The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-09 00:00:00

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.He is not to be ruined. The streets of London are
to be paved with gold first. Nor is the poor man,
who now starves upon half diet, to exchange his
potatoes and herring for cheap bread and beef, for
" it is not conceivable that wheat can ever become
much cheaper." What will the operative anti-mo-
nopoly associations and other gulls of the sort say
to this mortifying falsification of all the glowing pre-
dictions which have been held out to them ? But
we are sick of exposing such hollow inconsistency
and deception.
Whilst quieting the apprehensions of the farmers
and knocking down the hopes of the working man
in a similar strain to the foregoing, the Times pro-
ceeded yesterday to suggest some not very pleasant
matter for the consideration of the mercantile and
manufacturing interests—the only ones likely to be
benefitted by ultra free-trade. The league, he says,
do not stop at the repeal of the corn-laws, but look
forward to the abolition of all Customs duties ; and
asks, " Are the national revenues such as to enable
us to dispense with Customs duties altogether ? Can
we afford to lose 12 or 14 millions a year at once ?"
The question is one which involves some prospects
of increased taxation, which are not likely to be
viewed with general satisfaction.

PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS BY THE DOCK
COMMITTEE.

We referred some time ago to the proposed purchase by
this body of the property comprised within a straight line
drawn from near the north end of Salthouse Dock to the
south end of Wapping, and the present street frontage to
the Salthouse and King's Docks. The principal object
of the purchase, at that time contemplated, was to pro-
vide for the intended railway to be carried along the Dock
Estate, and the enlargement of the Salthouse Dock, by
widening its southern end. The plans as now deposited,
however, exhibit a series of much more extensive opera-
tions on the part of the committee. In addition, the
whole of the plot of land, with warehouses, &c., from
the West Of King's Dock to Wapping, is to be secured ;
and a large dock formed upon the southern end of it
fronting the King's Dock. Another dock is to be formed
upon the land east of Duke's-place, extending up to
Hurst-street, with a connection to the south with the pre-
viously mentioned new dock, and one to the north with
Salthouse Dock, thus affording what has so long been re-
quired, a communication throughout the entire length of
the Dock Estate. It will also have a communication with
the Duke's Dock, whose boats can thus pass through to
unload in any dock without the necessity, existing at pre-
sent, of going into the river for an entrance. The Salt-
house Dock, when enlarged and provided with spacious
quay room, is intended to be used as a loading dock, in
connexion with the Albert Dock, which is more calcu-
lated for an inland and bonding dock.
Powers will also be taken for carrying outefficiently the
Harrington Dock scheme of last year, by the purchase of
a projecting corner or bend of Sefton-street, which will
enable the committee to afford that dock the same spaci-
ous quay room at present afforded at the Brunswick.
Perhaps, however, the most important feature in their
plans is the proposed purchase of the plot of land fronting
the river, containing Manchester Dock, carrying wharfs,
firc , for the purpose of its improvement as a coasting
dock and connect it with the main docks along the, estate,
by which the working of that branch of the trade of the
port will be greatly facilitated.
Without entering into any examination el the details of
these extensive schemes, we must congratulate the Dock
Committee upon the foresight and attention to the wants
of the growing commerce of the port which they display.
There cannot be a doubt that before many years pass over
us we shall see Liverpool not only absorb profitably the
whole of the dock space providing for her, but call for an
increased and incalculable amount.

The subject of the lecture which will be delivered at
St. Andrew's Church this evening is " Family Worship."
Potatoes rose in our market on, Saturday a shilling a
peck. • . . _

A large piece of vacant ground, to the west of Crown-
street and south of Falkfier.street, has been reserved by
the Corporation, for erecting a new market.
William Jackson, Esq., of Birkenhead, has presented
the Rev. William Fraser Handcock, curate of that place,
with a handsome suit of silk robes.

The itev. Mr. Macgill, senior curate of Liverpool, has
been promoted to the curacy of Clapham, Surrey. The
Rev. Mr. Higgins has been appointed to Mr. Macgill's
place in Liverpool.
ADVENT.—During this period the Rev. J. Baylee is
engaged in preaching a series of,sermons on ett•th Sunday,
and also on each wednesdaj evenin;, on the second com-
ing of Christ. _