The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-15 00:00:00

of intended to

:ppiy at all

.nd you go to Rivington

servoirs at

Of Liverpool being
,t soft much cheaper.

Aer abundance. In concht-
nents be put into the local
the execution of the works

at present sanctioned by act of parliament.
Mr. TINNE ing seccnded the amendment,
Mr. PARKER spoke at considerable length in opposition to
the amendment, and in favour of the original motion.
Mr. MANN would vote in favour of the amendment, notwith-
nott, which he had received since he bad entered the
• timating that the opinion of the burgesses was
ently expressed on this subject. to indicate to the

stanch!

lIARBORD der

committee, ai]

r. S. H

what their views'weie. (Hear, hear.)
Jed the conduct of the present water
at length to 'lle observations of Mr.

cussion which had taken pla
ject. A popular cry had t
the late water committee,

few words on this sub-

ail that
bi.t sub

heard no obj

ion wilt

ject against
at first this
Fequen tl y it
of up acry

stagnation in trai
had been made a

went for it.
unfortunate
and which

le which had recently taken j
handle of to make the people believe that ad-

ditional taxes were about to be levied upon the
parties who were instrume '— ..etting up
quite well that no additio-
water. Besides this, thk
resorted to in order to pry

Lai I
lal tax .

Lost me

that cry knew
Id be levied for

rake up the priva(
curiosity—even the vile pages of a penny publication were math.
subservient to that purpose. But he could assure the parties
who did so that the day of retribution had not yet passed, and
that they themselves might perish in the tempest which they
had thus created. (Bear, hear.) After critically examining
son and Newlands, he warned the
Ii a scheme, because he felt con-
y it promised was_ only problema-

i the d:

,rces were

tic circle, tc

hilst the st

.fter a few words from

clusion, to second the

GARDNER,

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Haw•ksley had not be

TINNI

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crush him. (N

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report which he h(
old Water Commi

I rival, and he is detained to
considered, however, that the
I was most satisfactory for the
ed with all which
T. With re-
ed that Mr.

it had t

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any engineering or other difficulties in
another matter with which the old cou
They had_been informed by Mr. Harbor,

t said Simpsi
water was t

the reports of the respecti
water which might be i

ftivington

e were charged.
if the water was

*r had in the

report taken fair data for theiicalculatiOn. With regard to the
cost of the scheme, he was willing to admit that, if it could be
shown that the cost of the Rivington scheme should even ap-
proximate to Messrs. Simpson and Newland's report, he, for
one, would at once abandon the idea of going on with it. He
was, however, of opinion that they would from Rivington get
water at a much cheaper rate than if they were to go on with
• _

this new sche

f Aiessr

of nhich they had nevc

word, and

very men who had ac

there shoiiid I

000 the -c

already gone into ; tt.

cost of compensation to t
schemes. This he set down
300,000, makes the cost of

scheme

the Rivington

landowners concerned in both
tided to the

d IVewltind

fore, that t

Council v

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Mr. HORSFAL

ho it is to be charged to, we

lxious that the Council should under
it was going to decide. The

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Kiteraturt.

VARIETIES

A Yankee down-easter has invented this specific for the
use of gold-hunters :—The operator is to grease himself
well, lie down on the top of a hill, and then roll to the
bottom. The gold, and "nothing else," will stick to
him. Price 94 dollars per box.
DEAD OR MISSING.—After the battle of Chillianwallah,
an Irishman in a foot regiment went to his officer and
-<,lf dead. " Yes -^s• " said he, "I'm

reported him: , Jer miner
kilt entirely." _.. can ti—` ' ,s he, " when
I see you before me '"
.4ays Pat, "if I
were dead, I should ha
.e, and as I wish to
lave the sarvice, if you report me dead, I supoose it'll be
all the same to her Majesty, God bless her!" Pat was
told that his request could not be complied with, on
which he declared that if he could not be reported dead
he would be amongst the missing after the next fer—
ment.

