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

fully painted like enainel:with oriental birds, flowers

On either side are seven doors, orening into as
ges, each of which communicates ivith four
There will be three rows of dining

many Massa
sleeping rooms

tables, capable of accommodating 360 persons.
The Great Britain will be rigged with iron wire shrouds,
stays, &c. which is remarked upon by the Bristol journals
as if were a novelty. It has been in use i❑ many of the
large steam-ships of this port—the Licerpooi, the Urt-
ental, &c., for some years, and is found to meet every
expectation, requiring less displacement, with grestet
strength, and so maintaining its tension, that when once
well set up, it stands for years. The mainmast is 74 feet
above the deck and 34 inches in diameter. The main-
topmast is 55 feet high. The funnel is 24 feet in circum-
ference and 39 feet high. The boiler (in three divisions)
is 34 long by 22 feet high.
The cost of the Great Britain was last year estimated
at £79,116; but it is probable that before she is com-
pleted for sea, in every point, (which will be some months
to come,) it will be about £lOO,OOO. It is expected by
several scientific gentlemen connected with her, that her
rate of going, by means of the screw, (which has already
been successfully applied to many vessels,) will be
from 14 to 15 knots an hour. All her masts, with the
exception of the mainmast, (the second from the bow,)
are made with joints on deck, similar to those of our
fiver flats, so that they may be lowered down during head
winds or in storms. As a whole, tl.e Great Britain is
certainly a very noble ship, and in every respect an ho-
nour to the good people of Bristol.

FALSE WEIGHTS AND MEASCRES.—Under this title
the Mercury of Friday week has the following paragraph :
" On Friday last, a great number of tradesmen, including
bakers, grocers, publicans, and ethers, were fined in heavy
penalties, at the Mansion-house, London, for using defec-
tive and fraudulent weights and measures. It must be
highly gratifying to the inhabitants of Liverpool to know,
that there is no suck thing as a.false weight or detective
measure amongst them. We take take it for granted that
they enjoy this o:emption because, with a regularly-ap-
pointed staff of nspectors and assistant inspectors, such
a thing as an information is seldom or never heard of."
We wish it were in our power to subscribe to the opinions
expressed by our cotemporary, (in the passages marked in
italics,) who considers himself " the best local as well as
political instructor " in the town; but in this instance
he exhibits a woeful lack of information, and jumps at a
gratuitous conclusion, unhappily unfounded on facts, with
the greatest self-complacency imaginable. We are not
quite so immaculate in " the good old town" as he
assumes in his sapient imaginings. How stands the case?
Why, no later than the Ist of June last, no fewer than
twenty-eight persons—including market-people, shop-
keepers, coal, provision, and potatoe dealers, &c., were
brought before his Worship the Mayor, at the Sessions
House, for having defective or false weights, or measures,
or scales, and for other practices by which their customers
were defrauded. Most of the delinquents belonged to the
market, and only two of thfln were acquitted, the whole
of the others being fined in various sums of ls., 2s. 6d.,
55., 9s. 6d., 205., and £5! These were proceeded against
by one inspector only ; and we can add, for the informa-
tion of our cotemporary, (though the task is necessarily
a painful one) that one tenth part of those who resort to
such practises are, from circumstances, placed beyond the
reach of detection. It is a notorious fact that the poor
in particular, and small housekeepers in general, who,have
to purchase in small quantities. in the markets (often when
they are crowded) and in small shops and coal yards in
. their own localities, have continual cause to complain.
The butchers' meat, soap, sugar, &c., are oftener defective
in weight than otlferwise ; end coals and potatoes by retail
are. if possible worse. Few persons have weights and
scales to detect the fraud ; but that it exists no onelwho
looks into " the annals of the poor" can deny, and our
contemporary may readily satisfy himself of the truth of
this assertion. The rich do not feel the injustice done to
thern so much, and rarely put their purchases to the test,
but they, too, are often wronged. We by no means deny
that they are not many exceptions amongst shopkeepers
and others,—many who are just and true to all their deal-
ings. These also are sufferers, for low prices are submit-
ted to by their dishonest competitors in the trade, who
make up for the difference by short weight. In the public
markets, particularly on Saturday nights, the practice is
common, and many are obliged to submit for want of
time and opportunity to bring the offenders to justice : com-
plaint, too, is often only met by abuse. Besides have
we not recently had numbers brought before the magis-
trate for blowing calves' heads, stuffing lean legs of lamb
with mutton suet, &c. ; and is not chiccory mixed with
coffee and sold at the high price of the latter? A more
strict surveillance is certainly called for, though we are
not prepared to point out an effective plan, so man} are
the modes of evasion. But let us hear no more of the
people of Liverpool gratifying themselves that they are
not exposed to be cbeated as are the Londoners. Like
our contemporary in his politics, too many of dealersour
if put in the balance would be found to be wanting.
EBRA-
TION OF MARRIAGES.—By a recent par_rt,
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we find that the number of places of
.wo hi I
REGISTERED PLACES OF WORSHII;
Worship to the 30th
which 117 in Lancashire, 171
was 1 992 • of
June, 1842, ,
Middlesex. In Cheshire there
in Yorkshire, and 115 in
d The 187 in this county
'arLantaCrreturn,
are thus
registerede,were
3 Bpi foers
religious denomination :
classified according to theirtrhe:icsetelretetra.tioi of marriage,
presbyterians
and unitarians ; 11 pres-
ePhruerscbiffermiargl3ishchurch of Scotland ; 3 united secession
tiaßn a;Plflilbtsap:tistsmt o -
bvrerians, not otherwise defined. independents : 52 inde-
-7 particular or
Calvinistic,
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(Arminianrnastshoocda)its'itostiN:,l;_s:.
dentn"'eisw connection,nd,loeadi.„
Welsh, 0 ; Lady Huntingdon's connection* W.,' •
',Ps; 63. Foreign churches : 0 ; 414 frfv; Isi:ca
or S,vedenborgian, 5 ; ChritCjir .
1 ; urolc,rrilied or ljgo
In Ell 'land Atvl
178 eV;
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