The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-16 00:00:00

PRINCE ALBERT'S APPROACHING VISIT.

On Thursday last, his worship the Mayor proceeded to
London, for the purpose of communicating personally
with Prince Albert's private secretary, Colonel Anson,
and arranging with that officer the programme of pro-
ceedings at the forthcoming visit of his Royal Highness.
In the meantime, the sub-committees appointed for the
more effectually devoting their attention to the arrange-
ments are actively engaged. It is contemplated that
the Prince will arrive at the Edge-hill station about
noon on the 30th of July, from which he will proceed
with his train in three of the royal carriages, accom-
panied by a peocession, to the Judges' lodgings, where
it is arranged for him to stay whilst in Liverpool,
and, after partaking of refreshments, will make a tour
through the town, and proceed to the Pier for an excur-
sion on the river, from which he will have the best view
of our splendid line of (locks. In the evening, he will
he entertained with a banquet at the Town-hall, which
will be presided over, of course, by his worship the
Mayor, the Prince as the guest of the evening being
placed on his left hand. The number invited is expected
to he 294, amongst whom, we understand, are the High
Sheriff, W. Standish Standish, Esq., the Right Hon. Lord
Skelmersdale, the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Sefton, the
Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Francis Egerton, M.P., Lord
Stanley, Lord Sefton, Lord Sandon, M.P., Sir Howard
Douglas, M.P., Wilson Patten, Esq., M.P., William
Entwistle, Esq., M.P., the sixteen aldermen, and the 48
members of the Council, with all the military officers
sta!ioned in lhis part of the country, many of our most
eminent merckants, and the principal subscribers to the
Sailors' Home. To add to the splendour of the entertain-
ment, the grand staircase, the decorations of which are near
completion, and the rooms will be splendidly adorned,
the floor of the staircase and of the vestibule being covered
with scarlet cloth. The windows in the Exchange Build-
ings are being embellished for the occasion, as well as both
the interior and exterior of the Judges' lodgings, with re-
spect to which, we may state, that they are calculated to
afford accommodation to the Royal Guest, of which the
town will have no reason to be ashamed.
The Prince will lay the foundation of the Sailors' Home
on Friday, the 31st; and it is anticipated that there will
be a dejeuner in the evening, at which ladies will be pre-
sent. His Royal Highness, we believe, will leave Liver-
pool in the course of the afternoon. As we have stated
before, a magnificent display of fireworks will take place
on Thursday evening. The committee appointed to ar-
range the preliminaries is styled " The Prince's Com-
mittee."

We understand that on this auspicious occasion arrange-
ments are making by the Freemasons in the town and
district for a splendid procession of the order, in
which it is said the grand-master of the order, the Earl
of Zetland, who visits Liverpool for the purpose, will take
part. His lordship is to be here on the 29th. We are
also to have a discharge of fireworks, which we trust, for
the gratification of the mass of our population, who will
otherwise have little to make them remember, in after
years, his Royal Highness's visit, will be on a scale wor-
thy the occasion. It has also, among a number of other
matters, been suggested to us by a correspondent, that an
illumination of the town, with salutes throughout the day
from some of our fine peels of bells, would contribute to
the festivities of the period. Another circumstance con-
nected with the occasion we cannot omit pressing upon
the Committee of Management, viz. : the propriety of
throwing as large a share as possible of their favours, in
providing for the materials required to sustain the credit
of the town. into the hands of our local tradesmen. The
tradesmen of the metropolis have opportunities every day
of displaying their enterprise and taste in such matters.
The tradesmen of Liverpool have not : and such an op-
portunity as the present should not be omitted.

