The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

Ktberpool e-••taiioara.

TUESDAY MORNING, NO V. 7, 1848.

THE result of the munici pal elections, just decided,
affords ample evidence of the opinions of the consti-
tuencies on the water and the dock rating questions.
Some of our leading men, the elite of the Council-
chamber, men of the highest standing and ability,
have been compelled to yield, in many instances,
before untried and unknown opponents, whose sole
claim to support has been a pledge to a particular
course upon these questions. The balance of par-
ties in our municipal body is now entirely changed ;
and we wait to see the practical effect of the
change. •
The first step, it appears to us, most he the se-
curing of a Health Committee, containing a greater
amount of the popular leaven. There are strange
tumours abroad of unfair dealing on the part of
that committee, or their.servants, with respect to
the water supply. M e hear of steam-engines
pumping night and day ; of millions of gallons of
water being thrown away to waste, whilst the quan-
tity furnished to the inhabitants is in extreme defi-
ciency. Public rumour states broadly that there is
something of design in this ; t !lilt we are to be
starved into the adoption of the Pike s:heme; and
it points to the fact as signlieant that the fur-
nishing of that supply, and the entire control of the
works of the late Water Companies, are in the
bands of Mr. Hawksley, and officials appointed by
him, and interested in the pet scheme being pressed
forward at all hazards. We do not., of course, assert
that all this is fact. We believe it is not ; but we
do say that it is the duty of the Council and the
Health Committee at once to satisfy the public
whether it is or is not fact. Let the works be
banded over for a time to the control of the borough
!engineer ; let him test their capability of supply, not
an engineer interested in convincing us that it is
deficient, and the public mind will be satisfied.

To arrive at the truth in this matter ought to he
the first effort of the new blood infused into the
Council. They will be told, no doubt, that it is too
late now to pause ; that contracts for the carrying
out of the Pike scheme have been entered into and
the works commenced ; that a mandamus may even
be had to compel us to go on with them. They
must not believe all this. Money, we admit, has
been spent, but nothing- to render it imperative
on us to spend more. The first sacrifice may be
the best and wisest, if, as the result of a fair trial it
turn out, as we expect it will that there is under
Our feet an abundance of excellent water, which
can be had for a very trifling expenditure, probably
for less than Mr. Hawksley's commission, or the
law charges for getting the Rivington Bill.

total r,„

It is said that Sir W. M. Stanley intends to winter on
the continent. lle is now at Genoa.

On Tuesday night, about seven o'clock. a gentleman
was knocked down in the field behind the Collegiate In-
stitution, by two men who rifled his pockets and made off.
The barque Free Trader was abandoned on the 12th of
September, waterlogged. The crew wero rescued by the
Washington Irving, hound for this port.
On Thursday, several parties were summoned before,
the County Court, for their subscriptions to the Exchange
News Room, and ordered to pay the same.
On Friday morning Bernard M'Cloyne, aged 50, living
in Collingwood.street, was found dead in bed. He retired
to rest quite well and died of apoplexy.
Messrs. Atkins, of this town, are exhibiting in the Free
Trade-nail, Manchester, their beautiful panorama of the
insurrection in Paris. _

In all probability we stall have a visit shortly from a
detachment of the French National Guard, now in .Lon-
don. They intend to visit Bristol, Liverpool, Birming-
ham, &c.

The two most culpable parties engaged in the robbery
of two bales of lace at the railway station, have been sen-
tenced to seven years' transportation, and the third to
threw months' imprisonment. .
Richard Heywood, of the Mitre Inn, Dale-street, un-
dertook to walk, on Friday week, one mile in ten minutes,
on the Walton ro,d. for one sAv,•reiv.n, which be accom-
plished in nine minute; and a half.
On Wednesday, a great numuer of the owners of cellars
in different parts of the town were fined 20s. and costs,
for allowing them to be occupied contrary to the sanatory
act.

Mr. Edward J. Massey of this town has obtained a
patent for improvements in apparatus for measuring the
speed of vessels and streams, and for ascertaining the
depth of water.
The election of six honorary medical officers for•the Li-
verpool Dispensaries took place on Tuesday last, when
the choice fell upon the following gentlemen :—Messrs.
G. T. Alanson, John Hey, G. F. Easton, R. Hutchinson,
R. T. Lodge, and John Fenton.
Alderman James Lawrence, Alderman John Holmes,
Jame; Aikin, Esq., and Hugh Hornby, Esq., are now the
only members of the council who have retained their seats
since the passing of the Municipal Reform Bill to the pre-
sent tims. They are still four of the most popular mem-
bers of the body, and they well deserve that popularity.
The resolution of the Bank of England come to by the
directors, at their weekly board meeting on Thursday, to
reduce the rate of interest on bills of exchange, not having
more than 95 days to run, to 3 per cent., which is a re-
duction of 2 ptr cent., has not exerted any material in-
fluence here, nor is it apparently likely to do so.
WHALLEY v. M'CoNNELL.—This case, in which it will
be remembered that the plaintiff, a car driver, had been
committed to prison by the judge of our county court, for
refusing to appear to several summonses served upon him
in the wrong name, was brought before the Vice-Chan-
cellor on Thursday, and a rule nisi granted.
The Loatman Cain, belonging to the Tranmere steamer
Mersey, saved the life of a man on Monday,• by jumping
into the water after him and holding him .whilst the tide
was running strongly, until a rope was thrown to them.
This is the thirteenth life that Cain has saved in a similar
way, and a subscription is very properly being raised for
him.

