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London, England, 1852-01-09 00:00:00

N°.18,502,]

METROPOLITAN WATER.
N.B.—That large portion of the public, whose money Is in-
vested in private enterprises, on the faith of recent Acts of Parlia-
ment, is requested to peruse the following letter from the Ch airman
of Lambeth Waterworks Company to the Secretary of State fer the
Home Department:—
Belvidere House, Wimbledon, Surrey, Dec. 2,1151.
Sir,—The re-appearance in the public newspapers, of a notice of
aplication to Parliament, signed by Messrs. Lyon, Barnes, and Ellis,
relative to the metropolitan water supply, and also relative to the
water supply of rural districts several miles distant from the metro-
polis, obliges the Lambeth Waterworks Company, through me, their
Chairman, to address you.
Before proceeding further, I beg to observe that this Company
is placed under the most modern legislation. So very recently as
1548, it applied to Parliament for leave to bring in an abundant and
pure supply of water from Thames Ditton, for the purposes of the
southern portion of the metropolis, and of certain rural districts.
Parliament highly approved of the application, and " The Lambeth
Waterworks Act, 1845," was passed. Under the faith and powers
of, and relying upon, the terms and status conferred by that recent
Act of Parliament, two hundred thousand pounds (200,0100 have
been subscribed, and large farther sums borrowed from the public,
in addition to the former capital of the company, whereby a supply
inexhaustible, and now universally admitted to be excellent, and
(owing to the large volume of the Thames there) superior to
other sources, has been achieved ; and as the Chairman of this Com-
pany, I am proud to be able to state that this great public benefit
has been economically effected by the inherent energy of the prin-
ciple of private enterprise, while the Board of Health, which
professed to deal with the question, had not proceeded beyond
theory, or rather impracticable speculation. A glance also at the
minutes of evidence before the Committee of last session, on the
water supply, will show a striking contrast between private enter-
prise and public bodies; it will there be seen that Commissioners,
popularly elected, had either refused to act at all, or had, as in the
case of the Edinburgh Improvement Commission, wasted the public
money at a rate of five times more than was beneficial to the pub-
lic, so that tile inhabitants are described by an eminent witness as
entertaining " the greatest thankfulness" that the Commission "had
come to an end ;"—that municipal bodies had made the water sup-
ply a political question ;—that in the case (among other instances)
of the Southampton Corporation, the Itchen was the Tory river, and
the Tese was the Whig river, so that the town was drunk of neither,
and only from 1,800 to 2,000 houses were supplied with water, out
of 6,000 houses ;—that Liverpool and its corporation were distracted
by the water supply question ;—and that the greatly overcharged
gas consumers of Manchester have been and are paying the corpora-
tion higher than other towns for gas, inferior to that used in such
other towns, thereby furnishing a large annual surplus on the gas
account; and that half such surplus (such half amounting to about
15,0001. a year), has been and is applied towards the large water
supply expenses in relief pro tanto of the water consumers, the gas
consumers and water consumers being by no means wholly identi-
cal bodies. For the sake of brevity, Ido not allude to the cases of
Worcester, Dundee, Oxford, Dunfermline, &c., &c., but beg to refer
to the Minutes of Evidence.
I further beg to state that there is no Waterworks Company in the
United Kingdom subjected to any modern principles of legislation to
which the Lambeth Waterworks Company is not subjected by the
Act of 1848. It is thereby (among other things) subjected to—

The Waterworks Classes Act.
The Companies Clauses Act.
To such limitation of rates as the Committee of the louse of
Commons tkought just with reference to the intended outlay.
To limitation of dividends; and
To constant supply.

