The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-29 00:00:00

Mr. CuNiNINGAAm explained that t►.
ditions were diffetent, rind th,
plished in this locality. If they

surest, they would obtain but little more water, for these
too were impermeable to the fluid, and the chances would
be that what was obtained would be rendered unfit for
use by combinations of sulphur and ferruginous deposits.
An interesting discussion ensued, in which several gen-
tlemen took part, and in which Mr. Cunningham main-
tained his position to the conviction of his hearers. He
also incid:ntally noticed the Rivington scheme, on which
he was about to report professionally to the Corporation.
There, the whole water was derivable from the surfs e, -nd
thongs, some of the rivulets from the hills were clear and
fine, they were liable to deterioration during rains, not
only from the peat soil, but from dyeworks, manure in
the fields, &c.,so that the sheep were as black as ink. The
river Alt was but an insignificant stream. The dip of the
free stone strata at Rivington was also to the east, so
that the east side of the valley was the most promising
point to obtain water, for Manchester, if wanted.
It was stated that it had been contemplated to water
Manchester from Rivington, bnt the scheme had been re-
jected in favour of another locality.
A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Cunningham for
his admirable exposition of his'views. We have heard it
whispered that he has in preparation a suggestion for the
supply of the town with excellent water in abundance
from another quarter far to the north ; but in the mean-
time he suggests, as the least expensive, and as sufficient
for some years, if a large outlay is not at once determined
upon, to obtain the nec
Childwall valley, as stated,/withou
water

ry pure st

from below
cc to surface

eh fur the Southern

The collection at St. Barnabas'
Hospital has been increased to £lOO
Yesterday morning, I\iartha Thornton, a woman of be-
ween 50 and 60 years of age. who resides at ii, Paul-
street, slipped in Marybone, and broke her thigh. In the
evening she was conveyed to the Norther❑ Hospital.

WORKING AN ILLICIT STILL.—A woman named
Mary Trainer, was yesterday charged with this offence,
in Harley-street, Vauxhall-road, at the Polio,: Court, and
being convicted was fined £3O, or in default, to be im-
prisoned for three months.
Yesterday morning, Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, of Ho-
tham-street, fell, in consequence of the slippery state of
the street, and broke her arm. She was received during
the day into the Infirmary. Several other similar casual-
ties were also received into the Infirmary.
SMUGGLING.—Joseph Hough, steward of the ship
Samuel, from St. John's, N. 8., was yesterday charged
at the Police Court with smuggling 301 h. of tobacco on
board. It was found concealed in a coptoird. There
were also 4!b. in his chest. He was fined £lOO, and in
default was sent to gaol.
ACCIDENTS.—A man named Nathan Peach, a marble
mason, residing in Union•court, Banister-street, had his
thigh severely fractured while wrestling, on Saturday
porning last. About the same hour, a carter, named
Ed a-ard Thomas, who resides in Limekiln-lane, broke his
leg in a scuffle in Collingwood-street.
The Right Hon. Thomas Grenville has bequeathed his
valuable library to the British Aluseur
will that a great part of the books havi
from the profits of a sinecure office gi

been purchased

to him by the

public, he feels it to be a debt and a duty to acknowledge
that obligation by devoting the library so acquired to the
use of the public: _

Yesterday week, Robert Watts, aged
with another man in getting a millstone i

was ermaz

,to the taw rniila
ling it. when it

in Great Howard-Artet

ley were

overbalanced, and smashed the deceased's left leg. He
was taken to the Northern Hospital, and the lee was am-
putated, but mortification ret in, of which Le died on

ANOTHER CS SE OF STADBING.--WC regret to record
another of those collisions in which the use of the knife
has been resorted to. A boatman named Thomas S(
man, while qtiarreling with some of his r _ _
two o'clock on Saturday afternoon, in Queen-street, was
stabbed by one of them in several places in the thigh, but
we are happy to state no fear is entertained of a fatal re-
sult. He was immedia.ely removed to the Northern
Hospital, where be is doing well. •

A RAILWAY PRINTING OFFICE..—The cannei
bui!ding at Newton, on the north side of the Liverr

and Manchester Railway, known until recently as "The
Legh Arms Hotel," is being converted into a general
printing office ! A printing office in a village like Newton,
however humble in pretension; a year ago, would have
been con&dered one of the greatest wonders of the age.

Wonders, however, do occasionally appear, and one of
the greatest we know of is the conversion, in such a place,
of a building larger than the establishments of any of the
metropolitan morning papers, or of the printers to • her
Majesty, into a place for pressmen and printers' devils.
The fact, however, is, that the London and North-western
Railway Company, among other amalgamations and con-
soli& Cons, have contracted with a practical person to tin-
ttrtake this extensive department exclusively ; and the
house in question has been selected as the best adapted
for the purpose, all things considered, upon any portion
of their lengthened territory.
FIRST IMFORTATION OF BRAZILIAN SUGAR.—An
eminent house in the Br, zilian trade, in Liverpool, has
a cargo of 300 tons of sugar, direct from Rio, now at
Cork, with orders to proceed hither. This will he the
first cargo brought into Liverpool, and the second into
the United Kingdom, under the bill of last session, im-
posing a differential duty upon colonial and foreign sugars
—one of the first acts of Loid John Russell's adminis-
tration after the retirement of the Peel cabinet. The
duty at which this cargo will come in will be 21s. per cwt.
(reduced from 635.): colonial sugar, of. corresponding
quality, pays 13e. Brazilian sugar has been seen occa-
sionally here, under the old regirae, but only in small
quantities, and there was no trade in it : the bulk of it
was sent to the continent, where the English merchant,
in one way or other, frequently bad the profits on his
adventures exposed to no inconsiderable abstractions.
The trade, both home and return, will now lay in its legi-
timate hands. It is now pretty well understood in the
beat informed mercantile circles, that coy

ment is dis

posed to admit foreign st 4
and in this expectation a CR

ar for the 1,
go of Babia

of distilleries;

h-1.8 recently been Bold at 45.

SOUTH AFRICAN ABORIGINES
be viewed. in the present day, with exci