The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-10-12 00:00:00

MANCHESTER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

THE SEVENTY-FIRST GENERAL ANNUAL
MEETING of this Society was held at Ladyman's
Hotel, in Manchester, on TUKSDA Y, the 9th day of October,
1838:

Lord FRANCIS EGERTON, Preddent, in the Chair;
WHEN THE FOLLOWING PREMIUMS WERE ADJUDGED.
PREMIUMS FOR 1837.
FARMS, CULTIVATION, AND CROPS.
To L. B. Delauney, Esq., Blackley, near Manchester, as
owner; fOr the best cultivated farm, containing 103 acres,
the society's silver medal.
To John Owen, High Legh, Warrington, as tenant, for
the best cultivated farm, containing 165 acres, and for having
the Caine in the neatest and most exact order, a piece of
plate, value ten sovereigns.
To Jerry Lees, Swine Clough, Oldham, for the best cul-
tivated farm, containing fifty acres, and for having the same
in the neatest and most exact order, a piece of plate, value
five sovereigns.
To Mr. Thomas Chadwick, Barton Park, as tenant, for_
draining twenty-five acres of land, a piece of plate, value
five sovereigns.
To Joseph Cowap, High Leib, Cheshire, as tenant, for
draining thirty acres of land, a piece of plate, value three
sovereigns.
To Mrs. Bowker, Hide Hall, Denton, as tenant and ac-
copier, for improving forty-two acres by floating, a piece of
plate, of the value of five sovereigns.
To Thomas Joseph Trafford, Esq., Trafford Park, as
owner, for the best crop of Swedish turnips, being thirty-
three tons to a statute acre, the society's silver medal.
To Mr. John Owen, High Legh, as tenant and occupier,
for the best crop of Swedish turnips, being thirty-four tons
to a statute acre, a piece of plate, value five sovereigns.
To Mr. Charles Smith, Ashton-upon-Mersey, as tenant
and occupier, for the best crop of wheat, and cleanest from
weeds, a piece of plate, value five sovereigns. '
To Mr William Bentley, Crumpsall, Manchester, as
tenant and occupier, for having made, in a substantial and
durable manner, the best resorvoir on his farm for the ricep--
tion of dung-water,. a piece of plate of the value of five :so:;.
vereigns.
To Mr. Robert Hutton, of Kickwick, Warrington, as
tenant and occupier, for having covered with marl fifty acres,
a piece of plate, of the value of five sovereigns.
To Mr. Thomas Chadwick, Barton Moss, as tenant and
occupier, for having covered with marl twenty-eight acres,
a piece of plate, of the value of three sovereigns.
To Captain Hollinworth, Hollinworth Hall, Mottram, as
owner, for having covered with bone dust 126 acres of pas-
ture land, the society's silver medal.
To Mr. John Whitlow, Crowley, 'Warrington, as tenamt,
for covering with bone-elost twentY-five acres of pasture
land, a piece of plate, value seven sovere,igns.
To Mr. Thomas Morton, Minshull-Vernon, Middlewich,
for coveripg.with.bone-dust forty-seven acres, a silver medal.
• REWARDS.
To Peter Hill, of Sankey, Warrington, as ploughman, or
farmer's man-servant, to -John Clare, Esq., having con-
ducted himself in an honest, industrious manner, and to the
satisfaction of his employer, during a period of thirty-six
years, two sovereigns.
ToFannv Brooks, as farmer woman servant to Mr. Rowe,
having conducted herself in an honest, industrious manner,
and to the satisfaction of her employer, during a period of
thirty-two years, two sovereigns.
To James Meadowcroft, of Worsley, servant man to Lord
Francis Egerton, for a period of sixty-one years, and has
conducted himself to the satisfaction of his employer, two
sovereigns.

T. Thomas Worthington, Esq., of Sharston Hall, as
owner, a silver medal, for en extraordinary good crop- of -
wheat procured from seed recently imported into England;
it is a white grain, with six rows on a head, and is strongly
recommended by the society to be procured for seed.
To Mary Kinsey, servant woman to Mr. Stelfox, of Mil-
lington Hall, for having conducted herself in an bonest
manner, and to the satisfaction of her employer, for
period of twenty-five years, two sovereigns.
CATTLE.
Premiums awarded for cattle, by - Clarke liiityard,
Esq., Northamptonshire, Mr. Oakden, of Booths, Kinds-
ford, and John Nall, Manchester.
To Mr. Thomas Forrest, Stretton, Warrington, for the
best bull of any breed, under five years old, a piece of plate,
value fifteen sovereigns.
:To Richard Denham, Heaton, for the best bull of any
short-horned breed, above two years old, and under three
years old, a piece of plate, value ten sovereigns.
To Richard Pilkington, Esq., Windle Hall, for the best
bull above one year old, and under two years old, a silver
medal.

