The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-09-18 00:00:00

;THE tibtrpool ::;)tattbarb TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1855. FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT, MONDAY MOBBING. THE past week has been a demonstration of nearly frantic joy throughout the British Isles. Early on Monday last the inhabitants of the metropolis were roused to an ecstasy of delight by receiving intelligence that the Allies, after a severe struggle. on the preceding Saturday, had obtained the mastery and retained possession of the Malakhoff Tower and batteries. As every one had been fully informed that this dominated all the de fences of the city, and commanded the batteries on the south side of the harbour of Sebastopol, no doubt was entertained that, ere many days were over, the doomed city would be in full possession of the Allies; and this conviction afforded uni versal delight. Some diminution of the general joy was felt on account ;of the inexplicit yet conclusive announcement of General SIMPSON, which merely stated that " The attack of the English against the Redan did not succeed." While men of all ranks were anxiously canvassing the meagre brevity of this ominous intimation, a second communication spread with lightning speed in all directions, creating such a tumult of excitement as has not been witnessed in the metropolis for two-score years at least. The report this time was, that the Russians, driven to desperation, had abandoned the town of Sebastopol, and that the whole south side was actually in pos session of the Allies. At first the impression created was that the news was too good to be true; the rumoured capture of the stronghold immediately after the battle of the Alma had not ceased to act as a caution on the public mind, and a feat predominated widely that there was some exaggeration if not absolute mis-statement in the report. The publication of the despatches in the evening papers, which were eagerly devoured, gave an air of stability to the rumour, and when, about nine o'clock, the Tower guns, as well as those of St. James's-park, gave utterance to their thundering notes of victory, the tidings were no longer doubted, and the people gave themselves up to tumultuary expressions of delight. At all the theatres the intelligence was communi cated to the audiences, by the respective stage managers, and in each instance cheered till the walls vibrated with the wild acclaim of joy : the " National Anthem," "Partant pour la Syrie," " See the conquering Hero comes," being instantly performed by the orchestras, and re-demanded by the excited audiences. Joy is rarely niggard in its expression, and as each delighted individual earnestly and quickly communicated the welcome news to all he met, a whirling wave of enthusi astic happiness was speedily in motion through all the arteries of mighty and sensitive London. The welcome news was speedily flashed along the electric wires, and with a speed which rivals thought the grateful accents of the hymn of victory were poured into the royal ear in the Highland home of our beloved Sovereign amidst her domestic circle at Bal moral. Ever mindful of her people's pleasure, the QUEEN caused the gratifying intelligence to be spread as fast as possible in all directions. Adopting the ancient telegraph of the country, the joyful tidings were speedily proclaimed by a vast bonfire kindled ow-the summit of Craig Gobbain, under the immediate auspices of Prince ALBERT and the Prince of WALES, which was replied to by many an answering blaze from the peaks along Braemar, spreading southwards and westward through the craggy Grampians, and the rolling Ochils, till the fiery signal was replied to by the joy -bells of the Scottish capital. Through every town in England the news spread and was welcomed with a kindred joy ; and long before the echoes of the night had died away, the fall of Sebastopol was known from thi;Land's End to John O'Groat's ; and from Dingle-head to Yarmouth. A little before tweilve o'clock the whole concourse of gillies and peasantry descended from Craig Gobbain, and, assembling before the castle windows of Balmoral, invoked a blessing on the royal slumbers, finish ing with " God save the Queen" as a mountain serenade, and concluding their lullaby with three stentorian cheers. The first and gratifying burst of satisfaction over, the sober inquirer, civilian as well as military, propounds to himself and to his neighbours the questions, what has been gained by this decisive stroke of prowess ? What will be its immediate effect and ultimate result upon the issue of the Crimean campaign and upon the war itself ? The first question is much more easily answered than the second. The stronghold of Russian power in the Black Sea, and in the south of Europe, has been rescued from the de;pot's grasp, by the perseverance and ener getic bravery of the allied armies after a siege of three hun dred and twenty-seven days. After this protracted conflict, the first great prize of the war has been won. The sanguinary struggle has ended in a victory, no longer honoured with merely barren laurels, as the other Crimean victories had been. In this instance the victors can point to substantial trophies, which include all the bastions, earthworks, and granite forts south of the great harbour—the Malakhoff, the Great and Little Redan, the Flagstaff, the Central Tower, and Quaran tine Batteries—the sea defences, including Forts Alexander, St. Nicholas, and St. Paul; the second line of defence, con sisting of the Garden and Barrack Batteries, the dockyard, harbour, and Careening Bay, together with the full cannon sweep of Sebastopol Roads. All these are in the hands of the allies ; but a triumph, probably not inferior in value to all these, will be found in the entire destruction of the Russian Black Sea fleet, which has utterly perished. In addition to all these solid spoils of the conflict, the enemy was compelled to evacuate the strongholds with a celerity so striking as to prevent the possibility of his destroying the vast stores of war- like materiel which had been concentrated in the city. Stores so vast and valuable to the conquerors, as to have seemingly bewildered the comprehensive faculties of General PELISSIER, Dow created a Marshal, who after a casual inspection of them writes on Monday, " The imagination would strive in vain to realise the full extent of our victory ; nothing short of actual inspection on the spot could supply an idea of the extent and multiplicity of the works and material means of defence, which very far surpass all that is recorded in the history of war." Defences so multiform, and an arsenal so stored, were not likely to be abandoned by the Russians without a desperate and a deadly struggle ; and, even when their defenders could no longer hold them, to quit them in an ordinary evacuation of the place would have been antagonist to all the policy of Russian tactics. To destroy what they can neither use nor carry off, has always been a portion of the military strat eg y o f _ _ Russia, and this was attempted on a large scale in Sebastopol. Long before the close of the seige operations, Prince Gonrs- CIUKOPF declared that, if the Allies were ever successful in capturing Sebastopol, they would find it only a " heap of blood-stained ruins," and after his defeat in the Malakhoff he did his utmost to reduce it to that condition. The conflict was too sharp—the victory too decisive—to enable him to carry his threat into execution. The assault, it now appears, was made on four different points, viz., on the Malakhoff, the Great Redan, the Little Redan, and on the Centralßastion. The English portion was to storm the Great Redan, the other assaults being undertakenby the French. All the attacks were in the first instance successful. The redoubts of theMalakhoff, andthe sali ents of the Great and Little Redans were all of them carried in the first impetuous onset ; the first only, of all the positions n amed, proved tenable, but that fortunately was sufficient to ensure the triumphant issue of the siege. " Six times," says the Russian commander, "we repulsed the enemy." This, indeed, was true; from the peculiar construction of the de fences of the Great Redan, after our brave soldiers had carried the