ARRIVAL OF THE BRITANNIA

The steam-ship Britannia, Captain Hewitt, arrived in
the Mersey about midnight on Saturday last, after a fine
run. The speed and the regularity with which the fine
steamers comprising this line run the distance across the
Atlantic is truly wonderful.
We annex a list of the passengers :
From Halifax.—Mr. Wm. Young and lady, Lieut.
Col. Freer, Dr. Burrell, Medical Staff, lady, and servant,
Hon. M. Tobin, Rev. R. Arnold, Right Rev. Bishop
Fleming, Rev. Mr. Mackin, Mr. E. H. Brown, Mr.
Holdsworth, Mr. Medley, lady, and two children.
From Boston.—Miss Sarah Miller, Mts. F. Crawford,
captain C. Elliot, lady, child, and sera ant, Mr. C. Lyell
and lady, Mr. Nichols and lady, Mr. C. Fallon and lady,
Mr. Ralston, lady, and servant, Miss Wiggin, Rev. Dr.
Olin and lady, Hon. IL M. Saunders and servant, Mr.E.
Delano, Mr. Godfrey Santry, Mr. Ridgway, Mr. James
Paul, Rev. J. S. Himes, Boston, Rev. R. Hutchinson,
Canada, Mr. A. T. Biackmore, Mr. B. H. Dixon, Rev.
Dr. Scott, Mr. A. Maris, Mr. S. Mull, Rev. F. G.
Brown, Mr. Runge, Mr. E. Martineau, Mr. W. Lobach,
Hamburgh Consul, Mr. John Saddler, Mr. Haaene, Mr.
Gustavo Eckhardt, Mr. J. Hartley, Mr. Ferdinand Luis,
Col. T. H. Shelby, Mr. G. P. Bell, Mr. J. M'Reown,
Mr. R. W. Davis, Mr. James Holford, Mr. R. Waddell,
Mr. D. CasteHi, Mr. H. Heine, Mr. G. Phillips, 23d
Fusilliers. Mr. A. Tomasi, Mr. Antognini, Mr. T. Ly-
sight, Mr. G. File, Mr. G. W. Warren, Mr. James Pat-
ten, Mr. Benadis, Mr. T. C. Reynolds, Mr. G. H
Evans. Mr. Rothes, Mr. E. W. Moore, Mr. F. Tomes,
jun., Mr. W. Reay, Mr: G. Anderson, Mr. J. Thorn,
Mr. R. Grills, Mr. J. Honan, Mr. H. Gough, Mr. Wm.
Burns, Mr. P. M'Reown, and Mr. H. Simpson.

Sir Howard Douglas, M.P. has written to engage
apartments at the Adelphi Hotel during the stay of
Prince Albert in Liverpool.

DEATH BY BURNING.—An inquest was yesterday held
on view of the body of George Bibby, a child of four
years of age, who resided with his parents in Mile-street,
Windsor. It appeared that the clothes of the deceased
had caught fire from some burning shavings in the apart-
ment in which he was left; and the injuries he sustained
terminated in death, Verdict in accordance.
FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday, the keeper of a pack
of harriers, belonging to the gentlemen of Rock Ferry,
took the dogs down to the river, for the purpose of
bathing or washing them, and one of the dogs, apparently
getting too far into the stream, the man (name not ascer-
tained) on endeavouring to get the dog out of the water,
fell in, head first, and was, unfortunately, drowned.
Means were taken to find the body, but without avail.
The Druid, old frigate, selected for a lazaretto for the
port of Liverpool, when the Dublin 50-gun frigate was
saved from such mis-appropriation, was towed out of
Harnoaze, on Saturday, by the Confiance tug, jury-rigged,
and in charge of Mr. Henderson, the assistant master
attendant, of Davenport dockyard, with a party of seamen
from the Caledonia, sailed for Liverpool. Mr. Hender-
son and party will navigate the Birkenhead, iron steam-
frigate, from Liverpool to sheerness, where she is to be
fitted for sea service.

