The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-03 00:00:00

.re told that they have not paid to the Duel

it erection. Very likely they have not

were they ever expected to do so ? Not at all.
They were never intended as a source of direct

revenue; and yet they have been profitable in-
directly, notwithstanding all the efforts to mar their
usefulness. At the last Council meeting referred
to in the extract given above, Mr. Ripley expressed
himself to the effect, that

" These sheds were intended as an experiment, and
never was there a mote complete failure, or thorough
waste of money. • • • The sheds were eleven
in number, and twenty-six vessels only had been ac-
commodated. He was quite satisfied that one shed
would have done the work, and that ten out of eleven
were useless."

and yet,—strange inconsistency 1--in the very week
previous we find the Chairman of the Dock Com-
mittee stating that, " within the last few days, a
large ship from China had discharged her cargo on
the west side of the Prince's Dock, and made use of
the transit sheds ;" and the same Mr. Ripley con-
firming the chairman in his opinion as to the use-
fulness of the sheds by adding, that " the vessels
had discharged 12,000 chests of tea in thirty-one
working hours," and volunteering his opinion that,
"had it not been for the transit sheds, they would
have been three full weeks" !

Here, therefore, we have the value of the transit
sheds, if properly and fairly worked, distinctly pro-
claimed. They facilitate the discharging of a ves-
sel, and thus far operate to supersede the necessity
of increased dock space. Independent, however,
of the mere facility afforded for discharging, the
very fact that such sheds exist, and can be used
against that class of importers who make warehouses
of the vessels in which their merchandise is im-
ported, tends to compel entries being made, and
ships con,equently liberated. Let these sheds be
fairly worked, and this feature of their usefulness
will be more and more widened, and the necessity
of increased dock space, for a time at least removed.
Upon many evidences of the usefulness of these
erections, were they honestly managed, we could
enlarge; but it is useless. Every merchant—every
shipowner, or charterer, acknowledges the use which
might be made of dock sheds, recognised as they
are as, in all respects, of the same security to the
revenue as the holds of vessels themselves. No
man, who ever superintended the discharging of a
, is ignorant of the facts whicht we have stated;

and we are confident that, if the Council be wise, it
will pause before it countenances the proposition of
the Dock Committee to condemn the principle of
dock sheds. That principle, we repeat, has never
had a chance, and was never intended to have a

And if the intended resolution of Mr. Al-
derman Evans and his friends be successful—and
we can scarcely doubt it, for that gentleman seems
to have mesmerised or betwitched every Conserva-
tive cast within his influence—we may bid farewell
to the hope of escaping from that dominion, with
which the

chance

Dock Committee has, for the last few
years, threaten:sd to override the town, and prepare
for a despotism, of which Messrs. Evans and Aikin
are to be the Alpha and Omega.

THE LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—TI 32
annual meeting for the show of live stock, agricultural
implements, roots, grain, plants, seeds, &c., will be held
on Thursday next, in a field at the top of Sackville-street,
st- t '

ttos,ommon-street, and will be open to the public gener-
ally, at a small admission price, from two o'clock. From
the fineness of the season the shoW is expected to be one
of the most gratitsing ever yet held in this town. The
dinner will be held at Lucas's Repositry, at five o'clock,
Lord Stanley in the chair—when the prizes will be distri-
buted, and interesting addresses made by the noble lord ,
and others, on the present state of agricultural affairs.

THE FUNDS —SATURDAY EVEN ING.—The Funds
have hardly maintained the prices of yesterday, but this

a:)pears to have arisen more tram the little business trans-
acted than any circumstances connected either with poli-
tics or the state of the nwuey•mdt het. Consuls fur pre.
sent transfer and the account left off at 94i to 95; Ex-
chequer-bills, 60s. to 628. premium ; New Three-and-a-
ka' per Cents., 102 to *; and India Bonds, 665. to 68s.
In the foreign market th re was no material

premium

chance in prices. The last quotations were—Belgian,
1041 to 1053; Brazilian, 751 to 763; Danish, 861 to 871;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half pgr Cents., 53 to 1 ; the Five per
Cents., 1004 to 14 ; Mexican, 34 to 1 ' • the Deferred, 9/
to 4 ; Portuguese, 424 to 31; Spanish Actives, 19k to 1;
thre Three per Cents., 261 to 4; and Austrian, 114 to
115.

