The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-30 00:00:00

Ait, SO; 1847.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(BY EXPRESS.)

THE PURCHASE OF THE WATER COMPANIES

PROCEEDINGS IN LONDON YESTERDAY.
(From our own Correspondent,)
The proceedings in this case commenced yesterday
morning, (Monday) shortly after 11 o'clock, before Robert
Stephenson, Esq., the Arbitrator. Mr. Sergiant Wrang-
ham opened the case on the part of the Liverpool and
Harrington Water Company, in an eloquent and argumen-
tative speech, which occupied nearly three hours in
delivery; he traced the progress of the Company from its
commencement ttp to the present time, and showed the
progressive increase of the company's resources, and the
great prospective income reasonably to be anticipated in
the event of the company continuing to carry on the
works. He concluded by calling on the arbitrator
to award such compensation as the nature of the
case demanded ; and, as in the case of the Manchester
and other Water Works purchased by corporations,
a sum equivalent to at leant 25 years' purchase of the
present net annual rental of the company,. be awarded,
and an additional sum in consideration of the prospective
increase of the rental ; irrespective of this amount, which
was left for the decision of the arbitrator, the sum de-
manded for the works was fe570,000.
Mr. Harmood Banner was called by Mr. Wrangham to.
prove the accuracy of the various documents, and his evi-
dence was objected to by Mr. Crompton on the part
of the Corporation in consequence of his being said to
be an interested party. The objection was overruled by the
arbitrator ; his evidence went to show that the documents
furnished by the company were strictly correct, and-
that the company had always been enabled to meet
the demand upon them for water, and that they
were even now in a condition to give a greatly increased'
supply, if necessary. Several letters were read to and'
from the local committee and the council—one from the'
agent of the Harrington Company, urging upon the coun-
cil the propriety of making an immediate purchase, which
the council then declined to do. At the close of his exa-
mination, Mr. Crompton objected to cross-examine nntil
such time as the Corporation accountant had examined
the books and accounts of the company. An' arrange-
ment was made with both parties for doing so fc,rthwith
and the court adjourned at a quarter before four o'clock
until half-past ten o'clock to-day (Tuesday). ,

LONDON CORN MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
The market to-day was but moderately supplied with Eng-
lish Wheat, which met a brisk sale at fully the currency of this
day week. Foreign supported late rates, although the demand
was not so extensive. The like remark applies to barrel Flour.
Floating cargoes of Indian Corn in improved request, but
being generally held for Is. tots. advance, business was checked.
The finest samples of malting Barley are scarce, and not
I but secondary sorts dull, at a further decline of Is. per
quarter. Malt cheaper.
Egyptian beans steady, but Beans and Peas generally Is. tO •
2s. lower.
The sale for new Oats continues most difficult.

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
Prime Scots, Herefords, &c.; moved off steadily, all other
beasts slowly, at Friday's decline in. the quotations of 2d. per
81b. The primest animals sold at 4s. 6d. to 4s. Bd. per 81b. At
the close of the market, a total clearance had not been effected.
On the whole, the mutton trade was• steady, but by no means
brisk, at fully the currencies obtained on Monday last.
The veal trade was in a very inactive state, and in some in-
stances the prices hada downward tendency.
Prime small porkers, which were scarce, moved off steadily.
at full prices.

MONEY MARKET—YESTERDAY.
Consols have been done for money from 84 to 85i, and for
the January account from 852 to j, and. are now 852.

THE POPE'S Humtrary (?).—The French papers give
long reports of an address delivered by "'type Pius the 9th
to twenty-four deputies who waited on " His Holiness."
The speeoll is said to have been uttered with his " natural
mildness,' and the account winds up by saying that "the
Holy Father afterwards admitted the deputies singly to
kiss his feet !"
In the common pleas on Friday, Mr. Thompson, civil
engineer, recovered a verdict for £1305 against Sir Henry
Webb, for services performed in surveying a. proposed
railroad from York to Lancaster. Sir Henry was chair-
man of the board of directors. Mr. Muller, the chief en-
gineer of the line. gained a verdict for £1;262 against the
worthy baronet, as remuneration for his services on the
same line.

