The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-14 00:00:00

" Ormeau, 7th Jne."

THE "GREAT BRITAIN" IRON STEAM-SHIP,

(From Grantham on Iron for Shipbuilding.)
The scientific world is awaiting with intense interest th,
completion of the iron ship the " Great Britain,"now build-
ing at Bristol. and better known as the " Mammoth." I
have been favoured by Mr. Guppy, the managing director of
the company to wlsih she belongs, with her dimensions,
which are truly gigattic. They are as follows :
Length of keel
Length from figure head to tafrail
Beam..
Total depth from underside of the upper
deck to the keel
Draft of water when loaded .
Tonnage, per old measurement, about.. 3500 tons
Displacement of water when drawing 16
feet, about..
The plates of the keel are from iths of an inch thick in
the middle, to 1 inch at the ends ; and all the plates under
water are from tths to inch, at the top, except the upper
plate, which is tths. She is clencher-built, and double-
rivetted throughout. Towards the extremities, and quite
aloft, the thicknesses are reduced gradually to 7-16ths.
The ribs are framed of angle-iron, 6 inches by 31, by
inch thick at the bottom of the vessel, and 7-16ths thick at
the top, The mean distance of the ribs from centre to cen-
tre is 14 inches; and all these ribs will be doubled; the dis-
tance is then increased to 18 inches, and then gradually to
21 inches at the extremities.

289 feet
320 ~

3000 ton

- -
The boiler platform is of plate iron, supported upon ten
iron kelsons, of which the centre ones are 3 feet 3 inches deep.
These kelsons are formed, like the floorings, of iron plates
placed on edge.

The hull is divided into five distinct compartments by
means of substantial water-tight iron bulkheads.
The decks, which are of wood, consist of the cargo deck,
two cabin decks, and the upper deck.

The Rev. Jacob Picton, incumbent of St. Stephen's
Church, in this town, is about to resign the pastoral charge
of that flock, having accepted a curacy in a rural district in
Staffordshire. We believe the neat presentation is in the hands
of the rectors of Liverpool.

THE FUNDS: SATURDAY EVENING.—The English funds,
with barely such good quotations as they closed yesterday,
remained quiet throughout the day, business being very
limited. Consols for the account closed 911 to 4 ; 3 per
Cents. Reduced, 914 to 92 ; 34 per Cents. Reduced, 1001 to
4 ; Bank Stock. 167 to 168 ; Exchequer-bills, 48s. to 50s.
premium ; and India Bonds, 225. to 245. premjum. Quota-
tions were not affected in any material degree by the dealings
in foreign seeurities. Spanish Actives left off 221 to 4;
Ditto. New, 231 to 4; Portuguese 5 per Cents., 374 to 38 ;
Ditto, 3 per Cents., 22 to 4; Mexican, 36} to 37; Dutch,
2i per Cents., 521 to 53 ; Columbian, 26 to i; Chilian, 87
to 89; Brazilian, 661 to 671 ; and Belgian, 102 to 103.
FATAL ACCIDENT WHILE BATIIING,--011 Sunday last,
a young man named William Gregory was drowned while
bathing on the Cheshire shore, between Tranmere and Rock
Ferry. The deceased, who was about 24 years of age, and
unmarried, was employed as a general servant by Mr. Whal-
ley, of the Adelphi Hotel, Woodside. He stripped about 12
o'clock, and went into the water near a place called Gunner's
Pool—a sort of rut or hole in the sand silt opposite to the
Sloyne, and which, like many other small indentures in the
banks of our river, is dangerous for bathers who cannot
swim. It is supposed that he got into the gut, and finding
himself suddenly out of his depth, became aware of his dan-
ger and soon afterwards sunk. He rose to the surface more
than once, and shouted for assistance ; but though there were
some bathers at no great distance, they were either alarmed
for their own safety, or could not reach him in time ; and he
sank to rise no more. Information was immediately con-
veyed to Mr. Whalley, who lost no time in hastening to the
spot ; but the body was not found nntil the retiring of the
tide, when it was picked up near the spot where the cata-
strophe occurred. It was conveyed to Mr. Quigley's, the
Queen's Arms, Tranmere, where the inquest will be held
this day, before Mr. Churton, the coroner for the district.
The deceased was, we learn, a young man of good character.

We have heard from good authority, that Government are
in possession of information from Jellalabad, three days later
than what has been given to the public, by which the grati-
fying fact is known that General Pollock had effected a
junction with Sir R. Sale, and that the united force would be
competent for offensive operations.—Hampshire Telegraph.

The Bristol and Exeter Railway Company have petitioned
parliament in favor of Bristol, as the most suitable port 'of
communication between this country and Ireland.
Sir Charles Metcalfe, the late Governor of Jamaica, is
daily expected from the West Indies.
Lord Middleton has disposed of 4iis estates in the county
of Waterford. They brought nearly £20,000.

THE HAY HARVEST.—Haymaking is becoming pretty
general, and the crops are good, although the drought of the
last fortnight has, to some extent, diminished them, and in
many parts of the country the want of rain is beginning to
be felt severely.—Morning Herald.

