Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-03 00:00:00

every credit to Mr. Duncan for his honest and straight-
forward report ; but he w Add ask, why had they not a
report from•Mr.Hawkesley, who received the commission ?
After Mr. Duncan's report, and after the experience they
had had of the water, he (Mr. Parker) was prepared to
second Mr. Jeffery's proposition for a second line of pipes.
There shoull be a separate distribution of the two waters,
and with that view he would move, as an amendment, that
it be an instruction to the Water Committee to supply the
inhabitants 'With spring water, without any admixture of
the Rivington water.
Mr. J R. JEFFERY seconded the motien, in order that a
debate might take place on the subj. et.
Mr. ROBERTSON said that Mr. Parker took it for granted
that all the advocates of the Pike scheme now conceded
that it was a failure. He (Mr. Robertson) for one, was
not of that opinion. It was said that the water was a
failure for drinking purpose, but he would not sub-
scribe to that opinion until every means to render
it unobjectionable had proved of no avail. It
was proved, by the course pursued by Mr. Radley at
his hotel, that it was successfully filtered in small
quantities, and he did not eee why it could not be equally
successfully treated in large quantities. Mr Robertson
then referred to the water supply of Greenock, and said,
that at first it was as objectionable as the Rivington water.
Proper means for its filteraticn were, however, adopted,
and it was now considered the first water in the kingdom.
The water was first forced up through the filtering beds,
and then allowed to fall through them, but in the Rivington
filter beds, a great quantity of water flowed into the pipes
without being at all filtered. He mentioned the matter to
Mr. Duncan, and he thought they should first try every
mode of fllteration before laying down a second line of
pipes, which would be objectionable, not only on account of
the expense, but because the owners of property would
not carry the second pipes into their houses. Gentlemen
might do it, but the cottage owners would not, and he was
satisfied that the lower classes of the people were perfectly
satisfied with the water.
Mr, GODFREY : No, no.
Mr. ROBERTSON: He meant to say for drinking pur-
poses. But how much water did such people drink in
their houses ? They drank more ale there.
Mr. GODFREY : More now, because they have the
"Pike."
Mr. ROBERTSON continued to say that he did not con-
sider the scheme a failure, and that they should not give
it np until they had first tried every means of improving
it.

Mr. J. R JEFFERY said that in the month of Msy the
Council passed a resolution that the water then supplied
to the population of Liverpool was unfit for die etic pur-
poses. (Cries of " No, no.")
Mr. C. TURNER " Unsatisfactory" was the term.
Mr. JEFFERY continued : What was the meaning of
" unsatisfactory," as applied to water, if it did not mean
that the water was unfit for use, and jeopardised health.
In the month cf May that resolutron was passed. In July,
a memorial was received from forty laundresses, declaring
that for their purposes the water was highly injurious, and
that fine linens were discoloured from the use of the water.
What means did the Water Committee take to remedy
those evils ? Why, they allowed themselves to be seized
hold of by a gentleman who very much resembled a midge,
because of the tenacity with which he stuck to the
Committee from their first creation, and who had received
much of the public money to the benefit only of himself—
he alluded to Mr. Spencer. On a future day, he (Mr.
Jeffery) would call for an account of the sums received
by that gentleman for his experimants on the
water. Well, what did the Committee do since May to
improve the water for dietetic purposes Positively
nothing but squander the public money, and they now
came forward, and after the bill, which they drew upon
time, had been over and over again dishonored, they had
still the boldness to ask for another renewal. He was
opposed to renewals, and he would not grant the request.
The water was only condemned for dietetic purposes, and
he did not want them to cast it away altogether. Far
otherwise ; he wanted that they should apply it to sani-
tary and such manufactoring purposes as it may be found
adapted to, but give the inhabitants for table use, the old
pure rod sandstone water. (Hear hear.) He had no
hope whatever from the present committee. (Hear hear )
They were a body of gentlemen, against whom, taken
individually, nothing could be said disparagingly, but when
they got into committee, they adhered together in a way
which it was impossible to comprehend. It was said that
the poor seldom drank water, but would they find the proof
of that in the numbers of people who drank at the
public fountains which were so benevolently erected
by Mr. Melley ? Ho was just handed a re-
tarn which showed ' that in April 2,308 drunk
at the Prince's dock fountain in 12 hours and 20 minutes;
and in June, at St. James's fountain, 3,340 drank in 12
hours and 15 minutes. It might be said, "if the water be
so bad how can you account for so many people drinking
it ?" (Hear, hear.) But he would reply that even were
it much worse the people would drink it, and for the simple
reason that they had no other. In conclusion, then, he
would ask them whether, after the report which the engi-
neer had recorded in the books, they would take upon
themselves the responsibility of going on any farther in
the course which they had hitherto pursued ? The water
was condemned by their own officer in its mixed state, and
what, he would ask them, was the just inference, but that
it was much worse in its natural state. (Hear, hear.) He
*might of them,then,as they valued their fellow creatures,
and as they valued the responsibility .which devolved on
them as legislators, to change their course, and to prevent
the water in its present state being supplied to the in-
habitants for any longer period than was indispensably
necessary. Ho would support the experiment of supplying
the town with spring water three days a week, because he
was anxious to meet the wishes of all, and still more anxi-
ous about the enormous expense having been incurred in a
great public work that they should adopt what was good
in it, and reject what was bad. (Rear, hear.)
Mr. Hopson said that, in his mind, there was not the
slightest change as to the character or colour of the water ;
but, after the remarks of Mr. Jeffery, and knowing the
exaggerated feeling on the subject out of doors, he would
himself move an amendment—that the spring water be
supplied three days a week. He should maintain, how-
ever, that a fair chance had not been given to the Riving-
ton water. The works ware the largest in the kingdom, and
though in smaller works the water had taken a year or two
to clear, here it was expected that it should at the first
come pure and clear through rusted pipes into the town.
(gear, hear.) The same objection existed at first in regard
to the Greenock water as now prevailed towards the
Bivingten water, but the Greenock water was now the
bast in the kingdom. Their collecting ground was the
same as Windermere, where the water was pure and clear.
Mr. GODFREY : But the Windermere people dont't drink
it.

