The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-09-23 00:00:00

CO lIREBPOND.ENCIC.

ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUEL

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD'
SlR,—The account of the sailing matea fur the
R.M,Y.C. Challenge Cup, given in this morning's
pressman of your paper, makes the owner of the •' Pbcene"
appear in the very unenviable position of baring made a
frivolous objection to the entry of the " Victoria," as
57 tons. The facts are as follow :—Having seen the
" Victoria" entered for the Cup at Beaumaris last month
a-t 56 tons, I called upon the Secretary R.M.Y.C. pre-
vious to that yacht arriving in the Mersey, to request
that, before starting for the Challenge Cup, she might
be measured, according to the rules of the R.M.Y.C.,
which is compulsory upon all yachts belonging to that
club. This measurement did not take place until yester-
day, and I am informed by the Secretary that the result
gives the " Victoria" 59 80-94 tons.
I have the honour to be,
Your obedient servant,
THOMAS MOSS.

Otlerspool, Sept. 16, 1845.
[Our reporter had the mistake here alluded to corrected
in a portion of our impression of last week, so soon as he
was informed of it; but it is nevertheless due to Mr.
Moss to insert his communication, as it is clear that his
objection was well founded, the Victoria being of more
tonnage than she was entered for.—ED. L.S.]

COMPARATIVE MERITS OF LIVERPOOL AND
BIRKENHEAD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sia,—The rapid progress of the infant prodigy on the
other side the river excites the wonder of most strangers
and visitors. I propose, with your leave, to offer a few
remarks, which may be useful to our Councillors, as well
as the Birkenhead Commissioners. Should they rather
steadily adhere to the plan which they have chalked out,
and not allow Jerry buildings, now so common in Liver-
pool. the rising cal, will no doubt attain that standard of
excellence which few towns in the kingdom will surpass.
To do so they have an example before them, and should
avcid the rock on which the Liverpoolians have split, by
contining to lay out spacious streets running at right
angles, and by no means allow or countenance any tor-
tuous or corkscrew twistings or one-sided street, but
preserve the uniformity of both sides alike. It would be
an impossibility now to make Liverpool a regular town,
still it is susceptible of material improvement, and it is
hoped our Council will not be behind their Birkenhead
neighbours, but strenuously endeavour to rectify, as far
as in them lies, the errors that have been committed by
their predecessors, and obtain at an early period a com-
prehensive Act of Parliament to restrain unprincipled
builders and others from erecting cheap tenements, and
otherwise deforming the suburbs of the town, likewise, to
take a re rospective view, and cause all unwholesome
courts or allels to be opened, or widened, and leading
thoroughfares to be amended, to suit the growing wants of
this vast community.
Liverpool, 20th Sept., 1845.

VIATOR.

HARBOUR OP REFUGE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,-1 find mention made in your valuable paper, that
Her Majesty's Government have placed £30.000 upon the
estimates for improving Holyhead as a Harbour of

Refugc.
The Town of Holyhead runs along a beach, which
beach terminates in an lEthunus called Salt Island ; in
connexion with this is a small rock outside, to the north-
word.
To the south there was a large open space into which
the tide flowed, constituting a dry harbour for small craft.
On my first visit they were then building the present pier,
and if i may so say they were suicidally destroying one of
the most perfect and natural Harbours, not only of
Refuge, but for all commercial purposes to which might
have been projected a splendid Wet Dock,—nature had
formed nine.tenths, and there was only the one left for
man.
They were then I-frying down the foundation-stone with
the Diving Bell in the very centre of the deepest part of
the bay, say some twelve feet water, thereby destroying
one half of the water.
Salt Island formed a natural break-water of itself,
and all that was nec ssary to he done by man` was to have
assisted nature by art, the foundation being formed by
her, and all that man had to do was to fill the space from
Salt Island to the emal' rock to the northward, upon
which rock a light-house might have been etected, or
they might have carried out the pier to the eastward, as
far as was deemed necessary, and have placed the light-
house thereon—(" gas they have done,")—and in so