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QOUTI-I WALES RAILWAY. No. 1.
(AMENDMENT of ACTS—EXTENSION of TIME for
COMPULSORY PURCHASE of LANDS).
Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
made to PARLIAMENT, in the ensuing Stsion, or a BILL to alter
amend, and repeal certain of the provisions of the several Acts of
Pardament, hereinafter mentioned, relating to the South Wales
Railway.
And notice is hereby further given, that it is intern'ed by such Bill
to extend, er to revive the time granted by the South Wales Rahway
Act, 1845, for the compulsory purchase of certain lands, houses, and
hereditaments required fur the purposes of the railway or railways
by that Act authorised to be made front Fishguard Bay -and Pem-
broke Dock to Chepstow, an 1 from Newport to Monmouth, situate
in the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial or other
places following, or some of them : that is to .say, Pembroke Dock
otherwise Pater, St. Mary's Pembroke, Pernbrey, Nash, Coshes.
ton,-. Carew, Lawrenny, Jeffreyston, Yerbeston, Loreston, Rey-
flatten, Begelly Mountain, South Narberth, North Narbei th,
Crinow otherwise Croynwydd, Lampeter-Velfry, Langan, Lland.iwi-
Velfry, Fishguard, Llanwnda, Manorowen, Jordanston, a certain
piece of land stated to be extra-parochial, lying within or adjoin
lug the parish of Llanstinan, Llansti.mn, Letterston, Saint Dog-
wells, Saint Lawrence, Hayscastle, Amblestone, Trefgarn, Spitta.,
Rudbaxton, IViston, Clarbeston, Illetherstone, Lawhaden, and
Llanfalteg, in the county of Pembroke ; Llangan, in the coun-
ties of Pembroke and Carmarthen, or one of them ; Egremont,
Castledwyran, Llandisilio,' Llartfalteg, Henllan-Arngoed, Llandewi-
Velfry, Langan. „Egawysfair, Cyflig, Llaniboidy, Saint Clair, Lien-
ginning, Mydrim, Llanflhangel-Ahercwyn, Alerthyr, Llangunnog,,
Llangunnor, Cidplwydd, Llandytaelog, Saint Ishmael. Kidwelly,
Saint Mary's Kidwelly, Pembrey, and Llanelly, in the county of
Carmarthen ; Saint Peters, in the county of the borough of Car-
marthen ; Loughor, Saint John's, Swansea, Llangefelach, Llansain-
let, Cadoxton-juata-Neath, Neath, Lantwit-justa-Neath, Briton-
Ferry, Baglan, Aberafon, Margatn, Kering, Coychnich, Lanharran,
Pet erstone-super-Montem, Llantrissant,Pendoylon,Peterstone-super-
Ely, Michaelstone-super-Ely, Saint George, Saint Nicholas, Saint
Brides "super-Ely, Saint Pagans, Llandaff, Saint Mary's Cardiff,
and Reath, in the county of Glamorgan ; Romney, Saint ,N!ei
lons, Llanbad otherwise Peterson, Saint Brides' Llansaintfraed,
Bassalleg, Saint IVoollos, Newport, Christchurch, Lane ens, Bishton,
Wilcrick, Landevenny, Saint Brides' Netherwent, Mager, Undy,
Llanvihangel, Rogiet, Ifton, Caldicott, Portskewit, Alathern, and
Chepstow; and also, Llangattock-juxta-Caerleon, Christchurch,
Llanhennock, Kemeys-Inferior, Tredunnock, Llantrissant, Usk,
Gwerhelog, Llangeview, Llandenny, Raglan, Llanishen, Pen=y-
clawdd, Dingestow, Wonastow, Micheltroy, and Moninouth, in the
county of Monmouth ; and also to extend she time granted by the
South-Wales Railway Amendment Act, 1846, for the compulsory
purchase of certain lands, houses, and herielltax ants, re-
quired for the purposes of the lines of railway and
branch railways by that Act authorised to be made from
the termination of the line of the South Wales Railway,
as authorised by the erst-mentioned Act, to llagloe Farm, in the
parish of A.wre, in the county of Gloucester, and from the said line of
the South Wales Railway to Swansea and the Oystermouth Railway
or Tramway, and from the said line of the South Wales Railway to
Haverfordwest, situate In the several parishes, townsh!ps, and
extra-parochial or other places following, or some of them ; (that is
to say), Tiddenham, Woolaston, Airington, Lydney, Awre, and
Newnham, in the county of Gloucester; Swansea, St. John's, Swan-
sea, and Llangefelach, in the county of Glamorgan ; Prendergast,
Uzmaston, Wiston, and Rudbaxton, in the county of Pem-
broke ; and also to extend the time granted by the last-men-
tioned Act for the compulsory purchase of certain lands,
houses, and 11 reditaments required for the purposes of the
new or altered lines of railway by the last-mentioned Act
authorised to be constructed, in lieu of certain portions of the line
of the South Wales Railway, and of the Monmouth branch thereof
as then authorised to be made, situate in the several parishes, town-
ships, and extra-parochial or other places following, or some of
them ; (that is to say), Loughor, Swansea, St. John's, Swansea,
Llangefelach, and Liansamlet, in the county of Glamorgan ; Lien-
gynnor, Llanlefaelog, St. Ishmael, and Kidwelly, in the county of
Carmarthen ; Mydrim, Llanfihangel Abercwyn, and Llangynog, in
the county of Carmarthen ; Llantrissant, Llangibby, Llanllowel,
Llangeview, Usk, and Gwerhelog, in the county of Monmouth ; and
also to extend the time granted by the Gloucester and Dean Forest
Railway Act, 1846, for the compulsory purchase of certain lands,
houses, and hereditaments required for the purposes of
so much of the last-mentlor.ed railway as lies between
the junction thereof with the South . Wales Railway,
in the' parish of Awre, in the county of Glou-
cester, and a point at or near the Bth mile of the Gloucester and
Dean Forest Railway, as marked upon the plans thereof referred to
in the last-mentioned Act, situate in the several parishes, townships,
and extra-parochial or other places following, or some of them ;
(that is to say), Awre,Newnhatn, and Westbury-upon-Severn, in the
county of Gloucester,

