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

MB Eiberpool '•-z tattbarb+ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1855. FRO3I OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. MONDAY MORNING-. THE past week has been a demonstration of nearly frantic joy throughout the British Isles. Early on Monday last the 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 fear 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 or 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 the Land's End to John O'Groat's ; and from Dingle-head to Yarmouth. A little before twelve 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 despot'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, now 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 strategy of Russia, and this was attempted on a large scale in Sebastopol. Long before the close of the seige operations, Prince GOBI'S CHAXorr 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 Central Bastion. The English portion was to storm the Great Redan, the other assaults being undertakenby the French. All the attackswereinthefirst instance successful. The redoubts of theMalakhoff, andthe sail ents of the Great and Little Redans were all of them carried in the first impetuous onset ; the first only, of all the positions named, 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 GORTSCHAKROFF 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. This important fact was revea l e d to the slum b er ing camps of the victors during the silent watches of that memorable night ; vast conflagrations threw their lurid light on the sky over and around Sebastopol, and these, accompanied b y 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 GORTSCHAEHOFF 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 manoeuvre, 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 hack 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,lowever, 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 PELISSIER 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 last, the noble PREMIER being on a visit to his estate of Melbourne, in Derby shire, was waited on by a acp”fation of the infl uen ti a l i n habitants of that beautiful little town and- neignuo..., who presented to him an address of congratulation in which the fall of Sebastopol cut a conspicuous figure. In reply, Lord PALMEESTON 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, bat 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 victims 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 its crimson tide washed out the foot-marks, and swept away the resting-places of aggressive slavery. So completely absorbed has the mindof 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, self-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 Wma,rstexoN, to be erected in St. Paul's. In pursuance of this resolution, four distinguished sculptors, viz., Messrs. BAILEY, FOLEY, GIBSON, and the Baron MAROCHETTI, were invited to send in com peting models. Two of them—GinsoN, in compliance with a rule he has laid down for his own guidance, and MAROCHETTI —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 regard to 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 lIIVINGTON 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 ; s 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 Witlinall. 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 curioas 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 devrensroute through a hilly and rising country, the party reached the 'first of the works connected with the Rivington system ofwater supply. This consists of a culvert-bridge for carrying the publicroad, which has been diverted to some extent, across the Rake Brook. From this bridge the cortege' passed rapidly forward 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, A. 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 Langsdale; Bennett, Robinson, Cooper, Shand, and S. Holme. Among the borough officials present were Messrs:- W. Shut tleworth, Town-clerk ; James Newlands; Borough Engineer Lieut. Lord ; Thomas Duncan, Willer Engineer ; Mason G. V. Tanton, Thomas Venn, Alfred Quick, and W. Statham.- -Dock Committee : J. K. Rounthwalte, Smith, Rivkin, Barber, Mondell, and Lockett.—Pilors' Committee: Messrs. Wm. Potter, George Kendall, Blythe, Rowlands, and Coolie,— There were also present Messrs. H. C. Eeloe; P. B. M`Quie,'W.