salient of this battery, it was exposed to the sweeping storm of heavily-armed lines of earthworks, and in endeavours to hold the position they had won and silence these earth works, two thousand English heroes fell before the command to retire was obeyed. A similar cause compelled the French also to abandon the Little Redan after they had gained a footing similar to that obtained by the English. The Malak hoff was three times stormed by the French, and twice re- taken from them, even the desperation of the Russians being unable to repel or withstand the determined gallantry of the third attack. From point to point the French troops advanced, the Russians contesting every inch of ground, and resisting, vainly, as Prince GORTSCIEAKHOFF writes, "to the last ex tremity ;" in spite of which the French flag was borne slowly but steadfastly onward till at last it was planted securely on the summit of the tower. The carnage in the different as- saults was terrific, but the victory was won. The French remained masters of this important work ; the other portions of the allied forces returned to their entrenchments, leaving eight or nine thousand killed and wounded on the mounds and walls of the fortress. The Russians, driven at the Malak hoff Tower from their last hope of effectual resistance, re turned into Sebastopol. The curtain of night now fell upon the exhausted com batants. The Russians, dispirited by their defeat at the Tchernaya, had proposed to evacuate the town of Sebastopol in the event of any decisive reverse, and before Saturday morning had prepared the means for doing so. Reduced to utter despair by the capture of the Malakhoff—the fort which commanded all their works—it only remained for them to abandon what they had so long and so resolutely struggled to retain. The town, in fact, was ours before a street of it had been entered by the allies. Thi s i mportant fact was revealed to the slumbering camps of the victo rs d ur i ng the silent wa tches of that memorable night ; vast conflagrations threw their lurid light on the sky over and around Sebastop o l, an d these, accompanied by the dull rumbling concussion of enor mous and violent explosions, told too surely that the work of voluntary destruction had commenced. Impelled by a resist. less panic, the defeated Russians were hurriedly, and conse. quently imperfectly, destroying the defences and the stores they could no longer hold, While the artillery of the victorious besiegers was still playing on the place, the whole of the Karabelnaia suburb was suddenly blown up by the Russians, who had also set fire to the town in many places, and were busily engaged in destroying all that remained of their boasted fleet of war-ships—so formidable at Sinope— objects of such anxious care and• punctilious solicitude at Vienna. The work of destruction being thus hurriedly pushed forward by some, others were marching by a bridge of rafts from the south to the north shore of the harbour. This latter operation was executed with such great celerity as to make Prince GORTSCIIAITHOFF claim for it the character of " an extraordinary success," because he only lost a hundred men in the operation ! More singular still, the happy dis positioned gentlemen who indite the Russian columns of La Nord designate this nocturnal flight as indicative of the " energy of a great commander." "It saves Russia," they say, " from an inextricable position into which a false interpre tation of the point of honour would have thrust her." 'What advantage Russia may derive from such a " success," it is not easy to conjecture ; and many will be equally at a loss to understand the beneficial " energy" displayed by the great commander in effecting that manceuvre, in the execution of which he confesses with regret he was compelled to abandon five hundred of his wounded soldiery ! The conquest of Sebastopol effected—for, according to most accounts, there appears little doubt in any quarter that the events of Saturday se'nnight must inevitably lead to that result at no distant day—the important question remains, What is to come out of it ? Already there seems reason to apprehend that the Russian portion of our statesmen and di plomatists will once more seize the opportunity of endeavouring to let Russia down as gently as possible. The non-humiliating doctrine of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Mr. GLADSTONE, and other members of the " new political union," have made their appearance in divers forms through the me dium of the press. The Times having provided itself with a " peace column," treats its readers to very gently-spiced pota tions of frothy sentiment, in which the plan of waiting a " little longer " for the " good time coming" in Russian politi cal morals is deftly recommended. "We can now rest awhile," and watch the effects of the chastisement already bestowed on the "naughty boy," who having attempted to rob his neigh bour's orchard was put back and whipped; and this course the Thunderer vouchsafes to recommend. Experience has long ago proved that the most dangerous period for a victor to re pose is the moment of victory. The allied arms have been so far crowned with success, as to put it in the power of their armies to achieve a signal and decisivevictory—a victory which, by humiliating and crippling the foe, will for the future render him both harmless and obedient. To leave off short of having accomplished this object now, is not to display magnanimity, but to exhibit weakness. The object of the war is still far from being achieved. Dismantling Sebastopol and the destruc tion of the Black Sea fleet, although in themselves in the right direction, are far, very far from being a consummation of the objects intended to be achieved by a successful prosecution of the war. These, if conceded at the beginning, would have been admitted as ample, because they would have shown that Russia had no aggressive designs against Turkey or other nations in the southern portions of Europe. The war when undertaken, however, had a larger object in view than preserv ing the integrity of the Turkish empire. The war was un dertaken because Russia was making inroads on civilization, and building herself up in such a manner as to make her dangerous to Europe. It was to repress these inroads and to diminish that dangerous strength that the allies espoused the cause of Turkey, and the object of the combination was to weaken and humiliate Russia. Till these have been compassed the objects of the war cannot have been attained, and if they are not achieved the next generation will not see the termina- tion of the struggle which must yet ensue. This feeling ap pears to be the guiding one in the councils of our French allies. In proof of which a rumour is current in Paris to the effect that Marshal PELISSIEB telegraphed for instructions to guide him, if Prince GORTSCHAICHOFF should capitulate, an event which the Marshal thinks far from improbable, as the Russian army is understood to have but fifteen days' provi sions, and to be very short of ammunition. The import of the Emperor's answer is said to have been : " Our conditions are that the Russians must surrender at discretion, lay down their arms, and give up to the allies all the fortified places in the Crimea, including Odessa, with all the munitions of war contained in them, and without any damage being previously done, either to the towns or the fortifications." This bold and resolute course of policy is undoubtedly the true one ; and so far as reliance can be placed upon anything so futile as the declaration of our own Minister, a similar policy seems to animate the British cabinet, as it unquestionably does the nation. On Friday lass, the noble PREMIER being on a visit to his estate of Melbourne, in Derby shire, was waited on by a deputation of the influential in habitants of that beautiful little town and neighbourhood, who presented to him an address of congratulation in which the fall of Sebastopol cut a conspicuous figure. In reply, Lord PALMERSTOX said in allusion to that circumstance, „ _ "It is impossible to believe that the war can be brought to any other conclusion than that which will secure to Europe safety against the future aggressions of Russia." These few words have created a great sensation in metropolitan