The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-18 00:00:00

with it. Surely, they cannot expect to succeed
in bleeding the Ratepayer§ a second time. Even
that ghost of Mr. HAWKESLEY's—the small j,
water engineer of the Liverpool Water Committee,
need hardly calculate on getting a few more
hundreds a year added to his salary by
crying out "fire fire" no water in the
wells—" bring the Pike." His unfortunate
escapade about the actual yield of the wells
has silenced his tiny cry for ever. Our
files are encumbered with complaints of the
most grievous character of the Pike water, from
inhabitants of the highest respectability, while
we have samples without end proving incontes-
tibly the utter unfitness of the trash for human
use.' It would be impossible for us to instance a
tithe of these, In the mean time we shall insert
occasionally a few of the more prominent coin-
Plaints of our townsmen. but chiefly such as are
fully authenticated.

We repeat our advice to the Ratepayers—let
them be up and doing ; let them unite, and with
one voice demand of the Council that there shall
be no more temporising in regard to this
question let them no longer ask as a favour,
but demand as a right, that their old supply of
water shall be restored to them in its original
purity, and accept of no Jesuitical or sophistical
excuse whatever for this demand not being com-
plied with• Let this fact never be lost sight of,
that the existing wells are adequate to the
supply of seven and three-quarters millions of
gallons of water- daily, or upwards of twenty
gallons to every man, woman, and child in the
town--m'uch more than can be used for every
purpose.

Do An BILLS i e PARLIAMENT.—As already stated, the
select committee to whom the Liverpool and Birkenhead
Dock and other bills of a local character are referred, has
just been appointed. ft, will meet on Monday next, and
,nsists of Sir James Graham, chairman ; Mr. Phillips,
Mr. F. North, Mr. Knatchbuil, and Mr. C. Pawl. The
following bills will be considered,by the comaritteed :
kmhead Melts (construction), Birkenhead Docks
(management), Liverpool and Birkenhead D ek s, Liverpool.
Town and Dock Du .s, (St. Helen's Canal and Riilway,)
and the Mersey Conservancy and D.rck Bill.
TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.—Some time ago we had
the pleasure of noticing the high position "obtained
in Trinity College, by the son of our, respected frieni and
fellow-labourer -at the Press. John Greene, E;q., J.P.,
proprietor of the Wexford Independent new Fnaper, and it
affords us additional, satisfaction to find that the young
gentleman has gained new and distinguished honours in
the University; and the Dublin papers speak of hi:n in
terms, not only of praise,.but wall merited. The recipient
of these honours is but vary young, and it may be antici-
pated that lais:career will be a brilliant one.
The ART TREASUREg EXHIBITION.--The shilling ad-
missions commence this week, and we may then confidently
expect much larger. attendances than any we have yet wii-
nessed, though in all probability the masses of working
people will writ for the Whitsun holidays and the cheap
trips. Members of the Society of Arts, of the Law Society
and oher learned bodies, are reported to be meditating
gatherings at Manchester dnring the summer, to visit the
exhibition, and though no great number of strangers have
yet been atttac'ed, the number appears to be on tae in-
crease. The council of the Royal Manchester Institution
are proposing a series of weekly soirees, to which distin-
guished strangers are to be invited, as a means of pleasant
reunion, and of adding to their comfort whilst on a visit to
Manchester.

THE HUNDRED OF WIRRALL COURT LEFT.—The pr
ceeding,s of the first meeting of this court, which took
place some short time since, and at which several parsons
were mulct with fines varying from £5 to £5O, for infring-
ments of the rights and privileges of the Lord of the
of the Iluedred, amon4st Whom was the owner of an o!d
goarry, which wig stated aid proved to have been no,
only a nuisance, but dangerous to the lives of the inhabi-
tants. We understand that the owner's representatives
have paid the fine ordered by the jury to be levied, and
have taken steps to remedy the evil complained of for the
fature. It is also expected that the same will b 3 1113
result with reference to the dangerous well complained of
by one of the jury, which is the property of the township.
If such should have been the case, the revival of this
ancient court will have been the moans of the removal of
two great nuisances, which other more mudern powers
-have failed to accomplish.
PASSENGERS PER R.M.S. AMERICA, PRIM BOST)N TO
HALIFAX AND LIVERPOOL.—Mr S T Hopper and lady,
Mr Henry Vose and lady, Miss Porter, Miss Norton,
Mrs Peter, M as Harrison, Miss Aliny, Mr S F Ordatty
and lady, Mr S R Regnell and lady, Mr W Altny, Mr B
Ball, lady, child, and nurse, Mrs M'Clare, Mr J C.rsis, Dr G
Payro, Mr J G de la Vaga and lady, Messrs Peter Donald,
Julius Ragnall, George F Green, Mrs II Bishop, Mr S P
.1 Goddard and lady, Mr M B J Goddard, Miss Goddard,
Messrs Sterling, Hume' Miss Sterling, Miss D D Home,
Messrs J H Josephi, lady, two inf tuts, and
nurse, Miss A F White, Mrs -N G Coming, Mrs M G
Clark and child, -Mrs Th.vid Brown and three children,
Mr E F Coming, Major Tryon, Messrs William. R %%Re,
A C Mudge, W N Davies and lady, Messrs George W
Harding, George W Warren, B F Stephenson, W F
Murray, Joseph Ayers, It F Gregory, M Coreuela and two
sons; Messrs it Castillo, J Diez, W Skranika, Umpfellach,
A Rupreeht, H Bethens, P M Bryson, S C Senir, G
Castil,on, C Castilian, P Avendand, Cage, T H Harrison,
•

