The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-26 00:00:00

THE DOCK COMMITTEE.

On Thursday, at the usual weekly meeting of this body,
Mr. Charles Turner presided.—A letter was read from
Mr. Locke, on the part of the trustees of the Duke of
Bridgewater, offering an additional sum for a widening of
the passage between Duke's Dock and the new Wapping
Dock, which was agreed to.—The offer of Mr. Blakeley,
for a supply of wall-stones, was accepted.
Mr. BIGHAM brought under notice the mode of dis-
charging herring sloops in George's Basin, and the inde-
cent exposures to which it led ; which, after a brief
conversation, was referred to the harbour-master's sub-
committee.
Mr. LANGSDALE called attention to the fact that,
although hide ropes were 75 per cent. or more cheaper
than those made of hemp, yet Mr. Cowen, the superin-
tendent of the Albert Dock warehouses, had ordered
12 cwt. of the latter.—Mr. ROBINSON, the chairman, in-
timated that the matter would be attended to.
The deaths amongst the crew of the Formby life-boat
was announced, and it was referred to the sub-committee
to fill up the vacancies.
The annual inspection by the committee of the various
floating-lights, and also of the lighthouses along the coast,
was appointed to take place on Tuesday, the 2d of August.
It was agreed, on the suggestion of Mr. BIGHAM, that, in
addition to the corporation, the pilot commissioners should
also be invited.
The Mayor forwarded communications which he had
received, stating that Lieutenant Maury, of the National
Observatory, at Washington, would shortly be in town,
to provide wind and current charts.—Mr. RANKIN stated
that a great part of Lieut. Maury's treatise had been taken
from a work by Mr. Towson (of the Sailors' Home), with-
out any acknowledgment.—lt was agreed, on the CHAIR-
MAN'S suggestion, that an answer should be sent, expres-
sive of the willingness of the committee to receive every
information.
MR. BOLD'S MOTION FOR THE PROPOSED CHANGE OF THE
NAME or THE BRAMLEY-MOORE DOCK.

Mr. BOLD'S notice of motion, that the name of the
" Bramley-Moore Dock" be changed to that of the " Sef-
ton Dock," came before the committee.
Mr. MALcoLmsos hoped Mr. Bold would withdraw his
motion. By doing so be would consult his better judg-
ment, as well as the unanimity of the Dock Committee,
and prevent a discussion which could not be profitable.
The CHAIRMAN stated that there was a memorial
against changing the name of the dock, which was signed
by a great many highly-respectable merchants. He then
read the numerously-signed memorial which had lain in
the Exchange News-room for the few previous days.
Mr. Toms ventured to impress upon Mr. Bold the
propriety of withdrawing his motion, and to second Mr.
Malcolmson's suggestion. They should be most careful
to divest themselves from appearing to act from any per-
sonal or political motives. Their acts should be such
that not the slightest breath of suspicion should attach to
them. If they did otherwise, they would inevitably lower
themselves in public estimation. With reference to
changing the name of the dock, he would only say that,
if any change were made, it should be on public grounds
alone. He appealed to Mr. Bold's good sense with re-
gard to the withdrawal of the motion.
Mr. ROBINSON was opposed to the motion, because,
from the excitement prevalent, it could not be considered
calmly.
Mr. RANKIN regretted exceedingly that Mr. Bold
should have brought forward his motion. Every member
of the committee must be sensible that, seven or eight
years ago, there was a great want of dock accommodation,
and that they were very much indebted to Mr. Bramley-
Moore for the completion of those north docks.
Mr. EVANS : That I deny, sir, altogether.
Mr. RANKIN : The committee were unanimously of

