The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-11-12 00:00:00

tance with a young woman named Emma Taylor, whilst
on a visit at Tranmere. He represented himself as a
single man, holding a situation in the Albert Dock Ware-
houses. By these false representations he managed to
gain the confidence of the girl, and he became an acknow-
ledged suitor. He daily visited her at her master's resi-
dence (Mr. Smith, of Falkner-square), and on Monday
evening both were at tea together at the house of the
prosecutor's sister-in-law, Mrs. Edwards, in Catherine-
street. Whilst there, Hogan was introduced to Captain
Wylie, and immediately began to pay him great attention.
After tea, all the parties went to the theatre. Next
morning Hogan, in company with Campbell, called upon
Captain Wylie, on board his vessel in the Queen's Dock.
They then took the omnibus for the north end of the
docks, and went into the Collingwood Hotel, where they
had some drink. After leaving the hotel, the prisoners,
in a rough manner, laid hold of the captain, and then
decamped. The money was immediately missed, and in-
formation having been given to the police, search was
made for the prisoners, who were apprehended on the
Wednesday in the neighbourhood of Falkner-square.
The evidence being incomplete, the prisoners were pieced
under a general remand.

ACCOMMODATION FOR THE TIMBER AND
SHIPBUILDING TRADES.

At the Dock Committee meeting, on Thursday, the
secretary read the report from the surveyors on the plan
submitted by the Special Committee of the Council, for
the accommodation of the shipbuilding and timber trades:

" With regard to the proposed dock into which vessels are to
be launched and fitted out, the surveyors have no remark to
offer beyond the necessity there would be of providing the pas-
sage from it into the Hu: kisson Dock with double gates and a
bridge. Those gates would have to be eighty feet in width of
opening, otherwise the operations of the shipbuilders would be
restricted, and not capable of taking advantage of the facilities
afforded to the expanded dimensions of modern steam naviga-
tion. * * * A bridge to cross this eighty feet passage would
be necessary, otherwise the deficiency of the most valuable quay
of the Huskisson Dock would be destroyed. As regards the
construction of private Graving Docks, opening from out
of this proposed dock, no difficulty can arise beyond that of
providing means for emptying them of their water. If a definite
plan of the graving docks proposed to be constructed was laid
down, a system of sewers might be contrived to connect them
with a steam engine provided for pumping out the water or
such graving dock as constructed, might have its independent
steam engine as well."

Reverting to the cost of the plan, the surveyors say :

" For the dock of the dimensions given, supposing it to be
excavated to the usual death of all the other docks, (or nine
feet below the Old Dock sill,) and its walls built to the height
of spring tides, or twenty-one feet above the Old Dock sill, in-
cluding reverse gates at the passage, and that passage to be
constructed eighty feet in width, and furnished with a bridge,
we estimate at somewhere about .e 90,010. The cost of the
graving docks will vary, of course, according to the size of the
vessels they are to be constructed to receive. If we take four
of them as laid down upon the plan, and suppose them to be
prepared for all classes of vessels, viz., one with eighty-feet
gates, one with sixty-feet gates, and two with gates forty-five
feet in width, the cost, with the necessary boundary walls, as
laid down upon the plan, would be about .6'70,000, making the
total amount to the cost of the plan proposed .1161),000. To
this amount must be added the cost of the sewers and steam
power, and it is also exclusive of the value of the land, which,
if charged at the rate of price paid for land immediately conti-
guous to the east of it, would amount to a very large sum, and
form a very prominent feature in the value of the Dock Estate.?,
The surveyors then proceed to offer a few remarks on
the design, as affecting that portion of the dock estate.
In connexion with it they state that—

The steam docks now in course of construction—the Hus-
kisson Docks, and that opening out to the north of it—will
necessarily be the receptacle of those ocean steamers which are
so rapidly increasing in numbers, and as the efficiency of those
vessels must in a great measure depend upon the facilities
offered to them in the reception and delivery of their cargoes
and the cheapness of their charges, it has appeared to us that
the Dock Committee would be wise to pause ere they appro-
priate the ground now under consideration for any purpose
which may not have this object in view, or might produce a
contrary effect. The carrying out the plan before us would
most materially interfere with such arrangements as would
afford these advantages, and the railway along the docks now
in progress would be interrupted, and its access to the steam
docks in question prevented. To give a proper efficiency to
these docks, the ground now sought for should be appropriated
in a far different manner; docks furnished with warehouses,
having railway facilities upon their quays, and provided with
direct communication with the canal, should eventually occupy
this land, and form a convenient and commodious transit
depot, which the trade of this port has not yet been furnished
with, but has long required in connexion with the advancing
strides of steam navigation and railways, and which will most
probably be rendered still more necessary by the effects of
recent alterations in our commercial laws. If the trade of this
port is to progress during the next twenty-five years at only
one.half the rate it has increased during the past quarter of a
century, it is difficult to anticipate means for its accommoda-
tion.

Mr. HALL having moved the confirmation of the report,
The CHAmmAN:observed that nothing at present could
be done beyond the adoption of it, though the special
committee might still go on with the consideration of the
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Dock Committee and the Council, some plan might be
adopted without allowing private graving docks.
The report was ultimately confirmed, coupled with a
recommendation that the sub-committee should proceed
in the endeavour to ascertain whether, at the extreme
ends, north and south of the town, sufficient accommoda-
tion for the ship.and timber trades cannot be conveniently
obtained.