NARROW ESCAPE.—On Sunday afternoon, about half-
past two, a man was taken out of the river, near Tran-
mere Ferry, in a dying state. Mr. J. Stopford Taylor
immediately attended him, and after applying the usual
remedies for an hour and a half, the man was so far reco-
vered as to be capable of being removed. It appears he
had been drinking with some companions in the earlier
part of the day, and had then adjourned to the river to
bathe, when the effects of his potations exceeded his con-
troul, and had it not been for some parties cn the shore,
who had seen him floating on the water, he must inevi-
tably have perished.
ILLEGAL DISTILLATION OF SPlRlTS.—Yesterday, at
the Police-court, two women, Mary Delaney and Itose-
anna Murphy were charged by officers of excise with hav-
ing been found working a whiskey still in a house in Al-
bion-street, in which the apparatus and a quantity of
what is termed " low wines " were found. One of the
officers stated that the prisoners were at work on a
boarded floor, that the timber had taken fire, and that
many buckets of water were required to quench it, and
save the building and the adjoining premises from de-
struction. The prisoners said nothing in their defence,
and were respectively fined in the. mitigated penalty of
of £3O, or, in default of payment, to be imprisoned for
three months.

STRIKE.—We hope this struggle is approaching a
full termination. So far as bricklayers, joiners, end
plasterers are concerned, workmen are in abundance. The
masons, however, still form an exception ; being a strong
body, and there being a great demand for their services
on the Holyhead, Carlisle, and other railways, together
with the desire of the Liverpool and Birkenhead Dock
companies to forward their river walls and dock works
during the summer months; they will stand cut, and the
lamentable consequence is, that a number of other artisans
catannt procure empleyment because bricklayers and
joiners are unable to proceed for want of masonry. The
masons wish the hours of labour to be reduced to nine
hours, which the masters cannot comply with in justice
to the operatives in the other branches of the building
trades. _ _

THE ESTATES OF THE LATE MR. JOHN LANGAN.--
Yesterday, by order of the executors, a sale by auction
was announced to take place at the Ciarendon-rooms, of
the freehold and leasehold property of the late Mr. John
Langan, the once celebrated pugilist, in this town and
neighbourhood. There were three lots,—first, the pre-
mises known as " Langan's Inn," in "Waterloo-road, near
the Clarence Dock, with its fixtures, fittings, musical in-
struments, &c., and also five shops adjoining, the whole
covering a space of about 440 square yards, and well suited
for the peculiar businesses for which they were erected ;
second, a freehold brewery in Rose-place and Great Rich-
mond-street ; and third, the leasehold estate of the de-
ceased, in Mount-pleasant, Oxton, near Birkenhead. with
a house, garden, and grounds, subject to a trifling ground
rent of £2 per annum. The auctioneer, Mr. Winstanley,
set forth the present and anticipated value of the first lot,
which was valued at £440 of yearly rental ; bids were
made, commencing at £2,000 for the whole and termina-
ting at £4,900. It was then intimated by Mr. Winstanley
that the reserve bid was £6,400, and the lot was accord-
ingly withdrawn. The other two lots were then succes-
sively put up,but there were no biddings, and consequently
no sale took place.
LAUNCH.—On Saturday, a fine new steamer, intended
for the Steam-tug Company, was launched from Mr. J.
Laird's yard, at Birkenhead. She is named the •` Liver,"
and is constructed of iron. Her dimensions are as follow :
Length from stemhead to taffrail 112 feet ; ditto betwixt
perpendiculars 104 feet 6 inches; breadth of beam 20 feet
2 inches; depth of hold 11 feet; tonnage by old measure-
ment. 200 tons ; and she will be propelled by a pair of dis-
connecting engines of fifty horse-power each. After the
launch, the large company assembled to witness it par-
took of a splendid collation. The companys fleet now
numbers seven fine, fast, and powerful vessels, nnmely,
the Dreadnought, Victoria, Liver, President, Albert,
Mona, and Skeiryvore, and within a very brief period we
shall have to record the launch of an eighth. We may
mention, as n proof of the anxiety of the company to meet
every want within their power, that to meet the difficulties
of obtaining coals in stormy weather, when it would be
impossible for the river flats to remain alongside the
steam-tugs, the hull of the old Hero will be anchored in
the Sloyne as a depot for that necessary commodity.