opinion—
Mr. SHAND thought that Mr. Rankin was rather enter.
ing into the merits of the question.
Mr. BIGHAM submitted that, as there had been a recom-
mendation permitted, on the part of two or three, to
hav-
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Bold, not to persevere, the other members of the coni-
miltitere.
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Mr. EVANS hoped Mr. B-1d would persevere. There
was a good deal to be cleared up yet on the opposite side.
Mr. BIGHAM also hoped Mr. Bold would persevere.
The public had a right to be satisfied that the committee
was not eoverned by political bias or personal feelings.
If Mr. Bold did withdraw his motion, it ought to be
coupled with the opinion of the committee, that they did
not at all coincide with him. It ought to be shown that
he was left so/us to fight a battle which those secretly
inclined towards the motion did not dare to do.
The CHAIRMAN : The real question is not whether
Mr. Bold will withdraw, but whether he will bring for-
ward his motion at all, or not.
Mr. SHAND thought the reasons given by Mr. Bight=
were just those which ought to be urged for not bringing
it on. Political motives had never entered that room,
and never would.
Mr. LITTLEDALE trusted Mr. Bold would be induced
to withdraw it.
Mr. EVANS said if the motion came on he should con-
sider it his duty, above all other considerations, to treat
it upon its merits alone ; and he thought that if it went on
he should be able to show the propriety of an alteration
of the name. It was well known that the motion for
naming the dock took the committee by surprise, and that,
perhaps, nobody, except the proposer himself, was in fa-
vour oflir. Moore's name being given. He had heard,
too, that the oldest member of the committee was indig-
nant, and 'had expressed a hope that one of the first acts
of the new committee would be to alter the nomination of
the dock. Since Liverpool had attained commercial noto-
riety there was no other instance of a private person—not
even a chairman or a mayor—having his name transmitted
to posterity. They had always named their docks after
either royalty in all its degrees, or eminent heroes like
Nelson and Wellington; and it certainly provoked the
amazement of the whole community to find Mr. Bramley-
Moore's name upon a dock between the Nelson and
Wellington, and a dock, too, the largest of the three. It
had been observed that Mr. Bromley- Moore planned the
north docks. Why, they were planned before ever he
came into power. They formed a portion of the old Albert
Dock scheme. The land upon which these docks were
placed was purchased during the chairmanship of Mr.
Sands, from the Corporation and the Earl of Derby ; the
land bought from the Earl of Derby, on which the dock
itself stood, having been negotiated for by himself (Mr.
.Evans) with Mr. Richard Earle, as the agent of the Earl
of Derby. Therefore, there never was a more complete
.usurpation upon a supposed merit than that of giving Mr.
Bramlev-Moore's name to one of these docks.
The CHAIRMAN war, sorry to interrupt Mr. Evans, but
there was no motion before the committee, and such state-
mente were exceedingly premature.
Mr..EvANs said what he had given was a mere preface,
and -there was a great deal more behind, which would
come out at the proper time.
Mr. BOLD placed himself entirely in the hands of the
committee, and he could not help bowing to the unani-
mous or rather almost unanimous wish. But, before he
did so, he wished to disabuse gentlemen there, and the
public, of one of the heavy charges made against him in a
public print, namely, that he was the mover of the name
given to that deck. He was not only not so, but he disap-
proved of it most highly, as their worthy secretary could
bear him out. Me should call upon Mr. Mason to read the
names of the gentlemen present when the name was given
to that dock, at the meeting of the 27th July, 1848, to
show that he was net present at the meeting at all.
This Mr. Mason did.
Mr. Boer, then called upon the secretary to produce
the list, which he believed was the origical one, made out )
in a loose manner, of the names intended to be given to
the docks.

Mr. MAsox read two eifferent lists, in one of which
the name of " Mr. Bram-ley-Moore " appeared, and a
second in which it did not. The list was as 'follows :-1.
•Sc.lisbury. 2. Coilingwood. 3. Stanley. 4. Nelson
(orginal name Derby). 5. The name of Sefton was put
in, but Bramley-Moore substituted. 6. Sir Howard
Douglas, and afterwards changed to Wellington.
Mr. BOLD said, in the list which he saw Mr. Bramley-
Moore'e name was absent. All those attacks made upon
him, as being the promoter, and even the proposer, of the
name, were false. With regard to the motives which had
induced him to bring this forward, he did think that
he might, perhaps, be to blame then; but he would also
sar, at the same time, that, if he should hereafter have a
seat at that table, he would always, as he would have
done before, if it had been brought forward, vote for and
support any motion for the change of name. With refe-
rence to Mr. Moore himself, he (the speaker) thought
that, personally, he was entitled to very little courtesy at
his hands.
The CHAIRMAN interrupted Mr. Bold.

