The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-30 00:00:00

of paramount importance, in the
proposed or any future new docks, to exercise the ut-

construction of the

most economy of the present available space in the

centre of the town

and we admit fully the importance,

in the design of such docks, of securing the greatest

amount of lineal quay space which is cc

the internal convenience of the docks themselves

is undeniable, too, that in many of our existing dock

the construction is faulty, the facilities of loading and
unloading afforded being very limited in proportion to
the water space which they occupy. At the same time

We can easily perceive the possibility of carrying the
Principle contended for by Mr. Gage and others—that
quay space is all important—too far; and we are se-
afraid lest the lessons of practical experience
should be overlooked, in the eagerness to jump to that
perfection so easy to lay down upon a plan or to de-

scribe in a pamphlet or in the columns of a newspaper

but so difficult to reduce to working

It is quite possible that in the opinion of Mr. Gage,
(which it must be borne in mind is to be regarded as
that only of a professional competitor,) the plan of Mr.
Hartley, which has received the sanction of the Dock

Committee, may be deficient in the convenience of its

We can scarcely however

think it possible that its defects can be so glaring, and
the superiority of that of Mr. Gage himself so striking,

as the public might be led to believe by the repres
tions Which have been put forth in their behalf.

LOCAL NEWS

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,onseeration of the new church in Warwick-str
-0t to-morrow (Wednesday.) The service
commence at half-past ten in the forenoon.

DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE.—On Wednesday evening, about
nine o'clock, as Mr. Williams, of Victoria-place, Woodside,
was walking with his infant about the parlour, some villain
tired a bullet through the window. Very fortunately it missed
both of them. The ball struck a chair in the parlour, and
was found on the floor near it. We hope the ruffian will be
discovered and brought to justice. _ _ _ _ _

NIGER EXPEDITION.—on Monday last, Mr. John Laird,
of Liverpool, had the honour of an interview, by appoint-

ment, with his royal highness Prince Albert, to present a
model of her Majesty's iron steam-vessel " Albert," one of
the vessels built by Mr. Laird for the Niger expedition. His
royal highness has always taken great interest in the expe-
dition, and inspected all the vessels minutely before they left
this country.

INFAMOUS ASSAULT.-Mr. Edward Peers, township
constable of Bebbington, charged John Grice, before the

magistrates at Birkenhead, on Thursday, with assaulting him
on the 18th of February last. The offender absconded im-

Peers was called out of bed on the night in
question to quell a disturbance, and after he had charged the
peace, he was knocked down by a stone, his head dreadfully
cut, and he was carried home insensible. Miss Shakeshaft
deposed that she was led to the scene of disturbance in con-
sequence of the noise, and while looking on she saw Grice
quit the crowd, pick up a stone, and throw it at Peers's head,

Tuesday -1

ie ground. The magistrates atte
expressing their opinions as to the brutal conduct of Grice

penalty of £5, an

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A MAN ROBBING HIMSELF.—On Friday, at the Police-
court, Mr: Dowling, the commissioner, stated that a circum-
stance had come to his knowledge of which he thought the
public should be made aware, as be believed such deceptions
were by no means uncommon. On Thursday, a young man,

to him and stated that he had been knocked down in the
street by some men, severely hurt on the head, and robbed
of his watch and £3 15s. Bills announcing the assault and
robbery were published ; but, on inquiry, he had since found
that the young man himself had sold the watch, and that
that the mark of injury on his head, which he had exhibited

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WELSH MEETING TO ADDRESS THE QUEEN

—lt will he

the proverbial loyalty of the Welsh, they win uounuess most
willingly respond to the call. The other object of the meet-
ing, to petition for a new order of knighthood, is highly cre-
ditable to the patriotism of those with whom it originated ;
and were all classes of the inhabitants of Cambria cordially
and spiritedly to co-operate in petitioning for the same ob-
ject, we have every reason to believe that they would ulti-
mately succeed.

The practice pursued by the customs' authorities a
pool in the registration of ships de novo has lately been
opened by the chiefs of that department here and revised.
It appears that the case in which their judgment was thought
unsatisfactory, and was in consequence submitted to the
London department, was where parties were interested in the
sale of a vessel built and registered at a British colony, A, of