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

A PEER AND HIS TENANTRY.

We beg to refer the following " address" from the Mar-
quis of Donegal to the electors of Belfast, to the Committee
of Privileges. If it be not an undue and illegal interference
of a peer with the liberty of election—and in his own town
too, and with his cwn tenants—we know not what a breach
of privilege means. Oh !if the Earl of Roden had addressed
such a letter as this to the electors of Dundalk on behalf of
his son Lord Jocelyn—wbat convulsions our radical cotem-•
poraries would be in ? But it is ever thus with that party.
A thorough going whig may steal a sheep with impunity,
while an honest-minded tory cannot look over the 9,11 with-
out being assailed :--

" TO TILE ELECTORS OF BELFAST.
" GENTLEMEN,—I beg to inform you that it is the inten-
tion of my son, Lord Hamilton Chichester, to offer himself
as one of the candidates at the ensuing election, for the ho-
nour of representing your borough in parliament. •
" I have, therefore, to request that you will do me the
favour of keeping your suffrages unpledged, until be shall
have an opportunity of doing so.—l have the honour to be,
Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
" Qrrneau, 7th Jne."

" DONEGAL.

THE " GREAT BRITAIN" IRON STEAM-SHIP.

(From Grantham on Iron for Shipbuilding.)
The scientific world is awaiting with intense interest the
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 which she belongs, with her dimensions,
which are truly gigagblc. They are as follows :
Length of keel .. 289 feet.
Length from figure head to tafrail .. 320 „
Beam
Total depth from underside of the upper
deck to the keel 3l „4inches
Draft of water when loaded l6 „
Tonnage, per old measurement, about.. 3500 tons.
Displacement of water when drawing 16
feet, about..
The plates of the keel are from &dm of an inch thick in
the middle, to 1 inch at the ends ; and all the plates under
water are from iths to inch, at the top, except the upper
plate, which is Iths. 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 1-
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.

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 next 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 914 to 4 ; 3 per
Cents. Reduced, 918 to 92 ; 34 per Cents. Reduced, 1004 to
; Bank Stock, 161 to 168; Exchequer-bills, 48s. to 50s.
premium ; and India Bonds, 225. to 245. premium. Quota-
tions were not affected in any material degree by the dealings
in foreign seeurities. Spanish Actives left off 224 to ;
Ditto. New, 234 to 4 ; Portuguese 5 per Cents., 374 to 38 ;
Ditto, 3 per Cents., 22 to 4 ; Mexican, 364 to 37 ' • Dutch,
'24 per Cents., 524 to 53 • Columbian, 26 to 4; Chilian, 87
to 89 ; Brazilian, 6Gi to 674 ; and Belgian, 102 to 103.
FATAL ACCIDENT WHILE BATHING,-011 Sunday last,
a young man named William Gregory was drowned while
bathing on the Cheshire shore, between Tranmere and Rock
Peril,. 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
Slope, and which, like many other small indentures in the
banks of our river, is dangerous for bathers who cannot
swim. It is supposed that be 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 until 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 a
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 'his estates in the county
of Waterford. They brought nearly £20,000.
TatE HAT H A RVE ST.—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 LirmEnALE.—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 giie 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, *ho, 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 euough 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 saying that Mr. Harris
is disqualified for sitting as the representative of the borough
in parliament.
MalcsLauGHTErt.—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 termtshetoirgewt hoer, rk andth e used
t
m
to send for their beer from a neighbouring public-house
eo ate the
n..
er
jointly : on Tuesday afternoon Pensom sent one of the lads
beero a thein Hallsme a cno
ma mi
neg,
ttoh e latter
passionate
being n
tfiomoil;rennign, pint
of
absent.
Hall discovered that the pint of beer 'had been set
up to him, and unfortunately grew very
sinegguiet,nacebuosf theingPaebnussoimveveterynnosu,trsatgreoocukslyn Pensom, in con-
all a blow on the
face, sharp, but not very serious ; Hall, infuriated with pas-
sion, snatched up a sledge-hammer, and
weapon ;the poor
inflicted a blow On
Pd
ieends ofim.om's htheaedewfreitchtsthine
lmesusrdthearonutsw
jweneti
augharterer
am
er ad
iaant ea ll
fellow
quest was held on Thursday before -four hours !An in-
' wuhaenn. thuealjluarbyscroentduerndedim
1 of the assault was known.—Cheltenham Journal.
William
Y after the serious nature
COMMITTAL OF A SOCIALIST L
with blasphemy. The
Chel-
tenham Police-office, on Friday, ECTURER.—.....
A f the tat,gEaisntsii, coroner,
social lecturer and editor ofll George Jacob
Reason, was
cussion on the existence
charged .e Oracle of
ed in a dis-
stitution, at that place, on thee 24et
of
th )i);•isoner wasepseacgbanies, I ri.
against him were two compositors Deity, yo,f atm theay . M e
Th witnesses
in the Chellen-
el employad
ham Chronicle office, one of whom James Bartraro, d ecPCI
that the prisoner, while delivering a lecture upot.i homy
nisation, said, in answer to a question put to 4 thisb one of
his audience, '' that he thought the peoPle did not believe
were too poor to have any religion • that
would have the
there was such a thing as a God, and that of country
b subalterns—place
Deity served as the government treated t , William Henry
sv.ii[nthe people were too
them on half-pay." The other
Pearce, deposed that the prisoner
A heSaaidded, "for my part, I
poor to have any religion; an" In profess religion ate wor-
am no religion at all; those
o's:believe there is such a thing
eared for the prosecution,
shippers of Mammon. Id o n
nn
denies the existence or provi-
I'le7able to fine, corporal punish-
as a God." Mr. Bubb, .1° i,;rainon law of the land, which
The
inbench then committed him
saidprov
ihdee
dshtnhualtd
anyproceed
p ers oon nb
,;t
raself £loo, and two sureties
dente of the Deity shall
bail,
firstn. traces in waiting to offer bail, b in
, ut Mr.
£5O each. Persons
prisoner should give 24 h
that the
for trial,
aaln,tal
lilUalwpirnisgono.ll7lt;i
ours' notice.
Bubb required
en
, are of those built
IRON CANAL _to
Tin-hi:o
ction of iron v that I can dis-
f the contstru vessels,
cover o
Is of this country. Of these, He was then taken
for the cana
Have back as fort a few, I believe,
y years
were built a
had agood since, and it is stated by
BobaaTeks.
.those who ... opportunity of knowing, that
some of them may still be in existence. During
• of the British Association in ' the meet-
ing
.Glasgow, after a paper had
been read on the subject of iron
communicated facts, which had vessels, several gentlemen
know-
ledge, with respect to their come within their own
earlwriting on this subject, statesy introduction. A friend, in
was at that time that a gentleman in Stafford-
shirehad been at work cntting up some iron vessels which
twenty-eight years. My partner, Mr.
Page, was
engaged i
upwards of in building several canal boats of iron,
thirty years since ; and I have myself seen iron
vessels in
date of the Staffordshire, of a still greater age, but the precise
These factsconstruction of which I could not ascertain.
has lon are interesting, not only as proving that the sub-
jects been under the attention of practical men, but
as evidence of the strength and durability of iron vessels,
points to which I shall hereafter more fully allude.—Grant-
ham on Iron as a Materiat for IS'hipbyilding.