- Blackstone, and several other gentlemen. Immediately on arriving at the Hare and fibunds, the com pany, leaving the vehicles, proceeded to inspect the works,: commencing at the Rake Brook embankment. The' woria, which are very extensive; were generally admired by the visitors, as judiciously planned, and carried' oat 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 Rivingtbn scheme of the Liverpool Corporation: Waterworks, commence in the RI R% oLthmtist, I &4dcamodli,,,Apizt nine miles from Bolton and Preston, and extend thence to a distance of eight miles ) where the main pipe commencers: Near to the commencement of the works-the river Roddleswerth 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 lat the point before•mentioned, a stream called the Rake Brook c.and, at a few hundred yards above the j action of the river Roddles worth and the Rake Brook, the first important engineering works , of theßivington scheme;-for supplying-the town of Liverpool with water, are visible; These consist`of two large embankments, carried each across the valleys of the river Roddlesworth and the-Rake Brook; by which the; descending waters of these two streams -willbe impounded and connected together by a govt; or canal, of abbot 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 4o a uniform level to the depth of tan feet below ththi highest, or top-water mark. - The•objeet of these-two -reservoirs is to impound the waters from the watershed or gathering:ground in their vicinity ; and • to distribute so mach of the surplus water as is above the ten • feet level, before , mentioned, down .to the larger storage re servoirs of Anglexark and Ririagton, retainingthe remain der in storefor 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 gallons. The embankments 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 ment is being pushed forward with all the rapidity possibly applicable to such.nwork. 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-puddled clay is constructed, stretching_ ongitudinally from one extremity of the embankment to the other. This. puddle wall. is. carried:up from a well-secured foundation on water-tight strata, to obtain which, a-trench has been ex cavated across the valley, till the solid rock or the immoveable arid impervious clay of the district has been reached. In the instance before us this excavation was carried, 29,feet below the surface at the bottom of the valley. The-clay wall is then carried up, commencing with a thickness. of. IA 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 to be found in the greater or less degree of depth. required in 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 side 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 the top with a width of 18. feet. In the con struction of the Rake Brook : embankment alone, not less than 180,000 cubic yards. 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 pas. 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 and 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 fa. 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 goit 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 various 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 debouches 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, tobe hereafter described. For the purpose of enclosing and retaining the waters in this reservoir the following works have been constructed, and almost completed :—First, the Heapey embankment, at the top or northern extremity of the reservoir. This embank ment is about 100 yards in length, and about ft feet high from its base. It extends across a narrow pass, and will re• tan the waters which used to flow from the Anglezark Moor down the Ileapey Brook through the'}feapey valley westward. The nest 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 rain the waters in the reservoir on the western side, where the hoUndary 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 ground. Opposite to this bank, and on the eastern sid of the reser voir, there' is also a side bank called the Leicester Mill bank. This is not a water4ight bank, and has in the middle of it a three-arched bridge; of light and elegant design, over the river Yarrow. Through' chip bridge the waters will haveaccess on both sides of the' embankment, upon the filling of the Angle zark reservoir: This embankment also carries theread that used to pass along the' bottom of the valley from Anglezark Moor and Leliester Mill to' ehorley. The new road is- now continued:from the southern' end of the Leicester All Bank, alonwthe side of the reservoir,- over the Knowsley embankment; inth• the old road to Chorley. We now come to the heaviest and , most expensive work that that has been executed to enabfe• this•reservoir to be formed; the Knowsley embankment. This embankment is about 270' yards