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conduct towards the town and his own party, it would
scarcely be believed when he told them that behind the
screen of that gentleman's office (interruption, and cries of
Go on," &c.)—when Mr. Moore received him to talk
over the subject with him—behind that screen were the
very two gentlemen who invited Sir Erskine Perry to this
town—Mr. Mellor and Mr. Hodson. A gentleman who
could receive a friend at that time, and could have two
gentlemen behind the screen in his office, listening to all
he said, was entitled to very little courtesy.
Mr. BIGHA.M.—Mr. Moore is not here to defend himself.
Mr. 80LD.—.4 had the information from you, and there-
fore it rests with you.
Mr. BIGHAM.—That was a strictly private conversation.
Mr. BOLD.—It was in an omnibus.
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he called, whom he put into another room.
Mr. Bon:p.-1 beg your pardon.
Mr. BIGHAM denied that there was a screen in Mr.
Moore's office at all.
Mr. BOLD denied that there was a room in lir. Moore's
office at all.
Mr. BiGnam.—l did tell Mr. Bold that Mr. Moore
was awkwardly fixed with two pereons waiting upon him

whom lie would not like Mr. Bold to meet, a

them into another room

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Mr. BOLD.—That is quite false. There is not another
room in Mr. Moore's office ; they were behind a screen
six feet high ; and, unless they were locked up in the safe,
they could not be elsewhere. And now, sir, I beg to
withdraw the motion.

Mr. BIGHAM.—What I said to Mr. Bold was told to
me by Mr. Hodson.
Motion withdrawn.
ELECTION OF NEW COMMITTEE-MEN.

The next business, was a ballot for the names of the
eight members to retire preparatory to the election, which
will take place in Council, as well as amongst the dock
ratepayers, on the first Wednesday in August. Those
elected by the Council were first taken. The twelve
names were put into a hat ; and, after being " well
shaken" by the secretary, the four taken out as those who
retire were Messrs. Littledale, Gladstone, Royden, and
Gregson. The names of the twelve elected by the dock
ratepayers were then subjected to a like process, which
resulted in the declaratory retirement of Messrs. Nicol,
Bold, Steele, and Healing.
There was some laughter on Mr. Bold's name being
drawn. This closed the public business.

