The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-18 00:00:00

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Same day, aged 42, MARY,'wife of Mr. THOS. PEPLOW
carver and gilder, late of Shrewsbury.
Same day, at aydrum Castle, near Athkine, aged 19, FLO
RINDA, Dowager Viscountess CASTLEMAINE. sister to thi
late and aunt to the present Earl of Clancarty. By her demisi
the present Lord Castlemaine collies into possession of thi
valuable and extensive estates of his uncle the late Visconnt
situated in the counties of Westmeath and Roscommon:
Same day, aged 4 months, MARY ELIZABETH, infan'
daughter of Mr. JOHN CHESHIRE. of _ _

On the lOth Instant, in
late of the Old Swan.

Same day, at the
aged 72, Mr. RICI

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years pliprietor of
Lithfrland Marsh.

Same day, aged 4
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10 CORRESPONDENTS,

y letter of " A Protestant" deserves publishing, but
'eived too late for insertion to-day.
s of " Confounded" are too numerous and general,
11 so self-evident that we must be excused
) them.

attempt to epl,
ihould have sent his name, or informed us where the

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Eig Etberpool &tanbart.

TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 18, 1851.

THE Ministerial Bill to put down Papal Aggres-
sion will be read a second time on Friday
night week ; and, disappointing to the majority
of the Protestant commnnity as are its provi-
sions, as explained by its authors themselves,
we have yet to be assured that, in reality, it will be
an efficient measure, even to the extent represented.
Protestants ought to bear in mind that, presuming
Lord John Russell, its author, to he in earnest, and
disposed to act up to the spirit of his manifesto
and his more recent declaration of his changed
views. as to the character of Popery, there are trai-
tors within the ministerial camp; drags upon the
skirts of the minister, who might otherwise he dis-
posed to carry out to their full extent the determi-
nation expressed by his Sovereign, ani to deserve
the high rank in the esteem of his fellow-country-
'men occupied by his illustrious ancestor, who laid
his head upon the block in the same rightecul
cause.

Under these circumstances it is the bounden
duty of all who are interested in the Protestant
Institutions of our land to prepare for any emer-
gency which may arise, and to express their opi-
nions, boldly and decidedly, to the legislature upon
the question at issue, by signing at once the peti-
tion now lying at our office and at the usual places.
Promptitude in doing so is most necessary ; as we
cannot tell how soon it may be desirable to forward
such petition for presentation to Parliament.

IT has long been noted as a singular fact that,
whereas we are told that high farming is the only,
and the sure resource of agriculturists, under the
present free-trade system, we have found none of
our experimentalists willing to give us the result of
eir new system, by the publication of a balance-
This desideratum has now been supplied,
not by Mr. Mechi, Mr. Huxtable of pig-feeding
notoriety, or any other of the amateur dabblers in
ricultural science, but by a practical farmer, on a
ge scale, cultivating land of the best description
der one of the best landlords of whom England
i boast. A few weeks ago a letter was addressed
the Editor of the Cumberland Pacquet, detailing
experience of Mr. Hudson, of Castleacre, upon
trm held by him under Lord Leicester (formerly
celebrated Mr. Coke, of Norfolk). Twenty-
ht years ago, it appears, Mr. Hudson took the
n in question-1,400 acres in extent—for £1,500
Seven years ago the lease was renewed
21 years at £1,600 per annum, the saleable
le of the estate having been increased at least
Mr. Hudson's outlay upon it. During
tenancy of this gentleman, it is shewn by his
ks that he has laid out £55,000 in oilcake and
facial manures. This year alone his outlay on
ires and oilcake is between £2,200 and £3,000.
e of feeding cattle on his
red description. He
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pigs, which furnish a

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His implements
description ; and, by the
mills, every process upon

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the most economical man-
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the land is, for 1,400
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which they not only approved of, but had earnestly
pressed on ; and the object of the recent further
encroachment of Rome is to bind the whole Roman
Catholic population of Great Britain to a like
submission to the arbitrary will of the Pope, and
a majority of Bishops, of whom he possesses the
absolute power of appointment.

Wiz have frequently, when the subject has been
prominently mooted, expressed our conviction that
the timber trade of Liverpool can be best accommo-
dated at the north end of the town ; and that its
transfer thither will, by the superior facilities
afforded by the locality, the greater cheapness of
storage space, and the saving in cartage of cargoes
forwarded into the inetrior of the country for con-
sumption, in a very few years compensate any loss
to be suffered by those parties who now object to
any change, on the ground that it will depreciate
the value of their present establishments. Our
attention has been re-directed to this subject by
the proceedings at the Dock Committee's l‘leet-
ing of Thursday last, upon which we take the
liberty of offering a few remarks, in the hope of
inducingsomeaccommodation betweenthecontend-
ing parties. Such an accommodation, we at one time
trusted, would have resulted from the enquiries of
the sub-committee of the Dock Committee,
appointed for the purpose of enquiring into the
comparative advantages of the two localities. In
this, however, we have been disappointed ; and the
whole question has now to be argued ab initio.
The report of the special committee, as read
at the meeting on Thursday, recommending
an enlargement of the Toxteth Dock, appears to us
to have been based upon a very narrow view of the
question at issue; and to ignore altogether the very
material fact of a largely and progressively increas-
ing import of timber into the Mersey. The ques-
tion at issue is not one as to the comparative ad-
vantages of the north and south ends of the Dock
Estate, but rather a question, as was well remarked by
Mr. Rankin, " first betwixt the north and Birken-
head, and, failing either making the necessary pro-
vision, it will then be other ports against the River
Mersey." The trade has increased from an average
of 369 vessels and 124,475 tons per annum in the
five years from 1830 to 1834 inclusive, to an aver-
age of 482 vessels, and 241,782 tons in the five
years, 1845 to 1849; and has thus nearly doubled in 20
years. The increase has been the most rapid in the
last five years, having been in the latter period
48+ per cent. over the five years preceding.
There is every prospect that it will progress with
equal rapidity for years to come ; and with ade-
quate facilities afforded for its accommodation
Liverpool, from its position, ought to become the
great depot for the manufacturing districts and the
midland counties. Surely it is eminently worthy of an
intelligent commercial community, in dealing with
such a question, to look forward to the wants of
the future, instead of merely patching up, or eke-
ing out by comparatively mere hand's breadths, our
present limited and costly accommodation, as we
are advised to do by the report of the special com-
mittee. It is obvious from that report that the
resources which we possess at the south end of the
town are very limited in extent. The natural for-
mation of the land prohibits any extension beyond
what is absolutely required for our present trade;
and to expend from £lOO,OOO to £150,000 for the
trifling increase cf accommodation proposed—four
acres is the space to be gained by enlarging the Tox-
teth Dock—appears scarcely justifiable, when, for a
few thousands more, the greatest portion of which is
compulsory expenditure, we shall have provided for
the trade at the north a dock of 23 acres, a float
for the timber and shipbuilding trades, and 180,000
yards of adjoining quay and yard room. More-
over, the whole of this space may he connected
with great facility with the Leeds and Liverpool
Canal, with the London and North-Western Rail-
way's new goods terminus, the Lancashire and
Yorkshire, the East Lancashire, and the Liverpool
)ort Railways.