The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-12 00:00:00

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junction to prevent that body from carrying the wishes
of the burgesses into effect. These men, driven from
their seats in the ,Ceuncil, had had the hardihood, is
their private rapacity, to attempt to intimidate the re-
presentatives of the burgesses by threats of Chancery
interference, which,--at the least, if pursued, will involve
the town in great expense, for the benefit,of the lawyers
and parliamentary agents. The writer then calls upon
his constituents to ,coovene a meeting on an early day to
determine upon the steps to be taken, and he suggests
that they should employ some eminent lawyer or lawyers,
who, not having had, anything to do with ate discarded
scheme, might be enabled to point out the beet course to
be pursued, in the dilemma in which the Council is placed.
/Me concludes by strongly urging that no time should be
.lost in taking decisive_ steps to defeat the busy enemy.

:We take it tOr granted(thitt Mr. H.'s suggestiOn will be
attended to by tne burgesses of Great George Ward, and
that other constitueacies..equally interested will attend
the meeting. _

IGRATION.—From theextent of her dimensions, and
the general fit-out of the emigration ship Courier, now in

the .Sound, she is eminently deserving a notice ;in our
,columns. This fine ship., of 1060 tons register, is com-
manded by Captain Mellin, and is one of the Australian
lined packets belonging to Messrs. Fielden Brothers, of
Liverpool. The Courier is ,bound to Melbourne, Port
Phillip, with 3311 statute adults, or 400 souls, who, ,not-
withstanding their number, will find ample accommoda-
tion in her between-decks, which are 150 feet long., 1;31
broad, .and 91 feet, average height. The complement of
the Courier, with a general cargq, is thirty hands, but,
with emigrants, she carries a crew of sixty, Her pas-
sengers include English, Irish, and Scotch, and among
the latteris a native of Inverness-shire, Mr. Macpherson,
who, with kis wife and eight healthy children, form a
family which any industrious eolony,need be proud to re-
ceive. Besides a qualified surgeon, the Government, in
this instance, owing to the number of passengers, have
appointed azeh,oolmaster, in the person of a stout hale
old gentlemannamed Barlow, formerly. adjutant, King's
Dragoon Guards, and Cheshire Yeomanry, and latterly
schoomaster in Yeadon, Yorkshire, and at Crewe, in
Cheshire. This--good-tempered-looking Dominie, with
his early militany.education, seems admirably qualified to
unite good discipline with the proper tuition.of the various
descriptions of pupils who will fall under his training dur-
ing the voyage. To give some idea of the :quantity of
provisions required by the emigrants on board the Courier,
it is only necessary to state that she has 200 casks of
water, containing 215 gallons each, and two iron tanks,
holding 2600 gallons, -besides 50 casks for the crew, con-
taining 150 gallons each, altogether about 52,600 gallons.
Her provisions and equipment in every other respect are
furnished on the same extensive scale, by Messrs. Folding
and Symonds, of Liverpool.— West of England Con.-
.servative. _ _

SUPPLY or WATER.—On Tuesday evening last, Henry
Gore, Esq., of London, delivered a lecture at the Colle-
giate Institution on hydrodynamics, or " The means of
supplying water in ancient and modern times." The
attendance was not very numerous--a fact somewhat
surprising, considering the interest which the supply-of-
water question has latterly excited in Liverpool. Mr.
Gore's remarks were illustrated with diagrams and model-
working apparatus, the two branches of the subject—
hydrostatics and hydraulics—being most fully and lucidly
explained. The principle of the hydrostatical bellows,
by means of which Erarnah's hydraulic press obtains its
force, was described, the lecturer mentioning the various
uses to which it may be applied. In the course of his
remarks, he observed on the importance of water as a
sanitary agent, and said that mere financial reasons should
never be allowed to operate in preventing the supply of
water to mankind. He showed that in the earlier ages
water was often brought from a considerable distance, and
at great expense. From existing historical records, it
would appear that the ancient Egyptians were the first to
turn their attention to the supplying of cities with water:
they did so by sinking holes in the rocks to a considerable
depth. The Jews also seemed to have been fully aware
of the importance of supplying their cities with water, the
Mosaic law being exceedingly stringent with reference to
purification; and the lecturer alluded to the aqueduct
constructed by solomou, in order to supply Jerusalem