To Mr. John Slingsby, Boston, Manchester, as cattle-
dealer, for having shown the best pair of milch cows, a piece
of plate, value ten sovereigns.
To Mr. John Heywood, Moss Side, for the best dairy cow,
or heifer, in milk or in calf, of the short-horned breed, a pieCe
of plate, of the value of Live sovereigns.
To Richard Pilkington, Esq., Windle Hall, for the se-
cond-best dairy cow, or heifer, of the short-horned breed, the -
society's silver medal.

TO 'Richard Pilkiugton, Esq., Windle ,Hall, for the best
three year old short-horned heifer, the society's silver meda.l.
To Richard Pilkington, Esq., Windle Hall, fur the betit
pair of two year old short-horned heifers, the society's silver

To Thomas Joseph Trafford, Esq., Trafford Park, for the
best pair of yearling stirks, the society's silver medal.
To Peter Greenall, Esq., for a superior yearling, the so-
cletv's silver medal.

'lo Mr. James Batratt, Lymm, for the best fat cow of the
short-horned breed, and showing the most symmetry, tat,
and weight, a piece of plate, of the value of ten sovereigns.
To Mr. James Wheeler, Willow Hill, Crurnpsall, for the
second-best fat cow, a piece of plate, of the value of three
sovereigns.

HORSES.
Premiums awarded for horses, by Mr. Carter, Aston, Mr. --
Beckett, of Warburton Parks, and Mr. Arnold, Lymni.
To Mr. James Heaps, Little Hulton, for the best stallion
for the general purposes of agriculture, a piece of plate, of
the value of ten sovereigns.
To Mr. Isaac Moss, Hale Wood, Liverpool, for the second
best ditto, a piece of plate, of the value of-nve sovereignS.
To Mr. Charles Smith, Ashton-upon-Mersey, for the bett.'=
brood mare for the general purposes of agriculture, a piece Of
plate, of the value of five.sovereigns. , • ,

To- Mr. Knowles, of Wildgrcave, Warrington, a silver
medaL fm-asrsdlion, showing considerable merit for agricul.:
tural purposes.
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To Mr. Robert Bourne, Hale, Attrinchani, for the best three.tt4i,
year old cult or filly, for the general purposes of agriculture,,,
a piece of plate, of the value of three sovereigns.
To Mr. Richard Newton, Carrington, for the best two year
old colt or filly, for the general purposes of agriculture, a
piece of plate, of the value of two sovereigns.
To John Shepherd, Meadowcrof, Rochdale, for the hest -.-
yearling colt or filly, for the general purposes of agricniture,
a piece of plate, of the value of one sovereign. •
To James Westbruoke, Hedge Croft, for the best pair of
horses, for the general purposes ofagriculture, apiece of plate,
of the value of five sovereigns.
To Mr. Robort Hampson, Radcliffe, for the second best
pair of horses, for ditto, apiece ofj)late, of the value of three
sovereigns.

SHEEP.
To Mr. Samuel Scotson, Toxteth-park, for the best pen of
three yearling Southdown ewes, a piece of plate, of the value
of three sovereigns.
To Mr. Samuel Scotson, Toxteth-park, for the best Leices-
ter ram, under three years old, a piece of plate, of the value
of two sovereigns.
To Joshua Robinson, Pendleton, for the best Southdown
ram, ditto, a piece of plate, of the value of two sovereigns.
To Samuel Scotson, 'fox teth-park, for the best pen of five
fat ewes, a piece of plate, of the value of two sovereigns.
To Joseph Raleigh, Burnage, for the best pen of five
lambs of any other breed, a piece of plate of the value of two
pounds ten shillings

THOMAS DISMORE, SILVERSMITH and JEWELLER,
35, BOLD-STREET, (from Dismore and'Sons, Manufac-
turers, London,) respectfully announces to the Nobility,
Gentry, and Visitors of Liverpool and its Vicinity, that he
has on Sale a variety of JEWELLERY, of the choicest
description, the quality and reasonable prices of which he
trusts will give every satisfaction.
Diamonds, Pearls, &c. &c. purchased, or reset in the
newest fashion.

YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.
CALL OF FOURTH INSTALMENT OF £8 PER

SHARE.

THE Directors of the York and North Midland Railway
Company having, in pursuance of the provision, in the
-2RITTEidTTe/f tate rux Er CIF-ES PER -SHARE,
payable on or before SATURDAY, the 13th day of October
next, Proprietors of Shares in this Company are hereby
tequired to pay, on or before that day, to any of the under-
mentioned Bankers, the Sum of £8 on each of their respec-
tive Shares.

BANKERS.
London Messrs. Barnetts, Hoare, and Co.
London ... Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co.
York The City and County Bank.
York The Union Bank.
The Bankers have been instructed to charge Interest at the
rate of Five per Cent. per Annum, according to the Provi-
cions of the Act of Incorporation, from the 13th day of October
next, on all Sums tendered after that day.
GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman andDeputv-Chairman
JAMES MEEK, S of the Board of Directors.
By Order,
GEORGE BAKER, Secretary.
York and North Midland Railway Qff ice,
York, 6th September, 1838.

Enouranct NoticrO.

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY
ESTABLISHED 1821.
CAPITAL, £550,000.
TRUSTEES.
Right Hon. LordWodebouse, Rt. Hon. the Earl of Orford.
I
Lord Lieutenant Sir Henry Jardine.
Sir Jacob Astley, Bart. M.P. I Charles SavillOnley, Esq.
Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart.
DIRECTORS.
E. T. Booth, Esq., President.
Lieut.-Col. John Harvey, Vice-President.
Anthony Hudson, Esq. Isaac Preston, Esq. Recorder
George Morse. Esq. of Norwich.
William Herring, Esq. Charles Evans, Esc.
Col. Sir Rob:. John Harvey, Edward Steward, Esq.
C.B. Lewis Evans, Esq., M.D.
George Seppings, Esq. Thos. Blakiston, Esq., R.N.
Secretary--Samuel Bignold. Esq.
THE Public are respectfully reminded, that all Insu-
,
1 rances renewable in the LIVERPOOL AGENCY
on the 29th day of September, 1838, must be paid at the
Office, Exchange-street West, on or before the 14th day of
October, or the Society will cease to be liable for the Sums
insured.
The RETURNS of PREMIUM for the three years end-
ing the 29th September, 1836, are now in course of payment.
In proof of the public approbation of the principles and
condlict of this Company, it may be sufficient to state that
its business now exceeds FIFTY-FOUR MILLIONS.
Prospectuses may be had of R. L. MILLER, Agent.
Treasurers—THE LIVERPOOL BOROUGH BANK.

QUACKERY IN POLITICS AND PHYSIC.—You have laws
a regnlatin' of quack doctors, but none a regulatin' of quack
politicians; now a quack doctor is bad enough, and danger-
ous enough, gracious knows; but a quack politician is a
devil outlawed—that's a fact.—Sam Slick.
Novat MODE OF SHAVING.—WhiIe I was in the shep-
herd's encampment I saw a shaving performed in a very ex-
traordinary manner The thighbone of a sheep was broken,
and the marrow of it smeared on the patient's head, cheeks,
and chin. The shepherds generally carry a sheep's thigh
bone, to be ready for the operation, struck in their garter,
just as a Highlander wears his little knife for ham-stringing
deer.—Urquhart's Travels in the East.
FUTURE PROSPECTS OF EGYPT.—I fear there is no hope
for Egypt—at least, at present. There is a gleans in the sky,
but, like the false down in India, it will fade away, and deeper
darkness will succeed. Yet the true dawn will come at last,
and brighten into perfect day; and then, and not till then,
will Egypt, Christian Egypt, rise from the dust, and resume
her seat among the nations.—Lord Lindsay's Letters on
Egypt.
THE POTATO.—What can be more curious than the cir-
cumstance, that when the potato is propagated by cuttings.
these cuttings will produce roots of the same quality; but
when it is propagated by seed, scarcely two roots resemble
each other. This is the case generally of trees and plants.
A cutting of the golden pippin will produce a golden pippin;
a seed of the same tree will produce a crab. if it was not
for this law of nature against us, we might perpetuate all
fruits.

