The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-13 00:00:00

411 t h» pubritrat ons.

Just Published, price Threepence,
MR. GRANTHAM on the SUPPLY of WATER to
LIVERPOOL; being the substance of a Speech at the
Polytechnic Society, on the 29th of May, 1848, at an Adjourned
Meeting on Mr. Dwyer's Paper.
Liverpool: KAYE, Castle-street ; LACE and ADDISON, Stan-
dard-office ; and all Booksellers.

Just published, price One Shilling,
REMARKS on the SUPPLY of WATER to Ll-
VERPOOL,dedicated to the!tatepayers.

'By JAMES B. WEST, C.E.
Liverpool : JOSHUA WALMSLEY, Lord-street, and all Book-
sellers.

Contrarto.

SHREWSBURY AND WELLINGTON JOINT LINE OF
RAILWAY. •
SLEEPERS WANTED.

SEALED TENDERS will be iv until MONDAY
the 3rd July next, addressed to Capt. SHAW, Shrewsbury,
and marked " Tender for Sleepers," for the supply of 18,000
SLEEPERS, of Larch, Hacmatac, or Yellow Pine, for the use
of the above Line of Railway, to be delivered at the Unton
Magna Canal Wharf, on the Line of the Railway, in equal
proportions weekly, between the 10th of July and the 30th of
October next.

Each Sleeper must be 9 feet long, and not less than 10 inches
in width by 5 inches thick, clear of the bark. They may be in
the section, half-round, or oblong. They must be of perfectly
sound timber, free from shakes, bad knots, or other defects,
and in every respect subject to the approval of the Engineer.
The Tenders are to state the Price per Sleeper, delivered as
above and stacked on the Line; the description of Timber
proposed to be supplied; and the names and addresses of the
parties who are willing to become security for the due fulfil-
ment of the contract.
Shrewsbury, Jane 3, 1648.

MEETING OF TIIF RATEPAYERS OF
KIRKDALE.
AT a MEETING of the RATEPAYERS of
KIRKDALE, held on TUESDAY Evening last, the 6th
instant,

•
Mr. J. F. NORTH, in the Chair,
the following* Resolutions were proposed, seconded, and
unanimously passed :7 _ _

Proposed by Mr. ROSKELL, seconded by Mr. BROWN, and
carried nuanimously,
1. That this meeting views with astonishment and dismay
the apparently unlimited power placed in the hands of the
Common Council of Liverpool by the recent Sanatory Act, as
exhibited in the laying of most exorbitant local Rates, for the
present
.year, upou_the Inhabitants of this township, these
Rates being very nearlrdesble the amount of those laid for the
previoue year, and four times the amount of the average of
former years.
Proposed by Mr. DOVER, seconded by Mr. PARNALL, and
passed unanimously,
2. That this meeting is ignorant of the existence of any ade-
quate motive for such augmentation of the Rates; and being
convinced of the inability of the township to meet them, they
foresee that any attempt to enforce them wilt he attended with
very serious privations and distress to the Inhabitants.
Proposed by Mr. DUCKWORTH, seconded by Mr. MEDCALFE,
and carried unanimously,
3. That the Ratepayers and Owners of Property are of opinion
that it is unjust in principle, and highly prejudicial to the
interests and welfare of the township, that there should exist—
totally and independent of them—a power authorized to lay
upon them such an unprecedented and enormous amount of
Rates,—they themselves having no efficient representation
therein, nor even any supervision over the expenditure.
4. That a Standing Committee, consisting of the following
gentlemen,—
:11esors. North, Roskell, Thomas Medcalfe, Brown, Hampson,
Miller, James Johnstone, Duckworth, North, John Johnson,
Dover, Parker, and Parnall, (with power to add to their
numberd
be appointed to carry out the objects of this meeting, to lay
before his worship the Mayor their sentiments, and take
such further steps as may be deemed most conducive to the
interests of the township.

MR. GRANTHAM ON THE SUPPLY OF WATER.

We were favoured yesterday, by Mr. Grantham, with
the proof sheets of a pamphlet which will be published
to-day, and which contains a report of the address which
he delivered at a recent meeting of the Polytechnic Society.
Mr. Grantham's arguments deserve to be maturely
weighed. 'We can only find room for the following ex-
tracts from this highly important paper.