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

2WE RIVING rON WATER SORZAIE.

Ira accordance with a :resolution of the 'Town Council,
that body, accompanied by numerous genthmen con-
ainc.ted with different public bodies, paid a visit ,of
inspection, on Wed day, 'to' the stupendous Nvaterworks
in the vicinity ef Ritingtot, now rapidly drawing
qt-wards a conclusion. A 'full-report upon the :Waal state of
tthe works will be foandin another part of this day's Standaid.
and to it we refer our readers far details aif :the complicated
cperations. Ruch ,controversy has already lasenexpended, and
conflicting opinions still 'exist on the subject of the real
value of these works. • The' tie for controvrsy respecting
',this vexed question has ..nev•passed. Theivniks, after a vast
outlay of capital, and a-serious expenditure,cifeexcited feeling,
have become so !nearly iniihed, that discussions upon their
ttAteoretical writs (cast- teihnief general iiiropur'nnce ; and it-is
Know more in necorclanee,with the pubEclinterest thatihose
who are possessed ,of ,practical information on such subjects.;
-.-should unite in 'their endeavours to carry into efficient opera-
-rtion those works for .which the commanity.have already *aid,
,90 high a ransom than • to keetablish a demonstration of their
-:conjectured inefficiency.

That the Itivington scheme was vigorously opposed, bytnani
who felt athorongheonviction of its ineuneoliency, is true; :and
L • an offering an uncomproniising oppositiort,te a project which
-they conscientiously , condemned, so bong ..as there appearep
L reasonable grounds for believing that the ; opposition could be
effective, those .gentlemen merely. diseharged a public.l4o,
. and in doing so were entitled to high com.mendation. To con-:
-'Snue that opposition wherelpreventioncannat be achieved, and.
' . where nothing beyond embarrassmentcan be reasonably ex-,
, pected to follow, is F.not-7 to pursue the ,path of duty, nor •to
mealise the objects whiehthey have themselves in view. As•
.:their object,in the first instance, was tosecnreto thy community:
,a full supply of pure.uwater, and as ,they.differed from their 1
brethren in regard to• the means by which-,so desirable an entl
liras to be obtained, ;they: did well to controvert the views of
-their opponents byevery fair and legitimate means. 'noir
; • warnings have heen.disregaraled, and their-traggestions over-
. =tied by the union of opinion among gentlemen as fairly An,
titled to represent, the public interests as they were, and the
controverted project, has,:now been so ,far•,carried out, that to
revert to the original -state •ef matters regarding it is impose
*ale. To make the most ofthe bargain,. Whether a good or. a
.bad;one, is, under existipg,cimumstenees,•sonbviously the in-
terest of all, that it wouldbe insulting to.thegood sense of the
community were we to imagine the existence of any other'
feeling than an ardent desire,. on all hands, tofe.alise the bent;
fits .asbeh must arise front the 'completion of these works.
From the details, which.will he found in thereport referred
to at the beginning of this.. article, it will be seen that by far
the,heaniest portions of the: word; have been executed, and that
all of them are being pnehed :forward to a. conclusion with
. alacrity and skill. So far as-eolild be gathered from a close ,
inspectionnf the works, and inquiries made on the spot, there
appears every reason for believing that theresemoirs and their
appurtenances, the filtering beds, equalising tanks, and other !
portions of the storage and supply machinery, AO be com. ,
rpleted witibLa month or two. Tbe pipe-laying has also been
40 proceeded with, that two-thirds .4 the main-piping have
loan. laid, while a serious difficulty.io. respect to the;ipipe-line
hy St. Helen's bas been obviated, and :the operations in that
department will cow be vigorously _prosecuted. I
,In ,conclu-
-1 slop, eve. shall content ourselves witla,remarking thatcfnere is
p, -
every reason for be:ieving that the riClu-fall of the enauing
winter will be made, available for the supply of Liverpool, and
Umtata time very; little, if at all, beyond •the period „men-
tioned by the Water,(mmittee, the gentlemen composing it
will he Ina, condition-to congratulate the public, and •to be
congratulated by it, on; the completion of the arduous -under-
taking which it has devolved on them to carryout, .

THERE was a .collision on Saturday night on the -Mersey
between the 'tali-past eight Woodside boat, from,the.Land,ing-
stage, and a flat which was .coming down the river with the
tide, and all saiLset. Nobogymas hurt.
A VERY DETERMINED "YOITAO- CRIMINAL.-40bzu *lover,'
boy ten years of -age, whose head did not even reach to the
-top of the dock, was
.yesterday charged before Mr. &Tab, one
•qf the borough magistrates; with picking the pocket of Mr.
Dknnis Murphy, butcher, on Saturday, while he was standing
in front of his own stall in St. James's Market. A market-
confdable saw the theft, and immediately took the youngster
into:custody, with three balfcrowns and a florin belonging to
Mr. Murphy, in his hand. When the evidence had been given,
the child's stepmother came forward 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
him decent," when he went out again, and she ;had never seen
him since until now. Mr. Smith : "He seems determined to
be a very bad boy ; take him into the other ,cosrt to Mr.
Mansfield." The boy was accordingly taken beforObe stipen-
diary magistrate, who, after giving the case a deliberate con-
sideration, ordered the lad to be confined in gaol for three
days and once whipped.
SwF THE CLOCK !—Four young men, Thomas Waleh, John
Barry, Patrick Dougherty, and Thomas Walker, were brought
up at the police-court yesterday, charged with stealing a time-
piece. Police-officer 429, said that about a quarter to 3 o'clock
on Sunday morning, he heard that "a clock had been seen
going up Adlington-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
eourt 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 ,1
his house, and as he protested that he knew nothing whatever
of the clock, he was disaargedt The 9thers wcrf sent to gaol
fOr two months smb.