The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-09-28 00:00:00

)arty, and creed in the coun

itish feeling which speaks

volumes for the nationality of our countrymen, and
The Freemen I • •

especially ot., .tuber what a large
number of them were struck off last year, and And in ENGLAND, thank heaven, we can ,
some confidence in the expressions of public feelir,
debarred from exercising their privilege at the and opinion. The respectful sorrow, and admira
recent Election, through non-attendance at the tion, and pride, with which the minds of the British
Court.
people are at this moment possessed, in contem-
' THE OPENING ACT W4' THE NEW plating the dissolution of the immortal WELLING-
PARLIAMENT. TON, how much more genuine, more significant,
THE opening act of the new Parliament will be and more trustworthy are they than the tumultuous
one for ever memorable in the annals of GREAT enthusiasm with which a neighbouring nation, once
BRITAIN. It will be one in which the whole com- our greatest enemy, is now hailing the Governor of
munity of the three kingdoms, as well as their its choice ! The comparison, or rather contrast,
SOVEREIGN, will take the most lively and sympa- ought to be the source of much comfort to English
thetic interest. It will be one especially grateful to men, especially when the possibility of a
HER MAJESTY'S present Government to propose between the two nations is constantly obtruded on
and carry out. It will be most becoming and ap- our notice. The big threatening language of the
propriate that a Conservative and truly national war party in France, seems to us alm''
-
Ministry should have the satisfaction of taking the gasconadings, when we'.
lead in a public and national testimonial to the one country to that which is displa)
worth and glory of England's greatest General, and The memory of WATERLOO is ye'
of her most distinguished Conservative Statesman• many of the French people, and there is throughout
It is an action truly worthy of the noble and gra- all classes of them too much leaven of jealousy and
ciousnature of our beloved QUEEN, that she has hatred towards England, to render War a very irn-
forborne to arrogate to herself her undoubted right probable event, or one against which there is no
to direct, of her own sole authority, a public fune-
pressing necessity for preparation. Even while thy
ral memorial of the illustrious servant and friend great DUKE was expiring at WALMER
whom she has lost. She has refused to exercise the Constitutionnel of that day, a sen.:
such exclusive privilege, in order that Parliament, of the Government, was directly threatening an ii
as the representative of the other estates of the vasion of England, and stirring up the spirit of th,
realm, may have an opportunity of joining with the French people to a desire for vengeance upon their
SOVEREIGN in giving to such a ceremony the
ancient adversaries. Affecting to deprecate war
greatest significance and the most complete nation-
between France and England, impudently pretend-
ality. The sentiments conveyed from her MAJESTY ing to pity England should war take place, and
to the nation, in Lord DERBY'S letter to Mr. Secre- confidently anticipating a decisive victory for
tary WALPOLE, are right worthy of the source from France, the modest Constitutionnel used this
which they emanated. One passage, though in
all probability already familiar to our readers, will
bear quotation :—" Her MAJESTY, anxious that
this tribute of gratitude and sorrow should be
deprived of nothing which could invest it with a
thoroughly national character—anxious that the
greatest possible number of her subjects should
have an opportunity of joining in it—is anxious,
above all, that such honours should not appear to
emanate from the Crown alone, and that the two
Houses of Parliament should have an opportunity,
by their previous sanction, of stamping the proposed
ceremony with increased solemnity, and associating
themselves with HER MAJESTY in paying honour
to the memory of one whom no Englishman can
name without pride and sorrow."

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" Invasion ! May the misfortunes which such a
word represents be turned away from the English
people, in spite of the frequent indignities of their
politics and in spite of the oppression which their
navy has so long exercised in Europe ! May we
never be obliged to pass that moveable bridge which
steam has thrown between that nation and ours,
unless to stretch out the hand to the English, and
to congratulate ourselves with them on beholding
somewhat more of moderation and equity in their
relations with other powers But, if even the
plague of war should burst out between them and us,
London might well tremble. It is not the fortifi-
cations on the coast, nor the active watching of a
fleet, which could prevent vessels of great speed,
like the Napoleon, from carrying each more than
1500 men on the first beach of England which
might be bare when the tide was out. The struggle
would then be transported to the land, and there,
THANK GOD, we should fight with advantage."
Now, be it remembered that the journal which
makes use of these pacific and conciliatory expres-
sions, does not publish one sentence at variance
with the opinions and wishes of the Government,
or of that distinguished Individual who has now
professed his regret that his "star " should have
destined him to " conquer " England.

