The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-12 00:00:00

GENERAL •MISCELLANI

The Bey of Tunis has forwarded to the Queen a present
of several horses, lions, and other animals.
On Saturday, a little boy was suffocated in a chimney,
at Limerick, which he had been employed to sweep.
Mr. Wm. Chambers, of Edinburgh, is now said to be
the author of " The Vestiges of Creation."
On Tuesday last peaches and nectarines, with a profu-
sion of cherries and strawberries, was offered in Covent-
garden Market.
On Tuesday her Majesty and her Royal Comort, ac-
companied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal,
left Claremont in an open carriage and four, escorted by
a party of the 7th Hu,sars, for town.
DOSCASTER..—The inhabitants of this town are endea-
vouring by petition to get enrolled amongst the list of par-
liamentary boroughs. Mr. E. Denison has given notice of
a motion in parliament, with a view to such object.
On Saturday, Captain Duff, resident magistrate in
Roscommon, was accidentally killed by the kick of a
horse. The gallant officer had been several years in the
army, and had seen much service.

-On Tuesday last, at Kirk Brarowith, a young roan, who
is of unsound mind, attacked his aged father, and beat
his skull in with a clock weight. The old man died on
the following night.
SUICIDE. —On Monday, a man named Crooks, 57 years
of age, a widower with six children, laid himself delibe-
rately across the rails on the Sheffield and Manchester
line, as a tra n was approaching, and was literally cut in
pieces.
No less than 109 gentlemen have: been gazetted as cor-
nets and ensigns in the army dining the preceding month.
31 only of whom have purchased their commissions. The
promotions from the ranks have also been numerous.
On Thursday, two gentlemen were taken beiore Alder-
man Gibbs, and remanded, relative to the issue of forged
scrip in the Buckinghamshire Railway. They Lad had
£6BO advanced on 1000 shares, the scrip for which was
afterwards discovered to be forged.
At Penrith cattle fair, Mr. William Armstrong lost
bank notes and bills to the amount of £9OO. They were
found by a yoeman 'named Hetherington, who• got them
proclaimed by the town crier, and received a shilling as a
reward of his honesty.

May 12, 1846.

Mr. Charles Dickens, like many other great men, is
about to seek relaxation repose, and sundry other com-
forts, on the continent. It is to he hoped that the public
will profit more largely by this sojourn than they did by
Mr. Dickens's trip to Italy.
ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR MARTYRDom.—Mr.
lon Browne, M.P. for Mayo, has intimated that he WILL
at certain periods attend' railway committees, although
he must give a great dea of trouble, owing to his igno-
rance of engineering and railroads, but that he will NOT
attend during the sittings of the House of Commons.
_ _

The King Of the French has written an autograph letter
to Sir Robert l'eel, expressing his Majesty's acknowledg-
ments for the kind and handsome manner in which the
right hon. baronet had proposed the toast of his Ma-
jesty's health at the late civic banquet given by the Lord
Mayor of London.

MR. O'CONNELL'S CONSISTENCY !—On Thursday
evening week, at Exeter-hall, Mr. O'Connell made a
speech in favour of a resolution for the abolition of capital
punishment. He made another speech the same evening
at the Crown and Anchor, in which he declared " that the
red hand of God was against murder," and that " he who
shed blood deserved that his blood should be shed."
A curious shipment was made a few days since from our
quays. It consisted of a quantity of screened gravel, in
sacks, to be laid down in a gentleman's garden at Valparaiso.
It is remarkable that whilst this shipment of gravel for one
part of America was going on at Poole, a vessel from ano-
ther part of the same continent was discharging at Liver-
pool a cargo of white gravel just imported.—Poole Herald.
IRISH GRAIN AND OATMEAL.—It appears by a par-
liamentary return that there were imported into Great
Britain, from Ireland, from the sth of March to the sth
of April, 1846—wheat, 19,540 quarters; barley, 10,148
quarters ; oats, 80,803 quarters; wheatmeal, or flour,
89,048 cwt. ; oatmeal, 50,360 cwt. This does not look
like " famine in Ireland."

The. Daily News will appear on and after the Ist June
at the reduced price of 24d. Report states its new pro-
prietor to be Mr. Railway Hudson : we believe, however,
that this is incorrect, and that the paper is, or is about to
be, the property of a gentleman who already is proprietor
of the leading weekly literary journal, under whose auspi-
ces it is likely to lose its irreligious tone, and to deserve
more success than it has hitherto met with.

The Rev. J. R. Stephens, who figured eome years ago
with so much effect as an opponent of the new poor laws,
is now settled down as a farmer between Ashton and
Oldham, and was, a few days ago, sworn in as head
constable in the township in which he resides, before the
magistrate who signed his committal to gaol four or five
years since, on the charge of a political offence at Hyde,
for which he was tried at Chester before Mr. Justice
Patteson, and convicted.
ADVICE TO O'BRIEN.—Go to Nathan's. Hire—the
Repeal Association will, of course, come down with the
needful—hire a regular stage Irishman's dress. Let there
be no crown to your hat, no end to the holes in your
breeches; swathe hay-bands round your limbs ; stick a
dudeen in your mouth, grasp a shillelagh in your hand,
enter the house with a caper, a howl, and a twirl of the
oaken towel ; invite Sir James Graham to ‘•thraydelon the
tails or your coat," and then, Oh Paddy Smith O'Brien,
instead o' speaking the words, sing the " Groves of
Blarney !"