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—During two, hours on
Tuesday, the Queen's speech was transmitted over 1,300
miles, to 60 central towns or stations, in England and
Scotland, where one or more manipulators were occupied
in dechipering the transmitted symbols. The speech was
printed and generally distributed, and the local papers
. published special editions. It was telegraphed at the rate
of 55 letters in a minute, or 430 words in an hour ; several
of the long words, such as embarrassments,"' " infringe-
ments," takinglonger time, no abbreviations-being used.
PROFANITY.—In the window of the Roman Catholic
Charity Schools, situate in High-street, Marylebone, is
posted a prospectus of " The Spanish-place Catholic
Literary and Scientific Institution," in which, after speci-
fying the particular subject of various lectures to be given
in that institution, the incredible assertion is put forward
that the whole course is "under the patronage- of the
Blefsed Virgin." Without ocular demonstration, it would
he difficult to credit th 4 such dreadful profanity could be
put forward in the 19th century by persons who are ap-
pointed to instruct and conduct the youthful mind into
the paths of truth.—Herald.
ATTACK ON A BOAT, AND PLUNDER OF- OATS.-011
Wednesday evening, a boat laden with oats, left the quay
of this town for Waterford. The boat and oats were the
property of Michael Keeffe, an industrious man ; when,
the boat arrived between Bumchurch and Ballydine, three
men appeared on the bank, ordered Keefe to pull the boat
in near the bank ; poor Keeffe remonstrated with the
ruffians in vain, as one of them swore he would blow the
contents of a pistol through his head. The poor man
was thus compelled to pull towards the bank, and was
then ordered to throw a rope out, this request was com-
plied with, and three of the party fastened the rope inside
the ditch, and then ordered the crew of the boat into the
locker. They then plundered the boat of 13 bags of
oats, which they carried away. The oats were afterwards
discovered in a haggard belonging to a comfortable farmer
who, with the four men, has been taken into custody.—
Tipperary eonstitution.
AN INDISCREET QUESTION.—In the debate on the
Address, in the House of Commons on Tuesday evening,
Mr. E. B. Roche is reported to have asked the following
very indiscreet question :—" It had been said that the
Celtic race,was prone to crime and
,disorder; but if that
were true, how happened it that when Irishmen settled
in England or America, or any other country, they were
never guilty of assassination ? No one ever heard of a
railway director being shot by an Irish labourer. What
was the reason that in every country in the world, except
Ireland, Irishmen were industrious and well conducted re
We can answer both parts of the question very readily ;
but first we will give Mr. Roche's own solution. That
gentleman says that Irishmen are not assassins in En-
gland and America, and are industrious and well con-
ducted in every country in the world except Ireland,
" because in every country but Ireland they are treated
with firmness and justice." There may no doubt be some
truth in this reasoning. Our own solution, however._ has
the advantage of being more lucid and more in detail.
We contend that Irishmen are not assassins in other
countries because their crimes would not be tolerated
there as in Ireland. An Irishman who might choose to
try the experiment of murdering a man in open day, on a
public road, or in a street, with .a hundred people looking
on, would not be permitted to walk off unmolested.
Again, if arrested and brought to trial, he would not have
the advantage of witnesses ready to perjure themselves,
and- the jury afraid to find him guilty. "No one ever
heard of a railway director ever being shot by an Irish
labourer," probably because no one ever heard of a rail-
way director in any civilized country being denounced
from the altar as a person " unfit to live"; or of lists
being publicly handed about of parties doomed.to fall on
the first possible occasion by the bullet of the assassin.
We should say too that the anomalous circumstance of
Irishmen being industrious and well conducted in every
other part of the world except Ireland may in a great
measure be accounted for by the fact of their having re-
moved themselves from, the incendiary language, the
exactions, priestly and lay, the bad example, the filthy
habits and the lawlessness with which they are surrounded
on every side in their own country.