circles, and their effect has been equally magical all over the kingdom. The people are from them taught to believe that the flimsiness and sham of pretended hostility, but real friendship for Russia have been banished from the Cabinet, and succeeded by a sentiment akin to that which animates the nation. Possession of Sebastopol has entirely removed the pres tige of the Russian military prowess—it has dispirited and demoralized their army—has despoiled them of mighty war like resources—has relieved the besieging army of great and exhausting and dangerous toil—has placed them in a position to avail themselves of their numerical, physical, and moral superiority. The conflict may still be a sharp, but it can scarcely now be a long one. True the advantage has been gained by a sad and sorrowful amount of sacrifice.. Thousands of our brave countrymen, and of their equally brave allies, have been immolated on the altar of stern duty; but to the survivors who sorrowfully mourn over the mangled victim s --- Of the ruthless onslaught, it must be some consolation at least to know that the sacrifice was not made in vain—that the blood so profusely shed upon the ramparts of Sebastopol has in it; crimson tide washed out the foot-marks, and swept away the _ - resting-places of aggressive slavery. So completely absorbed has the mind of every one been with the magnitude and importance of the victory achieved in the Crimea, that every other topic seems forgotten, and it is with difficulty that listeners can be found for conversation on any subject foreign to the war. Even amidst this all-engrossing appetite for war, some few are found to grumble and protest against an abuse of patronage just perpetrated by our pure, kelf-denying, and merit-loving Government. Some time ago it was announced that Government was prepared to expend £5,000 on a marble statue to the Duke of IVELLINGToN, to be erected in St. Paul's. In pursuance of this resolution, four distinguished sculptors, viz., Messrs. BAILEY, FOLEY, GIBSON, and the Baron MAROCIIETTI, were invited to send in com peting models. Two of them—GissoN, in compliance with a rule he has laid down for his own guidance, and MA.ROCIIETTI —declined to compete ; FOLEY and BAILEY produced models—whether meritorious or not would seem to matter little ; the mind of Government was made up in a direction. opposite to them, and its patronage was bestowed upon the - lucky Italian Baron. The term " lucky" may with truth be applied to this artist in its most legitimate sense. His first public appearance in this country was at Glasgow, where, as in the present instance, without competing, and in defiance of competition, he was thrust over the heads of all British sculp- tors, and complimented with the commission to con struct the " Wellington Testimonial" for that city. . Again his knot of Glaswegian patrons secured for him the equestrian statue of HER MAJESTY, which has been recently erected there. Of the last it is. impossible for me to speak, as I have not seen it ; in regardto the former no such ground for silence exists. As a piece of carefully laboured statuary it is admirable : as a specimen of tastefully and skilfully-elaborated moddelling it is excellent ; but as a work of art it is nought. Common-place in design, it does not rise in any degree above the level of very ordinary portrait sculpture, conveys no idea of dignity or grace, and but for its magnitude would offer no salient point to distinguish it from the herd of everyday equestrians. Yet, such has been the good fortune of the Baron, that he has been preferred to the execution of numerous public statues in this country, while native artists have sighed for opportunity and languished for lack of employment to celebrate their country's heroes, and to enrich the country with the creations of their intellect. THE RIVINGTON WATER WORKS. VISIT OF THE TOWN COUNCIL. WEDNESDAY last was one of the marked days in the history of the extensive and interesting works, situated at and near Rivington, for the purpose of supplying Liverpool with an adequate quantity of pure water for sanitary and domestic purposes, and also for the use of the shipping and other branches of its rapidly increasing trade. Some doubts having arisen in the public mind, and having also found expression in the Town Council, as well as out of doors, as to the progress made in the construction of these works and the probability of their being made available for the purposes of a water supply for a long time yet to come, the Water Committee deemed the present a fair opportunity for ascertaining the condition of the works, their gigantic magnitude and impor tance, and the existing state of their progress, from actual inspection. Proceeding on this conviction, the Chairman of the Water Committee, at the last meeting of Council, invited the members to visit and inspect the works, and Wednesday last was fixed on as the day on which they should proceed. In accordance with this resolution, invitations were likewise issued to members of the Dock Committee, of the Pilots' Committee, and of some other public bodies, interested in the ultimate success or failure of the Rivington water scheme ; and, as representative of the public interests in general, members of the newspaper press were also freely invited to attend. A special train was provided to convey the party, seventy one in number, from the Tithebarn•street station to Bolton, and precisely at a quarter before eight o'clock (the hour fixed in the programme) the train started. The morning was most auspicious, the weather being beautifully fine; and the com pany, elated by the aspect of the charming scenery through which they sped, and animated by the anticipations of a day of unmixed pleasure, arrived at the Bolton station precisely at nine o'clock. A substantial as well as elegant breakfast was provided in the refreshment rooms, and to this the party did ample justice. Having partaken of the necessary refresh ment, the company took their places in five omnibuses, each drawn by four horses, provided by Mr. Greenwood, postmaster, and headed by that containing Mr. George Holt, chairman of the 'Water Committee, they started for the upper section of the water-works operations, near Withnall. Shortly after leaving Bolton, the route lay through a dis trict undulating in outline, and lovely in its indications of fertility and good culture, heightened by the manifestations of an abundant and generally well-secured harvest the only drawback upon this pleasant prospect being found in the unmistakeable evidence of "potato disease," afforded in the numerous fields and patches of this invaluable root which skirt the roadside, and which, in nearly every instance, showed traces, more or less marked, of the ravages of the "disease." In passing from Bolton towards the higher districts of the county, the picturesque and wild beauty of the scenery at tracted general attention; the heathery hill-sides and deep intersecting ravines, together with the rugged peaks and feathery clumps of woodland, enriched with the brilliant glow of the mountain ash berry, and the deep green of the larch and sycamore, lending a peculiar charm to a landscape inte resting alike from its appearance and associations. About half way between Bolton and the picturesque town of Belmont the party, in passing by, scanned with curious interest the' reservoir for supplying Bolton with water. This reservoir presents to such a body of excursionists features of more than merely visual importance. It has been for a long period in existence, and, as such, furnishes valuable data as to the quality of the storage water to be collected in the district, and in that respect has been referred to by all parties advo cating or opposing the Rivington scheme. Further, at this reservoir, or in connexion with it, has been constructed a rain gauge, which has been in operation since 1842, and which has been referred to by all parties in the dispute, as furnishing the best data as to the absolute rain-fall of the district in which the Rivington water-works are situated. Having passed Belmont, and still pursuing a devious route through a hilly and thing country, the party reached the fire of the works connected with the Rivington system of water supply. This consists of a culvert bridge for carrying the public' road, which has been diverted to some extent, across the Rake Brook. From this bridge the cortege passed rapidly for Ward to the Hare and Hounds Inn, where the carriages were left, and at which point the visitors were met by the gentlemen having charge of the upper portion of the works, and by Mr. Statham,. general superintendent on behalf of Mr. Hawksley. The company now assembled comprised—His Worship' the Mayor, Councillors Anderson, Crosthwaite, Woodruff, g C. Stewart, Moss, Nicholson, Godfrey, Bradley, C. Turner, Littledale, Avison, Holt, Fernihough, James Holme, Banner, Mann, Jeffreys, John Gladstone, jun., Alex. Shand, Wagstaff, Fleming, Johnson, Hodson, Kitchen, Clint, Beckwith, Robertson, Halhead-, Hall—Aldermen Lane, Bennett, Robinson, Cooper, Shand ; and Sr. Moline: Among the borough officials present were Messrs; W. Shut tleworth, Town-clerk; James - Newlands; , Borough Engineer Lieut. Lord ; Thomas Duncan, Water Engineer - ; Ik Mason G. V. Tanton, Thomas Venn i Alfred Quick, and W. Statham.