The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-19 00:00:00

THE NEW CUSTOM-HOUSE.

As this magnificent structure, at once the offspring and the
most splendid ornament of the extending commerce of the town,
will shortly be opened, the following particulars respecting it,
for which we are chiefly indebted to Mr. Weythman, the prin-
cipal draughtsman to the architect, and Mr. Argent, the clerk
of the works. may not be uninteresting :
The builditt is erected on the site of the Old Dock, or, as it
was originally called, about a century ago, " The Dock," and
for magnitude and acdommodation is unequalled by any other
in the town: The trade of the port having increased to such a
degree that the old custom-house was found quite inadequate to
the purposes required, and the excise-office, the office for the
distribution of stamps, post-office, and dock-offices being all
separated. by considerable distances from each other, the cor-
poration determined upon erecting the present magnificent
structure, on a scale commensurate with the growing importance
of the town. Mr. Foster, the corporation architect, was accord-
ingly requested to prepare designs for the intended erection, it
having been decided that the central situation in which it now
stands- was the most fitting that could be found. A negotiation
was opened on the subject with government, and through the
powerful mediation of Mr. Canning and Mr. Huskisson, ar-
rangements were satisfactorily made for its commencement. It
wAs resolved that the corporation should give the land, valued
at £9O,(XX), should undertake the erection of the building, and
at the expiration of twenty years should cede the building to the
government, on the express stipulatiob that the latter should
pay to the corporation the sum of £150,000, by annual instal-
ments of LAW).
Mr. Foster's chaste design having received the approval of
the Lords of the Treasury and the Board of Works, the founda-
tion-stone was laid in the northeast corner of the dock, on the

12th of August, 1828, by the worshipful the mayor, Thomas
Colley Porter, Esq., with every demonstration of joy. A splen-
did procession, composed of many members of the common
council, and other gentlemen, and the various trades of the
town, as a marked triblite of the- respect in which the worthy
magistrate was held, attended his worship on this occasion, and
to the evening a sumptuous banquet was given at the Town-
hall, by the mayor, to upwards of two hundred gentlemen.
The whole of the basement is vaulted for the reception of
bonded or other goods. The entire west wing is set apart for the
customs' offices, and in the centre are the approu,oes and the
" Long-room." The southern part of the east wing is appropri-
ated to the general postoflice ; above this are the excise offices,
and the remaining portion comprises the stamp-office, the dock
treasurer's and secretary's offices, and the board-room and
offices of the dock committee. This stupendous pile, at once a
great public convenience and ornament, is in the lonic style of
architecttire. The east and west fronts, together with the
centre, have splendid porticoes adorned with the royal arms.
Some idea may be formed of the magnitude by the dimensions
subjoined.
The basement is rusticated, and each angle of the building is
ornamented by a bold pilaster supporting an entablature, which
j is carried round three sides of the edifice. Through the centre
of the building are three footwalks for the convenience of the
public, to connect the bottom of Pool-lane with Park-lane. On
the right and left of these footwalks are small flights of steps
leading to the passages and grand staircases. This part of the
building has groin and semi arches, with sunk panels of hewn
stone, springing off clusters of pilasters and opposite antra.
Four magnificent double staircases lead to the long room, which
has a segment-ceiling supported by sixteen columns, thirty-two
pilasters, and twenty-eight semi-pilasters. the columns being 27
feet in height and 3 feet in diameter. The length of-this splen-
did chamber is 146 feet; the width 70 feet; and the total height
is 45 feet. The whole is surmounted by a beautiful dome of
about 50 feet high. Two smaller domes admit light to the cen-
tre of the east and west wings and their passages.
The walls of this immense structure have been, brought up
from the bottom of the Old Dock, an average depth of. 32 feet
below the street level; the stone for the principal part of the
work was brought from the Manley Quarries, in Cheshire, and
is a beautiful freestone of great durability. The plinth is of
granite, from the Bramley-fall Quarries, in Yorkshire; and the
beautiful columns of the interior are for the most part of Talacre
stone. The building was delayed for about six months by a
strike of the workmen connected with the trades' union. We
believe it was one of the first in which steam-engines have been
used for hoisting the materials. Including the 'sunken areas, it
covers 6,700 superficial yards of land, and we may safely pro-
nounce it to be a building of which Liverpool has reason to he
proud. The vaults are lighted by 33 windows of 5 feet in height ;
the ground or principal floor by 84 windows of 10 feet 4 lilacs
in height; and the second floor by 102 windows of 12 feet 6
inches iu height, except those in the long-room. which have semi-
circular heads, and are 16 feet 10 inches high. The whole of
the windows on the east, west, and north fronts have moulded
architraves. Besides these, the attics are lighted by 97 windows,
73 of which are not visible from the street. _