Tar. HODSON : That was of no consequence. (Laughter.)
It was a singular fact that, notwithstanding the poisonous
character of the Rivington water, the town WAS never more
healthy for the last ten years than during the present
summer. He drank the water largely himself, and felt
no ill effects from it.

Mr. BECKWITH: I believe you. (Laughter.) They
don't give you credit, doctor, for drinking your water
uncoloured. (Great laughter.)
Mr. Honsox reiterated his opinion as to the healthy
character of the present water, and said that the time would
come when they would be blessed for having brought so
abundant a supply into the town.
Mr. J. A. TINNR said that if the council had paid
attention to the minutes of the committee, they would
Fee that this matter wit; just now wider consideration
in the only way in which, as a matter of business, it
could be considered. They had referred it to the engi-
neer to report to the committee the cost of laying
down a double system of pipes through the whole
district which they were bound to supply, and was it
not advisable that they should wait for that report ?
When the report which had been just read was brought
before the committee, he was in favour of its being
placed on the minutes, in order that the council and the
public might be informed of it ; but, at the same time,
he held that the committee required further information
before they could deal with it in a busines
manner. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. WOODRUFF referred to the letter of Dr. Angus
Smith, and appealed to the Council to let reason have
weight in the matter, and to allow the committee to
report on the subject, as they promised and contemplated.
He was satisfied that the inhabitants would not sanction
any extreme course on the present question, particularly
if it led to a large outlay of money, unless that expense
was shown to be absolutely necessary. Besides, they
could not incur any large expense in the matter without
the sanction of an Act of Parliament, and they should
therefore allow the committee to carry out the resolution
they had come to—namely, to obta,n from Mr. Duncan an
estimate of the cost of a second line of pipes, and the
system of filteration proposed by him, and than to report
on the whole matter to the Council.

Mr. Alderman BENNETT said " time, time," had been the
cry of the Water Committee ever since the Ist of January.
That the Water Committee had been deceived, and that
the Water Committee had deceived the Town Council, he
did not think any member of the committee would be bold
enough to deny.
Mr. Timm thought the express ion " had deceived," had
too mach of a personal character. It was capable of a
construction -which he should not like to have applied.
Mr. JZFFERY : He said the committee have been de-
ceived.
Mr. Alderman HoLmE : And have deceived.
Mr. Totiqx : I understood him to say that the Water
Committee had deceived the public.
Mr. Biravtarr said, if he had not been interrupted, he
thought his explanation would Iwo niggled Kr, Tian*,

