieting their possession to those extensive
trust estates, of which they have so long held unrighteous
possession. The consequences of the solemn affirmation
by the House of Lords, assisted by the judges, of the
Lord Chancellor's decision in Lady Hewley's case are in-
tended to be neutralised by this monstrous enactment—an
enactment so monstrous, that we marvel that either Sir
James Graham or Sir Robert Peel could have listened to
it for a moment.

ESCAFE OF TWO PRISONERS.—Wm. Osborn, charged
with shooting at his wife with a pistol, with intent to
murder her, and Richard Petchell, charged with swindling
a farmer named Budds, of Little Clacton, in Essex, of a
valuable mare, at Colchester fair, on the sth ult., effected
their escape last week from the prison in Colchester. The
prisoners contrived to steal a chisel, with which they cut
away the window sills of the apartment where they were
confined, so that they removed the iron bars and let
themselves down into the new inarket•place by their bed-
clothes, leaving their hats and boots behind.

LARGE SEIZURES.—It having come to the knowledge
of the Commissioners of Excise that large quantities
of grain, purported to be high-dried malt, but which was
in fact. but "scorched barley" (having never been sub-
jected to the malting process,) were to he found upon the
market, they issued instructions to several officers to in-
,estigate the subject. The result was, that several large
malsters and corn-dealers had extensive stocks of grain
of this description which was seized by the officerA, and
Inicurits to bereeen 400 and 500 quarters. A consider-
t,.portion of it was [nought from the neighbourhood
is ill gal article bad been disposed
t tie effect of the sale of this article
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DESTRUCTIVE FIRES IN LoNuoN.—Within twenty-
four hours (from six on Saturday morning to six on
Sunday morning) four of the most destructive fires that
have for a long time occurred in the metropolis to,,k

place ;—the first in Pore-street, Eirnenouse, destroying
property to the amount of --ElOOO ; the second at G:een-
bank, Wapping, which entails a loss of £12,000; a third
in New-street, causing a loss of £12,000 ; and a fourth
in Great George-street, Westminster, destroying property
amounting to £BOOO.
THE FIRST DAY OF OYSTERS.—On Friday, at six
o'clock, the sale of oysters for the season commenced at
Billingsgate, which was crowded with vendors of shell-
fish, and, when the hatches were opened, there was a
tremendous rush to obtain the first supply. The supply
was below the average, and the demand was not so brisk
as usual. The inferior oysters, which had not been laid
on the beds to fatten, produced from Bs. to 10s. per
bushel ; the " Commons,, an oyster generally vended by
the retail dealers at the stalls, 14s. per bushel ; the pearls,
£1 125.; the Kelly's, 165.; and Scotch, £1 10s.
LORD STANHOPE TAKING THE PLEDGE.—At one of
the London meetings, held by Father Mathew, for the
purpose of administering the teetotal pledge, a semi circle
was formed, and 300 men and women knelt and received
it. Amongst the number was Earl Stanhope, who la-
boured under considerable agitation, and was directly
afterwards embraced by Father Mathew, who, in tha en-
thusiasm of the moment, kissed his cheek. The noble
Earl smiled, and grasped Father Mathew's hands, ex-
claiming, " God bless you, Sir." The delivery of speeches
and the administering of the pledge was proceeded with
until dnsk, when Father Mathew left the ground.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Mr. Frederick Ancona, a
draughtsman in the office of the Patent Elastic Pavement
Company, London, attended the meeting of scientific per-
s ons at the w rks near Waterloo-bridge, on Thursday af-
ternoon, and on returning, in company with two gentle-
men, he observed, " I will bet you a shilling that I will
walk along the parapet wall," and immediately jumped np
in the recess of the bridge, and in getting on the wall it is
imagined he was seized with vertigo. He fell over and
was never seen after. So sudden was it, that his friends
had not moment to prevent this perilous attempt.
Loss OF THE PEGASUS.—The following is a statement
of the number of passengers and crew of the Pegasus,
according to the latest estimate in the best informed quar-
ters :

Cabin passengers
Steerage
Crew, including fireman

Total
Saved

Drowned .