' or stop up all turnpike and other roads, railways, tramways, aque-
ducts, canals, streams, and rivers, within or adjoining to the afore-
said parishes, townships, aad extra-parochial or other places, or any
of them, with which it may be necessary to interfere It the construc-
tion of the.said intended railways and works.
And that it is also intended by such Bill to enable the South Wales
Railway Company and the Vale of Neath Railway Company to
enter Into such arrangements and agreements with respect to tile
use of the station or stations of the said railways at Neath and the
works connected therewith, and with respect to apportioning and
defraying the cost of such station or stations by the payment of an
annual or oilier sum for or in respect of such station or stations or
part thereof, or for the use thereof by the said two companies or either
of them, as may be mutually agree ion between them ; and for that pur-
pose to enable the South Wales Railway Company to convey or assign
to the Vale of Neath Railway Company such portion or portions of the
said station or stations, and the land and works connected therewith,
as may be agreed upon, and to enable the Vale of Neath Railway
Company to accept and take a conveyance or assignment thereof,
and also to enable the said two companies to make such other
arrangements for the use and working of their respective lines or
portions thereof, and on such terms and conditions as may be mutually
agreed on between ttam.

And that it is also intended by such Bill to authorise the directors
of the South Wales Railway Company in certain events to merge in
the capital of the said company shares which shall have been or shall
be declared foreited, and to create and issue new shares in lieu there-
of, of such nominal value as they may determine ; and also to create
and issue new shares of such nominal value as they shall determine,
in lieu of any shares in the capital of the company which may
be already authorised to be created, but which shall not have ben

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issued by the company; and, if it shall hereafter be necessary, to
assign to any new shares so to be created and issued as aforesaid
such guaranteed or preferential dividends or other rights or privi-
leges as the said company shall think flt.
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And that it is Intended by such Bill to alter, amend, enlarge,
and in pert repeal the South Wales Railway Act, 1845 ; the
South Wales Railway (Amendment) Act, 1846; the South
Wales Railway (Amendment) Act, 1847; the Vde of
Neath Railway Act, 1846; the Vale of Neath Railway (Amendment)
Act, 1847; the Vale of Neath Railway (Ameuiment) Act, 1843 ; tnd
also some of the powers and provisions of the several Acts following,.
relating to the Forest of Dean Railway, otherwise called the Rullo
Pill Railway, or some of them ; (that is to say) the 49 George 111.,
cap. 158, and 7 George IV., cap. 47.
Dated this 10th day of November, 1849.
W. O. and W. HUNT, 10, Whitehall, London.

OXFORD, WORCESTER, and WOLVER-
HAYPTON, BIRMINGHAM, and olcrokr, JUNCTION,
and GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANIES <PURI
CHASE of the STRATFORD-UPON-AVON CANAL NAVI-
GATION.

Notice is hereby Given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
made to PARLIAMENT in the ensuing Session for a BILL to
authorise and enable the Company of Proprietors of the Stratford-
upon-Avon Canal Navigation, and the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton Railway Company, or one of them, to convey and assign
to the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company and to
the Great Western Railway Company, or one of them, the Strat-
ford-upon-Avon Canal, and all the lands, property, aryl effects,
powers, rights, and priv leges of or belonging to the said Company
of Proprietors, and the said Oxford, Woreester, and Wolverhampton
Railway Company, or either of them, in relation to or connected
with the undertaking of the said Canal Navigation ; End to take
powers for the vesting of the said Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, and
all the lands, property, and effects, powers, rights, and privileges
aforesaid, in the said Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Com-
pany and the said Great Western Railway Company, or one of them ;
and to enable the two last-mentioned Companies, or one of them,
to take and hold the said canal, lands, property, and effects, and to
exercise and enjoy the powers, rights, and privileges aforesaid, and
to levy tolls, rates, and duties upon or in respect of the said Canal
Navigation, and to raise a further sum of money for the purposes
aforesaid, and, if need be, to dissolve the said Company of Proprietors
of the said Canal Navigation ; and to vary or extinguish all rights
and privileges in relation to the said Canal Navigation which would
interfere with the purposes aforesaid.

