The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-08 00:00:00

LAUNCH OF THE " LOODIANAH."

There is no sight more enthusiastically sought after
by a Liverpool public than that of a ship-launch. Every
individual, impressed with the importance of our com-
merce, seems to regard with veneration an event that
shall add another plank to the " Wooden Walls of Old
England ;" and it having been announced that the Loo-
dianah %%as yesterday to be moved from terra firma to the
restless waters of the deep, long before the appointed hour
hundreds were congregated at the yard of the builders,
Messrs. W. B. Jones and Co. At her bow. an exten-
sive stage was erected, and in the yard the timber was
so arranged as to give all an opportunity of witnessing the
sight. On the platform we observed the Rev. D. Stewart,
the Rev. T. Nolan, the Rev. John Herbert Jones, John
Fletcher, Esq., and friends, G. H. Lawrence, Esq., W.
Moore, Esq., H. Moore, Esq., Holderness, Esq., R.
Houghton, Esq., J. Houghton, Esq., Carter, Esq.,
H. Steel, Esq., C. Groves, Esq., John Anderson, Esq.,
Blythe, Esq. Alderman Chilton, Capt. Anderson, of
H.M. steam-ship Pharo, Capt. Heron, John Smith,
Esq., &c., and a number of the fairest of our Lanca-
shire witches.
Precisely at twelve o'clock, all being in readiness, the
orders were given, " out tomshores," and on the daggers
being struck, (without the aid of the screws that were
fixed at her fore foot and to the cradles) she moved slowly
but gracefully to the bosom of the circumambient waters
on which she is destined to ply. The drop of a pin might
have been heard while she glided down the ways, but di-
rectly she was released from her cradles she acknowledged,
by a gentle dipping of her head, the vociferous cheers that
emanated from a crowd numerically greater, and equally
important, to any we have previously observed. The
Loodianah, in point of workmanship and model, is not,
in oar opinion, surpassed by any wooden vessel that has
hitherto been 'aunched from our port. Her timbers are of
the choicest English oak, and her planking from the gun-
nell to the first futtock heads, is of picked East India
teak. Below the light water line she is all English oak,
and having a fine entrance and a clean rnn, with a good
flat flooring and a side " round as an apple," she posses-
ses all the requisites of a merchant model—exquisite stow-
age and abundant bearing, combined with good sailing
qualities. Internally her construction is equally admira-
ble ; her bends, binding streaks, and stringers are of unu-
sual length and strength, varying from 60 feet downwards.
Between decks she presents a most superb appearance,
being entirety fitted with mahogany, decorated with the
most elaborate carvings, which are relieved by light and
elegant cast fresco-work gratings. Her length for ton -
nage is 132 feet 4 inches, and over all she measures 150

feet 4 inches ; her beam is 31 feet 7 inches ; her depth of
hold 22 feet 5 inches; and her tonnage by builders' mea-
surement 602—while her burthen per register will be about
750. After the Loodianah left the stocks, she glided from
the eddy tide into the stream, which taking her by the
stern, displayed her broadside to the assembled multitude,
amongst whom one opinion alone appeared to prevail, that
a more noble craft never floated on the Mersey. Her
figure-head is that of a Sikh General in all the ornamental
costume of his country, and with the trail-boards and
head-board, all of which are most elaborately carved by
Mr. Allen, presents an imposing appearance. The quarter
galleries and the stern are also equally admirably deco-
rated. The vessel was christened by Miss Fletcher, the
daughter of John Fletcher, Esq., and has, we learn, been
built for the firm of Messrs. H. Moore & Co. She will be
commanded by Capt. Heron (late of the Harvest Home,)
and is intended for the eastern trade, in which we trust
she may be most successful.
After the launch, the company adjourned into the model
room, in which was laid out a dejeuner, prepared by
Messrs. Fisk and Co., of Castle-street. At least two
hundred and fifty people sat down; and for the credit of
Messrs. Jones and the parties furnishing the feast, we
must bay that we never saw a more sumptuous entertain-
ment, whether we take into consideration the number of
the parties entertained, or the style of their entertainment.
Both the provisions and the wines were of first-rate
quality; and the company was, most select. The wines
were supplied by Mr. Sherlock, of King-street.
The first toast given was " The Queen," which was
acknowledged by the usual honours, and by the national
anthem, sung by Messrs. George Holden, junior, J.
Mellor, C. Radcliffe, and H. Roberts, in which the com-
pany joined. The above gentlemen belong to the Sappho
Glee Club.