IMPORTATION OF GREEN GINGER.--OR Thursday, a
sale of 74 casks of green ginger, in a recent and even
growing state, brought by the Severn steamer from Ja-
maica, took place at Monument Yard, at the average
price of 30s. per cwt. The novelty of the article attracted
a considerable attendance of buyers, as it was the first
that had been introduced into this country, and the ma-
jority of lots were sold to wine makers, chemists, and
some of the most eminent tavern-keepers, in the city, as
well as to horticulturists, in order to experiment upon its
cultivation here.—Morning Post.
THE IRISH REPEAL THRONE.—Mr. O'Connell exhi-
bits the signs of a sudden and rapid change in his health;
he is getting more infirm, so much so as to have lost every
trace of that hale vigour which made the record of his
age no more than a foil to his aspect. His gait is now
excessively slow—not with deliberate dignity, but with
evident incapacity for speed. fits very features have
shrunken, and his voice, once so loud and large in volume,
has become so weak that at a public meeting, on Wed-
nesday, be was saluted with unaccustomed cries to " speak
up" ; and was so saluted in vain.

HORRIBLE OUTRAGE.—On Tuesday evening, about 7
o'clock, a brickmaker, named Wm. Luff, residing in Peter-
street, Westminster, a district chiefly inhabited by a very
criminal population, quarrelled with a young woman who
has lived with him for some time as his wife, and, after
beating her most horribly with a poker while he hauled
her by the hair round the room, he' threw her out of a
two-pair window into a paved yard. She was picked up,
senseless and bleeding, with her face so dreadfully muti-
lated that not a feature of her face could be distinguished.
Even the thieves and other bad characters who infest the
neighbourhood were so horrified at the brutality of Luff,
that they detained him until a policeman took him into
custody.

A KNOTTY POINT arose on Thursday before the Court
of Queen's Bench, in a case where a man had brought
an action of fj,ctment against his own wife to recover pos-
session of premises held over. A verdict having been had-
for the plaintiff, a rule was subsequently granted for a new
trial, on the ground that a husband could not maintain an
action against his wife. Defendant's counsel on Thursday
sbewed cause against the rule, and amongst other causes
adduced was the following :—viz., that " the real plaintilr
in this kind of action was not the husband, but the imagi-
nary personage called John Doe, between whom and thl
defendant it was impossible that the relation of husbanu,
and wife could exist, as John did not exist himself.
Plaintiff's counsel retorted, that if John was not the hus-
band of his client, it was equally certain that he never
gave her notice to quit. Bewildered amongst its own fic-
tions, the court took time to consider the case.
THE CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN.—When Sir-
Harry Smith was a child six years of age his father had a
horse to sell. The animal was so thoroughly vicious that
when a purchaser appeared no one dared to mount
On one occasion a military officer went over to Whittlesea
to view this redoubtable steed ; and, wishing to see its
paces, he requested the man who led it to jump up and
go through the process of a walk, a trot, and a gallop. As
the man evinced a very prudent reluctance to perform the
required act of equestrianism, little Harry, who was pre-
sent, declared that he could manage the horse, having
been on its back before. His father had faith both in his
word and ability, and :Master Harry got his " leg up,"
and managed his charger like a young Alexander on ano-
ther Bucephalus. It was this act of courage that, through
the officer who witnessed it, led to Harry Smith's entering
into the army ; and truly the good people of Whittlesea
may well he proud of the day.
FORD TITHE CASE.—The long litigated case of Knight,
clerk, v. the Marquis of Waterford, in respect to the
tithes in the parish of Ford, came becote the Court of
Exchequer on Tuesday last, Sir Frederick Pollock, Chief.
Baron, presiding. The substantial question was, whether
the tithes of the manor of Ford belonged to the plaintiff
as rector, or to the defendant as lord of the manor, upon
a payment of £4O yer annum to the rector : 'the court
having heard the arguments on two or three previous
days during the term, now pronounced its judgment. The
application on behalf of the plaintiff was for a new trial,
and the court thought the application should be granted,
upon the ground that the payment of a specific sum of
money, for sixty-three years before the passing of the
Limitation Act (3 and 4 Wm. IV, c. 27) did not under
the peculiar circumstances of this case, the defendant
himself claiming a right to suzh tithes in consideration of
such pay ment, amount to a modus, discharge, or exemption
from payment of tithes to the rector. (I. this point the
court was of ooinion that there had been a misdirection by
Mr. Baron Rolfe, at the trial at Neweastle.upon-Tyne,
and there must, therefore, be a new trial.

