Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-17 00:00:00

ThE "NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1857.

charged with having robbed Ann Malloy of 6s 7d., in Chapel
street. Mr. Atkinson appeared to-day on behalf of the
prisoner, having been instructed by some of the prisoner's
friends for that purpose. Ann Malloy stated that she was
an unfortunate girl, and lived in Nsrman-street, off
London road, Liverpool. That on Friday last she came
over to Birkenhead to see a friend. Between 11 and 12
o'clock et night she was returning home by way of
Chapel-street, when rho was suddenly attacked by the
prisoner, who struck her two severe blows in the face, one
on the left eye, and the other on the mouth, cutting
her lip in the inside, which knocked her down, and no sooner
was she down than the prisoner knelt on her chest, and
commenced tearing her clothes to get at her pocket.
She screamed " murder, robbers, and police," when a
yostug man andwoman came up, and the prisoner ran away.
The prisoner tore both her petticoats to pieces, and while do-
ing so she heard money rattle, which consisted of two half-
crowns, some other silver, and copper. She had never
seen the prisoner before to her knowledge, neither had
she been drinking with him. All she drank was one
glass of ale, and, at the tires it happened, she was quite
sober. Thomas Feehan, a boat builder, living in Birken-
head, said that, at the time mentioned, as he was going
down nice-street, he heard the cries of " murder !"
" robbers !"—"police !"—and when he had got to the cor-
ner of Chapel. street, he saw a man running towards him,
followed by a female, who still continued the cries he had
previously heard. At the s Imo instant, a policeman came
running up, and took the prisoner into custody. William
Thompson, one of the Birkenhead police, said that, about
eleven o'clock on the night in question, he was on duty in
Price-street, when he heard cries of " murder !"—" rob-
bery !"—" police !" Running in the direction from whence
the cries appeared to come, he saw the prisoner coming
towards him, and some person shouted. " Stop him."
Directly after the female came up and charged him with
having assaulted and robbed her. On the way to the
police station, the prisoner called the female a b—y
whore, and that he had been drinking with her nearly all
the afternoon at Shaw's, the Market Inn, in Market-street,
and at Rhoden's, the Bird in Hand, in Chapel-street.
Upon getting him to the police station, be was searched,
and 184. 8d was found on him, amongst which were two
half-cro wile one of which the girl identified as being one
of those she had previous to the robbery. On the
fol'owing morning he went to the spot where she said she
had been knocked down, and there found two half-penny
pieces, and the ground very much disturbed, as if a severe
scuffle had taken place. He produced the two petticoa.s,
and also further stated, that when the female came up she
was bleeding very much from the mouth. Mr. Atkinson
endeavoured to prove the prisoner's assertions, that he had
been drinking with the female, but upon cross-examining
the police officer, he elicited that he, (the officer) had
taken the girl to both houses named by the prisoner,
and ascertained that she had been into Shaw's
for a glass of ale, but no one was with her, but she
had not been at Rhoden's. Shortly after Mr. Rhoden came
into court, and, upon being put into the witness box, he
stated that he stood at his bar the whole evening, and was
quite certain that neither the girl or the prisoner had been
there. There was every appearance of the truth of the
girl's statement born out, in a degree, by her bruised face
and mouth, and torn garments. Mr. Atkinson wished to
call witnesses as to character, but none being in attendance,
tile worthy magistrate said he had quite made up his mind,
as the greater part of the girl's evidence had been cor-
roborated, that it was a very brutal assault, and he should
send the prisoner for trial at the next Knutsford sessions.

EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY OF FORGED
BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.

