The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

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VISIT OF PRINCE ALT3ERT-ARRANGEMENTS
FOR THE COMPANY AT THE ALBERT DOCK
WAREHOUSES.

The preparations for the opening of this dock, and its
magnificer,t warehouses, are now in progress ; and when
completed, will be in every way worthy of the occasion,
and present to his Royal Highness and suite, and to the
company who may be favored with admittance within the
walls of the Duck, one of the finest spectacles ever wit-
nessed in this or any other town. In describing the
works going on, we shall commence with the room set
apart for the dejeuner. . . .

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egress of the guests, and the passing to and fro of the
wa:ters, &c. At the head of the room, which is the south
end, is a table raised considerably higher than the rest,
designed for the accommodation of Prince Albert, with
his suite and the officials and most distinguished guests.
At the north end are three short tables, and the sides are
to be filled up with seats for those of the company for
whom the tables do not afford sufficient room. It was
originally suggested that a thousand persons might be ac-
commodated to partake of the refreshm,-nts standing. It

has been considered better, however, that each party shall
be provided with seats, which will reduce the accommoda-
tion to that for about 600 at the tables and 120 at the side

The entertainment will be entirely cold, and will consist
o' fruits of the most recherche kinds, pates, ice creams.
ices. &c., provided with his usual excellent taste and
liberality by Mr. Lynn, of the Waterloo Hotel. The
wines, provided by the same gentleman, we need not say
will be the best of their kind. For the proper storing and
arrangement of these a most convenient apartment has
been fitted up adjoining the banquetting-room.
We have already given the dimensions of this apart-
ment ; and must bestow upon its decorations, &c., a few
words of description. Bearing in mind its character as a
warehouse, designed solely fur the stowage of mer-
chandize, &c., it is one of the finest, for the purpose of
any entertainment, to be found in the kingdom. To be
perfectly fire-proof- and there is not a room in the whole
of these spacious erections in which as much timber is
used as would make a box of lucifers—it is built with
brick arches running in compartments lengthwise from
north to south, each compartment tied with an iron rod,
and the bearings supported with iron beams. The latter
are painted for the occasion a stone-colour, with the
capitols picked out in. gilt. The brick arch-work is
white, and the iron ties painted scarlet. The side-walls
are being draped in flutings of alternate blue, white, and
pink. The floor is to be covered with crimson cloth, as
is the temporary staircase by which the Royal Guest and
his suite will ascend to the chamber.

The guests are to enter the room by the middle door,
at the north end, and will enter the building through the
granite-pillared gate at the south end, near King's Dock.
The Prince will enter the room by a private staircase, as
we have already stated, after landing from his yacht at the
south-east corner of the dock.

The accommodation for parties to witness the opening
of the dock by the Prince and his suite in the Fairy, royal
yacht, reflects the highest credit upon the liherality of
the chairman and the members of the Duck Committee.
The sheds of the whole of the stately pile of warehouses
on the south and west of the dock are being fitted up with
stages in an amphitheatrical form, eight stages in height,
and each state a yard in breadth. These are strong as
the warehouses themselves, each stage being floored by
timber six inches in thickness, and thoroughly rested and
secured. One entrance is at the east corner of the
south end ; another at the south end accommodates
as well a part of the west side. There is also an en-
trance on the west side and another at the north end of
the same side. To prevent confusion, the tickets for each
entrance, which we understand are the most finished
works of art, as are those for the dejeuner, will be issued
in distinguishing colours. The seats for the dejeuner will
be numbered to correspond with each ticket. The plat-
forms round the dock, it is computed, will accommodate
easily about ten thousand persons, as may be conceived
when we state that the length of the south side of the
dock is about 150 yards ; that of the west side about 200
yards ; and that there are eight platforms in each, thosei
platforms being a yard in width. In all, this will make
about a mile and a half of yard deep lineal standing space.
When the Fairy enters the dock by the gut at the north-
western end, the spectacle presented by this magnificent
mass of the elite of our fellow townsmen and towns-
women will be a sight such as few princes or kings can
boast of in their dominions. Tne yacht will, on entering,
proceed at half-speed along the quays thus lined with
stectators, and enter the breakfast-room at the south-east
corner.

