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

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

are not able to answer the q

Has W. M." seen our paper of Tuesday last? We have
• done all in our power to rouse the Protestants from their
apathy. Our readers are in full possession of the melancholy
features of Mr. Watson's bill.

We'cannot insert the letter of "L. M. C." on anonymous au-
thority.

hn Operative" wishes us to express his thanks to the Rev.
3. B!iylee for the information furnished during the late dis-
Our correspondent has had all his lingering doubts

eussion

removal.

The benevolent scheme of " A Subscriber" does credit to his
Oodlntentions, but we fear it is not likely to be carried out.
It is perhaps unnecessary to remark further on the subject al-
luded to by "One that was present." The insertion of our
correspondent's letter would only occasion anothei shuffling,

jesuitical reply.
The-anecdote, furnished by " A Constant Reader," is forcible
and appropriate; and we may find room for it next week.
We beg to call the serious attention of all our readers to the
lamentable details contained in a well-written letter, in
another column, from Mr. James Quayle, one of the redeving
officers. The effects. of• fever and destitution, in this town,
at present, are appallitm ; and, whilst we ask the Health
Committee to increase their efforts to afford -ibe necessary
reuiedy, we call upon our readers to remember the peculiar
claims, at this time, of the various Societies established for
the relief of the poor.
The letter, for which we have received some additions, we in-
tend to insert next week. Our correspondent will no doubt
appreciate our motive for not giving publicity to-day to his
signature.

aCb Zantpoof ,tatibartt.

Yearly Sulmeription :
Athance, 13$. On Credit, 15s.

TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1847

IT is now pretty generally understood that the
Report of the Commission, sent down by Govern-
ment to investigate the merits of the several schemes
for_ supplying the- town of Liverpool with water, is
favourable to the case made out by the existing
Water Companies. The Town Conncil, however,
haVe, notwithstanding, determined to go on with
their Bill for procuring such supply from Rivington
Pike ; and, in this conflicting state of opinions upon
the subject, we do not think that we are stepping
out of our proper sphere in offering a few remarks
upon the evidence
_on both sides._ In doing so,

however, we must distinctly stat
leanings, either towards the Water Companies, or
either Of the two projects for bringing our supply from
a distance.' We wish solely that the Corporation
and the town, in order to preserve themselves from
the disastrous consequence of a false step, should
pause and weigh leisurely their position; and, at
le*, that they should, before going to Parliammt,
possess themselves of more sound data in support
of their favourite scheme than they appear at pre-
serit to possess.

that we have no

It cannot hay

scaped the notice of any one, who
haS read the report of the last Council proceedings,
that there is something in the result of the steps
taken by the Health Committee with respect to the
Pike scheme, which is reserved from the public eye.
In the report which they have just published, we
have, of engineering evidence, the opinion of Mr.
Hawkesley. Has no other Engineer examined the
Country-, with a view to give an opinion as to the
cost and feasibility of Mr. Hawkesley's work ?
We have Professor Ansted's report as to the geolo-
gical fitness of the country. Mr. Cunningham,
however, was selected by the Committee them-
selves but his report cannot be squeezed out of the

Committee. We have Pro
the water; but at least as competent an authority—
Dr: Brett—also made an analysis. This is neither
given in the report, nor produced to the Council.
There is something very unsatisfactory in all this.
It may be the part of an acute lawyer to afford as
little clue as possible to his opponent, with respect
to the weak point of his case. This, however, i
not a matter for legal subtlety to h

's analysis of

-47 '" xercised upon.
It is a public question—almost a national question.
The public require the best procurable supply of
water,—not a victory merely of the promoters of

the Rivington scheme over Water Companies,
—and they demand the opportunity of forming a
judgment with the whole case before them.

We have adverted to the refusal of the Health
Committee to furnish Mr. Cunningham's report;
and, although we have not such report authorita-
tive)y before us, we have no I

in giving,

from other sources of inform
views. Mr. Cunnin

ion, that gentleman

ham, we understand, went
over the district, and first inspected the locality of
the lower reservoir in the Horwich valley, where
the filtering tanks are to be constructed. The
strata he found to belong to the lower division of
the
,coal formation, and the upper beds of the mill-
stone grit. The latter is, throughout, extremely
fissured ; and even allowing that, possibly at con-
siderable expense of puddling, the shale foundation
may be made impermeable as a "reservoir, the mill-
stone grit, from over which the water will have to
be collected, will, Mr. Cunningham thinks, permit

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