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

First
apply for
a!1 the dock quays

—That the tru=tees should be bound within two years to
wcrs to authorize them to erect warehouses upon

Second ,—Th4t a dance should be inserted in the present bill
to the effect that they should riot construct the Wapping Dock,
or commence it, before they had obtained those powers.
Third, —That they should not take down any warehouses, ex-
cept for the purposes of the public streets. until the remaining

h these suggestions, they (the peti-
.act fratred two clauses which they considered
embodied the substance of those proposals. Their lord.
ships, however, thought the clauses were more stringent
than was consistent with the suggestions; and in conse-
quence of an application from his learned friends, that
they might have time to consult the Town Council upon

'IiCKWORTH, ...
tioners)
ri n .nt. .., "

PRESENT.
CHARLES COTESWORTH, Esq., in the Chair,
and Proprietors holding more than Seven Hundred Shares.
The Report of the Directors was read.
On the motion of Mr. ROUNDELL, seconded by Mr. BREBNER,
Resolved "-

the Report, containing afi Account of the those more stringent clauses, and in reference also to the
Receipts and Disbursements of the Company, up to the first suggestions made by themselves, an adjournment took
Wednesday in May last, and of the amount of the Funds and place. The petitioners had intimated to the promoters
•

, ...., “....y ro accept their proposals with very
I'- slight modification indeed. It was that it should be left
to their lordshlrs to decide and determine whether the
LAND,
- time for applying to Parliament for powers to build ware-
Resolved,—That a Dividend of 7s. 6d. per Share for the last houses round all the dock quays should he limited to two
Half-year be paid to each Proprietor on and after the 26th day years, or to the next ensuing session. But, as he found
of June instant.
his learned friends had now altered their minds, he must
On the motion of Mr. EDDOWES, seconded by Mr. Goa DON, call the attention of the Committee to the position in
.Resolued,—That the three Directors, Mr. Tyrer, Mr. Carter,
C
and Mr. Cotesworth, who go out by rotation, pursuant to the which petitioners stood with regard to the proposals
Deed of Settlement of the Company, be and the same are hereby
re-elected for the year ensuing. tells made
their
the
lordships o them.
they Nodho
audb
beent his
beforelearned t friends Town
w ouol Council,
nncoi lw,
On the motion of Mr. HEATH, seconded by Mr. HIBBERT, that the Town Council had sanctioned their proceedings, and
.Resolved,—That the thanks of this Meeting are hereby given that in conseouence of the Town Council's interference,
to the Directors for the past year for their very satisfactory re-
port this day presented and read, and for their able services in they were not prepared to carry their own proposals into
carrying on in so efficient a manner the affairs of the company. effect. When the committee was adjourned, the promo-
On the motion of Mr. HiosoN, seconded by Mr. SINCLA IR. ters were to apply to the Town Council in reference to the
Resolved,—That the Directors be recommended to continue more stringent clauses which the petitioners proposed to
the payment of the Dividend half-yearly. - , embody in the bill ; and their reference to the Town
On the motion of Mr. BOLD, seconded by Mr. GORDON, Council had nothing whatever to do with the suggestions
Resolued,—lhat the thanks of the Meeting be given to Mr. _, .c.
”nt n they (the promoters) had made independently of
Arthur, the Manager, and to the other Servants of the Compa-
the more stringent clauses.
ny, for the satisfactory manner in which they have performed They (the promoters) would
their respective duties, undoubtedly stbte to their lordships that their position
On the motion of Mr. BLACKBURN, seconded by Mr. Route- was altered since the time when their application for an
DELL, adjournment had been acceded to, in consequence of the
each
Resoluedof the,—That tile foregoing resolutions be advertised in Town Council having sanctioned their proceedings.
Liverpool
On the motion of Mr. HEATH, seconded by Mr. HIGSON, The CRAIRMAN.--Or, rather, reversing them. But
Resolved,—That the thanks of this meeting be presented to go en.
the Chairman for his able conduct in the chair. Mr. BIRCRAM.—A resolution was passed by the Town
Ido appoint the Bth, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, and lath days Council
that the bill should stand, as foltows" Resolved,
of June instant, being seven days within three calendar months on the motion of Mr. Moore, seconded by Mr. Mann,
from this day, in order that any Proprietor may examine tile
that the special proceedings of the Dock Committee rein, now produced and approved, and take Copies of or Ex-
tracts from the Accounts of the Company during the period tive to the dock bill beforeparliament, and by this Coun-
.
comprised in the said Report, at the Office of the Company, cil as trustees of the Liverpool docks referred to the Dock
within office hours, in the presence of two directors, pursuant Committee, he approved." After this he could not un-
to the Deed of Settlement.
derstaud upon what ground his learned friends were pre-
CHARLES COTESWORTH. pared to resist the offer which he now made to them.
The CHAIRMAN.—What is the offer?
LONDON AND OXFORD RAILWAY.
THE Directors beg to inform the SHAREHOLD- Mr. BIRCHAM.—The offer is to accept their proposals,
leaving it to your lordships to decide whether the time
ERS, that, in virtue of the powers given to them by the should be limited to two years or the next session wherein
Subscribers' Agreement, they have this day DISSOLVED the
COMPANY.. they should apply for parliamentary powers to erect