long, and crosses thevalley at a height of about fortyfive feet about its sun; 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 it' founded= a water-tight stratutn, which; in several places in this - embankment, is above twenty feet below the bottom of the'ralley, or above 115 feet in its - total height to the top of the embankment. Through the embankment on the western side is -carried a tunnel, provided with a shaft and proper valves and apparatus for discharging the waters-of this reser voir-into the'Rivington, or lower storage, reservoir. [The Knowsley embankment, although not the most ex . teseive, was-in reality the most difficult andformidable of all the embankments to construct. The chief difficulty being - to nbtaim access to a really water-tight stratum for the - foundatiOnifor the puddle-wall, which was not obtained till theworkmen had excavated to 'a depth of seventy-two ft;et below the 'surface of the valley ; and here ' a substantial flundation.' was• found upon the' solid shale. The 'experi mental boring at this point gave some interesting geological features -Or detail. The mass of shale was found to be-fifty feet deep•withatit a joint; •through an additional depth of eighty feet more the shale - was found a littlejOinty, and below this enormous mass the millstone grit, the' prevailing formation of the- district, was reached, whereas•at the lower end :of the goit; the grit was reached at a depth of eighty feet, with out any iniperincumbent Shale.] The Rivington or lower'reServoir commences immediately at the foot of "the Knowsley embankment, and 'thence proceeds along the valley , of the - Yarrow under the house of Peter Martin, Esce Following the valley of thefirrow; the reservoir is held up bYethe Yarrow embankment, at a point a little below Mr. Martin's -house, and their is continued along the Rivington valley, nearly north and south, having on its. eastern side the village of Rivington, and the well-wooded and pasture lands at the foot of the famous 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 the reservoir is bounded by the western lan& of Anderton; and across the valley at the lower end next to Harwich has been constructed the Norwich embankment, an extensivoze/kohout fifty : eight feet in height, which ter- When full,. wilt cover about 268 acreseanh nalitorage capacity will be about. 1,900,000,000 gallons,. which, added to the Anglezark reservoir, gives a total average of above 450 acree, and a storage capacity of abent 3,000,000,000' gallons, for the two large reservoirs alone. The principal engineering works on the Blvingten Reser voir. an • the side-bank across the-river Yarrow, before men tiOned„which is in peogress, and only wants the.pitehing and byewaah,- or overflow„ for the ildod4raters, to cemplete it ; the Bllickboy embankment; which has for some time been finished and which crussesthe reservoir opposite to. Rivington, earryingthe road from that village to Anderten and Chorley, which road used to run -along the valley, past the old Black bey,-or Black-a-moor'sehead Inn. This house ii-now under going.the process of demolition. Ita-suceessor, the intended new , Bbiekboy Inn, has -been erected and completed imme dlatelY under Rivington ehitreh, and close to the=side of the new-road, carried across -the valley by the Blackboy embank ment„by Robt. Andrews e Esge lord ©f the manorof Rivington, and a county magistrate.. Nature has there assisted : 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 fur ther artificial boundary- to the reservoir till we arrive at the Millstone embankment,: a 'wayside bank„acrostea 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 turnpike- road: from Bolton to Charley and Freston over its surface, in Hsu, of the old road, which 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- Mill Stone Bank, and is,. indeed,. partly a . continuation of it,, and , proceeds by the- side of the Bolton .and Chorley road . aouthreard for some distance, and then °turns nearly at right. angles from the Anderton side-across-the valley to the Riving !! ton side. Its length is about 640 • yards, and its greatest height is about 68 feet above the Rivington-valley. At the foot of the., Horwich embankment, without the reservoir, and immedkttely adjoining. it, are the filtration workes. These consist. of ; six compartments 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 apprcaching completion. There are at.present employed upon these works abeut 1,400 men each day, and about 100 horses. [Each of these embankments-is furnished with,a waste weir for allowing . the surplus_ water- to escape, and so ,pre venting