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

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and the merit of
hivitr4 mainly and honestly contributed to the success of
a measure the most comprehensive and the most impor-

contested victory

taut of modern times

We observe that the Morning Herald has another
version of the matter. That journal states Sir Ro-
bert's determination to withdraw the bill, and to try
conciliation again. We fancy, however, that the
Times is most likely to he right; but it is difficult
to speculate upon the conduct of such a statesman.

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
Committee of the upper House 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to be withdrawn.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

IT ENACTED, that the said trustees shall
apply, and they are hereby directed to apply. within two
years from the expiration of the present 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-
ny other dock or basin) to the east of
o delineated as aforesaid on the said
d and comprised in the said hook of
)r intended so to be delineated, &scribed, or
until such act of parliament as aforesaid shall
n obtained.

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