The National Society appears to have abondoned its
intention of holding a public Meeting on occasion of the
defeat of the Factories Education Bill. A list of contri-
butions is being privately circulated, which already gives
a total of £32,082. Her Majesty subscribes £l,OOO. The
Queen-Dowager and Prince Albert £5OO each. The
Dukes of 'Jorthumberland and Portland, and Sir Robert
Peel, £lOOO each. The Archbishops of Canterbury and
York, the Bishop of London, the Chapter of Durham,
the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Harrowby, Lord
Francis Egerton, the Hon. Sidney Herbert, Mr. Abel
Smith, and Mr. Holtord, £5OO each. There are also two
contributors of £3OO each; nine, of £250 each; twenty-
eight, of £2OO each ; and 115, of £lOO each.
EXTRAORDINARY DISSIPATION.—At the Exeter As-
sizes, on the Ist inst., an action was brought by a gentle-
man at Exeter, named Strong, against a solicitor in Tiver-
ton, to recover between £5O and £6O for money lent. It
appeared that in January, 1842, the two started for Ply-
mouth, and though they remained there but one day and
two nights spent £ll2. They had teams of four horses
cn the road, and plenty of champagne at breakfast, lun-
cheon, dinner, and supper, and tea to qualify the wine.
The bill at the hotel was £2B, and they were driven about
in flies all day. Twelve pounds were paid for the horses;
and there was a breakfast for seven people, which cost
£7. The action was brought to recover one-half of these
expenses, the plaintiff having found originally the whole
amount, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff
for £56.

WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.—The public and private
services at the Wesleyan Conference, held at Sheffield,
have been well attended during the week. An influential
committee has been appointed to consider the affairs and
prospects of Wesleyan Methodism in Scotland. The list
of candidates for the ministry is very conriderable; and
the friends of missions will rejoice to hear that fourteen
of these have been raised up on the Foreign stations. In
several districts, the Conference regret to find a defalca-
tion in the New Auxiliary Fund. In an interesting con-
versation, it was stated, that the conduct of the VC esley-
ans, during the disturbances of last summer and autumn,
was, without a known exception ',yal and peaceful. T'

the question—What preaches have died since the last
Conference, the names were called over, when it appeared
that thirteen have died in Great Britain, three in Ireland,
and eight upon Foreign missionary stations.

CAUTION TO EMIGRAN TS.—A short time ago a lad
named Moffat, who was anxious to emigrate to America,
made application at the office of the emigration agent in
this town, and paid four guineas as the amount of his pas-
sage money to New York. He was, in return for the
money, furnished with a ticket, purporting to be an au-
thority for securing him a berth in the ship Elizabeth
Stewart, which was to sail in one or two days from Li-
verpool to New York. Armed with the document. the
lad proceeded to Liverpool ; but on his arrival there,
found it was of no value whatever—the paper was repu-
diated, and the poor fellow found, when too late that he
had been cheated out of his four guineas—his all, as it
would appear, for he was iniebted to the captain of one
of the Liverpool steamers for a free passage back to Glas-
gow. The Government emigration agent in Liverpool
wrote to Glasgow on the subject, and the man who com-
mitted the fraud is now in custody.— Glasgow Paper.

HORRIBLE STORY.—One of the most dreadful and
cruel means ever heard of to destroy the life of a child,
and get the body eaten up by pigs, has just come under
the notice of the parish authorities of Bermondsey. It
appears that on Monday night a woman was observed to
go into one of the secluded meadows in the Grange-road.
It was discovered next morning that she had left a child
about eight weeks old on the grass, and in the meadow
there were about 30 or 40 ravenous hogs turned out. How
it is they did not scent the body of the poor child is
astonishing, for if they had death must have been the
almost instantaneous result. The child, when found in
the morning, was in a dreadfully emaciated state, ap-
parently from the want of the ordinary nourishment of an
infant, and is expected to die. The parish officers have
offered a large reward for the apprehension of the woman,
as there is no doubt, if the child dies, it will be a case of
wilful murder.