proed ana confirmed
On the motion of Mr. BLACKBURN, seconded by Mr. Row

All SharehOlders are requested to send in their Scrip forth- houses on all the dock quays.
with, to be examined, and, on the same being verified, they The CHAIRMAN.—It would be well to know at once
will receive Five Shillings a Share, as a First Instalment. The whether the promoters stand by their original proposition
Balance reserved will be divided, pro rata, after all Claims 'on of two years.
the Company have been discharged. Two Auditors have been ~1,,r. Sergeant BELLASIS would state to their lordhips
is
appointed to investigate the Accounts, which will be submitted
to the Shareholders with the least possible delay, the whole of what had taken place. So far from the Town
By order of the Board, Council of Liverpool having altogether approved of what
E.' CLAYTON, Secretary. had been done, they bad disapproved of what he (Mr.
N.B. Forms of Application to be filled up by Scripholders, Sergeant Bellasis) had done. He was not going, there-
may be had at the Office, or will, on request, be forwarded by fore, to quote that. He would, however, call their lord-
post to parties resident in the country.
ships' attention to what Le had suggested, because the
13, 014 Jewry Chambers, London, 19th May, 1846.
promoters felt themselves in a different position to what
BELFAST AND COUNTY DOWN RAILWAY. he had supposed, in consequence of an agreement with the
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that, in -pursuance warehouse owners, which agreement they thought would
of the New. Orders of Parliament, a GENERAL MEET-
IN of the Holders of Scrip, and of Bankers' Receipts entitling*
parties to claim Scrip of this Company, is hereby called, ana P
l'i thereby be infringed. When he proposed that the pro-
moters should apply to Parliament. within two years for
powers to build warehouses, he did, most undoubtedly,
will be held at the Company's Office, in Fountain-street, Belfast, in his words include all the dock quays. At that very
on the 12th day of June next, at Eleven o'clock before Noon, time, there were persons in the room who immediately
and a Copy of the Bill now before Parliament, entitled "An wished to say something ; and he found he had out-
" Act for making a Railway from Belfast to Downpatrick, with
" Branches to the Towns of Holy-wood, Newtownards. Baneor.
" am, I,— " -- -- stepped his instructions, or misunders_t9od the parties

_.“ iionaghadee," all in the County of DOl;rn,-will 1;e""slib- who instructed him. An agreement had been made with
mitted for the consideration and approval of the Meeting, No the warehouse owners, which was comprised in two clauses
Parties will be entitled to Vote unless they produce Scrip, or of the act 4th Victoria, whereby it was required that the
Bankers' Receipts entitling them to Scrip.
By order of the Provisional Committee remaining one-third of the Albert Dock warehouses should
THOMAS WARD; Secretary.not be commenced until a period which bad not arrived,
and that the trustees should not erect any warehouses until
four years afterwards. He understood, at the time, that

Belfast, 30th 3fay, 1846,

BELFAST AND COUNTY DOWN RAILWAY. `"' "1"`""'"'—`" ---
THE attention of SHAREHOLDERS is called to went. This turned out not to'be the fact, and he was
the above Advertisement, convening a MEETING of the mistaken. There were warehouse owners in the room
COMPANY, in Belfast, on the 12th day of June next. [Mr. Birkett and Mr. Aspinall] who objected to the sug-
The Bill sought for by the Company, after having passed gestion on the spur of the moment, and who said that in
'ugh Standing Orders of. both Bongo. M Porli..,,m+ ...,... __L... t._ L_l _, . .

aavuoua Lllll,ll, was
read a third time and passed lin the House of Lords,llelll
and has
since been read a second time in the House of Commons, and
referred to Committee, where it is expected to pass in a few
days, as an unopposed Bill, and be reported to the House for
the third reading.

