The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-12-26 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

nee. 26, 1841

PACIFIC STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

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CORRESPONDENCE.

verpconmnipiannteyrestial
SHEFFIELD STOVE GRATES, FENDERS, &c. &e. LAUNCHES. ADDRESS OF THE LOYAL ORANGE ASSOCIA-
TION TO THE PEOPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN.
been A ps
submitted
bmmp liitlteetd connectedtn onr pe wi t
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AT MANUFACTURER'S PRICES.
MOST Select and Extensive STOCK ALE at MR. OASTLER. "THE IRON DUKE•" ---•
are involved., toaserninovutsgaltenntnnwith ..thape_,.or
,
On Thursday last, a fine iron steam-ship, called " The BRETHREN AND FELLOW COUNTRYMEN,—We, the
W ANTED, with early possession, a detache OUSE, A DRURY'S, Castle-street, Liver ,established
GOODS and "Heis a most extraordinary man,"—Duke of Wellington. Iron Duke," belonging to the City of Dublin Steam officers and members of the Loyal Orange Association in
to e_r replete with every modern convenienc ,within two nearly 40 Years. Sheffield PLA
Grand Lodge assembled, approach you at this momentous
otherwise of steam • ' the P • property,
4.'11 ee miles from the Liverpool Excha e, suitable for CUTLERY, Furnishing IRON_ e GERY, &c., every
vitae miles . Navigation Company, was launched from the yard of the
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. --1 crisis in England's history, to express our sense of the
km Fa Rent not to exceed .£1 per annum. New Potent Article of Merit. builder, Mr. Thomas Wilson, North Shore, and afforel
..e.....Less, Box B 29, Postoffice. WANTED, an APPRENTICE to the GENERAL SIR,—I am happy to see that the friends of that un- a very gratifying spectacle to some hundreds of spectators.
BUSINESS. flinching opponent of the grinding leaguers, Mr. Richard " The Iron Duke" is 180 ft. in length, 28 ft. in beam,
WANTED, a SITUATION in the I NMON-
killed i'Ettl. BUSINESS, by a Young an who has L. HAUSBURG has the pleasure of announcing the purpose of raising funds to rescue him from the Fleet and will be propelled by engines of 350-horse power—by
Peten, . 4 apprenticeship of seven years, is fully corn- F • the arrival of prison, and lam sure every person, who knows anything Messrs. Fawcett and Preston—with seven feet of stroke,
AioLito take charge of the Books. AN UNEQUALLED COLLECTION 0 t'ORKS of the character of the man and has an English heart wrought-iron framing, tubular boilers, and other modern
Liver
leee_slt....io_lL
Yto THOMAS HOGARTH, 41, Great George-street,e OF ART AND NOVELTIE , within him, will do his very utmost to extricate him from improvements suggested by the long and extensive expe-
of all descriptions, connected with the nu.. -rous branches the dreary dungeon in which he has now so long been con- Hence of the company and the engineers. She is the
of his extensive'business, selected, duri ' his recent visit fined, for if ever there were a martyr because of adherence strongest iron vessel yet built, having scantling equal to
to the Continent, from the Studies as . Workshops of the to the true interests of the working classes, surely Mr. that of the Leviathan ship " Great Britain," her bottom
most eminent Artists and IVlechani, of the present day. Oastler is he. plates being five•eightbs of an inch in thickness, and her