DR. M'NEILE AND THE PAPAL AGGRESSION

That masterly and unceasing opponent of Popish
error—Dr. M`Neile—has prepared the following petition
to her Majesty from his congregation : •

" TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
" The humble petition of the undersigned, ministers and
members of the congregation of St. Paul's Church,
Prince's Park, Liverpool.
"May it please your Majesty,

_
" We approach your Majesq with sentiments of pro-
found veneration for your Majesty's person and office,
and devoted attachment to the principles of civil and re-
ligious liberty, in defence of which your Majesty's august
ancestors became rightfully the occupants of the throne
of these kingdoms.

" Under Ordinary circumstances we would not presume
directly to address your Majesty, but would rest happy
and contented in the peaceful discharge of our respective
duties, under the mild sway of your Majesty's paternal
government.
" But events of recent occurrence render it the duty,
in our judgment, of all your Majesty's faithful and at-
tached subjects to cast themselves and their willing ser-
vices at the foot of the throne, with such expressions of
hearty and undivided allegiance as will demonstrate the
hopeless folly of all those, whether foreign or domestic,
who are enemies to the safety, honour, and welfare of
our Sovereign and her dominions, or the legitimacy,
purity, and efficacy of the English Church.
" The Bishop of Rome, no longer content with a mis-
sion in partibus in this country, thereby giving to his
ecclesiastics all the influence derived from their orders,
has now appointed a territorial hierarchy, parcelling the
kingdom among twelve Bishops and one Archbishop,
and giving them all that the canon law of the Roman
Church understands by, and includes in, jurisdiction.
" This we look upon as at once a denial on his part of
the legitimate orders of the British Episcopate, and an
invasion of the rightful authority of the British Sovereign.
" Under these circumstances we are compelled to move
from our retirement, and dutifully and constitutionally to
approach the throne; because, though lovers of peace,
we are still more lovers of truth and light.
" We believe the entire pretension of the Papacy to be
founded in falsehood and wrong ; we believe its missions
to be not simply an ecclesiastical organization to dissemi-
nate unsound doctrine, but also a political conspiracy to
establish an universal despotism.
" Therefore, as ministers and members of a Christian
church, desiring truth, forbearance, and charity among
all men, and as subjects of a free state, desiring for our-
selves and others liberty of conscience and liberty of wor-
ship, we humbly implore your most gracious Majesty at
once to call together your faithful Parliament for the
discharge of urgent public business, that the common-
wealth in church and state may receive no damage from
this audacious assault on your Majesty's prerogative.
" And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever
pray," &c.

ARCIIDEACON WILBERFORCE AND

DR. M'NEILE

TO THE REV. DR. AI'IN:EILE.

REv. SlR,—Your last letter contains so much which
has either been disposed of or which is irrelevant that it
is needless to continue a correspondence which becomes
more bitter as it runs to the dregs. When you say that
the right at present claimed by the Crown is that of in-
terpretation, not that of enactment, you forget that I
have already shown, on Hoadly's authority, that when the
legislative power is in abeyance to interpret is the same as
to enact. Again, your arguments against Popery are
simply irrelevant, for what did I say in its behalf ? I
asserted, which you cannot deny, that it is incompatible
with your principles to censure any measure as unchristian
which has been sanctioned by the "chief member" of the
Church. A Churchman may object to the Pope's inter-
ference with the Anglican episcopacy, but how can an
Erastian censure that which is permitted by the Queen
and the advisers whom she selects ? Whom you designed
therefore by Jezebel, and with what justice, is a point
which rests altogether between yourself and her Majesty.
But in finally closing this correspondence, I must leave
my own case fairly before the public. The clergy lie
under a double- set of promises—one imposed by the
State, the other by the Church. By the Oath of Supre-
macy the State only requires them to renounce foreign
authority ; but the 36th canon of the Church requires
them also to recognize certain rights as by God's law in-
herent in the Crown. Recent events have shown that to
interpret these rights according to the present require-
ments of our statutelaw is to adopt the principle avowed
by Hobbes—" Since God speaketh not to any man in
these days by his private interpretation of the Scriptures,
nor by the interpretation of any power above, or not de-
pending on, the Sovereign power of every Common-
wealth, it remaineth,that he speaketh by his vice-gods, or
lieutenants here on earth, that is to say, by sovereign
kings, or such as have sovereign authority as well as they."
Now, great as is my respect for monarchy and hereditary
right, I cannot agree with you in attributing such authority
as this to- the " chief member" of the Church. Yon.
charge me, in consequence, with the violation of my
oath, and call upon me to show wherein the power at
present possessed by the Crown differs from that: which
the Church originally assigned to it. A. reply- is to be
found in the pamphlet of Mr. Gladstone to which I re-
ferred you ; the Church's concession to the Crown was
limited by the preamble to the 24th Henry. VIII., o. 12,
as well as. by the Crown's own promises. Again, you ask
how I could be silent so long,, if- privileges essential to.the
Church were yielded 17 mosso. Those who know the
charms of:a-retired fe well' not wonder that- a- oouutrl
lergyniastakould barktkoug.ht uothiagfiattbeeditin