The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-09 00:00:00

DISTRICT PROVIDENT SOCIETY,
OFFICE, 4, QUEEN-SQUARE.
THE Treasurer begs to acknowledge the receipt of
the following Additional Donations; .
e is. d.
Mrs. Thompson, Aitzburth lO 0 0
Frederick Peel, Et.q lO 0 0
Messrs. J. O'Neile and Co. 5 0 0
Rev. Gilbert H. Phillips
Edward Eccles 5 0 0
Miss Ellison 3 0 0
James Crabtree, Esq.
William Cook, Esq.
Miss S. Jones
Mr. liichard Allinson
By a few men employed by the Corporation 0 16 4

little fear, having consulted a medical gentleman on the
subject, that disease under such treatment would shortly
disappear. And now, gentlemen, I have only one thing .
more to propose, which is, as we have taken the liberty to
sweep away their beds, it is only fair an equivalent should
be offered to them for the loss sustained, and this could
be done at a very trifling cost. Follow up your lime cart,
with a load of good clean straw, and then distribute your
favours as you may see they are required.—l have the
honour to be, gentlemen,
Your very obedient Servant,
JAMES QUAYLE.
Kirkdale-road, March, 1847.

WATER FROM WINDERMERE.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

As you have always taken the lead in the all-absorbing
question of water, I have made a few calculations which
are at your disposal if you think them worthwhile. The sta-
tistics, I believe, are correct. When the question was -
first mooted, I thought of the practicability of going to
Windermere lake for a supply that would be inexhausti-
ble, but the, magnitude of the scheme, and the immense
cost made me give up the idea, but since the inquiry into
the Rivington Pike scheme, facts have come out that I
should think would make that scheme, if acted upon,
equally expensive, from the great amount of compensa-
tion that will have to be paid to parties in that district,
and as there can be no comparison in the quality of the
water, I have again turned my attention to the subject.
I would propose to take the water from the Leven, a
stream that. flows from the lake, somewhere about Back-
barrow. Ido not know the height of that locality from
the sea; it can be easily ascertained from the ordnance
survey; but at all events it is very considerably higher
than Liverpool. I take the distance to be about seventy-
six miles ; and I would suppose that the water should be
conveyed along the railways in two pipes of twenty-four
inches diameter. These would convey 11,178,000 gallows
per diem, or rather more than thirty-seven gallons per
diem for 300,000 inhabitants. Then comes the expenSe,
which is enormous ; but if the towns through which it is
conveyed were to have reservoirs,in connection with these
pipes, erected, and take their supply from them, bearing a
portion of the expense, it would not be so very stupendous
a project. A pipe of 24 inches diameter, to stand the
pressure of water, must be inches in thickness, and
would weigh about 31011bs. per foot lineal; making the
weight of one pipe one mile, 731 tons, 17 cwts., 3 qrs.,
12 lbs. Weight. for 76 miles, 55,573 tons, 17 cwts., 0 qrs,,.
16 lbs. Weight of two pipes, 111,147 tons, 14 cwts., 1 qr:,
8 lbs., at £lO per ton, would be £1,111,477 3s. 2d. /
have no doubt but that £lO per ton is a very high price,
and would cover the expense of laying the pipes.—
Yours, &c.,

A PRACTICAL MANI
[We give insertion with pleasure to the above letter of
" A practical man." We have a scheme however before
us, which we prefer, of impounding the water on the hills
of Cumberland, instead of drawing the supply required
from Windermere Lake, and allowing the towns in Lan--
cashire to avail themselves of the supply, contributing of
course their quota of the expense. We shall perhaps refer
to this next week : in the mean time our correspondent's
figures are satisfactory as showing that the expense of our
plan will be below our original conception.—Ed. L. S.]