and every other member, that he did not intend any per-
sonal observation. Eighteen months ago the Water Com-
mittee, to a man, were under the impression that within a
few months from that time the Eivington water would be
in Liverpool, and would, to a very great extent, supersede
the expensive pumping ey3teca then in use. It was
with great difficulty that a resolution was passed about
that time by the Councl to put down an additional engine
in Green-lane, the objection b ing, that in a few mouths
they would have the Rivington water, and the expense
would be thrcevn away. Towards Nevember there was
some hesitation about ente'ing into a new contract for
coals, as it was thought that for the same reason the
working of engines to any extent would be soon discon-
tinued. How was it p.ssible to put any other construction
upon these facts than that the committee ware deceived—
that they were under a wrong apprehension that the water
j would be in Liverpool in a short time after, and would be
I of that quality that it would supersede the necessity of
pumping ? (Hear, hear.) In reference to the speakers
who had preceded him, he contendei that the filtration
process adopted by Mr. Radley, as stated by Mr. Robertson,
would not apply to a large town. It was most
unfortunate for the promoters of the Rivington scheme
that the Rivington water was good for very little
indeed. Even when mixed half with spring
water, it was objected to for bathing. The
Chairman of the Bath's Committee was compelled to
order spring water, as the baths would cease to be pro-
fitable, for people would not bathe in them. In washing
they were told that the boiling of the water extracted so
much colour from the peaty m Ater, that the linen was
dyed a light yellow, and de'icate fabrics were altogether
spoiled. A sugar-boiler connected with one of the largest
establishments in town, told him that the water was quite
unsuitable for the purposes of his trade, and that they
prayed for the spring water back again. The uses to
which it was applicable were very few indeed, such as
watering the streets, flushing the sewe's, the hydraulic
hoists, and putting out fires For those purposes a very
short extent of pipes indeed would suffice, and the spring
water might be used again for its legitimate purposes.
Allusion had been made to the Geeenock scheme. He
happened to ba well acquainted with that scheme. The
water-shed was as different from o:r shed as a slate
roof differed from a manured field. The water
shed of Gi'eenock was bare and craggy rock, and the water
came down into the reservoir with a very slight colour
indeed. The water engineer's report was a most valuable
document, and did Mr. Duncan infinite credit. It was
written evidently after great deliberation, and with a
thorough knowledge of the subject, not hastily obtained,
but spread over a series of some years ; and he believed
every portion of it had ben penned with extreme care and
truthfulness. (Hear, hear.) That report told them that
the water in the reservoir was now as bad as it ever had
been, and that after the water in one of the reservoirs had
been impounded for nearly two years. The engineer told
him (Mr. Bennett) that he had seen shoals of fishes
generaeed by the extreme heat in the shallow water of the
filter beds. A Tegal question had been started as to the
power of the Committee to supply the town with spring
water and other portions of the district included in
the act of Parliament with the Rivington water.
He had to inf nen members that the same thing, to a
limited extent, was done now. They were giving the
people on the line of the Rivington pipes Rivington water,
while themselves were enjoying tlie privilege of half-spring
water. (" No no.")
Mr. HODSON : I must protest against this. We are
doing no such thing. Let Mr. Bennett state what is
correct.

