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be asked, why a delay of twelve hours at Moville? The answer is-the Bar at Liverpool. The genius and pre-vision of the dock and harbour people at Liverpool keep the entrance to that port in a disgraceful condition, year after year-year after year. And the trade of Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire, is compell

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side of the Atlantic, owing to shallow water outside the entrance to Liverpool, and you enforced the necessity of some improvement, in a

urgent, the bar, with its eight feet of water at low tide, remain

the noble Cunard ship 'The Etruria,' experience

f the northernmost dock later on. Here the usual process of hauling the ship round by the aid of the tug took place, and then the further process of putting the baggage on board the tug, in advance of taking the passengers. I was fortunate in being taken off the ship in a special tug-boat by some friends, got to the landing- stage, where the baggage is examined by th

and one hour after on an ebbing, tide. Thus, for such a ship-and the tendency is to build larger and larger vessels-the margin, even in moderate weathe

to be tied to the bar at Liverpool; and, in the new competition of ports,

h Committee I had the honour to sit, it was proved that every country in Europe,

ting traffic to and from the great British possess

is accepted as a religion. But some of us may be pardoned if,

a second entrance to the Mersey, always accessible, and obviously alternative. This was the advice of Telford seventy years ago, and 'The Times' has call

n passengers might have left Holyhead on Saturday evening ins

ain very fait

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word miswritten, and, therefore, misprinted, which I have corrected: but the broad fact remains, and why my compatriots in the broad Lancashire district d

he scene of many wrecks, and of disasters around. It has a ligh

hat to the Editor of the

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k out from Liverpool, and five days from out of sight of land to sight of la

in the sense that it affects the lives of large numbers of persons, especially of the emigrant class, and

a lighthouse, with a fixed light, which can be seen sixteen miles. Not long ago, as I learn, a deputation from the Board of Irish Lighthouses went all the way to England to beg the Board of Trade, at Whitehall, to sanction the expenditure of eight hundred pounds, with a view to double the power of the light on Tory Island. Perhaps the Board of Trade, after some in

e mainland of Ireland and its telegraph system. The cost of doing this one way would, as I estimate, be

nny Point, or at Tramore Bay, where there is a similarly favourable beach. The distance in the former case is six and a half, in the latter seven and a half miles, the distance being slightly affected by the starting point sel

signal station. The distance is twenty-nine miles; the cost, as I estimate, about six thousand pounds. I should,

m is composed of sand and shells, very good for cable-laying; an

the North of Ireland route for Liverpool, Londonderry, Belfast, Glasgow, and a host of other ports and places. It can be approached with safety at a dis

do the same. Again, all sailing vessels, carrying a great commerce for Liverpool and ports up to Greenock and Glasgow, and round the north of Scotland to Newcastle and the East Coast ports, woul

s a day to the passengers going on by trains. As respects the Scotch steamers going north of Tory Island, it would enable the owners to learn the whereabouts of their vessels fourteen hours sooner than at present. In the case of sailing ships the advantages are far greater. Captain Smith, of this ship, a commander of deserved eminence, informs me that he has known sailing ships to be tacking about at the ent

und and to disabled ships the means of thus

triots, who have taken the Irish and Scotch emigrants under their special protection. I respect

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lay might make help too late. I ventured to call the attention of a leading member of the Canadian Government to this want of means of sending intelligence of passing ships and ships in distress. In winter this strait is closed by ice, and the lighthouses are closed too. Inside the fine inlet of "Amour Bay," a natural dock, safe and extensive, we saw the masts of a French man-of- war. The French always protect their fishermen; we at home usually let them take care of themselves. This French ship had been in these English waters some time; and on a recent passage there was gun-firing, and the movement of men, to celebrate, as the captain learned, the taki

twenty-four years. I stayed the night at Russell's Hotel; and next day renewed my acquaintance with the city, finding the "Platform" wonderfully enlarged and improved, the work of Lord Dufferin, a new and magnificent Courthouse being built, and, above all, an immense structure of blue-grey stone, intended for the future Parliament House of the Province of Quebec. The facility of borrowing money in England on mere provincial, or town, security, appears to be a Godsend to architects and