And it is also intended to insert in the said Bill such provisions as
may be deemed expedient for securing the completion of the purchase
aforesaid within a time to be limited by the said Bill.
And it is also intended by the said Bill, so far as may be deemed
requisite for the purposes thereof, to alter, amend, repeal, enlarge, or
extend the powers and provisions of the several Acts of Parliament
hereinafter mentioned, or some of them ; (that is to say), certain Acts
relating to the said Stratford-upon-Avon Canal Navigation, passed
respectively In the 33d, the 35th, the 39th, the 49th, the 55th, and the
57th years of the reign of King George the Third, and in
the 2d year of the reign of King George the Fourth ;
and also the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Act,
1846, and the Birmingham and Oxford Junction (Birmingham Exten-
sion) Railway Act, 1846; and an Act passed in the llth and 12th
years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act to
confer additional Powers on the Great Western Railway Company
with reference to an Agreement of the 12th November, 1846, for the
purchase by them of the Birmingham ant Oxford Junction, and
Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley RaLways ;" and also
the Great Western Railway (Leami-gton line) Act, 1848; and
also the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Act, 1845 ;
the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton (Amendment) Act,
1846 ; the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway (Amend-
ment) Act, 1848; the Oxford, Worcester, • and Wolverhampton
Railway (Deviation) Act, 1848 ; and also the several Acts fol-
lowing, dirently or indirectly relating to or affecting the Great
Wo.tern Railway Company, which Acts (local and personal) are
distinguished in the Queen's printers' copies thereof as the 5 and 6
William IV., c. 107 ; 6 William IV., c. 36 ; 6 Wiliam c. 38 ;
G William IV., c. 77 ; 6 William IV., c. 79; 1 Victoria, c. 91; 1
Viet., c. 92 ; 1 Viet., c. 24 ; 1 Vict , c. 26 ; 2 Vict., c. 27 ; 3 Vict.,
c. 47 ; 3 and 4 Vict., c. 105 ; 4 and 5 Vict., c. 41 ; 5 Vict ,
Sess. 2, c. 28 ; 6 Vict., c. 10 ; 7 Vict., c. 3 ; 7 and 8 Vict.,
c. 68 ; 8 and 9 Vict., c. 40 ; 8 and 9 Viet., c. 53 ; 8 and 9
Vic., c. 155 ; 8 and 9 Vict., c. 156 ; 8 and 9 Vict., c. 184 ;
8 and 9 Viet., c. 188 ; 8 and 9 Viet., C. 190 ; 8 and 9
Vict., c. 191 ; 9 Viet., c. 14 ; 9 and 10 Vict., c. 166 ; 9 and 10
Vic-., c. 181 ; 9 and 10 Viet., c. 236; 9 and 10 Viet., e. 239; 9 and
10 Vict., c. 240 ; 9 and 10 Vict., c. 278 ; 9 and 10 Vict., c. 313 ; 9
and 10 Vict., c. 315 ; 9 and 10 Viet., c. 335 ; 9 ant 10 Vlct.. c. :3 .7 ;
9 and 10 Vict., c. 338 ; 9 and 10 Viet., c. 369 ; 9 and 10 Viet., c.
402 ; 10 and 1 i Vict., c. 60 : 10 and 11 Vict., c. 72; 10 and 11
Viet., c. 76 ; 10 and 11 Vict., c. 91 ; 10 and 11 Vict., c. 101 ; 10 and
11 Viet ,c. 109 ; 10 and 11 Vict., c. 149 ; 10 and I 1 Vict., c. 154 ;
10 and 11 Vict., c. 22G ; 10 and 11 Viet., C. 243 ; 11 and 12 Vict., c.
28; 11 and 12 Vict„ c. 74; 11 and 12 Vict., c. 77; 11 ant 12 Vict.,
c. 82 ; 11 and 12 Viet., c. 95 ; 11 and 12 Vict., c. 135 ; 11 and 12
V.et., C. 158 ; 11 and 12 Vict , c. 159.
Date 1 this 7th day of November, 1849.

And that it is intended by such Bill to alter, amend, enlarge, and
in part repeal the several Acts following relating to or affecting the
South Wales Railway Company; (that is to say), the South Wales
Railway Act, 1815, the South Wales Railway (Amendment) Act,
1845, the South Wales Railway (Amendment) Act, 1847, and the
Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway Act, 1815.
Dated this 10th day of Novembar, 1849.
W. 0. and W. HUNT, 10, Whitehall, London.

BIRKENHEAD DOCK TRUSTEES.
(EXTENSION of TIME for COMPLETION of WORKS
and Exercise of certain Powers ; Regulations as to Construction of
Sea or Wharf Wall and other Works; Levying Additional Rates,
and Alteration of Birkenhead Dock and Liverpool Dock Rates, and
Amendment of Acts.)
Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
Staessrioanaeafolr
somean
of theACTo
powers, restrictions, and provisions of the several Acts of Parlia-
ment following, or some of them, relating to the Birkenhead Docks;
(that is to say), Local and Personal, 7th and Bth Vict., cap. 79 ;
Bth and 9th Vict., cap. 4 • 10th and 11th Vict., caps. 264 and 265;
11th and 12th Vict., '
cap. 144.
And it is proposed by the said intended Act to extend the
periods limited by the said recited Acts, or some of them, for
the completion of the works by such Acts authorised, and to
authorise vessels, though of greater burden than 200 tons, to
resort to and use, either permanently or for an extended period,
the tidal or coasters basin at Woodside, and the entrance or passage
thereto referred to in the said recited Acts, for the purpose of passing
into or out of Wallasey Pool and the Docks communicating there-
with ; and to alter or repeal such of the provisions and restrictions
of the said Act 10th and 11th Vict., cap. 264, as limit the period
during which such vessels may resort to and use the said tidal or
coasters basin, and as provide for, or In any manner relate to, the
closing of the said entrance sr passage, and the discontinuance of the
use thereof ; and also to repeal such of the powers and restrictions
of the seine Act as provide for the suspension of certain of the
powers of the said Act until all the moneys raised under the
authority and for the purposes of the said Act 7th and Bth
Vict., cap. 79, and not expended for the purposes of such
last-mentioned Act, should have been replaced and made
available for the objects for which the same were origi-
nally raised, or until security should have been given to
the satisfaction of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods,
Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, that such moneys
would be repaid and re-instated and expended, as in the; said Act
10th and llth Viet., cap. 264, is provided; and also to postpone the
operation of such of the provisions of the said Acts, or some of
them, as direct that in certain events therein specified the land,
soil, and shore belonging to or claimed by her Majesty, and which
shall have been granted, taken, or used for the purposes of the said
Acts, shall revert to her Majesty, her heirs and successors.
And it is proposed by the said intended Act to alter or vary the
tolls, rates, or duties payable for or in respect of the use of the docks,
basins, wharfs, and other works and conveniences belonging to the
said trustees ; and to alter the mode of assessing such tolls, rates, or
duties, and to authorise the levying and imposition of new and addi-
tional tolls, rates, and duties upon vessels or otherwise for or in
respect of the use of the docks, basins, wharfs, sheds, gridirons,
works, and conveniences belouging to the said trustees, and to confer
exemptions from the payment of tolls, rates, and duties. And also
to empower the said trustees to construct gridirons in or near to the
Woodside basin.

And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to alter or divert
the line or course of a portion of the sea or wharf wall by the said
recited Acts, or some or one of them, authorised to be constructed
at the north side of Wallasey Pool, such diversion or slteration to
commence at or near a certain creek of the said Pool numbered 24,
in the township of Poulton-cuin-Seacombe, in the parish of Wal-
lasey, in the county of Chester, on the plans referred to in the second
recited Act, and to terminate at or near a certain land called the
Neff, numbered 31, in the said township and parish on the said
plans.