what he had done be bad gone beyond the agreement.
As far as his clients were' concerned, they had consulted
their constituents, who had passed a resolution concerning
it, which be would read. This resolution was the one
agreed to at the special meeting of the Dock Committee,
on Monday last, (yesterday week,) and it recited that in
the 57th and 58th clauses of the Act 4th Victoria, a certain
agreement had been made with the warehouse interest.=
that the warehouse interest had withdrawn the restrictions
imposed by the 57th section, but not those in the 58th ;
and it then proceeded to resolve, that, in the opinion of the
committee, any clause proposed to be inserted in the Dock
Bill to alter the restrictions imposed by the 58th clause,
should be resisted upon the ground that it infringed the
protection intended by the legislature for the warehouse
interest. His clients had, as he said before, been down
to their constituents, who said to them, " If you did make
such an offer, you went beyond your powers." His
clients, therefore, were now called upon to resist an in-
fringement of the agreement with the warehouse owners,
for the warehouse owners never intended that more than
the 57th clause should be withdrawn—certainly not the
restrictions in the 58th. The promoters, therefore, could
not propose a clause which should over-ride an agree-
ment which they admitted to be binding and in force.
They were, however, willing to submit to a clause not to
proceed with the Wapping Dock until the whole of the
warehouses round Albert Dock were completed; second,
not to pull down any warehouses except for the purposes
of new streets until the same period; and third, within
two years to apply for parliamentary powers to build
warehouses upon the quays-of all the docks made sub-
sequently to the Albert Dock. Having made an agree-
ment with the warehouse interests his clients felt they
were bound to adhere to it.

The Directors,'in order to facilitate the production at the
Meeting of the necessary proportion of the Company's Stock,
in approval of the Bill, so as to have it read a third time and
passed, have instructed the several Secretaries :
Thomas Ward, Bridge-street, Belfast;
James Stevenson, Northern Bank, Downpatrick ;
John White, 30, North George-street, Dublin ;
James Bryden, 19, Moorgate-street, London ;
to take charge of such Scrip, or Bankers' Receipts, as may be
intrusted to them to produce, and for which an accountable
Receipt, on behalf of the Company, will be given by the Secre-
tary receiving the same, for its immediate return after the
Meeting. Scrip, or Bankers' Receipts may be forwarded to
any of the Secretaries, with a Letter in the following form :
Sir —I enclose (Scrip, or Bankers' Receipt entitling to
" Scrip) for Shares in the Belfast and County of Down
" Railway; and I request you will record an approval of the
cßill as representing the said Shares, at the Meeting to be
held On the 12th day 'Of June." Add Name and Addi•ess of
Parties sending. JOHN HARRISON, Chairman.
Belfast, 30th May, 1846.

SLEEPING Ar ni POST.—A good deal of alarm was
created in Lord-street, Stockport, about six o'clock on
Monday evening, from the following circumstance :
Parties were removing to a house which had recently been
empty, before doing which tiny took the precaution of
having the chimneys swept. For this purpose a junior
member of the sooty profession was engaged, who
mounted up aloft, and was of cause expected down again
after the completion of his work. Time, however, went
on, and still he did not appear, until it occurred to the
parties that he had been up the chimney an unusully
long time, and, as all was quiet, the worst appreben-
sions began to be entertained. The inference was, that
he was "fast in the chimney," and as a rumour to that
(fleet became circulated, the alarm spread on all hands
We believe the boy was up the chimney about half-an-
hour to three-quarters, during which time many pel•sons
shouted up it to the top of their voices, but without re-
ceiving an answer. At last the boy's master was fetched,
who ascended the chimney, and there found the boy 'com
fortably ensconsed in a cross flue, " fast asleep•" Of
course the alarm at once subsided, and laughter and as-
tonishment at the boy's temerity took the place of the
previous consternation.n/lianchester Examiner.

Mr. TALBOT wished to—add, that in point of fact the
promoters found themselves unable to go beyond the
point just stated by his learned friend, as a matter of good
faith towards the warehouse owners, or to suggest any-
thing else. Their lordships should know that in dealing
with the warehouse interest of Liverpool, they were not
dealing with the interests of an insignificantelass, but one
in which it was not too much to say that millions were
involved.

The CHAIRMAN.—We cannot enter into those consi-
derations now. The committee, in considering this bill.

must go upon public grounds, without reference to private
parties wbo are not before us.