THE COAL TRADE OF ENDLAND.—EngIand possesses
the richest veins of coal, both as regards quality and
quantity. They form a line from south-west to north-
west. In Northumberland and Durham, from the Tweed
to the Tees, coal abounds; at Whitehaven, in the hills of
Cumberland, in Yorkshire, and in Lancashire. The most
abundant mines are in Wales. The consumption of coal
in England and in exportation is so great, that it has often
been asked if the mines would not be exhausted; but ac-
cording to calculations made in proportion to the present
consumption, they could not be exhausted under 1500
years. The yearly consumption in Great Britain °
20,000.000 to 21,000,000 tons. The exportation increased
in the following proportions :—ln 1830. 505,421 tons ; to
1832,- 588,440 tons ; in 1834, 621,256 tons ; in IS36'
1,101,000 tons ; in 1838, 1,413.800 tons ; iii 1847'
1,621,300 tons; in 1842, 2,120,000 tons; and in 184,,
2,410,000 tons. The number of mines exceeds 500,07 i
English coal is to be had in every-part of the-ciVilise_t
world : there-
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been gained by the substitution of tubular boilers. a Elio:li-
d thirty-five tons having been effected, by their iced
nished weight and the smaller supply of water regnant'
by these than by the boilers of the old description ;tiara
the space in the afterhold is increased so es to a'„,o.
stowage for that amount of extra weight of general
The speed of the vessel has also been very materiawr'roto
creased. On Friday last she performed the voyaged' bad
Annan Water Foot to Liverpool in 91 hours, an enoral
nearly 100 fat sheep 40 fat cattle, besides a heavy glen°
cargo on board. We are proud in having such a 814
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vessel belonging to this port, and we heartily
company every success in prosecuting their undeTta
—Carlisle Journal.
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EQUITY COURT, FRIDAY.--CHUBS... V. Cot .0 the
This was an application for an injunction to restrolneloar
defendant, a furniture-broker, Queen-street, ' sts, or
from making or selling any icon doors, safes, e!etiff, th,e
boxes, in imitation of those made by the PlVt Paul
well-known iron box and lock maker, in behalf 01
Churchyard, London. Affidavits were read on ..rchase,o_
the plaintiff, showing that iron safes had been.t4 niaeg.e
from the defendant, which were represented ! such
by the but at a much less cost, and. ''..tiff was
safes were of a very inferior quality, and the for the
thereby subjected to much injury. The atfidar'been r 5
defendant denied that the safes, when sold, hal'i The
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presented to be manufactured by the P . noses loc
Vice-Chancellor said there appeared to he wit • tiff.
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would be to send the case to a jnry, whereforn*whieil
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On Friday last a fine little girl, named Margaret Fearon,
nine years and seven months old, living in Bedford-street.
Toxfeth-park, was run over by a car and killed. A deo-
dand of £lO was laid on the horse and car.
On Wednesday last three thieves, named Bolton, Raw-
linson, and Dawson, were committed for trial, by Francis
Heywood, Esq., at the county police-office, for having
entered the house of Mr. Jenkinson, merchant, of Crosby,
in broad day, and stripped a table of a quantity of valu-
able plate.
THE HOOTON HUNT.—The gentlemen of this hunt
have declared their intention of giving a magnificent
banquet, at the Monks' Ferry Hotel, to Sir Wm. Massey
Stanley, Bart., in acknowledgment of the great courtesy
and high sportsman-like qualities of the worthy baronet.
It is said that the chair will be taken by Colonel Clegg,
of Thursaston-hall.
On Wednesday, a poulterer in St. John's Market was
fined ss. by Mr. Rushton, for dressing fowls so as to
resemble pheasants. The lower jaws of the fowls had
been taken away, red wafers placed round the eyes, and
large pheasant feathers introduced into the tails. The
defendant, in justification, said the practice was quite
common in Dublin.
CURIOUS DOCUMENT.—A few days ago. in a case that
came before the magistrates of Wigan the following docu-
ment was presented by one of the parties to a solicitor to
be laid before the bench :—" This is to in form Her Ma-
jestes Justisses that Mary-ann Entwistley Bears a very
bad Charracter a mongst Her Neighboors hand that Her
_Husband as thretned to sell Her for Her bad charrecter."
Mr. Edward Martin, licensed victualler, of Greenland-
street, has been committed by the coroner for trial, for
the manslaughter of his wife. She was very much given
to intoxication, and on Thursday night, when she was in
that state, her husband had struck her and kicked her in
the abdomen. The surgeon deposed that the cause of
death was a rupture of the small intestines, the result of a
fall, a blow, or a kick.
HooroN ANNUAL FAIR.—We perceive by an adver-
tisement in our columns of this day, that the spirited
baronet, Sir William Stanley, has turned his attention to
agriculture, and has appointed his first annual sale of fat
stock to take place at the farm yard on Wednesday next,
Messrs. Churton and Co., officiating. This will afford
our townsmen an excellent opportunity of obtaining prime
animals for consumption. The contiguity of the town to
Eastham ferry is very convenient for purchasers ; the
conveyance is direct and expeditious, as new steamers are
plying every hour.
MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF MILLOWNERS.—
On Tuesday a meeting of the Association was held at Mr.
Heron's offices, Princes-street, on the subject of the Bill
now before Parliament relating to reduction in the hours
of labour. The meeting was attended by the spinners
and manufacturers of Manchester and the inimedate
neighbourhood. Mr. R. H. Gregg presided. It being
agreed that the measure was both impolitic and unjust,
and also opposed to the best interests of the operatives
themselves, a deputation' was appointed to proceed to
London to give it the most strenuous opposition. The
second reading of the Bill is fixed for the 13th instant.
DISCHARGING FIRE-ARMS—EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
--On Wednesday, police-officer 452 preferred a charge
against Margaret Boardman, of Bootle-lane, Kirkdale,
for discharging fire-arms several times during the night
through her bed-room window. The defendant not ap-
pearing, Mr. Holmes, the owner of the property, was
called, and said that she was in the habit of carrying
pistols about her, and discharging them, especially in the
night time. and on one occasion fired at him. Mr. Rush-
ton : " Who is she ?" Mr. Holmes : " 1 don't know
anything about her; but I would like very much to get
rid of her." Mr. Rushton : "It seems she wants to get
rid of you." (Laughter.) The defendant was ultimately
fined 40s. and costs.
CHANGE RINGING.—On Monday, the 4th instant, the
company of St. Peter's Change Ringers, of this town,
visited Wrexham, and rung on St. Giles' bells a true peal
of grandsire cators. consisting of 5093 changes, in three
hours and twenty-five minutes. The company were placed
48 follows :