The next toast proposed was, "The health of the
owners of the ship Loodianah, Messrs. H. Moore and
C 0.," whom the Chairman characterised as the most re-
spectable men of business with whom he had become ac-
quainted in the course of his transactions. Glee, "Ye
gentlemen of England."
Mr. H. MOORE replied on the part-of the owners, ex-
pressing in the most enthusiastic terms the satisfaction
the vessel had given them, and concluded by proposing
the health of Messrs. W. Jones and Co., the builders,
who, he trusted, would live to build a fleet of ships a
noble as the one they bad that day launched.

Mr. W. BUCKLEY JONES responded, and professed
himself quite unfit to return adequate acknowledgements
for the handsome manner in which his health had been
proposed, and the enthusiastic manner in which it had
been received. One of his partners was much better
fitted to return thanks. As for himself, he could much
better handle an axe than make a speech. His firm
could turn 'out a good ship and a good model, but
they could not enlighten the company present. No
expense had been spared in building the Loodianah.
They had endeavoured to construct a good carrying
ship, taking into consideration the fact that fifty days
more or less on the voyage was not to be considered,
so long as she carried a sufficient cargo. The essentials
of a merchant ship, and of naval architecture, he con-
sidered were to carry a large cargo, and to. sail quick. Mr.
Jones proceeded to pay a justly-merited compliment to
the owners of the vessel launched. He had found them a
good ship, and usefulness considered, a handsome One ;
and paid his compliments to his partner, who, he said,
had once been a ship-master but was now a gentleman.
Mr. Jones made some remarks upon the relative merits
of wood and iron as used for ship-building purposes, the
former of which he did not expect to see superseded in
his own time, or that of his children, or grand children,
and concluded by proposing the health of Captain Heron,
the gentleman who was to be entrusted with the naviga-
tion of the Loodianah.
Glee—" The ship's in Pert."
Mr. J. SMITH (of the Mercury) responded for his
friend Captain Heron.

The Bishops and Clergy of the diocese were next given,
which was responded to by the Rev. T. Nolan in an elo-
quent speech, which we regret we cannot give. One
statement of the Reverend Gentleman we must, however,
notice, viz.—the fact supplied to him by Mr. Samuel
Holme, that within a circle of forty miles round Man-
chester the population exceeds that round St. Paul's,
London, by 350,000 persons, which speaks volumes in
favour of the prospects of our town.
A number of other toasts were drunk, and the party
dispersed at a late hour in the afternoon.

We were gratified to learn that during, the dejeuner,
chiay by the exertions of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, of St.
James's-street, upwards of £8 were collected in aid of the
funds of the Jordan-street Seamen's and Apprentices'
Reading-room and Navigation School, which is open to
all seamen and apprentices without any charge. Four
gentlemen kindly undertook to hold boxes at the doors
for the reception of the donations of the parties attending
the dejeuner. We should be glad if this example were
followed on every similar occasion, and the valuable in-
stitution in question would thus be placed on a perma-
nentlyefficient footing.