TIIE FLORENTINE MODELS.—Those of our reaciersi
who have not yet visited these beautiful works of art,
should not omit to do soimmediately, as they are about
to be removed at the end of the present week, and they
again have the opportunity of passing an hour so
instructive soon again.

Mr. BIRCHAAI said the principal grounds upon which
his learned friends 'now sought 'to back out of the sug-
gestions which they themselves had made, was, that they
ad not the consent of the warehouse interest—that they
ered an agreement with that body, so that it
ecepted proposals

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Mr. Serjeant BEir,Asis said it had been proved in evi-
dence, tbAt the warehouses propoied to be erected irnme-

diately, in order to complete the Albert Dock quays, would
be five times more than the space proposed to be pulled
down.

The CHAIRMAN said a good deal of contradictory evi-
dence had been given on this subject.
Mr. BIRCHAM repeated his assertion, and added that
what was now proposed by the promoters was in reality
nothing. They now proposed a clause binding themselves
to apply for powers within two years to build warehouses
round all the docks made subsequently to Albert Dock,
whilst the fact was there was no necessity for such powers,
inasmuch as there was no restriction upoa them in this
respect.

The Chairman.—They must have an act to get the
money ; they could not build warehouses round the new
docks without money.
Mr. BlRCHAM.—Undoubtedly, they must apply for
powers to raise money to build them. But by this clause
they merely apply to parliament for powers, whereas they
had the power already. The learned counsel proceeded
to argue that he was only contending for the propositions
submitted by the promoters themselves, and concluded by
calling upon the committee either to reject the preamble
of the bill, or so much of it as related to the construc-
tion of additional docks ; or, if they decided upon neither,
to do what was only an act of justice to the petitioners,
viz., authorise the insertion of clauses which would carry
out to the fullest extent the proposals made last Friday by
the learned sergeant on the other side. .
Mr. TALBOT humbly suggested to the committee that
interests were at stake on this bill far too vast and mo-
mentous to admit of being dealt with without the most
serious deliberation. Their lordships would not, he
thought, permit their decision to be the result of a casual
mistake. It was clear that, from some cause, his learned
friend, Mr. Sergeant Bellasis, had stated that which he
was not authorised to state, and that which those who in-
structed him said was contrary to their own wishes, and
contrary to their plighted faith to the warehouse owners.
His learned friend seemed to have made—for he (Mr.
Talbot) was not in the room at the time—a proposal with
regard to all the docks, which he ought to have confined
to all the docks erected subsequently to the Albert Dock.
From this there was no wish to recede. It was but due
to Mr. Moore to state, that the moment Mr. Sergeant.
Bellasis made the statement, be made an effort to commu-
nicate with their lordships, but it was resisted by Mr.
Sergeant Wrangham, and their lordships thought it right
not to hear him at that time.
Lord CARRINGTON said he recollected observing this
was the case.
Mr. TALBOT.—If their lordships had heard Mr. Moore
then, they would have heard a prompt disclaimer of the
proposition of his learned friend. As the warehouse own.
ers were not present, or in opposition to the bill, and
as the facts were as had been stated, their lordships surely
would not behind their backs force clauses upon the
promoters necessarily prejudicial to that important in-
terest. The clauses were necessarily prejudicial, because
the promoters were willing to bind themselves to apply
for powers to construct warehouses upon the quays of all
docks made subsequently to the Albert Dock. His
learned friend spoke of this offer as delusive ; but he could
not have meant to say that the power of building ware-
houses round all the new docks was delusive, when it in.
eluded the new dock at Wapping ; besides which the pro-
moters engaged not to pull down or rather construct the
Wapping Dock until they had obtained powers to build
warehouses round all the new docks. Under all the circum-
stances he trusted their lordships would consider the
clause which he proposed satisfactory to all parties. The
question was, whether, having inadvertently proposed an-
other clause, they were to be tied up to it, and snapped into
much larger concessions, which were contrary to good
faith, and calculated to be seriously prejudicial to a very
important interest in tnn-tn..... ,sr

The room was then cleared ; and, after an absence of
half an hour, the parties were called in, when
The CHAIRMAN said—The Committee have considered
the whole of this question, and they have determined,—
First, that the preamble of this bill is proved;
Next, that they have passed the clauses, (proposed by
Mr. Bitcham,) only they:make it imperative for the true-
tees to come to Parliament for powers in two years instead

of one ; and