1-10 w can that
'?" " Och, sur
we left the

ENGLISH MARRIAGES IN 1848.—The marriages in the
year 1848 were about 137,135 ; which is more than were
returned iu 1847, but 8529 less than took place in 1846.
Only 118,825 women were married in 1842; the smallest
proportion. 4"or increase of populat'--
in an•-

llo%vin
of the 11 1

Lon register

marriages rapidly increased, and were
143,743, 145,664, in the four years 1843, 4,5, 6; in 1847
they suddenly fell to about 135,170, which is in nearly the
same proportion to the population as the number 137,135
, lB4B.—The marriages are unequally distributed over
the year; but the fewest people marry in the first, the most
in the last quarter, which follows harvest, includes Christ-
mas, and is the marrying season in England. About
41,972 marriages were celebrated in the last, and 28,303
in the first quarter of 1848. A comparison of the mar-
riages in the three first quarters shows very slight signs
of any inclination to rise from the depression of 1847 ;
in the last quarter of 1848 there is an evident increase.
LIBRARIES IN EUROPE.—The number of public libra-
ries in Europe amounts to 383, of which 107 are in France,
and but 33 in Great Britain and Ireland, including one in
Malta. Of these 33 British public libraries, no less than
19 are attached to universities, 2 to law institutions, 2 to
medical institutions, and Ito a scientific society. And of
the remaining 9 really public institutions, available for all
classes of the community, 3 are of a religious character—
viz., Dr. William's Library, Archbishop Tenison's, and
Sion College Library, in London, and one is at Valetta,
in Malta, leaving but 5 for the general use of the inhabit-
ants of our large towns—viz., the National

)m that year tht
QlB, 132,249

y in th
British Museum, the Cheetham Library at Manchester,e two public libraries at Birmingham, and one (doubtful) at
Bristol; whereas in France alone, 89 " town libraries,"
each containing upwards of 10,000 volumes, exclusive of
the magnificent National Liftry of 800,000 volumes, and
several other large public collections of books, supply all
the chief seats of population with an inexhaustible source
of amusement and instruction.—Dr. G. Robinson on
Education.
MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY versus MINERAL TREA-

suaEs.—Ever since the middle ages, when permission was
given to commoners to amass fortunes by honest and
persevering enterprise, the members of the industrial
world have, from generation to generation, gradually en-
riched themselves by the acquisition of land, workshops,
warehouses, &c. To form a just idea of this source of
opulence in the industrial community, like that of the
French, Dutch, English, and Anglo-Americans, compare
it with the source of the most fabulous treasures,—with
those treasures poured during three centuries by Mexico
and Peru, at the feet of conquerors who had little sym-
pathy with industry. At the end of three centuries
scarcely a trace of these rivers of gold is left upon Spanish
ground. And what is the result ? Whilst the four emi-
nently industrious nations, by the simple manufacture of
their wools, silks, and foreign cotton, by the working of
their iron and mineral coal. by their fisheries, and the
produce of their soil, have enriched the community,
Spain has sunk into the depth of poverty—a fitting reward
for its idleness.—Report of the (Paris) Society for the
Encouragement of National Industry, 1848.
INTERESTING RECOLLECTIONS OF THE "-
NOT."—Miss Strickland, in her Ist,
of England, has given us a statement

GET-ME-

work on the Queens
of the cause of the
poetical than that

name, forget

:-me-not, scarcely I

lands c

says, " This royal adventurer—the banished and aspiring
Lancaster—appears to have been the person who gave to
the mvosotis arvensis, or forget-me-not, its emblematical
and poetical meaning, by uniting it, at the period of his
exile, on his collar of S. S., with the initial letter of his

'not, or watchword, Souveignevous de moy ; thus render-
ing it the symbol of remembrance, and, like the subse-
quent fatal roses of York, and Lancaster, and Stuart—
the lily of Bourbon, and the violet of Napoleon—an his-
torical flower. Few of those, who, at parting, exchange
this simple touching appeal to memory, are aware of the
fact, that it was first used as such by a royal PlantaTenet.

prince, who was, perhaps, indebted to the agency of this
mystic blossom for the crown of England. It was with
his hostess, at that time wife of the Duke of Bretagne,
that Henry exchanged this token of good-will and remem-
brance."

