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of dispute, the matter to be settled by arbitration

By the agreement, the Dock Committee will pay all
expenses, and will get to themselves about a million
square yards of land, while Lord Derby would receive
240,000 square yards.

Mr. ATKIN said he understood that when the matter
was before them in Council, it was referred back in order
that the portion of the strand might be purchased on the
terms previously proposed. He was not aware that any
report had been prepared, any negotiations entered into,
or any strenuous exertions made to carry out the wishes
of the Council.

The CHAIRMAN said the present Mayor had exerted
himself to induce Lord Derby to accept a payment in
money, but his Lordship refused to do so,—he was satis-
in the speculation. He would

ied to become a proprietor

not accept of money

Mr. AIKIN expressed his regret that they were only
told now that land could not be got on other terms than
those proposed in the agreement. If that had been
known some months ago, they might have found an
alternative. They were getting a million square yards,
and giving his Lordship 250,000 ; but then, when the
docks were made, (if they should be made), he question
was, what would the 250,000 yards be worth? He
thought the scheme not a very wise one.
In answer to a question, the Chairman said, that should
any dispute arise, as to the expense for laying out the
plots of land, it would be settled by arbitration. The ex-
pense of sewering and preparing the first plot would be
only £1000; the second lot—to be finished in 14 years—
£223o, and for sewers £700; the last lot, in all, £2050.
The total cost of the river wall, at £4B a yard, would he
£95,000, and for that the trust would receive a million
square yards.

'Mr. AIKIN complained that when they could have
bought the ground they wanted for a small sum per lienal
yard they had not done so.
The CHAIRMAN said that to finish the North Docks,
and !Lake the new graving docks, they would have 406,000
cubic yards of soil to deposit, which would do more than
fill up the portion of the first block, to be prepared in six
years.

Mr. MANN said the Committee were in reality getting
two hundred acres of land without paying a fraction for it.
The Surveyor said, that in addition to five new docks
recently opened in the north, others, comprising an aggre-
gaty a ea of 33 acres, were near completion, exclusive of

graving docks

It was agreed that the terms of agreement, as read,
should be entered on the books, and thus come under the
notice of the Council in the usual official form.

INVITATION TO UNITED PRAYER

The Rev. J. H. Stewart has issued his annual invitation
to united prayer, on the first day of the year, for the out-
pouring of the Holy Spirit. The reverend gentleman,
after alluding to Monday as a day peculiarly suitable for
such a purpose, proceeds as follows :
" First. We enter upon the year 1849, when a revolu-
tion has taken place, or rather a great moral earthquake,
which for its extent, as well as for its suddenness, appears
to surpass all former ones. For it is not merely a solitary
tumultuous outbreak in a particular State, or the forcible
removal of a single dynasty ; but it is a general convulsion
throughout Christendom. Reminding us, at least, of the
awful season spoken of by our Lord : ' when there shall
be upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity ;
the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them
for fear, and for looking after those things which are

coming upon the earth.' -(Luke xxi.) Surely at such a
season we specially need the enlightening, strengthening,
comforting, and sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit, to

meet whafunexpected events-God in his providencemay
permit to fall upon us. Who can say what is before him ?
Whether He may not be at the very verge of that period
spoken of by St. Paul, when he exhorts his brethren ' to
take the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to
withstand IN Tim EVIL DAY, AND HAVING DONE ALL, TO
STAND '—referring, it may be, to the same period as is
entioned in the Epistle to the Church of Philadelphia, in
these words : Because thou hast kept the word of my
patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of tempta-
tion, which shall come upon all the world, to try them
that dwell upon the earth.' (Rev. iii.) That hour which,
our Lord in another place declares, `shall come on all
them that dwell upon the face of the whole earth.' (Luke
xxi.) Surely, in times like the present, to be prepared for
that day, is true wisdom. And how can we be prepared ex-
cept by thatinward strength and fortitude which comes from
the Holy Ghost ? Oh ! that each of us may receive a double
oortion of this heavenly grace—or rather that the Holy

