The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-27 00:00:00

THE WATER COMMITTEE.

The weekly meeting of this body was held yesterday,
at the Town-hall. Mr. Farnworth, the chairman, pre-
sided ; and the other members present were—Messrs.
Crellin, Wagstaff, Woodruff, Jeffery, Earle, and Beloe.
The following report and return from the engineer
was read :—" The quantity of water received from
Rivington was 73,351,520 gallons ; pumped from the
wells, 21,353,264 gallons ; total, 94,704,784 gallons.
Delivered at Bootle, unmixed, 2,500,000 gallons ; mixed,
93,510,294 gallons. Proportion of Rivington to well
water, 73 to 21. The returns of the height of the water
in the reservoirs showed that in the following, there had
been a fall :—Roddlesworth, 1 foot 4 inches ; Rake,
1 foot 4 inches ; Anglezark, 2 inches ; .Rivington, 8
inches ; Prescot, No'. 1, 2,-1, inches ; ditto, No. 2,. rise 5/
inches. The engineer also reported that on the pipe line
one leaking joint had been set up, neat Monterey House,
where the creeping of the ground, consequent on the
coal workings, still continued. This has constant atten-
tion. At Car Mill dam a few joints in the exposed
piping had been set up. All besides in good condition.
As regarded the home works, up to Saturday few com-
plaints of frozen pipes were received. Since Monday
morning these bad gradually increased, although in no
way approaching the number of last year. About 100
men were employed in supplying the frozen districts by
stand pipes, and in clearing and protecting the hydrants,
• plugs, &c. Around the docks all the apparatus had
been put into good working order."
It appeared that the deputation who had been
appointed to go over and investigate the late accident to
the Roddlesworth reservoir had made a report on the
subject. A copy of this had been sent to Mr. Hawksley,
the engineer, from whom a reply had been received.
The documents, however, were pot read.
This was the whole of the public business, and the
committee then proceeded with a consideration of the
principles on which in future the water rate will have to
be assessed and levied.

A pastoral letter from his eminence Cardinal Wise-
man was read on Sunda`•, on the duties of Christians as
to the love feast of the Christian calendar.

From 40,000 to 50,000 inmates of the metropolitan
workhouses were provided with roast beef and plum-
pudding on Tuesday.

THE PAN I'ONHMES.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,

" Little 80-Peep" was produced at this house on Mon-
day, and repeated last night, on blth of which occasion
the theatre was crowded in every part. Our anticipa-s
tions of its success were not ill-founded, for it is well
calculated to sustain the high reputation of the manage-
ment for productions, and will, no doubt, erjoy a long
run of well-deserved popularity. On Monday evening
a few defects were observable, defects, however, which
are almost inseparable for a first public representation,
and which were entirely absent last night. The libretto
of the opening story is by Mr. Buckstone, the popular
dramatic author, manager, and actor. Little 80-Peep, as
everyone knows who presumes to any acquaintance with
the literature of the nursery, was a pretty shepherdess,
residing in Arcadia, who, with the usual virtues of such
pantomime fairies, united the questionable advantage of
being generally asleep in the day time. This interesting
personage finds an apt representative in Miss Bramah,
the sheep being also ably represented by a number of
juveniles. One day 80-Peep falls asleep, and a wicked
wolf steals away her sheep. She, of course, upon
awakening, sets out in search of them, and gets into
difficulties, from which she is only extricated by the
good fairy, who, in a truce, converts the " dark caverns
of despondency" into the " glittering halls of bliss." The
transformation scene is of a most gorgeous character,
and may well vie with any former production for its '
grandeur, magnificence, and beauty. The harlequinade
is as amusing as ever ; Mr. Wilson as Harlequin, Mr.
Forster as Clown, Miss Bramah as Columbine, and
Mr. Appleby as Pantaloon, leaving nothing to be
desired.