The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-09 00:00:00

We fancy, however, that the
firmer is most likely to be right; but it is difficult
to speculate upon the conduct of such a statesman.

liation again

At the time when the proposed extension of the
Dock Estate, by the purchase of the property in
Wapping, was first mooted, we took some pains to
bring the scheme, not only in detail, but pictorially
as well, before our readers ; and at the same time ex-
pressed the strong feeling which we entertained of
its value to the commerce of the port. We esteemed
it, as we now esteem it, one of the most important
local measures ever submitted to the public and to
parliament; and we have now to congratulate the
people of Liverpool—and, we may add, all to whose
industry and enterprise the Mersey affords facilities
—upon the safe passage of the measure through the
Cemmittee of the upper }lons,: of Parliament. Al-
though its, progress has been assailed by an opposi-
tion unparallelled in determined severity—although
we have seen arrayed against it influences apparently
the most irreconcileable—a late Dock Trustee, and
present representative of a Liverpool constituency,
in unholy alliance with what, by the voluntary acts
of its own promoters, must now be set down as a
scheme competing with the Dock Estate of this
town—the bill has passed the Committee in all its
integrity, and, as we shall show, with even increased
advantages and powers conferred by the opponents
themselves upon the Dock Trustees.
The public will by this time have arrived at the
fact, that a clause has been procured to be inserted
in the Bill which was not originally contemplated,
and may probably be dwelt upon as a triumph over
the Dock Committee. To some extent this circum-
stance is attributable to an error on the part of one
of the promoter's counsel, who offered to the oppo-
nents of the Bill clauses containing terms somewhat
beyond his instructions, which clauses, with a tri-
fling modification, their Lordships would not permit
to be withdrawn. We give, in order to put the pub-
lic in possession of the exact state of the case, the
clauses themselves as agreed to :

AND ItE IT ENACTED, that the said trustees shall
apply, and they are hereby directed to apply, within two
years from the expiration of the preaent session of parlia-
ment, for an act to enable them to build warehouses upon
and around the quays of all the docks made or now being
made in Liverpool aforesaid, belonging to and being under
the control of the said trustees ; and that the said trus-
tees shall not proceed with the construction of the Wap-
ping Docks (or of any other dock or basin) to the cast of
the King's Dock, so delineated as aforesaid on the said
plan, and described and comprised in the said book of
reference, or intended so to be delineated, described, or
comprised, until such act of parliament as aforesaid shall
have been obtained.
And be it further enacted, that no warehousd shall be
i down, removed. or destroyed by the said trustees
Joh as it may be necessary to pull down, remote
of forming or widening any
d by this act to be formed or
quays of the Albert

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