Mr. BE' NETT said, at a recent meeting of the Committee,
Mr. Hornby asked the water engineer what water he
get at his house in Wavertree, and the engineer told
him it was Rivington water unmixed with any spring
water.
Mr. HORNBY : I have no recollection either of having
asked such a question or cf having received such an
answer. (Loud laughter.)
Mr. BENNETT said the question was certainly asked.
Mr. LIVINGSTON said he could explain the matter. Mr.
Hornby asked, did he gat the Rivington water, and Mr.
Duncan said he did.
Mr. BENNETT said, the engineer said the supply Mr.
Hornby got was altogether Rivington, or very nearly so—
some days altogether Rivington, and some days there
might be a little spring water. No doubt people
further out would get nothing but Rivington. He thought
the best thing that could be done would be to confine the
Rivington water to a few large and general purposes, and
to put down more powerful engines, on the Cornish princi-
ple, to enlarge the reservoirs of the wells, and to obtain an
abundant supply from the spring sources for all dietetic
purposes. He was strengthened in that view by Mr.
Hawkesley himself, who recently told the committee that
he had never doubted or denied that there was an ample
and abundant supply of spring water for Liverpool under
their feet. He thought it could be shown by figures that
it would be true economy, and in every respect to the
advantage cf the town, to increase the engine power for
home supply, and to use the Rivington water as little as
.possible. He declared that he would not give half-a-crown
in the pound for what the Rivington scheme had cost. They
had been told from time to time that there were individual
capitalists willing to form a company to purchase
the works. He most heartily wished that those spirited
individuals would come f vvrard. For his share, he would
gladly forfeit all the scheme had coat for 2s. W. in the
pound which he believed to be about the true value. That
the Rivington water ever would be palatable to the people
of Liverpool, no one, he felt sure, could seriously believe.
(Hear, hear.)
MR. BANNER observed that the expense of experiments
in filtration would amount to as much as the cost of a
double net of pipes, (to, no, and lifter, hear.) and there-
fore he thought that the sooner they looked at that
alternative the better. He was a little surprised to hear
now that Mr. Hawkesley alleged he had never denied
the sufficiency of the wells to supply the town. Why the
very foundation of the Pike scheme WA:3 the statement of
Mr. Hawkesley of the inability of the wells to supply
the town with a sufficient quantity of water, and that
statement ho meintaineei despite the counter statements
of Mr. Wickstead and of another man equally conversant
with the subject, but whose name was now distasteful in
the council ; he alluded to Mr. James McDonald. Mr.
Kenuedy also maintained the eufficien sy of the wells, and
yet they wet() now told that Mr. Hawkesley, whose state-
ment to the contrary was the very foundation of the
scheme had never denied it. He (Mr. Banner) was
much surprised at the statement, and he ventured to say
that it did not agree with the fact.
Mr. HALL said the question they should now consider
was how they could turn the water to the best account'?
(Hear, hear.) He should advocate delay, because the
committee intended to tusks a full report to the cooncil,
and when they had that report before them they would
be able to form a judgment as to what would be most
advisable under the circumstances. It appears d to him
that, without making a large use of the Revington
water for many purposes it would be impossible ade-
quately to supply the town, so numerous was its
population becoming.
Mr. Joni.; Srewaier said the Council chamber was not
the place to lay down a plan by which the wishes of the
inhabitants could be carried out, as to the laying down of
a second set of pipes. He was willing to leave it to the
committee, and for them, with the aid of the engineer, to
report to the Council en the best and cheapest way in
which the inhabitants could be supplied with spring water
for drinking and dietetic purposes. Ho confessed that ho
was not at all satisfied with the water, nor did he believe
that any filtration would ever make it as acceptable for
drinking purposes as the sand-stone water. (Hear, hear )
It should be to the committee, as it was to him and the
inhabitants generally, a great discouragement that a
scheme, intended to be a highly beneficial one,
had proved a failure, but so it was. He
regretted that it had not answered the purpose
which the promoters of the scheme honestly wished to
obtain ; but he did not agree with those who recommended
the casting away of the Pike water altogether. He was
no advocate for it, but yet, for many purposes it was
preferable to the well water, and to those purposes he
would wish to see it applied. He was told that it would be
clear in two years, but he was too old to wait that time,
and in the meantime be would prefer to pay even some-
thing considerable for good water for table purposes. Ho
was willing that the question should go back to the com-
mittee with that expression of the Council's wishes, and
that they should report to the Council as to the best mode
of supplying the inhabitants with spring wa`er. (Hear,
hear.)
Mr. Alderman HOWIE said, unwilling as he was, and
always had been, to protract the discussion upon that
question, he yet could not permit the debate to close with-
out one or two remarks. His friend at the left (Mr.
Stewart) had anticipated him in suggesting the course
which the Water Committee ought to take, that they should
give tho subject their serious consideration, and come
before the Council with some definite plan. If those who
advoca‘ed the scheme from the first—and it was a majority
of the Council a hich adopted it—had made a mistake,
they had surely made a most ample atonement in having had
to listen to the nearly eighty dreary speeches which had
been delivered by his fiend Mr. Bennett, at that table.
(Laughter.) Mr. Banner had just made one or two
remarks to which he begged to make a brief reply. That
gentleman had alluded to the fact of Mr. Hawleosley having
reported that a sufficiency of water could not be got from
the wells. He (Mr. Holme) could, if it were necessary,
carry the Council back to the period when me-
morials were poured in upon them from the inhabitants
of Liverpool, complaining that it was utterly impossible
for them to get a supply of water from the
old corapsnial, Ono 'as signed by 2,000 persona, and

