The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-01-16 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

THE WATER COMMITTEE AT A STAN D.—III conse-
quence of the decision of the Council, on Wednesday, to
suspend the operations on the Rivington Pike scheme, the
Town-clerk summoned a special meeting of the committee
for Thursday. At the hour app 3inted only four members
were present, namely, Mr. H. Hornhy, Mr. Poole, Mr.
Bennett, and Mr. Harbord. With the assistance of the
Mayor, who attended ex-officio, at last a quorum was
constituted. An apology for the absence of Mr. Ferguson
was given, and it was announced that the remainder of the
committee did not intend to give any further attendance.
In this dilemma no alternative remained with the members
present but to request the Mayor to summon a special
Council, which will he held to-morrow.

TUnTLE IN THE MERSEY.—Amongst the miscellaneous
articles on board the schooner Golden Eagle, which was
disabled by a collision with the ship Emigrant, in the
river, on Wednesday, were a goodly number of " fine lively
turtle," After the Golden Eagle sunk at the Seacombe-
slip we saw a score or two of these creatures landed and
carted away from the pier. They were all in a state of
as vigorous health as the most fastidious alderman could
de,ire. Shortly after the collision in the river, when the
schooner's decks were floaded with water, and every thing
thereupon floating at large, several of the most huge and
able-bodied of the turtle, invigorated by the contact of
their native element after so long a confinement, put their
fins in motion, paddled away overboard, and disappeared
in the depths of the river. Whether they will become ac-
climatized, whether they will live and thrive in the Ens.
lish waters is a question for natural historians, and
whether they will breed there is, perhaps, one of interest
to epicures.

TRADE WITH THE EAST.—A comparative statement has
been published of the number of British ships with their
tonnage, entered inwards and cleared outwards from and
to places within the limits of the East India Company's
charter, in the years 1847 and 1848, compiled by Mr.
Begbie, secretary to the East India and China Association,
in London. The comparison is favourable to Liverpool,
as it shows but the slight decrease of 227 tons in the in-
ward arrivals of 1848, and of 3,148 tons in the clearances,
whereas London exhibits the large deficiency inwards in
1848 of 38,515 tons, a deficiency by no means counter-
balanced by the increase in her clearances of 25,917 tons.
This increase is attributable to the emigration from Lon-
don to the Australian colonies, which employed 40,000
tons more shipping in 1848 than in 1847; so that, without
this peculiar auxiliary, London want& have shown an
aggregate falling off in her Indian trade in 1848, as com-
pared with 1847, of upwards of 50,000 tons, while that of
Liverpool scarcely exceeds 3,300 tons. As it is, London
is deficient 12,598 tons in 1848.
GREATLY IMPROVED DEMAND FOR COTTON MANU-
FACTURES.—In addition to the late improvements in the
manufacturing districts generally, we rejoice to say that
the North Shore Mills, the only cotton spinning estab-
lishment—indeed the only cotton manufactory—in this
town, is again in active operation throughout;_ that a
great number of hands are employed; and that still more
will be taken on, as soon as some additional new ma-
chinery can be fixed within some available portions of the
extensive premises, not before so appropriated. These
mills are employed solely in the spinning of yarns, chiefly
of low counts, which are exported by the proprietors to
various countries abroad, as Russia, Switzerland, and
other European States, the United States, British Ame-
rica,. &c. The resumption of full work. at these mills,
shows, therefore, an improvement abroad. During some
months of depression in the market, and when the mills
were worked short time, the proprietors, Messrs. North
and Co., were necessitated to reduce their people's wages
by 10- per cent. ; but since its revival, they have liberally
iaised them by that additional amount per cent.