J Harris, H Town; C Fulerken,-b M Kinmouth,

lady, and child, Mr Robert Riehten, lady, and two
children, Mis Freetnanth, Mr Robert Cork, lady, and
child, Messrs John Weever, John Pepper, Daniel Pepper,
Charles Draper, Isaac Palmer, Noah Drew, Mrs Wosten-
holme, Mrs J 'Wooley, Messrs W S Clark, J T Westervelt,
J Benton, Jlt Thomas, F Fetez, H Fulton, J.Hurrell,
Hope and. lady, Miss Hope, Miss Hope, Captain A
Scholfield, Messrs J Ceowther, B B Browning, Croder,
W Motlow and lady, Messrs Charles Kelly, W P Harding,
C E Allen, Robinson, Mrs Robinson, two children, and
servant, Mrs Ingraham, Messrs Rattray, Lockhart, Kent,
George Fraser, Frew and son, James Wallace, Mrs James
Wallace, Mr F Asplet, Mr. W Canard, lady, two children,
and two servants, and Mr George Rowe.
LEAVIt TAXING OF AN OLD AND REi,I.F.CTABLE FAMILY.
—We have received the particulars of the following from
a correspondent, and as an interesting link of the "go id old
tim,s" has been broken, it is right to chronicle the fact.
Some seventy years ago, or more, there was erected at Hol-
lins Green; six miles tr im Warrington, on the Manchester
road, a eelelrated hotel and posting house, designated the
‘• Black Swan with Two Necks." This house soon became
famous, not only for its good fare, bat for the superiority
of its horses and the urbanity of its host. The central
pesition of the house rendered it a favourite resort, and
besides the private posting attached to it, there were no less
than twenty public ce,iches stopped at it daily, and all
were sopplied with horses from its extensive stables. The
good old days of stage coaching and posting now passes in
panoramic review before us, with here and there a glimpse
of Dick Turpin, Tom King, and other noble " stand
and deliver" fellows. Weil, tae " Black Swan with Two
ourthe sable
introductionfri friend the
of
Necks" rose rapidly in estimation, and, like empires,
had i's days of glory. Like empires, too, it was destined
to fall, but it lona continued to hold sway until the "iron
hs%ivrasen': footosrettohisspeak less ec
k of
allegorically,
-railways done up the exciting old mode of travelling by
coach. Tee Black Swan, indeed, kept up its wonted
character for good cheer, but its posting and coaching
business began to decline, and finally died away, and,
n
"Like the baeeless fabric of a vision,
Left not a wreck behind."
This, however dill not happen until handsome competen-
cies had been realized by more than one individual, by
industry and honesty in the management of the concern.
The person who recently possessed this fine old establish-
ment inherited it through a direct branch of the original
founder, but finding it would not snit the gc-a-head prin-
ciples of the present day, he resolved to remove to another
locality, and this Mr. Carter (that's the name of the ger.-
tlaman) did by taking a mere suitable piece at Moulds-
worth House, Ashton Hayes, near Chester. On the occa-
sion of the final removal of the family from the ancient
homestead, the neighbouring people, for same distance,
as -erubled to bid them farewell, and the scene is described
as one touching in the extreme, and shows the kindly sen-
timents that existed between all parties. A large hand of
old and young came to take their leave of Mr. Carter's
family, and, as our informant says, the crying, sobbing,
and embracing were affecting. A considerable number of
persons went a long way on the road with the family, and
when finally parting, wept loud and bitterly. It is a proof
of the fine and affectionate feeling that subsisted between
them, and, no doubt, Mr.. Carter iu his new home will also
*meet many attached friends.