The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-04 00:00:00

WATER COMMITTEE.

The proceedings of this committee were read.
Mr. Alderman Bennett : I rise to move the confirmation
of the proceedings. (Laughter.) Since the Water Com-
mittee has decided that the water is unfit for dietetic
purposes, a decision which has been sanctioned by the
Council, I go heartily with them.
Mr. J. Holme : The Water Committee have not decided
that the water is as Mr. Bennett says. That is his
opinion.
Mr. W. Earle : I have been very much amused with
the manner in which the decision of the last Council has
been taken up by that paper that writes so correctly on all
subjects—the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. I never read such
a tissue of misrepresentations in the whole course of my
life, as the article stating that the water was unfit for
drinking. We said no such thing. A majority of us were
quite willing to go on as we were. We would have done,
without Mr. Gladstone's motion, everything in our power
to remove the discolouration of the water, if it be possible
to do so. I think it never will be entirely free from that
discolouration, but I for one have always maintained that
the water, in every respect but its colour, is most excellent
for drinking and other purposes.
Mr. Alderman Turner : Is it the intention of the Water
1 I Committee to supply all the out-townships with water
Mr. Alderman Cooper : We are compelled by act of
Parliament to do so on applicstion ; but we shall not do it
unless it pays us.
Mr. Alderman Turner : Are you doing it now ?
Mr. Alderman Cooper : To some of them we are.
Mr. J. R. Jeffery : Mr. Mayor, it is desirable that the
resolution come to by the Council, at the last meeting,
should be read. Mr. Earle may be the very concentration
of wisdom, but it is not in his power to alter facts. He
says that the Council did not pass a resolution, which I
say it did, and therefore, I submit that the resolution
should be read.
The Mayor : The resolution is on record, and any re-
marks of Mr. Earle cannot alter it.
Mr. J. R. Jeffery : But Mr. Earle's remark may tend to
mislead, because the Council did declare that the water
was unfit for dietetic purposes. I would like to ask the
chairman of the Water Committee, what proportion of
Rivington water is now being supplie 1, because it is
right that the public should know whether that re-
solution is a bona fide resolution, or whether
it is for the purpose of deceiving the anxiety which exists
out of doors. What proportion of the Rivington water is
now supplied to the town ? and what part of the town is
supplied with water in a mixed form ?
Mr. Alderman Coope : The proportion of Rivingtor
water in that supplied is about one third Rivingtoe and
to two-thirds well water. It is supplied the same through-
out the whole town, except a very small part of it. I
cannot state the exact place where it is not supplied, but I
know it is a very small part of the town.
Mr. Beckwith : I should like to ask whether the district
of Fairfield is supplied with well, or mixed water ?
Mr. Alderman Cooper : I believe it is supplied with
mixed water.
Mr. Beckwith : And can you tell me how it it supplied ?
How is it distributed ?
Mr. Alderman Cooper : I am not able.
Mr. Beckwith • Then we should have one that is able.
The Council expects information, and we should have it.
Mr. Alderman Cooper : I am not the engineer of the
works,

Mr. Fernihough rose to order. The Special Council
decided to give the water a trial, and that determined the
question for the present.
Mr. Alderman Parker observed that it was impossible
to send the water from the Soho street well into the
reservoir, and consequently those who were fortunate
enough to live on that level got water much more mixed
with spring water than other persons.
The proceedings were then confirmed.
HACKNEY CARRIAGE COMMITTEE.
The proceedings Of this committee were read.
Mr. Woodruff, in moving their confirmation, said, that
as there were not more than thirty-nine members present,
he could not move the adoption of the bye-laws, which had
taken the committee so long to prepare. He had little
hope of being able to obtain a larger council for the next
three months, and as serious incoavenvience was felt from
the bye-laws not being passed, it being necessary that they
should be confirmed by two-thirds of the Council, he hoped
that the blame would attach, not to the committee, but to
those members of the Council who did not attend to dis-
charge their duty.
Mr. Fernihongh observed that they had many aldermen
who had obtained their hononrs by means which he did
not understand, but whose faces were seen in the mud. I

chamber only on very particular occasions. He saw many
herd-working members of the Council present, and it was
only fair to the public that the roll should be called, and
the names of the gentlemen absent published to the world.
Mr. Alderman S. Holme replied, that twelve out of six-
teen aldermen were almost always present. The non-
attendance was not with the aldermen, but with the
councilors. (Laughter.)
The proceedings were then confirmed. The proceed-
ings of the gas and other committees were also confirmed.
They contained nothing of interest.