...
Wm. Evans, treble. Hugh Walmsley, 6tb.
I George Wynne. 2d. I John Heron, 7th.
Wm. Howard. 3d. Richard Cross, Bth.
John Grindrod, 4th. 1 Charles Smith, 9th.
William Bates. sth. Robert Davies, tenor.
Conducted by Mr. John Heron.
The peal was listened to by several of the Shrewsbury
ringers, who expressed their admiration at the masterly
style in which it was rung.
__

FEMALE BURIED ALIVE AT HOYLAKE.—On Monday
last, an inquest was held at Hoylake, before Henry Chur-
ton, Esq., on the body of a young woman, eighteen years
of age, named Margaret Drury, who met her death under
the following circumstat ces :—The deceased was nurse-
girl to John Smith, Esq., and on Saturday went out
amongst the sand- hills with two of her master's children
for the purpose of enjoying the fresh air. Amongst the
hills she came to a spot where some of the sand had been
excavated, and crept into the hole whilst the children were
playing about. She was shortly afrer missing, and the
children having given an alarm, the body of the poor girl
was discovered about an hour after, under a large quantity
of sand, quite dead. The jury found a verdict of " acci-
dental death."

SUICIDE OF SUPERINTENDENT RIPING.—On Mon-
day week, William Henry Riding, one of the superin-
tendents of the Liverpool police-force, committed suicide
by taking poison. He resided at Seacombe; and on
Thursday an inquest was held on the body, at the Odd-
fellows' Arms, before H. Churton, Esq., the coroner fcr
the county of Chester, and a highly respectable jury.
From the evidence, it appeared that the deceased on the
day of his death called upon a druggist in Paradise-street,
Liverpool, and succeeded in procuring sixpennyworth of
laudanum, under the pretence that it was for the cure of
tooth ache ; and that, after returning home, he said he
would have a glass of water, and went to bed, his wife
being in Liverpool. On her return, about half-East six
o'clock, she went with a servant into his bedroom, and on
seeing a glass exclaimed that he had taken poison. He
lingered from the effects until about half-past nine, when
death ensued. It was given in evidence, that he was in
the habit of drinking, and was embarrassed in his pecu-
niary affairs. A verdict was returned, that the deceased
l'ad committed suicide whilst labouring under temporary
insanity.

MEETING OF THE WALLASEY COMMISSIONERS.—
The usual monthly meeting of the commissioners ap-
pointed under the Wallasey improvement act was held
on Thursday evening, at the Queen's Arms, Liscard.
fiettry Winch, Esq., presided. The proceedings of the
lroprovernent committee were real in reference to the
application
for a grant of land at the stone quarry, in
''''''sgazines-roae., for the purpose of building a school,
ade hy the Rev. Mr. Tobin, and which had been re-
ferred back for consideration at a former meetine. The
Committee recommended, after further considering the
subject, that the grant be on the terms formerly stated
by them. Mr. Crump, seconded by Mr. Mann, moved
the confirmation of the proceedings. Mr. North, at con-
siderable length, urged upon the board the justice of
granting a site of land for the purposes of a school, as it
Was the centre of a district where upwards of 200 children
were growing up, deficient of all the means of instruction.
1,,
•Mawdesley objected to the grant, and considered
the members of the church who asked for it were ade-
quate to carry out such an object as that they sought to
Obtain, by their own individual efforts. A division took
Place, when the amendment was carried by a nasjority of
eleven to eight. The application for the grant of land
was, consequently, rrjected. The proceedings of the
Anance committee were read and confirmed. The pro-
ceedings terminated shortly before nine o'clock.
I3inrcF.N HI Ft AD COMMISSIONERS.—RESIGNATION OF
THE CHAIRMAN.—Toe usual monthly meeting of this
body was held on Tuesday evening last, at the board-
room. Present.—Messrs. W. Jackson, (chairman.) J.
Laird, W. Laird, Appleton, atbbs, Cole, Hind, Watson.
Bentham, Adamson, Greene, Potter, Pim, J. N. Wood,
and J. S. Jackson. The usual proceedings having been
gone through, a long conversation took place with respect
to a resolution of the Health Committee, annouucing a '
proposed attempt to purchase the gas and water woks
having been sent to the gas and water company, the chair-
man asserted without authority, and no such order to do
so appeared on the minutes of the committee. In the
report of the Ferry Committee it appeared that the re-
ceipts of the past year had been £23,000, and the expen-
diture £13,000, having a surplus of £lO.OOO, which had
been applied to increasing the accommodation at the ferry
and not to decreasing the rates of the township. The ac-
counts of the ferry were stated to be in the hands of the
auditors preparatory to their publication. After some un-
important business had been gone through, the Chairman
rose to move that under the circumstances of an intention
existing on the part of the commissi,ners to treat for the
purchase of the gas and water works, of which he and
his brother were the principal proprietors, he could no
_Tiger retain his seat at that board, as he should thus
"nd in the position of one who was both buyer and
Seller. He thought the time was not come When the
commissioners were justified in making such a purchase,
as a they had now more responsibilities upon their hands
than they coul.l meet without severely taxing the inhabi-
behtas• The speaker proceeded to express his great regret
aving now to leave a position amongst them which
hail so long occupied, and his sense of the kindness
by
which his services had always been met and rewarded
Ilhis brother commissioners; and concluded by hoping
that
under whatever guidance they might place themselves
for the future they would be as successful as they had
been under his own. Several members expressed their
Igreat regret at the course which the chairman had decided
tottlke, and some intimated that if they had anticipated
they would not have moved in the matter by which it
had_e been caused. Mr. Bentham hasin expressed his in-
n S. g
tion to follow the exampe oessrs. W. Jackson and
Jackson by resigning,l thef M
meeting was adjourned to
tne:,2/1 of June.
_.tr_IORENTINE VENUS AND ADONIS.—The exhibition
autre6.ignor Sarti's Florentine Venus and Adonis has, we
"IVY to state, been well attended during the week,
"d every individual who has visited it has, without excep-
tion. .
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keen highly delighted. We think an exception ay
likely
en to the terms "Venus arid Adonis," as being
has about
to convey an erroneous notion that the exhibition
"a:thibnout it something of classical indelicacy ; than which
repre-
sentations is further from the truth. The models are repre-
tions ions of a male and female finite, of correct propor-
_, and much beauty of form and feature. The exhibitor,
who is a professional gentlemen, removes the skin of the
face' and .shows the nerves, blood vessels, and g.neral
anatomy of the. He next removes, as a surgeon
would do in the.edaids.secting room, the covering of the
thlir_o:ttumanad breast, and exhibits the internal structure of
larivon.
arrant
form—the heart and its blood vessels, the
all arrant Id
diaphragm, stomach, and inferior intestines,
c h greatest anatomical accuracy, and
_arm ‘, and coloured after na,ure. It is impossible for
"rap_ but more especially those previously uninitiated
41 the
bpon
all complexity of the human form, to look
der. .411 tine without astonishment and awe, and without
"ging much useful practical information.

