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

THE .IMVINGTON WATER SOPRM.E.

Ix • accoiaance with a resolution of the Town Council,
that ' body, accompanied by numerous gentlemen con-
nected Adth different pith& bodies, paid a visit of
inspection, on Wednesday,-to the stupendouS waterworks
in the vicinity of . Rivington, now rapidly drawing
towards -a conclusion. A ficil report upon the actual state of
the works will be found in another part of this day's Standard,:
and to it we refer our readers for details Of the compliefited
operations. Much controversy has already' been expended, and
conflicting opinions still exist on the sibject of the real!
value of these works. ••The time for controversy respetting
thisvezed question has now passed. 'The works, after a vast
outlayof capital, and a serious expenditure of excited feeling,
have become so nearlyls'lnished, that .diecrssions upon their
theoretical merits cease 'to be of general importance ; arid it•is
now more in accordance with the public --iinterest that those
' who are possessed of, practical information on such subjects
' should unite in their endeavours to carry into efficient opera-
tian those works -for -Which the communit7 have already paid
so high a ransom, than to establish a,demonstration of their
conjectured inefficiency.
That the Rivington scheme was Vigoronely opposed, by many
who felt a thorough con fiction of its inexpediency, is true ; -and
they Corlicfeinibifirf 741R1Wfn'' `a"'s there .appear
reasonable grounds for believing that the opposition could be
effective, those gentlemen merely discharged a public. Attty
and in doing so were entitled to high commendation. -To con-
tinue that opposition-where prevention cannot be achieved, and
where nothing beyond embarrassment-can be reasonably ex-
pected to follow, . is- mot to pursue the path of duty, nor- to
realise the objects 'which they have themselves in view. AG
theirobject,in the firstinstance, was to secure to the community
a frill--supply of pure -water, and as they differed from their
brethren in regard to the means by which-so desirable an end
was to:he obtained, they did well to controvert the views of
their -opponents by-every fair and leg imate means. :Their
warnings have been disregarded, and-their-suggestions over-
ruled hy the union of opinion among gentlemen as fairly, en-
titled to-represent the public interests as they were, and- the i
controverted projectiles snow been so far-carried out, that, to:
revert to the original- state of matters regarding it is impos-
sible. ;To make the.most of the bargain,whetber a good or .a
bad one, 4g, under existing circumstances,...so,obviously the in-
terest all, that it would ke insulting to the.good sense of the
community were .we to imagine the existence of any other
feeling than an ardent desire, on all hands, to realise the bene
fits which must arise from the completion of those works.
From the-details, .which :Will be found in the report referred
to at the beginning of this.article, it will be seen that by far
the heaviest portions of, the work have been executed, and that
all of them are being pushed forward to a conelusion with
alacrity and skill. -So farns-eould be gathered from a close
Inspection of thoworks, and, inquiries made on the. spot, there
:appears every reason, for believing that the reservoir& and their
;appurtenances, the filtering beds, equalising tanks,-and other
portions of the storage and supply machinery, win!he com-
pleted within a month or two. The pipe-laying hasalSo been
so proceeded with, that two-thirds of the main-piping have
been laid, while a serious difficultyiSn respect to the pipe-line
by St. Helen's has been.,obviated, and the operations in. ,that
department will now be vigorously :prosecuted. In conclu-
sion, we shall content .ourselves -with remarking that there is
every revson for believing .that the .rtin-fall of the ensuing •
.winter will be made available for thesnoply of Liverpool, and
that at a Eine very little, if at all, .I*yond the period men-
tioned by the Water Committee, .the
_gentlemen composing
will be. in at,,..,ondition to congratalate the public, and to' be
congratulated by it, on the completion of .the arduous under-
taking, whiej4it has devolved on them to carry out.

TIIETLE was a;.collision on Saturday night on the Mersey
between. the halftpast eight Woodside boat, from the Landing-
stage, and a flat which was coming doWn.the sliver with the
ticle,.and all. sail.set. Nobody was hurt.
A TERN DETERAINED YOUNG entAtnirAt,,-7;lohn Glover,
a boy ten years, of me, whose head did not even =reach to the
top of the dock, was yesterday charged before Mr.:Emith, one
of the borough magistrates, with picking the ppcicet of Mr.
Dennis Murphy, butcher, on Saturday, while he was ,standing
in front of Jais own stall in St. James's Market. A.ituarket-
constable saw the theft, and immediately took the youngster
into custody, witli three bal,fcrowns and a florin Imlolging to
Mr. Murphy,in his hand. When the evidence had inengisen,
the child's stepmother camelorward and said that about•three
weeks before he was charged with stealing ropes, upon which
occasion he was given up-to :her care upon promising to be.a
good boy for the future and go !to school. She took him home,
washed him, put on him a clean shirt and pinafore, and " made
shim decent," when he went out,again' and she had never seen
;him since until now, Mr. Smith.: mHe seems determined to
be a very bad boy ; take him into the other court to Mr.
Mansfield." The boy was accordingly :taken before the stipen-
diary magistrate, who, after giving the ,c.ase a deliberate con-
sideration, ordered the lad to be :confined in gaol for three
days and once whipped.

STOP TgE CI,OCK !—Four young men, Thomas Walch, John
Barry, Patrick Dougherty, and Thomas Walker, were brought
up at the police-court yesterday, charged with stealing a time-
piece. Police-ofacer 429, said that about a quarter to 3 o'clock
on Sunday morning, he heard that "a clock had been seen
going up Adlingtou,street," in the possession of three men.
Thinking this an extraordinary movement, even for the most
eccentric time-piece, he followed up Adlington-street, when he
met Walsh, Barry, and Dougherty coming down the street to-
gether. He seized Walch, and asked him where he had been
to. Walsh took him back to a house kept by Walker, in a
court in Adlington-street, where a clock, supposed to be the
one stolen, was found in a dismembered state—the face here,
the fingers there, the pendulum, &c., somewhere else. The
officer took the clock "into custody," and attempted to do the
same with the three men, all of whom had come back to the
house, but they made off. Walsh tried to escape by getting
over a wall into Lance-street, but the wall giving way he fell
into the adjoining court, and the officer ran round and captured
him. The other prisoners were afterwards secured, and the
officer then searched for the owner of the stolen clock, and
found him in the person of Mr. Patrick Carroll, of No. 9,
Court, Johnson-street: All parties were brought before the
police-court yesterday, when Mr. Carroll told the bench that
he went home about 2 o'clock on Sunday morning, at which
time his clock was quite safe, and " going" audibly enough.
An " hour or so" after, he found to his surprise, however, that
it was gone, and he identified the one produced as his property.
It transpired that Walker was in bed when the officer visited
his house, and as he protested that he knew nothing whatever
of the clock, he was discharged, The otherg were Wit to gaol
for two months each,