The extreme length of the building, measuring from east to
west through the. porticoes, is 466 feet 8 inches; the extreme
length of the wings is 224 feet 7 inches; the width of the wings
is 94 feet 4 inches; the length of the centre is 6252 feet 6 inches;
the width of the centre through the portico is 95 feet. The
depth of the base and plinth is 7 feet 5 inches; the full height
of the columns, including the'cap and base, is 50 feet 9 inches;
and the diameter 5 feet. The depth of the architrave and facia
is 4 feet 2 inches; depth of the frize,l feet 7 inches; thickness
of the cornice, 3 feet 10 inches; height of the blocking or para-
pet, 4 feet 6 inches; making a total height from the plinth of
66 feet 10 inches. The height of the first floor above the flagging
of the footwalks is 6 feet ; height of the principal story, 2(1 feet;
height of the second story, 21 feet 6 inches; height of the attics,
14 feet 8 inches. Unlike many of the public buildings of the
metropolis, the Liverpool Customhouse is admirable from its
simplicity and modest grandeur. No puerile attempt at osten-
tatious decoration disfigures the pile, but all harmonises with
tile intention of the building, viz., a commercial edifice for the
accommodation of a commercial people, "whose merchants
are. princes," and whose enteiprise is bounded only by the
horizon.

The following gentlemen were the contractors for the work.;
masonry,. Messrs. Tomkinsou and :on; brickwork, Messrs. S.
and J. koline ; carpenters and joiners' work, Messrs. Foster
and Stewart; slating and plastering, Mr. R. M•Kee; plumbing
and glazing, Mr. J. Knight; painting, Mr. J. Thompson ; iron
work, Messrs. Mather, Dixon, and Co.

A PAMPERED IRISH PROTESTANT CLERGYMAN.—At a meet-
ing of the clergy and others, connected with the deanery of
Southwark, held on Thursday, at St. Saviour's Church, for the
purpose
is
of addressing the king on the dangers to which protest-
autism exposed, the Knight of Kerry related that he had re-
ceived a letter from a clergyman in Ireland in which he stated
the following facts :—viz. "that his family were thirteen in num•
her, that his glebe consisted of twelve acres which were culti-
vated by his own sons, and which barely supplied them with
roots to keep them from starving ; that he had bot £5 in the
house since last October, and it was borro•ved money; and that
finally he was so far reduced as to be unable to release his letters
front the Post-office !" This illustration of one of "the pampered
clergy of Ireland" we recommend to the attention of Mr. Arch-
deacon Glover, ,whose disgracefully false account of the Church
of Ireland received its merited exposure at the hands of the
Knight of Kerrv, who we take to he a better authority than the
political chaplain of Mr. Coke of llo;kham, and who made him-
self conspicuous some few years ago by publicly, praying for
Queen Car line I—The Age,