I MEETING AT THE SESSIONS-HOUSE ON
FRIDAY.-THE WATER QUESTION.

On Friday, pursuant to notice. a public meeting was
held in the Sessions-house, for the purpose of determining
as to the bills of the Highway Board end the Town-
Council. The doors were not thrown open until a few
minutes after twelve o'clock, when almost every part of
the spacious building, including the galleries on each side,
became immediately filled. There was a rush of the inha-
bitants into the area of the court. Among the gentlemen
present we noticed :—Mr. Samuel Holme, Mr. James
Procter, Mr. James Parker, Mr. Eyre Evans, Mr. Chas.
Robertson. Mr. Thomas Bolton, Mr. James Aspinall,
Mr. William Earle, Mr. William Birkett, Mr. Richard
Shell, Mr. Thomas Bold, Mr. Vircent Higgins, Mr.
Cooper. Mr. Thos. Thornely, Mr. William Thornhill,
Mr. Danson, Mr. Urquhart, Mr. Thomas Bage, Mr.
Solomon May, Mr. Wightman, Mr. Leatherbarrow, jun.,
Mr. Wm. Walthew, Mr. Denton, Mr. James Reay, Mr.
Adam liodgeon, Mr. William Rathbone, Mr. Tinne, Mr.
Preston, Mr. Chalk, Mr. Shakeehaft, Mr. Grantham,
Mr. Taylor, Mr. D. Rowlands, Mr. King, Mr. Robertson
Gladstone. Sir Arnold Knight. M.D.
Upon the motion of Mr. JAMES ASPINALL, seconded
by Mr. WM. WALTHEW, the chair was taken by Mr.
John Holmes, amid loud applause.
The CHAIRMAN then rose, and briefly opened the pro-
ceedings. He said that in conformity with a resolution of
the Commissioners of Highways, a bill had been prepared
by that body for obtaining a better supp!y of water for the
inhabitants ; and the meeting was now called together for
the purpose of deciding the very importaa question as to
whether the Highway Board or the Corporation should
proceed to Parliament for the bill for obtaining an increased
supply. He hoped that during the discussion of the ques-
tion a fair and patient hearing would be given to every
speaker ; and he concluded by calling on Mr. Deane, law-
clerk of the Highway Board, to read the resolution con-
vening ihe meeting.
Mr. DEANE having read the advertisement accordingly,
proceeded next to read a report from Mr. Simpson. the
engineer of the Board, as to the feasibility of obtaining
sufficiency of water from Kirby, and also from the red
sandstone strata in the immediate vicinity of Liverpool.
The CHAIRMAN said, that as it had been represented
to the Highway Board that a good supply of water might
be obtained from Billinge, they had obtained a report from
Mr. Simpson as tg,the desirableness of that locality, and
as to the feasibility of obtaining an adequate supply from
that quarter.
Mr. DEANE having accordingly read Mr. Simpson's
report respecting Billinge,
Mr. PROCTER said the Commissioners had taken the
most honest and straightforward course, and submitted
the question to the rate-payers; and he trusted the meet-
ing would come to a wise and honest conclusion. He al-o
hoped some member of the Corporation would introduce
the Town-hall Bill, and submit it to the meeting along
with those of the Highway Board for the consideration of
the rate-payers. If the Corporation Bi►l was approved,
he had no wish to proceed further; and he trusted that if
the meeting approved the other bills, the corporation
would be equally ready to withdraw theirs—(applause)---
and as it was by the wish of the rate-payers that the sup-
ply of water was entrusted to the highway board, the cor-
..