And is is also proposed by the said Intended Act to empower the
said Trustees to contract and agree with the Commissioners of her
Majesty's Woods, Forest., Laud Revenues, Works, and Build;ngs,
for the purchase, lease; or grant of all or any part of the soil or
shore of Wallasey Pool and co the River Mersey, adjoining or near
ti the said Pool, to which her Majesty, in right of her Crown, may-
for the time being be, or claim to be, entitled ; and also to contract
and agree with all or any other persons or corporations having, or
claiming, any estate, right, or interest in the said soil
or shore, or any part thereof, for the purchase, lease, or grant
thereof, and to authorise the said Conimissioners, and all
such other persons and corporatiOns, to convey, lease,
or grant the same to the said Trustees, and, further
to empower the said Trustees to sell, lease, or grant all or any part
of the said soil or shore which may have been so acquired by them,
and which shallbe withih or to the westward of the site of the in-
tended embankment across Wallasey Pool, mentioned in the li. st-
recited Act, to all or any.of the owners of, or parsers interested in,
the land or ground immediately abutting upon the said soil or shore,
and to empower such owners or other penons to purchase or take
leases of the same : and also to empower the said trustees to cmvey,
lease, or grant to any person or persons all or any part of the said
soil or shore which shall be on the outside or to the eastward of the
said intended embankment, and to raise money on the security of
the said soil or shore or any part thereof.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to alter the pro-
visions contained in the said recited Acts, or some of them, with
respect to the construction of the sea or wharf walls thereby autho-
rised, and to empower the owners of any land fronting Wallasey Pool
to construct from time to time so much of the said sea or what(
walls as shall front their said lands respectively, subject to such con-
ditions and restrictions as shall be provided by the said intended
Act, or as shall be mutually agreed upon between the said Trustees
and such respective owners.
And Notice is hereby further given, that plans and sections of
the said intended alteration or diversion of the said sea or wharf
walls, together with a hook of reference to such plans, and a copy of
this notice, as published' in the" London Gazette," will be deposited
on or before the 3 th day of November, in the present year, with
the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Chester, at his office at
Chester, and with the Parish Clerk of the parish of Wallasey at his
residence.

And it is further proposed by the said intended Act to alter or
vary the exisring tolls, rates, dues, or duties, or some of them,
now payable to the Trustees of the 'Liverpool Docks, for the pug•
poses of exempting and to exempt from the payment of such tolls,
rates, dues, and duties, all vessels (and the cargoes of such
vessels, which shall discharge any of their cargoes In the River
Mersey, and shall afterwards enter the Birkenhead Docks, or
any of the basins connected therewith, for the purpose
of discharging the residue of their cargoes therein, and
shall not enter or use the docks or basins belonging to the
Trustees or the Liverpool Docks for the purpose of discharging
any part of their cargoes therein, and for such purpose to repeal,
wholly er in part, or to alter, amend, explain, extend, and enlarge
some of the powers and provisions contained in the Acts following,
relating to the Docks and Harbour of Liverpool, or some of them ;
(that is to say), Acts passed respectively in the eighth year of the
reign of Queen Anne, in the third year of the reign of King George
the First. In the eleventh year of the reign of King George the Se-
cend, in the second, twenty-fifth, thirty-ninth, fifty-first, fifty-third,
and fifty-ninth years of the reign of King George the Third, respec-
tively ; in the sixth year, and two several Acts passed in the ninth
year of the reign of King George the Fourth, and Acts passed respec-
tively in the session held in the eleventh year of the said last-men-
tioned reign, and in the first year of the reign of King William the
Fourth ; an 1 in the fourth, and in the sixth and seventh, and in the
seventh and eighth, and in the eighth, and in the ninth and tenth,
and in the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign_of her present
Majesty.
Dated this l2th day of November, 1849.
AMBROSE WALN, Solicitor for the Bill.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.
LOANS ON DEBENTURES.

The Directors of this Company are prepared to receive (under the
powers of their Act of Parliament) Tenders for Loans of Money on
security of Debentures, bearing interest at the rate of Five per Cent.
per Annum, the Interct payable half-yearly, viz., 10th January-I.nd
10th July.
Tenders, stating amount and term of years for which it is pro-
posed to be Lent, to be addressed to the Secretary, Euston Station,
London.

By order,
ANDREW G. GIFFORD, Secretary.
Euston statlen, N9voisbcr 1, 11140.