REMARKABLE ESCAPE.—On Monday afternoon, as
one of the trains on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
was returning to Glasgow, a boy, the son of a gentleman
connected with this city, who had been leaning on the
door of one of the carriages, fell out—the door flying open
—and was precipitated over a steep embankment, about
two miles beyond Linlithgow, into a hayfield below, where
a number of haymakers were at work. Of course, no one
in the train who witnessed the accident had any other idea
but the boy was killed on the spot. Judge of their sur-
prise, however, on stopping at Linlithgow, and the grati-
fication of the parent,—who could scarcely be prevented
from leaping out of the carriage,—to be informed that his
son was in the hands of the haymakers, altogether unin-
jured, with the exception of a scratch on the face, caused
by rolling down the embankment. We believe that no
blame is attributable to any of the guards, as the door had
been left unfastened by a lady who had gone out at some
of the stations on this side of Ediuburgh.—Glasgow
Chronicle.

The Durham Advertiser of Friday last states that it is
" convinced against its will" that the late radical victory
in that city is to be ascribed to the unwarrantable inter-
ference of the Marquis of Londonderry. It concludes
a long article on the subject as follows. " Though 45
electors of the Marquis of Londonderry have on this oc-
casion voted for a Chartist, it was not from their own
wishes, but upon compulsion. Several were willingito go
to the poll even at the eleventh hou'r, :in favour of Mr.
Purvis, but as their votes could not then turn the scale,
the agents of the learned gentleman would not endanger
the loss of their employment, merely for the purpose of
diminishing Bright's majority. Many of those in the in-
fluence of Lord Londonderry refused peremptorily to vote
for Bright, and were left unpolled. One hundred and
sixty one voters remained unpolled, either through threats
or blandishments, and had the election remained free—
had there been no bribery on the one side or intimidation
on the other, Mr. Purvis would have been returned by a
large majority."
PREMATURE INTERMENTS.—We have more than onee
called the attention of our readers to the hurried manner
in which interments are gone about in the north, amongst
the poorer and middle classes especially. The following
case which occurred a few days ago, in the church yard
of Wick, shows pretty clearly that an interment of this
kind had taken place, and that, too, while the person was
alive. On the grave-digger removing part of the lid of
a coffin, whilst digging a grave, he was struck with the
strange manner in which the bones and skull were placed,
and calling another person to look at it, they removed
gently the whole top of the coffin, the arm-bones stretched
up over the head, and the latter turned on its side near
the thigh-bones. The chips and shavings, too, which are
usually placed under or about the head, appeared to be
all pushed down towards the legs. From inquiry, it was
ascertained to be the remains of a man who was buried
about twenty years ago, and said to have died of a faint-
ing fit, and from the attendant circumstances, no doubt
is left in our mind that:lre was interred while in a state of
syncope.—John o' Groat Journal.
THE SALMONIDaE.—Every fact that tends to elucidate
the obscurity in which the natural history of the salmon
is involved will be read with interest, and therefore we
have great pleasure in announcing to our readers that the
extensive experiments made by the lessees of the lower
fisheries of the Eden have been so far successful that a
gilse weighing about 51b. was caught
fish-
ery on Thursday morning which had been marked
as
that was
fry in 1842. The back fin was taken butomff,_ertionh
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511:0e0ior nativea weiriveeril-sn'tr',ed so very few have been retaken.
During the present week the take of fish in the Sulwny
and its tributaries has been enormous, and for the lint

'THE GREAT BRITAIN

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that her destination eventually, if not a priori,
to run between it and New York—we now furnish some