We presume his Royal Highness, after the entertain-
ment, will be taken over the portion that is completed of
the warehouses themselves. Anything more calculated
to convey to his Royal Highness a sense of the energy of
h's adopted fellow countrymen, and of the vast resources
of this great port, we can scarcely conceive than an in-
spection of these noble edifices. . _ _

PEEPARATIINS AT THE SAILORS' HOME.—A rapid
progress is being made with the preparations of laying the
foundation stone for this building. The sides of the ex-
cavation are being surrounded with galleries, affording an
excellent view of the proceedings. The bottom will be
appropriated for the reception of the members of the
Council and the Dock Committee, the Sailors' Home
Committee, the Blue Coat Boys, the Freemasons and Odd
Fellows, the nobility and gentry, and the borough magis-
trates.

The procession on the occasion will consist of about
6,000 perbotis, of whom 1,000 will be Freemasons, and
1,000 Oddfellows. The boys of the Blue Coat Hospital
will head the procession. Tne Freemasons will follow.
Then will come the Corporation, and, immediately after,
the Prince, in the state-carriage, drawn by six horses from
the Royal Mews. The shipping trades and the Oddfellows
will bring up the rear. Some dissatisfaction, we under-
stand, is felt by the Oddfellows in consequence of being

informed that their number must not exceed 1,000, which
number they have to select from their entire body. all of
whom are naturally anxious to walk ; but it should be
recollected, that 1,000 men make a very formidable dis-
play, and that an intgroui,,able procession, without any
variety, would he anything but pleasing to the spectator.
The Duke of Leinster, Grand Master of the Irish Free-
masons, will, it is exp, cted, be also present ; and Lord
CoMbermere, Earl Ellesmere, and Earl Zetland are con-
fidently looked for to head their loyal body the English
Freemasons, who are to make one of the most magnificent
demonstrations ever witnessed in this or any other town.
The following route of the procession was agreed upon
at a meeting of the Committee yesterday, and our readers
may depend on its accuracy, as we publish it on au-
thority:—To start from the Judges' lodgings, nrocetd
along St. Anne street and the line of streets to Mount-
pleasant; up Mount-pleasant to Abercromby-square ;
along the west side of that square and Bedford-street;
down Falkner-street to Catherine-street; down Sandon-
terrace to Rodney-street; down Leese street, Bold-
street, Church-street, Lord-street, and South John-street,
to the site of the Sailor's Home.

The silver trowel with which his Royal Highness will
bed the foundation stone of the sailors' Home will be
massive and of elegant design. We have seen at the
establishment of IVI r. Dismore, who will manufacture it,
a beautiful drawing of the town of Liverpool, with its
noble river, shipping, &c., as seen from the Cheshire side,
by our townsman, Mr. John M `Gahey ; and from this the
back of the trowel is to be engraved. The buildings,
ships, and other obj cts are finely and minutely delineated ;
and amongst the vessels seen near the Lancashire side the
artist has introduced a beautiful and necessarily miniature
portrait of the royal yacht Fairy, as she will appear when
conveying his Royal Highness and suite along the river
to view the docks, &c. This is reduced from a fine
coloured drawing of the Fairy, taken for the porpo%e, and
which we have also seen at Mr. Li,rnore's. The Fairy is
a three-masted screw schooner, a regular clipper in ap-
pearance, her hull being long and sharp, and her masts
having a great rake. She is painted in gunports, and is
otherwise so handsome and unique that she will (with her
pendant and the royal standard flying) be readily known
as soon as seen on the bosom of old Mersey.
THE 'FIREWORKS. Mr. Atkins, of the Zoological
Gardens, has received orders from the authorities to give

a magnificent display of fireworks on the night of-the
banquet, for which the site selected is the open fields be-
tween Berkeley-street and the Prince's-park. Permission
has been given by the Earl of Sefton, the owner of the

grounds ;and from the celebrity of Mr. Atkins in the
pyrotechnic art, a large fund of delight may be anticipated

he spectators