poration would devote ten, fifteen, or twenty thousand
pounds a-year of its surplus income, for to great and bene-

ficial a purpose. (Applause.) He concluded by moving
a resolution to the effect that an amalgamation of the
' power of draining, paving, and cleansing the town, and
the providing an ample supply of water, should be vested
in the Commissioners for paving and sewerage, and that
they beaccordingly authorized to proceed with their two bills.
Mr. S. HOLME seconded the motion, and in doing so,
complimented the Highway Board for their judicious new
sewerage of the town. The time had arrived for a radical
change in supplying the town with water. The only
question was, which of three bodies should supply it—
the Corporation, the Highway Board, or the Liverpool
and Harrington Water Works Company ? After alluding
to the several acts of parliament affecting the supply of
water to the town, he said that at present the Highway
Board were engned in the construction of works and
reservoirs in Green-lane, which were likely to prove very
efficient, and produce a copious supply of water. The
sol-mn compact with the Corporation on the one band,
and with the public on tbe other, was an admission on the
part of the Corporation that it could not carry out the
supply; but had the Board failed in the performance of
its duties ? (No.) Was there any reason fo► taking
away from the Board tbe powers by which they were to
furnish a better supply of water? There were one or two
points on which he himself differed from the Highway
Board ; but, generally, they had done their duty, and the
rate-payers ought not to withdraw their confidence from
them. He was glad to hear from Mr. Simpson's report
that the great sandstone formation, near Kirkby, would
afford such an excellent supply of water. It was bestowed
by God, in his infinite wisdom, and it was their duty to
raise it from the earth, and distribute it in such copious
streams as would be an inestimable boon to the popula-
tion of the town. (Applause.) He seconded the motion.
Mr. BL%CKBURN then rose to propose the following
ndment

"That, as it appears from the proceedings of the
Council, at the special meeting held on Tuesday last, that
the sanatory bill promo' ed by the Council received almost
unanimous approval ; that that bill contains many import-
ant provisions for the sanatory regulation of the borough,
which are not contained in any bill promoted by this
Board; that the Council have also under consideration a
plan for affording an ample supply of water for domestic,
manufacturing, and public purposes, and that a parlia-
mentary contest on the several local bills now before Par-
liament, all having for their professed °Eject the benefit
of the public, would be attended with great expense to
the rate-payers and public funds. Resolved—That it is
not expedient, or necessary for the public interests, to
proceed further with any of the bills promoted by this
Board."

It was quite unnecessary to endeavour to interest the pub-
lic mind on the sublect ; because it was already agreed
that there was not a sufficient supply for the town, and it
was determined there should be. They were all agreed
upon that point—(hear)--and the only question was
whether it would not be wiser to stay awhile so as to per-
fect their plans, and consider which was the best mode of
obtaining a sufficient supply—the cheapest possible way,
and of the best quality. (Loud cheers.) Neither the
Council nor the Highway Board were in a position to go
forward with a bill on this subject during the present ses-
sion, and therefore it was better to wait for further in-
formation. (Hear, hear.) They had had mischief
enouch arisirg from hasty legislation, and he trusted the
rive payers would not involve themselves in any expense,
either through the Highway Board or the Council on the
subject; but that they would postpone for the present
adopting any measure on the subj,..et, in order that they
might be enabled to sanction the very best plan, so that
shortly Liverpool might become as destinguished for its
abundant supply of water as it was new for the reverse.
( A pplause.) He contended that the wisest course to pur-
sue was to give the whole of the power to the Council.
They were sufficient in number to do the work. (Cries
of " No," answered by loud cheers.) If they were not
sufficient in capacity, thecanstituency had only themselves
to blame. (Cheers.) He conceived that any objection
made against the Town-Council trust apply with equal
force against any other public body. It was from a con-
viction, in the first place, that they were not proceeding
wisely and prudently with regard to the mode of accom-
plish,ng the object they had in view, and in the next
!dace, that the Council was the body in which the power
ought ultimately to be placed, that lie begged to propose
' the amendment he had already read to the meeting.
(Loud cheers.)
Mr. ADAM HODGSON seconded the amendment, be-
cause lie really felt the occasion to be one of the greatest
importance ; and the decision to which they might come
would be felt for an indefinite period of time. He gave
the Highway Board credit for having acted with a desire
to promote the welfare of the town, but he differed
entirely from their plans. He had seen much of the
inconvenience of conflicting jurisdictions; and the ques-
tion was wlitther they should avail themselves of the
opportunity which presented itself for uniting in one
body all the powers relating to the sanitary condition of
the town. (Hear.) For the reasons urged by Mr. Black-
burn it was quite obvious that they were all better lodged
in the Common Council of the town ; and it seemed
madness to create another body ! He besought the meet-
ing ri,,t to let the opportunity pass of consolidating their
local management.

Mr. BiRKETT said the only que4ion was, which of the
two parties should be entru.red with the carrying out of
the prcj ct, arm he thought that, as men of business, the
H ie hway Board hall the best claim.
Mr. TINNE, as a member of the Hi_hway Board, as-
sured the meeting that his experience led him to a di-
rectly contrary opinion to that of Mr. Birkett, and
explained the inconveniences and d'tficulties he had
experienced in the exertions he had made to improve the
sanatory condition of the town, by the divided nature of
the pu'lic bodies, connected with that vital subject.
The present movement had been attributed to many
causes, but the true one was the wish to avoid the inflic-
tion of Lord Lincoln's bill upon the town of Liverpool.
The two adjuncts more especially indispensable to sana-
tory excellence were good drainage, especially of the
courts and back streets. and an ample supply of water.
(Applause.) Liverpool, in both particulars, had no great
reason to boast ; and it. pre.ent condition was equally
the fault of the Highway Board and the Council. He was
in favour of the supply of water being vested in the
Council.

Mr. J. TAYLOR said that the town was in a dreadful
state for want of water, and, as the Highway Board were
ready with a measure on the subject, he should support
ttvit body._ (Cheers.)

