The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-15 00:00:00

THE HERCULANEUM DOCK ESTATE.

ATOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application'is in
IN tended to be made to Parliament, in the next Session,
for an Act to enable Ambrose Lace, Joshua Lace tho-Younger,
Samuel name, James Holing, and John Tomkinson, or
other, the owner- or owners for the time being, of certain
• Lands, Docks, and Hereditanaents, known by She name of the
" Herculaneum Dock Estate," situate in the extra-parochial
place of Toxteth-park, in the County of Lancaster, and
abutting on the river Mersey, to impose atid take dock-rates,
tonnage, and other duties upon or isg, respect of vessels,
using the docks about to be constructed on the said Estate
and Land, and communicating with the river Mersey; and
also, rates and duties upon or in respect of all Goods, Mer-
chandize, and other articles and things shipped or discharged
in any of such docks, or on the quays and wharfs thereof, or
elsewhere on tbe estate of the said Ambrose Lace, Joshua
Lace the younger, Samuel Holme, James Holme, and John
Tomkinson, and to fix the scale of rates, to be taken in
respect of such vessels and such goods. And also to autho-
rise and empower the said Ambrose Lace, Joshua Lace the
younger, Samuel Holme, James Hohne, and John Tomlin-
son, to fix the charges to be made on Goods and Mer-
chandize, brought into such intended Docks, and deposited
in the Sheds or Warehouses proposed to be erected round
the same ; as well for rent as for the expense of unloading,
and removal of such Goods and Merchandize. And it is
proposed by the said Act, to take powers to make bye-laws
for regulating the use of the said Docks and Warehouses,
and for the carrying on the business of the same respectively,
and for the more easy recovery of the said rates and charges.
And it is proposed by the said Act, to exempt all vessels
which shall use the said intended Docks, so to be constructed
as aforesaid, and not entering the Docks vested in the Trus-
tees of the Liverpool Docks; and all Goods and Merchan-
dize shipped or discharged in the said intended Docks, from
payment of the tonnage rates and other rates and duties now
payable to the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks, in respect
of vessels coming into or going out of the port of Liverpool ;
Goods, Wares, and Merchandizeimported from parts beyond
the seas or brought coastwise into the said port of Liverpool, or
exported thence to parts beyond the seas or coastwise,with the
exception of such just proportion of the same last-mentioned
tonnage, and other rates and duties, as vessels using the Dock
or Docks constructed or to be constructed as aforesaid, or
the goodsand merchandize on board the same Vessels, ought
to contribute and pay towards the maintenance of the Lights,
Buoys, and Land-marks, established or to be established for
the guidance and security of Vessels entering into and going
out of the said Port, and for such last-mentioned or any other
purpose, for which it may be necessary to alter, amend, ex-
plain, or repeal, so far as relates to Ships or Vessels so using
the said intended Dock or Docks, and the goods laden on
board the same, so many or such part or parts of the several
Acts hereinafter mentioned, as enable the said Trustees of
the Liverpool Docks to levy and recover such last-mentioned
tonnage and other rates and duties, that is to say,) An Act
passed in the Eighth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, in-
tituled " An Act for making a convenient Dock or Basin at
" Liverpool, for the security of all Ships trading to and from
" the said Port of Liverpool." Another Act passed in the
Third Year of the Reign of King George the First, intituled
" An Act for enlarging the time granted by an Act passed in
" the Eighth Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen
" Anne, intituled An Act for making a convenient Dock or
" Basin at Liverpoole, for security of all Shipps trading to
" and from the said Port of Liverpoole." Another Act
passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of King George
the Second, intituled " An Act for enlarging the time granted
"by an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of his late
" Majesty King George, intituled An Act for enlarging the
" time granted by an Act passed in the Eighth Year of the
" Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An Act
" for making a convenient Dock or Basin at Liverpool, for
" the security of all Ships trading to and from the said Port
" of Liverpool, and for enlarging the same by making an ad-
" ditional Dock, and building a Pier in the open Harbour
" there, and for enlightening the said Dock." Another Act
passed in the Second Year of the Reign of King George the
Third, intituled "An Act to enlarge the term and powers
" granted by an Act passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign
"of his late. Majesty,- fer continuing several Acts relating to
"the Harbour of Liverpoole, and for enlarging the said liar-
"hour by making an additional -Dock, and building a Pier
"in the open Harbour there, and for enlightening the said
" Dock, and for making another Dock with proper Piers in
" the said Harbour, and for erecting Lighthouses and other
" proper lights in or near the Port of Liverpool." Another
Act passed in the Twenty-fifth year of the reign of King
George the Third, intituled, " An Act to enlarge the term
" and powers of several Acts relating to the Harbour of Li-
" verpool, and for making two additional Docks and Piers
"in or near the Port cf Liverpool." Another Act passed
in the thirty-ninth year of the reign of King George the
Third, intituled, " An Act to enlarge the term, and alter and
" enlarge the powers of several Acts relating to the Harbour
" of Liverpool, and for making two additional Wet Docks
" and Piers in or near the Port of Liverpool,- and for render-
" ing more safe and 'commodious the said Port and Docks."
Another Act passed in the Fifty-first year of the reign of King
George the Third, intituled, " An Act for the improvement
" of the Port and Town of Liverpool, and amending the se-
" veral Acts relating to the Docks, Quays, and other Works
" belonging to the said Port." Another Act passed in the
Fifty-third year of the reign of King George the Third, in-
tituled, " An Act to authorize the advancement of a certain
" sum of money for carrying into effect the several Acts for
" the improvement of the Port and Town of Liverpool. and
"to amend the said Acti." Another Act passed in the Fifty-
ninth year of the reign of King George the Third, intituled,
" An Act for improving the Lighthouse on the Isle of Angle-
" sea belonging to the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks, and
" for further amending the Acts relating to the Docks and
" Harbour of Liverpool." Another Act passed in the Sixth
vear of the reign of King George the Fourth, intituled, " An
" Act for the further improvement of the Port, Harbour, and
" Town of Liverpool, and for altering, extending, and amend-
" ing the several Acts relating thereto." Another Act passed
is the Ninth year of the reign of King George the Fourth,
intituled,
." An Act to enable the Trustees of the Liverpool
" Docks to raise a further sum of money." Another Act
passed in the said Ninth year of the reign of King George the
Fourth, intituled, " An Act to explain and amend two Acts
"of the Fifty-first year of his late Majesty, and the
" Sixth year of his present Majesty, for the improvement
" of the Port, Harbour, and the Town of Liverpool, and to
" authorise the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks to pay for
" certain Lands and Hereditaments purchased under the said
" Acts." And another Act passed in the Eleventh Year of the
Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled " an Act for ex-
" tending and amending the several Acts relating to the
" Pocks and Harbour of Liverpool." AND NOTICE IS
FURTHER GIVEN, that Plans and Sections of the said
intended Docks, with Books of Reference thereto, will be
deposited in the Office of the Clerk of the Peace for the
County of Lancaster, at Preston, in the same County, on or
before the Thirtieth Day of November instant, and copies
of the same Plans and Books of Reference will also be de-
posited for the inspection of the Public with the Clerk of
the Parish Church of Walton-on-the-Hill, at Walton-on-
the-Hill, in the said County of Lancaster, and with the
Clerks of Saint James' Church, Saint John's Church, and
the Park Church, in Toxteth-park aforesaid, on or before the
Thirty-first Day of December now next.

