The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-05-11 00:00:00

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HOLYHEAD RAT

the week ended 2nd May,

D., X 10(.

) 3s. 4,1

Total, £2

sengers

Bombay

—Chester and II

ship John Moore, of Liverpool,
for Liverpool, with a cargo of co;tonw•ool

rods, was towed into this

day last, in a sinking state,
Stack before daylight the same morning, during a .
fog. Several boats went out to her assistance, and lii,
wise the Scotia, the Chester and Holyhead Company's
Iteamer, which succeeded in towing her safely into port,

'uck on the Soutt

where she now lies discharging, her cargo into steam-tugs
and lighters.—North TT aleB Chronicle.

THE BIRKENHEAD Commissto-sEns.--The monthly
meeting was held on Tuesday evening, Mr. Greene in the
chair.—Mr. Thompson observed, that the Gas and Water
Company had made a show of liberality by reducing the
price of gas 10d. per ICOO cubic feet ; but to the great
mortification of the ratepayers, it was found that a larger
sum than the amount of the reduction in gas was charged
by an increase in the price of water.—Mr. Bailiff under-
stood the present alteration in the price of water was
only equalising it with other places, and would make very
little difference to the company.—The receipts of the
ferry for the month of April, 1851, were £l9lB Ils. 63. ;
for April,lBs2, £1940 ls. 4d. ; and for the year ending
April 24, 1851, £21,333 3s. 6ti., and for the like period
in 1852, £21.078 6s. 6d. The total expenditure of the
year was £17,121 Is. 93.

THE LIABILITY OF THE BIRKENHEAD Docxs TO BE
RATED.—A special case to determine the question whe-
ther or not the Birkenhead Docks are liable to be rated
for local purposes came before Lord Campbell and Jus-
tices Wightman, Erie, and Crompton, on Saturday week,
in the Court of Queen'sl3ench. A rate,amounting to £550,
had been laid, and this was appealed against on the same
grounds as have prevented the Liverpool Docks being
rated, viz. that they are for the public advantage. It was
urged by Mr. Pashley, who was for the appellants, that the
docks were for the benefit of " the people of England."
Lord Campbell remarked, in reply, that the people of
England were not entitled to a benefit at the expense of
the ratepayers of Birkenhead ; and urged that there was
no clause prohibiting a surplus as in the case of the Li-
verpool Docks. The Court took time to consider.
THE BIRKENHEAD DOCK BILLS.—The committee on
the bills comprised under this head—the Birkenhead
Docks Bill, the Birkenhead Dock Trustees Bill, and the
Dock Trustees and Birkenhead Dock Company's Bill—
assembled on Thursday, Captain Boldero being chairman.
A report was handed in from the Admiralty, recommend-
ing the trustees to consult dock masters experienced in
working docks on the Mersey, rather than engineers, upon
the subject of keeping open the entrance to the great
float. Mr. Hope opened the case for the dock trustees,
and, in illustration of his speech, pointed to the drawings
of all the plans which had been sketched, and copies of
which were then affixed to the walls of the committee-
room, with the estimates for their completion, the most
striking being the last, viz., that of Messrs. Brassey and
M'Cormick, for £826,096 ; being £487,950 in excess of
Mr. Rendel's original estimate, This excess he explained,
and argued that the words " port of the Mersey" in the
Liverpool Dock Acts, should have an extended meaning,
and allow of vessels loading or discharging partly in Bir-
kenhead, and finishing in the stream of the River, should
be exempted from Liverpool dues ; and that vessels com-
ing directly out of the Birkenhead docks to this side
should be charged a coasting rate only. William Ellice,
Esq., was the first witness called in support of the bill.
On Friday, the committee ruled that Baron Goldsmid,
being a trustee, could not appear against the bill. At four
o'clock the committee adjourned till yesterday (Monday).