- -nod.. Committee : J. 1 Rounthwaite; Smith, Rankin, Barber, Monde% and Lockett.—Pi/otsr Cammift'er":' Messrs. Wm. Potter, George Kendall, Blythe, Rowlands; and Cooke.— There were also present Messrs: IL C. Beloe, P: B McQuis;-W.- Blackstone, and several other gentlemen. Immediately on arriving at the Hare . andltimuids; the'corn pany, leaving the vehicles, proceeded to inspect the' works;- commencing.at the Rake Brook , embankment. The' woe* which are very extensive, were generally adinited by the' visitors, as judiciously planned, and carried;: out - in'a , spirit. of corresponding energy. They will be - understood by a care. ful perusal of the' annexed report; drawn up by Mr. Statham The collecting-and storage works -of"the Rivingten. scheme. of the Liverpool Corporation Waterworks, commence - in the valley of the river Roddlesworth, about nina , miles from , Rolton, on the ^older' or more direct turnpike-re.d.b etween Bolton and Pteston,-and eTtona thence to liornielz,, a istanee of eight miles ; where the main pipe commences. Near-tiv commencement: of the works the river Boddlesworth takes its rise, and runs down a precipitous valley, having lofty hills on each side towards -Moulden water.-. There is also upon this river, and entering it at the point before mentioned, a stream called the Rake Brookl :and, at a few hundred yards above the junction of the ricer Roddles worth and the Rake Brook, the first important engineering works of the Rivington scheme ; for supplying the• town of Liverpool with water, are visible.- These consist of: two large enibankments, carried each across , the valleys of .the river Roddlesworth and the Rake Brook,b3r which the •deseending waters of these two streams will be impounded and connected together by a goit, or canal, of about twenty feet wide at the bottom, and about ten feet below the top-water level of each of these reservoirs; thus always preserving their waters to a uniform level to the depth of ten feet berow•theirihighest, or top-water mark.. The object of these two reservoirs, is to impound the waters from the watershed or gathering:ground in theirvioinity, and to distribute so much of the szrplus water as is-above the ten feet level, before mentioned, down to the larger - storage re servoirs of Anglemrk and Rivington, retaining the remain der in store for compensation, to be given out down the river Roddlesworth, as required by the act of Parliament.. The surface capacity of these two reservoirs is about fifty acres, and holds about 200 millions of aIO4IS. The embankmenta forming them. are about 90 feet high, constructed of. earth, with a watertight puddle -wall_ in the centre, of - clay properly worked and tempered. The Roddlesworth embankment has been entirely completed, as far as the earthworks are con cerned, and the Rake Brook embankment is very-nearly so [The process of formation at the Rake Brook . embank 7 went is being pushed forward with all the rapidity possibly applicable -to such a work... It wants now about four feet of material laid on before it is, completed to its full height The difficulties .to be overcome in the formation of such a structure may to some extent be guessed from the annexed details,. gathered from personal inspection. To secure the embankment from the possibility of leakage, a solid wall of well-pwldled clay is constructed, stretchinglongitudinally from.one extremity of the embankment to the other. This, puddle wall is carriednp from a well-secured foundation on water-tight strata, to obtain which,. a.trench has been ax - - mated across the valley, till the solidrockor the immoveable and impervious clay of the district-has been reached.. In the instance before 113 this excavatim was carried 20feet below the surface. at the bottom, of the valley. The.clay wall is.then carried up, commencing with a thickness, of 14 feet, and gradually diminishing, in, thickness till. it ter minutes 6 feet thick at the upper surface of the•embank ment. This puddle wall, is a feature common to all the embankments.; the only variety in its character being tole found in the. greater or less,degree of depth requiredin the foundation.. Exterior to the.puddle wall, on both sides, the embankment is strengthened by the deposit of earth and stone, sloping upwards- on, the next to the water, at an angle of three-feet to-one-foot of height; and on the outer side at an angle of two feet to one foot of height, and finishing on thetop,with a width of 18 feet. In thecon struetion of the Rakeßrook embankment alone, not less. than 180,000 cubic ya i rds. of material have been used ; these have been chiefly derived from the excavation of the goit which connects the. Roddlesworth and Rake. Brook reservoirs with the lower works, and from side cuttings.] From the western end of the Rake Brook embankment, near to the Hare and Hounds Inn, on to the old. Bolton and Preston turnpike-road, a goit, or canal, has been excavated, and is now in process of completion. This goit, or canal, is about twenty feet wide at the bottom, and six feet deep,and perfectly water tight throughout. It extends from the Rake Brook reservoir to the top or northern end of the large Anglezark reservoir, a distance of about 31 miles. The bottom of the goit has, of course, a regular fall or inclination, all the way from the Rake Brook reservoir to the Anglezark reservoir. This goit will enable the Corporation to draw off all the flood and surplus water from the Roddlesworth and Rake Brook reservoirs into the large storage reservoirs of Anglezark and Rivington. It will also intercept and collect in its p as . sage all the rainfall between these two localities, which may descend into it, and which comprise several thousand acres. The goit passes through or near the villages a nd hamlets of Withnall, Brinscall, White Coppice, &c., at which places there are weaving, bleaching, and spinning manufactories, which have been established here for many years, on account of the plentiful supply of pure water which they will receive in fu ture from the Corporation works at regular and convenient times, and not as heretofore in large quantities, and at uncer tain periods, whereby they could not very frequently be re tained and made available for the purposes required. [ln this instance, Mr. Statham must mean that the manu factories to which he refers were attracted to the spot by the excellence and abundance of the water to be met with in the neighbourhood. This water being taken possession of by the Liverpool Corporation, the manufacturers will, in future, receive their supply from the Liverpool Water Works, which supply will be delivered in regulated quantities instead of in the intermittent and irregular manner in which it has hitherto been received.] The scenery along the goit is of a wild and in some places rugged and precipitous character. The goat runs for some distance along the valley adjoining the Withnall and Angle. zark moors, where grouse are plentiful, and whence the towns of Chorley, Preston, and the whole Fylde district, including Blackpool, Lytham, and Southport, and the sea beyond, can oftentimes be distinctly seen. The engineering works upon the goit consist of earthworks, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. chiefly