The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-26 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY PASSAGE OF THE
JAMES BAINES.

Tnis magnificent clipper ship arrived here at 11 o'clock,
yesterday morning, under the command of Captain Charles
M`Donnell, (late of the Marco Polo,) having made the
shortest passage from Boston ever accomplished by a sail.
inn vessel. She left Boston at 1, p.m., on the 12th inst.,
and her passage, therefore, allowing for difference of time,
is only 12 days 17 hours, being a day shorter than the
celebrated passage of the Lightning. During the greater
part of the passage, the winds, though favourable, were
only moderate, and Captain M`Donnell believes that,
had he been favoured with strong winds throughout,
the ship would have reached here in less than nine days.
Her log shows that up to noon, on the 13th, she has sailed
225 miles; 14th, 238; 15th, 218; 16th, 305, the wind
from S.W. to N.W. ; 17th, 290; 18th, 198 ' • 19th, 342,
the wind N.N.W. ; 20th, 200 ; 21st, 230 ; 226, 291; 236,
337, wind S.S.W.; 24th, 296 miles; passed Cork at 8,
a.m., Tuskar at 3, p.m., and Holyhead at 9, p.m. ; 25th,
arrived in the Mersey at 11, a.m. The James Baines at
once went into the Coburg Dock, and moored alongside
the Champion of the Seas, which vessel she slightly
exceeds in size, being the largest and finest merchant ship
in the world.

We have not space for a minute description of the ship
this week, and can only briefly say, that she has all the
beauty of form and magnificence of interior fittings for
which Mr. Donald M`Kay's ships are so famous. Her
burthen is about 4,000 tons, and she will form one of the
"Black Ball Line" of Australian Packets, owned by
Messrs. James Baines and Co., who have now in port
three of the finest ships in the world—namely, the
Champion of the Seas, the Indian Queen, and the James
Baines. The James Baines brought over -a few cabin
passengers and cargo.

Srpprii DEITIL—On Friday afternoon, Mr. Charles
Frederick Parsons, aged 56, solicitor, of 43, Eldon-place,
was found lying dead, with his body partly in the passage
of the house occupied by the Adelphi Loan Society, Ren-
shaw-street, against the door of which he had apparently
fallen. At the inquest, on Saturday, a verdict of " Died
from apoplexy" was recorded.
TIIB REPRSSENTATIOX OF WIGAN.—The vacancy in
the representation of Wigan, caused by the death of
Mr. Thicknesse, was gazetted on the Bth instant, and
the Speaker of the House of Commons stated in the
notification, that in fourteen days he would issue his
writ for the election of a burgess to fill up the vacancy.
It was therefore expected that the writ would be issued
on Friday last, and received in Wigan on Saturday
morning ; but no writ came, nor did it arrive by the
afternoon mail. The proclamation would not therefore be
made before yesterday, and Friday next will be the
earliest day on which the nomination can take place. Up
to Thursday night it was generally thought that there
would not be a contest, but a meeting of the friends of
Mr. Francis Sharpe Powell (the Conservative candidate
at the last election) was then held at the Royal Hotel,
and it was possitively announced by the chairman that
Mr. Powell had consented to offer himself. It was also
stated that the address would be out on the following
morning, when a canvass would be commenced in every
ward. Considerable excitement prevailed in consequence
during Friday, and there was much anxiety to see the
promised declaration. On Friday evening an address
from Mr. Powell appeared on the walls of the town, but
not such as was anticipated, and it created much dissa-
tisfaction amongst his friends. Mr. Powell says " Not-
withstanding the resolutions passed at the meeting which
was held last evening, and the strong feeling which has
been displayed by a large portion of your body in favour
of my now becoming a candidate for your suffrages, on
mature reflection, I am reluctant to expose the town to
the excitement of a contest in the present state of parties
and the peculiar posit ion of Parliament." He expressed
his gratitude for the renewed expressions of confidence
and fresh promises of support"
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concludes by saying, " yet hope to become
representatives, and I sincerely trust that the time is not
for distant when that hope will be accomplished." All
fear of a contest is now at an end, and there is every
appearance that the election will be the quietest which
has taken place since 1832.