The authorities of the Bank of England have, within
the last few days, instituted an investigation relative to the
extraordinary discovery of a considerable number of £5,
£lO, and £2i) forged Bank of England notes, representing
in the aggregate the large amount of £44755. It appears
that on the 29th of last month a communication was re-
ceived at the Bank from Brussels. intierm!ing the discovery
of the notes is that capital. Mr. Freskfield, the Bank
solicitor, co salted Captain Hodgson, the superintendent
of the city police, and Brett, the detective, was despatched
to Bressees for the purpose of impounding the notes, and
tracing, if possible, the author of the forgeries. The Bank
authorities telegraphed their intentions ; and on Brett
reaching Brussels' he put himself in communication with
Mr. Maltby, the Britisk consul, and Mr. Van Hanw, the
commissary of police, and elicited the following facts:--
About three years ago, late in the evening, a porter, or
messnger, entered the Hotel des Etrangeres, kept by M.
&Refined, No. 34, Rue des Trepiers, with a large brown
leather square hat ly,x in his hand, and addressing the
prrprieter, said he had been sent wi h the box by a gentle-
man who was coming to sleep at the hotel that night, and
handing it over to the landlord, left. Several travellers
stopped at the hotel about the time, but none of them
owned the box, which, after laying some weeks in the bar of
the goats was taken up stairs and deposited in a lumber
room in one of the attics, where it remained undisturbed
until the end of last month, when the proprietor noticing
the accounts in the English Ropers of the recent discovery
at Waterloo-bridge, his curiesit) induced him to break
the padlock, when he found it contained thirteen large
official-lot king sealed envelope parcels. He opened them,
and discovered the contents to consist of some thousands of
what appeared to him to be Bank of England notes.
He took two of them to the shop of Mr. Edward de
Point, a money changer, who detected them to be for-
geries. The discovery was at once communicated to Mr
Maltby, the British Consul, who made it known to the
Bank of England, and box and notes were placed in the
custody of the Brussels police, until the English officer
arrived. They then underwent a strict examination by the
chief engraver of the Belgian Bank, wieo pronounced the
whole of the notes to ba forgeries. The Belgian police
seemed rather perplexed at the fact of so large a quantity
of fictitious notes having escaped the scrutiny of their own
custom-house officials, but on examination of the envelopes
it was ascertained that the parcels had passed through the
post-office from Marseilles, which post mark each bore.
The forged notes were placed in en inner envelope. The
eiuter ones were addressed to different parties in various
places in Belgium (who were known to be living at the
parts named at the time, but since absconded,) while the
inner ones were addressed to persons ie Marseilles. Brett,
the officer, reached London on Thursday, and deposited the
forged notes in the custody of the Bank of England.

SUSPENSION OF A POLICE OFFICER FOR
BRUTAL CONDUCT.

Yesterday a police constable, named Sohn Atkinson,
and who was known in the force as No. 259, was sum-
moned before the magistrates, Messrs. S. Holme and B.
Shell, on a charge of having inflicted such injuries upon
a man named John Price, as to prevent his pursuing his
usual occupation. The complainant, who it appeared was
a very industrious man, and had been in the employ of
the Messrs. Banks, at their oil mill, in Pembroke-street,
for the last eighteen years, stated that four weeks since, on
last Saturday, he had a boiler to clean for his employes,
and as the boiler had to be cooled, he went to work about
seven o'clock. It took between three and four hour: for
the water to be turned off, and about half-past eleven
o'clock, he crossed the street and went over to a public-
house to get a glass of ale. When he was coming out of
the house he saw the policeman who came up to him and
struck him a blow on the ear, which rendered him
insensible, and he did not recollect anything for four days
after. [Hire the complainant handed in a certificate
from a surgeon, who had been attending him for the last
month, and who stated that he had been suffering from a
blow en the ear, and also one from his employes, who gave
him a most excellent character.] The policeman declined
to ask him any questions. A witness was then called, but
the policeman objected to his being examined, as
ho said, " that man was not there at all."
The witness, however, stated that he was in the house at
the time the complainant went in, and they had two
glasses of ale together, and then left ; while they were
standing talking together at the door, the- complainant
having told hies that he had to go to the boiler again, the
policeman peeped round the corner, when they said,
" what, are you come to fine us?" He said you had
better be off. They replied, we are going, and as the
complainant was walking away, he drew his hand from
under his coat, and said, " you —, take that with you,"
and the same time striking him a blow on the head which
knocked him down on the flags. The Policeman : Where
did you say I took my staff from ? Witness : I did not
say you took your staff at all. The complainant laid flat
on his back, when the policeman got hold of him and
began to shake him, and said, "get up you —, or I will
kick you up," and when he did not get up, he said, " Oh,
it is only the gammon." He then said he would go
away and get another officer or two, but the witness told
him he must stop and take care of the man, when he ran
away down Pembroke-place. He was, however, followed,
by:the witness and a cigar- maker,into Daul by-street, where
he was stopped and his number was taken, at the time
running as fast as he could. The defendant denied
that he had struck a blow, ' but alleged that the
man was drunk and fell on the parapet and fractured his
head. To prove this statement a witness was called. He
spoke to the part that he saw, the man fall and the police-
man running away, but could not state anything further.
The complainant and e first witness being recalled,
fully confirmed their previous statement, and identified the
defendant as the man who had committed the assault.
Mr. S. Holme' in giving judgement in this case, said it
was exceedingly painful for magistrates to hear such
charges made ngiinst policemen, who were appointed to
protect the public from assaults, and not commit assaults
themselves. From the evidence, it was clear that the
defendant bad been guilty of great arrogance in his
manner—his conduct hid been most brutal—and his
language disgusting. Having briefly reviewed the evidence
adduced, he said the decision of the bench was, that the
defendant should pay 153. per week for the four weeks the
poor man had been confined through his bratel conduct,
and as it was clear that he was an unfit man to hold the
office of a policeman, that he should be suspended from
his office. [This decision was received wi'h marks of
approbation from the body of the court.]