of a light and easy character, and it is crossed by bridges of stone or iron, at the necessary roads and occupation crossings. Several heavy and important puddle trenches have, however, been executed on this portion of the works. These have all been completed, and now the well-smoothed slopes of the varions cuttings and embankments present nothing to the eye to indicate the great engineering skill and labour that has been bestowed upon these really important portions of the undertaking—the constant object of the engi neer throughout the whole of the works having been to have them so constructed that not a single drop of water, to which the promoters—namely, the Corporation —may by their act be entitled, shall, if possible, be allowed to escape. The southern termination of the goit, or canal, brings us to the first extensive storage reservoir, called the Anglezark reservoir. This reservoir is about one mile and a half long, and will, when full, cover a space of about 185 acres. Its capacity for storage is estimated at about eleven hundred million gallons, which will be supplied by the goit before described, and by the watershed, or gathering ground, from several thousand acres, including also the river Yarrow, which takes its rise on the eastern side of it, in the hilly district of the Anglezark Moor, and passes through the lower portion of the reservoir, where its progress is now arrested by the Knowsley embankment. The locality of the Anglezark reservoir, and the various works therefrom to form it into a reservoir, are as follow : namely, the reservoir commences at Heapey, near to where the canal or goit deboaches into it, and is in fact a valley of about one mile and a half in length, lying between hills, the eastern side being the Anglezark Moor, with some fine wooded and pasture lands at the foot, extending to the borders of the reservoir, and on the western side are the wooded and pasture lands of Heath Charnock, Anderton, &c. This reservoir ter minates at the Knowsley embankment, near to an elegant mansion lately erected by Peter Martin, Esq., a county magis trate for the Bolton district, and which mansion is situated on the banks of the Rivington, or lower reservoir, to be hereafter described. For the purpose of enclosing and retaining the waters in this reservoir the following works have been constructed, and almost completed ir—First, the Heapey embankment, at the top or northern extremity of the reservoir. This embank ment is about 100 yards in length, and about 32 feet high' from its base. It extends across a narrow pass, and will re tain the waters which used to flow from the Anglezark Moor down the Heapey Brook through the Heapey valley westward. The next work on this reservoir is the Heath Charnock embankment, now complete. This is an extensive work, being about 840 yards long, and has a side bank made to re tain the waters in the reservoir on the western side, where the boundary of the valley was not sufficiently high for this pur pose. Its greatest height is about thirty feet above the old natural surface of the ifrotind. Opposite to this bank ; and on the eastern side of the reser voir, there is also a side bank called. the' Leicester Mill bank. This is not a water-tight bank, and has in the middle of it a three-arched bridge, of light and elegant design, over the river Yarrow. Through this bridge the' waters- will have access on both sides of the embankment,. upon the filling of the Angle zark reserfoir. This embankment also carries the road that used to' pass along the bottom of the valley from: Anglezark Moor and Leicester Mill to Chorley. The new road is now continued from the' southern end of the Leicester Mill Bank, along the side of the reservoir, over the Knowsley embankment, into the' old road to - Chorley. We now come teethe heaviest and most expensive work that that has been exectited to enable this reservoir to be formed, viz., the Knowsley embank men t. his embankment is about 270 yara• long, and crosses the valley at a height of about forty-five feet about its-sur face. This embankment, as are also the Heapey and Heath. Charnock banks, is'perfectly water-tight, having a puddle wall running along its' entire length. The' puddle-wall founded on a water-tight stratum, which, in several places in' this embankment, is - above twenty feet below the bottom of the valley, or above 115. feet in its total height to the top of the embankment. Through. the embankment on the western sidle is carried a tunnel, provided with a shaft and proper verges and apparatus-for discharging the waters of this reser voir' into the Rivington, or lower storage, reservoir; IThe Knowsley embankment; although not the' most ex tetssive, was in reality the' most difficult and formidable of all the embankments- to' construct. The chief difficulty being to obtain access to' a . really' water-tight stratum for the' foundation for the paddle-wall, -which was not obtained till the• workmen had excavated to 'a depth of seventy-two feet below the surface of the 'valley ;- and here a substantial foundation , was found upon , the' solid shale. The experi mental boring -at this point gave 'softie interesting geological features` of detail. The mass of shale was found to be fifty - feet deep without' aloint ; through an additional depth of eighty feet more the-shale was found a little jointy, and below this mon:nowt - mass-the millstone grit,-the 'prevailing formaticv of the district, ritta reached, whereas-at the lower end cf the goit, the grit was reached at a depth , of eighty feet, with.-- out any superineumbent shale.] The - Rivington or lower reservoir commences immediately at the foot of the Knowsley embankment, and a thence proceeds- along the valley of the Yarrow under' the 'house of Peter Martin,,Esq. Followingthe valley of theYntrow, the reservoir is held up by the Yarrow embankment, at apoint a little below Mr. Martin's house; and then is continued alongthe Rivington valley, nearly north andsouth, having on its - eastern side the village of • Rivington,and the well-wooded: and pasture lands at the foot'of the famonS Rivington Pike, which may be seen, throughout the whole of this reservoir, towering -above the low lands to the south and west of it. The western side of thereservoir is bounded by the western lands of Anderton; and across the valley at the lower end next to ilerwich has been "constructed the Horwich embankment, , an extensive work, about fifty-eight feet in height, which ter minates the RtVington ; or largest storage reserv o i r ._ This re servoir, when fall, win carer about 268 acres and' its storage capacity will be about 100;000,000 gallorses.which. added the - Anglezark rp.ervoir,- Email average of above 450 aeres, and a storage capacity of about 3,000,000,000 - gallons, for the two large reservoirs alone. The prin - cipal engineering- works on the RiVington Reser voir are the sido-bank ncroas , the - river Yarrow, before men tined, which is in progress, and only wants. the pitching and hyewash ; or overflow, for the flood-waters, to-complete it ; the Bakkboy embankment, which has for some time been finished, , and which crosses thereservoir opposite to Rivington„ earrying_the road from that village to Anderton and Chorley, which road used to run Along the valley, past the old Black boy,-or Blacka-moeFs-head inn. This house -is- now under going the process of-demolition. Its successor, , -.the intended nee*. nockboy Inn e l:l3s -been erected and completed unme dia.telyr under Rivington Church; and close to the side of the new-road, carried across- the- valley by the Blaekboy rnbank-. ment r by Robt. Andrews,Esq".ktrd of the manor of Rivington,. and ti.cotmty magistrate. Nature has there--assisted i the engineer, .and saved the pockets of the Corporation,. by the depth of the-valley down which the reservoir will be formed, for we meet with no fun , titer artificial boundary- to-.the reservoir till we. arrive at the. Millstone embankment, a wayside bank, across a low dip in: the. Anderton side of the valley - . This embankment is about 800 •yards -long, and has been for some time completed. Its greatest depth is about 30- feet. It also carries the turnr-llee road. from .Bolton to- Chorley and Preston- over its surface, in liem of the old roast.whieli is now inside