The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-07 00:00:00

ment now as at this time last year. - He wished -to show
that the haste was not only dangerous but unnecessary.
The Prince's Dock had cost £600,000, and that sum ought
to yield an annual return of £30,000. If the Prince's
Dock was filled up with vessels lying by for sale, which
pay 2d. per ton, it would yield £3,000 a year. They were
going to build a new dock, and the two docks together
would cost more than a million of money, while they were
getting only £15,000 a year from the trade of the whole
of the North American colonies, including Newfoundland.
If the Harrington Dock Company had talked of making
docks for the exclusive use of timber, would not the
shareholders have thought them mad ? They deter-
mined on building warehouses on the dock quays, in order
to bring grist to the mill. _

Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORIE said, when the proper time ar-
rived, no one would more strenuously urge the necessity
of warehouses on the dock quays than himself. But the
time had not arrived, nor would it, till the expiration of
the four years stipulated in the act. Mr. Moore pro-
ceeded to show the progressive increase of tonnage to the
port, since 1812, and to c.mtend that there was a neces-
sity to go to parliament for power to extend the dock ac-
commodation.

Mr. ROYDEN said it was eight years' since the Prince's
Dock was allowed to run dry. It would some day, in a
gale of wind, let itself dry, greatly to the astonishment of
the public. _ _

M.r. SANDS said, the origin of the late proceedings in
the Dock Committee was a letter from Mr. Hartley, ad-
dressed to himself. He had been previously strongly of
opinion that more dock space was wanted, but he did not
like to move it till the others did.

On the receipt of this latter he (Mr. Sands) felt the
necessity of acting upon it. What would the council,
what would the shipowners, what would the merchants of
Liverpool have thought of him, if he had not immediately
taken the proceedings which had been taken. He was
authorised on the motion of Mr. Aikin, seconded by Mr.
Tobin, to negotiate with the directors of the Harrington
Dock Company, for the purchase of 40,000 or 50,000 yards
of their land to build a timber dock.
Mr. EVANS : No—not a timber dock.

Mr. SANDS : Well a dock. He applied to the Harring-
ton Dock Company, who refused to sell a part of their
land. Had he been one of their company, he would have
taken another view of the matter, for the contiguity of
the proposed dock, would have increased the value of their
property forty or fifty per cent. They, however, refused
to sell a portion of their land, but finally agreed to take
for tne whole of it, the price offered for a part-31s. 6d.
per square yard, and they passed a resolution accordingly.
He was opposed to warehouses, because they were not
wanted round a timber dock, or a steam dock ; and be-
cause he foresaw that the introduction of that question
would defeat the whole scheme. As to the postponement
which had been mentioned—let it be postponed a year :
he had no objection. He had no interest to serve. but
that of the public, with whom his own interest was bound
up. He had no crotchet to carry out, and he, therefore,
had no objection to the postponement, if it were the wish
of the council.

The Council divided on Mr. Barclay's amendment, when
there appeared—
For the amendment.—Messrs. Thornhill, Blackburn,
Aikin, Priestly, Procter, G. H. Lawrence, Platt, Barclay,
Bulley, Turner, Freme, Holt, Moon, Evans, and the
Mayor.

Against the Amendment.—Shand, Shaw, Hodgson,
Houghton, Isaac Holmes, Copeland, Thompson, Blun-
dell, H. Holmes, Sands, J. Holmes, Aspinall, Royden,
G. G. Hornby, Cooper, Birkett, Rigby, Parker, Plump-
ton, Leigh, Trotman, Sheppard, Harbord, Houghton,
—Alderman, Crook, Nicol, Bromley, Moore, Molyneux,
and Chilton.

For the amendment, 15; against it, 29: majority, 14

The original motion was carried

The following resolution was adopted : " That the con-
ditional notice be subject to such conditions, alterations,
and qualifications, not in effect respecting the points de-
termined by the Council, as may be agreed upon between
the chairman of the Dock Committee, the Mayor, and
George Hall, Lawrence, Esq., chairman of the present
Finance Committee, and that the notice be settled, under
their direction, by the Dock Solicitor and the Town-clerk,
the whole being subject to the special council after the 9th
of November.