That Parliament will respond to this gracious
invitation in the right spirit, we cannot doubt.
Not even " the factious forty-one" will dare to utter
a syllable of dissent from the almost universal ex-
pression of grief and gratitude.
If aught connected with death and with a national
loss may be taken as auspicious, we would hail
it as a happy omen that the very first proceeding of
the new Parliament under the national Conservative
Government of LORD DERBY, will be one tending
to display so much right national feeling. We do
not anticipate that the opposition of parties will
be less resolute or active after such an act of sym-
pathy than before, but we do soberly believe, that
the evidence which will be presented to the world
how cordially all political parties in England can
unite for truly national purposes, will help to deprive
political antagonism at home of undue bitterness
and animosity, and will teach our foreign rivals
that they need not trust to intestine dissensions to
lay England more open to the attacks of her foreign
foes, or to render her unfit for vigorous defensive
operations.

To inspire confidence into the French people, the
Constitutionnel assures its readers, with laughable
audacity and insolence, that " England has always
been conquered when a foreign army set foot on
her soil ;" and adds, by way of proof, " the Ro-
mans, the Saxons, the Danes, the Normans, under
WILLIAM over-ran GREAT BRITAIN."

"England"never has been conquered. Like Gaul
and other countries of Europe, our island has been
over-run by Roman legions and by Teutonic
invaders, but that was ere " England" existedo.
The invasion of WILLIAM the Conqueror was
the act of the English people, and he fought with
English followers. But never since England was,
has she succumbed to foreign foes. We are under
no serious apprehension that war will soon take
place between France and England, yet we ought to
be prepared for it. He whose counsels were ever the
ready and trusted resource of the nation in moments
of peril and emergency, has warned us not to
indulge in false confidence. We need but look
after the necessary matters of detail. Such due
preparations being made, the spirit which unites all
Englishmen in sympathetic and grateful admiration
of the illustrious dead, would burst forth with
overwhelming power upon the invading legions of
France; and the true heart of England would pro-
claim with voice of thunder, "This England never
did, nor never shall, lie at the proud foot of a
conqueror." Let us, therefore, cast away both
false security and unbecoming fear, and be ever
ready for the worst, remembering that

We do not deem it out of place, while referring
to this interesting topic, to point out to the admi-
ring and sorrowing fellow-countrymen of WEL-
LINGTON, that the quality for which they have
most esteemed him in his military and civil life--the
unflinching performance of " duty"—is one which
is also most eminently displayed by the distin-
guished Statesman who is at present at the head of
public affairs, and whose grateful task it has been
to convey the wishes of the SOVEREIGN to the

people, on this interesting occasion.
The opening act of the new Parliament is one in
which the EARL of DERBY is a most fitting person
to take the most prominent part.

PROGRESS OF THE LIVERPOOL DOCK

ESTATE.

THE Accounts of the Trustees of the Liverpool
Docks for the year ended 24th June last, give a
most satisfactory exposition of the state of the vast
property under their control, and of the growing
prosperity of the port. The Dues on Tonnage
received during the year have been £137,754 Os. 5d.;
on foreign goods inwards, £86,402 3s. 5d.; and
outwards, £22,530 Is. iod. ; making a total
amount of £246,686 ss. Bd. The interest on Bonds
amounts to £202,374 13s. 3d., leaving a margin for
ordinary expenditure of £44,311 12s. sd. The
balance in the hands of the Bankers and Treasurer

" Nought shall make us rue,
If England to itself do rest but true."

CHANGES OF THE BANKS AND
CHANNELS OF THE MERSEY.