the reservoir. The final great work: of this reservoir iS. the Horwich em bankment, which commences at the southern extremity of the Millstone Bank, and :is,. indeed, partly a continuation of, it, and,. proceeds by the side .of the Bolton- and Chorley road southward for some distance, and then turns nearly at right angles from the Anderton side across thevalleyto the Eying ton side. Its length is- about 640 yards, and ,its greatest heiglit is about 58-feet above the Rivington valley. At the foot of the . Horwich embankment, without the reservoir, and immediately adjoining. it, are the filtration works.. These consist of six compardnents for filtering, and two pure water tanks,..with which the main , leading to Liver pool communicates. _ The above works comprise the whole of the scheme for the collecting, storing, and filtering the water for the supply of the town of Liverpool, and are altogether rapidly approaching completion. There are at present employed upon, these works about 1,400 men, each day, and about 100 horses. [Each of - these embankments. is furnished with a waste weir it a/ . .l fr o o w m ing ov e t rfl he owi:o surplus, them w e at b e a r n t k o m es en ca te r y • and so pre venting are so constructed as to run the waste water directly into the next et these lower-reservoir to that front which it has. escaped, except. the Horwieh embankment, the waste-weir-of which commu nicates directly with the brook. The embankments are also furnished with apparatus. admirably suited for running- off the-supply, and also for -compensation water, both of which will be regulated with the nicest accuracy.] After having walked over and inspected the whole of the works, as far as the Blackboy embankment, in the middle of the Rivington reservoir, the company sat down to a sumptu ous collation in the New Rouse, Blackboy Inn. After the cloth had been removed, the Chairman gave the health of " Her Majesty the Queen," which was drunk with all the honours. Mr.. Aldernum S. Holme next proposed " The Emperor-of the French," remarking on the excellent moral and social qualities of the French people, as he had himself seen and experienced. The health of " The Mayor" was drunk with all the honours, which his. worship tastefully acknowledged. " The Dock Committee" was then proposed by Mr. Fernihough, and, having been duly honoured by the company, was responded to by Mr. C. Turner, chairman of the Dock Committee. The company then proceeded to inspect the filtering beds, and other portions of the works in that vicinity, The filtering beds occupy the eastern half of the valley, immediately to the south of the Iforwich embankment, to the extent of about 1000 feet, the western half being occu pied by two equalizing or pure water tanks. The filtering beds are large excavated tanks, each 350 feet long, and 150 feet broad, separated from each other by an embankment about ten feet wide at the top. They are each about ten feet deep, and the filtering apparatus commences by a covered drain sunk about two feet below the general bottom of the tank, on each side converging in the middle to a sluice valve communicating with the pure water tanks by a tunnel and tube. Above the drain referred to is laid a bed of rough broken stones, two feet in thickness ; this is covered by suc- cessive layers of gradually finer broken stones and gravel, till having reached a thickness of nearly fire feet, when it is to be covered by a stratum eighteen inches thick of washed sand. The pure-water or equalizing tanks are each about 450 feet in length, by about 300 feet in width. They are puddled all round, and covered on their floors and sides by thick and well set masonry. They communicate with each other by sluice valves, and are so constructed that either one or both may be used, according as convenience may require. They are also furnished with a bye-wash for taking off the surplus water; and, likewise, they have a means of communicating this sur plus water with the compensation water to the mills, which runs into a brook. In the bottom of these pure-water tanks there is an admirably contrived means of keeping the water in a ceaseless current. Most of the works are nearly, and some of the most impor tant, completely finished, those in the Anglezark reservoir being so far advanced that they will be finished by Saturday at the farthest. The contractors are busy with their respec tive works; an extent of fifteen miles of the large pipes has already been laid, and only nine miles remain to be put in. The chief difficulty hitherto experienced in the laying of these pipes, by the committee and their contractors, has been over come in reference to the St. Helens deviation, and the work will now be completed without further interruption. Having completed their tour of inspection, the excursionists were again assembled at the Horwich Station, where, having re-entered the carriages of the special train, they started on their homeward journey, and arrived in Liverpool about half past eight o'clock, haring spent a day of unalloyed pleasure, each one impressed with the importance and scientific skill displayed in the magnificent works which they had inspected. Several of the gentlemen present, in all probability, from the circumstance of not being very much acquainted with the nature of such works as those they had been inspecting, seemed to doubt the probability of a large supply of water being collected in the different reservoirs ; an impression further borne out by the dry condition the works were in at the time of the inspection. To obviate any misconception on this point, it may be by many deemed sufficient to state that the area of the basin which is drained into these works is 9,847 acres, or nearly 15} square miles. As some difference of opinion existed on this point of supply, prior to the undertaking being proceeded with, Mr. Newlands, the Borough Engineer, and Mr. James Simpson, C.E., were requested to investigate the matter, and draw up a report on the subject, which they did, and presented to the Town Council early in 1849. From that report it appears that a computation, extended over an average of six years, gives for the district a rainfall of 21,600,000 gallons per day, which, after deducting 8,200,000, the amount required for compensa tion, would leave 13,600,00(Y gallons per day for the supply of Liverpool. It is true, these gentlemen stele that such an average is excessive, as it does not take into account the defi ciency caused by the extra dry seasons. They further express an opinion, that the probable deficiency, arising from the cause referred to, will be aggravated by the storage of the reser voirs not being sufficient to equalise - the water for main tMning such a supply. These gentlemen; in their very able report state the aggregate contents of the• three' reservoirs at 2,849,497;575 gallons, while Mr. Hawksley estimates their capacity at 3,156,000;000 gallons. A disagreement on this and other points of vital interest in connexion with so impor tant an undertaking having been thus brought Under notice, the Council referred the matter to the arbitration. of Mr. Robert Stephenson, the celebrated engineer. That gentle man, after a most minute and painstaking investigation into all the detaile- of the question, and delivering a very elaborate opinion concerning them; thussurnmarises the results of his examination : " The contested parts•of the•prbject have had my uninter rupted study, and:l believe it has-been made evident : " That the Rivington scheme is-adequate to the supplir' of an abundance of water to meet both;the immediate wants of the town, and also the prospective demands which may arise from any probable increase of population for the next twenty years to come. "That the reservoirs- are fitted for' such a storage as will sectire an uniform and copious supply at all seasons." Arthe terms of the above report appear 'considerably antago nistic to the opinion carefully formed and deliberately ex pressed by the Borough Ergineer, it is but right to give also Mi. Stephenson's remarks Ph' to the discrepancy in the com puted extent of storage. He - says, at page 34, of his report : " The capacity of the reservoirs 'is - stated by Mr: Newlands to be 2,839;000,000 gallons, and by Mr. Hawksley i 3;156,000,000 gallons;. which difference is canned by the addition, when re quirediof two feet to their depth by moveable shuttles,or flush boards on the weir,an intention probably unknown to Mr. New lands." Agehl, in respect to the anticipated daily supply as estimated by Mr. Newlands, Mr; Stephenson,. at page 37 of his report, sayt —"I feel it but - justice to Messre.:Simpson and Newlands to state, that when they made their calculations on this subject they were unacquainted with several , arrange. ments contemplated' by Mr. Hawkslsy, which are not apparent on the face of the parliamentary plans, although having a decided beariugn. pon the final results." THE LIVERPOOL DOCK TRUST: o.t Tuesday, the annual accounts of , the Liverpcol dock trustees were published, extending from June, 1854, to June 1855, , and showing_on• the year a decrewe in the revenue of £365416, a fact attributable, doubtless, to the general depres sion in business ) caused by the war and the usual reactior.s of a previously busy year. The amount of the bond debt, due on she 24th of Jane last year, was £5,211,758 - 7S. ;. the amount received on bonds this year has been £198,928.1 1 75. 