it from overflowingtheembankments ; yet these are so constructed as to run the-waste water directly into the next lower reservoir: to that from which it has escaped, except the Horwich embanlonentio the waste-weir of which comme e 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 , regulatedr with, the nicest accuracy,l Afterlaving .walked over and inspected, th e w h o l e ef ' the works,,as.far as theßlackboy embankmer.t, in, the middle o f the Rivington reservoir, the company Kit down to & somptu ous.oollation in, the-sew House, Blackboy After tbe.cloth had been removed, the Chairman gave the health of " Her Majesty the Queen," which was. drunk with all, the honours. Mr. Alderman 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 drank with all the honors,, 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 Horwich 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 five 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 famished 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, having 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 1819. From that report it appears that a computation, extended over an average of six years, gives for the district a rainfall of 21,800,000 gallons per day, which, after deducting 8,200,000; the amount required for compensa tion, would leave 13,600,000' gallons per day for the supply of Liverpool. It is true, these gentlemen state 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 deffeiency,arising from the cause . referred tq will be aggravated by the storage of the reser= voirs not being sufficient to equalise' the water for ma'tn taining 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. Hawkeley 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 thas brought under notice, the Council referred the matter to the arbitration of Mr. Robert Stephenson, the celebrated engineer. That gentle man, after a most minuteand painstaking investigation into all the details of the question, and delivering a very elaborate opinion concerning them, thus summarises the results of his examination " The contested parts of the . project have had my- uninter rupted study, and I believe it has been made evident " That the Rivington schemele adequate to the supply of an abundance of water to meet both the immediate watts of the town, and alsc•the prospectice•demands which may arise from any probable increase of population for the next twenty ycdrs to come. "That the reservoirs are fitted for such a storage as will secure an uniform and•copious supply"at all seasons." As the terms of the above report appear considerably antago. , . nistic to the opinion carefully formed: and deliberately ex pressed by the Borough Engineer, it is•but right to give also Mr. Stephenson's remarks •as to the discrepancy * in the com puted extent of storage. He says, at page 34 of his report : " The capacity of the resertoirs - is •stated by Mr. Newlands to be 2,849;1)00,000 gallons, and by Mr. Hawksley, 3,156,000,000 gallons ; which difference is.cansed by the addition, when re quired, of 6'76 feet to their depth by moveable shuttles, or flush - boards= the weir, an intention probably unknown to Mr. New lands." Again, in respect to the anticipate& daily supply as estimated by Mr. Newlands, Mr. Stephenson; at page 37 of his report, Gays :—" I feel it but justice to Messrs. Simpson and Newland.; to state, that when they made their calculations on this subject they were unacquninted with several arrange ments contemplated by Mr. Hawksley, which arenot apparent on the face of the parliamentary plans, although having a decided bearing-upon the final results." THE LIVERPOOL DOCK TRUST Os Tuesday, the annual accounts of the Lirerpool dock trustees were published, extending - from June, 1854; to June 1835, and showing -on the year a. decrease in the - revenue of £36,416, a fact attributable, doubtless, to the general-depres sion in business,. caused by the war and the usual reactions of a previously busy year. The amount of the bond debt, due- on the 24th ef June last year, was £5,211;7513 1 7i. 9d. • the amount received on bonds this year has been £199,928 17s. ;, -total, £5,410;38: as, Bd. The revenue account shows that - the total amount of re ruls" attiouin, ac..k frma- 71-2• S wxsufarge"UlaT.C" Qr dues - ; £87,655 from • dues on goodt - inwards ; anet - R 25,420 from dues on goods-outwards. Thegraving docks and: blocks ;ridded £23,284; the -Albert warehouses, £25,300; and the Stanley warehouses.; £1,700. The expenditure on new dock works during the year amounted to. £274,118, while, -if the materials to be wrought up are estimated, this sum isincreased to £319,257. The -general repairs at all the docks- amounted to £38,710. The disbursements-include also the following items,:----Ma rine- surveyor's 0ar:03:2957 10s. 2d.; solicitor's office,-£1,210 ; check office, Is,. Id. ; superannuated allowances,. £450; harbour and dock-masters' salaries, £5,287.165. lld. ; wages and.