The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-23 00:00:00

tJubltr Rota, 0.

FOUND.

A SUM of MONEY was left on board the PRINCESS
ROYAL, on her passage fr •Gliigow, 18th instant. The
Owner will have it restore application to the Agent at Li-
verpool.

BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.
FIRE POLICE RATE, SEWER RATE, PAVING RATE,
GENERAL RATE,: WATER RATE, AND LIGHTING
RATE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the-Council
of the said Borough intend, on WEDNESDAY, the First
day of May next, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, in the
Council-chamber, within the Town-hall, to make a RATE, not
exceeding One Farthing in tWound, upon all Property within
the Borough by law rates to the relief and employment of
the Poor, for defraying the costs, charges, and expenses of
maintaining the FIRE POLICE of the Borough; and that on
the said First day of May, at the time and place aforesaid,
the Council intend to make, under the provisions of an Act
passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the 9th and 10th
years of the reign of her present Majesty, entituled " An Act
" for the Improvement of the Sewerage and Drainage of the
" Borough of Liverpool, and for making further provisions for
" the Sanatory Regulation of the said Borough," a SEWER
RATE, a PAVING RATE, a GENERAL RATE, and a WATER
RATE, in and for the several and respectice districts consist-
ing of the Parish of Liverpool, the Township of Kirkdale, the
Township of Everton, and so much of the Township of West
Derby, and of the Extra-parochial place of Toxteth-park, r:-
spectively, as is within the said Borough; such Rates, respec-
tively, to be made and levied upon the Owners and Occupiers
of all Property within the said Borough liable by law to be
rated to the same Rates respectively. And
That the Assessors appointed by the Council, under the
powers of the several Statutes in that behalf, intend to meet
at the Town-hall, within the said Borough, on the said Ist day
of May, at Two o'clock in the Afternoon, to make a RATE
for defraying the charges of LIGHTING the Borough.
AND NOTICE IS HEBERT FURTHER GIVEN, that State.
ment of each of such proposed Rates is deposited at the Trea-
surer's Office, Public Offices, No. 2, Cornwallis-street, in the
said Borough, and may be inspected on any day (Sunday
excepted), between the hours of Nine o'clock in the Forenoon
and Four o'clock in the Afternoon.
Dated this 23rd day of April, one thousand eight hundred
and fifty. By order,
WM. SHUITLEWORTH, Town-clerk.

COLOUR OF THE SEA.—The colour of the sea is gene-
rally of a deep bluish green, which becomes clearer and
brighter towards the coasts. The sea, however, is sub-
ject to remarkable changes of appearance, different
shades,—from the deepest indigo to green, and even to a
slaty grey,—being produced from the shifting sunshine or
passing clouds. The colour in some parts depends upon
local causes; thus a purple tint is said to pervade the
waters in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. In
the Gulf of Guinea the sea is white, and around the Mal-
dives it is black. Between China and Japan it is yellow-
ish ; and west of the Canaries and Azores it is green.
Off California, the Vermilion Sea is so named from the
colour it often assumes. At the mouth of the Ls Plata,
the sea is of a reddish tinge; and of a similar colour in
the Red Sea, whence its name. M. Ehrenberg assserts
that the colour of the latter sea is owing to a species of
oscillaria, a microscopic being, intermediate between the
animal and vegetable kingdom.
Mr. Lahouchere intends merely to amend the present
Mercantile Marine Bill at its present stage, instead of
waiting to do so when in committee.