The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

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Ebr Eibcr.puoi g-Nanbarb. to give us a daily supply—as much,
gines could pump ; and yet, trom ever
---,..=.-_-_- - ---- we are overwhelmed with complaints
TUESDAY MORNING, AUG. 29, 1848. Either, therefore, the idea of Liverp(
• a kind of natural filter must be scout(
or there is water in our wells at tli
THERE is, unhappily, little doubt remaining that committee won't let us have it.
war have before us the prospect of another winter alternatives is inevitable ; and as the
eel scarcity in Ireland. It gardless of their past Productive of no good, but rather of n
zatTerings from the failure of the potato crop, the here, we should be obliged to him t!
favours to Rivington, when they are r
peasantry and farmers of Ireland have this year In sober earnestness, we do submit
tlxce more rested their chief, and, to a great ex- some right to complain of the pres
teut, their sole dependence upon this precarious their water supply by the officers of II
rt-vt; and the destruction of a great portion of it, We have been very obstinate, no dot
though not, perhaps, so much as is represented by .once all the advantages of the Pike p
our
tirs carriedpast
stupidityaai against
Let u
t us, don'tsa
t
interested or thoughtless alartnists, is now almostcontin
leastu l
a matter of certainty. The question, therefore, wells will yield, whether it percolate!
slat is to be done in such an emergency, must at is supplied by subterranean rivers.
once urgently press upon the attention and seriously the inhabitants of Liverpool must the
increase the perplexities of her Majesty's govern- tract with Saint Swithin, and collect
linnt. Ireland, in fact, seems destined to remain own use. There
,
watch a few is scarcely a street or
yards of spouting, a good
eat of the great social difficulties which British and a tap would not render the °cc
statesmanship has to encounter; and she seems both of the wells and the health conic
bent herself upon offering every possible impedi- part of the water they use. If rainm
lnent to its solution. we are hencef,,rth to be dependent,
A more anomalous spectacle cannot possibly common sense, go twenty or thirty
impound it, when we can have the sar
present itself than the position of this most un- dance from our own house-tops ?As
happy people. But a few days ago they were in economy, as well as on sanatory grot
metts to wrest a speculative boon from this empire, - ought at once to be encouraged to
libich had so lately extended towards them a be- with rainwater cisterns, the trifling c•
mifteence unparalleled in the world's history. With rage family would save in a twelvemon
consumption of the article of soap alo
our own
_money they bought the weapons which

icle of soap alone

HER MA.
IT

into the means of
And now we have

,hall he called upon
.hp main vryngp of

hat the

to the spat,de

to honest industry

h it may appear, we shall n
the call. We may not be

I pay neve

rued

We m

have it cicar

ving the lives of

Eng the means of e

we are not furnishing

claim to insist up

itber t

gain upon th

e of fe

portion

t the p

hostile

not only

d, but to every thin,;

s in Ireland ca.rir

me; and Ef

in some districts

tribes of the abo

has been

give r

lay, even or

e or murder

ie recent 1

nt event

'he awful

to give us a daily supply—as much, in fact, as their en-
gines could pump ; and yet, trom every part of the town,
we are overwhelmed with complaints of want of water.
Either, therefore, the idea of Liverpool being built upon
a kind of natural filter must be scouted as sheer humbug,
or there is water in our wells at this moment, and the
committee won't let us have it. One or other of the
alternatives is inevitable ; and as the saint's exertions are
productive of no good, but rather of much unpleasantness
here, we should be obliged to him to confine his further
favours to Rivington, when they are more highly valued.

In sober earnestness, we do submit that the pUblic have
ime right to complain of the present management of
officers of the health committee

Jstinate, no doubt, in not seeing at
ges of the Pike project, but now that
st us, don't continue to punish us for
! Let us at least have as much as our

I. whether it percolates from the surface or

selves make a con

favours for their
town.

arcely a street or a court in t

3ne ciAcrn,

.er.dent

er it is upon which

hy, in the name of

domestic

the.ii houses

ch an ace

in a twelvenionth in their decreased

ESTY'S LORD LIEUTENANT
IRELAND.