-clothing of dock-gatemen, £12;286; marine surveyor's department, £1,006.43. 6d.; expenses-of -the. tekgraph esta blishment, £1,535 - -.104-11d. ; miscellaneous expenses includ ing.elpenses at the landing-stage, Izansit sheds, weights and scales, -cranes, subscriptions to charities,.&c., £22,268 , Iss. 2d. The average rate- of interest for the- year was £l4s.. aid. per cent.. The amount in the han-ls—of the bankers .(Messrs. Heywood and Sens), and the treasurer, at the-close of the financial year, was £121,611 es. During the year the duties on, goods were paitl,hy 20,024 vessels._ The dock rates were reduced ,in 1836 , about 381 percent.; in 1841,:.33 per cent.;-and in 1848 c.,reduction of £40,000 was made. In 1812, the- dock income .was £44,408, and for the past year, £26/fi6l.. The largest amount, £8,078, was collected in 1854, eßrmx - ,4;_iv. V.I C "ORI.E& JBLIC REJOICINGS 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 suceesses which have attended the efforts of the Allies in the Crimea, many suggestions have been made on the subject, all of which have met with careful attea, tion, on the part of his warship the Maxos.:. An illumination seemed to meet with great favour;:. but the difficulties by which such a mode of lemoustration; wes beset were found, to. be insuperable, without such au amomat of preparation. 94 wouldhave, in fact, acted nearly ea.& prohibition, or to have so procrastinated the rejoicings, as.would have thrown. them out of date. In these circumstanacs, the MAYOR has resolved toziet apart Thursday next, the. anniversary of the battle of Alma, as a day of jubilation. The‘bells of the various churches will commence ringing at au 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 ships.in dock will be.' dressed" in their gayest bunt ing; flags will be hoisted on the church towers.ancl other public buildings ; and it is expected that the patriotism of all those who possess flags.will. induce them to aid In the display by hoisting them over their respective places of ; business. A royal sa:nite will be fired. from the North Fort i at noon ; and organ performances will be given in St. George's Hall, to which- the public will he 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. TEE BAROMETER AT THE EXCHANGE NEWS-ROOM. The following 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 Inde - pendance 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. FBANGIIIADI. J. P. Scnnizzt. Liverpool, Sept. 13. G. M. PAPATAZINI. [SEPTEMBER 18, 1855. VISIT OF THE DUKE OF WO TO _LIVERPOOL. Municipal r e i Ills where iec a i c hp c ae o on Tuesday, the 9th, and Wednesday, thel6ll3' of , did ta on His invitationvisit L v ßoyal er pHo fromoi Highness l h ; n ja c t s m s a Ettisi that eaAtDs interesting p tlk N s 1 0 t C TA:evill:tECii ss E gi l : g o le i 40. 1: 0 1 During his stay the royal visitor will he the guest of DERBY, at Knowsley, where he will arrive ou):12 Bth proximo. At an early hour on Tuesday, hi s /ail MA.YOR, will then proceed to visit and insPeet e , 10 public edifices of the town, including St. Georg , : tlO O Town Hall, and Exchange, the Blue Coat Hosln tsl „,o l testing apparatus, the Public Baths, and otber:;11 l m wa p iull an thb i oe e r d irtei b ee i i.% t_ e h dT e hbneyobßhlioesyEawlaornrsl,uhwkipeill, tal c ieco o e m mira e . rtylivt terest. In the eveni ng his royal highness, along jdoi ii nett,' party, will be entert a i n ed a t a sumptuous hang MAYOR, in the Town Hall, in honour of the ans bil ii a! This banquet will be followed by a gra nd , aiil i d , numerous invitations will be issued to tn e ii ir, gentry of the surrounding districts, and the of' I pool society. The early portion of W t d : l 4 ,. 0 1 f devoted to an equatic excursion, in vi- pterii Highness, embarking on board a steamer, an .. „iii‘ j squadron composed of the Pilot Boats, not Op , / duty, and the fleet belonging to the BOY 00 01! Model Yacht Clubs, will proceed to vie! r 00 r 0 / the Liverpool and Birkenhead Docks. i siter . t h of) excursion, the illustrious Duke will dine .. ., /ri f for f and highly-respected representative, V 103 7 )4 41. Cl o d PALL, Esq., M.P., at his residence, Wet 0 00 ° „0' nesday evening there is to be a grand In 0 ttifir o S, i in St. George's-hall. The arrangements ' l 7 It the ceremonial have not yet been quite ";: tr ;f 'IF, they are far advanced, his worship haYing po ,Al aid of Madame CLARK NOVELL°, M 1 vocalists of distinction. I\ g o invitations Ito' 0 0 4 . 