LACES, CLAY, & IVIYERSi
Attorneys for the above named Ambrose Lace and others.
Liverpool. 12th November, 1839.

A poor old woman, the sweeper of Bidston Church, found,
while busied in her occupation, a silver coin of the reign of
Elizabeth, in a very perfect state of preservation, dated 1569.
AN UNTIMELY DEMAND.—A provincial actresss was
performing the part of Lady Anne in Richard lIL, and on
delivering lie passage, " When shall 1 hare rest ?" she was
answered by her washerwoman from the pit, " Never till you
pay me three shillings.and two-pence !"

ANTIQUITY OF POT-BOYS.—Pot-boys boast a venerable
antiquity. Genymede was the first that we remember as
mentioned to have inhabited. earth ; for " the man wot bears
the watering-pot," that heavenly tee-totaller, is not of kin
to the race. Females again appear sometimes to have in-
truded themselves into the office peculiar to pot-boys ; Hebe
and Jupiter, Fortigern, and Rowena, are cases in point ;; but
though it has been urged upon us by an antiquarian friend
that the pedigree of pot-boys may be traced up to these
illustrious stocks, we cannot coincide with him, and are sorry
to say we believe that he has been imposed upon by some
aspiring Chattertonian beer-bearer, who has persuaded him
that a rude imitation of the mysterious chalk inscriptions
behind the bar door, was a veritable Druidical memorial.
He said he found it in a barrow and true enough he drew it
forth from one even before our friend's eyes.—The London
.Tournal.

WHIMS OF GENIUS. —We are told Gregorio Leti pub-
lished as many books as he was years old ; and that this rule
he punctually observed to the year of his death. Something
of the like nature it was which actuated Homer to divide
each of his poems into as many books as there are letters in
the Greek alphabet. We learn also that Herodotus in the
same manner adapted his books to the number of the Muses,
for which reason many a critic and a scholar had mourned
there had been no more than nine of the famed sisterhood.
Among our epic poets, it is understood that Spenser, had he
lived to finish them. intended to suit the number of the books
in the Fairy Queen to the aggregate of the human virtues ;
and that Milton, in his Paradise Lost, altered the number
of his books from ten to twelve. for no other reason than
that he might follow Firgil.

THE OIL IN THE WOOL OF SEIEEP.—A series of expe-
riments has been made in France, to ascertain the real value
of the oil in the wool of sheep, both as manure, and as a
material available in the arts ; from which it appears that
this oil or grease, which is now wholly lost, has a marketable
value for the arts of ss. per 1001bs. There is also reason to
presume that 3,001b5., if dry, would be sufficient to manure
2+ acres of land, with a saving of nine-tenths in the expense
of carriage. It might either be sprinkled over a plant like
water, or placed round its roots ; consequently, it would be
most useful in the cultivation of vegetables for large markets.
It makes an equal compost, either with seven-eighths of marl,
clay, peat-ashes, lime, or sand ; and in this case admits of
being spread by
.the hand. It is evident that agriculture
would derive very great advantage from a manure so rich and
serviceable in the cultivation
iof potatoes and vegetables of
every kind, and at the same time so well adapted for impro-
ving grass lands, and for increasing those valuable crops
which require so many weedings,—such as flax, henTp,*to-
bacco, beet-Toot, and all oleaginous plants. 'What an im-
portant service would be rendered to agriculture if its manure
could be made available which is now lost, but which would
verage yearly 134,000 tons 1