lie flatters himself that an Inspection, which he most re- It would ill become me, sir, to say much in your paper; sides half an inch, diminishing to three-eighths. The
spectfully and earnestly solicits, will prove highly inter- on this subject, believing that you will not fail to do your usual plan of the paddle-wheel has been retained, the
esting, many of the Articles having been specialty chosen duty; but, I hope to be allowed a few words on a subject experiments hitherto made with various modifications oe
for the in which I feel my heart engaged. Whoever may or may the screw having yet left the alleged superiority of that
not engage themselves in this cause at Liverpool, it is cer- kind of propeller somewhat questionable—at least for
tam that RICHARD OnsTLEn. will be emancipated from general or commercial Purposes. Her paddle-wheels are
E his prison • those who know him have made up their proportionately of great size, and have therefore a rather
tie minds to diet effort, and obscure though I be, 1 covet the unsightly appearance • but, with her immense power of
•oi unobserved satisfaction that will result from having in engines and long stroke,i this will doubtless prove advan-
nit this way aimed at doing good. tageous, as the irnpineement of the water by the floats
The cause of Oastler is the cause of all true English- will be more perpendicular, and the lift of the element
men, for no man living is more strenuous for the rights of behind be reduced.
property or the rights of labour than he is; his Fleet The model of " The Iron Duke" is beautiful in the
Papers, which ought to be read by every one, are speci- truest sepse of the word. She has round lines, and is as
ally worthy the attrition of all true churchmen and right- fine as a straight thin wedge at her extremities; whilr
N minded tories, for in these he clearly advocates the anci- '
,I 1 ent and present rights, legitimately construed, of the so-
nd vereign, the parliament, the people, leaning, if possible, maws. eo tons ratter particular she will have, we ven-
roc more strongly to the latter, and of the latter most strongly tune to foresee, a great advantage. Most steam-vessels
eth to those most oppressed, degraded, and helpless, in the are built what may be called " wall-sided " immediately
th Queen's dominious—that is, the factory children and peo- abreast of the paddle-wheels ; and it has always occurred
the ple ; and these people are, undoubtedly, the worst fed, to us that, in such case, the pressure of the lateral water
the worst paid, the worst housed, arid yet the hardest worked upon by the floats must have a tendency (as the
Dc worked of any people in England. Now, of these people, run does not commence immediately abaft the wheel) to
Mr. Oastler ever was, now is, and ever will be, the un- impede, in place of forwarding, the ship. In this instance
)0 tiring friend, the "factory monster" (which is the pet of the fine lateral curve of the hull towards the keel, just
A the league), has in him the most formidable opponent below the wheels, will, we should think, give them addi-
PO living, scarcely excepting Lord Ashley and Me Ferrand. tional power, as a space is left between the floats and the
Yet,—Eoglishmen, Liverpool Englishmen, hear it,—this vessel's side at that point for the "crushed water" to get
e j
valuable friend of all, but especially the working classes is away. The round lines in this ship will, by experiment,
--J. Rion% in prison—the'victin, of those principles which are dear to furnish a test between her model and the favourite " h 01....
....

