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

THE PROCESSION

The procession on the occasion will consist of about
6,000 persons, of whom 1,000 will be Freemasons, and
1,000 Oddfellows. The boys of the Blue Coat Hospital

will head the procession. The 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 interminable 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 expected, 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 precession 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, proceed
along St. Anne•street and the line of streets to Alount-
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 Leece.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 Mr. 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 acts 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 purpose, and
which we have also seen at Mr. Dismore'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 i
otherwise so handsome and un

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THE FIREIVORI

Atkins, of the Zoolo;

Gardens, has received orders from the authorities to give
a magnificent display of fireworks on the night of the

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
by the spectators.

may be anticipated

PREPARATIONS BY THE YACHT CLUB

honour to the royal visitor as time and circumstances
will permit, and the Dock Committee will, we learn,
afford them every possible encouragement. A display,
in the shape of a sailing match, or showing off in the

idity of his movements,, might be unt
It is therefore contemplated—though no pre-
cise arrangement is vet determined upon, that the yachts

cessary ra

witness it

will congregate on the spacious half-tide basin north of
the Albert Dock, all decorated with flags, with their
spars manned by their crews in similar nautical attire,
and their owners, and all their friends (of the club) on
board of them in their full uniform. After the Royal Yacht
has entered the dock, it is intended that the whole of th
yatcbts, thus appointed, shall be to
Dock by a small steamer, or steam

from north to south, or perhaps in minia-
ture nu taKe tomplaces,
eip;ireliesnenst'ation of two fleets in order of battle.
this be accomplished, (and we see nothing to
p l
Shoulda c e s
r,
pre-
vent it,) the sight, conjoined with the presence on the
same expanse of water with the Royal Yacht, will present
a beautiful appearance, and no doubt add to the gratifica-
tion of the numerous ladies and others who will on that
day throng the extensive galleries, or platforms, erected
on the south and west sides of the dock, who will obtain
an uninterrupted view of the whole fleet.

THE SUGAR DUTIES.—We learn from a sure source
that the ministerial plan is—first, to impose immediately
a uniform duty of 235. 4d. on all foreign sugars of free
labour or slave labour origin for three years ; second, after
the lapse of threw years the differential duty in favour of
British sugars to be eliminated in the course of three
years by a regularly decreasing scale. This, with the abo-
lition of the restrictions on the free use of sugar and mo-
lasses in this country, and the equalisation of the duties
on rum and British spirits, will do.—Colonial Gazette.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—On Thursday a la-
bourer on the Birmingham and Derby Railway, whilst
crossing the lige, was run over by an engine coming up
unexpectedly. The wheels passed over his body, and al-
most severed it in two.—On Friday a child, 22 months
old, whilst straying on the railway at Beeston, near Not-
tingham, was knocked down by a train, which unfortu-
nately killed it. The little thing was the child of a game-
keeper living near the line, and being placed in a chair
byits mother whilst she made tea, had strayed away.