The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-29 00:00:00

THE HERCULANEUM DOCK ESTATE.

NNOTICEIS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is in-
tended to be made to Parliament, in the next Session,
for an Act to enable Ambrose Lace, Joshua Lace the younger,
Samuel Holme, James Holme, and John Tomkmson, or
father, the owner or owners for the time being, of certain
Lands., Docks, and Hereditaments, known by the name of the
" Herculaneum Dock Estate," situate in that extra-parochial
place of Toxteth-park, in the County of Lancaster, and
abutting on the river Mersey, to impose and take dock-rates,
tonnage, and other duties upon or in 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 the 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 Holme, and John Tomkin-
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 Merchandize imported from parts beyond
the seas or brought coastwise into the said port of Liverpool, or
exported thence to parts beyond the seas orcoastwise,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 goods'and 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, for 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 of 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 Acts." 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
year 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
in 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
" /pertain 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
" Docks and Harbour of Liverpool." AND NOTICE IS
FURTHER GIVEN, that Plans and Sections of the said
intended D,,cks, 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, & MYERS,
Attorneys for the above named Ambrose Lace and others.
biverpoil Igi4 November, 1539,

Lord Brougham recently visited Covent-garden Theatre,
when oddly enough the evening's performances chanced to be
" Why did you die ?" " Frightened to Death," and "Twice
Killed," with all of which his lordship appeared to be par-
ticularly amused.

SCARCITY OF CHANGE IN NEW YORK.—The banking
difficulties in New York have bothered theatricals. Charles
Kean's houses did not average four hundred dollars. Bur-
ton's were about the same. The suspension has affected them
both—there is so much trouble to get change to pay for a
ticket. The singers opened at the Chestnut last night, in
" Cinderella." There was scarce five hundred dollars,in the
house.—Neu' York Herald.

CEDAR QUARRIES.—On asking a friend from. Oswego,
the other day, who used this term, what it meant, he inform-
ed us that much of the cedar which comes from Lake Onta-
rio is absolutely dug out of the soil. On some of the islands
in that lake, which furnish great quantities of that valuable
timber, there has not been growing a single tree for many
years. Generation has apparently succeeded generation of
this timber, and fallen, and been successively covered with
earth, and is dug out for railroads, fence posts, &c., in a
perfectly sound state.—The above is from the Cultivator—
[Persons who have been on the islands have stated to us si-
milar facts. We believe, however, the quarries are getting
exhausted of their most valuable mineral—the red cedar—
or that it is so deeply imbedded, that the labour of excava-
tion is not sufficiently rewarded. During this season nearly
all the cedar importations have been of a white species. We
have heard it stated, that on some of the islands—the Ducks
and Pigeons, for instance, at the north-eastern termination
of the lake—there are subterranean passages pervading their
whole area ; that the roof or exterior surface seems to be
composed of agglomerated earth, matted and held together
by roots of trees, which rest upon it, and have covered it
with a thick growth of timber. The vaulted passages, or
dens, below, are filled with cedar logs, lying in every variety
of position, and which no doubt formerly, like the rafters of
a house, gave support to the superincumbent mass. From
the accounts we have had, there are more wonderful laby-
rinths constructed by Nature on Lake Ontario, than that of
old upon the banks of Lake IVlceris.—Osiveyo Palladium.]
—[Similar quarries exist, or did exist, in the Jersey marshes,
between this city and Newark. Within our own day we have
seen people engaged in excavations for fencing-timber. Thus
cedar posts and rails were dug from the earth on one side of
Newark, and blocks of freeitOO§ from thQ otlipr,—New York
Com. Adrfrlifer,

EXTRAORDINARY PET.—CATS SUPERSEDED.—There is
a gentleman at Christchurch, ix-ho keeps a pet oyster of the
largest and finest breed : it is fed on oatmeal, for which it
regularly opens its shell, and is occasionally treated with a
dip in its native element ; but the more extraordinary trait
in the history of this amphibious pet is, that it has proved
itself an excellent mouser, having already killed five mice,
by crushing the heads of such as, tempted by the odoriferous
meal, had the temerity to intrude their noses within his bi-
valvular clutches. Twice have two of these little marauders
suffered together.—Salisbury Journal. [Pretty well !]
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LORD MELBOURNE'S INFLUENCE.—There is no reason
to suppose that Lord Melbourne's influence at cougt is dimi-
nished. But he has cause to apprehend that the influence
of the Queen herself has been much damaged by the course
taken by her Majesty under his guidance. There is no longer
the same affectionate interest of the young Sovereign that
once existed. Loyalty has cooled quickly among the people.
The whigs strained it unmercifully when they appealed to
the country as " friends of the Queen's youth." That re-
source is exhausted. The bedchamber ladies have made
their last ministry.—Spectator.
THE QUEEN'S HUSBAND.—The title of the Queen's hus-
band will still be " Prince" Albert, and not " King," after
the consummation of the marriage. Until letters patent
shall have passed the great seal, constituting him a prince of
the blood royal, he will be " his serene highness," and not
" his royal highness." Should he be made Duke of Kent,
which is not improbable, and a prince of the blood royal, he
will then be called " His Royal Highness Prince Albert,
Duke of Kent," &c. He will not, as some have erroneously
supposed, be designated, even by courtesy, " King Albert,"
&c. He should have been crowned with Queen Victoria to
justify the application of this title. There is no King of
Portugal; but the title of his illustrious relative, who mar-
ried the Queen of that country, Donna Maria, is Prince
Ferdinand of Portugal.

A PROJECT FOR THE MONEY MARKET.—It will be per-
ceived from the Irish correspondence in the Herald of yester-
day, that there is a " ruinously large deficit " in King Dan's
exchequer, and that his lords of the treasury have conse-
quently levied a poll tax upon his loving subjects. Now this
is neither wise nor necessary, as they might have perceived
had they borne in mind the operations of that great financier,
Lord Monteagle. There is not the slightest reason why King
Dan should pay his debts, if he managed his affairs ip a
statesmanlike way. Why not fund them as fast as he was
pressed for them, which might of course be done by creating
an " agitation stock," the groundwork of which might be a
loan for the equipment of his 500,000 fighting men, or any
other department of the agitation service. He would then, as
the Evening Post desires, be easily "placed beyond any want
of money, so that his political movements would not be inter-
fered with ;" for when the cash ran low, his lords of the
treasury would only have to issue a sufficient quantity of
Exchequer Bills, and these, as above suggested, might be
funded, pro re nata, without the slightest inconvenience. As
to such a stock being well received, not only in the Money
Market here, but on the Bourse, and indeed in every' place
where the changers: of money most do'congregate, there can-
not be the shadow of a shade of clolgit 14 the mind of any
fferfki,