begun from Castle-street, and he himself saw the namod
of nearly all the shopkeepers of the leading streets in
that quarter signed to it. The cottage owners held a
meeting upon the subject, and public meetings were held
1 in all directions, and an outcry raised everywhere for a
supply cf water. The Water Committee of that day took
into their consideration the reports of a number of distin-
guished men It was given is evidence iu the House of
Commons that the sinking in Soho-street took water from
Walton ; and a number of persons came forward and stated,
that whereas they had had large supplies of good spring
water previously, the pumping by the companies had de-
prived them of all, If it had not been for the Corporation
themselves sinking in Green-lane, and tapp'ng a new
spring, tke town would have been virtually without water,
because the old wells of the company were not only
almost exhausted themselves, but had exhausted the
supplies of private individuals in other parts of the town.
There was a time when cholera was raging, and
when there was a constant complaint that disease was
spreading, because it was impossible to get water to flush
their sewers and cleanse their streets. It was pressed
upon the Council Lrgely, not only by the inhabitants
generally, but by a number of benevolent gentlemen who
went about making inquiries and giving lectures, that it
was impossible to stop the progress of disease, not only
of cholera, but of fever, in the various neighbourhoods,
because it was necessary that they should have an ample
supply of water which the companies at the time could
not give. At the present moment his own house at
Mossley.hall, was left without one drop of water in a well
sixty yards deep ; and by the continuous pumping at
Windsor, an upper well which his tenants had of beautiful
spring water had ran dry. The Council had had an ample
report from Mr. Cunningham, (he was almost afraid to
mention that gentleman's nixie now); and they had a report
from Mr. Rawlinson, who recommended them to go to
the Bala Lake. He (Mr. Holmes) was prepared to take
the full responsibility of his share in the Rivington
scheme. Although he would freely confess that the colour
of the water had disappointed him, and to some extent
the quality also, yet, at the same time, ha contended that
it was a great blessing to the public, and he wantqd to
know upon what other principle than that of getting a
supply from such a source as Rivington, or from some
river-head, it would be possible to get seventy millions of
gallons of water into the town of Liverpool in the way the
committee had been able to pour it in ? The amendment
proposed by Mr. Parker was a perfect absurdity. He
utterly ignored the Rivington works altogether, while all
the various gentlemen who spoke admitted that having got
those works they must use them. Gentlemen must recol-
leat that the upper reoervoir was not yet completed, and,
as in Leicester and other places, the works would require
time. He reminded the Council also that the water, in
the present condition of the works, had been just submitted
to the severest possible test in the exceedingly hot
summer which was passing over them. He declared that
he did not desire to oppose the general wish of the
inhabitants. If the body of the inhabitants desired to
have the well water to drink, he would do the best he could
to aid in carrying out that object in the most economical
manner possible. But when the council jumped at a
resolution, such as that of ignoring altogether works which
had cost so much money, abandoning so magnificent an
undertaking, then ho said the council was interfering in
what it really did not understand, and that the only sen-
sible course they could pursue, was that pointed out by
Mr. Stewart, that the committee should take the whole
subject into consideration, let the engineer report, let them
see what was best to be done, and come before the council
with something like a deta led account of what cost they
were going to plunge into. (Hear, hear.) He strongly
urged the council not to go headlong. into any rash under-
taking at that moment when the:public mind was in such a
state, lashed as it had been by one, and he was happy
to say only one, of the Liverpool newspapers, for that
was the way in which the thing had been stirred up. He
urged them not to pull up their magnificent pavements,
and embark in an outlay of perhaps half a million of money
without knowing whether such an undertaking would be
at all justified by the circumstances. He contended that
the Rivington water could, in any case, be turned to the
greatest advantage, and he called upon the Council, instead
of quarrelling, to join heart and hand in endeavouring to
employ it with the utmost benefit. For himself, although
he thought there would be many difficulties in having a
double line of pipes, yet, if such were the positive wish of
the majority of the inhabitants, he would give every aid
in his power to have the object attained in the cheapest
and most satisfactory manner. (Cheers.)
Mr. AIKI NT expressed his approval of the medium course
proposed, and stated that if the amendments already
proposed were not carried, he would propose an
amendment to the effect " that time be allowed for the
Water Committee to consider and report upon the com-
munication of Mr. Duncan and the others. and to receive
such further information as they might deem necessary to
enable them to report thereon to the Council, at their
earliest convenience ; and that it be an instruction to
them to report at the same :time on the practica-
bility, and, if practicable, the cheapest and best mode of
supplying the well water:for drinking purposes, and the
Rivington water for other purposes, pending the further
time and trial which are demanded before deciding upon
VE, two sets of pipes."
Mr. Alderman PARKIER withdrew his amendment in
favour of that proposed by Mr. Aikin.
Mr. liizenxs seconded Mr. Aikin's amendment.
Mr. TINNE said the amendment so completely embodied
what the Water Committee desired, that he, for one, was
quite willing to adopt it.
Mr. Alderman COOPER, as chairman of the Water Com-
mittee, stated that he was quite willing to adopt the
amendment.

