The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-06 00:00:00

SaL2s.—Tbi-5 all)!

it twelve o'cl,ick, at the brokers' office, 2, Dale-street, Cotton, Gam-
b:er, and t ac Hunterand Co.
At the br ker.! as: eroorn,Artyr. o Dale-street. 2,000 bales
East L.dia Wool.—Huchea and Ronald. •
At twelve o'clock, at the broker's( ffl e, Exchange-strietWest, 3.34
barrels American Rosin,—Stacg,egor Laird, Jun.
At tweive o'clock, at tbe brokers' office, 18, Hackin's-hey, 80) brie.
Ameri, an Rosin.—A.. & S. H. Sleigh.
At twelve o'ciock, at the brokers' office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 22
hyds. Ph.lade pSia Bark.— i H R yner and Co.
At twelve o'e ock, 32y bales Gimbi in —A. R. Co c and Co.
At the public salamom, 80 bags doe Scotch Farii,a, and 230 hap
Nita e of So 'a.—Alex. S. Macrae.
At twelve o'cloc;c, White Argos, Brown Tartar, and East India Borax.
ox Beath ra.
At tvtelve o'clock, at the brokers' Mlle 21. 01 ihall-street, 183 bags
Shells.—Buchanan, Browne a d Co.
At twelve o'clock, tie pu`..lic saleroom, Exchange-buildings, 90
tons Log rood.—R. L. Cl,re,
At tw, lye o'clock, at the public sa'eroom, Exchange-buildings, 260
ton. Logwo,cl.—Griffitis, S ne. and Paiethorp,..
Ar t.eelve o'clock, so the p.. 61 c staler cm, Excnange-b.iilding., Salt-

petre and Arsis,—F rguson, Pii.ans anii Co
At twelve o'clock, at the bi.okers' office, 18, Hac%in's-hey, Argols,
Bees' Wax, and Oil.— Balmain and Hill,
At teri.-lvit o'clock, at the' broker's office, Lancaster-buildings, Tithe-
ha- n.street, C 6 bass Itifyr...bo' a:.-b. —Henry Wilde.
At d e o'cloc:c, at ilriibl'okrrs' office. 39, FAchange.alley North, about
30 bales Cotton.—Shand, Hig-on and co
At tar...it e s'e ocx, t 4 the brokers' offic , 39a, Eachange.street Emt,2s
tons Gieen E .ony.—Pe-cival, Campheil and Co.
At the pub is a leruom. Exchange-biti MadJer Roots, M. O'P,
Shed.' Gum Arabic, Galls. Persian Berries, Gum Tragacanth, and
Irish Moss.—Ww. Porter and C.
At twelve o'cl.)ck, at the public st,eroo e, Exchange-buildings, a
Quantity Pearl Sago &c. —John B ron and Son.

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:THIS DAY.

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TVED.VESDAY, MAY 6, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

Yesterday was an unusually great day in the
city of Manchester. The Art Treasures Exhibition
was opened, and Royalty lent its aid to the impos-
ing ceremony. Prince Albert arrived in Man-
chester shortly after eleven o'clock, and having
rested himself for a short time at Abney Hall, the
seat of Mr. Watts, the Mayor of the city, he pro-
ceeded to the exhibition building, where the cere-
monial of opening the exhibition was performed
in the order previously announced in the pro-
gramme. Several distinguished noblemen, and
many of the leading gentry of the counties of Lan.
caster and Y;rlr, met His Royal Highness,
to countenance, by their presence, the laudable
objects of the originators of the Exhibition. Our
readers will find a full report of the proceedings
in another column. We may just mention that
at the Exhibition building his Royal Highness was
received by Lord Overstone, the President of the
Council of the Exhibition, the Chairman and
members of the Executive Committee, Mr Dean,
the General Commissioner, and Mr. Hamilton,
the Secretary, by whom he was conducted to the
reception room. The Corporation address was
here presented, and suitably acknowledged by his
Highness, who then moved up the middle
avenue of the centre hall, followed by the mem-
bers of the government who were present, foreign
ambassadors, the members of the borough, and
the leading members of the corporation. The
National Anthem was sung with great enthusiasm
The Bishop of Manchester offered up an appro-
priate prayer for the success of the undertaking,
and " 'the Art Treasures Exhibition'' was formally
-declared opened. The Prince will leave Man-
chester to-clay at noon.
The usual monthly meeting of the Town Council
will be held to-day, when several matters will be
)rolieht under consideration. The proceedings of
the Water Committee will no doubt give ii a to a
long and animated debate. The facts in connec-
tion with the supply and quality of the Pike water
which we have recently published render it highly
=desirable that some steps should be taken to pre-
vent injurious consequencks to the health of the
inhabitants of Liverpool during the approaching
hot season.