- •
Mr A. LACE said the real question was whether they
should go to Parliament then, or a heiher they should
wait until they could bring forward a more mature mea-
sure. There was no doubt that all the sanatory regula-
tions of the town ought to he placed under one body ;
and unless they thought the Government were prepared to
repeal tine Municipal Reform Bill and place those powers
in the Highway Board, it was not at all likely. evea if the
meeting agreed to the bills being proceeded with, that
they would become law. The Highway Board were
going for powers already possessed by the Corporation,
and the meeting would at once see the absurdity into
which they would be led. He dwelt at some length on
the peat advantages of a concentration of local authib_
rity, and concluded by urging the meeting to wait until
they could proceed with a well-matured plan which would
eventually prove no delay. (Applause.)
Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE congratulated them on
the large meeting which had then assembled, as an evi-
dence of the strong feeling which existed of the necessity
for a large and complete supply of water. He rooked
upon an abundant supply of water to the working classes
as most essential to teaching them habits of cleanliness,
so important to their health and comfort. (Cheers.) His
object was not to take the opinions of the rate-payers as-
to the details of the bill, but as to whether the power
should be invested in the Highway Board or in the Town-.
Council. (Applause.)

I Mr. WM. EARLE said it was impossible for any body
to manage their affairs worse than the Highway Board
had done. In proof of this he appealed to the state of the
town,—to the state of the streets, and to the state of the
sewers ; and he could not imagine a man in his senses
who would vote for the motion now brought forward by
the Highway Board. (Hear, hear.) It had been said
that there were some who were determined not to pay
their rates if the hills passed.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said it was evidently the inten-
tion of the legislature that all separate local bodies should
merge into the corporation ; and provisions were made in
their acts accordingly. About ten years ago the Watch
Committee did so, and if it had not been for the strong
political feelings rife at this time, the Highway Board
would have done the same. They had been told by Mr.
Holme that there never would be a surplus ; but there had
been, ever since be had the honour of a seat at the coun-
cil, a surplus, and there would soon be a very large one.
But the surplus of each year was the property of the coun-
cil of that year, and it was illegal to anticipate it. The
corporation possessed a most magnificent estate, and the
Highway board had none; and though be could not give
a pledge for what other councils might choose to do, he
thought it very probable, that at no distant period, a large
sum might be annually devoted to providing an ample
supply of water—(applause)—and he would say too that it
would be a wise outlay. (Renewed applause.) He strongly
urged the concentration of all power in the bands of the
Council, for the more they were entrusted with, the bet-
ter would they discharge the trust reposed in them.
Mr. RATHBONE said there had been £150,000 spent by
the Highway Board, which might just as well have been
thrown into the river. If they sanctioned those bills they
would sanction the expenditure of a million of money ;
but if they postponed the measure, in all probability they
might obtain what they required for much less, as, in all
probability, there would be a large surplus fund belonging
to the corporation ; and it would be their own fault it
that fund was not applied to lighten the taxation of Liver-
pool. (Applause.) He concluded by observing that he
had no doubt the object they had in view would be ac-
complished much more economically by the Council.
Mr. JAMES ASPINALL wished to explain his conduct
with respect to the bills now before them. When the
Corporation Bill was coming before the Council, he
called on the Mayor and told him that it was his inten-
tion to absent himself from the Council on that occasion.
With respect to the surplus income, he had sat, month
after month, at the Finance Committee, and it had been
incessantly drummed into their ears by the chairman that
they would not have a surplus income for years to come.
That he believed Was really the case, if the Council paid
what they were bound by contract to pay. On the sth of
this month he bad copied a report from the books of the
Finance Committee, from which it appeased that the gross
amount of contracts for the bare walls of George's Hall,
without reckoning joiners' work, furniture, steps, organ,
or anything else, was £132,000, and at the present mo-
ment only £29,000 of this was paid. There was, there-
fore, £52,000 yet to pay for the bare walls. They would
have to expend £lOO,OOO more before they were out of
St. George's Hall. He strongly urged the meeting to
support the Highway Board. He could have no personal
motives, as he intended to withdraw from public life
altogether. He had been fifteen years at the Board, and
his health had suffered so severely he must now take care
of himself. (Laughter.) He did not mean of his pockets,
but of his health. (Renewed laughter.)
Mr. SHIEL was in favour of the power being in the
hands of the Corporation, as the ratepayers bad more
power over that body than the Highway Board.
Mr. HIGGINS followed on the same side, with some
statistics.
Mr. COOPER said a few words in behalf of the Highway
Board.

Mr. JOHN SMITH closed the debate in a luminous, but
somewhat miscellaneous speech.
The amendment was then put, and carried by an im-
mense m.jority, and the meeting broke up at half past
three o'clock.

THE STRIKE IN THE BUILDING TRADES.
GREAT MEETING OF MASTER BUILDERS AT
NEWTON.

