The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-19 00:00:00

THE " LIVORNO" SCREW STEAMER.—A beautiful iron
vessel thus named has recently been built by Mr. Denny,
of Dumbarton, for the trade between this port (Liverpool)
and Italy. She is owned by merchants in Glasgow having
business connexions with the Mediterranean, and she was
expected to arrive in the Mersey yesterday. Her length
is 160 feet ; beam 251, and depth 15 feet. Her engines
are considered very fine, and embrace a novelty in princi-
ple, giving direct action to the cranks. The cabins are
elegantly and commodiously fitted up. She is rigged as a
three-masted schooner; has a yacht-like appearance, and,
from a trial trip in the Clyde, proved herself to be one of
the fastest vessels yet turned out. She arriued in the
Mersey on Sunday.

BIRKENHEAD FERRY.—The complaints about the
management—if there is any —of this ferry are more
numerous than ever. The corporation have secured an
enterprising and obliging tenant for the hotel, but the
mode in which the ferry has been conducted is likely to
prove anything but advantageous to him. We happen to
know that the ferry is preferred by a great number of
persons over any o her on the river, and the, council have
only themselves to blame that the establishment has not
been highly remunerative. It is not too late, however,
to change their policy. Let an active and experienced
person be engaged as manager, with full powers to work
the concern efficiently, and we feel persuaded that the
accidents to the boats would be less frequent, and the
receipts considerably increased. He should, however, be
instructed to devote his whole time to the superintendence.

DEPUTATION TO THE BOARD OF TRADE ON PILOT-
AGE.-A deputation from the Steam Shipowners' Asso-
ciation had an interview with the Right Hon. H. Labou-
chere, on Friday week, at the Board of Trade. The
deputation was introduced by Mr. Anderson, M.P.,
chairman of the Association, who stated that their object
was to obtain Mr. Labouchere's interposition for the pur-
pose of inducing those pilot boards which had not yet
complied with the intentions of the legislature, as con-
tained in the Pilotage Act of last session, to grant certifi-
cates—exempting them from compulsory employment of,
and payment for, pilots—to masters and mates of steamers
who should have been found upon examination qualified
to pilot their own vessels. Several local pilot boards had
complied with the provisions of the act, but the pilot com-
mittees of Liverpool and Dublin bad declined. Mr. Wat-
son, director of the City of Dublin Steam-packet Com-
pany, detailed what he considered the grievance under
which they laboured. The interview terminated in Mr.
Labouchere admitting the justice of the claims advanced
on the part of the Steam Shipowners' Association to the be-
nefits intended by the Pilotage Act of last session, and his
suggesting that a letter should be addressed to the Board
of Trade, embodying the statements which had been sub-
mitted to him by the deputation.
FEARFUL .ACCIDENT.-011 Monday night one of the
most frightful accidents of the kind which has for some
time occurred in this neighbourhood happened at the cor-
ner of Erskine-street, Moss-street, to a ceAveyance which
was on its way from Croxteth-hall, the seat of the Earl of
Sefton, to this town, and in which were seated Mr. Charles
and Lady Caroline Townley. About half-way down
Brunswick-road the horses became restive, and, on arriv-
ing opposite Miss Green's house, at the bottom of Ers-
kine-street, the postilion lost all control over them. At
this point they suddenly swerved from the road, and ran
with great force on the footpath opposite to Miss Green's
house, the horse on which the postilion sat striking the
iron palisading in front of the house, and breaking it in
several pieces, along with the stone work in which it was
fixed, to a length of about a yard and a half. The palisad-
ing fell into the area beneath, and the horse along with it,
the latter being suspended for some time by the traces,
during which time it plunged tremendously against the
wall, and caused great alarm to the inhabitants inside.
The postilion was, at the same moment, thrown off the
horse against the iron palisading, with his back leaning
against them, and for some time it was thought he was
impaled. The traces being cut, the animal fell down to
the bottom of the area, fortunately alighting on his legs.
He was ultimately taken through the kitchen, a door
which opened into the area, and conveyed through the
lower part of the house leading into the street, having re-
ceived very serious injuries. A short time after the acci-
dent, another carriage from Croxteth, containing the Earl
of Sefton and another gentleman, drove up to the scene
where the accident had happened, when Lady Townley
and the party proceeded to the Catholic ladies' charity
ball, at the Town-hall, Lady Townley being the lady pa-
troness.

CORRESPONDENCE.

BOOTLE FERRY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—Allow me, as one of the million who have been
deprived of the outlet afforded to this large town by the
invigorating breezes of the North Shore, in consequence
of the extension of the North Docks, to solicit your power-
ful aid in obtaining from the Dock Trustees a good land-
ing-slip at the furthermost point of the North Docks. By
so doing they would give another opening to this large
population, and a great facility to the inhabitants of Li-
therland, Crosby, and Bootle, at a very light expense.
Should your efforts succeed, there is a party who would
at once put on the station a boat to run the whole line of
docks, say from the South Slip to Bootle; or the Corpo-
ration might profitably employ their own boats in running
them on this station.—Yours, &c.,

ENTERPRISE

[We will gladly do all in our power to forward the car-
rying out of our correspondent's suggestion, and perhaps
we ought not to omit offering to our readers the assurance
that the writer of the preceding letter is known to us, and
is not likely to make a proposal unless quite convinced of
its utility, and fully prepared to give practical effect to it.]