The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-03 00:00:00

sunk in the red sandstone could, by any possi-
bility, yield more than one million, or one and a
quarter of a million of gallons of water per diem,
and as he was, of course, a great man, he must
have his theory. He explained his views in this
way, or rather he attempted to do so :—that the
water in the red sandstone rock was contained in
inverted cones—an improvement, certainly, on
poor Dr. BIICKLAND, that "the water was
contained in boxes !!" Far be it from us to
disturb the ashes of the mighty dead, but we
have to study the interests of the living,
and the urgency of the case demands
that we should not suffer names,
however revered, or ideal theorists to interpose
their dreamy notions on such a vital question
as the supply of water to the town of Liver-
pool.

- It may be possible that one of our cotem-
poraries vouches for the abundance of water
at the Pike. We do not. STEPHENSON'S
theory has proved a mistake. Other indi-•
viduals who have presumed to deal with
the geological bearings of the case have proved
themselves to be equally empirical and pre-
sumptuous. On this question, be it observed,
we know no one. A matter involving the very
existence of a community like ours is not a
subject for theorists or experimentalists at all.
We had pure water in abundance some few
months ago. We can have it still. Are we
to be deprived of the refreshing draught in
order to please the Pikeists ? The Council
will doubtless have something to say on the
subject to-day.

SUDDEN DEATH.—Yesterday William Houghty died
suddenly in Ranelaigh-Street. An inquest will be held on
the body this day.
COTTON TO AMERlCA.—Sending cotton from England to
the United States may be said to be like sending " coals
to Newcastle," but so it is—that East India cotton has
I been entered as per Liverpool Customs' Bill of Entry, in
April and May last, to the extent of several hundred bales,
for exportation to New York and Boston.
CRICKET.—We are glad to see this good old EnOish
game, long so popular, is becoming a great favourite with
the younger portion of our population. On Saturday last,
the principal members of the Dingle Club played a match
with the Toxteth Club, assisted by a member of the
Olympus, on the ground of the former, which ended in the
total defeat of the latter, the Dingle winning by the first
innings alone.
PRESENTATION BY THE BOILER-MAKERS OF THE CUNARD
STEAMSHIP COMPANY.—Ihe operatives in the employ of
the Canard Company have subscribed a sum of money to
present their esteemed foreman, Mr. George Woods, with
a handsome silver snuff-box, lined with gold, on the
occasion of his leaving the employ for New York. It has
been manufactured by Mr. J. Jacob, silversmith, 56,
Church-street, and bears the following inscription :
" Presented to Mr. George Woods, by the boiler-makers of
the Cunard Steamship Company, Liverpool, as a token of
their high respect. May it be a lasting memorial of the
past. A.D., 1857."
HENGLER'S CIRQUE.— Mr. Hengler, ever anxious to
render the public the greatest treat, has produced, for the
holidays, an amount of attraction scarcely evar equalled in
the equestrian line in Liverpool. Several new performers
and fetes have been introduced, and the crowded state of
the house, both at morning and evening performance,
fully attest the public appreciation of the manager's con-
duct. We mention, that the late respected secretary and
manager Mr. Henry, has been promoted to a high posi-
tion in London, and that he has been succeeded by Mr.
Francis, who, although only a short time in office, has
won golden opinions from all ; and no doubt under
his management the performance will be considerably
enhanced.

