The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-11 00:00:00

THE WALLASEY DOCKS.

Mr. RIPLEY asked the chairman if he had a communi-
cation fom the conservators of the river as to the Wallasey
docks ?

The CHAIRMAN said there was one from the Admiralty.
Mr. RI PLEY.—I should like to see it.
Mr. EVANS.-I have heard that it has been forwarded
to you officially.

The CIIAIR;SAN said he considered it to be his dut✓
first to submit the document to the Parliamentary Com-
mittee. When they had dealt with it he should do as
they thought proper. That was not the place to bring it
first.

Mr. EVANS said that if they delayed, it might be too
late for that committee to take any notice of it.
The CHAIRMAN.—I am sorry to say I cannot agree
with you.
Mr. EVANS never knew of a document being withheld
after it was acknowledged to be in existence. Here were
bills going on and if the document were withheld for
another week the bill might be passed or thrown out. He
called upon the chairman to place the report before the
committee.
The CHAIRMAN was sorry he could not comply with
the request. It was a part and parcel of the parliamentary
proceedings, in answer to a communication of his own,
and he thought it his duty to lay it before them first.
Mr. SHAND.—You have not received it as chairman of
the Dock Committee, but as chairman of the Parliamen-
tary Committee.
The CHAIRMAN.—In answer to a parliamentary com-
munication.
Mr. EVANS knew that the document had been supplied
elsewhere officially, and he thought the Dock Committee
ought not to be the last party left in ignorance.
The CHAIRMAN said he should lay it before the Parlia-
mentary Committee, and they could deal with it as they
thought proper.
Mr. ATKIN thought that the document ought to be sub-
mitted. It had been forwarded to other parties, and
might next day appear in the public prints. What
could there be in matters connected with the conservators
of the fiver and the Admiralty of that secret and myste-
rious nature as to prevent the committee from seeing the
document ?
The CHAIRMAN said there was nothing mysterious in
it ; but his course appeared to be to lay it before the Par-
liamentary Committee. If such documents were to be
laid before the general committee, the use of the Parlia-
mentary Committee was none at all.
Mr. BARCLAY.—What is the document ?
Mr. RIPLEY.—It has reference to the navigation of the
river.

Mr. AIKIN said they bad been told that the great ne-
cessity for opposing the Wallasey Dock Bill was because
of the injury that would be sustained by the navigation of
the river. That belief was founded on the opinion of
some engineers, who said that the building of the wall at
Wallasey would be injurious : other engineers were of a
contrary opinion ; and if it could be established clearly in
the minds of the Admiralty and the conservators that it
would not be injurious, that might induce the Dock Com-
mittee to say to the sub-committee that they must expend
no further sum in the way of opposition to the bill. Now,
if the document tended to show that the wall would not
be injurious, it ought to be produced, and the Parliamen-
tary Committee should come to the general committee for