BIRKENHEAD IMPROVEMENT.
(CONSOLIDATION' OF AC P 3 AND EXTENSION OF
POW ERS.)
-Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
made to PARLIAMENT, in the ensuing Session, for an ACT to
consolidate into one Act all or some of the rowers and provisions of
the several Acts of Parliament following, or sot e of them, and to
repeal the said Acts—(tligt is to say), an Act passed in the third
yea- of the reign of his late Majesty King William IV., intituled
"An Act for paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, and otherwise
improving the township or ehapeiry of Birkenhead, in
'the County Palatine of Chester ; and for regulating the
police thereof, and for establishing a market within the
said township ; " an Act passed in the first year of the reign of
her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to amend an Act passed in
the third year of the reign of his late Majesty King Wil-
liars I V., intituled 'An Act for paving, lighting, watching,
cleansing, and otherwise improving the township or chapelry
of Birkenhead, in the County Palatine of Chester; and for regula-
ting the police thereof, and for establishing a market within the
said township ;' " an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of her
present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to authorise the
purchase of a certain ferry called Woodside Ferry, by the Commis-
stoners for the improvement of the township of chapeiry of Birken-
head, in the County Palatine of Chester, and for amending the
Improvement Acts for the said township ;" an Act passed in the
sixth year of the ;reign of her present Majesty, intituled "An Act
for extending the powers of tile Commissioners of the township of
Birkenhead, in the county of Chester, and for including the town-
ship of Claughton-cum-Grange, and part of the township of Oxton, I
in the same cpunty, within their jurisdiction;" another Act passed
in the samayear, intfinied "An Act for establishing a cemetery in
Birkenhead and Claughton-cum-Grange, or one of them, in the
county of Chester;" an Act passed in the Session of Parlia-
ment hell in the seventh year of the reign of her present
Majesty, intitulect "An Act to authorise the purchase of Monks
Ferry by the Commissioners for the improvement of Birkenhead,
Claughton- cum-Grange, and part of Oxton, in the county of Chester,
and for amending the Acts relating to the said Commissioners ;" and
an Act passed in the ninth year of the reign of her present Majesty,
intituled" An Ant for altering, amending, and enlarging.the several
Acts relating to the improvement of Birkenhead, Claughton-cum-
Grange, and part of Oxton, In the county of Chester." And to ap-
point and incorporate a body of Commissioners for carrying into
effect the objects and purposes of the said Acts and the said intended
Act; and to alter the present qualification of Commissioners and'
Voters, and the scale of voting, at the election of Commissioners;
and otherwise to amend the existing mode ofelecting, Commissioners,
and the provisions of the said existixvi,ets relating to the constitu-
tion of the Conanalskioners, au4theTwers, riglits,:privileges, and
disabilities of the'Conimissroners"; an o freStritrilkitCommissioners
all the property and effects now, or at tin riltnig hereafter, be-
longing to or held in traft for the Commissioners acting in the
execution of the said recited Acts, and to confer on such new Com-
missioners further and more effectual powers for paving, lighting,
watching, cleansing, draining, sewering, and otherwise improving
the public and private streets, lanes, passages, and places within the
limits of the said recited Acts; and for removing and preventing
laying down and constructing streets, roads, lanes, and other public
projections,limits; and
d obstructions,for
rresuau
regulating annoyances,
thewidth anadndlevel nuisancesf,and AtVhiethmin sodellChot
and private ways and places within the same ; and for regulating
and directing the construction or erection of houses, ware-
houses, manufactories, workshops, privies, ash pits, cesspools,
sewand re-
covering the (both public puub,elicsaiadnd
Apersiv;atea)n,danfodr otherinbugiludpinogns
from the owners and oc-upiers of lands, houses and ware-
houses, or some of them, the whole or part of the expenses attend-
ing the several and matters aforesaid or some of them; and for
regulating and managing warehouses and storehouses within the
said limits; and for appolnthr• a fire police, and regulating the
stun., for the prevention of thellres therein; and for licensing and
regulating the conduct of porters, warehousemen, and other servants
and persons employei in or about the warehouses and storehouses
now or hereafter to be erected w thin the sa'd limits, and for im-
proving the sanitary condition c f the district comprised within the
said limits, and for preventing the spread of contagious diseases,
and for promoting the increase of cleanliness therein, and for the erec-
• lonlof public baths and washhouses and other conventer.ces within the
said district, and for the maintenance and regulation of a police force
therein. And also to confer on the said Commissioners such or the like
power, as are now vested in the Commissioners acting in the execution
of the said recited Acts with reference to the construction, mainte-
nance, and regulation of burial-grounds within the limits of the said
recited Acts, and to authorise such new Commissioners to sell or
lease the whole or part of any such burial-grounds, or of the lands
authorised to be purchased for the purposes thereof, to any joint-
stock or other company, person, or corporation who may be able to
purchase or hold the same.
And it is further proposed by the said intended Act to confer
powers upon the said new Commissioners to purchase, lease, or
otherwise tike and hold all or any ferries or rights of ferry across or
over the River Mersey, and to enable all persons, companies, bodies
politic or corporate, being the owners of or having any interest in
any such ferries or rights of ferry, to sell, lease, and transfer the
same to the Commissioners upon such terms and conditions as may
be mutually agreed upon between the said Commissioners and
such persons, companies, bodies politic or corporate; and it is
also proposed by the said intended Act to make further pro-
vision for the purchase by the said Commissioners of Monks
Ferry, and all the property connected therewith, contracted to be
purchase; by the Commissioners acting in the execution of the said
recited Acts, and to authorise the Commissioners to grant bonds or
mortgages for the consideration of such purchase, and to make such
bonds a first charge on the said ferry and ptoperty, and the tolls,
rents, and profits receivable in respect thereof, and to enable the
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction'Rallway Company
to receive and hold such bonds or mortgages.
And it Is also proposed by the said intended Act to authorise the
Commissioners to levy tolls, rates, duties, and charges uron, for, or
in respect of the use of, all or any ferries, wharves, landing places,
cranes, and other works and conveniences at any time belonging to
them, and to alter existing tolls, rates, duties, and charges, and to
confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from payment of tolls, rates,
duties, or charges, and at their option to enter into, or decline en 'er-
lug into, contracts for the use of all or any of their ferries with any
person or persons, or body or bodies politic or corporate.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to authorise the
Commissioners to erect a town-hall and police-courts, and all ne-
cessary buildings and offices connected therewith, or to rent cr
hire such buildings as they may think suitable for any of such pur
poses.