Such having been the state of matters in the last session of Parlia-
ment, I most respectfully say that this Company felt it to be an ex-
treme hardship to be then &sized to spend a large sum out of the
moneys which (relying on their recent Act of Parliament) they had
hoped to spend In useful public objects, in opposing the Bill of last
session, up to the time when it was thrown out by the unanimous
vote of the Honourable Committee of the House of Commons ; and I
am truly grieved to state that this Company feel it to be a matter fo
just surprise and regret that they should have to look forward to the
absolute necessity of a similar unprofitable expenditure in the next
session of Parliament, in opposing a Bill which, If it be drawn ac-
cording to the Standing Orders, must of necessity be in pursuance of
the notice given, and must therefore embrace those very principles,
or some of them, which were negatived last session, and to which,
I say it most respectfully, and in the fullest reliance on the tried
justice of yourself and of Parliament, this Company can never
consent.
I beg, at the same time, that it may be clearly understood that we
are far from attributing to the Government, or to yourself as a
member of it, the provisions or details of the Bill of last session, or
the orm of the fresh notice before alluded to. We believe, on the
contrary, that both the Government and yourself only desired, in the
last session, to submit to the consideration and decision of Parlia-
ment, according to its usual rules, this important question; the de-
tails were necessa:lly left to be prepared elsewhere ; and I shall be
able t, show you in what manner they were prepared.
For the present, however, again guarding myself against being
supposed to attribute to Government the details of the Bill of last
Bessie-4 I beg to tall your careful attention to that Bill. Its effect
may be fairly stated to be as follows :
I . A forced amalgamation, and thereby a compu'sory throwing
together of the moneys and affairs of parties who may be composed
of both the provident and improvident, and practically a giving the
exertions and energies of the enterprising to others, who, instead of
receiving a gift, ought to exert themselves. (See Metropolis Water
Bill, 1851, sections 1,2, 3,4, 5, &c.)
2. A compelling of the Lambeth Waterworks Company (who had
so recently, to the great satisfaction of Parliament, achieved the
Thames Bitten source of supply) to abandon that excellent source
if required so to do by the Secretary of State, and instead thereof,
at the requisition of the Secretary of State, upon the suggestion of
the Board of Health, or indeed of any other pers ms, to expend this
Company's funds (raised on the faith of another purpose) in brieg-
ing water from other sources to be pointed out which (after the ex-
penditure of the money) would, as every practical mind believes,
have left London without its supply ; such, for instance, as the Bag-
shot Sands source, which, even with the addition of the water
from the Green Sand district, is admitted to be utterly deficient in
quantity, and bad in quality ; or the Woolmers Spring in Herts, a
feeder of the River Lee, which an official witness stated as yielding
about 2.000,000 gallons daily, but which has been dry far the last
two months : or the Darenth and Wandle Rivers, which are com-
paratively smell streams, and subject to the same fluctuations as all
rivers in the chalk and limestone districts, and the quantity of water
in which has been seriously reduced during the last summer and
autumn, &c.—(see sections 22, 23, 26 )
3. A compulsory taking away and injuring of the rates, dividends.
and general status upon which (as solemnly secured to them by
Parliament so reeently as 1848) this Company has just raised an ad-
ditional capital of between 200,000/. and 300,0001. (See sections 27,
28, 29, 30, 31, &c.)
I next beg to state an important fact. This Company having been
incorporated in 1785, and havin,i relieved, its district from a great
dearth of water, there appeared a rival Company, which Insisted
upon competing—procured an Act to be passed, and did accordingly
compete with the Lambeth Waterworks Company. Of this rival
Company (now, since its junction with another, called the Southwark
and Vauxhall Company), a gentleman of eminence is the chairman.
The Lambeth Waterworks Company, by its energy and outlay, has,
in achieving the Thames Bitten source of supply, outstripped this
competitor. Of course, if that competitor could have succeeded by
legislative enactment in forcibly uniting itself to this Company, the
competitor would have been immensely benefited, however much
the Lambeth Waterworks Company and the public would have suf-
fered, and however great the blow given the great principle of pri-
vate enterprise.
Such was the state of things wheu the Bill of last session appeared,
the enactments of which certainly would have given to the Southwark
and Vauxhall Company the benefit of the enterprise and outlay of
the Lambeth Waterworks Company ; and such is still the state of
things now that the notice of application for a Bill to effect (so far
as notice is an indication of the intended Bill) the same object has
re-appear. d.
The Lambeth Waterworks Company entertains, Sir, the deepest
respect towards you, and confidence in your determination to up-
hold what is just and In accordance with the faith of Parliament ;