The annual show of live stock, agricultural implements,
seeds, roots, &c., in connexion with the Liverpool Agri-
cultural Society, will take place, we perceive, on the 24th
instant, in the North Haymarket.
ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH.-041 Sunday next, two
sermons will be preached in this church, and collections
made towards defraying the expenses of conducting Divine
service. It appears from a statement which we have seen
that there is a balance standing against the church of
£65, which, we fear, will only be increased, unless extra
means are supplied. We earnestly call on the churchmen
of our town—and they are both numerous and opulent—
to make use of the present favourable opportunity for
wiping away completely the debt against this building.
ASSAULT WITS! A KNIFE.—A youth named Thomas
Rowe was yesterday charged at the police court with
having attempted, with an open clasp-knife, to stab the
steward of the Antelope steam and sailing ship. John
Edwards, an old man, the ship keeper, observed him, and
getting hold of him, prevented uny further assault.
The prisoner, who, it appeared, was rather tipsy
at the time, and had bad some slight difference with the
steward. was requested to pay £5 for the assault, or in
default to be imprisoned two months ; and further, to
find sureties to keep the peace, himself in £2O, and two
others in £l5 each, or to be imprisoned for three months.
DINNER TO WOREMEN.—On Thursday evening,
Messrs. Winspear, Hyde, and Co., gave their workmen
a treat in celebration of the commencement of a new pile
of workshops which that firm are about to erect in Great
Howard-street, being compelled to leave their premises in
Crompton-street, by the new railway tunnel from Edge-
bill to the northern extremity of the docks passing through
them. About fifty persons sat down to an admirable
dinner at Mr. Adcock's, the Clarence Hotel, served up
in the worthy host's best style. Under the able presi-
dency of Mr. Robert Walker, a most agreeable evening
was spent, and many appropriate toasts drank. Mr.
Davies filled the vice-chair with much efficiency.
REBUKE OF A POLICE OFFICER FOR INTEMPERATE
USE OF HIS STlCK.—Yesterday, at the Police Court,
three men were charged by a police officer with riotous
conduct, and with assaulting him. It turned out, how-
ever, from the evidence, that the principal complainant
had himself been in some measure the aggressor, be
having violently struck one of the prisoners with his
stick. Mr. Rushton expressed his strong objection to
the police of the town being allowed to use sticks at all.
The London police were not permitted to use such
weapons, and he verily believed that the frequent intem-
perate use of them provoked resistance, and caused great
disturbance. He was of opinion that the truncheon alone
was quite sufficient, especially during the night. They
might spring their rattles for asssistance. [Mr. Ellis
explained that the police officers were not allowed to
carry their truncheons by night; and we may add
our opinion that a blow from a passionate man with a
truncheon would be quite as severe as from a stick. The
fact is that the policetnens' sticks are turned out of heavy
dye-wood, or iron-wood, almost as heavy as metal, and a
strong blow from one of them will break bones, for they
have no elasticity, and break like a bone. Why not have
stout oak or ash sapplings, if sticks be required, which
they at times may be for the dispersion of a riotous as-
semblage of people, and for the individual protection of
the officers from assaults.] The three prisoners were
strongly admonished by the magistrate to be more care-
ful in their future conduct, and in wandering in the streets
at late hours, and in consequence of the mal-treatment of
one of them by the officer in question they were dis.
charged.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE,

LONDON CORN EXCITANGE.-YEEtERDAY,

The market opened this morning with considerable excite-
ment for wheat. The supply of English was only moderate,
and met a brisk sale at fully 4s. to ss. per qr. over the currency
of this day week. The demand for free foreign was more ex-
tensive, at 3s. per qr.more money, and quite as much improve-
ment was realised for bonded, and the demand so exceeds the
quantity here, that some French orders last week were exe-
cuted in Lincolnshire.

New barley is 25., malt Is. to 25., beans and peas Is. higher.
Indian corn is in great rennest, and buyers would give 2s. to
3s, per gr. more for floating cargoes.

-
We have a fair supply of foreign oats, but the arrivals from
Ireland and coastways are only trifling. The trade is is. dearer
for most descriptions ; but the sale checked, and only retail
sales reported.

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY

The attendance of buyers was rather extensive, while the de-
mand for primest Scots, &c., was very steady, at fully previ-
ous quotations. In all other kinds only a moderate business
was doing at late rates.

The supply of Sheep was again extensive, yet the mutton
trade was very firm, at fully, but at nothing quoteable beyond,
last Monday's prices.

With lambs we v►ere seasonably well supplied
moved off readily at extreme currencies.
Calves moved off freely at advanced prices.
In pigs very little was doing at our quotations.

All kinds

PRICES OF STOCKS

•YESTERDAY

Hundreds upon hundreds of persons in this country are in-
terested in the state of the market for American securities.
Scarcely a sale has been made in our market for .t'loo for a
long time past. We are advised that matters, though bad, are
likely to improve in New York.
Very little business has been done in the English funds to-
day. Consols are at 96' for the Account, at 964 # for money,
and Exchequer-bills at 13 to 17 pm.
Portuguese Four per Cents: havejust been quoted at 40, and
then at 43, and now at 42. The price of this stock on Saturday
was at 48. The decree of the Portuguese Minister, as to the
dividend to be in future paid upon the stock, is the cause of
the fall. Spanish Bonds are at 274. the Three Per Cents. at
381, and the Mexican Five per Cents. at 26.
Railway shares are not in good demand to-day.

Sept 8, 1846.

"THERE IS DEATH IN THE POT."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR—On the 24th of last month I addressed a letter to
you on the then insanitary state of the town, which you
thought of sufficient importance to be prefaced by a
" Leader," in which you cordially responded to my
appeal to yourselves, by impressing upon our municipal
authorities the necessity for the prompt discharge of their
duty to their fellow-citizens. Your advocacy, which did
no less credit to your pen than your heart, has met with
its proper reward—success. Already have the initiative
steps been taken by the Watch Committee to remove
from the town one great cause of disease, the masses of
putrifying refuse accumulated about the dwellings of the
poor. One little suggestion still remains unattended to,
viz.,—the immediate and daily supply of water to the
poor man's dwellings by the Water Companies. This
I beg of you to press for, and you must obtain it ;
let but the directors and other shareholders of the water
companies, who are dividing their 10 per cent., consider
that their stinginess at the present critical time sacrifices
at least one life per diem, and lays on a bed of sickness
fully twenty times the number, and I am sure they will.
even if it should be proved to be attended with a loss of
kth per cent., sanction so great a sacrifice of their pecu-
niary interests to the lives and wellbeing of those by th
sweat of whose brow themselves and their fathers have
been enriched.

