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eventually agreed that the provisions of the old act
Geo. 111., should be revived, so that no person be alto,

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Abattoir Company ; and also, that for retail pur-
)oses, the Corporation should have power to gran
Is under the provisions of the Improvement Ac
leciding that ,the wholarcase, both as affecting the Corp

ration and the Water Company, should be giine into next
day, the committee adjourned, having passed all but the
Abattoir Company and water clauses. On Friday, the

discussion took place on the question of the additional
supply of Water. The members of the committee pre-
sent were Mr. Ward, Mr. Gitborne, and Mr. Rice Clay-
ton, from the selected list; from the South Lancashire
list, Lord Sandon. Sir H. Douglas, Mr. Cornwall Legh,
Sir P. Egerton, Mr. Tollemache, Mr. Ireland Blackburn,
and Mr. Entwisle. The bill of the Liverpool and Har-
rington Water Company was brought up by Viscount
Sandon and Sir H. Douglas. By the title, it purported
to be a bill to amend the two acts of Geo. IV. for sup-

plying the town with water. The company wer
rented by three counsel, and the Corporation had also en-
gaged three counsel, only one of whom appeared, (Mr.
Austin,) and that just before the committee ruse. Mr.

Sergean't Wrangliam spoke

Water Company, contended carat they had been misr,
presented, and that the opposition to their bill had
from misapprehension of the state of the law, and of the
*ghts of the company. He related what had

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taken ;lace with regard to the water legislation at Liver-
pool, but we are not provided with any report of the ad-
dress. At the close of his speech, and before the evi-
dence was taken, the committee suggested the propriety
of a compromise being entered into between the cuntend-

agreed upon, in order to afford time for consultation to
take place, and the compromise, if possible, to be effected.

The Birkenhead Improvement Bill was read a third
time and passed, in the House of Commons, on Friday.
A beautiful brigantine vessel, purchased by a company
in this town, and intended for the West India trade, was
launched on Monday at Plymouth.

RAPID INCREASE OF MANCHESTER.—From a report,
prepared by the chief constable. and read by Alderman
Kay, at n recent meeting of the Town Council, it appears
that since the census was taken in 1811, there has been a
clear addition of 59,770 souls to the population of the
borough, being mare than the increase from 1831 to 1841,
which was 53,373. The entire population is now reckoned
at 295,277. •

NAVIGATION OF THE MENAI.-lt appears that many
perilous obstructions exist in the bed of this river, and

that ap

placation is about to be made to government f

the onrpose of removing them

The North Wol,

nice says :—" Had it -pleased heaven to bestow upon
Wales a man like Cobden or O'Connell, better luck would
attend our supplications; but a voice from Wales was
rarely or never heard in the senate, and there being no
agitator to bully the minister into compliance, the minis-
ter buttons up the public purse. This is exactly the po-
sition of the principality. Gainsay it who can?"—Welsh
Paper. [Why not fill up the straits at the narrowest
part, and thus join Anglesea to the main land? No more
money would be required than would be necessary to re-

move these " perilous obstructions ;" in fact, of what use
is the navigation of the Straits at all, when the Irish
Channel answers the same purpose ? This done, the
Holyhead Railway Company need no longer bother their
heads about a bridge, as Anglesea would then be part of
the main land, and enable them to cross with their line.]
THE LOST FouNn.—ln November last several vessels
sailed from Canada for this and other ports. The lapse of
months bringing no tidings of their fste, the crews were
at length considered amongst the dead, the ships amongst

the wrecked. Such, and so unfortunate, appetired to h;ve
been their fate. On Tuesday last, kwever, one of these
long-lost vessels suddenly entered the river, after having

is port in November Ins

rienced in the Gulf of St. Lawrence very severe gales;
and, at length, on the 12th December, after havine been

on shore and discharged part of 'ber cargo, put into St.
George's Bay, on the west coast of Newfoundlard. There
she found a vessel named the Athole, also from Montreal,
and there the two vessels wintered, sailing together for
their proper destination, on the 22d ult. Of the remain-

ing missing vessels we kern that three. the William Tion-
nington, from Quebec fur London ; the Suir, from Que-
bec for Llanelly ; and the British Union, were wrecked in

that the crews of the two former vessels were saved : the
crew of the British Union was far from experiencing the
same happy fortune.

APPREHENSION OF THE CELEBRATED HENRY
NORMAN.—On Wednesday, much curiosity was excited
in the Police-court, owing- to the examination of a man
who gave his narriepeorge_Blake, but whose real narce it

confession" in a letter sent to his late employer in London,
lately went the round of the papers. He was apprehended
here on Tuesday, at the instance of a man named Daniel