The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-25 00:00:00

THE LI;7ERPOOL STANDARD.

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE HIGHWAY

BOARD

This meeting was held on Thursday, in the Sessions-
House, and there were present Mr. John Holmes
(chairman), and twenty other members, many of whose
❑ames, as well as the proceedings expressed in resolutions,
appear in the advertisement in another column of
our paper.
Mr. DeANE, the law clerk, read a summary of the
accounts. He then read two letters from Mr. Simpson,
one of which recommended that the present sinking and
tunnelling for water at Green-lane having been carried as
far as was prudent, should be discontinned. The present
supply of water was stated to be 900 gallons per minute.
The other letter related to the conveying of water from
the river Alt, and the writer states
There are two sources of Alt, the water of which is of excellent
quality, excepting in times of extraordinary floods ; and with the
aljunct of a reservoir, filtering conduits, and another well, within
little more than six miles of the Green-lane and Kensington
Works, 1 feel assured an additonal quantity of water, equal to from
three to four millions of gallons daily, may be obtained.
" The line of aqueduct, or main pipe, can be laid principally in
the public roads, and the whole work can be kept entirely away
from villa property; and altogether the project appears to me to
offer such important features that I am now prosecuting it with
all the assistance I have been able to bring to bear, and with every
confidence that the commissioners will approve of it when the
plans are completed."
The following resolutions, adopted at a joint meeting
of the committees of the Guardian Society, and the
House Owners' Guardian Society, were then read, and
were received with applause :
"That, taking into consideration the various and important
duties which devolve upon the Town Council, and the consequent
demand upon their time and attention, [this meeting is of opinion
that the business connected with the paving and sewerage, together
witlithe supply ofwater forithe inhabitants, properly belongs to, and
can be more adequately conducted by, the Commissioners of the
Highway Board.
" That this meeting, agreeing with the active steps already
adopted by the Board to secure additional powers to enable them
better to supply the inhabitants with water, p'edges itself to support
them in their undertaking by all the means in their power."
Mr. PROCTOR proposed five gentlemen as com-
missioners, selected from the rate-payers (see the ad-
vertisement), which was finally agreed to.
Mr. JOHN SMITH said there was a teeling abroad that
the £lO,OOO said to be taken from the paving-rate, and
applied to the sewerage-rate, was not legal; and he should
like an explanation.
Mr. DEANE said he had given the subject his best con-
sideration, and bad come to the conclusion that it was
perfectly legal. He recounted the clauses in the various
acts of parliament affecting the question, the object of all
of which was to secure sufficient for the sewerage, and not
to prevent the commissioners in the bona fide exercise of
their discretion from applying their general funds as they
might find most advisable. He, as a rate-payer, ap-
proved of the appropriation in question, as it had en-
abled the commissioners to execute 5,500 lineal yards of
sewerage, through some of the most densely populated
districts of the town, which the present rate would not
have enabled them to do. After a short conversation the
subject dropped.
Mr. PROCTOR then moved that Councillors Aspinall,
Birkett, Kaye, Tinne. and Plumpton be re-elected.
The nomination of the four first was carried unani-
mously. but in place of the latter, Mr. Forbes moved
that Mr. Vincent Higgins be substituted, which o❑ a
show of hands was carried by a small majority.
Mr. REAT (Secretary of the Liverpool Guardian So-
ciety), as one who had taken some interest in the subject
of a supply of water, bore testimony to the exertions and
merits of the sub-committee of the Highway Board, ap-
pointed to hear evidence on the subject, and begged to
move the best thanks of the meeting to Mr. Proctor, its
chairman. (near.) lie knew little of Mr. Proctor be-
fore this inquiry, but his whole conduct had proved him
to be a fit and efficient member of the board ; who
brought to the inquiry the fullest knowledge of the sub-
, ject, and who gave it his most unremitting attention. A
[ more impartial inquiry was never conducted before a

committee.
Mr. WALTIIEW (chairman of the Houseowners' Guar-
dian Society,) cordially seconded the motion, which was

carried unanimously with applause.
Mr. PuocToil briefly acknowledged the complii

notices given by the Highway Board be read; in order
that the public might know what powers they were going
to parliament for. The reason why the notices had not
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been lett Tor tnat meeting w -
had waited until then, they could not have gone to parlia-
ment at all this session. Now they were prepared to go
for any powers the meeting might think advisable ; and
he wished to know what powers the public would sanction
their trying for, as he did not wish to
out their nowledge and approval. (A
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stated that a co:Jerence would probably take place shortly
between the Watch and Health Committees and the High-
way Board, relative to Lord Lincoln's bill, so that they
would not oppose each other in respect to that bill, and it
was finally resolved that the Parliamentary Committee to
be appointed by the commissioners be instructed to obtain
for the inhabitants of the town the salutary provisions of
that bill, with the exemption from that part of it, involv-
ing the appointment of a new body of commissioners.
The thanks of the meeting were then voted to the chair-
man and the assembly dispersed.