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MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR.
(NEW WORKS,)

NEW AND ALTERED WORKS AT BIRKENHEAD—EXTENSION
OF NORTH WALL AT LIVERPOOL—PURCHASE OF LANDS
AND QUAYS —EXTENSION OF TIME FOR COMPLETION OF
WORKS AT BIRKENHEAD—AMENDMENT OF LIVERPOOL AND
BIRKENHEAD DOCK ACTS AND OTHER ACTS—EXTINCTION
OF RIGHTS IN RESPECT OF THE WHARF WALLS ALONG
GREAT FLOAT AT BIRKENHEAD AND OTHER PRIVILEGES
—NEW AND ALTERED TOLLS, RATES, AND DUTIES—
ALTIItATION AND REPEAL OF EXEMPTIONS—FURTHER
MONEY.
AHE TRUSTEES of the LIVERPOOL DOCKS,
on behalf of themselves and their intended suecessors,
"THE MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BOARD," HEREBY
GIVE NOTICE, that application will be made to Parliament, in the
ensuing Session, for leave to bring in a Bill for the purposes, and to
enable the Boa'd to construct the Works, and effect the objects
hereinafter mentioned, or some of them, that is to say:
Ist. To meke certain alterations in the Birkenhead Cocks and
Works, in the County of Chester, as authorized to be constructed by
the following (local and personal) Acts, or some of them, namely,
7 and 8 Victoria, chapter 70 ; 8 Victoria, chapter 4 ; 10 and 1
Victoria, chapters 264 and 265; 11 and 12 Victoria, chapter 144;
13 and 14 Victoria, chapter 100; 16 and 17 Victoria, chapter 165 ;
17 and 18 Victoria, chapter 192 ; and 18 and 19 Victoria, chapter 171,
relating to the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners or the Trustees of
the Birkenhead Docks ; 8 and 9 Victoria, chapter 60 ; 11 and 12
Victoria, chapters 9 and 42 ; 16 and 17 Victoria, chapter :77 ; and
18 and 19 Victoria, chapter 171, relating to the Birkenhead Dock
Company ; and also by " The Mersey Docks and Harbour Act, 1857" ;
which alterations will comprise the relinquishment of the Great Low
Water. Basin, and the works connected therewith, as at present
authorized ; and the formation of a new low water basin, with slips,
stages, and other appliances and conveniences, opening into and
extending front the River Mersey towards the Great Float, and
communicating therewith by locks, gates, sluices, culverts, and
other works; the enlargement and alteration of the Morpeth Dock
and its entrance, and the formation of a new and additional entrance
thereto from the Woodside Basin, with locks, gates, sluices, culverts,
and other works ; all which works will be constructed partly upon
certain lands known es the South Reserve, and partly upon the el,
upon which the Great Low Water Basin would, but for the intended
alteration, have been constructed. and will be situate between the
River Mersey aad the Great Float:—Also, the formation, upon the
North Reserve, of an outer or low water basin, (with a pier or jetty
therein), near to and to the northward of the authorized entrance
from the River Mersey to the Great Float, and the removal of so
much of the existing River Wall of the North Reserve as may be
necessary for that purpose; the construction of locks, gates, sluices,
and ether works to communicate between the said la3tementinned
intended outer or low water basin and an inner basin proposed to
be constructed under the intended Bill, and the construction of the
said inner basin, and the formation of locks, passages, gates, sluices,
and other welts to communicate between such inner basin and the
Great Float, which intended works will be constructed partly noon
the site upon which the Low Water Basin, as at present authorized,
would, but for the intended alterations, have been constructed,
partly upon a portion of certain lands known as the North Reserve,
and partly upon a portion of the Great Float, and wit be situate
between the River hi rsey and the Great Float:—Also, an alteration
in the line or direction of the permanent embankment across the
end of the Great Float, as at present authorized, such alteration to
commence at or near the western entrance of the docit known as the
Egerton Dock, and to terminate at a short distance northward of the
northern extremity of the said authorized permanent embankment,
and the consequent alteration of the said Great Float at the eastern
end thereof:—Also, an alteration iu the line of the public real
authorized to be made between the north and south sides of the
Great Float and across the said authorized permanent embankment,
such alteration to c mmence at or near the existing western entrance
of the said Egerton Dock, and to terminate at a distance of three
hundred yards, or thereabouts, northwards of the said intended
permanent embankment, and the relinquishment if so much of the
authorized public road and permraent embankment as wil, be
rendered unnecessary by reason of such intended alterations :
Also, the construction of a sea-wall and embankment, commencing
at or near the southern end of the gridiron next adjoining the
entrance to the Morpeth Dock, theses pas in; in an eas wardly,
then in a southwardly, and then in a we twardly direction, and
terminating at or about sixty-seven yards northwar ly from tho
entrance of then rtherinost Graving Dock of those in the occupation
of Messrs. Clover and Boyle. at Birkenhead, and the enclosing
and filling up of a portion of the Woodside Basin, aad of the
River Mersey, south of the Woodside Pier or Jetty ; and to vest
in the sward all band reclaimed by the construction of the said
sea-wall or embankment; and the construction of a floating
landing-stage in the Ite er Mersey, pi-ejecting from and con-
nected wi h the said sea-wall and embankment, with all necessary
or convenient inlets, slips, or basing, approaches, bridges, moorings,
and other works, appliances, and conveniences connected with such
sea-wall, embankment, landing-stage, and otker works and con-
veniences:—Also, the construction, to the northward of the Woodside
Pier or Jetty, of an open Dock or Basin, communicating with and
opening into the River Mersey from behind the said intended sea-
, wall and embankment :—Also, the construction of a Graving Dock
behind the said intended sea-wall and embankment, on the south
side of the Woodside Pier or Jetty, communicating with and opening
into the River Mersey, with all necessary or convenient gates, locks,
b: idges, wharfs, and other works connected therewith respectively;
also, all necessary and suitable gates, bridges, locks, sluices, culverts,
dams, embankments, piers, jetties, quays, landing-stages, slips, stairs,
sea-walls, approaches, railways,, engines, wells, and ether works and
conveniences connected wits or for the purposes of the Birkenhead
Docks, basins, and works, all which works so proposed to be con-
structed will be made within, or pass from, through, or into the
several parishes, townships, chapelries, extra-parochial, cr other
places following, or some of them, (that is to Icy), Birkenhead,
Poulton-cum-Seacombe, and Wallasey, all in the county of Cheater.
2nd. To construct a new street or road commencing at or near the
northward extremity of Taylor-street, in Birkenhead, and terminat-
ing at or near the eastern end of a certain street in Birkenhead called
Hamilton-street, end to purchase lands by compulsion or agreement,
for such purpose, and also for widening the existing anti forming
new quays between the said intended road and the docks, basins, and
other works at Birkenhead note belonging to the Mayor, Aldermen,
and Burgesses of the borough of Liverpool, and to extinguish all
rights over such lands, and also all rights, privileges, and easements
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basins, and other works as aforesaid ; anti to alter the levels of the
milowing streets in Birkenhead aforesaid, or some of them, (that is to
say), Lord-street, Sandford-street, Argyle-street, and Hamilton-street,
and to appropriate to much of the sad streets, or any of them, as
may be necessary or required for the purpose of constructing such
Intended new street or read, or any part thereof ; which said land,
road, streets, and quay's are all situate within the ohapelry or extra-
parochial place of Birkenhead, in the county of Chester.
3rd. To vest absolutely in the Board (they making compensa-
tion for the same) so much of the sea or wharf wall and embank-
ment as is already constructed under the powers of the said Acts,
or any of them or otherwise, on the north side of the Great Float,
and which des between a point formerly called or known as the
Neff Point, situate on or near the intended road from Seaconaite
to Birkenhead, and a certain bro ,k or stream discharging its
waters into the said Great Float, at a distance of six hundred
yards, or thereabouts, from Neff Point aforesaid, and to authorise
the Board to purchase, by compulsion, the lands on which the said
wharf wall and emb nkmeet are situate, and also all lands and
hereditaments lying between the said wall and embankment and
the nortaward boundary of the new street or road hereinafter
particularly described, which said sea or wharf wall and em-
bankment and lands are all situate in the township of Poulton.
cum-Seacombe, in the parish of Wallasey, in the county of
Chester.

