The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-25 00:00:00

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BIRKENHEAD DOCK COMPANY
of the shares, (with the names of

,en used
irked by

The air pump
Ipver nt tn ed

the direct

re 28 feet in diameter
_ssel is light at twenty
hteen evolutions will be the
~ The engine room is very spacious and
lated. For the purpose of filling the boilers she
is provided with a small oscilating cylendered engine
worked by a detached boiler. This engine may also be

to the pistt

,umping the vessel or extinguish-
mall space it occupies we would
bizhly applicable for ordinary
so much so in-

inz fire

The de

e roomy

ward, and the quarter deck which is lengthy, forms •a
splendid promenade. The cabins a are entered by an or-
namented companion-way and are so splendidly fitted that
they rather resemble the apartments of a palace
than the 'tween decks of a ship. The saloon, fifty feet
in length, is entirely fitted in solid rosewood,
picked out and relieved with massive gilt carv-
ings. At each side of the entrance is a marble pedestal,
surmounted by a pier glass. At the state-room entrances
are rosewood pillars, with carved gilt caps, pushing in an
elThtic circle of relieved work. On the pannels between
each entrance are scenes on papier machee, illustrative of
the history of " Marlborough ;" they enumerate the battle

Blenheim,scenefromLeopoldsbero

le of Spetz, Arensdorff, and of
nd are not only well coloured, but well drawn, and pos-

looking at Vienna, c

•••-•
nson plush, as is, also, the
rrntindwi with the emblems

ars of yore, g

•• ••,••• • • •••
aces the stern-post. The saloon is
stained glass, and the ordinary side
ladies' cabin, and other apartments,

lighted by a cupola of
and stern lights. ThE

The Blenheim is adorned with a
_ng the Duke of Marlborough. She
tain Gowan, whose length of servi-
rine of Liverpool entitles him to every
disposition is of that cast as to make
the friend of every passenger confided to his care.—
fine ship is consigned to Messrs. Langtrys, of Water-
treat.

are equally elegant

, represent
remanded by Car
in tl

MARKET.

THE PRINCE ALBERT'S TASTE FOR AGRICULTURE
—We are glad to say that his Royal Highness the Princ

Albert basnv

atronage to our ingenious towns-

ment manufacturer, by ordering (through his secretary,
Mr. Anzon) a " Saekholder," (of Mr. C. 's invention) to
le Isle of 'Wight. We have heard that at a
recent agricultural meeting at which the " sackholder"

ie sent to t

was exhibited, his Royal Highness was much struck with
its simnlicitv, and the ease with which

at a great saving

n hein

_oen very successful in striking out over a series of
years new contrivances and appliances for facilitating

a nteced

ffrieultural operations
FATAL ACCIDENTS.-

-On Wednesday week, as Simon
Cauper, a boy of about seven years of age, who resided
with his parents in Hotham-street, was going home from

slowly by three horses,' up Copperas-hill, when deceased
took hold of one of the wheels in order to climb in ; while

in the. Act of raising himself he became entangled in the
wheel; and was crushed between it and the body of the

up it was
tained a severe scalp wound. He was surgically attended,
but died on Friday from tetanus, or lock jaw, occasioned
by the injury.—On Friday, the body of a boy, named
Henry Hughes, aged between 8 and 9 years, living in
Back Chester-st-eet, Toxteth-park, was found floating in
an unenclosed pit, in a field near North-street, in that
township. He had left school on yesterday week, with a
playmate who went home while he lingered behind. The
pits far and near were searched by his father, (who is a
painter) but without avail. The body was discovered by
a female who was passing.—A few days since, Robert
Giles, aged 57, whil.t in liquor, fell in Burlington-street,
and broke his leg. He died in consequence on Monday.
•

hen

John The

Beckwith-street, in company with four others, went to
Windsor, and seeing a dead jacksharp in some water,
AL_ :1. f.ll anrs c n rat And when

that there were no rails round this pool of water, an
that a girl was drowned in it last Sunday week.
THE RIVER DEE, AND TILE BALA. LAKE WATE
Rrnyemy —A letter on this subject has appeared in th

Chester Courant, from t

pen 0:

le manner in which
T31,;1

Roison on the improv

nent'of the Dee navigation. The

writer considers Mr. Rosson earnest, but enthusiastic,
and, without denying that the Dee may be improved,
inquires whether the prosecution of the plan would pay ?
He considers that the improvement of other tidal har-
bours, as cited by Mr. Rosson, (including Preston, Glas-
gow, &c.,) bears not in argument upon the Dee ; that
such harbours depend more on their tidal waiters than_on

:lan sixty cases

or compar

plicity of
is truly i

nto the uncertain body of fresh water from the rivers flowing
air-
into them, as proved in the case of the Clyde, Mr.
five Rawlinson says :—" Navigable rivers require an equal
the depth; this can only be preserved by an uniform
,/loin
lye-
The volume of fresh water flowing down till
than four hundred thousand millions of ga

lons per an-

anquet, Mr. num, or upwards of one thousand million gallons per day
silver model on an average. But the minimum quantity is about sixty
lof art and millions of gallons per day ; and, consequently. the maxi-
mina-room mum of floods must be many thousands of million gallons
legend, and per day. Ido not need to tell the people of Chester what
nice and the farming and social damage these floods cause, when a
iv pre- year's crops are destroyed, cattle washed away, and even
ably the growing fruit swept from the trees. But I may tell
them that such floods would do more damage to an im-

OcIDO.

