The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-10 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE

At the meeting of the Dock Committee yesterday, the
following members were present—Messrs. Benn (chairman),
Horsfall, Holmes, Mellor, Bulky, G. Holt, Tobin, Evans,
and Chapman.

The sub-committee for the department of the Harbour
Masters reported that they had considered the subject of
the management of the cranes and stages an the dock quays.
They recommended that applications for the use of handles
belonging to the cranes should be signed by some responsi-
ble person, and a deposit of 10s. made, to be returned when
the handles were brought back. As to stages, they recom-
mended that the applications for them should be signed by
some responsible person, and a deposit of 21s. made, to be
returned when brought back ; the dock-masters in each case
to be responsible for the property, and this regulation to be
considered as part of their duty.—A long, desultory conver-
sation followed upon this subject, in the course of which Mr.
Horsfall suggested that the deposit on the handles being
taken should be 20s. instead of 10s. The suggestion was
adopted, and with this alteration the report was received and
confirmed.

The Surveyor called the attention of the committee to the
necessity for the several masters and gatemen to maintain a
strict observation upon the state of the dock quays. At
present carts were frequently allowed to load in a most im-
proper position, and contrary to the existing regulations,—
namely, by standing across the whole quay, the drivers caring
nothing about the inconvenience caused thereby, so that they
could serve themselves.—After some discussion, in which
Mr. Chapman observed that a lax system had been gradu-
ally springing up with regard to the observation of the regu-
lations, the Secretary was directed to write to Mr. Whitty,
requesting him to instruct the police to put the regulations
in force against all offenders.
The South Harbour Master in a letter objected to the use
of green lights at the entrance basin of the docks within
his division, to indicate, in the night, that the docks were
full, which had been ordered by a resolution of the committee
on the 11th February last. The consideration of this sub-
ject was postponed.
On the recommendation of the Harbour Masters' sub-
committee, the North Harbour-master was instructed to ac-
comodate as many coasting vessels in Trafalgar Dock as lie
possibly could, without inconvenience to the steam vessels
lying there.

On the application of the Watch Committee, permission
was given for that body to erect an additional lamp on the
west side of the north-east corner of St. George's Bath, se-
veral accidents having occurred through the absence of such
a convenience.

The CHAIRMAN reported that the Mayor, the chairman
of the Cheshire quarter sessions, and himself, had bad a meet-
ing in the Town-hall, for the revision of the schedule of rates
in the new dock act, chargeable upon vessels entering this
port, but not using the docks • and they bad decided that
the rates should remain for three years at the maximum
fixed by the act, namely lid. per ton, which would include
all charges.

An application from the Shipmasters' Association to em-
ploy the telegraph in the conveyance of certain signals in use
by that institution, was declined.

The committee then proceeded to the transaction of some
financial affairs, and shortly afterwards they separated.

TREASON OF THE ANTI-CORN-LAW
' ADVOCATES.

The accession of a Conservative administration has evi-
dently driven many of the Manchester "Anti-bread-tax ad-
vocates," sacred as well as secular, into a state of moral
desperation, if not into one of constructive treason. Irri-
tated at the disasters which have issued to their party through
the perverseness of the people at the late general election,
they have lamented their unhappy condition tilt lamentation
has engendered excitement, and excitement has almost in-
duced insanity. It was in the primary or desponding stage
that Mr. George Thompson hit upon the holy scheme of
congregating the conference of dissenting teachers ; it was in
the secondary stage that it was resolved to ruin all the mer-
chants and brokers in Liverpool and every where else who
have a sense of what is just towards the agricultural interest ;
and the incipient symptom of the third and last stage which
is to end this strange eventful history, is a resolution about
to be taken of overthrowing the whole body politic in the
event of their nostrum not being adopted. •
One would, of course, feel somewhat alarmed at these de-
monstrations, if Manchester constituted the whole of the
empire, or the anti-corn-law league entire population ; but
until that, time arrives all apprehension may be set at rest.
With the further consolation that the existing administra-
tion is not likely to be shaken by sounds full of fury, we in-
sert the following indication of insanity from an accredited
organ of the league, called the Manchester Times:—