4th. To make an alteration in the line of sneh wharf wall and
embankment as now built between the Neff Point aforesaid and
a pisint near to the Smelt Works in the occupation of Messieurs
elawdsley and Smith, aid also an alteration in so much cf the
sea or wharf walls and embankments as are authorised by th e
said Acts, or some of them, to be constraeted on the north side
of the Great Molt, and as are yet uebuet ; such alteration com-
mencing at or near the sail last-mentioned brook or stream, and
terminating at or near the Walla,ey or Poulton Bridge ltoad,
near to the turnpike-gate at Wallasey Bridge, together with all
necessary or convenient qaays, gates, brides, sluice, openings,
and other works upon the same or connected therewith, and to
vest the same quays, walls, and other works so to be constructed
in the Beard, and to purchase lands, by compulsion, for the par-
poses of the said wells, embankment, quays, and works, which
said wharf walls, lands, embankments, and works will be made,
or are ~ituate in the township of Potilton-cum-Seacombe, in the
parish of Wallasey, in the county of Chester.
sth. To mike and maintain a new road or street on the north side
of the said Great F oat, commencing from and out of the intended new
road, hereinbefore described. across the said proposed permanent
emeankment, at or near the Neff Point aforesaid, and terminating by
a junction with the Waliasey or Poulton Bridge Road, at or near the
turnp.ke gate at Wallasey bridge aforesaid, and to lay down stone
ways, -
'ram- or rails on such new street or road ; and to construct a
sewer or drain under such road or street to communicate with the
sewer or drain authorised to be made by virtue of the said Acts, or
soma of them, across the North Renee e, an .t thence to and into the
River Mersey at or near Seacombe Ferry Slip, on the soath side
thereof, whirs'. slid new rod or street and sewer will be situate in the
t wnskio of Poulton cum Seacembo, in the parish of Wallasey
of .resaid.
sth. To make and maintain an embankment across the said Grist
Float, with alt necessary bridges, locks, gates, and other works, and
to make and maintain upon such embankment a new road, both
commencing in the township of Poulton cum Seacombe and parish of
Wallasey aforesaid, from and out of the proposed new road or street
on the north side of the Great Float before described, at or near the
west side of the Seacombe Copper Mills, and terminaeidg in the extra-
parochial chape!ry of arkenheael, ia the said county of Cheater, by a
junction with a certain read c ,lied the Corporation-road, at or near
the corner of Dalu-strcet, at Birkenhead, and to lay down stoee
ways, tams, or rails, on such new road an I embankmeet.

