Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-01 00:00:00

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understanding that the accommodation hitherto
appropriated to us at the Huskisson Dock was to be reserved for
the exclusive use of the trade, until equally good accommodation
should be provided further North.
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We have just discovered, to our great surprise, that you intend
immediately depriving us of the greater part of the land at the
Huskisson Dock for the purpose of making a Steam Dock. With
out this land, it will not only be inconvenient, but impossible, for
the timber trade to be conducted at the north end of the town.
We are ready and indeed anxious to remove immediately provided
you carry out strictly the agreement you entered into with us ;
unless this is done. we cannot remove, and shall be glad to know
what other arrangement the board has to propose under the altered

circumstances of the case, We are, sir, your most obedient ser-
vants, Houghton, Smith, and Co.; James Bland and Co. ; Halhead,
Fletcher, and Co.; William Anthony and Robinson ; Sharpies,
Jones, ana Co. ; Duncan, Ewing, and Co. ; John Fazakerley ;
Lloyd, Janes

Ind Co.; A. H. and D. Mackey ; William Williams
and Son ; William Rutherford ; James M'Murdo and Co. ; Hugh
Pierce and Co —Liverpool, 29th June, 1839.

At the suggestion of the Chairman, an extract was read
from the proceedings of the works' committee of last
Saturday, by which, it appeared that a letter having been
submitted from the timber trade with reference to the
removing of timber from the storage ground on the east
quay of Huskisson Dock with which the new steam
dock was to be connected, it was resolved that it be referred
to the engineer, to endeavour to make the best arrangement
in his power for the accommodation of the timber trade,
drainage not being contemplated during the present season.
The board were willing to pay the expense,. of removing
such timber as it might be found necessary to remove for
the ground of the new steam dock.
Mr. Brocklebank believed accommodation would be
found for the timber upon the east side of Regent-road,
opposite its present storage ground.
The Engineer said it would be arranged that the timber
should onlyb be removed parcel by parcel, according as it
was required, to clear the land for the purpose of making
the new dock.
Mr. Smith said he was not at all surprised at the letter
addressed by the timber trade to the board. Many mem-
bers of the board knew the difficulty which had been felt
in dealing with that very knotty question—the removal of
the timber trade. For many years the question had been
discussed; and he had consistently advocated the providing
of accommodation at the north end of the town, and
although he had made by so doing many enemies, and had
been opposed in every direction by the trade for years,
yet he never deviated trom that course, because he saw
that circumstances were arriving which would work their
own cure, and that the timber trade would, ultimately, find
better accommodation than was possible at the south end
of the town. He was not mistaken ; and the parties
engaged in the trade were led at last too see the
advantages of being unanimous. They saw that it
was necessary to be unanimous in having the trade
consentrated, so that it might be best conducted with regard
to their own pockets. Clearly it was desirable for the
interest of the board, that this should be so. When the
trade had approached to something like unanimity, then
they entered into communication with the board, and after
many interviews, and a great deal of correspondence with
the board, it was ultimately decided and a resolution passed,
which was recorded upon the books of the board, that the
land eastward of the Canada Dock, marked B , the land
eastward °fele Huskisson Dock, markedri, the land which had
been purchased from Mr. John Shaw Legit, eastward again,
marked D, and E, these four plots of land, with the
Canada Dock, half the east side of the Huskisson Dock
should be appropriated to the trade, and that the trade
should not be deprived of that land until other accommoda-
tion had been provided. When last year it was decided to
go to parliament for borrowing powers to the extent of
£300,000, principally to provide accommodation for the
water carriers, he maintained that there was no idea enter-
tained of commencing the new steam dock, until there had been
new land made to the northward by their excavations which
could be appropriated to the timber trade. They had now
decided that that dock was to he commenced, and he knew
that the timber trade would take action upon it. They had
therefore now a very difficult question to deal with, as the
board stood in the position of having as it were, pledged
themselves to aupropriatesertain accommodation to the
timber trade, on which condition the trade unanimously
agreed to go there, and then, after the trade had taken land
there, and the board had begun to build offices for them,
the board already proceeded to deprive them of a portion of
what had already been appropriated to them. He main-
tained that if the board took the land to the eastward of the
Huskisson Dock, they would not have storage ground for
the timber trade that year, and that the trade were per-
fectly right in saving it would be impossible to remove them.
It looked very like Caving got the trade upon false pretences
to take the land upon the eastward of the Canada Dock, and
then turning round and violating the conditions upon which
the unanimity of the trade had been obtained.
Mr. Inman contended that the real facts of the case were
that the plans of the new steam-dock were laid before the
deputation of the timber trade ; aLd, when the board went
to parliament, the steam trade were put in the fore-front of
the battle. In the committee of the House of Commons,
the reasons given for the additional requirements of the
board were the increasing wants of the steam trade, and the
steam trade witnesses were put first, and all the gentlemen
who attended from the timber trade heard their evidence.
It came to the knowledge of the Steam Association that the
timber trade were going to oppose the making of the stead).-
dock; and he (Mr. Inman) was present at t illeetilig of the

Steam Association, at which it was resolved that, unless the
requirements of the steam trade were met, they would oppose
the bill throu'hout in parliament.