0n e: issued for the concert, but a reasonalie "- b ib for admission, the proceeds of which In '',.; some of the local chariti es . IP iO ll OO d LIVERPOOL ACADEFIt'S 1 , fi SI ---•,--- is of ° ll9 , 0 Tot thirty-first annual exhibition of the at o: 0 4 ,, was opened to the public on M on d a ys last, i fir,,,, liberal. share of patronage in the-way s 0` "•11 4 , ( encouraging commencement of that Mnf e Porl which- shows itself in the purchase of O r " - l' .1 ° among whom we find numerous disting 6 t g l °A i , npraooni T tnhk a ti k nas e go n fo tre a hx s aiosth. a iyicgthe w anire n re era ritootra l coiet c rm o ist ll ph e fner t oe i l o ti n ishiad.tte t; aof e tr 7 :wiffot t i .c is i! Buff," and look around the walls in vain ..g4 may compensate for the Spanish picture, v- v. f., e i the same artist, which last year, through t he s ittrA of the Queen, formed such conspicuou s 0 07 0 exhibition. We are equally at a loss to of,* the charming contribution of Leslie, an,, ~ i satisfied with the substitutes for some ot-' l ,;: n ri yi.,' first-class ability. If the present collec, i `c o r,Afi these respects, it has • for the general P''..eirr fully makes up for it in-the more harmoaleoft, exhibition as a whole. - The character ef tig hy 4 contributions is better than last year, alti g/ bie, must be taken with some, indeed considers , landscape the present collection is derld I , predecessor. A representative of theclues I 0" 1 "'high art"—the " Procession of Ciraah'4)( contributed from the collection of ber `'.. - 1 1 t s i te e4 i conspicuous place, and. in- many resPec,, e rag , pansy of it ; but as the -present notice 1 -;:itiOe t r A oar wii altogether esony pictur es o not v fahe feaencaast e m r iufso emu ae details, Conversation lc could .0 number pr ei re o a pi eces sebm us e, a e.t fi s hr occupyher s su ya-lo t•i ep i l.leoci im pression. 00 . 0 JP arelo f g w i t, a hi t n eh c mo e u , truthful delineation of cha a tth r r d e a l . / vIS • t cations- of either of those qualities, Y cb u t ' u a lb seeeeerv a dms t m e uni 7n isthlguit e l v . a titiea tee ierr i l- l ' . olr ; :ei l io '#FY' r 47 ::: 0). Among the portraits (which are nume,r ° , o o recognise several from the-broad and vig ° old favourite, Robertson. ForsobrietY t , i ... d ~,,1 bold decision of touch, and general brow*: aw , traiu,- more particularly the-male • portra If entitled:to high praise. Tin- chief draa{7.l.4 lence• will be found to consist =in a. er9, 1 7 101 R - ' 1 accessories,. and a quaint fidelitY l4 14 _,._id e otit$ b when kept in due subordination - iraP f a r i t a g . is a fit 1 but which when indulged in' ti ure JO into something bordering on sarxn, ...—$ r tio although this year we have rk CC ntributioit, -9 and some other established popular favour" ors architectural designs, and _representatlmi>,q, 4113,zaima. we- collection: is -not - riA Os 19 eiodeeei being concentrated in some cleverly siomed subjects in basso and in alto .rer not remarkable. Thenis extensive, and and miniature aeparlmc._ , and i n not a - few inst.aaceefrocio d id' ai ) MUSIC A.11 7 D TH:E: ni-01 , r Tro . /rm . I /CS OPERAS AT 'IRE P' ..- opt ,i4l . i been a musical and dramatic treat of u ,,, - , 0 1 4 we say that the company included.Vll o- 13 :1 t PA 0 0 Mario ; .was filled up by the musics'. pr o ip i , J l Madame Gassier, Mad'lle Didiee, _Sigh° 4g, , &mini ;. and was aided by Mad ale SOW: 41 00A rich and. Signor Galli ; and that . the' °'"--, 007,0)/ numerous and efficient, was sonfluotea In OP.' I and led by Mr. E. W. Thomas,. we ha ire otP g j all that can be said to make an intellige °t ' OF that whatever was produced under the be' C Ol3l 1 11 ? /such ,a union of talent must of, neees siti . of , j order of excellence. Other point/5,110 1 ' 0 ;0V Ti remain to be noticed as still further g p o ' i superiority, and these were also, present lo t /1 7 The chorus was full and skilful, the 63s ' P i the scenery and stage effect adcairable;„l4l,';' operas. was excellent, and such as• to. au° 0 varied talents of the company. With so , / of, artistes and of circumstances, it was h . . a , peat at least a fair amount of patronage; ol 7,o i 08,0 tie latter, indeed, there seemed. 11 ° lac ' !vat'. warm and judicious, but, alas ! the e _,Ol , in the extreme. Night after. nig,ht the ~.; CO was poured out, by accomplished artist benches, although it obviously fell on no 2 : 01.0 plaudits bestowed on the.chaxming peele r air .4' , given, and deservedly wou; and still the O to . /, 1 ' filled house anticipated a bumper for ~.i d ' ' 1 unfortunately never. came.. This distre°'" '' 41 calls necessarily for remark, the m0ra..., e 1 7 . 