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

THE DOCK BILL.

The consideration of the Dock Bill was resumed by
the Select Committee of the House of Lords on Thurs-
day last, and concluded on Friday. It will be remem-
bered that the only points remaining for decision related
first to the opposition of the Commissioners of Birken-
head, the object of which was to obtain a landing stage at
George's Pier, for the exclusive use of the ferry steamers ;
and next to the petition signed by 300 merchants, brokers,
and others, represented by Mr. Eyre Evans, whose ob-
ject was to obtain powers for the erection of warehouses
round all the dock quays. The Marquis of Northampton
was chairman of the committee, all the members of which
were present.

The Dock Trustees were represented by Mr. Talbot,
Mr. Austin, Mr. Sergeant Bellasis, and Mr. Venables ;
the Commissioners of Birkenhead by Mr. Hildyard and
Mr. Webster ; the merchants, brokers, •Szc., by Mr.
Sergeant Wrangham and Mr. Bircham.
On Thursday, Mr. Sergeant BELLASIS opened the case
for the promoters of the landing-stage projected by Mr.
Cubitt, to be moored off St. George's Pier. The Com-
missioners of Birkenhead had had the privilege conceded
to them of opening their case. This question is so tho-
roughly understood in Liverpool, that there is no use in
entering again upon its merits. It is sufficient for the
present purpose to say, that by this enormous structure
the Dock Trustees propose to accommodate all classes of
steamers, and to enable passengers, carriages, and h orses
to land at all times of the tide.

Mr. Hartley and Mr. Mann were examined to show the
advantages of the plin, after which the committee ad-
journed till the following day.
_ _ _ _ _ _

Ou Thursday, Mr..fohn-B. Hartley, Mr. Cubitt, Mr.
Bramley Moore, and Lieut. Lord were examined. Mr.
Moore's evidence was principally directed against an al-
ternative clause proposed by Mr. BILDYARD, to the
effect, that if the proposed landing stage were fixed off
George's Pier, and it were found inconvenient for the
ferry traffic, the Mayor of Liverpool, and the Chairmen
of the Quarter Sessions of Lancaster and Chester, should
be empowered to decide what further accommodation
should be given. _ _

Mr. HILDYARD then summed up the case for the com-
missioners of Birkenhead in a very neat speech, in which
he contended that the stage might be safely and conveni-
ently moored off the sooth end of Prince's Pier, and
where it would amply accommodate all the large traffic,
whilst a smaller stage might be placed off St. George's
Pier, for the traffic of the ferries, to which situation they
were entitled. The learned counsel concluded by pressing
two clauses on the committee; first, that the ferry traffic
should be exclusively accommodated at St. George's Pier
(Clause A) ; then if the committee decided against that
clause, the alternative clause, that in ease the accommoda-
tion did not prove sufficient, the Mayor of Liverpool. and
the Chairman of the Lancashire and Quarter Sessions
should be empowered to authorize whatever further ac-
commodation might appear to them to be required.

FINAL SETTLEMENT OF THE GREAT WAREHOUSE

QUESTION

Mr. BluctiAlt then called the attention of the commit-
tee to the case of the petitioners, merchants, brokers,
and others, who were represented by his learned friends
Mr. Sergeant Wrangham and himself. Their lordships
would recollect that on Friday last, certain suggestions
were made by his learned friends on the other side, as
fellow :

,—That the tru-tees should be bound within two years to

Second,—That a clause should be inserted in the present bill
to the effect that they should not construct the Wapping Dock,
or commence it, before they had obtained those powers.

That they should not take down any warehousrs, ex
ses of the public streets. until the remainin

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