houses, they are always moveable, and long before any fire
could get a 'head, you wonld have them on the opposite side
of the dock, or may be, many of them removed out long be-
fore any fire could happen. You observe, that whatever would
blow the flame upon the dock, would also be exactly the lever
for removieg the shipping away. But, sir, I maintain that
the safest property in the world, under the action of fire, is a
ship; she is afloat, and every thing around her is water. There
is nothing, except what can alight upon her, can du her any
harm. Now, sir, Ido maintain, that upon the deck of a ship
no one ever knew of them being burnt while people were upon
the deck. If you put fire upon the external pact, it is quite
easily removed ; a man with a bucket of water and a ,vet mop,
I will answer for it, would keep any ship in the world clear of
all the lire that could; possibly fall.- Nowi-sirrivith-reltavd-to
the rigging and the masts • supposing, after all, they did take
fire, they burn to the deck and drop overboard. I say one
man is capable of protecting the whole; but it is not one man,
but half a score to protect the decks. It is monstrous ; and
there is no instance in the world where you have a dock full
of ships ever burnt. Why are we to suppose ? If it happens
that even one was burnt, if it happens another is to be burnt,
where we all know there will be a physical power of men—not
of fire engines, a hundred of which, or a thousand, applied to
a warehouse, are not so good as a single man on the deck of
a ship with a wet mop. A bucket and a wet mop would be
absolute amusement and nothing else to put it out.--(A laugh.)
Now, sir, Mr. Holme has exhibited a great anxiety—a won-
derful anxiety for these ships. I have always been a ship
owner myself, and I ought to like all this kind of thing; but,
really, the interest is so excessive, that there is a re-action
in my mind that there is something suspicious—wanting to
hug me to death under the pretence of loving my bantling.
—(A laugh.) Now, sir, Mr. Holme has exposed himself to
having his name introduced; however, I would hope neither he
nor any one else would suppose I mean him any disrepect ; but
he has put his name to the letter, and has possitively challenged
this. Now lam old enough to remember the Goree fire; I
was there from the very beginning of it. It happened
was an apprentice of Meek and Lowndes, who had at that
time a large interest in the real room where it took fire;
and as I have always understood, it was a man who was
packing porter and using a pipe, over straw, that caused the
fire, which could never happen but in private warehouses.
And there was he; I will venture to say a weekly hire of 2s.
would allow men to have their pipes if the line of warehouses
was a league in length. You observe there is all the differ-
ence between the great system of management and the ma-
nagement of private affairs. But you observe, when the fire
broke out, the flame, although the wind was the other way,
flared over upon the doors and windows and capstans at the
other side. Would it not be better for Mr. Holmes to lay
down the principle that rules that warehouses should not be
built opposite to each other? I would be glad to know at
what period the George's Dock was ever crowded with wealth
—whether in the form of ships—when had it anything like
the wealth of the Goree at that time?—all valuable articles,
nearly all Baltic hemp, and flax and tallow. Now, if it is
expedient to run the risk of burning warehouses opposite
each other, which have never been known yet to escape—if
it is expedient and right to do that, with bodies like ware-
houses, which are immoveable—which you can do nothing to
—if they happen to catch it is all over ; to use your engines
up at windows is of no avail, for God knows they do no good
—I never saw them;—it' it be right to have them there, what
harm is there in having ships near, where no engine is re-
quired, but the instant application of a wet mop and a bucket
of water? Is it not far less risk, too, where the warehouses
are on the Dock? Now, Sir, what would be the arguments
if we had not the example of the London warehouses? But,
Sir, I do hold out their example of never having had a fire
should be decisive as to the security against it ; and then, the
circumstance of the insurance being Is. Gd. Ido maintain,
when I look round on all you mercantile gentlemen, I de-
mand the position of it is proved. Money is neither Whig
nor Tory ; we all know that in every thing we have the
greatest competition ; but all the competition has never
lowered the insurance of Liverpool to anything like London.
Now I do demand the admission of that position from every
mercantile mind in the community. It is proved. I shall
just say one word more, that Mr. Holmes has had here the
exceedingly bad fortune to leave the general and go into a
specific case—the Dublin warehouses. They for a vast
number of years were conducted by the Crown. The confi•
deuce in them was of that nature, that merchants—notwith-
standing that there was a great deal of wood in their con-
struction—left off insuring from fire. There were some
economists who urged the Government to letting them. If
they had let them to a large company, who of necessity
would be governed by principle, and who would have laws
and a permanent system to adopt, who knows but that, most
likely, the warehouses would'have been secure at this present
day? No, Sir, Government let them to two brothers, 1 be-
lieve, and not long afterwards they were burned, and a very
large mass of property. Well, there was a case made out
against the National Government; and what between a con-
siderable show or influence, and a little of that kind of wor-
rying, that individual interest, which is never weary of prac-
tising upon public men, the Government actually became
responsible for all this immense wealth. The loss of the
public warehouses went for nothing; there was one West
India house, I believe, made a claim for £25,000. And on
what grounds was the claim made? That the Government
let the warehouses; the consequence was, a different mode
of working them out was adopted in the room of the one
which existed before; there was all that private management
which we all of us know involves great risk; goods were
rolled lo and out where there was any space; the bonded
were mixed with the free; porters were let in and out with-
out the surveillance of the regular officers, which you know
governments or companies always have ; and the consequence
was, that that altered mode of working the warehouses was
unquestionably the cause of the fire. Now, Sir, here is that
very argument against our relying upon private warehouses
which has been brought forward to support it. I shall not
trouble you any longer. (Mr. Evans sat down amidst con-
siderable applause.)
Mr. Councillor CURRIE rose to address the Council.
The MAYOR.—Does any gentleman second Alderman
Evans's motion ?
Mr. Councillor WALMSLEY.—I have pleasure in seconding