Wealth has its privileges, but it has its responsibilities
also. Pestilence stalks abroad, principally from the
neglect, the culpable neglect of those whose duty it was
to avert its approach. The tocsin of alarm was sounded
long ago, but wealth went home to its country house,
after subscribing its guinea to the Dispensary, and
thought it had done its duty. Oh ! that the selfish rich
could, while reclining on his couch, be carried in the
spirit to the poor man's dwelling, and there witness
" some strong" father "in his agony." The mother
of those wailing children, (alas ! how soon to be or-
phans,) as supporting his drooping head she wipes the
clammy death-sweats from his brow, shows, by her
pinched and sickly features, that she too is stricken. He
dies—she lingers, and perhaps recovers. Pah ! says the
rich, this is stuff! No, Sir, 'tis but a faithful feature
drawn from nature, the original; bad you and your class
discharged your duty, it would not have existed. But
methinks I hear you say, Mr. Editor, " Revenons a nos
moutons," in other words, return to the beef question.
Since my letter to the Mercury on the subject, ten days
aga, the Mayor has, I believe, summoned a commission
of inquiry concerninc, the amount and intensity of disease
amongst the cattle slaughtered and sold in Liverpool, but
as I have not been invited to attend the investigations, I
have thought it better not to go any further into the sub-
ject until these " learned Thebans" make their report.
I cannot, however, refrain from stating, that a very
great man in the matter pronounced the ear"ase of a cow
which had been seized by the inspector of meat the night
previously, in the presence of the Chairman of the Watch
Committee and a veterinary surgeon, and with the appro-
bation and concurrence of the owner, as being quite good
for humanfood. "When doctors differ, who shall de-
cide ?" But a most respectable wholesale butcher, who
stood by, was heard to exclaim, that he should like to re-
ward the " great man" for his opinion by inviting him to
dine off the beef, aid make him dine off it. To this I
would add,—after he bad seen the lights,—which he had
not when he gave ilia "ex-cathedra" opinion on a "dawn-
ing" subject.

In treating of this affair I would have it distinctly
understood that, while I strongly reprobate the practice
of slaughtering and selling diseased meat, and would leave
no stone unturned to remedy the evil, yet I would wish it
to be accomplished without injury to the tradesmen who,
as a body, are as respectable and good citizens as any in
the town. The evil is a great one, and requires energetic
and decided measures to remedy it. The honest fair-
trading butchers of the town we all anal .us to do away
with the revolting system of selling food for Cfiristiarts
which Jews won't touch. I speak in parable ; but to ex-
plain, I affirm that if the beef which is sold in the markets
of Liverpool had to pass the Jews' inspector of meat, not
one-third of it would be permitted to be sold. If the
Jewish nation, by acting in accordance with the Mosaic
instructions, succeed iu obtaining good sound wholesome
meat at a moderate price, why should not their Christian
fellow-citizens be placed on the same footing by those in
authority over them ?

These crudities will suffice, I hope, for the present, as
I have just had set before me a dish of "smoking hot
potatoes," affected with " the disease," which have beet,
forwarded to me (raw) by a friend, and about which I
shall have something to say in some paper this week.
Your's, &c.,
H. G. HARBORD.

4, Upper Parliamed-street,
Saturday Evening.

The anneal archery tete at Wynnstay, North Wales,
the princely seat of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, takes
place on the 11th instant, and will exceed in splendor au
similar fates in this part of the world. Dinner will be
laid for 400 of the aristocracy, and the evening terminate
with a grand ball, for which Weippart and his full hand
are retained.