Several of our local boards held their usual
meetings yesterday, but their proceedings inserted
elsewhere de not merit any special notice.
In the Court of Queen's Bench yesterday, in the
Case of the Queen v Bannock, for resorting to inti-
midation at the late election in Denbih, by
threatening to wilhdraw his custom from an elector,
an application for leave to make a rule absolute 'to
file a criminal i.nformation was refused. It is
probable that the matter may yet be prosecuted by
a indictment,
The boiler of a locomotive engine belonging to
the London and North Western Railway Company
exploded yesterday forenoon, at the E lgc -hill
*Sta tio n. We regret to say that one man was
instantly lolled, and several others severely
wounded. The hitter have been removed to the
Isiort'ern Hospital. They were all servants of the
Company.
The address of the Liverpool Financial Reform

-Association to the members of parliament will be
found in to-day's paper. It is -a very interesting
document, and will well repay perusal. A copy-has
been forwarded to_each member of the new par-
liament. The weak point of the. document lies- in
the supposition that the Cotnmoos will take the
advice. Appeals to reason and right are easily
made, but something more is Wanting to make the
representatives of alcout" one thirtieth part of the.
population" see.their way clearly to legislate justly
for the whole population, and make them resolve
firmly to-take it.
Sir John Paansden has entered upon the dis-
charge of his duties as tinder Secretary for the
War Department, vice Mr. Frederick Peel..
Some suspicion has been excited by the appear-
ance in Friday's Gazette of an announcement that
the see of Norwich is vacant, and that Mr Pelham
is to fill it. h the see vacant ? If so, why was a
speAal act passed last session to enable Bishops
Biomfi 4d and Maltby only to resign their sees?
It was not a general act, be it remembered. Lord
Harrowby was questioned in the House of Lords
last session (with the liana] result) as to the inten-
tion of the Governmeninent to introduce a general
measure on the subject. The fact, we'believe, is,
that a bill will be immediately brought forward by
the Government to enable Bishop Hinds to do
that which the Gazette says he has already done
In the LoAdon Court of Bankruptcy it hits been
declared by an eminent solicitor, Mr Linklater, that
the revelations which have been made respecting
the British Bank would insure a conviction. against
certain parties if a criminal prosecution were
instituted. _This he gave not as his own legal
opinion simply. but as the opinion of others
engaged in the profession of the law.. The,teF.-
pensibility of-such. prosecutions rests with the
Government.
The Very. Rev. -D. Manning, formerly Arch.
deacon of Chichester; and whose secession from the
Church of England a few years since producedlio
great a sensation; was yesterday installed in the
Ronaau-.Catholie. -dignity, -assuming- the -title : of
"Provost 'of the Arehdiocesa of Westininster."

The ceremony tool( place: in the church of St.
Mary, Moorfields, London,:by his Eminence CAI.-
ilinal Wiseman

More food riots in the west of Ireland are re-
ported, bin the agriculzurAl accounts of the spring
crops are more encouraging than lately from that
part of the United Kingdom. The foreign news thri`'inorning is not of much
interest or i m portwe. ,
The French mails have_. not arr,iyed, and
we are cons€llnenAly B.kmae beat: scwot of intei-
ligenee from ,that country. Le 11,441,.. gives
tw
the substance of a report presented to tho
French Council . _of7, atatep= on the question of
Transatlantic Stearn .Navigation. The port of
departure for New York, will be Havre. The.
Brazilian line from BetirdeanitTlithtl'Afie Mexican
line from Nantes. The depttiturect wilt be' twiee a
month, and the fl 'et is to consibt of twenty-six
vessels of 12,700 horse power in tifehiggregate.
The Berlin correspondent of a Undon cotempo-
rary says it may be considered certain that no new
lodustruq shares will be issuO_in Austria for the
next twelve-months. Therei4ipow little chance of
the new Russian tariff leing,,promulgated before
the close of the present year's, navigation. The
death of Tengobarski, who had the-charge of pre._
paring the tariff, an who wasfriendly to it freer
commercial movement is likely to diminish the
value of ,the new grrangement.- The railways, in
construction on the St. Petersburg and Warsaw
lines, and Which wilt eonneet,Thissia with Prussia,
are `those which '-the RuSsian government have
arranged at \Vilna to commence the prelimintiry
operations,: •'