[With reference to the statement of Mr. Bold, that while
lie was having a private conversation with Mr. Bramley-
Moore at that gentleman's office, Messrs. Mellor and
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Hodson were behind a screen, Mr. Mellor has published
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letter, in which he gives a detailed version of the affair.
He was with Mr. Bold, in the West Derby omnibus, he says,
giving
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when lie told him that he had heard from Mr. Hodson,
that a few days before Mr. Moore issued his address he
(Mr. Hodson) was in the office when certain gentlemen
waited upon Mr. Moore on business connected with the
representation, and that Mr. Hodson, not wishing to be
seen, went with Mr. Dickinson, Mr. Moore's partner,.
behind a sceren, and there remained until the others had
retired ; that in Mr. Moore's office there are two rooms,
with a screen in each ; and that it was behind the screen
in the furthest room, eight or ten yards from the interior
of the private office, that they withdrew.—Mr. Bold has
written a letter in answer to the one proceeding from Mr.
Bigham, stating that, in company with Mr. R. Horsfall,
he had waited upon Mr. Councillor Godfrey, who was sit-
ting close to Mr. Bigham and himself when the conversa-
tion in the omnibus occurred, and that Mr. Godfrey had
authorised him to state that Mr. Bigham had told him (Mr.
Bold) in his (Mr. Godfrey's) hearing, that Mr. Mellor and
Mr. Hodson were behind the screen in Mr. Moore's private
office during the interview, and heard all that passed.—As
to the statement of Mr. Bold that Mr. Hodson and Mr.
Mellor were " the very two gentlemen who invited Sir
Erskine Perry to this town," Mr. A. C. Stewart subse-
quently writes :—" Sir Erskine Perry was invited ' to this
town' by a deputation sent to London by the unanimous
vote of the tried and consistent leaders of the Liberal
party of Liverpool ; and neither Mr. Mellor nor Mr.
Hodson knew anything about Sir E. Perry being invited
here until after that gentleman had arrived in town and
issued his address."—ln a second letter, Mr. Bigham
replies to Mr. Bold's letter :—" I saw Mr. Thomas God-
frey yesterday. He says, 'On Friday morning, the 22d
instant, on arriving at my office, I found Mr. Robert
Horsfall and Mr. Bold waiting to see me. They pre-
sented a note written in pencil, and requested me to copy
and sign it. In that note I was made to say something
similar to what appears in Mr. Bold's letter to your
paper. I refused. I then told them I had heard the
conversation in the omnibus, and that 1 thought Mr.
Bigham mentioned Mr. Mellor's name in connexion with
Mr. Hodson's, but could not swear it.' There are other
parts of Mr. Bold's letter equally unfounded, and, I
cannot help thinking, wilfully perverted to suit his own
purposes. I regret mentioning the conversation which
passed between Mr. Hodson and myself. I thought I
was speaking to one not quite so unscrupulous as
Mr. Bold ; and, even in his hands, I considered
myself safe after his saying, Recollect, this con-
versation is strictly private. I rely upon you as
a man of honour and a gentleman.' "—ln a second
letter from Mr. Bold, that gentleman says, "
beg to inform you that no other persons were
visibly present at the time but Mr. Moore and
myself. If Mr. Dickinson was in the room, he must
have been behind the screen, as described by Mr. Bigham
on the authority of Mr. Hodson. I only related what
Mr. Bigham mentioned in the omnibus as to the parties
behind the screen."—ln yesterday's Albion there ap-
peared a letter from Mr. Thomas L. Hodson, in which
the following statements are made :—" The whole state-
ment made by Mr. Bold at the last meeting of the Dock
Committee, and every inference which he would desire
the public to draw from it, I unhesitatingly assert to be
downrightly-and absolutely false. I never was, indivi-
dually or with another, in the position described with
such unction by Mr. Bold. I never imagined, nor
do I at this moment know, nor yet do I believe,
that Mr. Bold and myself were at any one and the
same time occupants of Mr. Moore's office. In con-
clusion, sir," says Mr. Hodson, " having given you, in
mere justice to myself, this statement, I desire to say that,
the election over, I wished all animosity to cease ; and felt
that such was the sentiment of all high-minded and right-
feeling men."—We have been requested by Mr. Bramley-
Moore to give the most unqualified contradiction to the
statement that any one was concealed at his office at any
time while Mr. Bold or any other person was there, such
statement being altogether untrue.—A third letter from
Mr. Bold will be found in another column.]

DESTRUCTION OF A LIVERPOOL SHIP

BY FIRE.

♦
The ship Ebenezer, which arrived here yesterday morn-
ing, has brought intelligence of the total destruction by
fire of the ship " I Z," on the 7th instant, in lat. 42, lon.
62. The I Z sailed from New York, for this port, on
the 2d instant, under the command of Captain Spencer,
with 20 hands on board, including the captain, all of
which were taken off and landed here by the Ebenezer,
from New York. She was an American-built ship, be-
longing to Messrs. Zeraga, of New York ; was registered
756 tons, and her cargo consisted principally of turpen—
tine, flour, and cotton.