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RUMOUR is busy exaggerating the circumstances which
have led the Merine Surveyor, Lieut. LORD, to remove
many of the buoys which mark the entrance to the port.
it is openly stated that the channels outside are filling up,
and that we are threatened with a similar calamity to
that which has befallen the once-thriving port of Chester.
This is outraging truth ; yet it must be confessed that
there is ground for serious misgivings on the subject.
Upwards of four years ago we called the attention of the
public to the danger of closing up the Pool at Wallasey,
in which seven million tons of water were impounded at
every tide, and available for the purpose of scouring the
channels outside the port. We sheaved that from Sea-
combo Ferry to the Prince's Pier was the narrowest point
of the Estuary of the Mersey ; and chat it was all-impor-
tant that the water above that point should be allowed full
space to circulate, so that we should have a sufficient re-
flux to keep open the Victoria Channel and to sweep the
banks. Our warnings were, however, unheeded ; and we
learn with little surprise that the important channel in
question is gradually narrowing. This is not the effect of
the extension of the Dock walls to the northward. It
arises purely from the loss of scouring power, caused by
damming up Wallasey Pool. A similar policy, the em-
bankment of the river Dee, above King's Ferry, closed up
the port of Chester.

has increased from £103,148 15s. 11d. at the com-
mencement of the year to £135,096 Os. 3d. at the
close. There has been received on Bond
£592,944 7s. 10d., which is accounted for by the
repayment of money borrowed and the cost of pro-
perty purchased. The Lighthouse duties have been
£1 1,543 14s tod; Floating Light duties £5,092 2s 3d;
Graving Dock duties, £15,645 135.; and Graving
Block duties, £2,289 4s. Od. The Albert Dock
Warehouses have produced for rates and rent,
£60,201 14s. 3d., the working expenditure being
£36,258 6s. 6d. A table embodied with the
accounts, sheaving the amount of Dock Duties at the
port of Liverpool from the year 1752, exhibits the
most remarkable history of progress which has ever
been noticed in this or any other country. In 1752
the amount received for Tonnage Dues in Liverpool
was £1,776 8s 2d; and in the closing year of the cen-
tury,l799, it was £14,049 15s. Id., or nearly eight-
fold. In the following year it took a most surpris•
ing leap, reaching £23,379 13s. 6d. ; and in 1810
it had reached £65,782 ls. From this point it

We have no fear of immediate injury to the navigation
of the port. The bay outside has been recently surveyed ;
and a new map of the approaches and channels will
shortly be published by the Marine Surveyor, which will
afford all the information, as to the changes made, re-
quired to ensura safety to our Mercantile Marine. A
survey, we understand, is also to be made forthw;th of the
river above Garston, where the banks are observed to be

Ceclined during the next three years, when it began
again to increase, and has steadily progressed, until
we have in the past year an amount of
£246,686 ss. Bd. This, however, does not show
fully the amazing improvement which hag taken
place during the past 16 years, for on the 25th
Sept., 1846, there was a reduction made in the
rates of 381 per cent. On the it December, 1844,
a reduction was made in the tonnage dues on East
India vessels of 33 per cent., or about 18 per cent.
on the aggregate of foreign voyages. Again in
1848, whilst Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE was Dock
Chairman, a further reduction was made, amounting
to £40,000. Our progress during the past half
century is best ascertained by the number of the
vessels and the tonnage of the port. In 1800 the
number of vessels was 4,746, and the tonnage
450,060 tons. In 1852, the number of vessels had
reached 21,4/3, with a tonnage of 3,912,506 tons,
or above eightfold the tonnage of 1800.

in a rather

tically give to the authorities, who have the very existence
of our port in their keeping. There must be no further
encrolchments permitted in the bed of the river above the
point which we have termed its neck. It was once
mooted, we believe, to reclaim some portion of Brom_
borough Pool. Such a step would be utterly suicidal.

PRAISEWORTHY CONDUCT OF THE ORANGENIF.N.—CI
Sunday last, information having been laid before the
Head:Constable, Captain Greig, that a funeral was to
proceed from Eldon-place, Vauxhall-road, attended by a
procession wearing orange favors, that officer, with Chief-
Superintendent Ride,
i proceeded to the spot, with a view
to prevent such a display. , e are glad to learn that the
party, on beinii informed that a disturbance might be
created by their wearing favors, at once desisted, and
followed the body of their deceased brother to the grave
in their ordinary attire as mourners.