SPRING CARTS.—A driver of a spring cart was yes-
terday fined 40s. at the Police-court, for furiously driving
down James's-street, by which his horse trampled on a
woman's foot. She did not, however, appear against
him. lie was fined 40s. for the furious driving. Mr.
Rushton remarked that by law spring carts had nn right

to go quicker than others, but as a matter of convenience
they were permitted by the police to go faster, proviued
they were carefully driven. We cannot help saying that
this " permission' beyond the law is often grievously
abused. Sluing carts are to be seen on all directions

driving down streets and round corners at a mos
rate, to the endangerment of all who chance to be near
Despatch is all well enough, but safety should be consi-
dered first.

LECTURES ON STEAM, AT THE COLLEGIATE INSTI-

TUTION.—R. Addams, Eq., who recently delivered a
series of interesting lectures on electricity and magnetism
at the Collegiate Institution, gave the first of another
series on steam, at the same place, on Tuesday evening
and the second on Friday. The effect of his former
efforts secured him a most favourable reception from a
numerous and respectable audience. He explained the
agency of heat in the production of steam—its condensa-
tion—its elastic force, &c.—showing its agency as a mo-
tive power—and illustrating the whole by pleasing experi-
ments. He also explained the several phenomena relating
to the ebullition of water in various temperatures, &c.
He handled his subject in a very masterly manner through-
out, and we would counsel all those who desire to possess
themselves of a knowledge of steam and the steam-engine,
to attend the remaining lectures, which will be even more

interesting t

GILL. STRET MARKET.—On Saturday last there Wag
again a good attendance, and an excellent show of meat,
vegetables, fruit, &c., which went off at moderate prices.
We noticed present many highly respectable families of
the neighbourhood, and though there were rather fewer
v'siters than on the first day. those who did appear were
ali purchasers. We are now further confirmed in our
opinion that this market will shortly require to be ex-

ti;lided ; and, if it be possible, we would strongly recom-
knend that the houses in Pembroke-place should be pur-
chased and that a main front should be erected to face
that street—ten or twelve yards back from the present
rails. It would then be an ornament to the town. One
or two transparent lamps—one in Great Newton-street,
arid the other in (All-street—with the words " Gill-street
Mat ket" would be a great improvement, as strangers may
ol.erlook it at night.

• BAZAAR.—On Tuesday next, and on the two following
days a bazaar will be held in the Music Hall, in aid of a
fund towards the Ilquidation of the' debt connected with
:St, Silas's Church, Pembroke-place, under the distin-
guished patronage of her Majesty the Queen Dowager,
11,e Night Hon. Lord Stanley, &c. St. Silas's Church is
an extremely neat and well-fitted place of worship; and
as it has been found to be a great accommodation and ad-
vantage to the district in which it is situated, we hope and
trust that the inhabitants of this town generally will aid
the committee in their endeavours to liquidate the debt
due, by c intributing articles for sale, and supporting the
,zaar by their attendance as purchasers. We learn that
some beautiful works of art have already been contributed,
and that many more are in preparation. The arrange-
ments made to render the Hall attractive are extensive and
judicious. By reference to the advertisement in another
ccdumn, it will be found that a number of our fair towns-
, omen of the first respectability are appointed to receive
.3mtributions and donations. '
THE WORKHOUSE.—We are going on apace in our
Nloption of the cruelties and degradation of our suffering
Pauper brethren, attendant upon the iniquitous and un-
christian new poor-law system. This week, thanks to

the incessant persecution of the radical faction in our
S- lect Vestry. we have to announce the resignation of Mr.

Nightingall, for twenty years past surgeon of our Woric-
louse ; and, only let this persecution go on unrepressed,
m t we shall see every officer employed under the vestry
'airing in disgust, to escape the annoyance and hutnilia-
ion of having to submit to the supervision of men, so
toperious and oppressive to all around them, as the self-
. . .

led " liberals who have wriggled themselves into
authority in our parochial affairs. Can these gentlemen
who are everlastingly prating of their zeal for morality and
-,! !cation amongst the children in our Workhouse, and
intermedling with gallipots and physic, bestow a few
,ours, i now and then, upon the tendency of the system,
which is beneath their eyes, to oppress their wretched
low creatures, and render life less preferable than even
n pauper's grave? Will Messrs. Urquhart, Bright, &c.,
examine the dietary now insisted upon, and the increased
hardships imposed upon their suffering fellow townsmen,
and inform the world, not how ninny Catechisms there
are in the Workhouse schools, but how much added
misery there is in the world, arising from the adoption of

unctlon,

iiep'now superintend? If these gentlemen do not tbinfc
she enquiry worth their mobile, we shall enter upon it
ourselves.