Some confusion here took place, in the midst of which
Mr. Alderman Holme moved that the Council adjourn to
next Wednes lay, at the Town Hall.
The Council then broke up, without, so fez as we could
understand, the amendment adopted by Mr. Cooper having
been put from the chair. While the meeting was breaking
up, Mr. Cooper was heard vehemently declaring that,
whenever he saw that the Committee had lost the con-
fidence of the Council, he would not remain an hour longer
at its head.

THE NORTH IMPTON POST-OFFICE
ROBBERY.

On Thursday the ult., we published an account of
the arrest of Mr. Charles Butcher, the chief clerk in the
Northartinten Pest-office, where he had been a servant
nearly thirty years, on the charge of abstrac'ing money
from letters pasting through the Northampton Post-office.
The ease was then remanded, in order to allow time for
Mr. Haute, the presecuter on behalf of the Postmaster
General, to produce witnesses. On Tuesday the case was
again brought before the magistrates, when the Town Hall
was crowded with r:ersoris eager to get a view of the
prisencr. His appearance was calm and collec'ed, and he
listened with evident composure to the serious charge
brought against him. The first witness examined was
Miss Davis, an assistant at the Oundle Post.office, who
stated that she received a letter addressed to
c Mi rasp.pLeiavreerdoctko,
at Mac&esfield, on Monday, the 24th, w
have some coin in it. She tied it up with the Northamp-
ton letters, and placed it in the bag for Northampton.
The bag was sealed and forwarded to Northampton at the
proper time. The next witness was Mr. Anthony Bjgate,
a travelling clerk in connection with the General Post-
office, who stated that he received the bag from Northamp-
ton, containing letters for the north, and when he arrived
at Blisworth station he cut open the bag, in the presence
of Mr. Slade, an inspector of mails, to whom he handed
the letters. Mr. Slade, inspector of mails, deposed that
he examined the letters from Northampton, to see if the
one addressed to Mrs. Liveroek, of Macclesfield, was in,
but it was not. Mr. Gorge N. Viretton, the Northampton
postmaster, stated that it was the prisoner's duty to sort
the letters on the night of the 24th ult., and that there had
been numerous complaints during the past year of letters
missing containing money. Mr. Motile, the inspector
connected with the General Pest-office, stated that hs
posted a letter at Oundle, containing a marked half
sovereign, in a marked envelope, rddressed to Mrs.
Liveroc, of Macclesfield, which half sovereign was found
on Butcher when lie was arrested. The magistrates then
asked the prisoner if he had an thing to say. and he
answered -‘ No." He was then committed for trial at the
Mulch assizes, Mr. Hughes, the solicitor acing on the
prisonts'e behalf, then made application for bail, urging
that, although the prisoner had been committed on a
serious charge, yet he had not been provei guilty, and it
was desirable to temper justice with mercy. The magic-
tratee reserved the question for consideration.

PAW, Tuesday.—The Prince Napoleon was present
yesterday, at Modena, at the explosion of the first mine of
the Sardinian railway tunnel through Mount Cenis. To-
day he will lay the first stone of the new bridge, by which
the railway will pass over the Rhone and unite the frontier
of Savoy to that of France.
THE TtLIGRAPII TO lI,DIA.—The Times eats—between
the conflicting schemes there seems a probability that the
Indian telegraph ought to be completed in six months,
will it either fail altogether or be delayed until the greatest
need for it is passed, and that if the business is to resolve
itself into a contest of routes the battle may be inter-
minable.

SIX THOUSAND MORE TROOPS FOR INDIA.—The Times says
that the East India Company have made a requisition for
about 6,000 additional troops, which it is calculated, after
allowing for contingencies, will raise the European (one.
in India to 80,000 men. The number sent out will have
exceeded by a few thousand men the aid specified by the
Governor-general to bo in hii opinion requisite,