BIRKENHEAD DOCKS COMHITTZZ.

The proceedings of this committee were read. They
comprised a recommendation to accept the tender of
Messrs. Thompson and Co. for the conveyance of goods,
during the exclusion of water from the Wallasey Pool.
Mr. Alderman Holme moved the confirmation of the
recommendation, and explained that as, for the present,
they had deprived Messrs. Bibby and Co. of their water
frontage, they were bound, at the expense of the Corpora-
tion, to remove the ore, &c., which was formerly brought
to them by flats. It was for the removal of that ore, &c.,
that they entered into the contract with Messrs. Thompson
and Co.
The recommendation was confirmed.

Mr. John Aikin said, that as it was not to be supposed
that information, as full as many members of the Council
might desire, could be afforded there on the most important
subject of the Birkenhead docks, and without desiring to
awaken any discussion on the subject, he would move, if
he were permitted to do so by the standing orders, " that
the chairman be respectfully requested to call a meeting
of the Birkenhead Dock Committee, at his earliest con-
venience, for the purpose of affording to such members of
the Council as may desire it full information respecting
the Birkenhead Dock Bills, now before Parliament."
Mr J. R. Jeffery seconded the motion.
Mr. Steains supported it.
Mr. Bold expressed his astonishment that Mr. Atkin,
who was a member of the special committee, should have
risen to make any such motion. The whole of the bills
were before the special committee of the 28th of January.
They were then gone through seriatint, and the Town
Clerk was instructed to proceed with them, and the Mayor
was authorised to affix the corporate seal. If gentlemen
did not then think proper to read .pd consider the bills, of
which a copy was sent to each m ,110er of the Council, he
thought it was very late now for a member of the com-
mittee to move that they be, in point of fact, re-committed.
He believed that any such motion would be fatal to the
bills. Great expense bad been already gone to, and before
the Council adopted any such resolution as that proposed,
he begged to caution them against the consequences which
might arrive.
Mr. Alderman Parker admired the tact of that old tac-
tician, Mr. Bold, but he did not see what danger could
arise from the members of the Council being duly informed
upon so important a subject. He therefore supported the
motion of Mr. Aikin. _ _

Mr. Fernihough warmly opposed the motion, on the
ground, that to carry it out would be to lay open to their
enemies the whole of their case at an immature period.
Mr. Sheil urged that it would be better for the Council
to adopt the motion, and have the bills discussed in private,
than to undergo the alternative of having a special council
called, which could be done upon the requisition of five
members, to discuss them. He contended that the members
were bound to know the whole position of affairP, and,
therefore, supported the motion.
The Mayor said, the motion was so distinct from the
proceedings of the committee, that he could not feel
justified in putting it without tLe usual notice.
Mr. Aikin said he would move that the standing orders
be suspended, as Mr. Holme had done that day already,
upon a much less important question, (Hear, hear.)
The proceedings of the committee were confirmed.

Mr. Aikin then moved that the standing orders be
suspended, in order that the Council might proceed with
the motion to which ho ha I drawn their attention.
Mr. Jeffery seconded the motion.
Mr. Holme expressed a strong wish that the committee
should not on that occasion agree to the suspension of the
standing orders. -
The motion was put, when there appeared—
For.—Aldermen: Dover, and Parker. Councillors :
Archibald C. Stewart, Rirhard Sheil, John Woodruff;
James Steains, John B. Bran cker, William Earle, James
Johnston, James R. Jeffery, Joseph Kitchen, James
Mellor, Richard M. Beckwith, John Aikin, Francis A.
Clint, John Farnworth.
Againe.—Aldermen : Thomas Chilton, William Ben-
nett, William Preston, Thomas Bold, Joseph Cooper,
Raymond W. Houghton, Samuel Hulme. Councillors :
Daniel Crosthwaite, Roger Haydock, William Nicholson,
Johns C. Fernihongb, James Holme, Walter P. Jefferys,
Thomas Wagstaff, James Robertson, Hilton Halhead.
The motion was therefore lost.
THE MAYOR'S COMMUNICATIONS.

