The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-04-24 00:00:00

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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 1 to Dublin and from Dublin to Live
In our notice of the consecration of Walton Breck Church last communication with the Post-officitransmitted their views to the Tr
week, we erroneously stated that the Rev. Mr. Lawrence
had been presented to the perpetual curacy. We ought to will • acquiesce in them :—that the
have said the Rev. Mr. Lomas. livery with you on Sunday mornin
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livery; and that they expected
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TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 24, 1849. same facilities via Holyhead as eu
direct packet from Liverool so
We fully expected in this day's publication to despatch and morning delivpery, in e
have been enabled to lay before our readers the " Yours,
whole of, or copious extracts from, the Report of (Signed,)
the Engineers, Messrs. Newlands and Simpson " Fenton'sHotel, St. James's-st;
, appointed to examine the scheme of Mr. llawkesley A memorial on the subject has 20th April, 1849."
for bringing a supply of water into the town from
Rivington Pike. Owing to some circumstances, the proper quarter from the Gu
however,—we believe the difficult nature of some of it is expected that a deputati
the calculations required to be gone into,—the Council will shortly proceed
Report is not as yet in a state to be brought before matter is also receiving its due
the public, and will not be so until Saturday. Chester, Leeds, and other towns
Its main features, however, we believe, are the inhabitants are disposed to
following. Messrs. Newlands and Simpson give resisting so gross an aggressio
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an unqualified condemnation of the Rivington
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, were in other
respects a desirable one, it could it
noteven be executed
for less than nearly double Mr. Hawkeslev's esti-

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Lane Works, and that the other wells should be
discontinued working. It is also proposed greatly
to enlarge the Kensington reservoir, and to
form two additional ones at Windsor and Ever-
ton, to be filled from the Green-lane works.
Thus far the supply would be dependent upon
the yield of the red sandstone; but it is con-
templated to put in requisition the water of the
river Alt, which is to be brought by a tunnel, or
large chamber, to the Green-lane works. By these
arrangement. Li.. cliginctio cwper.,b to lao o.blo 4-n
give a supply of twenty, thirty, or, if required,
forty millions of gallons daily to the town. We
do not, of course, pledge ourselves here to precise
accuracy of detail. The general features of the
scheme, however, are pretty nearly as we have
stated them.

It is a little startling, after the long controversy
which has taken place upon this subject, and the
mass of scientific opinion which has been brought
to bear upon it, to find that we are still somewhat
at sea. We have now three full-grown Richards
in the field, and have yet to find which is the real
king. In the meantime, it will not be very plea-
sant to the community to be informed that one of
these, the Pike project, which has just received an
unqualified condemnation from Messrs. Newlands
and Simpson, has already cost us in outlay of
money a sum exceeding a hundred thousand
pounds ! Water inquiries and the quarrels of
engineers are rather expensive amusements.

THE treatment which the largest provincial
towns of the empire receive at the hands of govern-
ment, as compared with that of the metropolis, is
strikingly unjust. Is there an object of conve-
nience, luxury, or ornament which can be suggested
for London, a minister at once puts his hand into
the pocket of the public to supply it ; whereas we
provincials are not even allowed to enjoy what our
own energy and enterprise have succeeded in cre-
ating for ourselves, if once the greedy eye of Lon-
don is turned in our direction, The postal arrange-
ments throughout the whole kingdom meditate the
convenience of London alone. A retired spinster
at Hackney or Richmond is an object of greater
interest with the officials of St. Martin's-le-Grand
than a population of a hundred thousand souls,
creating that wealth of which the nation boasts, in
the unaristocratic localities of Bolton or Stockport,
Manchester or Glasgow. The demands of the
f Yorkshire, Lancashire, or Cheshire,
in the balance when weighed