Spirit would come and fill our souls—so that should the
coming year `prove a day of darkness and of gloominess, a
day of clouds, and of thick darkness, as the morning
spread upon the mountains,' instead of being filled with
dismay, we may ' lock up and lift up our beads ' in the
blessed hope that our Redemption draweth nigh.'
" A second reason for uniting in this concert for prayer,
is the animating position of two of our leading religious
societies—namely, the London Society for Promoting
Christianity among the Jews, and the Church Missionary
Society. The former cf these institutions has completed
its 40th year since its frst formation ; while the latter has

entered upon its 50th year. hese different periods re-
mind us of different events in the History of the Israelites.
The first, of that period, when the twelve tribes having
nassed the time of their sojourning in the wilderness,
were to enter upon those successful contests which pre-
ceded their taking possession of the promised land. The
latter, of the jubilee feast—or of that happy season which
was to take place every 50th year—when on the day of
Atonement the jubilee trumpet was to sound throughout
the land, proclaiming liberty to the captive, to the debtor
the discharge of all debts, and the restoration of their lost
inheritances to those who had sold or were otherwise de-
prived of their possessions. Both of these periods were
joyful seasons to the children of Israel : but joyful as they
were, the remembrance of them may lead us to anticipate
a period of far, far higher bliss. For cheering as was the
sound of the jubilee trumpet, and blessed as they were
who knew th 3 joyful sound,' we are looking for that
glorious morning, ' when the Lord himself shall descend
from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Arch-
angel, and with the trump of God ; " and death shall be
swallowed up in victory.' Then, also, fruitful as the land
of Canaan was, ' the glory of all lands,' the true Israel of
God, will enter upon a far more glorious inheritance—
'an inheritance pure and undefiled, that fadeth not
away ; ' namely, .` the new heavens and new earth,
wherein dwelleth righteousness.'

" Whilst the present position of these two great Socie-
!sbrings before us those parts of the history of God's

B our s

the more so as the Church Missionary Society is now ce-
lebrating its Jubilee, they at the same time afford us most
instructive practical lessons. For the records of both
these Institutions manifest the ineffable goodness of God

in raising them from that ' day of small things' in which
both these Societies commenced their undertakings, to the
high and honourable position in which, by the overruling
providence of God, and the rich grace and powerful energy
of the Holy Spirit, they now stand, and the consequent
duty or rather privilege of abounding in praise and
thanksgiving to His name. Their records also afford most

Gentile, compared with that which might have been done
had we individually, or bad our Church or our rulers,
rightly employed the talents God had entrusted to us.
Oh, who does not feel this ? what Christian does not look

ittle be or

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have rendered to

has chine unto

A fur-

ther lesson which these Institutions teach us, is the ne-
cessity of taking a higher standard of active faith, and
lively zeal, and self-denying_ exertions, and greatly_en-

larged liberality, in fulfilling the command of our Lord, to
preach the Gospel to every creature, to the Jew first,
and also to the Gentile.'

" But from whence is this spirit of praise and zeal for
God to come ? or from what source shall these humble
and contrite hearts spring ? or from what stream shall
this self-denial, this love to souls, this willingness to
spend or be spent in the cause of Christ ? aye, from

whence shall all these graces flow ? Assuredly from the
powerful energy of the Holy Ghost. For they are all
' the fruit of the spirit.' And as these blessings cannot
be expected without earnest prayer. the position of these
Religious Societies, at the entrance of the New Year,
and the reports of their past proceedings, form a most
pressing reason for uniting in this devotional concert for
the general outpouring of the Spirit!'
The reverend gentleman then refers to the visitation of
the cholera, as a third reason for this concert for prayer,
and concludes with the suggestious offered to assist those
who are desirous of this union, which we have already
given more than once.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

On Saturday, Forster, a young man, was brought be-
fore the county magistrates, at the office in Clayton-
square, charged with a burglary in the house of Mr.
Ralph Forshaw, of Burscough, in this county. He had
stolen, it appeared, a watch, £l5 in gold, £2 in silver,
and some other articles. The prisoner was committed to