SIR JOSEPH LITTLEDALE.—We regret to learn that this
excellent Judge and most estimable man is labouring under
severe bodily infirmities, and, although no immediate danger
is apprehended, his situation is such as to give the utmost
pain to his friends, and precludes the most remote hope of
his recovery.

NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, SATURDAY. Every thing
up to the present moment is going on triumphantly for Mr.
Colquhoun, the conservative candidate, who, since his arri-
val in the borough on Tuesday last, has met in all quarters
with the most favourable and cordial reception. Having
had two clear days' start of his opponent (Mr. Harris, the
late radical candidate), he has been fortunate enough to
to secure the votes of many of the neutral and wavering
amongst the electors, who generally hold back till the last
moment. Mr. Colquhoun has taken every possible oppor-
tunity of informing the electors of his political opinions,
and his unflinching adherence to the government of Sir
Robert Peel, whose measures he has explained, and strongly
contrasted with the weak, vacillating, and do-nothing policy
of the whig ministry. He expresses his confidence as to
the result of the election ; but under any circumstances he
has the highest legal authority for saving that Mr. Harris
is disqualified for sitting as the representative of the borough
in parliament.
MANSLAUGIITER.—A shocking affray, by which the life of
one man has been forfeited, and the liberty of another will
be sacrificed, took place in the establishment of Mr. Richard
Eede Marshall, ironmonger, of this town, last Wednesday,
Two men in the employ of Mr. M., named Alfred Pensom,
and William Hall, were on friendly terms together, and used
to send for their beer from a neighbouring public-house
cl le
r Setri-
jointly : on Tuesday afternoon Pensom sent one of the lads
for a pint of beer in Hall's name, the latter being at the
time absent. On the men coming to their work the next
iip t o
,Hal
and u
Hall dirforvteurneadtetlliyatgtrleiewpvinertyofyabsesei
or
nhaat
ed
eboene
ing it, abusing Pensom very outrageously. pens,
sequence of the abusive terms, struck Hall a
m blow in
face, sharp, but not very serious ; Hall, infuriated ow
on the
Con-
sion, snatched up a sledge-hammer, and inflicted with p"-
Pensom's head with the murderous weapon the
'
poor fellow
died from the effects in less than twentv_fo4r h
quest was held on Thursday before J. Barrett, ours ! An hi
Esq.,
when the jury returned a manslaughtcoroner,
er against William
Hall. Hall absconded immediately after
of the assault was known.—Cheltenham Jotuhrne
asel.rious nature
COMMITTAL OF A SOCIALIST LECTURER.--At the Chel-
tenham Police-office, on Friday,
social lecturer and editor George Jacob Holyoake.
of le Oracle of Reason, %vaB
dis-
cussion on the existence of the Deit
charged with blasphemy. Theprisoner
twtahseeadin Mechanics'
I e.
stitution, at that place, on the 24th of May.a The
against him were two compositors emplo 'a in the Chelten-
ham Chronicle office, one of whom James Bartram, deposed
that the prisoner, while delivering a lecture upon home colo-
nisation, said, in answer to a questionput to bin, by one of-
his audience, " that he l f this country
thought the peop e 0 believe
were too poor to have any religion ; that he did not
ve the
i there was such a thing as a God, and that lie would ha
witnesses
William
Deity served as the government treated the subalt.erns
Henrylace
them on half-pay." The other witness,
eople were
Pearce, deposed that the prisoner said "din For mypart, I
poor to have any religion; and be added' religion are wor-
am no religion at all; those who proe f
shippers of Mammon. Ido not belie;
d for the prosecution,
u, rbeutti eNs
iirn
as a God." Mr. Bubb, who ILOPe81; jaw of the land, which
there is such a thing
said he should proceed on the comma
is
the existence or provi-
provided that any person who fo fine, corporal punish-
dence of the Deity shall be liable
The bench then committed him
ment, and imprisonmen.
for trial, allowing bail,
£5O each. Persons were. in
himself•‘vainitil:ng"to' aolffidertwboaisl
should give 24 hours' '
the prisonernotice.
Bubb required that
to prison.
He was then taken back
rt rs•---The first traces that I
IRON CANAL ...,0A .
nof iron vessels, are of can
dis-
cover of the contstr
this country.
for the canals of
ek as forty years since a few, I believe,
were built as far ba . . , and It is stated by
hare had a good opportunitof
those who still be in Y knowing, that
some of them !nay •t• -,existence. During the meet-
he British Associa ion in Gias
ing of t gow after a p l d
ion the subject of iron vessel ' aper la
been real
' facts, which had come s, several gentlemen
communicated e within the
ledge, with respect to their early introduction.their own know-
writing on this subject, states that A friend, in
shire was at that time cutting a gentleman in Stafford-
bad been at work twenty-eight some iron vessels which
page, was engaged in g t years. My partner, Mr.
upwards of thirty years si building several canal boats of iron,
vessels in Staffordshire nce ;. and I have myself seen iron
date of the construction, of a still greater age, but the precise
These facts are interesting, of which I could not ascertain.
has long been not only as proving that the sub-
jectas evidence of the under
the attention of practical men, but
points to which I strength and durability of iron vessels,
hans On fro shall hereafter more fully allude.—Grant-
ham as a Material for Shipbuildino.

Elliott, i