THE FRENCH QUARREL AT TAHITI. Our valiaq
neighbours have at length learned the advantages 0
a little prudence. We are informed, on good autho7
city, that their claim to the Friendly Islands is to be
abandoned, and that nothing is to be kept, except so mach
as will seem to satisfy the democratic spirit
.of La Jenne
clear
France. By so doing, the French nation Will steer
of a. rock-ahead, and common sense be placed in the as-
cendant in the conduct of affairs of Shat great nation.
GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE.—AIthough there is not as
yet any official notification of a vacancy in the department,
it is stated that the office of Poor-law Commissioner, with
a salary of £2,500 a year, has been conferred on Mr.
Morgan John O'Connell, M.P. The Nation, while fully
admitting Mr. O'Connell's qualifications for the situation,
deeply regret the fact of an O'Connell becoming a "
pendiary of England," as establishing a precedent which
the weak and venal will improve to their own interest.
THE WHITE QUAKERS.—Joshua Jacob, the leader
of the sect denominated "White Quakers," who• boa
been confined for a long time in the Dublin Marshals"'
for contempt of the Court of Chancery, was set at liberty
yesterday week on a report of the master, that he could
not longer be detained without danger to his life. Joshua
has gone amongst " his own people," and is now the re'
sident patriarch of the White Quaker Colony, w"36
local habitation is the antique building once the abode of
the late Lord Kilwarden, on the Naas-road ; and a red
rural and salubrious situation, undoubtedly, for any
patient.

MR. GREEN, JUNIOR'S, ASCENT AT BERLIN:1131
Berlin papers contain elaborate accounts of the ascent of
the celebrated aeronaut, in a balloon thirty-eight feet 1
diameter, and sixty-seven feet in length from the top
t°
the bottom of the car. This is about a middle size be,'
tween Mr. Green, senior's, large and small balloon
The spot from which the balloon ascended was shed
for the purpose by the King of Prussia, who honour"
the expedition with his patronage. About!4o,ooo opectato,r:
assembled to witness a sight which in that part of t,ll
world is a perfect novelty. Among the most dist..n:t
guished were the young Prince of Prussia, the Prussi.-
Ministers, and all the foreign ambassadors. Mr. Green
was accompaniad by Count Schafgotsch and Herr KO'
nel. The balloon alighted on the plain of Gross-Beereo;
and it is a remarkable coincidence that this was on the
anniversary of the victory vained on that spot by the
Prussians over the French. The balloon has been deslr
nated the " Gross-Beeren Balloon" on account of this oil'
cutnstance. Our ambassador, the Earl of Westrnore:
land, showed great attention and kindness in assisting
Mr. Green in this novel enterprise. Mr. Green purposes
to make similar visits to other German cities.
HER MAJESTY'S CRUISE.—As will be seen from a
paragraph elsewhere, her Majesty reached Jersey na
Wednesday evening. On Thursday her Majesty toll
the Prince Consort made a progress through the loge
town of St. Heliers, and on through the country st/3-
few miles, to the Castle of " St. Orgueil," very ancieli,."
and said to have been originally built by Julius Crest'a
Her Majesty and the Prince, accompanied by the 1-4°`a
Chamberlain, Earl Spencer, Viscount Palmerston. go
the rest of the Royal suite, returned to the Royal yacht
little before three o'clock. Her Majesty did not lea.
the the yacht again that day. Prince Albert proceedeq6
the Fairy to take a little survey of some portion of the
island. Her .Majesty left Jersey on Friday, the 4th nisei,'
at 8 o'clock a.m., and arrived at almouth about 0,180
o'clock the same evening. After the Queen's arrival to
address was presented, through Viscount Palmerston,e,
her Majesty, from the mayor and corporation of the t b
tea
rough of Falmouth. Her Majesty on arriving was salute
from the battery on Pendennis Castle. Her Maigoyal
dinner party on board the yacht comprised only theOroing
suite. Her Majesty left Falmouth on Saturday.m. ntion
for Mount's Bay and the Scilly Isles, with an 10,Le„, op
of returning to Falmouth on Sunday, and ealha6,..ka
Monday; on which day a pilot has been ordered to t.,6
the Fairy,ap the River Pal, as fat as Tregothnan• t'd
seat of the Earl of Falmouth, when the barge will conVe;
the illustrious party to Truro, where the inhabitants are
making great preparations to give them a splendid re;
ception. On their return the Prince proposes honouring
the Polytechnic-hall with his presence, and will aftert
wards go to the United Alines in Gwennap, about eigli
miles distant from Falmouth.
Those who are anxious to rent, or invest in proPertto'
will find many favourable opportunities by referring
our advertising columns.

LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, SEPT. 7'ote
We have little or no alteration to quote from our late siwita
ment, having a fair average of all kinds of stock, both 401
respect to quality and number, with a numerous attendan',D.3
buyers—brisk sale and hieh nriepa Vln.f CA Oer