and we are well assured that when the Bill of last session was in-
troduced you were not made acquainted with the above-mentioned
cireumstances, which this Company afterwards embodied in their
petition against the Bill, upon which petition they were heard before
the Committee.
I next beg to call your attention to the minutes of evidence given
before the Committee on the Metropolis Water Bill of last session,
questions 1,348 to 1,361 inclusive, and to assure you that when the
Right Honourable and gifted Chairman of that Committee put those
questions to the Secretary of the Southwark and Vauxhall Company
there was scarcely a person in the crowded Committee room enter-
taining a doubt as to who was practically the author of the mails
provisions of the Bill then under discussion, or of his influence and
co-operation with the acting portion of the Board of Health; and I
take the liberty of the more especially pointing your attention to
this, because the Lambeth Waterworks Company feel that in truth
it is their public spirit and enterprise which, in outstripping a com-
petitor, have brought upon them the trouble and expense of a pe-
riodical agitation, attack, and defence.
Upon this point I would also point your attention as to who were
some of the chief witnesses called in support of the Bill list session ;
they were :
1. Mr. Rosseter, the Secretary of the Southwark and Vauxhall
Company.
2. The Chairman of the Mlle Company; and
3. Mr. Joseph Quick, the Engineer of that Company.
We respectfully protest against the acting portion of the Board of
Health being allowed to interfere with and embarrass the dus
working of that well-tried and great principle, private enterprise,
by which this commercial empire has, under Providence, mainly
achieved its greatness, and especially we feel that it would be truly
unjust that the Southwark and Vauxhall Company should be allowed
to cripple the free development of, or to appropriate the fruits of the
Lambeth
Company's own enterprise, and of the talent of the Lam-
beth Company's engineer, Mr. S mpsen, to whom alone (as en-
couragedor
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--fo an inspection of those works I beg respectfully to invite yourself
and any other members of the Government, whenever convenient
also to enclose a print of the petition which this Company
t o you.
beg
I
presented against the Bill of last session, and in the language of en-
tire moderation and unfeigned respect, but at the same of entire firmness, to express the plain sense of duty which this Com an -
feels of opposing, with every energy, the principles (wheneverp y re-
newen) which were so embodied in that Bill.
This Company is truly desirous of continuing to develope their
own project in an enterprising and public spirited manner for the
public benefit, and in accordance with their Act of Parliament, but
if the moderate rights which, having been conferred upon them by
that Act, have induced them to spend their money, are ever sought
to be broken in upon in a compulsory manner, and this Company's
opposition should (contrary to their expectation) prove in vain,
then, according to all precedent, they are entitled to the fullest
compensation, upon which subject I would beg to call your attention
to the following passage in this Company's petition against the Bill
of last session, viz. :
..lny alleged
That onrpetitioners beg most reseectfully to represent that if,
for
public good, it is sought to deal with your petitioners'
property without their consent, and to dissolve their company, the
least measure of justice to which they are entitled is to be paid in
readyi.e rea
Water-
works wml.oyney such a sum as will place all their shareholders in as
recTioaiaPecuniary position as they are now in, and also in as good a
position as they will be in (if not thus compulsorily inter-
A.oht), wheni , shallthe schemeheire f u sanctionedlly developed
itself;
f ;L
whereas,a m beth Wuantdeerr-
caanldleudnina
the said Bill, it is proposed to give to your petitioners, In lieu of their
arketatle.Y'°ur
property,,rmuunocirtain amount of what in the said proposed Bill is
stock may
See also the minutes
be,
and ated Capital Stock,' which consolidated capital
petitioners eet lvtiidoenneeres
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to
believe ley i l l
compensationsbe, of but li. t t
given
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vvalue,
the Liverpool and Manchester Waterworks Companies respectively.
In conclusion, I beg to
I have the honourygethat it is the opinion of prac-
y th Prise be dealt with in the way which
tical men that, if Privabte eanseLufrre
of
_rirveashenotice, or if the water supply be
"lntetrPo bries,e'Sirth,
seems to be proposed
the water rates will
taken out of the hands
HOPE PE ACHE,
eventually be very largely ienereL
Your
emhoasitnnobaendl:
With hi
JAMES humble servant,
Lambeth IlirastLYrwofo
Proprietors of
The Right Honeurable Sir George Grey, Bart. 3,4 rks.
her Majesty's Principals ecretary of State'for.P"
the Home Depment, iko.
obedient
ttrahe4 against
respect,
tmt,r, the public,
particular'
sirous that I should state most distinctly, that no company Y (le-
as its chairman, has, or will have, an
P.S.—The Lambeth py are ..
whatsoever, except myself,
any board or raPany in
authority to speak or act for the Lambeth Waterworks Co e' ---,
communication with yourself, or withdepartment of
Government. J. C, p.