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7th. To make, lay down, and maintain all pr.it,er read:, appreaches,
bridges, locks, gates, quays, wharfs, piers, platforms, jetties, dolphins,
ino3r.'ngs, monr.n4 craft, buoys, coffer dams, and other works and
conveniances for ahe several purposes aforesaid.
. Bth. To purchase, by compulsion, lands and hereditaments neces-
sary for the purposes of the said several works hereinbefore described,
or my of them; and also all lands and heraditame.nts on the north
ride of the said Groat Float, and lying to the south of the northern
toundary of the a iid Intended new road or street, as propose I to he
runtde cn tate north side of the Great Float ; and also all rights of
fishery, water rights, rights of navigation, and other eghts and ease-
ments in or over such lairds, or the waters flowing over the same, or
any part thereof ; and, also, all lands now covered with water which
may be reclaimed, either by the making of the said sea or wharf wall,
or embankment, or by such intended new road or street, although the
same may be situate on the north side of such new road or street.
Silt. To divert the waters of the River Mersey into the altered
Docks and new works.

10th. Which said several intended works hereinbefore described
will be situate in or be made, or pass from, in, through, or into the
se eral parishes, townships. extra-raroehial and other places of
Wallasey, Poulton. cum- ••eacombei, Birkenhead, and Bilston, and the
bed, shore, or soil of the River Mersey, or some of tLein, all is the
county of Ch-ster. _ . _

1 Rh. To extinguish the rights, powers, and privileges conferred by
the said Acts, or any of them, upols owner: ;nd lessees of adjoining
lands, and other persons, with reference to the sea or wharf walls
u: o t or built or to be built along the north side of +he Great Float,
or any part thereof, and to repeal all provisions incident thereto, and
to extinguish the powers enabling owners of land adjoining the
cre he or inlets in the Great Float to a :roe for the making of such
inlets in a recteng ler form, and resting such i arts of such inlets as
shall not b 3 made rectangular in such owners; and, also, to alter or
extinguish all or any of tile rights, privileges, and easements granted
or re-ened icy the said Arts, or any of them, into, upon, or over the
North and South Reserves re .pecti, ely, or otherwise existing or
claimed upon or over the same, or any part thereof, or upon cr over
the Birkenhead Docks. the pe =anent embankment, or the public
wharfs or quays, basins, roads, and wo ks of t; e Board, or of the
Birkenhead Dock Trustees, the Birkenhe .d Dock Company, or the
Livery 00l Dock t rustees respectively, or the lands vested in them
rrspectively, or which they have been respectively authorized to
purchaie, use, or dezl with.
Ma. To repeal, alter, extend, amend, or enlarge all or some of the
provisions of the before mentioned Acts, or some of them, and to
substitute others in lieu thereof, and to extend the time limited
by those Acts, or any of tit ;m, for the completion of the Docks,
'easing, and works, at Birkenhead, therein mentioned or referred to.
13th. To make and maintain an embankment in extension of the
north river v all on the Liverpool side of the Mersey, commencing
from the to mination of that wall as now constructed in Bootle Bay,
and terminating at or near Rimrose Bridge, and to vest in the Board
all land reclaimed by such embankment or extension of the north
river wall, and to extinguish all rights of frontage, fishery, and
navigation, and all water rights and other rights and easements in,
over, or affecting such land, or the water flowing over the same, and
to purchase lands, by compulsion, for such purposes; which
embankment, lands, and the works connected therewith, will be made

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or are situate in the parish of Walton-on-the-Rill, and the bed, shore,
or soil of the River Mersey, in the county palatine of Lancaster.
14th. To cross, divert, alter, or stop up, either temporarily or
permanently, any roads, streets, highways, thoroughfares, courts,
alleys, bridges, railroads, tramroads, canals, acquedusts, sewers,
drains, streams, watercourses, pipes, stairs, quays, piers, slips, and
landing-places within the said several plrishea or places aforesaid,
or any or either of them, for the several purpos:s of the intended
B ill.