TON ACES.
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HOUGHTON, EST,, M
Stewards.
WEDNESDAY, June lith.—The 'Trial Stakes Of 10 sows each;
with 25 sovs added. One mile and a quarter. 5 subs. •
Sir T. Stanley's ii c Intriguer, 4 yrs 1
Mr Nanncv's be Friar Tuck, 3 yrs '2 Mr E. Peel's ch g Noodle. 4 yrs • • a
Sir J. Boswell's b m Lady Moore Carew, 5 yrs - U
6 to 4 on in triguer.--Won easy.
The Produce Stakes of 50 sows each, It ft. One utile and ti
Mr Houhlsworth's ch c Turdban,istance. by Sultan , Mr W
I
Turner's eh c Equator, by Battledore - • •
Eight paid.-3 to lon 'Turban; a good race,
The Golborne Stakes of 20 sovs each, for two year olds. The
Golborne Course.
Mr Peirse's b f by Waverley
- 1
Sir Thomas Stanley's ch fby Battledore • - - 4 2
Mr Armitage's ch c Brother to Her Majesty • 0
Mr W. Turner's hr c Blackburn, by Peter Lely
Mr R. Turner's b f by Olympus
Mr Allanson's eh f Vulture -
Mr E. Peel's hr c Morriscn
Lord Derby's ch f Glee, by Langar. 4 0
Mr Powlett's b f Miss Julia; Sister to Francesca - 0
Mr Birch's ch c Reuben, by Bay Mahon
Mr Philip's br cby Bay Mallon 4
Mr Thompson's ch f Lady Frances, by Predictor
Mr Mostyn's b c Tom Shipman, by Teniers - • 0
Three paid.-5 to 2 agst Sir T. Stanley's ch fby Battledore;
6 to 4 agst b f by Waverley.—A good race.
A Gold Cup, value £lOO, the gift of the Lord of the Manor,-
added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, and
sif declared on the Ist of April. Two miles and a distance:
20 subscribers.
Sir J. Boswell's ch c General Chasse. 4 yrs, Bst 71b 1
Mr E Peel's eh c Tainworth, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b '
Mr Bower's b ur Lady Stafford, 6 yrs, Bst slb
Mr G. Cook's br c Red Rover, 4 yrs, '7st 81b 4 4
Mr 'Wilbraham names b g Mezereon, 5 yrs, Bst 411• • 0
Mr Cri!ehley names b c Lord Francis, 3 yrs, sst 13. b ' 0
Mr R. Turner's br f Miss Golborne, 4 yrs. 7st lib U
Sir J. Boswell's br c Masetto, 4 yrs, Bst 31b - 4.. U
Sir J. Hilton names eh c Fitzdictor, 5 yrs, Bst 31b
5t04 on Chasse, 3to 1 agst lied Rover.—A good race, hut _
won easily.

A Plate of £7O, for horses, &c., that never won £5O.
General Yates's hr Grarninont, 8 yrs 1
Mr Ha

__mer's , c Luck's All, 4 yrs 2 2
Mr Thompson's ch c Soho, 4 vrs - 3 0
Mr Mostyn's ch. f L'Hirondelle, 3 yrs • - 0
Mr Bower's hr c Tom Basford, 3 yrs 0
Mr Hindle's br f CharkAte, 4 vrs - '‘)
Mr H. J. Mostyu's ch c The Miner, 3 yrs - p
THURSDAY.
A Sweepstakes of 20 sues each, with 20 sovs added, for three
year old flies.—one mile and a half.
Lord Derby's ch f Verbena ,., 1
Mr Mostvn's ch f Usury 2
Mr W. Turner's ch fby Lottery—Eleanor • • a
Mr Birch's gr fby Autocrat ' r
The Borough Cup, value 100 sovs, aided to a subscription of
10 sovs eacn h. Two miles. 8 subs.
Sir .T. Boswell 'S ch c Geeral Chasse, 4 yrs • - 1
Sir 'l'. Stanley's b-c lntriguer,4 vrs _ ,
• - 2
The St. Leger Stakes of 25 sovs each, with 25 sacs added. One
mile and three-quarters.
Mr W. Turner's ch c Equator, by Battledore
Mr Nanney's b c Friar Tuck, by Emilius
Lord Derby's ch c Aniurath, by-Langar • 3
Two paid.
A Plate of £7O. Heats two miles. 9 subs.
Mr E. Peel's ch g Noodle, 4 yrs • • 1 1
Sir T. Stanley's b e Young tarragon, 4 yrs • . 2 ../
The fob

following races come off this day :—The Shriglev Cup;
value 10J sous., given by Win. Turner, Esq., M.P., added td
a Ilandicap'Stakes of 15 sties. each, 10 sues. ft.; 28subscribers;
12 of whom pay 5 sues, each. The Warringt,in Purse of 5U
snvs., added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 Stirs. each:
Mitch for 100 sues., h.ft., the St. Helen's Purse, and a Platd
of £70., 15 subscribers.