Captain Barstow, of the ship Robert Kelly, from New
York, which errived here yesterday morning, and who
witnessed the fire in the vessel, gave the following report
to the Underwriters'-rooms :—" On Thursday, July 7, in
lat. 41, lon. 60, at 3 30 p.m., I observed smoke, which at
first I supposed to be that of a steamer ; but, thinking it
strange to fall in with a steamer in the above position,
and observing something unusual in the appearance of the
smoke, took my glass and went aloft, when I at once dis-
covered a vessel on fire, and immediately took in all
steering sails and made for the wreck, with a good look-out
at the mast-head for her boats. Upon nearing the wreck
we observed her long-boat about a mile to windward of
her, and steered for it. We passed within 20 feet of her,
and I found her in good order, no one in her, and
the oars and moveable articles gone. We then bore away
for the wreck, and, at 5 15 p.m., passed under the stern
of the burning vessel, and found her to be the ' I Z,'
from New York, to Liverpool. She was burning fore
and aft, upper works burned off, and decks fallen in.
The flames were breaking through her stern, and a part
of the letter I' was consumed at the moment of passing.
At the same time a sail was observed from aloft a con-
siderable distance to the eastward (likely the Ebenezer,)
which probably picked up her crew ; and I am well sa-
tisfied they were nowhere in the vicinity of the wreck
at the time of our leaving it." The fire is stated to have
been caused by spontaneous combustion.

EXPOSURE OF AN INFANT.—The other evening the
body of a new born male child was found exposed in an
entry adjoining the house, No. 110, Great Homer-street.
An inquest will be held this day (Tuesday),
THE BLACK BALL Ltsc.—LAUNCH AT WORKTNG.
TON.—On Thursday, a fine ship of 1,200 tons was launched
from the building yard of Mr. Lamport, of Workington,
which has been built expressly fbr the Australian
trade. She is the largest ship ever built in that locality.
This vessel will leave Liverpool early in September, and is
to compete with the fastest ships afloat. She is named
the Aerolite, and will form one of Messrs. Jas. Baines and
Co.'s "Black Ball" line of packets. Her accommodations
for passengers upon the upper deck, ranging like a barrack
from the forecastle to the poop, with a gangway on each
side, are amply sufficient for the evolutions of her crew.
Her state-cabins are fitted up in the most superb style;
elegance and ease surround you on every side ; sofas and
couches covered with crimson damask; tables, escritoires,
cabinets, and ornamental fittings of polished East India
teak, the best and most costly wood procurable for the
purpose. It is surprising that the residences of our
gentry are not ornamented with furniture made of this
beautifully-grained material, some specimens of which
we noticed in the cabin of the Aerolite, quite equal to
the finest rosewood or mahogany. The poop cabin will
accommodate 40 passengers, the second cabin or "house"
upon deck, 60, and 300 between decks, besides officers and
crew. Her length over all is 209 feet, her extreme breadth
36 feet 4 inches, depth of hold 20 feet, height between decks
7 feet 9 inches. Tonnage, old measurement, 1,160 ; new
measurement, 911. She is classed at Lloyd's A i for
nine years. The Aerolite is built with the canoe bottom,
and the result of this form is to give a- ship of, say 200
feet length, the bottom of one of 220 feet built in the
ordinary fashion, and to give a greater relative capacity
and stability, and more ease in her motion. Her stern is
round, and her bow long and fine drawn as a steamer at
the load line. She has a lofty poop, connected with the ,
forecastle by a 3 inch spar deck, covering a substantial
and elegant " house" between, containing accommoda-
tions for sixty passengers. A single glance is sufficient
to perceive the advantage of this arrangement in securing
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elasticity as may compensate for the stretching of the
shrouds when fully strained. This has been effected by a
packing of vulcanized India rubber between the mast
wedges, which by slightly giving way will allow the head
of the mast to vibrate .1-in. to 6 in., if ever. the shrouds
should stretch to such an extent, Her steering apparatus
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that each one may describe equal arcs of equal circles.
To prevent the rudder being held perfectly fixed, small
India rubber buffers are introduced so as to allow of four
or five inches play, if strained by a heavy sea. She i s
also fitted with the common tiller and barrel, to be use u
in case of accident. Her mizen topsail yard is fitted with
patented invention of the builder for reefing the sail
from the ship's deck. A reef or double reef can be taken
taken out again as fast as the yard can be hosted. The
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late of the " Confucius," in the China trade.
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