15th. To purchase, compulsorily or by agreement, all lands and
neriditament required for the pus poses of tho into ided works, or
the general purposes of the Board, and to vary or extinguish all rights
in relation thereto.

16th. To alter all or some of the existing tolls, rates, duos, and
charges levied and leviab'e under the acts mentioned or refer, oil to
in this Notice, or any of them, or otherwise, upon or in respect of
ships, vessels, steamboats, passengers, cattle, and other animals,
cargoes, goods, wares, and merchandise, within, upon, resorting to,
using, or plying within such of the existing and the new and altered
docks and works respectively, as are or will be in the county of
Chester, or upon or in respect of reads, railways, embankments, and
other works is the same county, or for the user thereof ; and to levy
other and new and additional tolls, rates, d es, and charges upon or
in respect of such ships, vessels, steam-boats, passengers, cattle, and
other animals, cargoes, goods, wares, and merchandise, and linen or in
respect of such roads, railway., and embankments, and the user
thereof ; to confer exemptions therefrom ; t 3 authorise compositions
for rates, tolls, dues, and charges ; to vary or extinguish exemptions
from the payment of rates, tolls, dues, and charges ; to confer
remedies for their recovery and powers for their collection, and to
make previsions for the revision and application thereof.
17th. To empower the Board to borrow, and from time to time to
re-borrow, further mosey, by bonds or otherwise, for the purposes of
the said int.nded Bill.

18th. To altar, amend, extend, enlarge, and explain, or to repeal
the powers and provisions of the following Acts of Porliament relating
to the Docks and Harbour of Liverpool, or of some of those Act., (that
is to say :) 8 Anne, chapter 12 ; 3 George 1., chapter 1 ; 11 George 11.,
chapter 32 ; 2 George 111., chapter 86; 20 George 111., chapter 15 ;
and (local and personal) A eta 39 George 111 , chapter 59 ; 51 George
111., chapter 143; 53 George 111., chapter 156; 59 George 111.,
chapter 30 ; 6 George IV., chapter 187 ; 9 George IV., chapter 55 ;
and 114 ; 11 George IV., chapter 14 ; 4 Victoria, chapter 30 ; 6 and 7
Victoria, chapter 93 ; 7 and 8 Victoria, chapter 80 ; 8 Victo-i a chapter
11 ' • 9 and 10 Victoria, chapter 109 ; 11 Victoria, chapter 10 ; 14 and
15 Victoria, chapter 64 ; and 18 and 19 Victoria, chapter 174.
19th. And Notice is Hereby lastly Given, that on or before the 30th
day of November, 1857, duplicate plans and sections of the intended
alterations, roads, streets, embankments, sea or wharf wars, and
other works, with a book of reference thereto, and a copy of this
notice, as published in the London Gazette, and also duplicate plans
of the said lands intended to be purchased by compulsion, with a bock
of reference thereto, end a copy of th.a Notice, will be depo,ited for
public inspection at the Office of the Clerk of the Peace for the County
Palatine of Lancaste-, at Preston, in that county, and also at the
Office of the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Chester, at Chester,
in that c eunty ; and that on or before the same day copies of so much
of the sa'd plans, sections, and book of reference, as relate to each
parish and extraparochial place, from, in, through, or into which the
intended alterations, roads, streets, embankments, sea or wharf
walls, and ether w.irks, will be made or pass, or in which the lands
to ba compulsorily purchased are situate, with a copy of this Notice,
as published in the London Gazette, will be deposited for public
inspection, as regards each such parish with the Parish-clerk thereof,
at his residence, and as regards each such extra-parochial place with
the Parish-clerk of some parish immediately adjoining thereto at his
residence.
20th. And that, on or before the 31st day of December next, printed
copies of the proposed Bill will be deposited in the Private Bill Office
of the House of Commons.
Dated this 12th November, 1857. JOHN NORTH,
531 citor of the Trustees of the Liverpool Decks.

MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR.
(CONiOLTDATION OF Ar,' rso