A letter was read from the Recorder, Gilbert Henderson,
Esq., recommending that a second Court of Quarter
SesJions be opened, in accordance with the provisions of
the act of parliament, and shewing by the criminal statis-
tics of the town the necessity for such a measure being
adopted.
Mr. Alderman Holme moved, that the letter of the Re-
corder be refer: ed to the Finance Committee, with instruc-
tions to confer with the Recorder, and to report the
Council.

The resolution was agreed to.
The Coroner's account amounting to £37 24. 6d., was
passed.

THE COUNCIL CHAMBER.

The following motion, of which notice had been given by
Mr. Piction, stood next upon the paper :—" That a
special committee be appointed to take into considera-
tion the subject of the erection of a new and more
appropriate chamber for the meetings of the Council,
and to report on the locality and plan best suited for that
purpose."
In the absence of Mr. Picton, who had been compelled
to leave for London, Mr. J. R. Jeffery brought forward
the motion, strongly urging the necessity of ob-
taining a commodious apartment, well ventilated, and
suitable not only for the Council., but for the admission of
the public, according to the usage followed in almost all
large towns. A discussion followed, and an amendment
was being proposed, when Mr. Samuel Holme called a--
tention to the fact that there ware not members present
sufficient to constitute a Conu3il. The motion therefore
fell to the ground.
The members present then quitted the room.

At LEWIS & COMPANY'S, Raneiagh street,
BOYS are CLOTHED from the Ages of 6 to 20 Years.

RATHER OMINOUS OF Rnsuurs.—The few friends whom
George Henry Moore, Esq., M.P. for Mayo, has now left
to him are, we hear, actually canvassing hard and fast for
him, that when the petition of Colonel Higgins unseats
him, he may be returned in the new election, so that even
Moore's friends anticipate such a result, But they may
save themselves the trouble of another canvass, for most
of Moore's supporters do not hesitate to express their
deep regret that they ever had anything to do with him,—
Galway Express.
As ECCENTRIC DAIRYMAID.—Some excitement has been
caused at Eastbourne by the sudden death of Ellen Car-
penter, seventy years of age, who, for the greater part of
her life. had been dairymaid at Compton House, the seat
of the Earl of Burlington. Although long unfit for work,
she refused to give up her post, and always claimed, as one
of the perquisites of it, the flannel and coarse to,:elling
used in cleaning the dairy, and which, it was afterwards
discovered, she used as clothing, and used for stockings any
old pieces she could pick up. These and other penurious
habits in a member of so liberal a household as the Earl of
Burlington's, caused the old woman to be looked up )I'l as a
miser; but she carefully concealed her hoards from all her
fellow-servants, except so far as to entrust a bank-book to
the man who milked the cows. One day last week she
was found dead in the dairy. The body was taken to a
small cottage in which her mother had lived, and which
deceased continued to rent, though she did not occupy it.
In the bed-room, was found £1,578, besides money in the
Bank of England. The news of this discovery caused no
little sensation among the relatives of the old woman in
Seaford and Eastbourne, who now made their appearance
in the shape of seventeen cousins, of whose existence, we
believe, the old dairymaid had no knowledge.—Bristol
Guardian.

A. NUT FOR "YOUNG BARRISTERS TO CRACK.—SINGULAR
SFBcIAL I LEADING.—An American writer furnishes the
fo lowing amusing specimen of pleading under the old
system of American law. The plaintiff declared in tres-
pass fur breaking his close and injuring his sheep. Two
counts are as follows :—" Plaintiff further declares against
the defendant for this, to wit: that the said plaintiff had
a number of sheep in the county of Columbia, and that said
def,ndant did, in the year 1856, if ever, bite and worry
fifty of plaintiff's sheep, after the said defendant had
notice that he, the said defendant, was subject and arcur;
turned to biting and worrying sheep, if such notice he had ;
and the said plaintiff says, that if the defendant is guilty
of any charge laid in plaintiff's declaration, the said defen-
dant dant ought to be punished according to the custom
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manner of punishing sheep-biting dogs, as theth
sustained great damage by the conductthe dof
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bite and injure Plaintiff's sheep, as the
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report, to plaintiff's damage,
in all fifty dollars ; and if b
dyef.endant is guilty, he should
and ought to be banged or oho,