to c

iuriseu LO
sneedful stroying that uniformity of depth which must be dredged
up to the proposed port." The writer of the letter, al-
the nine hiding to Mr. Rosson's advocacy of the Dee navigation
approach- improvement, states that that gentleman speaks harshly
of the Bala Lake water scheme, and dreads the abstrac-

tion of 2 millions of gallons daily from the river, which

ameim-

" contemplated taking thirty millions of gallons per day

formity with the act of parliament, of declaring fone_
in consequence of the non-payment of calls : John An
derson, Renfield-street, Glasgow, 30 shares ; George An-
derson, Lime-street Square, London, 125 ; Marcus Fr,
man Brownrigg,, Birkenhead, 141 ; Joseph 'F'
near Huddersfield, 500 ; William Clay, Cheapsn...,
don, 150 ; 20 shares for which the two last named are en-
tered as joint proprietors ; William Potter, Birkenhead, TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD
1030; James Burt, Manchester, 50 ,• William Feckney
Black, London 25; William Edmund, Barnard's-buildings, SIR, Will you kindly inform me whether the cryir
of herrings, water-tresses, &c., on the Lord's day, is '
Liverpool, 20 ; Josiah Macgregor, St. Vincent-street,
Glasgow ; and Henry Whitwell, Darlington, 50. With law permitted ? I have been often pained very deep
respect to the shares of Messrs Potter and Brownrigg it when going down to the Sunday-school and to cl'
appears that no calls have been paid since the 2nd of Oc-
by having my ears almost deafened by the
tioned cries. Surely this is not " remembe
tuber, 1846, although four have been made amounting on
each share to £35. bath-day to keep it holy." And does it not seem stran,_
THE DUTCH RHENISH RAILWAY COMPANY.—A meet-
that in such a town as Liverpool, with such a Mayor as
ing of the shareholders of this company was held in this our present one, this Sabbath desecration cannot b" -
town on Friday last. Mr. Charles Holland, who was vented ?—I remain, yours faithfully,
called to the chair, explained the position in which the

Dnour to remain, your very gra

Liverpool shareholders were placed with regard to the
London and Dutch directors. He thought that consider-
ing the number of shareholders in Lancashire, the general
meeting should have been held here, in place of London ;
and complained of the Dutch board assuming too much
power—which had even repudiated the resolutions of the

resolutions had been carried at the meeting in Amste

holders here were in strict conformity with the act of in-

corporation, and that without an adherence to therm it
would be madness to proceed with the line. A resolution

109, Salisbury-square,
T,inernool.

STREET CRIES ON THE SABBATH-DAY

was passed to this effect. A deputation was appointed to
proceed to the general meeting in Amsterdam on the 22nd
of August ; and the following resolution was agreed to :

" That the committee be requested to name a deputation
to proceed to London from this meeting to the meeting
in London on Monday net, the 25th instant."

THE CHINESE COLLECTION, ISLINGTON

bove-men-
tg the Sab-

We could last week notice this attractive place of re-
reation and instruction in Chinese history, but briefly and
imperfectly ; and we acknowledge that even after a second

regards the extent and variety of the collection, or the
admirable grouping of characters, and arrangement of
curiosities, all appertaining to and illustrative of the cha-
racter, customs, habits, and ingenuity in many manufac-
turing and other arts, of a most extraordinary and strangely
-clusive - to 1- ' the Celes-

exclusive people, assuming oe subjects of
tial Empire." China_contains upwarts of three hun

VERAX

it to any European country. That they have
risen in the scale of intellect in proportion to their lon-

we cannot admit ; but there can be no question that they
have long ago produced, and yet produce philosophers
and moralists (as witness Confucius and his successors),

ting high capabilities as a portion, and a large portion, of
the human family. All that is wanted is the introduction
amongst them of Christianity, in the wake of which would
came happiness, and profitable commerce to themselves
and all the civilized nations with whom they might deal._

The Chinese Collection, therefore, being genuine and
accurate in every point, is calculated to excite a warm

and benevolent interest in nenatr or tne.people ox (Anna,
independently of the gratification of mere curiosity.
Visitors may, at a small cost, obtain at the rooms a de-
scriptive catalogue, by W. B. Langdon, Esq., the curator
of the Collection, which is not only fully explanatory of
all the wonders and curiosities to he seen, but furnishes
condensed and interesting accounts of the Chinese, their

manners, customs, &c., from the earliest records. We
connot do better this week than quote the substance of a
short passage from the " Introduction " to this ably-

some.sense, the mental and moral qualities of the Chi-
nese ' • to gather some knowledge of their idols, their tem-
ples, their pagodas, their bridges, their arts, their sciences,
. .

ing-rooms, their clothes, their finery, their ornaments,
their weapons of war, their vessels, their dwellings, and
the thousand et ceteras which make up their moving and
living world." The book gives an interesting account of

in China. Round and in the immense room there are no

ings, all by Chinese artists,—one series representing the
process of tea-making, another the rearing of silk-worms;
and there are really well-painted views of harbours, towns,

. .
&c. A variety of.. Chinese maxims are hung around in
various parts, on rice-paper, silk, &c. The collection, in
fine, without reference to the illustrations (in figures as
large as life) of national character which it conveys, forms
a vast and highly interesting museum of Chinese produc-

it has been open, it has been visited by thousands, and
may be said to have become a fashionable promenade.
There is a highly efficient saxhorn band, the first, unques-
tionably, out of London.

113firitt
On Friday week Samuel H. 'I
wall Hall, qualified as a magistrate for this county
The newly-enclosed market-place, heretofore the bowl-

ing-green, has been opened at Southport.
Several fields of barley were cut near Doncaster last
week, and a field of oats near Warrington.
The splendid new Roman Catholic Church, recently
erected in Salford, Manchester, is to be dedicated on the

9th of August next, on which occasion Bishop Wiseman
x.,;11 nrc. r•li _

Brnett, the principal witness in the late. charge of