(REPEAL, AMENDMENT, Al' CONSOLIDATION OF LIVERPOOL
AND BIRKENHEAD DOCK ACTS—AMENDMENT OF "MERSEY
DOCKS AND HARBoUit ACT, 1857"—ALTERATIONS OF MER-
SEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BOARD, AND OF THE QUALIFI-
CATION OF ELECTORS AND ELECTED, AND THE MODE OF
ELECTION —EXTENSION OF TIME FOR COMPLETION OF WORKS
AT BIRKENHEAD—EXTINGUISHING RIGHTS TN RESPECT of
WHARF WALLS ALONG FLOAT AT BIRKENAEAD, AND OTHER
WORKS AND LANDS AT BIRKENHEAD—FURTHER PROVISIONS
AS TO REGULATION AND CONSERVANCY OF PORT, HARBOUR,
AND DOCKS, AND AS TO MANAGEMENT OF OFFICERS, PILOTS,
WAREHOUSES, TRANSIT SHEDS, LIGHTHOUSES, TELEGRAPHS,
AND LIFE-BIATs, SHIPS, AND VESSELS, &C., IN CONNECTION
THEREWITH—NEW AND ALTERED RATES, TOLLS, DUES,
AND CHARGES ON SHIPS, GOODS, &C.—ALTERATION AND
REPEAL OF EXEMPT[ONS—FURTHER POWERS TO BORROW
- MONEY—PURCHASE OF LAND—REGULATION OF PILOTS—
EXTENSION OF JUSTICES' JURISDICTION— EXTINGUISHMENT
OF RUNNING POERS OYER RAILWAYS OF BOARD —AND
AMENDMENT OF LIVERPOOL CORPORATION, GREAT WEST-
ERN, SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RAILWAYS, AND OTHER
ACTS
THE TRUSTEES of the LIVERPOOL DOCKS,
on behalf of themselves and their intended Succes-
sors," THE MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BOARD," HERE-
BY GIVE NOTICE, that application will be made to Parliament,
in the ensuing Session, for leave to bring in a Bill for consolidating
and amending the provisions of the several Acts relating to the
Liverpool and • Birkenhead Docile, and the Port end Harbour of
Liverpool, and for other purposes connected therewith, and particu-
larly to effect the several objects hereinafter mentioned, or some of
them, that is to say :
Ist. To repeal the several Acts hereinafter mentioned, and all the
provisions thereof, videlicet, 8 Anne, chanter 12 ; 3 G=orge 1.,
chapter 1 ; 11 George 11., chapter 32; 2 George M., chapter 86 ;
25 Gorge 111., ch ipter 15 ; and the (local and personal) Acts 39
George 111., chapter 59 ; 51 George 111., chapter 143 ; 53 George
111., chapter 156 ; 59 George 111., chapter 30 ; 6 George Pl.,
chapter 187; 9 George IV., chapters 55 and 114; 11 George IV.,
chapter 14 ; 4 Victoria, chapter 30 ; 6 and 7 Victoria, chapter
98; 7 and 8 Victoria, chapter 80; 8 Victoria, chapter 11 ; 9 and
10 Victoria, chapter 109 ; 11 Victoria, chapter 10 ; 14 and 15
Victoria, chapter 64 ; 18 and 19 Victoria, chapter 174; all relat-
ing to the Liverpool Docks Al.o, the (local and personal) Acts
3 and 4 Victoria, chapter 120; 9 and 10 Victoria, chapter 146 ;
aed 11 12 Victsria, chapter 42 ; relating to the Herculaneum
Docks : Also, the (teal and personal) Acts 7 and 8 Victoria,
chapter 79; 8 Victoria, chapter 4; 10 and 11 Victoria chapters
254 and 265 ; II and 12 Victoria, chapter 144 ; 13 and 14 Victoria
chapter 100; 16 and 17 Victoria, chapter 165 ; 17 and 18 Victoria,
chapter 192 ; and 16 and 19 Victoria, chapter 171 ; all relat ng to
the Birkenead Dock Commissioners or the Trustees of the
Birkenhead Docks: And, also, the (local and personal) Acts 8 and
9 Victoria, chapter 60 ; 11 and 12 Victoria, chapters 9 and 42 ;
16 and 17 Victoria, chapter 177 ; and 18 and 19 Victoria, chapter
171 ; all relating to the Birkenhead Dock Company ; and to con- '
solidate the provisions of such several Acts, 'with such amendments
and alterations as may be deemed expeS lent, into one Act.
2nd. To amend or repeal some of the powers and provisions of
"the Mersey Docks and Harbour Act, 1857," and particularly to
alter the number and qualification of the Members of the Board
established by that Act, and the qualification of electors, and the
mode of voting by proxy and otherwise, and the manner of taking
the poll at elections for Members, and of revising the list of electors,
and to repeal or alter the exemption from rates, conferred by the
same Act upon vessels not using the Docks of the Board.
3rd. To extend the time limited by the Birkenhead Dock ;sects, or
some of them, for the completion of the several docks, basins, and
works, therein mentioned or referred to.
Ch. 'ro extinguish the rights, powers, and privileges conferred by
the said Birkenhead Acts, or any of them, upon owners and lessees of
adjoining lands, and oth-r persons with reference to the sea or wharf
wells upon, or built, or to be built along the north side of the Great
Float, at Birkenhead, or any part thereof, and to repeal all provisions
incident thereto; and to extinguish the pow,rs enabling owners of
land adjoining the creeks or inlets in the Great Float to agree for the
making of such inlets in a rectangular form, and vesting sub parts
of such inlets as shall not be made rectengalar in such owners ; and,
also, to alter or extinguish all Or any of the rights, privileges, and
easement' granted or reserved by the said acts, o any of thorn, into,
upon, or over the Norte and South Ite:erves respectively, or otherwise
existing or claimed upon or over the same, or any part thereof, or
upon or over the Birkenhead Docks, the permanent embankment, or
the public wharfs or quays, basins, roads, and works of the Board or
of the Birkenhead Dock Trustees, the Birkeehead Dock Company, or
thy Liverpool Dock Trustees respectively, or the lands vested in them
respectively, or which they have been respectively authorised to
purchase, use, or deal with.
sth. To m .ke further provision for the appointment, removal,
regulation, and remuneration of marine surveyors, water bailiffs,
harbour masters, dock masters, pier masters, traffic manaser
master porters, collectors, weighers, wharfingers, porters, lumpers,
police constables, special constables, and other officers and servants,
and the definition and regulation of their powers, duties, fees, charges,
and payments, and for the supervision, examination, and control of
ail persons employed by the public, in. upon, or about the said dock',
quays, works, lands, port, or ha•bour.
6th. To make further provision for the management, regulation,
control, and usa of the Liverpool Docks and Birkenhead Decks and
the other docks, quays, lending-stages, rails, and works, prevent and
future, of the Board, and for the management, regulation, registra-
tion, government, and co trot of the shippine, steamers, lighters;
boats, and craft, resorting to tee said docks, or plying or being
therein, or near thereto, or entering or using the same, or departing
therefrom, and of their officers and crews and other persons; arid for
preventing obstructions therein, and at the entrances thereof, and the
approaches thereto ; and for regulating the landing and shippin of
careoses therein, and the usa of fires and lights, and the deposit of
combustible or dangerous goo'ls on the premises of the Board.
7th. To confer upon the Board powers for entering into and
carryinv, into effect contracts and arrangements with any Canal or
Railway Company, or other body or person, for tee appropriation to
flint), or to their use. of particular portions of the docks, works, and
lands of the Board, upon such terms or compositions as have been or
may be agreed upon.
Bth. To provide that all (pays of the Board shall be legal quays.
9th. To vest in the Board the exclusive jurisdiction arid manage•
went of all their quays at Liverpool and Birkenhead, and to
prohibit any rail or tramroad or:other work being construe ed thereon
without consent. .