And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to make further
provision for the recovery of all or any rates, charges, expenses, or
other moneys authorised to be levied, made, charged, or received by
the said Commissioners, and for the regulation of or otherwise in
relation to all or any of the ferries, markets, parks, cemeteries,
wharves, crazies, or other property, matters, or things, belonging to
the Commissioners, and for the regulation of hackney carriages,
drivers, porters, and others, within the said district, and for the
making and enforcing of bye-laws in relation to an or any of the
matters aforesaid.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to authorise the
Commissioners and Francis Richard Price, Esq., and his trnste s, to
make and carry into effect certain arrangements for more effectually
vesting in the Commissioners the Woodside Ferry and certain lands
contracted to be purchased by the Commissioners acting in the exe-
cution of the said recited Acts; and to raise a sum of money, by the
creation of bonds or mortgages, for paying the consideration moneys
for the purchase of the said ferry and lands, and to make such bonds
or mortgages a first charge on the said ferry, and the property be-
longing thereto or connected therewith, and the boats and vessels
used or employed by the Commissioners in relation thereto, and on
the tolls receivable in respect thereof; and also to enable the said
Commissioners to make a portion of the said purchase moneys a first
charge upon other lands of the said Commissioners.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to make
certain provisions touching the bond or mortgage debt of the
Commissioners, and to regulate and (if need be) to alter the
rights, privileges, priorities, and securities of the bondholders
or mortgagees, and to authorise the bondholders or mortgagees
to purchase land from the Commissioners, and to surrender their
bonds or mortgagees in lieu of payment of money as the considera-
tion for the purchase of sueh land, and to make further provision for
enabling the Commissioners to acquire and hold lairds, and to sell or
dispose of all or any of the lands vested in or belonging to them.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable the
Commissioners to raise for all or any of the purposes aforesaid a
further sum of money, and to apply and appropriate su,ch parts of
the rates, assessments, tolls, rents, property, and revenue of the
Commissioners as they shall think fit, for or towards the execution
of all or any of the purposes hereinbefore mentioned ; and also to
empower the Commissioners to make, 'assess, levy, and receive all
or any of the rates, assessments, tolls, or charges now receivable by
the Commissioners acting in the execution of the said recited Acts,
and to alter or vary such rates, assessments, tons, and charges, or
some of them, and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from
the payment thereof, and other rights and privileges.
Dated this 10th day of November, 1849.
AMBROSE WALN, Solicitor for the Bill.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIMES.—The fine old fable of the " Choice of
Hercules" is familiar to most of us from cur school- i '
boy days. We have all sympathized with the little , I tiON SIIIPS.
difficulty of that eminent hero. On the one i The subject of ,building iron vessels (we quote a
hand, all that pleasure has of alluremen:,— ; paper read before the Royal Polytechnic Society,
all that indolence can offer of most soothing—all ; Cornwall, by Mr. Edwin Tregelles, C.E.), is one that
the gratifications that vice can deck out in the ,' may well claim the attention of all who are interested
gayest and most enchanting colours, are in the posperity of Great Britain.
posed to us upon the condition of an easy act J In the building of a first-class oak ship of 500
of homage. It is trying enough to turn away from '
tons, we shall require about 700 of timber in the
the offer of a charming entresol at Capua, with an ; rough. That timber occupied 12 acres of land on an
annuity, when we reflect for a moment upon the con- I average 75 years, End is worth more than 1,200/. as
sequences of the sterner alternative. Until habit ;it stands growing, before any labour of an artisan has
shall have extended its wholesome dominion over the been bestowed upon it; or, in other words, 1,2001. is
mind, it is hard to acquiesce in the prospect of , the value of the raw material before it is manufactured,
strenuous exertion, self-denial, anxiety for other's and the hull, when finished for launching, will be
sake, and an utter abnegation or the softer lights and worth 6,000/, the value of the raw material being
shadows of existence ; for all this what shall be our one-fifth, or 1,200/., and of labour and profits four-
return ? To the sensualist, to the ambitious, to , fifths, or 4,8001. The value of the raw material for
the cold schemer, and the frivolous, it would be vain jan iron ship of the same size would be about 50/,
to hold out an equivalent, not to say a reward, fer ! being the royalty paid to the owner of the soil to
sacrifices so great. But there are minds illu- E work the iron ore, limestone, and coal. The labour
minated with a purer ray, which can happily and profit would be nearly 6,000/., say 5,9504 ; -and
know no luxury but one—the luxury of doing we shall then have an iron ship costing 6,000/., of
good ; men who turn away from the pleasures which the raw material cost less than a half per cent.
of the world to familiarise themselves with its J Some persons may estimate the value of iron and oak
miseries that they may alleviate them; and who vessels at less or at more than the foregoing figures,
reckon their days well spent not according to the which may not be the exact value of the respective
measure of the guineas they may have hoarded up, I classes, but they are sufficiently neer the truth to
hut of the sorrows they have eased, and of the tears exemplify the real facts.
they have staunched. For these we write just now. p We have, then, a vessel of 500 tons costing 6,0001.,
There exists at this moment within our walls, and at 'whether of wood or iron; but the oak vessel would
our very doors, tie? 9pportttoity of atayingi slaughter• not last on an average more than fifteen years, and
more deadly than that which occurs in a sal Would be required to be repaired in that time probably
guinary campaign ;—of reclaiming from vice many five times, at an expense of say 300/. each time, or a
more children—and adults, too, for the matter of that total of 1,5001. This may be regarded as a very mo-
-than the Recorder and Sergeant Mirehouse can derate computation, but it would increase the cost of
conveniently dispose of during the next hundred the oak ship to 7,500/., which, if sold for old timber
sessions of the Central Criminal Court ; —of antici- at the end, would fetch 250!., leaving
pating by prevention the pangs of more numerous divided over fifteen years, and we shall have2so/
4731. as
and more varied diseases than all the skill of all the the annual cent of the oak ship of 500 tons, exclusive
London surgeons, with all the appliances of all the of interest on capital. We will compare this with the
I/
metropolitan hospitals to help them, can, possibly, iron vessel of the same size costing 6,000/., which on
soften or extirpate ;—of converting to the know- . the average may be fairly estimated to last twenty
ledge and practice of pure religion more heathens
years, and may require in that time to be repaired
than many distant countries, the scenes 'of laborious ten times at an expense of 1001. each time, making
missions, have ever contained ; and the opportunity • the first cost and repairs 7,000/. The value of the old
1
for taking part in so noble a crusade lies within the iron ship at the end of twenty years may be estimated
reach of every inhabitant of London. There is no at 6001, giving us 6,400/. to be divided by twenty
question of a voyage to the Antipodes, or of doubling years, and we shall have 3201. as the annual cost of
either of the Capes ; a threepenny omnibus offers an iron vessel of 500 tons, exclusive of interest on
all necessary facilities of conveyance, and three- capital. Therefbre we see that the cost to this coun-
quarters of an hour saved on the business of the try of using oak vessels may be expressed by the
day would be the only necessary sacrifice of time figure 473, and the cost of using iron vessels by the
incurred by any good Samaritan who should take his figure 320; or if we allow for errors in the attempt to
stand at the Duke of Northumberland's gate at tiarm an accurate approximation, we have still a great
Charing-cross, and satisfy himself by ocular demon- advantage in favour of iron if we place that figure at
stration that there is nothing exaggerated in the three, and express the oak vessel by four.
statements we have advanced. We are speaking of But an iron vessel of 600 tons register would carry
the great cause of S initary Reform, which appears, 100 tons snore than the oak vessel with the eame dis-