On Tuesday a grand dinner was given to T. Birchall,
Esq., Mayor of Preston and owner of the beautiful yacht
" Vision, which has been so successful in competing for
prizes at the various regattas. Among the guests were
E. W. Lloyd, Esq., Commodore of the Royal Dee Yacht
Club, and John Grindrod, Esq., ex-Commander of the
Royal Mersey Yacht Club.
The Cambria steamer arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday,
after a voyage of thirteen days, having sailed from Boston
on the 18th and from Halifax on the 20th ult. She brings
sixty-seven passengers, but no specie. The Britannia
had arrived out in sixteen days, and the Niagara was
spoken between Halifax and Boston. There is nothing
important by this arrival.
A MAMMOTH SHlP.—Messrs. Westervelt and McKay,
of New York, have laid the keel of a ship, intended for
Robert Kermit's Liverpool line of packets, which will
surpass in size, every other sailing vessel yet constructed
in the United States. This ship will measure, in length
200 feet; breadth of beam, 411 feet; depth of hold, 28
feet, and will carry 1,600 tons.
MR. BAINBRIGGE ON CHLOROFORM.—We have been
very much interested by a perusal of this argumentative
and extremely well written pamphlet. We cannot agree
with all Mr. Bainbrigge's reasoning, but we think he has
gone far towards establishing not only the utility but the
scriptural propriety of the use of chloroform. We intend
in our present, or in a succeeding paper, to give an extract
or two from the pamphlet.
QUEER MISTAKE.—On Monday night a person named
John Roberts, residing near Pool-street North, who had
been indulging so freely in libations to "John Barleycorn"
as to be in a state of oblivion, actually undressed himself
near a pond adjoining Canning-street, Birkenhead, and,
imagining he was near his bed, plunged into the water.
The police being near, he was speedily rescued and con-
veyed to Bridewell for safety.
The sloop Banff, of Sunderland, laden with slates, from
Bangor for Northumberland, was wrecked in the Solway
Frith, on Tuesday, through striking on a sand bank. She
beat on the bank all night, shifting nearly two miles, the
crew (four in number) clinging to the rigging, and in this
way passing a stormy night. At last they were observed
by the Royal Victoria steamer, from Liverpool to Carlisle,
from which a boat was lowered and dispatched to the
wreck, and thus the poor fellows were rescued.
NORTHERN HOSPITAL.—Mr. Stubbs, one of the sur-
geons to this valuable institution, has just published the
introductory lecture to chemical surgery, delivered at the
hospital last month. It appears to contain many excel-
lent practical suggestions to medical students. The to al
number of cases treated at the hospital last year, was
2579. Three hundred of these were cases of fracture ; a
large proportion of which were compound. There were
more than a thousand cases of severe injuries of the head.
UNFAIRNESS OF THE MERCHRY.—WhiIst alluding to
the correspondence between Dr. M'Neile and Mr. Ewbank,
the Mercury of Friday says—" it appears that Dr.
M`Neile is most anxious for a reconciliation with the Rev.
Mr. Ewbank, to be based upon a practical admission that
the latter was altogether in the wrong on the occasion of
the recent fracas at the Collegiate Institution." Let our
readers peruse the correspondence which appears in ano-
ther column, and they can then judge whether our con-
temporary's cry for " fair play" is always sincere.

DISCOVERY OF A NEW SATELLITE OF SATURN.—In
the last fasciculus of the Ropal Astronomical Society, is a
communication by Mr. William Lassell, of Liverpool,
giving the particulars of his discovery of an eighth satelite
of Saturn, which he proposes to call Hyperion. It seems
that on the 18th of September last, whilst surveying the
planet in the 20• foot equatorial, and looking out for Ja-
pans, the most external satellite of the seven, he saw two
stars in the line of the interior satellites; and the next
night. he found that both had moved away from the fixed
stars, and were still accompanying Saturn. Various cir-
cumstances led him to the conclusion that the more dis-
tant was Japetus, and that the nearer and fainter must be
a new satellite of Saturn, Further observation satisfied
him that it still followed the track of the planet, and
therefore could not be a fixed star. Its magnitude is very
small, perhaps not intrinsically so great as that of the
satellite Mimas, the one nearest the planet.—The seven
satellites were thus named by Sir John Herschel', begin-
ning with the closest to Saturn :—Mimas, Enceladus,
Tethys, Drone, Rhea, Titan, and Japetus.