Mr. Councillor CURRIE.—In rising to present myself to
the notice of the council, I need not say that I do so with con-
siderable hesitation, as the subject under discussion is oue of
as great importance as ever occupied our attention ; and
which 1 feel involves such a variety of interests, both private
awl public, that the difficulties of the discussion are greatly
enhanced. With all the desire that I have to come forward
to tlio disouccion of too question with my mind totally calm,
so as to address my opinions so that they may give torce to
what I intend to convey, I do find that there is very great

difficulty indeed. The subject is one of pre-eminent iinport-
ance, and I venture to say an importance not exceeded by
any measure affecting our interests which has been brought
before us. The question that comes before us in our two-told
capacity; first of all as trustees of the Docks, to confirm or
annul the proceedings of the Dock committee as we should
do those of any other committee, that is to say by the ma-

ority; and next, as we are called upon as members of the
:own-council, to consider the question in all its bearings with

a view to its success or rejection; in as much as we must
never lose sight of the question, that if it should be lost the
expense will not be paid out of the funds of the docks, but
out of the funds of this council. The council will have to

hear the expense if we lose the application to parliamen
that is a principle for the council to bear in mind. Without
going more into the subject than this, I cannot help regret-
ting, after having read, and after having had put into our
hands the heads of the bill, that it has so many bearings, and
has so many important objects. I cannot help regretting
that that bill should not have been confined to one in which
the town at large might be unanimous, so as to ensure the
passing of the bill. And without expressing an opinion at
this moment on the question of the warehouses or otherwise,
I cannot help regretting that it would have been more judi-
cious to have brought forward a bill for the other important
objects we have heard this day read, in order, as I said, that
that hill might have had a clause of passing triumphantly
through parliament. Such, however, has not been the deci-
sion of the gentlemen of the dock committee—a committee
composed of gentlemen who are deeply interested in the
trade, and whose opinions are entitled to the greatest respect.
I would fain impose on your minds this view of the subject.
We have had the heads of bills that would be the subjects of
anxious and deep discussion, and thought, and pains taken
by the several members of the committee. To them, whose
minds have been devoted to the subject for weeks and months
—to them all appears clear; the benefit appears so obvious
that they must be right in the views they have taken; and
they may perhaps think it a most extraordinary thing that
other members of the council do not view the question as
they do. Now, if after many weeks and months spent on
their part in careful thought, is it not too much to call on
those who have not thought on it, in two days, to give an opi-
nion on the subject ? ( Hear.) Ido say, that the same de-
liberation and attention that they have given to it, we have a
right to claim, and are bound in our corporate capacity to
exercise. What I would therefore propose is this—far
from wishing that it should be thought abroad that
this town council will view this question as one in which
the warehouse proprietors alone are concerned, and that
it is to be taken up with such important interests,— I
would, on this occasion, have the members of the council
to show that they are anxious to watch over all the town ;
not only the interests of the warehouse proprietors, tint the
interests of the town. If that he the case, am I asking too
much in requesting you to show that there is no rooted pre-
judice in our minds, so as at the very outset of this question
to nip it in the bud; am I asking too much, to demand time
to deliberate and discuss this question in all its important
bearings. But am I wrong, I ask them as candid men, as
fair men, in suffering this measure now to proceed, when I