at length, to have been taken up in an earnest spirit placement. Nor is this all ; the speed of the iron
in the proper quarters, but which yet requires the vessel would be much greater, and it will run six
effective aid of every person of thinking mind and miles whilst the oak goes five and a half; or doing as
gentler feeling to help it forward. Just now a ter- much in eleven months as the oak does in twelve, or
rible calamity has given an onward impulse to this earning 12/. whilst the oak vessel earns 11/.
movement. The recent visitation of the pestilence Again, in the time occupied in repairs the iron ship
which has swept away fifteen thousand of our poor would not he detained two weeks in the year on an
countrymen from the lanes and blind alleys inter- average ; whereas one month in each year must be
polated amidst the magnificent squares, the coin- allowed for the aggregate repairs of an oak ship, or
modious haunts of traffic, and the busy thorough- fifteen months out of the whole time, the money
fares of this huge overgrown town, has acted like value of which is about GOO!., whilst the loss of time
a beneficent influence upon the minds of the most by the iron sessel would be only forty weeks, or ten
careless and hard-hearted amongst us. The sorrows months, equal to 226/.
of the City " pauper " may matter but little to the We have an advantage, then, of one•sixth as to
Nest-end clubman, but it may be that the corpse stowage, and one-twelfth as to speed, making a saving
will avenge the agony of the living sufferer. It ii lof one-fourth on 303., or reducing the cost of carrying
no doubt more convenient to give an importunate by an iron vessel to 22s Gd., irrespective, of course,
duty the "go by," but neva-yet was a duty neglected of the wages and victualling, which would be alike
with impunity. If we continue to tolerate the in each case, compared with 403., the cost of car-
existence of pestilential miasmata as the natural eying by an oak vessel. Besides this, we must esti-
:. mate the saving in time for repairs, which we see is
atmosphere of a large proportion of our poorer fellow
a
townsmen, we must not take it amiss that the plagues 2661. for iron, compared with 6001. as the value
finds its way into the abodes of the more opulent. of the time consumed in delay whilst repairing the
An untimely destruction of human life cannot go I oak vessel. Then if we can carry for 225. Gd. what
on so quietly in one quarter of the town, but that has heretofore cost us 405., would not the adoption of
we shall hear of it in another. An east wind will iron vessels keep for us the advantageous position in
very speedily carry the tidings of destruction from 1 commerce which we have long enjoyed ?
Shoreditch to Grosvenor-square—a,y, and insinuate the I But it may be argued that the premises are un-
tale through every opened door and window of Bel- sound, and, therefore, the conclusions are false ;
gravia. We have said that any one can satisfy himself that an iron vessel cannot be as safe as an oak
by the testimony of his own senses of the absolute one, and, therefore, never can succeed ; in fact, after
necessity of the sanitary movement in London; but all, " there is nothing like wood." We shall find
even this degree of exertion is superfluous. Reports some excellent practical remarks on the subject in a
from time to time are published, the materials for
which have been conscientiously collected by lie says :—What are the objects most by corn- work by John Grantham, a Liverpool shipbuilder
ie
petent persons appointed specially for the
purpose. merchant in the choice of a ship ? Thes I desired
consider
to One of these has recently appeared, which bids fair are—
to be the text-book of the champions of sanitary re-
form within the limits of the City jurisdiction. Mr.
John Simon, the medical officer of health under the
City Commissioners of Sewers, has within the last
few days given the results of his year's experience
to his employers in an admirably digested
report, which we printed on Wednesday of last
sveek for the instruction and information of our
readers. Never was a more convincing or solemn
appeal made to a public body. Mr. Simon has care-
fully classified and explored each source of the misery
of the poorer inhabitants of this metropolis. He has
not only explained the nature of the existing evil,
but he has suggested the practical remedy which
should be applied. He refers to six main heads the
causes of all the present mischief :—I. Defective
house drainage. 11. Incomplete and insufficient
water supply. 111. Offensive or injurious trades
and occupations. IV. Intramural burials. V.
Houses insusceptible of ventilation, and absolutely
unfit for habitation. VI. The personal habits of
the lowest classes, and the influence of destitu-
tion in increasing their mortality. Each of these
heads would prove an apposite text for longer com-
ment than our space admits of to-day; but in antici-
pation of future opportunity we will let Mr. Simon
recapitulate for himself the remedial measures he has
suggested to his employers for the abatement of evils
so intolerable as those he has described :
" To provide an inoffensive outfall fur the sewerage of
our vast population; to render the river a sourco of
unqualified advantage; to give an indefinite extension
and a sounder principle to the system of water supply;
to suppress all trades and occupations which taint
the atmosphere with materials of organic decom-
position; to ebito the nuisance of smoke ; to pro•
vide the facilities for extramural interment, and
to procure the prohibition of all further burial
amidst our living; to improve the domestic arrange.
ments of the poor, and to insure for them an adequate
supervision; to hinder the occupation of houses which
breed pestience; to destroy such as are irremediably
hostile to health, and to thin the stiffied population of
courts and alleys; to establish public baths and laun-
dries which may offer to the poor the utmost facili-
ties 'and inducement for the maintenance of personal
cleanliness; in the stead of .su2b courts as wo may hope
to depopulate and destroy, but in op.n streets and with
perfect ventilation, to erect and to place at the disposal
of the labouring classes houses and lodgings which not
only may offer to their inhabitants every convenience es-
sential to health, and decency and comfort, but may like-
wise serve as a:el. is of household economy for the whole
district in which they stand ;—these, gentlemen, are the
heads, briefly recapitulated, under which I have Ix en
obliged, as it were casually in my report, to touch on
many subjects perhaps foreign to your jurisdiction, but
lying at least on the confines of your province, aid
which it now remains with you either to retain or to
transfer."
Now, the excellence of Mr. Simon's report con-
sists in this—that not only has he probed these social
sores to their depth, and mapped out all their con-
sequences in the shortened lives and wide-spread
demoralization of the poorer classes, but he has
pointed out practical remedies—remedies which, if
not the best the wit of man might devise, will cer-
tainly answer the purpose in the absence of still
more valuable suggestions. The day has surely gone
by when the old exploded absurdities can be gravely
propounded in an assembly of men of average intellect
and honesty. Surely after our recent experience of the
spots where the cholera came soonest, stayed longest,
and raged most violently, it will not be maintained that
the reeking sewer and the bubbling cesspool are
balmy influences favourable to health. A whiff
from a London churchyard, where the corpses
of former parishioners are rotting within a few
inches of the surface, is not acceptable even to a
churchwarden. It is not a wise nor a salutary
course for a citizen, Sunday after Sunday, to take
his wife and his young children, and to sit down
with them fur two hours at a stretch in a close build-
ing,. the atmosphere of which is iiafected with the
gaseous influences of corpses undergoing decompo-
sition in the vaults beneath. It is nut a prudent
step, even in the interest of Belgrave-square or of
Hyde-park-gardens, to keep up extensive nurseries
of typhus, dotted in various advantageous si-
tuations throughout the town. It is not worthy
of a civilized community to endure that mad-
dened cattle should be driven through their
most crowded thoroughfares twice in every week;
nor that the most filthy and noxious trades should
he carried on precisely in the spat where the pulse
of life throbs the deepest and the quickest. It is not
politic to deaden every human eeling in the humbler
classes; to leave them in squalid dens where parents
and their adult children are huddled together on one
filthy bed, beneath one filthy coverlet. Yet all these
things, and many more such, are ofdaily and hourly oc-
currence in every quarter of the metropolis of the Er t;sh
empire. What can the poor people do unless the ini-
tiative be taken by the more opulent and powerful

