The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-13 00:00:00

ELIGIBLE INVESTMENT,

On THURSDAY, the 26th instant, at Five, 'o'clock in the
Evening, at Mr. Forshaw's, the Legs of an and Bull Inn,
in Prescot, (if not disposed of in the time by-Private
Treaty, of which due notice will be ' en,) in one Lot, or
more, as may be agreed upon, and bject to such condi-
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tions as will be then produced,
THE FEE-SIMPLE and INHERITANCE of and in all
that compact and very desirable ESTATE, called " The
Hanging Bridge Estate," situate in Sutton, in the county of
Lancaster, and consisting of a substantial, commodious, and
modern-built MESSUAGE, with Stabling for five horses,
Shippons for eight cows, Coach-house, Barn, and other con-
venient Outbuildings, large Garden well stocked with choice
Fruit Trees, and several Closes of LAND thereto adjoining,
and containing in the whole 48 acres 2 roods and 31 perches
of statute measure, or thereabouts, and now in the possession
of Mrs. Robinson.

The House is pleasantly situated, in good repair, and well
adapted for the Residence of a respectable Family. The
Land is in a good state of cultivation ; there is Stone of a
very superior quality under the Estate, and a Quarry is now
open ; and part of the Estate is supposed to contain a valuable
Seam of Coal ; the Poor and other Rates within the Town-
ship are row.