10th. To make further provisions for the conservancy, perservation
management, regulation, and control, cleansing straitening, scouring,
and dredging of the Pert and Harbour of Liverpool, the River and
Estuary of the Mersey, and the entrances and channels thereof, and
for preventing obstructions therein ; and f,r the management, regis-
tration, regulation, and control of all shipping, steamers lighters,
boats, and c aft belonging to or using the said port and harbour,
ri,er, entrance, or channels, and their officers and crews and other
persons b ing therein, and to d fine and declare the limits of the said
post and harbour.

1 lth, To empower the Board from time to time to provide, eon
street, estahlish, lay down, improve, and regulate any quays, docks,
basins, walls, wharves, de. ots, jetties, piers, slips, lauding-stages,
locks, slnices,;draios, culverts, approaches, rails, tramways, staiths,
cranes, insuring crazies dredging-boats, steamt ballast lighters,
o
etwines, machines, tide-guages, telegraphs, lifelmats, lig'nthonses,
lightships, floating lights, buoys, beacons, sea 'marks, signals, quarries,
su,,plies of ballast, and places for deposi ing ballast, offices, watch-
houses, sheds, daelling•houses for officers, and other works aml
c mveniencies in or upon or connected with the said poi-, harbour,
river, estuary, entrance, channels, docks, and works, or any of them,
and to regulate the me thereof._

12tii. To empower the Board to defray the expenAt of the Rock
Porch Lighthouse, and to provide and maintain electric and other
telegi-aphs in connection with the Port and Harbour of Liverpool, or
to contract with any persons or companies for that purpose; and to
enable the Beard to take and hold landS by agreement. for the pur-
poses of such electric and other telegraphs, and to cross, enter upon,
open, and break up any highways, streets, railways. canals, bridges,
footpaths. roads, rivers, shores, or estuaries of the sea, for laying
such electric and other telegraphs and all necessary works and con-
veniences connected therewith, either cover or under the same, and
for effecting the r pairs thereof; and to provide and maintain
houses and lifeboats, and to purchase lands by agreemedt, and to
construct, rent, and provide buildings, landing-places, works, and
conveniences for those purposes, and for the accommodation of pilots,
and to take by agreement and hold lands for the pumose. of being
used as stoke quarries.
13th. To provide and regulate transit sheds for the reception of
goods.
14th. To provide and regulate warehouses and bonded warehouses,
and to demand and collect rents and charges, and to alter existing
rents and charges in re poet thereof.
15th. To emp wer the Board to sell, lease, or exchange any of their
lands, and to lease warehouses for an emigrants' home.
16th. To make provisions for the discharge, deposit, and mea-
surement of timber, and to provide and appropriate land for that
purpose.
171 k. To alter existing bye.laws or re, ILA tic ns, and b. make new