"1. Strength combined with lightness.
"2. Great capacity of stowing.
" 3. Safety.
"4. Speed.
" 5. Durability.
" 6. Economy in repairs.
"7. Cost.
" 8. Draught of water."
And Mr. Grantham " proves that iron vessels
possess advantages under all those heads in so emi-
nent a degree as to render them superior to wooden
vessels."
In considering the benefit obtained by using iron
in preference to wood, we must not forget that the
leaking of an iron vessel is scarcely appreciable, and
if leaks occur they are commonly very easily dis-
covered and stopped, so that there is no bilge water,
a consideration of great importance in carrying
corn and other food.

It is true that there may exist strong prejudices to
be overcome. So there were against steam-vessels,
as fraught with danger of many kinds ; so there were
also against the introduction of iron beams instead of
) wood for steam-engines; there are engineers now
living who remember this change, and the preju-
dices. low difficult it would be to avoid the snap-
ping of a beam, if the engine struck on the spring
-beams ! How frightful would be the calamity of
the cast-iron beam of a pumping engine fall-
ing into the engine-house, or of the other
tumbling down the shaft of the mine ? Many
such prognostications were made, and some realised ;
but does any engineer, or sound mechanic, contem-
plate the idea of reverting to the wooden beam with
its cast-iron caps and wrought-iron straps? An ex-
cellent engine beam of eno►mous strength might be
made of wrought.iron plates ; but the a'tempt would
be almost vain to form a framework of wood, however
elaborate or well designed, that should be equal to
the strength of the cast-iron beams now used for the
engines in Cornwall. If iron were not applicable for
engine-beams, the engines of Cornwall must of neces-
sity be much smaller in their dimensions and power;
the deep mines could not be drained nor their wealth
developed; and so it may be said of iron for the use
of vessels; without it we shall remain stationary or
retrograde amongst nations in the march of com-
merce; hut if we avail ourselves of the vast advantages
placed within our reach, we may remain proverbial for
intelligence and prosperity.
B

,ATIIS AND WASIMOUSES.—The Court of As-
sist-ants of the Grocers' Company have contributed an
additional sum of 1001., making 2001., in aid of the funds
of the committee for promoting the establishment of
baths and w ashbouscs for the labouring classes towards
the completion of the model establishment, Gonlston-
square' Whitechapel. We learn, with much satisfaction,
that the first and second-class baths, in number 94, have
been got to work again, but trifling damage having been
done to this part of the establishment curing the recent
fire. The repairs tendered necessary to the washing
depar'meat will be proceeded with as rapidly as posbiblo,
in order that this important branch of the establishment
may be re-opened early in the ensuing year for the ac•
commodation of the numerous poor wh.) reside in the
locality of Spitulfields and Whitechapel, and by whom
the partial closing of the establishment is greatly de-
pl( red. It is the desire of the committee to complete
the whole of the southern ranges of the wasbhouse with
the drying, mangling, and iroairg compartment at the
same time the repairs are proceeding, and as soon as the
funds to be collected for this purp6se will warrant the
committee incurring the liability.
THE TEA PLANT.—The cultivation of the tea ulant
which was undertaken by Mr. James Smith, neat Gr eu-
field, S. Carolina, 1848, has so far prove a highly success-
ful. In the fall of 1848, about 500 plants were received
from China, via L- radon, and in December they were
planted in his garden. A considerable quantity of tea
seed was planted at the same time. Notwithstandit g the
severe winter ar.d spring, the plants which were lett to
take care of themselves were unharmed, and are now in
a nourishing condition. Several specimens of the green
and black plant are in bud. The tea plant buds one
year, but does not fruit till the next. Next year 11,1 r.
Smith expects to pick tea, although his great object for
some time to come will be to increase the quantity of his
plants. The tea seed was planted at a wrong season, sad
did not amount to and thug. Mr. SmiLli estimated the
annual consumption of tea in the Unit:d State; to be 11
millions of pounds ; in Europe 50 ; total 61 millionF.
China proLluces over 900 millions of pounds, of which the
Chinese export. only about 70 millions. An acre of land
will produce 517 lb.; consequently the cultivation of
20,109 acres ut laud in the 14 tea growing states, will
supply the pr, 5,d it consumption of the United States.
To supply Eli: ope would require 91,411 acres of land.
He supposes that there are 14 of our states that would
grow tea, and that 111520 acres of land, cultivated as
tea plantations, ,iveraging 7,965 fur each of thell4 states,
will supply the consumption of the article both for
Europe and the United States. The experiment Mr.
Smith is engaged in is a highly interesting one, and will
be attended with vast benefits to the country if CODb•
pletely successful.