The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-02-06 00:00:00

, . £73,815

Interest upon £475,000, to be still raised for
Albert Dock
Interest upon cost of land and proposed new
docks, £1,300,000
Lighthouse, telegraph, lifebo &c.
Management, police, dock gatemen, &c., for the
old docks and Albert Dock
Lamps and miscellaneous expenses for existing
docks and Albert Dock _ _ 12,893

18,904

52,000
15,000

31,685

Annual repairs and casualties on existing docks

and Aloert Dock
Proportion of repairs, casualties, and other ex-
penses which accompany dock extension, on
proposed new docks

44,796

39,000

£288,093

Deduct interest on Albert Dock ware-
houses
Balance of rents to be acquired from
yards, &c., north and south, less
£7OOO, to be lost on Messrs. E. Chal-
loner and Duncan's yards

1,800 14,000

£274,093

" If to this," he continues. " we add anyexpense which
may, however absurdly, be imposed for disposing of the
mud taken from the docks, we may, possibly, have an
annual outlay of somewhere about £290,000; from which
deduct the present revenue of £216,000, and a deficit ap-
pears of above £70,000 per annum, which, unless trade
increases, must be provided for by increased dock-rates."

Now, let us see how the Alderman can substan-
tiate these figures—these most outrageous figures—
these most dishonest figures, in t'ne

puts down the interest upon £472,000 " still to be
raised for the completion of the Albert Dock,"
amounting to £18,904 ; and only deducts £12,200
as the revenue of the warehouses, which were to
have paid we don't know how much per cent. The
dock itself is to pay less than nothing ! Then we
have " cost of land and proposed new docks,
£l,3oo,ooo—interest, £52,000 ;" as if the whole of
these docks were to be built at once, the money
paid at once, and the docks to bring in nothing
We have next an increased sum for the " mrnage-
ment, police," &c., of the old docks and Albert
Dock ; additional " lamps and miscellaneous ex-
penses " for ditto ; additional " walnut repairs and
casualties" for ditto ; and a perfectly unintelligible
item under the head of " proportion of repairs,
casualties, and other expenses which accompany
dock extension, on proposed new docks, £39,000."
And all these charges to drag upon a trade carried
on with our existing docks :—repairs of docks not
built—cost of docks not built—management of
docks not built—placed per contra to the revenue
of the present estate, acknowledged to he insuffi-
cient to the trade of the port, and to be utterly in-
sufficient to the lowest estimate of its future trade!
But, in addition to all these wild calculations,
Mr. Evans takes upon himself to say, that the cost
of the whole of the proposed scheme will be
£1,300,000. But will the whole be made at once?
Will the proposed graving docks, for instaxice, be
made ? Not until wanted ; and then they must pay.
Will the two steam docks be made ? One only will
be made at first; and, when two are wanted, they
will pay. the two timber docks be made ? One
only, at first ; and, when the other is made, both
will pay. Besides, Mr. Evans leaves quite out of
his contemplation—we fear advisedly—the fact that
the Dock Committee will have 3 to 400,000 square
yards of the land purchased to sell ; and that the
original estimated cost—which, most unwarrantably,
he over-estimates—is reduced by the agreement of
the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company to pay for
the cutting of their junction.
From these few remarks it will readily be perceived
how Mr. Alderman Evans arrives at his deficit of
£70,000 per annum. We ask our readers, however ;
we ask that public " out of doors" to which he ap-
peals—if they will be bamboozled by such transpa-
rent fallacies ? The Alderman has arrived at " the
sear and yellow leaf" of his influence in the town's
affairs ; and such another appeal as the present will
place him even lower than, at present, he stands.
As a clever man, though with wrong views, we have
always looked upon Mr. Evans; but we can look
upon him with even this indulgent feeling no longer.
We may, however, return to this manifesto of
Mr. Alderman Evans. He may possibly afford us
another opportunity of canvassing his statements and
his vie% s of dock matters ; and at all events we shall
do him justice —more than he has as yet done to his
previously established reputation as a man of judg-
ment and common sense.

RAPID LEGISLATION.-Our friends on the other side
of the Mersey are marvellously energetic and clever in
whatever they attempt; but we were not prepared for the
following extraordinary announcement, which appeared
as a leading article in the Liverpool Times of Tuesday
last. We give it entire.
WALLASEY DOCK BILL.
We understand that this important bill will be read a
third time in the House of Commons on Friday evening
next.

Some wicked wag, we fear, has been bamboozling our
contemporary. Possibly Mr. Samuel Stansfield has been
exhausting upon him his large stores of exclusive know-
ledge, and mistaken the capacity of the recipient. Cer-
tainly, however, it will be information- to the world to