Mr. M•lviiasked whether it was the fact that that piece
of ground was pledged to the timber trade.
The Chairman said, there was an understanding that the
timber trade should not he deprived of their accommodation
until other accommodation had been provided for them.
But he understood, in the progress of the matter, that the
timber trade would not object that was the sort of tacit
understanding—to the dock being made there, the incon-
venience being very temporary, because other land would be
in progress by the excavations taken out of the land, and, in
the meantime, other arrangements could be made for their
accommodation. He did not think it desirable to discuss
the matter any further at the board at present. The works'
committee were very anxious to do everything they could for
the timber trade, and he thought the committee and the
surveyor together would be able to satisfy them by giving i
them such accommodation as was necessary, without nter-
fering with what was due to the steam trade.
The letter was then referred to the works' committee.
This concluded the general business.

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FLOWER SHOW:

Yesterday, the Liverpool Floral and Horticultural Exhi-
bition Society held their second exhibition of the season in
the Botanic Gardens. The day was all that could be desired
for the occasion,•and the show has not been surpassed in
any former years. In each department there was an abun-
dance of sweetness and beauty even to satiety. From the
gaudy grandeur of the pelagoniums, the brilliant hues of the
graceful fuchsias, the motley group of rare and variegated
plants, the eye turns with pleasure on the soft sweet green
of the ferns and mosses ; and then, refreshed, it turns away
to behold and draw forth all the powers of admiration
upon the pansies, the heaths, the baskets of plants, the
devices of flowers, the collections of cut flowers, the
tasteful hand boquets, and the sweet roses that scatter
their fragrance so lavishly, and make the admirer
stay to breathe their grateful odour. From the flowers
the visitor proceeds to the fruit department. Here
the temptation to eat forbidden fruit was as great, we
believe, as could have existed in the Garden of Eden, but
there was this great difference, that more mortal eyes would
be fixed on the Eve who would put forth her hand to
commit the sin. There were grapes, both black and white,
in large and luxuriant bunches, strawberries in melting
sweetness, luscious peaches and nectarines, and sweet
cherries, currants, and goeseberries,—all of the finest growth,
besides apples and pears. In the vegetable department
there was a fine display of cauliflowers, peas, onions, new
potatoes, carrots, and turnips. In this part of the building
there was also exhibited some beautiful specimens of wax
flowers. The show was opened at two o'clock for public
admittance, and the tent was soon filled with specimens of
nature's handiwork, as interesting as those to which we
have been adverting. Young ladies of rank and beauty
arrived in great numbers, who came to " admire and be
admired," and many were accompanied by young gentle-
men, who, no doubt, performed the double service, There
were ladies there, too, who " boasted a mother's pride," and
did not mar the scene. Pater and mater familial, with
their happy children, were eager in their admiration of the
excellencies of the show. With this varied and extensive
patronage, the exhibition must have proved a successful as
well as an excellent one.

PRIZES

CLASS L-GROVPS OF PLANTS

HEATHS.—Six specimens : 1, A. Fairrie, Esq., W. Rimmer,
gardener; 2. A. S. Gladstone, Esq., James Grant, gardener; 3, J.
J. Bibby, Esq., C. Fearenside, garener. Four specimens : 1, J. J.
Bibby, Esq. ; 2. Hugh Hornby, Esq., James Dawson, gardener; 3,
A. S. Gladstone, Esq.

Fucustas.—Six specimens : 1, J. B. Leatherbarrow, Esq., Chas.
Jones, gardener ; 2, George Holt, EFq., Chas. Waring, gardener ;
3, Mr. Charles Itylance. Four specimens : 1, Geo. Holt, Esq. ;2,
W. D. Holt, Esq., Thos. Calland, gardener; 3, J. B. Leatherbarrow,
Esq. .

iELARGON tums.—Eight specimens : 1, Mr. Charles Rylance; 2,
Mrs. Stringer, Samuel Liversage, gardener ; 3, Mr. Chas. Rylance.
Four specimens: 1, Sir R. W. Bulkeley, Bart., John Maher,
gardener; 2, Mrs. Stringer. Fancy—six specimens : 1, Mr. Chas.
Rylance; 2 and 3, Mrs. Stringer. Scarlet, White, and Pink—Four
specimens: 1, Edward Bates, Esq., John Turner, gardener; no
other prize awarded.

RosEs.—Eight specimens in pots : 1, Mr. Richard Griffiths,
private growers. Four specimens in pots : 1 and 2, Mr. Richard
Griffiths.

ACIIIMENF.S.—Four specimens : 1, John Campbell, Esq., John
Everett, gardener; 2, Mrs. Bird, T. Fleetwood, gardener.
VERBENAS.—Six specimens : 1, N. Duckworth, Esq., W. Tayleur,
gardener ; 3, Mr. Charles Rylance.

PmtruN-LAS.—Six specimens: 1, Edward Bates, Esq.; 2, J. J.
Bibby, Esq.; 3, N. Duckworth, Esq.
GLOXINEAS.—Six specimens: 1, J. B. Leatherbarrow, Esq.; 2
and 3, George Holt, Esq.
FERNS.—Eight speci.nens : 1 and 2, Isaac lladwen, Esq., John
Armstrong, gardener ; 3, Miss Bahr, John Glover, gardener.
LYCuPODIUMS. - Six specimens: 1, Miss Bahr; 2 arid 3, Mrs. Bird.