YOUNG STANLEY AND YOUNG PEEL.—TWO young
men have lately taken their seats, about whom public
curiosity can hardly fail io be excited—the son of Lord
Stanley, and the son of Sir R. Peel. The resemblance
of young Stanley to his father is perfectly wonderful. We
saw them together, and could hardly tell " which was
which." Never could a parent with greater safety of
conscience swear to a son, or a son to a father, than
could the two Stanleys respectively. The same marked
features, the same massive brows, the same strong crisped
hair, indicative of stubborn purpose and determined will,
characterise father and son. In form, too, in port, in
gesture—nay, in style of dress, in the mode of using the
eye-glass, of holding the hands, of doing any trifling
thing, of looking, of listening—the one is the complete
similitude of the other. It is dangerous to prophecy, but
there is that in young Stanley which promises that he will
not be unworthy of his sire. Although only twenty three
years of age, he has the appearance of one much older;
his costume is the reverse of beauish, and he pays con-
stant and seemingly deep attention to the debates.—
Young Peel bears no very striking likeness to Sir Robert,
and has nothing in his lineaments to raise expectations of
future eminence. His features are like his mother's, de-
licate and regular, and he looks neither more nor less
than any other sprig of fashion that we may see at the
opera or elsewhere. He sometimes drops in during a
debate, and has the air and manner of ono who esteems
legislation a vast bore. Whether he will support the
paternal fame, time will alone determine.—Atlas.
BIRDS AND THEIR NESTS.—Everybody has read the
story of the Maid and the Magpie, and how narrowly the
maid escaped punishment for the theft committed on the
silver spoons by the chattering pie. It will, however, we
think, be a novel circumstance to our readers to hear of
green linnets and thrushes becoming thieves ; but such is
the fact. The plover may lay its eggs in a nest ready
made on the ground—the magpie may build its canopy of
sticks—the tit its beautiful and scientific nest, with its
neat side entrance—the tailor bird sew together its elegar t
and purse-shaped pendant house,—but it yet remains to
be recorded of the extravagance of the thrush and linnet
to steal lace caps and trimmings, cuffs, collars, &c.,
wherewith to enshrine their eggs and young, as the fol-
lowing story, furnished to us by a correspondent, will
show, and urove an interesting anecdote for the next new
work on Ornithology :—" For some time past, various
articles were missed, that had been washed and put out
on a lawn to dry. No trace could be discovered of them
until a few days since, when something was seen in an
arbutus bush, which led to an examination, and a frill was
found partly hanging out of the nest of a green linnet,
with a portion of it gracefully encircling its neck. On a
further search, together with the usual materials of which
the nest was built—moss and grass—there were entwined
with and around it, preparatory, as it were, to the ap-
proaching arrival of the youngsters, a baby's lace cap,
two yards of lace bordering, and two pairs of cuffs, and,
at a short distance off, on the ground, was picked up the
frill for the top of a child's frock, which seemed to have
been too heavy for the little culprits to carry along with
them. This discovery has led to a further search, and
other missing articles of the same description, too nume-
rous to mention, have been found forming part of the
nest of a thrush. Since the nests were taken, these
novel little thieves have been intercepted carrying off
similar booty."

THE CHiIRCH.—The Protestant Church of England
was not originally a detached body, and afterwards an-
nexed to the State—which would be union ; it was the
State itself, constituting itself a Protestant Church.
First, there was a national change of religion ; then, as
the natural consequence, the religion tock the form of
the National Establishment. This was no mere union,
if by union we are to understand simply the uniting of a
Church and State previously existing apart. The State
was the Church, and the Church the State. This, in the
main, is the condition of Church and State, which has
come down to us from our forefathers. This primary idea
of identity may have been subjected to some modification,
in the lapse of centuries ; but certainly the modification,
in the whole period from the Reformation to the present
day, has been less than we could have anticipated, espe-
cially if we review the events which have occurred in the
interval. And, thus far, the identity still remains; that
Church and State are rather to be regarded as one homo-
geneous body, neither Church nor State discernible or
definable apart from the other, than as two heterogene-
ous bodies united by legislative ties. Church and State,
then, viewed in their general character, are not united
merely, but identical. We are not assuming that this,
because it is so, ought to be. We ask, only, that a plain
matter of fact may be correctly viewed. A Christian
community, comprising in its extent many thousand pa-
rishes, each with its parish church, makes provision, by
general arrangements and legislative enactments, for the
support of its own parochial ministers and religious edi-
fices ; that is, makes a general provision for its own reli-
gious wants. This, in the view of many persons, would
be the wisest plan that could be adopted. This, however,
is what is now assailed by a party as the idolatrous
' Union' of Church and State. The State, having adopted
the reformed faith, arranges its own ecclesiastical polity,
ministry. ritual, &c.,—all the individuals comprehended
in this arrangement being members of the State. The
State, in acting thus, merely exercises the right of self-
government. The State having constituted itself the
Church, the Church, in conforming itself to the State
regulations, is subject to no extraneous control. The
case, in fact, is simply that of a Christian community
regulating itself upon a uniform principle, the whole re-
gulating the parts. The control is in the Christian com-
munity itself, not in a body other than that community.
This is no usurpation, then ; it is self-government, self-
regulation, self-control. A wife certainly wrongs not her
husband by recognising the principle that his will is to
direct her in all things, by laying down rules for her own
conduct with a constant reference to that will, and by
maintaining those rules. Nor is a public servant a traitor
to his sovereign, if his sovereign has ordained that he
should be paid for his work, and he receives from the
public a stipulated remuneration for stipulated services.