This Property is situated within half a mile of the Raiuhill
Station on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and also
of the public Turnpike Road from Prescot to Warrington,
and is within two miles of the town of Prescot, and about the
same distance from St. Helen's. So desirable an Investment
is rarely offered to the Public.
The House maybe viewed on application to Mrs. Robin-
son, on the Premises, who will direct a proper person to
show the Estate ; and for further particulars, or to treat for
the Purchase of the Property by Private Contract, application
may be made to Mr. RoniNsoN, of Peasley House, near to
St. Helen's; or to Messrs. ROWSON and CROSS, Solicitors,
Prescot. at whose Office a Plan of the Estate may be seen.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Application is
I intended to be made to Parliament in the next Session
for leave to bring in a Bill or Bills for powerlor the Trustees
of the Liverpool Docks to purchase, an or the Council of
the Borough of Liverpool to sell and co ey to the Trustees,
the Graving Docks Number 1,2, a 3, belonging to the
Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses o he Borough, with the
Quays and Appendages to the same, (all which Docks,
Quays, and Appendages, together with all other the Docks,
Basins, Piers, Quays, Wharfs, Strand, Lands, Tenements
and Hereditaments, Streets, Ways, and Passages hereinafter
mentioned, are within the Town and Parish of Liverpool, in
the County of Lancaster.) And for power to fill up the
Graving Dock Number 1, when purchased, and also the
South-West Corner of the Canning Dock, and the South-
West Corner of the Gut or Entrance Basin of the same
Dock, on the West Side thereof, as described in the Plans
hereinafter mentioned ; and to use the Sites thereof respec-
tively in constructing the Piers, Wharfs, and Quays of the
intended Wet Dock hereinafter mentioned, and for any of
the purposes connected therewith. And for power to make
a Wet Dock, together with Basins, Piers, Wharfs, Quays,
Locks, Bridges, River Wall, and other Works on the West-
wardly Side of the Salthouse Dock ; and to widen, deepen,
extend, enlarge, and otherwise alter the Salthouse Dock,
and the Entrances thereto, and to make additional Entrances,
and to widen and otherwise alter the Quays thereof •, and to
widen or otherwise alter the said Gut or Entraiwe Basin of
the Canning Dock. And for power for the Trustees to ex-
tend, enlarge, and otherwise alter and improve the Graving
ISlegbit liraving flocks -Elle Trustees, dr- ansY oY mein-
respectively, and the Quays, Entrances, and Works be-
longing to the same. And for power to erect Inclined
Planes or Patent Slips to the Northward of the Cla-
rence Dock on Land of the said Trustees, in the said
Parish of Liverpool. And for power for the Trustees
to erect Warehouses on the West Quay of the Prince's
Dock and Land adjacent thereto, within the Dock Walls.
And to erect Warehouses on the Wharfs and Quays of the
said intended Wet Dock to the Westwardly Side of the Salt-
house Dock, and Land adjacent thereto ; and to manage all
such Warehouses, and to use the same for the Deposit and
Custody of Goods and Merchandise ; and to grant transfer-
able Warrants or Certificates on the Deposit therein of Goods
and Merchandise (the Occupancy of the said Warehouses by
the Trustees being subject to Parochial Rates). And to de-
mand and receive Rates and other Charges for and in respect
of Goods and Merchandise warehoused or deposited therein.
And for power, so far as relates to the Prince's Dock and the
said intended Wet Dock, to take charge of, and to load and
unload, all Goods from and into Vessels lying in the said
Docks ; and, for facilitating the Business of the said Docks,
to unload and take charge of Goods from Vessels in the said
Docks, or any other Docks of the said Trustees. And to
warehouse or store the said Goods, with power to pass all ne-
cessary Entries thereof with the Officers of Customs, and to
demand and receive Rates and Charges in relation to the
Matters aforesaid. And to make Byelaws for regulating the
use of the Warehouses, and for the government of all Per-
sons employed in and about the same, and the carrying on of
the Business of and connected with such Warehouses. And
for power to make, and to authorise the making of, Tram-
roads on any of the Quays or Wharfs of .the present or in-
tended Docks or Basins of the Trustees, and across or along
the Streets or Highways upon such Quays or Wharfs. And,
for the purposes aforesaid and of the improvement of the
Docks of the said Trustees and the navigation of the River,
power to Purchase, and for the Council of the Borough of
Liverpool to sell and convey to the Trustees, Strand of
the River Mersey, and Lands, Tenements, and Here-
ditaments belonging to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur-
gesses, and to erect a River Wall along the west side of
such Strand. And for power to purchase, and for any Per-
sons or Bodies Politic or Corporate interested therein to sell
and convey to the Trustees their several and respective
Estates and Interests in the said Lands, Tenements, or
Hereditaments, or in any other Lands, Tenements, and
Hereditaments which may be required for any of the purposes
herein mentioned. And for power for the Trustees to stop
up, use, inclose, and alter for the said intended Wet Dock,
or any of the Works connected therewith, the Streets or Ways
called Cornhill, Trentham-street, Corn-alley, and number 1
Graving Dock Quay, and all other Streets, Ways, and Pas-
sages to the westward of the Salthouse Dock (except Gower-
street.) And also powers for such confirmation of title, and
such settlement of Divisions and Boundaries relating to the
respective Estates of the Trustees, and of the Mayor, Alder-
men, and Burgesses, as may be proper and advisable. And
to confirm an arrangement relating to an Observatory to be
erected by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses on land
of the said Trustees, to be vested in the said Mayor, Alder-
men, and Burgesses, for such object, subject to resumption
on payment of the compensation if such Land should here-
after be required for Dock purposes. And also to empower
the Trustees to raise a further sum or further sums of Money
for the purposes herein mentioned. And for power for the
TruStees to levy and receive Rates and-Dues for the using of
the said Graving Docks, Inclined Planes or Patent Slips, and
Graving Blocks. And for power to fix and levy a Rate on
Steam-vessels, Craft, or Boats plying on the River Mersey
for the time any such Vessels, Craft, or Boats may lie in any
of the present or intended Docks or Basins of the Trustees
(except for protection from storms.) And also an extra Rate
or Duty on any Vessel lying in any of the present or intended
Docks or Basins of the Trustees for any time exceeding three
calendar months. And for provision for preventing the ship-
ment in any Vessel in the present or intended Docks or Basins
of the Trustees of Aqua Fortis, Oil of Vitriol, or other Goods
of dangerous quality without the contents being duly marked
and specified on the package containing the same. And for power
for the Trustees to make Byelaws for the good'government of
the present andintended Docks, Basins, Piers, Wharfs, Quays,
and Works of the Trustees, and for the regulation of Steam-
vessels and other Vessels resorting thereto. And for autho-
the permanent payment of a fair and
rising and regulating
rateable proportion of the expense from time to time attend-
ing the maintenance of the Dock
.Police, and the Police of
the Borough of Liverpool, as now united and maintained, and
for confirming and permanently establishing the union thereof,
as the general Constabulary Force of the Borough, Docks,
and Harbour, under the appointment, regulation and go-
vernment of the Watch Committee of the Borough. And
also provision for making the expense of maintaining Pri-
soners summarily convicted and committed to the Gaol of the
Borough, for offences contrary to the provisions of any pre-
sent or future Act relating to the Liverpool Docks, a charge
upon the Borough Fund in like manner, as the maintenance
of other Prisoners now is. And for such further powers as
may be necessary for placing the said intended Wet Dock,
Graving Docks, Piers, Wharfs, Quays, River Wall, Ware-
houses, and other Works herein mentioned, within and sub-
ject to the regulations, management, and government, and
jurisdiction, and correction of offences, now belonging or ap-
plicable to the present Docks and Works of the said Trus-
tees, as if the same were part thereof, and were comprised in
the several Acts hereinafter mentioned. And for power for
the said Trustees to apply any sum not exceeding One Thou-
sand Pounds in one year, for the charitable purposes men-
tioned in the Act of the 51st year of the reign of his Majesty
King George the Third, hereinafter mentioned. And for the
better effecting all or any of the purposes aforesaid, to amend,
extend, enlarge, alter, and explain the powers and provisions
contained in an Act passed in the Eighth year of the
reign of her Majesty Queen Anne, intituled ' An Act for
" making a convenient Dock or Basin at Liverpool, for the
" security of all Ships trading to and from the said Port of
" Liverpool." And an Act passed in the Third year of the
reign of his Majesty King George the First, intituled " An
" Act for enlarging the time granted, by an Act passed in the
" Eighth year of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne,
" intituled an Act for making a convenient Dock or Basin at
" Liverpool, for security of all Ships trading to and from the
" said Port of Liverpool. And an Act passed in the
Eleventh year of the reign of his Majesty King George
the Second, intituled " An Act for enlarging the time
" granted by an Act passed in the third year of the
" reign of his late Majesty King George, intituled, An
" Act for enlarging the time granted by an Act passed