fty‘ls
Aft
.....TO CAPITALISTS.—£iOO WANT .
r Person willing to invest this Sum i way to re-
-14 ttice,i,," 54 per cent. during the life of a dividual now
Aartbe `l4d year of his age, and at the dea of the same
corr.' to receive back the purchase money, may at once
tatiji)ood with the principal, by addressing J. 8., at the
<2ard-office.

PRESENT SEASON,

MONEY WANTED.
!SUN! of £l5OO, at 5 per Cent., by a Gen man
I',aef,-17,ing a handsome Estate in Fee, in one of e most
he lute and loyal Counties in the North Ireland.
itt„w,lll Insure his Life for the amount, and ' undoubted
PrjrltY for the regular payment of both the Interest and
atly to MATTHEW ANDERSON, EMI,'
`'........n2.17-square West, Dublin.

A. GREAT VARIETY OF

MECHANICAL AND OTHER JOUJOUX,
combining amusements with useful instruction, has also
been provided by F. L. H. for the Juvenile portion of the

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successfulude
promoterto is froui
of an .e
n‘yehreperli
marks from us may not be out of place:
r is
enterprise It'
which the
e
perils in which our liberties are placed, and to point out
the course which we conceive best to be adopted to secure
originator The pamphletaod a
their preservition.
in its formation, bade fair to be of great benefit to the
What are the circumstances under which we are driven
shareholders, as well as of incalculable advantage to the
to fear, and tioalrepare to struggle against, the coming
community on the west coast of South America, who
danger? Is E nd less mighty than she was in the days would be, by the powerful aid of steam, brought into close
of our forefathers . No ! At this moment she stands in
communication along a line of continent of above three
proud and undisputed pre-eminence amongst nations.
thousand miles in extent, and the inhabitants of %chic)
Her mental and physical power, her name, her wealth,
without such a medium of intercourse, would eon'.
away the world. And yet, whilst all is fair arid im-
posing without, a canker is eating at her heart • a almost unknown to each other, in consequenr
pecu diffies of navigation by sai
host of combined evils are gnawing her vitals, and E'ng-
from caliarlms, adverse winds, and currents.ling vessels, ,
land, "mighty England,"—unless those evils, and the
Whee
wounds which they have inflcted upon her, are rooted out
Mr.
to iright commences his interesting .paper with
by a vigorous effort on the part of her loyal people,—is an address his directors and proprietors, in which he
doomed to fall away, like a fabric of sand, amidst the points out the unfortunate position the enterprise was
placed in at ;to .• ---
by the unwise and
se, ffs and the scorn of her enemies.

We were a Protestant nation—strong in our united
faith—in our glorious constitution. We let in the fell

imp Aitic ac

very commencement
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clearly, at p

community

F. L. HAUSBURG,
,ale PROMOLI and HAUSBURG,
OLD POSTOFFICE-DUILDINGS

of that constitution. It was but a drop which we
ted, but that drop is now a flood, which threatens to over-
whelm in its career all that British men value of their re-
ligion, their liberties, and their laws. In Ireland a re-
bellious spirit is manifested, which has for its object the
downfall of the Protestant church in that land, and the
establishment of a papal supremacy. We are subjected

admit-

f the

jzae " 108 s of £23,000 at the outset c
from the effects of which the c
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the undert

Solicitor, No

LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY

al) tattbitrations.

THE ANN UAL MEETING of the TRUSTEES of
the LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY, LOCK S-
PITAL, and LUNATIC ASYLUM will b olden in
the Board-room, at the Infirmary, ou Mo AY, the Bth
of next month, (January,) at Ten o'cl n the torenoon,
to transact the Business of the H se, and to elect
Officers for the ensuing year.
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Liverpool, DecemberO‘
22nd, 1843

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increased

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But some may ask, why is he in prison? It may be builder and engineers to be I tly ual in
answered, that the named cause of his being there is debt. steamer ailcat, and, without tay st :telt of
But that be does not believe is the real cause; the real we Will venture to say, that, with b, • great_,
cause, sir, is to be. found in his powerful opposition to " and symmetrical form, she will beats I her ;metre
that most barbarous, cruel, despotic, un-English thing being built, too, by an experienced id celo-
called the view poor law ;to his opposition to this is Mr. wright, the material employed will
Oastler mainly indebted for his long imprisonment. " I the grand trial of wood v. iron wilt be brought to a satin
am not here," writes he to Mr. Thornhill, whose steward factory conclusion.
he was, "I am not here because I owe you money; that . " The Duke" bad been some
is the mere pretence. lam a prisoner because I have-, the precise time of her being launcu.
warred against the Malthusiatt monster, and because, in before the usual period) did not fully tran...,
defiance, of his impious doctrines, I assert and have the assemblage of spectators would have been greater,
maintained in practice, that property has its duties as well numerous as it was. Very shortly after eleven o'clock,
as rights. lam your prisoner because you asserted • all being in readiness, she was let off, and glided most
liaur rights whilst. I performed your duties. I p.. - - majestically into the bosom of the Mersey. The weather
flour( was rather hazy at the moment, but she was distinctly
ions, seen by all who were near ; and as she moved along,
toner quicker and Quicker., on the ways, a burst of enthusiastic

eed by the

fully equal in speed to any

*ise ad" Va I (la
merit

ie fairly tested, and

s, Lon,

honoured with the visits-of the noble, talented, and vir-
tuous, because I am your cast off steward and your
pri-
It is, sir, my stern uncompromising heart-of-oak
and right-true English principles that can smile at drAth

ime on the stool

pony has never yet:,

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from the Atiant
east of £4 10s.