The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-30 00:00:00

TO t OItRESPONDB

There is much truth in alt •• Tantrobolus," but we
cannot notice the letter to whieh he alludes. It is no less
atran,e than tru-, that so ne people cannot perceive that a
manifestation of present disappointment is re ranted by th,.
/mode as noth.ng more than a corroboration of an opponent's
argume.itS

t, who waq in the Nisi Prins Co.

)f the co'iriori cases, cans our
:essity-of having.all similar trials
decided by a jury, one-half of whom, at least, should be nau-
tical meu. Such a jury could he readily obtainA, and would
be desirable in every war. Our correspondent says, with re-
ference to the trials on N iday, that the jury were quite at
sea on many subjects; and he was much amused at the
judg,, inquiring most inquisitively, what a " hawser" was.
Vie have anoher letter. in addition to that of " A Liverpool
Working Mau" upon the- subject referred to. Certainly Ws.
a week is not a sum fu a man to make much of ; tint our cor-
resuondent probably r f•rred to parties havin.g
employment. is
houseman" to a r

attention to th,

is nal an " under-ware-

pellet! t,

W a notice 01

work on the Sanitary Condition of Birkenhead, and several

other articles.

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vO, MARCH 30, 1847

TUESDAY MORNIN

THE report of the surveying officers on the
Liverpool Watenvorks Bill, Messrs. Herbert and
rage, is now published, and it is gratifying to
-ourselves to find that, upon the evidence adduced
before them, these gentlemen have arrived.at very
scimitar conclusions to those which we have at-

tempted to place b
tile report in gnesic

our readers. Practically
a condemnation of the

19 CYLIU,
supply of
tihilst it s

i from a distance ;
)f the practicability of
ltity of water for all the
tlation under the red
emidStone formation of Liverpool itself, within or
'adjacent to the district upon which the works of
the existing companies are located.
We have already given the evidence upon which
_ _

requirements

this report is founded at considerable length, and
we are bound to say that it has been most fairly
laid, in substance, before the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests, to whom Messrs. 11:rbert and
Page have handed in their conclusions. Our
duty, therefore, will now be merely to give _ our

readers a brief statement of the impression which
that evidence, combined with their own local
examination, has produced upon the minds of
those gentlemen. In doing this, we shall deviate
from the order in which the opinions of the sur-
veying officers are given in their report, and corn-
h the Bala Lake or River Dee Project.

)wledge, in the outset of
m this scheme, that the evidence
before them was somewhat one-sided, being taken
from MI. Hawksley, Mr. Cubitt, and Mr. Rendel,
with whom its originator, Mr. Rowlinson, did not

mence
The

rveyors

their remarks ui

appear to have had

licient communication to

them to arrive at a just conclusion. Their
own objections are its expensiveness, the total

enable

cost being estin
£1,500,000, i

I by competent partie
-zowlinson himself put it
hich might be reduced
m of a permanent duct
) feet apart, and 250

down at£s94

for the wale

feet as the maximum height in crossing valleys, in
lieu of pipes. Another objection, which has
weighed with them, is the deficiency of the eleva-
tion, the fall per mile from Ventre to Kensington
tieing only 1 foot 7 inches, which would only have
been sufficient to deliver the water into the reser-
voir without any elevation into the stand pipe.

Possibly t

.tion might have been obviated

tut they obser

" Cceieris paribus, the great length of the line, inde-
renclently of the expense which the passage of the two
galleys of the river Weaver at Frodsham, and the river
Mersey at Runcorn, would have incurred, (expensive, if
executed in the most economical manner,) offers, we may
infer, strong reasons for the Corporation not to have pro-
Eaded further with the plan than to refer it to the en-
neers above mentioned. We do not feel it desirable
t we should enter into calculations so as to give an
Opinion in detail upon its_ merits and its objections, but

Ee think it right to.state, that Mr. Rav;linsoli has brought
o bear on the subject much research into the works of for--
er ages, and information upon those of the present.
Praiseworthy admiration of the former appears to have

zestion,

the execution

em barra
of which would apparently, and, in the opinion of those
referred to, involve an expense proportionate more to the
wants and means of a great district than to those of a
town even of the importance of Liverpool; and although
the adoption of these may not be necessary for the per-
fection of the plan, the substitutions for them would still
lbe_obiectionable on the ground of delay and expense.
"Nevertheless, for a district containing several popu-
lous towns, the expenses of a plan like this would be far
more than counterbalanced by the advantages resulting
from an abundant supply of water so free from objections
as that of the Dee ; and when our progressive legislation
shall have attained to the desiderable point of consolida-

and management of public works, so
i they may best contribute to the economy, health
and comfort of the people, projects like this of Mr. Raw-
iinson's may equal in grandeur and utility those works of
the Romans to which he alludes, or the American aquc-

tins the exp

of the present day

With respect to the Holywell scheme, sug,_
by Mr. Gossage, the surveyors find an objection
both in the quantity of water capable of _being
furnished and its elevation. The quality both of
this water and the Bala Lake they admit to be
excellent. With respect to it they state in con-
clusion :

Bested

"Besides the insufficiency of the springs, one great de-
fect in the plan is the want of suflcient head to supply the
reservoirs in Liverpool, and the unavoidable expense
which would attend any mode of crossing the Dee and
Mersey. The great recommendation is the value of the
water ; but as the merits of a project must be taken in
connexion with the cost of its execution, we are not en-
abled to state the relation between them in the present

In their remarks upon the supply proposed to
be derived from Rivington Pike, the surveyors

seem to have come to very nearly the same con-
clusions as those arrived at by Mr. Cunningham,
and appear to have attached great weight to his
evidence, as to the unfavourable nature of the
strata for the retention of water in the Anglezark
and Rodnlesworth reservoirs. They are not satis-

fled either, that the amount of rain falling and
capable of being made available has been suffl-
cientiv ascertained, and are unwilling to take at a

be paid to the mill-
district. Under these

D
owners and others

heads the report states

The quantity t,

ble from the

face by

and th

eta, which, when 10(

inclination of tl

face, must conduct in that direction a I,
the fall ; and a result sufficiently satil

proportion of
gry cannot be

1 and ez- ,anora- tic

and, in ti

t which will' be discharged into the

ige and expert

y; would desire that the resulis
fa should be thoroughly in ac-

uantity which 1

usly to the comment

to the s

;pot did not lea

Ice of the dr

doubt that an abundant supply for the wants of the pre-
sent and future population may be derived from the new
red sandstone formation, whence the supply is at present
derived; and if quantity alone were the object, this supply
could be obtained and distributed with greater economy,
compared with the present arrangements, by a consolida-
tion of the works of the two existing companies and those
of the Corporation, and by adopting the best means of
increasing the produce of the wells and the most econo-
mical engine power for distributing it. That such an
arrangement, either under the direct management, or
tinder the direct control of the Corporation, would be in
accordance with the recommendation of the Committee of
the Council, both as to the consolidation. of the works,
and to the terms of treaty with the existing companies,
"whose clear and undoubted right to be dealt with justly"
would appear to have been recognised by the Council.
With respect to the Rivington Pike scheme,

iiich we consider ourselves to be at

tly informed from the

uses above