THE OLD YEAR and the NEW YEAR.
Time flies!tpace7another year hath perished—

Perished and joined th' irrevocable past ;
Hopes, in its progress, brightly born and cherished,
Have been by shade o'ercast ;
And sorrows that seemed evils to our sight
Have " turned their silver linings to the light."—DELTA.
The advent of a New Year is ever interesting and important to
all. Prespeetively and retrospectively :considered, it cannot fail to
elicit the reflective attention of the most indifferent persons. The
moralist, the philosopher, the historian, and the politician, regard
such a "turn of time" with no ordinary observance. There are two
questions which natundly suggest themselves, on an exchange of
periods like the present—namely, " What was the Old Year ?" and
" What will be the New ?" .

_ .
That the year 1851 has proved an eventful era, no one can dispute.
The very numerals by which the past year is distinguished convey
an idea sufficiently great.

Regarding 1851ina political light, we have to congratulate our-
selves on the pacific spirit which has pervaded the country at large.
We have not to look back on those civil broils which unhappily dis-
turbed the peace of the kingdom in previous years.
if a cloud has passed over the political horizon it has been but of
transient duration, and has led to no material consequences. The
throne of Queen Victoria has been made the rallying point with all
parties, and Royalty and loyalty have happily co-operated together.
The event which stands out in the boldest relief with reference to
the past year, is undoubtedly that which called together the various
tribes of the civilized world.

•' Each with his native handiwork and busy tongue."
This grand convention of the world's artificers caused the capital
of Great Britain to become a centerpoint of attraction, and the tri-
umphant results which attended this memorable Congress, will not
■oan be obliterated from the memory of the many who were specula-
tors of the grand display.
It is not, however, the province of tradesmen to take discursive
views of a year's occurrences, except in connexion with their own
immediate speculations. It is a generally received opinion, that the
Great Exhibition produced effects in trade contrary to those naturally
anticipated ; nor can it be denied that: this is true, to a certain ex-
tent, in certain quarters.

But, whoever may have to complain of a year of disappohat-
mcnts, it is demonstrable, from positive fact, that HYAM and CO.
are exceptions in this respect. While the money market unsteadily
fluctuated—while trading speculation seemed, for a time, stagnant
—while money was diverted from purchase to pleasure—and while
a general disappointment and complaint were prevalent—HYAM
and CO. realised the most unprecedented success throughout the
whole term of 1851.

To date the past year's success to a legitimate cause will be no
difficult matter.

HYAM and CO., in addition to their reputed merits in business,
made the Great Exhibition subservient to their own individual pur-
poses, by securing those valuable improvements to which the emu-
lation kindled by this great undertaking gave rise.
What invention—what improvement, brought out by the National
Exposition, did not HYAM and CO. avail themselves of? All that
was really beautifully and good (and of this there was much) was
secured by the proprietors in order to give eclat to their specula-
tions during the past eventful period.
The most novel, elegant, and serviceable specimens of materials
for dress manufactured into attire on the most approved methods,
were furnished by HYA NI and CO., in the year 1851.
Hence that unflagging success—that encouraging countenance
and support on the part of the public, of which the proprietors have
now to boast. It must not be forgotten that, in addition to these re-
commendations, lIYAM and CO. rendered the past year, in their own
offers, a year of economy. While numbers unjustly availed them-
selves of the extraordinary demand consequent on the Great Ex-
hibition, HYA NI and CO. diverged in no way from those principles of
equity which have ever been the ground-work of their trade.
It is infinitely more easy for HYAM and CO. to call public at-
tention to the advances which they have made, and the encourage-
ments which they have received, than it is to tender acknowledg-
ments for the same in anything like an adequate form.
HYAM and CO in thanking their supporters, have to address
themselves to all classes of the community. The " universal suf-
frage" of their trading advantages extends itself through every con-
dition of society, and embraces the interests of all.
_ _ . . . _ .

The most substantial form of acknowledgment to which HYAM
and CO. can have recourse is that of future action. It is to acts that
the public chiefly look, and not to words; and HYAM and CO. are
resolved that the year 1852 shall be distinguished by advantages in
their trade surpassing those of any previous year.
The successes of 1851 will be reproductive in 1852, to the essential
benefit of the public.
By an aivintageous availment of the markets—by a judicious and
liberal expenditure of capital—by a progression, in opposition to a
retrogression in artistic improvement—by an adherence to refined
taste in all articles of dress—by an employment of the best foreign
and native skill in manufacture—by an equalization of interests of
the buyer and seller, and by every other possible recoinmendation in
business, do HYAM and CO. resolve to distinguish themselves
during the year which has now dawned, and with this assurance
they beg to conclude, wishing their thousandfold supporters " a
happy new year."
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