SERIOUS AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRE LAST NIGHT. At
half—past four o'clock yesterday afternoon, a fire broke
out in two warehouses, belonging to Messrs. Greene and
Taylor, Vulcan-street, opposite the Bramley-More Dock.
The alarm being given, Mr. Hewitt, of the fire-brigade,
Temple-court, was in attendance with a reel carriage and
engine. Two engines and two reels from the Prince's
dock, one reel from the Sandon dock, and an engine from
the West of England station were also speedily on the
spot, and by half-past seven the flames were got under.
When we went to press this morning, the debris was still
slightly ignited, and it will probably be some days ere the
fire can be completely put out. The warehouses were
filled with cotton and flour. We may mention that Head
Constable Greig, and Superintendents Royd and Boyd,
rendered very great service on the occasion. We have
not heard what in office the warehouses and contents are
insured.
A PILOT DROWNED.-It is our painful duty to mention
a melancholy occurrence, which resulted in the (
i .leath of
Mr. William Sale, one of the hands belonging to plot boat
No. 5. The particulars are as follows :—On Wednesday
last, the pilot boat was on duty at eleven, a.m., about four
miles N.W., and by west of the lightship. The punt was
hauled up for the purpose of putting a pilot on board the
Waterford steamer, William Penn. The pilot boat was
then rnnning at the rate of seven knots an hour, in conse-
quence of which the punt, on being
.hauled up, got along-
side the pilot boat, and filled on the instant. Before filling,
three of the boat's crew got into the punt, and from the
rate at which the pilot boat was running, it caused the
punt's stern to run alongside the boat, from which she was
unable to get clear, and she filled with water. The
parties in the boat, particularly the deceased, used every
exertion to get the punt clear, but the rapidity with
which the pilot boat was sailing rendered every effort
unavailing, and as a matter of course, the punt went down;
at the same time one man and ~a boy were washed out.
The three men held fast to the rope by which the punt
was secured to the pilot boat. The punt was now hauled
up, and the men with it. Of the two persons now in the
water, one got hold of an oar, by which he managed to
keep afloat until a boat from the William Penn came up
and rescued him from his perilous situation. The other
man (Wm. Sale) had nothing to cling to, and after a few
desperate efforts, went down and was seen no more.
Great praise is due to the captain of the Wm. Penn, for
the activity displayed on this occasion. Had he not mani-
fested much promptitude, and sent his boat off with all
speed, we fear that two persons instead of one would have
met with a watery and untimely end. The unfortunate
man who was drowned was highly respectable, and has
left a wife and four children to deplore his untimely end ;
and what is more melancholy. they are entirely -unuro-
vided for. From the rumours which have reached- us,
i
this sad mishap merits nvestigation, for it seems,strauge
that the pilot boat's punt should be hauled up under such
circumstances.

The French Minister of Justice has issued a circular,
desiring all judges and magistrates not to make use of any
other names, titles, or particulars than those appearing in
the certificates of their birth. The circular, however, is a
step in the only practical course to be taken for checking
the assumption of false titles.
GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY IN NAPLES.—A letter from
Naples states that great excitement existed in that capital
in consequence of the robbery of the most celebrated
diamonds of Sicily, those of the Duchess de Savigliano,
daughter of General Filiangieri. The robbers are said to
have left nothing but the cases. The value is about 9,0001.
One of the few millions of party documents published
during the last presidential election in the United Sates,
was a map of the Federation in which all the Slave
States were coloured a deep black. It was an impressive
appeal to the eye instead of the ear, and probably had
more effect than may stump speeches. The bright red
and yellow tints of the North and West oontrasecl
strongly with the "hue of darkness and eclipse" spread
over the States of the South. The main inference
intended to be drawn from the huge blot was that slavery
had increased, was increasing (it was then threatening to.
absorb Kansas), and ought to be diminished; it was also
meant to denote that all covered by the sable tinge was
under a kind of blight, moral and physical, by which real
prosperity was chilled and destroyed.
A FATAL HoTEL.—Some of the minor hotels at
Washing on (U.S.) are now closed, and one of the major
hostelries, the National, having killed some thirty of its
latest guests, and poisoned, less effectually,
about 500
I others, is also very properly shut up as a public nuisance.
The cause of the general empoisonmeut—for of the fact
there can be no doubt—is still a mystery. The investiga-
tion made has not been satisfactory, but the savans,
medical and other authorities, have decied that it was only
bad air and choked drains. A subscription is on foot to
has
been the expense of a more searching
inquiry--a
too late it is to be feared. That the unlucky yh—oua house
little
been closed is more an act of necessity on the part of the
Iproprietors than one of official vigilance. Everybody, of
course, quitted it, and it will be long ere they return. The
large pile of building, once so crqwded and busy, is dark
,and desolate,