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urged the powerful claims of Liverpool as the port
of starting and destination of the West India Mail
steamers. We had at our backs the commerce of
the manufacturing districts of Lancashire, York-
shire, and Cheshire, and within a few hours sail of
the commerce and manufactures of Glasgow and
the north of Scotland. The whole of Ireland was
within easy reach of our docks ; and we were per-
fecting a chain of railways from all parts of the
united kingdom, towards this port as their eentre.
We had, moreover, already shown, by the success
of our admirably managed Halifax and Boston
steamers, that we were in possession not only of
the facilities required for the conducting of our
communications with the colonies, but of the en-
terprise and experience required to ensure efficiency.
It was an acknowledged fact too, that a greater
stake in the prosperity and commerce of our West
Indian possessions was held in the north of Eng-
land and in Scotland than in the rest of the king-
' Our appeals on that, as on all similar
occasions, were made in vain. The convenience of
Downing-street, and the interest of a few railway
proprietors, outweighed the claims of a nation's
commerce, and Southampton was the post selected
for the mails in question. Another blow, still
more glaringly uncalled for and unjust, is about to
be dealt against us, in the withdrawal from our
port of the Irish mails, and their transfer to
Holyhead under a stringent railway monopoly.
We should have thought that our very po-
sition alone was sufficient to insure us the
facilities which the Dublin Mail affords for our
vast commercial intercourse with the sister coun-
try. But no; Holyhead offers a little shorter route
for honourable gentlemen proceeding to and from
their parliamentary duties. It is a little nearer to
Downing-street and the Government offices; and
perhaps the directors of the Chester and Holyhead
Railway possess a little interest in those quarters.
The immense passenger traffic and correspondence
of Liverpool and the district at its back must pro-
ceed to Dublin via Holyhead. Not a single ground
of complaint, worthy of notice, has ever been
urged against the existing route. The Dublin
Mail steamers are of the very best class•of vessels.
Their swiftness and regularity have been proverbial.
We have provided for them, and are increasing
that provision, every facility and convenience which
skill and outlay of money can effect; but we have
no backstairs influence to back our claims to con-
sideration with the Government and the Post-
office. The fiat has already gone forth; and in
a few weeks the job will have been completed,
of which Liverpool and the manufacturing dis-
tricts are to be the victims. We may receive
Ireland's shoals of paupers and beggars; but her
respectable gentry, her landlords, and her legisla-
tors are to be assisted to "pass on the other side,"
of the wrotoheancaa their

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We should really imagine that it will not require
much more to stir up the inhabitants of this im-
portant locality to the necessity of commencing a
vigorous struggle for their just share of the con-
sideration of Government. Every paltry rotten
borough which contributes to swell the tail of a
minister, or a leader of the opposition, has its
demands for accommodation of various kinds
promptly acceded to. No town of any 'considera-
tion is overlooked, systematically, like ourselves,
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in the arra

ements of the post-office and other
Government departments. What place, for in-
stance, would have tolerated for a month the
and harassing postal arrangements

miserable

A present between Liverpool and Glas-
gow—the manufacturing metropolis of Scot-
land ? We venture to say, none ; and we would
suggest to our fellow-townsmen, that they should
at once lay aside their supineness under intolerable
insults and injury, and make their voice be heard
at the seat of Government. Surely, a port which
returns nearly four millions per annum of Customs
revenue, and whose tonnage exceeds that of London,
has a just right to have all its reasonable claims
listened to with attention.
Since the preceding remarks were in type, we
have had placed before us the following letter from
Wm. Brown, Esq., M.P. for the Southern Division
of the County, to a friend in Liverpool, which,
although not at all satisfactory as to the question
of the Holyhead mail, affords evidence that the
Government will be found "squeezable," if the
required amount of public opinion be brought to
bear upon them :

existing

" My Dear Sir,—ln consecittence of a wish expresed
from Liverpool and other towns by some parties not to
have a delivery of letters on Sunday, and by others that
all foreign letters should be despatched from this on Sun-
day evening, that would give you a delivery ou Monday
morning, in place of Tuesday, and not lose a day by lying
in the Post-office here, and a remonstrance from Liver-
pool against allowing a contract to expire next month for
the transmission of the mail every evening from Liverpool

to Dublin and from Dublin to Liverpool, I have been in
communication with the Post-office authorities, who have
transmitted their views to the Treasury, who, I believe,
will' acquiesce in them :—that there thould be one de-
livery with you on Sunday morning; that foreign mails
should not be detained here all Sunday night, but de-
spatched so as to secure you a Monday morning's de-
livery; and that they expected to be able to effect
arrengements, so far as letters are concerned, to give the
same facilities via Holyhead as are now enjoyed by the
direct packet from Liverpool, securing a late evening
despatch and morning delivery in each place as now.
" Yours, very truly,
" WM. BROWN.

street, London,