On Thursday, at twelve o'clock, a meeting of master
builders, contractors, and others, took place at the Legh
Arms, Newton, to consider the best means of counter-
acting the proceedings of the trades' unions, which have
caused the stoppage of so much building throughout the
manufacturing and other districts.
The towns of Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham,
Macclesfield, Ashton-under-Lyne, Leeds, Bolton, Pres-
ton, Wigan, Warrington, Blackburn, Stockport, Birken-
head, Sheffield, Bury, Oldham, Bradford, and various
other places of minor note, had appointed deputations
from the body of master builders in the various localities.
The following is a correct statement of the numbers pre-
sent from the various towns :
Manchester.. .
Liverpool
Birmingham.. 6 Wigan
Macclesfield 1 She i eld
Bolton
Leeds
Preston 4 l Birkenhead 7
being a total of 188 members of deputations from the
towns named. The deputations met in the Great Hall,
and Mr. David Bellhouse, of Manchester, was unani-
mously called to the chair.
The representatives of almost all the large building
firms in the various towns enumerated, were present, and
the utmost determination was shown not to yield to the
demands of the unions. A declaration of the reasons
which had called so large and extraordinary an it:-,sem-
blage together was read to the meeting, and was subse-
quently signed by every person in the room.
The motion for the adoption of the declaration was
proposed by Mr. Pooling, of Manchester, and seconded
by Mr. Kilpin, of Liverpool. Other resolutions were
adopted (which will be found in our advertising columns),
in which the masters came to the determination to with-
stand the unions, especially in the way in which, as it
appeared from many documents, which were produced,
the unions were interfering with the internal management
of the various employs, and the tyranny which they show,
especially in the manufacturing districts; and arrange..
ments were made for forming local branches in all towns,
to correspond will a central association

The various resolutions were moved and seconded by
Mr. Tomkinson' of Liverpool, and Mr. Gwyther, of
Birmingham ; by Mr. Marsden, of Bolton, and Mr.
Boothman of Leeds; by Mr. Wylie of Liverpool, and
Mr. Edwards, of Manchester. Mr. Holme, Mr. Johnson,
and other gentlemen, also addressed the meeting, and the
whole of the proceedings, which occupied three hours,
were characterised by the utmost unanimity and determi-
nation.

A deputation of ten from the workmen of Liverpool,
Birkenhead, and Manchester, were at Newton. and
during the proceedings a note was handed to the chair-
man, expressing the desire of some of their body to be
admitted to the meeting. This was declined, on the
ground that their authority to make any proposition
could not be recognised ; but it was intimated that if
they had any terms to offer, and would put those terms
in writing, they would be considered by the committee.
After the business had terminated, a letter, of which
the following is a copy, was sent to the chairman. It is
dated " Newton, Legh Hotel, May 7, 1816," and is in
the following terms :
" Mr. Chairman—Sir,—The operative c,rpenters and joiners
of Manchester agree to resume work upon the terms agreed
upon by the deputation of employers and employed, in the con-
ference before the Worshipful the Mayor of Manchester. May
Ist, 180, provided the document

be wilidrawn - In behalf of
"JAS. LEVENS, Sec."

the same,
A similar note was also presented from the workmen of
Liverpool and Birkenhead.

As the meeting had terminated, the chairman (Mr.
Bel!house) could give no answer on its behalf to either of
these applications; but he gave the Liverpool workmen's
letter to members of the association of masters in that
town, to be referred to their commi•tee ; and the Man-
cheater workmen's letter was brought to this town, and
hid before the proper parties here, on Friday; when it
was resolved that the following answer should be re-
turned:—

" 1, Dneie-place, Exchange hurdings,
Manchester, May 8, i. 48.
" Gent:emen.—Yonr note stating that the op Tative carpenters
and joiners were aereeah'e 10 resume work upon the terms
agreed up, ,n by the d‘ inflations who had a confer- rice before
the Ma, or. on the Ist May, 1,45, came too late to be cnnsi 'ered
by the meeting at Newton, yesterday ; but I am desired by the
master carpenters and joiners to stlte. that they cannot consent
to withdraw the declaration.—By order,

" .1. B. ItOGERSON. Secretary
" To the Committee of operative carpenters and joiners,
"Carpenters'-hall, Manchester."

At half-past three o'clock, nearly two hundred gentle-
men dined together in the Great Hall, Mr. Tomkinson
in the chair. The dinner did not occupy more than an
hour, and the gentlemen again quitted Newton for their
respective towns, at an early hour.

SUGGESTION TO WATER THE STREETS, AND
SUPPLY BATHS WITH SEA WATER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

you have so long and so ably yourself, and
through the correspondence of Dr. Watson, and Mr. H.
G. Harbord, advocated measures for the improvement of
the health of the town, I would, at the present exciting
time of water battles, just mention a plan which 1 think
will be conducive to the health of the inhabitants, as a
hint to those pa, ties who take an interest in this matter,
and are able to work out tne plan to act upon. Some
time since, some person proposed a plan to supply the
town with salt water. I think he proposed to construct a
large wrought iron tank, in the form of a tower, and
intended to have a water-wheel, to be worked by the
flowing and ebbing of the tide, which would give power to
work hydraulic presses to fill the tower. Now, to my
mind a much mote simple plan might be adopted. Water
from the river may be taken on a level nearly up the bed
of the old pool, to the top of Byrom-street, right into the
heart of the town, a large reservoir tinder ground could
be constructed somewhere in that locality, and, being ail
rook in that neighbourhood, it might be made without
interfering with ar y property ; a tower and steam engine
to supply it might be erected there, and the whole town
supplied with salt water. By and bye I would suppose
some of the present water pipes will not be required, as
the water companies will be in one hand, and the large
ones that will be put down will supersede them, the salt
water can easily be turned into them without taking the
pipes up. I will leave both medical gentlemen named to
show the advantages of salt water bathinp,. when you may
have it at your doors; and I would ask them what effect
upon the health of the town watering the streets with salt
water would have, especially in hot weather, when our
streets would be covered with a chloride or muriare of
soda. lam no chemist, but they can tell you this, but I
have no dcubt it would be of great benefit to the public
health I trust you will think thisof sufficient importance
to give it room in your columns; and in the hope that it
may induce some cowpetent person to take up the question,
I remain, &c.,
DICKEY SA,M,.