The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-04-10 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS,

Through an accident, a portion c
relative to the sale of his fine 1
our last publication.

rate of interest. We trust that, under such a state TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.—YESTERDAY.
tr. Banks' advertisement, of thipgs we may, • with some degree of success,
',am ale, was omitted in urge upon the mercantile and trading community day, at the Town-hall ; his worship the MAn adjourned meeting of the Council was held
Mayor presidin yester-
g.
the necessity of directing their inquiries to the
COMITTEE.
operation of the banaful system—our bullion sys- The proceedings,
reWATER solutions,M and reports of this corn-
tern—which is depressing their energies, and mittee cbntained reports from Messrs. Scott and Rodgers,
crushing them to the earth. Surely, in this age of in connection with the Liverpool Water Works,_t atnoduilter.eport
cent visit
advanced intelligence, such a community will not Messrs.
aesncrnoewt t andtrom Hwalohr di
trealpapi
appeared e d that
re-
submit to be for ever blinded by a destructive fal- had visited the four establishments in which the iron pipes
Newdegate in his lacy—by a monetafy system which, whilst promis- for the new works were being cast. The first foundry
past four years the ing to protect them from commercial fluctuations, which they visited was the Llndon Vulcan Company,
ded that of our ex- is fertile only in n,,,,i„„:-._ -i. j where they found piled one above another in the open air,
and consequently in a rusted state, 53 pipes, none of which
hail been tested, as the testing apparatus had nor yet been
prepared. Many of these pipes were in a very bad state,
several of them briny honey-combed. None of the trial
bars had yet been prepared in accordance with the terms
of the specifications. They next visited the foundry of
Messrs. Neilson, where they found only six pipes, none of
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was the St. Aubers, where no pipes had yetut.aut
been cast at
all. The foundry of Messrs. Godie and Co. was next
visited. Here there were 45 pipes, but none of them had
been tested by trial bars, or otherwise. From all this it
appeared that there was not a single pipe yet ready for de-
livery. With regard to the inspectors (Messrs. Francis
and Campbell) who have been in Glasgow since October
last, the report stated that the writers could not find that
they had performed any duty u hatever. ' They had no
confidence in the present insn,,t.r. nr th.

ncy and pauper-

.va • r 1-v th ad-
vise the recal of Messrs. Francis andwou Caml-1 pbell,erefore and the
appointment of one efficient inspector in their place. This
report was submitted to Mr. Hawksley, who in a letter to
the committee defended the conduct of the inspectors,
statincr th,t • , ..

proper head in the account.
must be aware, because thn

uone so. I take this to be a case analagous to the Albert
accounts, and you know that the same course was pursued in
that instance. I think it right to lay this rule down in order
to prevent a discussion which can tend to no good.
Mr. BENNETT understood that the object in getting these
accounts published was to enable the Council to understand
them. Now if members of the Council did not happen to
understand them after they were published, they had a right
to have some explanation on the - "

_ ouoect. For his own le
could not understand how certain matters got chargedpa inO the
£20,000 item which he had alluded to.
The MAYOR.—You cannot enter into particulars.
Mr. HARBORn

Water
aK the to read the
127th clause of the Water Work's Act, andwn.cierK to give the Council
his construction of it.
The MAYOR.---I wish it to be understood that this has always
been the rule of the Council. If it were otherwise, and that
.
the serni,nt. nnv•-•

assiduously, and to his entire satisfaction. The minutes
also contained a letter from Mr. Scott, resigning his situ-
ation as managing engineer to the Liverpool Water Works,
and stating that he would not hold himself responsible for
the accuracy of the Water Works' accounts, as published
by the Water Committee, nor for any of the details men-
tioned therein.
Mr. BENNETT, on rising to move the confirmation of the
proceedings, regretted the absence of the chairman of the
committee, (Mr. Proctor,) inasmuch as that gentleman had
taken such full notes of the material points in the whole of
their proceedings as would have enabled him had he been
present, to have placed the details before time Council in a much Hawksley'llad received only .1,51,3 18s. 4d., when, in point of prevent our giving an outline of it.
more clear and concise form than he (Mr. B.) could hope to do. fact, he had got ,e 3,489 38. 4d. It was stated there that Capt. CAPTAIN PURNELL'S PATENTED APPARATUS FOR THF
He would, with the permission of the Couucil, move the con- Francis had got only ,t'1,345 18s. 11d., whilst, in fact, he had SELF-RELIEF OF WATER-LOGGED SHIPS, CARRIrme:
firmation of the whole of the proceedings, except that portion got £2,739 17s. 9. There was a Mr. Jackson who it was stated e A
which related to the accounts; these he should wish to have had received _4•9gfl Imt - - • • • -
referred bank. There we... AA__ _A .