11d. ; total, £5,410,687 ssl Sd. The revenue account shows that the total amount of re ceipts for the year, from all sources have been £358.11/. Of this amount £168,05 0 arrived from. tonnave .00r,00d from dues. on goods invrints ; and £25,420 from dues on goods nntwardm_ ihe graving docks and blocks , yielded £23,284; the Albert warehouses, £25,300; and the• Stanley warehouses, £1,700. The expenditure on new dock 7vorks during the year amounted to £274,118, while, if the materials to be wrought up are estimated, this sum is increased. t0£319,257. The general repairs at all the docks amounted h) £38,710. The disbursements include also the following items :-I,la rine surveyor's office, -£957 I.on 2d. ; solicitor's .office, £1,21.0; check office, £2.62.15. ld. ; superannuated allowances, £450; harbour and deck-masters' salaries, £5,287 16s. 11d.; wages and clothing of dock-gatemen., £12,286 ; marine surveyor's department, £1,006 4s. 6d.; expenses of the telegraph esta blishment, £1,535 10s. 11d..- miscellaneous expenses, inchul ing expenses at the landing stage, transit sheds, weights and scales, cranes, subscriptions. to• charities, &e.,. £22,26.8 15s. 2d. The average rate of interest for the year was.-£4 4s. 2-4-d -per cent. The amount in the- hands of the bankers (Messrs. Heywood and ,Sons) and the treasurer, at the close of, the financial year, was £121,66 65.. During ths year the duties on goods were -paid by 20,024 vessels. The dock rates were reduced in 1836 about 384 per cent.; hi 1844, 33 percent.; and in 1948-,a reduction of £40,000 was made. In 184.2, the dock income was £44008, and for the .past year, £261,661. The largest amount, £298,078, was collected in, 1854. CRIMEAN VI.CTORI_ES,PUB:LIC EETOICiNGS IN LIVERPOOL. A very general feeling having been expressed by all. classes as to the necessity of some demonstration, in reference , to the splendid .and gratifying ,successes which: have attended the efforts of the Allies in -.the Crimea, many suggestions. have been made ova, the subject, all of which have met with careful atten tion en, the part of his worship the MAYOR. : An, illumination seemed to meet with: great favour ; but the. difficulties by which such a mode of demonstration was „beset were found to be insuperable, without such an amount of preparation as o e7 the has battlere resolved e o d f would have, in fact;, acted nearly as a: prohibition, or to have various churches sc proerastinated,the rejoicings, as would have thrown them oi f l t in set Alma, apartadas taeday 'llhorne.red. these circumstances, T t t i h i a :e b eeg al e ii h o v i e e r t .s A h a l :ry will commence .ringing at an early hour of the morning, and will continue: to ring merry peals throughout the day. The Royal standard will be displayed, in front of the Town Hall, and the ship! in dock will be " dressed!' in their gayest bunt ing; flags. will be hoisted on, the church towers and other public:buildings ; and it is expected that the patriotism of all those who possess flags will hidecethem to aid in the display by heisting them over their- respective places of business. A royal salute will be fired from the North Fort, at noon,; and organ, performances will be given in St. George's Hull, to which the public will be. admitted, gratuitously. In the even ing a grand banquet will be given by his worship the Mayor in the Town Hall, invitations to which have been sent to all the officers who reside in this neighbourhood, and who have served in the Crimea, Invitations have likewise been for warded to all the military officers resident in the district. THE BAROMETER AT THE _EXCHANGE NEWS-ROOM.. The followiDg letter appeared in The Times of yesterday : TO. THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. SIR,—In the city article of your paper of the sth instant a paragraph is inserted respecting the, barometer kept in the Exchange rooms at Liverpool, the first two sentences of which are as follow : " The. barometer in the Exchange Room at Liverpool has just received the addition of a protective brass bar and strong padlock, and the event is one of some importance to the com mercial community. It appears that several of the Greek merchants and others in that town have recently had the credit of using every conceivable means to bring about certain fluc tuations in the corn market," &c. When this report became known here the Greek merchants naturally considered that the charges ought to be proved, the delinquent denounced, and the imputation removed from them as a body ; and with a view of having this carried out, we were appointed by them a sub-committee to wait upon the authorities of the Liverpool Exchange, to urge upon them the necessity of the most rigorous inquiry into the matter. They favoured us with an interview, and we are now authorised by the chairman to state most distinctly that the committee of the Exchange have not only no evidence against any Greek or other merchant of having practised upon the barometer, as imputed in the article alluded to, but have no reason to sus pect any one of having done so. We have also the authority of Mr. Warburton, the manager of the room, to remove alto gether the imputation as far as the servants of the room are concerned in the allegation. We observe that in the Independanee Beige (which pro fesses to give the translation of your article) the words "and others" are omitted in their report, so that the charge is there confined to the Greek merchants of Liverpool alone. This fact, combined with the powerful and wide-spread influence of your journal, has induced the Greek body to come forward in order to justify themselves with the world, and we rely upon your well-known candour to give insertion to this letter in an early paper, and thus make the refutation as public as the charge, so calculated to place the Greek community in a false position with the merchants of England.—With every senti ment of respect, we are, sir, your very obedient servants, S. FRANGICIADI. J. P. Scanazzr. G. M. PA.P4.ICANNI. Liverpool, Sept. 13 [SEPTEMBER 18, 1855, VISIT OF THE DUKE OF CAMS TO LIVERPOOL. Ota onn Hisvis Tuesday,i invitationt L i ßoyal ver pt f H horeeo i Highness h t; hn JAMESa n, es a s dn d t t l the il e vaAt D ee d p u ni k ez res interesting o Wednesday, yr C , T a. t o t eDe p ivi R ol fe I nt, p htE, G i ss: S fto. g i 1 I ; As During his stay the royal visitor will be the gast, l ,, of DERBY, at Knowsley, where he will arrive oa Bth proximo. At an early hour on Tuesday, 11 ' 5 4, ness, accompanied by the noble Earl, will come ii where he will be received by his worship the Tvol Municipal authorities. The Royal Duke , le.c°Ple of ,- x A MAYOR, will then proceed to visit and insPetdi : 1 1 ; public edifices of the town, including . St. Ge°74i abort Town Hall, and Exchange, the Blue Coat Irosr il li gkei testing apparatus, the Public Baths, and other ( ~,I1 terest. In the evening his royal highness, 0 10 1 4 , W.e . s party, will be entertained at a sumptuous banclo ta ii 11 4 ,, MAYOR, in the Town Hall, in honour of the s 00 4 tiAC This banquet will be followed by a th e ran 4 Ite t 4 numerous invitations will be issued to .730; Dr&.:, gentry of the surrounding districts, E ah --/Itic pool society. The early portion of Sir ,II „ ', a - 41 1 ' o i. devoted to an equatic excursion, in vrbi ; ' of tl, Highness, embarking on board a steamer, $ ll „O I ' t3 s h q ieod ua i d e r „liv o ye n rpa c c im tic p an o lu s d e b d sß, of the Pilot Boats, n °t eil g r e : i r fii N"I duty, and the fleet belonging to the Be l al , #O O4 It i ttp coolo excursion, the illust h : k o ie u lin s hPr D eatio u c k epe e d° : t ill icso v. je di: Aefit : er. fr .l° 114111; : te El, and highly-respected representative, Tgo l ii i r 4 11 , 4 41e4 - PALL, ESQ., M.P., at his residence, Wel") 11 : 1 : 41 in St. George's-hall.eeninthere is to b e e rren a r eeeen nd an ti n di rco;i til' a ,: 4 o ll lr . f ' tkiv i ll h el t4s:l l , iseut th he e yed ce ar re feo m fre on rth i e a de l v h ceon a n v e e cede n :t o ,h t bie :-e tw t ea b re e rhi e e n asp o q h : 0 : 0:irjos04 0.0 1 :0‘ , Edgy l44: aid' of Madame CLARA NOVELL°, libli g of, , 11,14 . for "ealis admtsisosfiodnis:tiln:etioprno.c e N eds o invitations Mk 7:: r i : rie.4 - " itti :: dos i _ .