say that we pledge ourselves in no degree—that no individual
is committed to vote for the bill afterwards. I think by so
acting, that you would show to toe Dock Committee, that you
do what you can to arrive at a just appreciation of the merits
of the measure; and after a full discussion of the subject, it is
found to he advantageous then to determine that the bill should
go on. I call on you to do this. In sanctioning a notice being
given to parliament of the bill, you are by no means committed
to the principle. The Town-clerk will tell you, that notices are
given, in order that opportunities may not he lost ; but it
does not follow but that notices very frequently are reduced
to one half of their original amount. Therefore, by doing
this, if hereafter it should, in the deliberation of the council,
appear that the questions on which my friend Mr. Evans has
so ably touched, and which are deserving the gravest con-
sideration if hereafter it appears, when your minds are
stored with that information which you don't now possess,
that it is desirable that the measure should go forwards, we
shall have the satisfaction of showing to the public, that we
don't advocate it on light grounds. (Hear.) If on the con-
trary, it hereafter should appear that the arguments against
the measure prevail, we shall show by voting against it, that
we have come to this decision, not by private, or interested
motives, but because it is acting the best for the town. This
is a most difficult question; I do not think we ought hastily
to arrest this measure in its progress: let us show that we are
prepared to give it the gravest consideration. It is not the
interest of a particular set of men, but of the whole town;
and let us consider it as such. Bear in mind, by the propo-
sition that I am about to make, no member of the council
stands committed, but he gives an opportunity for further
consideration ; and by such consideration, if hereafter it
should be thought right, to act according to the proposition,
if not, we shall be able to give a reason why we oppose it.
I have not spoken to any one, and I don't know whether my
motion will be seconded, but I would fain persuade myself
that it will be adopted, and that those gentlemen who are
opposed to the introduction of warehouses would consider it
fair to give sanction to this proposition. This proposition
asks for nothing but delay and consideration, and commits
no man one way or the other.
"That the proceedings and reports of the Dock Committee
be not at present confirmed, but that they be referred to,
[here Mr. Currie said they might either be referred to the
Finance, or to a Special Committee] to enquire concerning,
consider of, and at a meeting, by special adjournment from
the next quarterly Council, to report upon all matters brought
before the Council by the Dock Committee, in relation to
the proposed measures in Parliament, and that it be a parti-
cular instruction to the committee to report upon the follow-
ing, points :—Whether it is desirable or not that there should
be warehouses on the dock quays ?—lf it be, whether such
warehouses ought to he built upon the margin of the dock, or
with quay room between the warehouse atid the dock; with
the ground floor oft thoenwthaerehnonumsense,roor
fasstpoirlibelsictqoulavyh,jeohr
osunc 'h. whait
troehu
other
rZs plan,
to be limited?--On increased or de-
creased danger to the town, shipping, and property from fire:
—Whether the use of these warehouses, if erected, ought to
be compulsory on vessels in the dock, or such vessels might
be at liberty to use any of them, or any other warehouses in
the town?-Whether such
—Walrephuousiecs,
whethermust the property
be publicpro tpro-
perty. or, subject to reasonable regulations and restrictions,
ofmight the Corporation he
Priat e
Borough ?—lf private, whether absolute private property, or
in the hands of lessees, with the reversion belonging to ope,
v p r
oo
fp et rhte Docks, or the Corporation of theproperty,y? r public,
and which of the Corporations ? and on the adiantages and
disadvantages likely to arise from the proposed measures to
commerce and the general interests of the town? and that
the reference comprise both the proposed new dock near the