The bottom (under water when lor.ded) is elencher
built and double livened in the longitudinal laps, atm

singly, but sufficiently strongly, in the buts of the plates—
the joints being flush (to maintain the smoothness of the
streaks), with a jointing fillet. The keel plates are from
inch thick in the middle to 1 inch at the ends; and ail
the plates under water are from ith to -LL inch at the top,

except the higher plate, or streak, which is -Wis. TW-
wards the extremities, and quite aloft, the thickness is
reduced gradually to 7-16ths. She has no projecting
keel, as woodsn ships have, under the main or middle
portion of the hull, the first lengths of plates on either
side being rivetted on the upper edges of the keel plates.
Towards the extremities, however, she has ample depth
of keel, and is withal so tine and sharp, that she will, no
doubt, be found to have sufficient hold of the water for
all ractical purposes, particularly as the edges of the
plats, or laps, will, as in a clencher-built boat, greatly
coduce to this purpose. The ribs are of angle iron, 6
inches by 31. They are about 14 inches apart in the
middle, and gradually increase in distance to 18 and 21
inches at the extremities, by 1 inch thick at the bottom of
the vessel, and 7-16ths at the top. In the part forming
the engine-room, for the purpose of giving additional
strength, 9 additional ribs are introduced, and 16 ad-
ditional reverse ribs rivetted to the original framing.
rendering them double, or backed.
The boiler platform is of plate iron, resting on ten iron
kelsons formed of iron plates placed on edge. The centre
kelsons are 3 feet 3 inches deep. The hull is divided into
five compartments by substantial water-tight bulkheads—
a plan first introduced, and still continued, by our towns-
man, Mr. J. Laird, iron shipbuilder.
The decks, of which there are four, consist of the upper
deck, two cabin decks, and a cargo deck. The first, only,
runs the full length of the ship, 308 feet; the others being
of course cut off in the middle by the intervention of the
engine and boiler rooms. The second deck consists of
two promenade saloons, of which the after or first class
one is 1101 feet by 22 feet, and the forward or second
class one 67 feet by 21 feet 9 inches. There are sleeping
rooms on each side ;—these are well lighted and ventilated..
On the third deck are the dining saloons. The grand
saloon aft is 981 feet in length by 30, and the second class
one forward 61 feet by 21 feet 9 inches. They are both 8
feet 3 inches in height, and there are sleeping rooms along
the sides of each, of which there are 26 with one bed,
and 113 with two beds—making 252 berths. The fourth
deck is for cargo. The beams for the support of the
several decks are of 3 inch angle iron, with a joint bar of
5 inches by 1 inch, rivetted on the side. They are about
21 feet apart. The deck planks are fastened to the angle
iron by screws from below, and firmly secured to the
vertical ribs. To prevent the hull from springing hori-
zontally there are diagonal tension bars between the angle
iron bars and the deck planks.
The engines were constructed under the superinten-
dence of Mr. Brunel, and are stupendous pieces of
mechanism. The main wrought-iron shaft (from the
Mersey Iron Works), the largest ever yet made, weighs
about 18 tons. The diameter of the screw will be 16 feet,
and the shaft will be turned by a chain belt passing round
two drums, by which the speed of the first motion will be
nearly quadrupled. Of the screw, Mr. Hall, the cele-
brated engineer, in an able article on the vessel, published
in the Mechanics' Magazine, remarks :
" Taking all circumstances into consideration, it does
appear that if by the use of an equal weight of fuel the
" duty " performance of the screw be nearly equal to that
of the paddle-wheel, and that the whole of the machinery
be so constructed as to be lasting, and not unpleasant to
passengers, it has the merit of being free from some
serious inconveniences of the paddle-wheel, such as great
topheaviness, opposition of the paddle-boxes to the wind,
&c., and possesses these advantages besides, namely, that
strength in the upper part of the ship is not required to
support machinery, and that the deck is clear—a great
comfort to passengers, and of great convenience in manage-
ment of sails and working the ship."
The principal promenade saloon is lighted by ten sky-
lights, and a deck or dome light. The walls are painted
in delicate tints, and along the sides are oaken chairs. A.
row of pillars, supporting the deck, runs down the middle.
Besides the state rooms on each side, there are, adjoining
those to be devoted to the ladies, two neat private cabins,
or boudoirs, for their use. The dining saloon below is a
fine and very large apartment, elegantly, but not gaudily,
fitted up. There are twelve columns of white and gold
running down the centre, with ornamental capitals richly
carved in the Arabesque style. Twelve similar co
range on each side, some distance from the w ills