# lo lo oo i k Zlt some of the local charities. kad" '') LIVEPPOOL ACADE -4°l 3fy'Ss l 0 , 1 , 111 i titil tted 4l # km i - • —0 , i t , °St I THE thirty-first annual-exhibition of th e d a , N te r/ was opened - to the public on Monday las t 'c o i hoi` l l 2 : , liberal shot* of patronage' in the war: (#4 , thli, \ 4l ; ' t _I I encouraging- commencement c ti t ' 4 ll, which shows itself in the pm the: 4 Y lection consists of 839 work; Iv 1 la' 41 T te among whom we find numerous 1) 3 4, 1 Taken as a general collect tie gr,' rank as of a higher order than *lll point of exotic merit it is - cc 4 the nothing this year to compare 4 ,e i Buff," and look around the v to k a, ‘ e °4 • may compensate fo - 1! the Spat t ' 4 ; w the same artist, which last ye t., 4 1 4111( of the Queen, formed such exhibition. 'We are equally 6 t 4) 0 4 1 t: ( 4 the charming contribution of "" i ll . satisfied with the substitutes 444 0' 5 first-class ability. If the pre, 44 1 '; these respects, it has for the tl / 4 11 1 fc fully makes up for it iu the In( k ttit, i4 exhibition as a whole. The contributions is better than last N 1 : t1.1 % - ti N , must be taken with some, indeeo landscape the present colleof t lil 74 J l le predecessor. A representative co. tido% " high art"—the ' Procession 3 , 4, d .. ti contributed from the collection *4ll4 :e eal:4l%!l ' elt : conspicuous place, and in mar pancy of it - but as the preser convey the effect of a first my enter upon details, we shall r cular pictures for a future op's. Convertati u o i n uber piec a es s otcbceuypy: are altogether so gar as, could be gathered t k lt tas‘ few a lai re of g w i lt n e h c m o e u, are r h d e e o y b u u b s e t t et e m n e a ore ky t .a ° d a 0 4, ' , Ipsict - N 14 1: 44 „,. 4 : t il k kgba, - Nt7: w ti )i i i t u l l s a e e f o ul n ffor o ll; a en li ra neation of character and far" A l. i Where cations of either of those qualities, • 4 . )' i tett.% Among the portraits (which are nu 0;a1: 0 0 1 I ' 404, recognise several from the broad and , c 'fr i ' t t tiag%' old favourite, Robertson. For sobrietln: of to bold bold decision of touch, and general bream - `QII traits, more particularly the male poi_ entitled to high praise. The chief dm"' fence will be found to consist in a __ o si accessories, and- a quaint fidelity of Pe r"° - i des l when kept in due subordination impar A but which when indulged in too free' , into something-bordering on caricaturo.st The water-colour and miniature dePs" - „,, A ces tion is extensive, and in not a few iusr:„. 4 although this year we have no contribati_n: and some other established popular favo„.u.' architectural designs, and representlw n . um . Frous, and. vary to a considerable e in sctilptiire the collection is not ' being concentrated in some cleverly signed subjects in basso and in alto not remarkable. 410 joreb,:xiiv MUSIC AND THt, or THE ITALIC- OPERAS IT TIER i O been a musical-and, dramatic treat of_ ~.4 - 1 1/8. we say that the company included pl-n ° 7 l oot. r . Mario; was Madame Gassier; Mad'lle Didiee, Sigitl f : a e ' Susini ; and was-aided by Mad'lle Sed7,os rich and Signer, Galli ; and that the numerous and efficient, was conducte d and led by Mr. E. W. Thomas, wo all that can be said to make an is;tellig ep ' that whatever was produced undo tht such a union of talent must of necessi l order of excellence. Other points,. how ev ' remain to be noticed as still further . superiority,, and these were also- present The chorus. -was full and skilful,. the ' the scenery and stage effect admirahle operas was excellent, and such ,:es to a.' varied talents of the company. Wit h s t", of artistes and of circumstances ,it was pect at least a fair amount of p;lxonage the latter, indeed, there seemed- no i was warm and judicious, but, alas! the. in the extreme. Night after, night the was poured out, by accomplished artist benches, although it obviously fell on no plaudits bestowed on the charming pert given, and deservedly won; and still the filled haaae anticipated a_ bumper for unfortunately never came.. This calls. necessarily for remark, the m ore the circumstance that it has under nearly similar auspices. counted for by a want of musical taste is borne out by tho obvious relish of.the beauties laid before them by attend. Many find, one excuse and mortifying absence of an auditory deserve the name; one cause and one among all classes. of apologists, and t 1 made for admission. That these e; terring many from attending, is too aid of argument far its enforcement ; counter observation, that small prices„ This is indeed, true, but only to a limite numerous audiences could be eollecteu e ; avail themselves of the high ones, then , i t . 1 are the proper ones. If, on the other belle led nightly at charges considerably 1 01 sisted on, a revision of the scale might he; and wise. This course becomes the 1 0 °,"" ference is made to the experience of Theatre Royal, in Dublin, so lately as Italian, Opera Company performed „Aleng the immediate patron age o f his tenant ; but there, admission to then far eight shillings, whil e f or th e sea& trance was five shillings ; the prig shillings, the middle gallery two gallery was open at a shilling, comprised among its members. - to Mad'lle Marai Signors Grazianka 4 '" and Polonini. ' lf prices such. as O.; , nerative in Dublin, might not sth e answer here ? At all events', worth a trial. It could ha r dly elate.. fe lar .• ,' niary failure than that which seetos t° o , eat' t hitherto adopted here.—On Tuesday er.' ite opera "La Sonnambula," w ss per t Madame Gassier in the interestingd sa c) she rendered in a very charming mauls ing the music anal expressing tha j o ie _ ea t. grace and beauty. The Ekren° ot o f , c0 t0,„, 4 01 to require, or almost to admit L b ,. Dwr excellent voice and sang adm ira l:i d fi tie. Count Rudolph°, was effective ?, ~/ o tar the same composer's grand opera us ual, to the best house of the series. .17, magnificent in the character of uy other characters being also aelcol,' fascinating opera of " BarbiereAo, the To on Thursday, Signor Gassier ens " . 'perou satile barber with spirit and succeses_caiugv " Don Pasquali" occupied Fridg i Sato' the comic powers of the corncitai..) ° series to a close with the spiel) company in which the vocal strength of j ,,ne It was beautifully given, deserved plaudit. eV, t he Xi% A RITIIEAT du AT THE ROYAL -.MP Se P re been of the same cast as tho Madame week at the Theatre RoYal.. `" ts. o ;as On Webster supporting the chiet r a t p r ide er s, the new melodrama of "Jan e ,,,, nas seoff,,i under novel circumstances; the pa and crew of the Australian clippe n. The / me their patronage on the ocei ) , The setbee bumper, all parts being crowds s coition% co i similar class of performanceop g e atan week, and the fine acting Webster will doubtless prove, i s .6 c o alovi PHILHA RMONIC SOCIETT.II the pin._,,, grand concert will be given lEeelina Garca,s chief vocalists being Madame Ellen PsY di and Signor Graziani. Miss. negon alibitsar • t nd Sienor Gia , an d co solo plains . rte. t me is varied tro player. 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