PRICES OF SHARES, LIVERPOOL, JUNE 18, 18:35,

Liverpool Coal Gas Per Nhalr.. ..
Liverpool New G ...
... 1:300 0 0
as and Coke Company, £lOO
........ 180 0 0
New Shares,premium £3o , BO 0 0 Liverpool and Harrington Water Works
Exchange B - . £lOO paid 2ko 000
Ditto Old Quarters 25 49 0 4
Ditto Now Quarters - 25 —4815 0
Bolton and Leigh ditto
Ditto
25 20 0 0 Warrington and Newton ditto
Kenyon and Leigh ditto
Preston And Wigan North Union Line 11:t1.1 2O 13 5 0 St. Helens and Runcorn Gap ditt0...... .. • 300 45 0
Leicester and Swannington ditto -
Stockton and Darlington ditto
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Railway 1
38 20 2 6 ----
and Canal
Leeds and Selby Railway
Grand Junction ditto
London and Birmingham ditto 35 45 10 0
Bank of Liverpool lO .14 5 5
0
Sank of Manchester 25 —32 (1
Manchester and Liverpool District Bank l5 20 5 0
Commercial Bank of Liverpool lO ---13 7 6
Liverpool Marine Assurance Company 25 21 0 0
Oldham Gas Light and Waterworks - 17 0 0
Manchester Fire and Life Assurance C 0...., 10 10 0 0
Ocean Assurance Company
Northern and Central Bank of England lO 11 0 0

WANTED.
Exehan,,e Shares—Liverpool New Gas and Coke Shares—Mersey
and Irwell.

RICHARD DAWSON, Share Broker.

ODD Fisti—We have been furnished with the follOtving, et:
tract from the log book of the whale ship Brighton, R., Tucker-
man, Master Thursday, April 11, IBM —This twentv.four
hours pleasant trades. Saw a curious fish, very much like, or
a mermaid itself; was about nine feet long, laid on its hack
about one foot under water, the bead about as large as human,
and the same shape, the neck about as large and long as a
man's, the arms or flippers about two feet long, about ten inches
wide at the shoulders, and tapered to a point, the tail much like
kporpoise ; the colour brown, a light coloured streak on each
side, abort four inches wide, from the shoulders to-the tail, with
dark spots therein. Lat. 5, 17, 8, and long , by chronometer,
109, 47. W., and by lunar, 109, 14, W."—Salem (American)
Mercury.

INDUCEMENT OF ALFIZEDTHE'GREAT TO LEARN To REA
It was Alfred's misfortune in infancy to lose his mother, a per-
son of excellent ablility and conspicuous piety : his extraordinary
talents, therefore, owed but little to her culture. Nor does any
uegree of scholarship appear to have entered into the plans of
those who directed his earlier education. He was trained in the
habits of a sportsman and a warrior; but his twelfth year over-
took him while yet unable to read. Ile had shown, however,
a considerable taste for literature, in his keen attention to the
poems commonly recited in the royal presence. By one of these,
beautifully written, his mother-in-law, Judith, endeavoured tct
shame the gross illiteracy of her new connexions. " I will give
this," she said, " to that one of you. young people, who shall first
learn it by heart." Aifred gazed eagerly upon the manuscript,
fascinated particularly by an illuminated capital. " Now, will
you really give this ?" he asked. Judith declared herself in earns
est. Nothing more was needed by the resolute and intelligent
boy. He applied himself instantly to learn his letters, nor did he
rest until able to repeat accurately the poem that had so happily
captivated his eye. Ile now found his eager thirst of knowledge
met by a mortifying repulse. Reading to any extent, or to much
advantage, required a knowledge of Latin. Upon overcoming
this new difficulty he soon accordingly determined. But iustrue,
Lion was not easily obtained. even by a prince. The taste fots
learning, and the facilities for its cultivation, which England
once owed to Theodore, had become extinct. Alfred, however,
feeling ignorauce insupportable, was impelled by a generous
energy to set ordinary obstacles at defiance, and he diligently
sought instructors. Wow effectually he profited by their aid, his
literary labours most nobly testify, These evidences of learned
industry are, indeed, sufficient for immortalizing any name in
a dark and tempestuous age. As the works of an author, unable
even to read, until fulls- twelve years old, and who grew into man.-
hood before he had mastered Latin, they chins a distinguished
place among victories of the human intellect. —Soatne's History
of the Anglo-Saxon Church.
Cheap KNOWLEDGE!—One of the most "public-spirited" and
" patriotic"- booksellers in London—the ultra-liberal member of
the coaimon council of London, and most conspiennus joint in
the tail of Mr. Grote, when that gentleman waited upon the
chancellor of the exchequer the other day to urge u'on hint the
propriety of abolishing the newspaper stamp-duty, in eider that
people might get knowledge cheaper—has copied from the
newspapers and published in the shape of a pamphlet Lord
John- Russell's speech on the corporation reform—and for the
small charge (!I three pence? Can-any thing be more tibtru/ than
the conduct of this cherip-inowledge monger? Instead of en-,
gaging reporters to take the speech for him, he waits quietly 11D-.
til the newspapers have taken all that trouble and expense off
his hands ; an.: then, purchasing twenty-four columns of "taxed
knowledge" for serenpenre, he generously reprints three co-
lumns of the four and - twenty, • stitches them into untaxed parn,'
phlets, and_demands only three pence a-piece for them !--t hat is
to say, only about two-thirds more money than the taxed news,
paper-maker with all his expensive array of 'expresses, report=
ers, &c. &c., gets ter his whole twenty-four columns ! Can any
thing be more patriotic? Why, if the whole twenty-four co-,
burins were to be thus scissored, and pasted, and reprinted at
the same rate, a sevenpenuy newspaper, paying a feurpenny
tax, might he concerted into just tieo shit.lings worth of "or!taxed
knowledge !!" Can any thing he more.cleap. and public-spi-
rited? This is a curious fact, and well artnah the consideration
of Mr.'Spring Rice and the more gullible portion of the public.
—Morning Herald;