In the Canton of Fribourg a new constitution
is Under discussion. The Ultramontane, party
is completely in the ascendant, and. the Radicals
will. undoubtedly be ejected from, power—that is,
if affairs do not undergo a great change. •.
We are in receipt of Lisbon dates to the 26th
ultimo. The report of the Committee of Finance
and Public Works in favour of Sir M. Peto's rail-
way Contraet having been laid before the Deputies
was brought under 'dicussion en the 25th, and
the general principles -Of the bill to carry it into
effect, were approved by ri'majOrity'of 100 against
thi ee. Some additional clauses were brought forward
to appropriate certain revenues for the disburse-

menis the Government will have to make in order
tn-carry•out• the qentrdot, - One of the Ai-cat ve=tn-

likely to be the claims of the English contractors
for the line between Lisbon and Santarem, which
is to be transferred, free of all claims, to Mr. Poto ;
and as Mr. Valentine had arrived, with powers to
settle all the contractors' accounts with the Go-
vernment, it was expected all differences would be
settled as soon as the bill. of authorisation should
have passed the Cortes.
Four additional officers have been decorated with
the Victoria Cross, for acts of valour which are
fully recorded in the Gazette. The names of the
officers are—Colonel Percy, Grenadier General ;
Lieutenant W. Hope, 7th Foot ; Assistant-Surgeon
Hale, same regiment; and Brevet-Major Conelly,
now of the Coldstreams, and late of the 49th reg'-
ment. The Gazette of last night also notifies that
all persons who have taken part in the various ex-
peditions from 1818 to 1855, are to send in their
names. The survivors of the crews of not fewer
than 35 ships, are entitled to come in for the dis-
tinction.

THE Water Engineer estimates the quantity of
water necessary for the supply of the town for
the present at ten millions of gallons per diem,
but he does not inform the Water Committee on
what data he has arrived at this conclusion. Mr.
HAWKSLEY declared eight millions to be ample,
and never pledged himself to supply more from
the Pike. This would give twenty gallons per
head for the daily consumption of 400,000
people, but how this large quantity of water
is to be consumed has not been shown.
Experiments, made under the direction of the
Borough Engineer, demonstrated that in our
Infirmary, and other public establishments where
water in large quantities is consumed for baths,
water closets, washing, and steam purposes—in
fact for every thing for which water is necessary,
and where the supply is unlimited, the actual
consumption proved to be under ten gallons per
head per diem, and this too for an adult popula-
tion. How then is Mr. DoNcA-N to dispose of
the ;twenty-five gallons which he declares to be
necessary to meet the wants of the present
population. lle has made a long stride in
advance of every other authority on this subject.
Twenty gallons is an extravagant estimate; but
assuming that this might be necessary, then,
according to Mr. DUNCAN'S own statements, this
quantity can be nearly supplied from the existing
works without any extensions whatever. In his
Report, he says that the Green-lane well alone
is capable of yielding upwards of three millions
of gallons daily ; that Windsor yields one
million ; and that the two engines at Bootle raise
700,000 gallons daily. With regard to the other
stations, he says :—" It is not necessary for the
purposes of his Report that he should say any
thing about them." It is very possible that it
may not be necessary for his or the Water
Committee's " purposes" to say " any thing
about them ;" but it is for ourselves. The yield
of these wells was ascertained, by actual
measurements made by Messrs. KENNEDY and

M'GREGOR, some few years ago, to be as
follows
Hotham-street station .. 414,274 .
_ .
Water-street, Park .
Soho-street
Bush . . . ... . ... _360 288

Total of four Stations.. 2,261,056

Mr. DUNCAN does not tell us how much more
than three millions can be daily raised from the
Green-lane ; but we have good authority .for
stating that at present that well will yield three
and a quarter millions, and even this can be
largely increased. Then, as at Bootle, there are
three engines at that station, and the actual yield
of the well, as was also determined by measure-
ment, was found to be 1,150;000 gallons. We
have thus the correct yield of the whole or the
existing works, as follows :

Four minor stations, as above 2 261,056
Green-lane, at present 3,270,000
Bootle .
Windsor, at present..... 1,000,000

Grand total .... 7,661,0-36
or within the merest "trifle of the full quantity
which even Mr. HAWKSLEY declared to be
adequate for every purpose ; and yet with these
incontrovertible facts before them, the Water
hngineer -and the Water Committee have had
the brazen effrontery clandestinely to introduce
their poisonous bog-wash, on the pretext that
there m as a scarcity or water, in the town.