0 e` 1 9'; , " the circumstance that- it has repean is,,, ~' under nearly similar auspices. That 1 . 0 tP, c• , counted for by a want,, of musical taste j oi d , #ft,l 1 is borne out by the obvious relish 0 71 , ,, of the beauties laid, before them by tli e v g i ,Ac r , ' i attend. Many finct, one excuse and 10 . e ,sti? i p ' ci • , mortifying absence of an auditory stiff' lose , .(f 4 deserve the name ; one cause and one e'L tli/4, among all classes. of apologists, and that; t o ! t it2 . . made for admission. : That these oPer4i o q, 0, 1 '7,9' terring many from attending, is too L'„'i t . thp }lit ''' aid of argument for its enforcement ; "' w ill 0 1 , r&• counter observa,tion that small prices , es ,ted .:, This is indeed,,true,.but only to a limite.a4 10:,01i, numerous audiences could be collected_olpeo;o, avail themselves-of the high ones, then , ii , tbe,! a i 1 are the- proper ones. If, on theother ha 11 4,,. th'ibleit, led nightly at charges considerably 10 7;014,1,,i' sisted on,,e,revision of the scale migh t e re ° t ,l.* r."'" and wise. This course becomes tbe,l u et ber ,34-`y,„4";' ferencais made to the experience 1 ::% afe rc 111 ,4,0,1 , 10 1 . _,"c Theatre „Royal, in Dublin, so lately as Twit - tr( Pr , ' ItaLmn, Opera Company performed 1 i e e . c.`: 4 ,,,1 e 6 1 1 : 1, the, immediate patronage of his F-O e col - ri tr, °iv O s 'rc ° f` Pr l ' tenant ; but there, admission to the (ir a c.l 0 , 0 1 f0., 0 c , , for eight shillings, while for the seceu fer i ft, 111 ; u l o, trance..was five shillings ; the pric e b ajatA ' l 4 l4 l , l ' 0' shillings, the middle gallery two ~,s,o e t,, 4 4, A V, gallery was open at a shilling. "-L: 1 5 4 . 6'" rof , comprised among its members It SPY tie e",tio oy, ; Mad ile Marai, Signors Graziani es e 4 0. Ac el t lett u f ; and Polonini. If prices such as til e 0 „,,,,ratio+„'i nerative in -Dublin, might not 01 ,', es're 'AP,' answer here ? At all events, t . l l "af, t be o'fil tr ,e, , worth a trial. It could hardly eat' folloLg• I _l jo„ 11 , i' niary failure than that which. seems l' e /eiwi l se", ( '' l hitherto adopted here.--On Tuesday pe rfe e f A I ,O I V I ite opera "La Sonnambula,'' , v 3s par t pie wit if .o 4 Madame Gassier in the interesting ci ;melt ,9' she rendered in a very charming 31 5 l ee tite i , tO li g , ing the music and expressing 01 io ria .ael it'.. C, , t j grace and beauty. The Elvin° ol o i' c ors'44 o ' ii" , , , con's °t j; to require, or almost to adm i cbly.,,,, e , r a .ol iirr excellent voice and sang adw i- an d aP O A t .. ,110,1 Count .Rudalpito, was effective f ~ NI pa d e i the same composer's grand opera .° As usual, r e tl , c ii to the best house of the series. tile ciful a st , ll :/ 0 i magnificent in the character of , rab b, 5 i . 5,, 46 ,104 i other characters being also athu l iii sivig' e l blal.;. 3 , fascinating opera of "Il 13arbieraeco, tben.,atti:Ac on Thursday, Signor Gassier en ..... 0 - 5 1 ' . ..ve1 0. : P a `o Fr, satile barber with spirit and suc ce ' e yeaia ,, i e rid r eol cooc i "Don Pasquali" occupied FridaY Sa t ~ yo .. the comic powers of the ennIPA o pera el., icaV ?' series to a close with the splenai. compea.: a I l e o d in which the vocal strength oft he an) " ii ic ted 113 0)0'0 It was beautifully given, and e ~, the R e , i g 9 11, deserved plaudit. iIIEAT - ' de rt- te es (l, 4 leP AT THE ROYAL AMPITI give° tele s r ot) been of the same cast as those mada me we cti , l erfo 0 week at the Theatre ROI' a rts. ° ,l l OO l as ire I' Webster supporting the chier Fri& ogers, 13 , 01 i the new melodrama of "Janet the Pr!: Gil ) ., sl , e 1, 411 r under novel circumstances; and crew of the Australian eipyer-5-iV _1 0 1 7c0 .4 0 tli q e 4 , their patronage on the oef,l . ° The '7 l ,o o F t e Y al bumper, all parts being cro It' „ oe tinue,, cele .i K, r e similar class of per formanees_i'ltadalv e tili j i; 'lf week, and the fine acting o a biolY tiara fc ! Ol i s 1/1 Webster will doubtless Pre v .,;,, Co. - scl i iiliellipis e e ? PHILHARMONIC SOCI ET - i n the t er eia , po 'el'? ! grand concert will be give u Eye liner 1 ,,n1 o p .f q chief vocalists being 3.ladasme..,,,,en pa y l .. as e 00, , k, 0, and Signor Graziani. Ali inn?lo n e go: cu tie jno , re , r G ec i ea q v solo pianiste, and Signe ,_ _ ar i e d a 9 t Vv. player. The programme Is a ` ~; 0 1 tre celebrity of the artistes, .' anticipated. J P` 'te. 81 1 moat. utt