The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-31 00:00:00

the Town Council summons for to-morrow

we percE

that two notice

f motion have been

believe, being irregular, and infringing
is of the Dock Committee, cannot be en-

e Uounci

Mr. T. Lloyd appears desirous of
e service to his constituents, by oh-
m a landing place at. low water at the

quarter in which this can be best obtained ; and also
where he_will have an opportunity of preserving to
cli are now in the most imminent

em

danger

By the e

Herculaneum Dock-act the public
have secured to them the right of an open parade on
the river frontage, similar to the one in front of
Prince's-dock, the value and importance of which,
for the recreation of the inhabitants and health of the
town, it would be difficult duly to appreciate.
There is now, however, before parliament a bill,
which repeals the whole of the present Herculaneum
Dock-act ; and its provisions arc of such a vague
and negative character as we believe to endanger
several existing public rights; and amongst the rest
the important one of a fine free marine parade. It
also proposes to incorporate and destroy all the
street to the eastward of the proposed docks. These
are matters which may deservedly claim the atten-
tion and maiden efforts of Mr. T. Lloyd, and also
of the other North and South Toxteth representa-
tives as well as the public authorities ; and we call
upon all to he up and stirring to resist the threat-
ened encroachments.

LIVERPOOL DOCK BILL

townsmen and the commercial world upon the final success of

read a first

'ill or any of its details will be continued in the House of

A short review of the struggle which the promoters have suc-
ssfully made against their various opponents, will not he un-

Tlie observations we have already made in our previous no-
.

sure was (ina6ertenili and unintentionally no dimbt) placed
in considerable danger by the ardent admirers of dock ware-
houses. Unfrotunately the warehouse owners did not pro-
claim their withdrawal of the restrictions imposed by the Al-

bert Dock Act (4 Victoria), until long after the Parlkimentary
notices had been given, and not until after the Dock bill had

been printed and presented to the House of Commons. The
anxiety of all parties to render the proposal of the warehouse
owners available, prompted the introduction of a manuscript

clause in the coninlit
on all the dock quay
the 4th Victoria. Thi

authorising the erection of warehouse;
,nstructed subsequently to the act of
rish and the paving and sewerage com-
.

proposed warehouses should be titirthened with parochial and
local rates. But the practicability of this measure under the
present bill, or whether the object could not be more perma-
nently attained after the power to build the warehouses had
been conferred on the dock trustees, were considerations which
do not appear to have been suggested to the eager minds
of these respected authorities. We will not now stop to
inquire into the expediency of their apparent haste, al-
though it is considered by some parties that it would have
been more judicious to have allowed the power to be taken
by the dock trustees unfettered in the first instance by re-
strr Lions or impositions. Suffice it for our present purpose
to bserve, that the insertion of the rating clause would have
thrown out the bill, and then the power to carry out the pre-
sent magnificent plan of rendering our docks the admiration
of the world by their .extent and their convenient connection,
would have been protracted. The chairman of the committee
having announced that The speaker said the insertion of the
rating clause would be fatal to the further progress of the bill,
the argument was urged on the committee by the counsel for
the vestry and the commissioners that the warehouse clause
should be rejected, if unaccompanied by the rating clause. It

may be questioned whether it would not have been better for
the said authorities to have remained quiet until the applica-
tion for a future dock bill, for such application, it is evident,
must be made long before the warehouses could possibly have
seen erected. In such case, the vestry and the commissioners
nay, before the publication of the parliamentary notices, de-
( lare their determination to require the rating of the ware-
houses, and then, if the dock committee chose to issue the no-
tices without expressing the intention of imposing rates, the
obloquy of losing. the bill would rest with them alone; and the
vestry and commissioners would be justified in throwing out the
bill, wl.ich, under existing circumstances, they, doubtless, did
not desire. We mention these circumstances because on this

point very strong feeling has been directed against the promoters
of the bill, which feeling has. we think, hitherto flowed in a wrong
direction. We hope these remarks may direct the stream
into its, proper channel. We now turn to the opposition offered