nave tnat lace?
Mr. HARBORD would have ityou
referred back, in order to have
it put in its proper place. He had been looking over the
vouchers for this .320,000 of parliamentary expenditure_ and
he aPr In r.ri _ . . -

c itnu y attem had been to abolish a s its
most oemareu tnat the amounts paid under that head were of the teanrn asenecruar pt
pernicious to public yet
moralsma as de
it was cruel to its
most disgraceful and lavish character.
The MAYOR.—i must call you to order. unfortunate victims.
At the close of the paper an animated discussion ensued,
Mr. HARBORD then objected to the .e 20,000 being put to the
• • •
Rivington account, when be found in it such enormous sum. many of the membprs

onjected to Captain Francis'reCelvi mils. Ile also vote of thanks having been passed to Mr. South, for
iig" aiZe
.e5OO for testing bringing this matter under the notice of the society,
these wells. There was also an item paid for Mr. Hawksley, at Mr. ROWETT next read a paper on " A new motive
his hotel, to the amount of
.t,83 l3i. 9d., and which Mr. Lave, for marine purposes." Thi3 was an exceedinehr in...—
the late chairman of the Water Committee, ordered to be •
-
debitted against that p•pntia,-.,.„

-,.
—...- ...,.,v, ~... mutt was the fact, he had got .€1,019 ~..itttlaULS OF LESS SPECIFIC GRAVITY THAN WATER.
•v
PURNELL, Ma3ter of the Queen's Dock, ex-
..,.......0 nu itia in sue abstract, which he 18s. 4d.
hibited a large working model of a vessel fitted up with
neld in his hand, of .e 20,000 for Parliamentary expenses, which The MAYOR.—I will not allow you to depart from the line I
h 3 considered—
have chalked out.
the apparatus, and several smaller ores, and thus intro-
The MAYOR.—Before you go to the question of the accounts, Mr. HARBORD.—But that line is a very eccentric one. doted the subject :—Gentlemen,—My invention of an
I think it right to state that you have no right to go into any The MAYOR.—I don't care • there is a proper way of doing apparatus to be applied to timber-loaded and other yes-
,At it has not been placed under its this, and you must adopt that' plan or none,
sels carrying materials, the specific gravity of which is
I come to this conclusion, as you , Mr. HARBORD.—Then I will content myself, for the present, lighter than water, preventing the necessity of sbandon-
aceounts were before the Coun- I with seconding Mr. Bennett's motion.
in them at sea, by ridding them of the superincumbent
cil lono•ao•o an-d
when they were up for confirmation, if v." Mr. S. HOLME said that after the very long and useless die-
- --"^- to make, then was the time— •
cussion which they had had, it would ill become him if be water, and enabling them to carry sail, consists in placing
should attempt to answer in detail all the observations of Mr. two or more tanks or cisterns in each side of the interior of
IBennett, or follow him thronah his philosophical dissertation the vessel, containing from 50 to 10n ~.11,,-. --- ,--
on the qualities of iron. If these gentlemen had brouvht far_ , .

rey nad had no confidence in

I. nuwKsley, ana recommend
(Mr. H.) could perfectly understand them
bold and manly course which he would

ay two

,he after p,

vow.; omcer. He had some no-- stowage of
tion of replying to Mr. Bennett at present, but he would refer tank is place
that till a future occasion, promising that if the amendment from within
which he was then about to propose should be carried, he would ,
follow him pant vasqt thron,t,

the far

s report