DINNER TO THOMAS LITTLEDALE,
JUNIOR, ESQ., ON HIS RETURN AS A MEM-
BER FOR THE COMMON COUNCIL.

On Thursday evening, the tory electors of Exchange
Ward gave a dinner at the George Hotel, to T. Little-
dale, jun., Esq., in celebration of his return as a council-
lor for that ward at the recent election. The large room was
decorated with flags, bearing appropriate representations
and inscriptions; also with festoons of evergreens, &c.
Mr. Stubb's Royal Harmonic Band was stationed in an
anti-room, and played a variety of favourite airs at inter-
vals. The chair was ably filled by Thomas Bold, Esq., on
whose right hand sat T. Littledale, Esq., and around
him J. A. Tinne, James Tyrer, Francis Shand, Richard
Harbord, Warner Shand, Esqrs., D. Ashcroft, and
others. The vice-chairs were occupied by Mr. Byford
and Mr. Callow, supported by Messrs. Clegg, Bamford,
Neal, and It. G. Jackson, the acting secretary of the
ward, and to whose untiring exertions the conservatives
of the ward are greatly indebted. The remainder of the
company (in all about 100) comprised respectable trades-
men and artisans,- constituents of the lately elected mem-
ber in whose honour the feast was given. The dinner
consisted of an abundantly well-served supply of not
only the usual substantials but the delicacies of the sea-
so:,, and the quality of the wines did no less credit to the
worthy host, Mr. Castles. After the cloth was with-
drawn, the usual loyal and " constitutional" toasts were
given by the Chairman, neatly, but briefly, (owing to the
lateness of the time,) and were drunk with great enthu-

siasm.
The CHAIRNIAN than proposed a bumper in honour of
their respected guest. He had known that gentleman
from the days of his boyhood, when they were schoolb,ys,
and it delighted him (the Chairman) to see him rising to
the highest position he could attain► in his native town.
Mr. L. was one of the old school of politics, and his
very name was worthy of their respect. His father had
long been a member of the corporation, and had filled
the civic chair with the utmost satisfaction to his towns-
' men, and he (the Chairman) hoped to see the son ere
twig occupy the same dignified situation, though there
were other worthy and influential gentlemen to whom it
was due to precede him in that post of honour. He gave
the health of Mr. Littledale, coupled with a wi-h that he
might long remain in the council to support the princi-
ples all those who had heard him mutually protested. The
address and the togs:. were received with immanse cheLririg,

paying a high compliment to Mr. Littledale, for his bud
ness habits, and the ready access he afforded, hoped they
might often again meet to c .lebrate such victories. The
other toasts, all of which were drunk with much applause,
and replied to, were " The Press," " Mr. Tinne," " Mr.
Warner Shawe," " Mrs. Littledale and the " Lanca-
shire Witches," " Mr. Addison and the Operative Con-
servatives of the Ward," &c. An appropriate loyal song,
in which the name of Mr. Littledale was happily intro.
duced, was sung by Mr. M. Loveitt, and the company
took leave of each other about half-past eleven o'clock,
after one of the most enthusiastic and delightful meetings
we have ever bad to record.

DANIEL'S PLUCKED GEESE WISER THAN
HIS PLUCKED PISANTRY.

The Times' " Commissioner," in his notice of O'Con-
nell's property in Ireland, brings before the public the
following curious ornithological fact
" The wretched-looking town of Cahirciveen, its dirty
unpaved streets, and old-hat mended windows. reminds
me of another subject. The property of this town is
rented to Daniel O'Connell, who, as a middle man, sub-
lets it to its present tenants, and extracts a profit rent out
of it. In this country they pluck the geese alive for their
feathers, and turn the poor pen-feathered and wretched
birds loose to get over it as they can. This is repeated
several times in a year. As if apprehensive of their coming
fate, as each goose is caught to go through the plucking
operation, the whole flock, after the manner of geese, set
up a terrible cackling and screeching and hissing."
It is clear that the geese thus treated manifest greater
spirit than the human beings whom the liberator submits
to a similar operation " several times a year." The fowls
resent the indignity practised upon them by " cackling
and screeching and hissing ;" but the deluded and craven
peasantry allow themselves to be plucked of Repeal rents,
annual tributes and other subsidies for the arch mendi-
cant, without a murmur. Undoubtedly amongst his
feathered tenantry, Daniel, in his youth, has " tried his
prentice han" in the plucking science, which in part-ac-
counts for the proficiency with which he now practises
upon his fellow countrymen. We recommend this 'Latter
of O'Connell's geese as affording a hint to the Herald's
College, for devising a coat of arms for young Ireland. A
goose couchant on a field vent, with a beggarman filling
his wallet with its feathers would do for the shiel4 and
the plucked bird itself—a naked and ridiculous naonetro-
say might form the crest