The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-31 00:00:00

any other nation for the trans'

sengers save el

't fatigue of over

the inconvenience of c

shipment of luggage or goods. lie m

advantage, and that is, that the
Europe, be subjected to the anna

tion, which is no minor consk

Mr. Wise, in the course of his re

his opinion that the proposed undertakii
of large•steam-ships to and from the eau
stated) cannot fail to yield a handsom
period, for the capital embarked in it.

cur with him on this point; but past

steam navigation, even under cireutnstar.

able for its prosecution by private c

aid, too, of large government grants fro
mails—lead us to entertain a less sanguil

project, at least u priori. The expense o

lips on long voyages—

the cost and

fuel, of manning, repairing, &c. is kt

more particularly as from the bulk of
they have but little stowage room fc

help up the credit side of the account,:
such as silks, indigo, and the like, or

We are not without hopes, however, tha
the propelling power, or the mode of appl
sequent large saving of fuel, may hi thi
invention, be ere long developed,, so as tc

culation immediately profitable to the
And, even as it is, we consider Mr. Nt

repeat) worthy of the utmost c

ment and of the mercantile community

tional point of view. We must not luo
in the first instance, from the freights
made by the ships, but rather to the in
prosperity and national safety, which the
proximate intercourse through them with
fic regions of India, China, and South
assuredly realize. This is an object wa
and blameless ambition of a great con!
government itself should have the hearty

nation in making to achieve it, a c

sacrifice—beyond the means of

doubt not, would liberally join in the e
" throw the bread upon the waters, bt

many days."

THE BRITISH AND IRISH STEAM-PACKET I
The annual general meeting of the proprietors
pany was held on Wednesday, at the office, 9,
when the directors' report was read, and a stat
counts submitted. A dividend of 6 per cent. pc
declared as usual, and a surplus added to ''
The company's vessels continue to be in
tors going out of office by rotation, we
elected, and three auditors having been e
broke up

SUNDAY

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THE COTIRT.—WINDSOR
Peel left, town yesterday, immediatell
of the examination of the assassin N
street, for Windsor, proceeding to Sit
Western Railway, and arrived at the C
before three o'clock. The right hon. bar
diate audience of her Majesty, and rem
for upwards of an hour. The Queen w
day, for the first time, that the murderer
had admitted that he had imagined it v
whom he had shot, and not the unforttu
had fallen a victim to the murderous attt
Her Majesty, upon this circumstance h
is said to have evinced the most gratifyit
providential escape of the right hon. hai
feelings of the deepest pain and regret
fate of Mr. Drummond. Sir Robert Peel
from the Castle for Slough shortly after
returned to town by the railway.

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four o'c

FREE
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—This vast building is now uearivieed
THE MANCHESTERedthe
ceili ceiling
F iti
sEtE to
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coTmHplet
which will greatly add to the drynessl
The committee have decided at and
i
a gall
along both sides and one end of the hall
to project about nine feet, and tin,
six inches. The side galleries ' ekd cy
end one three seats, in depth.' Thewill ha
prices of tickets to the grand ba ci c
as the banquet is toextend ri
-11'
over
have resolved on entertaining
they have built this prodir
thirty-five in the interior. '
the roof_; and that there may 6
enormous quantity of 't l-
3- stores
street: are to be roofed in and atter),
waiters, 150 men are being as
store room,
Potteries, 10,000 mg drilled for t 1
plat
made for the dinner • es and 3,000 etd
the same 12,000 and dessert. Sheen
spoons _ s and knives
• Lancashire -s, and 8i
4,000 wine glasseg
r, 401- making the gl
first day there will h 0 salts, and the mt
200 dishes of ham e put on 400 tables ''
sandwiches, 200 , 200 dishes of vea
cabin biscuits, , dishes of sausages, 4 001
.100 . . ,
canister,) 200 dishes canisters of wine
2,400 Bath buns, 200 Of
skmge and set
grapes, 2,400 dishes of almonds
oral.
wine as it may he)ges' 2,400 apples, 20€
mission are to be ordered by the guests.
On the second s.
Gd. for gentlemen,
day, all the provisions vs
one half. It i
are to be fors i:ot yet ascertained why
theak third and fourth day
admission are c
an overplus for ulatcd so as to pay all
the league fund.-214-atte
CRIMINAL Scuoot.— ASSAULTS oy THE TEAC
At the Dungannon quarter
cases were of very little importance
cution of The Queen a • H
National School near Dungannon.
against t,
dieted '
m two numbers for assaults on t
which excited a good deal of interest, a
court from ten o'clock on Friday morning
in the evening. The jury having returned a
without leaving the box, the learned barr.
Nunn, Esq., before pronouncing sentence, aske,
if he was a married man? Ile replied that he w,
worship then addressed the prisoner to the folio,
—Hugh Lonny, you have been convicted, aft,
patient, lengthened, and scrutinising investigation, k
with the most zealous perseverance, and detended w
zeal and talent, of an assault upon females of tench
aggravated by the circumstance of their having bee
under your charge for the purpose of education.
c.unastances that have been brought out in evidence Is,
of a most revoltintr and debasing nature- It is r
that a person entrusted with the educations of yout;
not to be more circumspect in their conduct tlLin.ni p
other situatious, and, 1 am sorry to say. that \that I
peared in evidence does not tend to raise the chars
the national institution under which you hold your
tion. Why should an unmarried man be placed os
female department of the schcol ?! Why should n,
education beentrusted to a fecnNlp ? I trust the circ
ces that have apppeared before us this day will
those who have the management of this national
anent to take such w4-asures as will give a ferns
tendent for the female department of those sc
defence you ha pve Set u " tat it was a consp;
against you," tends to aggrahvate your offence
thereby attempted to show that the childrc
committed to your care have come forward to
and deliberate perjury. In that defence, Co.
however
altogether failed. The sentence of the court is,
Hugh Lunny, be imprisolled for two years in til
Omagh.

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