The lives and comfort of 400,000 people
thus to be trifled, with is a proceeding
without a parallel. No one knowS better than
Mr. DUNCAN does that the well water Is more—,-
much - more-Lthan sufficient to meet every
requirement of the inhabitants for several years
to tome, and the cry of scarcity has been only a
wicked pretext got up by scheming jobbers to
suit their own purposes, and cloak their
iniquitous proceedings. But we are mistaken. if
the Council will tamely submit any longer to
the' insolent and rmbluShin, dominations of the
Water Committee and their servants. We trust
, that to-day-the representatives of the people. will,
faithful to the important trust reposed in them,
not tolerate even for a single clay longer, under
any-pretext; the pollution Of our pure well water
with the . Itivington wash. They have the
clearly, expresiecl wishes of the Ratepayers b.lore
them, and no torturing or twisting of language
by any ingenious sophist must be pennitted
to blind them to the fact that the
inhabitants; with one voice, demand the resit:-
tutioh of their
.well water in its original purity by
the instrumentality of the existing
,pipeage and
apparatus, and if it shall be decreed, that this
shall betombined with the Rivingfon water, then
that this latter shall be distributed by a separate
set of pipes to be proridedfor THAT purpose.only.
After the faithful description of the condition of
the water, which appeared in our impression of
yesterday from our own reporter, we would ask
the Water Committee, and their " most faithful
servants," tor what purpose is such disgusting
filth to be applied. As for drinking, culinary
brewing, or any dietetic purpose, that is out of
the question; it is, not, only repulsive for all atiek
but positively poisonous in every instance where
it has been. in contact with lead. On that
point, there cannot be any longer a doubt; it has
been pronounced unfit, even when largely diluted,
for the use of the' Public }laths ; it is quite un-
suited, from the colouring matter it contains, for
washing clothes ; besides, from the attempts now
being made to purify it by means of quick lime,
it is rendered even harder than the well water
—in short, except for the
,supply of water
closets, and flushing sewers, and for some few
manufacturing purposes, it is, totally. useless.
Those who may wish to have it-for such purpOsei
ought to be gratified if such can be done without
entailing any serious charge on the ratepayers,
or otherwise interfering with their supply of
pure water.

Mr. DUNCAN, in his estimates of the cost of
a separate supply, sets down the annual cost of
such at some 13,0001. For pumping alone, the
amount is said to be over 6,0001. per annum ;
but, will not this be a permanent charge on the
water account, under any circumstances ? We
believe it will. Those in the secret know that
there is no intention of abandoning the wells,
that, in fact, they cannot be abandoned ; that
the boasted capacity of the works at Itivington,
to furnish sixteen million gallons daily, was
proved, like everything else connected with the
job,a gross delusion. According to the testimony
of our own reporter, the water in the reservoir is
being rapidly reduced, although the drain
upon it does not exceed three million gallons
daily ; even this has had the effect during a
single week of dry weather, of draining the
water several feet below the waste weir ; —but
what would be the effect of a month of such
weather. if the draught was increased upwards
of four fold ? Why any one could safely pre-
dict that V e supply would be completely
exhausted In short, the water is not there to'
give
• the boasted springs that were to be con-
stantly flowing, only existed in the minds of the
Pikeists. There is not now as much water
flowing into the Itivington reservoir, as would
supply the Cornwallis street baths. It may,
therefore, he considered a settled question, that
the whole of the pumping stations must of neces-
sity, be maintained, thus proving that the engin-
eers estimate of annual outlay, is like the other
portions of his report, utterly fallacious and
unt rue.

With regard to the proposition of supply-
ing Rivington water, and well water through the
same line of pipes which we ourselves have
recommended by way of experiment, the
engineer exhausts his logic in combatting a
Phantom of his own creation. Who ever dreamed
of emptying and recharging the cnains alternately
on each change of water a Most certainty we never
did, nor are we aware that any thing so palpably
absurd was ever proposed by any one. What
we did recommend, was, that a trial should be