The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

of meeting, to allow tile promoters of the
neasure to open the case, then to hear the objectors, if
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making 'a reply. It was considered necessary, in all
cases, to dispense with coynsel; and evidence was to be
taken by a short-hand writer.

Mr. LLOYD opened the case at great length. He
divided the heads of the proposed bill under six heads.
The_first was to establish water-works ; the si

to obtain powers to purchase, by compulsion or agree-
meat, the existing water-works belonging to the Birken-
head and Claughton Gas and Water Company ; the third
was to obtain water for what might be termed sanatory
purposes, such as watering the streets, supplying wash-
houses and baths, markets, and troughs for watering
cattle, and for extinguishing fires, and to levy a public
rate for theFe purposes, to be called a water rate ;
the fourth was to supply the inhabitants, not not by com-
pulsion, but according to a scale of rents, for domestic
rmi•nncne • fan fifth varno

inuptiaes toe ottu was, to supply parties for reannfac-
turing and trading purposes by agreement ; and the sixth
was, to supply shipping coming to the port of Birken-
head by agreement also. He gave full credit to the
existing Company, for having established their water
works at a time of some risk.; but he said the time had
arrived when, in the opinion of the inhabitants of many

towns, these extensive undertakings must be in the hand 9
of the governing bodies; and he concluded by observinvf
that one great object of the proposed bill would be, that'
the profits, if any, would go in liquidation of the local
rates.

Mr. Brunel and Mr. Salter, surveyors and officers of
the township,. put in a variety of plans and sections, show-
ing the geological structure of the locality, and the strati,
or beds from whence the supply of water is obtained.
They stated that there were 18,145 inhabitants in the
township, and 4,039 houses. 2,099 of these houses were
inhabited ; 839 were unoccupied ; and 447 were in course
of erection and completion. They had classified the
rental, and found that there were not- any house§
under £3 per annum. There were four houses above
£3 and under £5 per annum ; above £5 and under
£lO there were 246 houses ; above £lO and under £l5,
1026 ; above £l5, and under £2O, 544 ; above £2O, and
under £3O, 692 ; above £3O, and under £4O, 425 ; above
£4O, and under £5O, 228; above £5O, and under £6O,
162 ; above £6O, and under £7O, 92 ; above £7O, and
under £BO, 35 ; above £BO, and under £9O, 45 ; above
£9o,.and under £lOO, 23; above £lOO, and under £llO,
42 ; above £llO, and under £l2O, 5 ; above £l2O, and
under £l3O, 9 ; above £l3O, and under £l4O, 5 ; ahoy°
£l4O, and under £l5O, 4 • above £l5O, and under £l6Ol
1; above £l6O, and under £2OO, 5 ; above £2OO, and
under £3OO, 2 ; above £350, 1.

Mr. HAWKESLIEY was examined. He stated that
bottle of the water of the existing Company's had been
analysed by Dr. Playfair, and that it had been found of
excellent quality, softer than that at Nottingham and
Manchester, and well adapted for manufacturing purposes,
and domestic uses : there was an abundant supply in the
neighbourhood for GO or 80,000 inhal

was a further abundant supply obtainable at _
aer diem to each of the
and there

He was for givir

entered into a variety of calculations as to thequ-
that would be required for domestic, manufacturing, and
shipping purposes, estimating that quantity at somewhere
about 1,600,000 gallons daily.
Witnesses were examined to si
the present Company was periodi
dthoafft
it butmu
denaydsealroidnFdritd?amysaii.;e was
appeartu r i e,

how that the supply of
cal, and that on Tuen
Mr. Hightiel'i

he occasion►'

ally, and tor short intervals,
in order to supply other districts with
tities.

T from one district?
ditional

The inquiry lasted from ten until four o'clock, and WO
then adjourned until ten this morning. It will, in all pro'
bability not be terminated to-day should the opponent"
of the bill go into a rebutting case.

Lord Hatherton will move the address in the House of

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