BROUGHAM AND BnUCE C ASTIE.—The father of the notosia
ous MattheW Davenport Hill, late member for Hull for the:
good of the public, and member of divers Whig cOmini,sions fur
the gond of himself, is the sou of a Sucinian schoolmaster At
Tottenham, who carries on the pedagogue's trade in a lino .e
which he styles " Bruce's Castles""This said ca,tle, tor board-
ing school, has the honour of furnishing no less than fire voteis
to Mr. HuMe's poll—to wit;
Hill, Thomas One-sixth share of Bruce Castle, in coo-.
Wright freehold huUse junction with his sons,
Edwin, 1- -land,

ill, Edwin
ill, Rowland
ill, Frederic
ill, Arthur
From Fraser's

...., tiowlanu, At,
thur,.and Frederic.
Do. Bruce Castle.
Do. Bruce Caste.
Do. Bruce Castle.
Do. Bruce Castle.
Magazine fur the present month.

Ipswich ELEcTioN.—Messrs. Dundas and Fitzroy Kelly
have been unseated for Ipswich, and the former election has
been declared void. As the matter is before the house of Coin=
mons, we refrain at the present moment froth making many rem
marks—we merely now observe, that front having ourselves
heard the evidence of the witness Pilgrim, and haviug also
hearcrthe solemn and don declaration made by Fitzroy Kelly
before the committee. viz.:—'' I most solemnly declare, upon
my honour as a gentleman, and upon my conscience as a niani
that I was not cognisant of the bribery which is alleged to have
taken place"—having, we repeat, ourselves heard all this, we
have only to reeordiour
t'onvictiun that Mr. Fitziey Kedy
spoke tie truth.' We could say a great deal about Mr. Wason—
but it is not worth while. Vv, e might also sae a little about
hi r. Morrison—but he is too well known to need our noticing
bite. We are glad, however, to hear that neither of these gen-,
Gernert will walk over the course at Ipswich, as Nlt•\V. Holmes
and Mr. E. Broke Vere, (brother of Sir Charles Broke Vete,
the conservative member for East Suffolk), have already taken
the field to oppose them: We shall, we trust, be eycnsed front
asking, now that we are upon the subject, Mess's. Morrison
and Wason, how it happens that they did not proceed with at
serutin;y, which would have seated them, tire rilesars.. Dondat
and Kelly, instead of leaving them to try a lice election ?
Were they afraid ? Perhaps some Pi/soim might bate turned
traitor on their side. However, we trust that the Ipswich. people
know the Vampire Wason and Netting Mot rison as well as tfi EC
do—if they do, there can he no doubt of Messrs.
Broke Vere's success,—The /19e,

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