The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-06 00:00:00

MONDAYWIGAN.- EVENING.

IMPORTANT REPORT RESPECTING THE SUPPLY OF WATER

IN WIGAN

At the council meeting, on Wednesday last, an interesting
report, of which the following is an outline, was read by the
Town-clerk, and entered upon the minutes of the proceed-
ings. Much valuable information is contained in it con-
cerning an adequate supply of water for the town, which is
so essentially requisite for the health of the inhabitants and
protection in case of fire.
An estimate of a new water-works to supply the town of
Milan with good and wholesome water:—
To 1,140 yards of a five-inch pipe, from where
the water is to be collected from different

places of supply
Soughing and walling at different places
To 10,000 yards, or an acre of 10,240 yards, at
.E 7 per annum-30 years purchase
To making a lodge, 100 yards square and six
feet deep, welled and puddled, with flagged
bottom
To walling round, 4 yards high and 500 yards
long, at 6d. per yard
Length of pipe to supply the town, with a main
of five feet, with lateral pipes into different
streets
Sundry cocks and stoppers for different places
in the main and supply-pipes
Making and preparing soughs, &c., to collect
the water into the summit

X s. d.
406 0 0
110 0 0

210 0 0

700 0 0

GOO 0 0

630 0 0

70 0 0

50 0 0

£2776 0 0

Your Committee beg to observe that this estimate does
not include the expense of an Act of Parliament to incorpo-
rate a new Company, the rent to be paid for water, or the
land through which the supply pipes would have to be laid,
but includes the value of the land only for the proposed re-
servoir. . .

Your Committee beg further to report that in pursuance
of their further instructions they directed Mr. Daglish to
survey the springs and works of the old Waterworks Com-
pany, for the purpose of ascertaining whether that Company
could supply a sufficient quantity of water for the general
wants of the town, under an improved management, or not;
and also to make an estimate of the value of the works of the
old Company.
That in pursuance of these instructions Mr. Daglish has
reported to your Committee that the springs of water under
the powers of the Waterworks Company's Act are amply suf.
ficient to afford a plentiful supply of water for the town, un-
der proper management.
The report also states, " That he has zone over the ground
up the railway, and near the Boar's Head. That he finds a
good supply of good water running to waste, and 2 feet 8
inches above the sough which takes the water forward into
the Old Water Works, south of Whitley Garden, and which is
making more water than at the present is supplying the town
of Wigan.
" That there are also more springs of water north of the
Boar's Head Bridge. That, in his opinion, the first men-
tioned springs might be brought into the Old Works drains
for about £2OO, and would make about 180 gallons of water
per hour, and be sufficient to supply Wigan.
" That a reservoir of about 100 yards square, near the
town would be absolutely necessary to afford this supply."
An estimate of the Old Water Works, that now supply the
town of Wigan with water :

X s. d

For 10110 yards of 5-in. main, at 7s. per yard,.
lined
Standish-gate and Market-place, at 3s. per
yard, lined
700 yards of pipes of different calibre in the
Hallgate, Wallgate, and King-street, at 3s 305 0 0
Millgate branch and cock
Sough in Wigan-lane, from the Monument
to lodge in Mr. Wood's garden
Soughs and mug, pipes, &c. from the Monu-
ment to top Spring, west side of the turn-
pike-road, near the Larches, Wigan-lane.. 200 0 0
Walling round the Lodge, or Reservoir, in
Wood's garden, with the Reservoir as it
now stands

90 0 0

40 0 0

430 0 0

1296 0 0
Your committee beg leave also to remark that this esti-
mate does not apply to the value of the water or the land
through which the supply pipes are laid.
J. LORD, Chairman.

THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. MANCHESTER,
THURSDAY NIGHT.—Tbis body held one of its usual meet-
ings this evening, at their rooms in Newall's-buildings, but
it was by no means so numerously attended as on former oc-
casions. Mr. George Wilson having taken the chair, the
usual preliminaries were gone through, such as reading the
minutes of the previous meeting, and a host of letters from
their lecturers in all parts of the country. These letters are
somewhat amusing, and it is no less lamentable to see bow
these amplifiers delude their dupes by promises that every
sensible person will see at a glance will never be realised.
Thus, Mr. Prentice has converted the farmers of Cheshire
to repeaters; Falvey, the agriculturists of Yorkshire; and
Murray has completely changed the whole of the people of
Lincolnshire, so that according to their tales the work of re-
peal is accomplished, and the next session of parliament will
find Sir R. Peel coming down to the House of Commons by
the direction of the Queen with a bill in his hand to repeal
the corn laws, and another to establish a new tariff, and that
too exactly such a one as the league thinks proper to suggest
or prepare. At the meeting, to-night, Mr. Cobden laboured
hard to show that the treaty effected with China would neither
improve trade nor in any way benefit either the operatives or
the manufacturers. This doctrine, however, did not meet
with much applause, and was therefore soon relinquished.
The great guns of the evening were the Rev. Mr. Giles, of
Leeds, and a Mr. W. T. Macauley, of Dublin. Mr. Giles
spoke for upwards of half an hour, and in the course of his
address the nobility and landowners felt in for a goodly share
of abuse put forth with eloquent declamation, whilst Mr.
Macauley, at much greater length, amused the gathering with
a plentiful supply of that humour for which his country men
are proverbial. lie forgot, however, the main-point argu-
ment. Mr. John Brdoks also addressed the company, and
argued the propriety of thanking these two gentlemen for
their services. At the close of the proceedings the chairman
announced that next week Colonel Thompson would be pre-
sent, and took occasion to complain of some of the news-
papers, which underrated their numbers ; and added, that the
writer of the obnoxious paragraph knew it was a lie when he
wrote it, and the editor of the journal knew it was a lie when
he inserted it. Up to very recently these meetings were open
only to such of the newspaper press as was under their own
immediate control, and therefore it is no great matter of won-
der that the council of the league should feel rather sore at
this exposition of their real numerical strength, and their in-
fluence in this district, which up to this period has been set
forth by the whig-radical papers in such colour and clothing
as the "council" was pleased to direct. The subscriptions
to the fund come in rather tardily, otherwise the papers would
have been teeming with their success. At the meeting held
here, nearly a fortnight ago, " friend Bright" said that a good
show of subscriptions in the morning papers of Saturday last
week would be a great stimulant to other towns. It is very
ungraciously hinted here that the money does not come in,
which accounts for the " stimulant" not having been given.

TILE REV. MR. BAILEY.—This reverend gentleman, who
is the minister of the Episcopal Chapel, Queen-square, West-
minster, and who, as we stated in our last, was charged at
the Bow-street Police-office, London, on Thursday week,
with forging a promissory note for the sum of £2,875, was
again brought up on Thursday for re-examination, and re-
manded for a week.

IMPORTANT DECISION.—The Poor Law Commissioners
have decided that the destitute poor are entitled to relief in
the parish in which they are found destitute, and that the
question as to where they slept on the previous night is alto-
gether
immaterial. This decision was come to in the case of
two poor orphan boys, named Bastings, who were refused
relief on frivolous pretences by the parishes of St. Margaret
and St. John, Westminster.
The shareholders of the National Floating Breakwater and
Refuge Harbour Company held their first general meeting
on Thursday. The invention, which is identified with pro-
tection to the shipping and seafaring portion of the public,
appearsto have attracted attention. Several ports round our
coast are already frurnished with the apparatus, and the French
Government, it is stated, have taken the project under
their especial patronage, Captain Tayler, the inventor, being
now employed to construct a harbour on an extensive scale
at Marseilles. The accounts of the company were presented,
and the directors received the thanks of the proprietary for
their attention to their interests.

SUBMARINE TELESCOPE.—A lady of Brooklyn has in-
vented a method of illuminating objects under water, so that
an observer at the surface, by means of a water-tight cylinder,
having a glass inserted in its lower orifice, can make exami-
nation under water to any accessible depth. By means of a
reflector the hull of a ship can also be examined from its
deck. The fair inventor believes that the telescope will be
found highly useful for this purpose, and that it may also be
economically applied in thelexplorations of sunken wrecks,
and in the pearl and sponge fisheries. it is now exhibiting
every evening at Barnum's American Museum.—New York
paper.

- .
WONDERFUL PRESENCE OF MIND.—At Torquay, on
Tuesday, a poor man, named Reynolds, was employed in
sinking a well in a solid rock ; he had prepared for blasting,
and having attached a fusee, was being drawn up when the
rope broke, and he was precipitated to the bottom from the
height of 25 feet. So great was the concussion that one leg
was broken in three places, his skull was also fractured, and
his whole frame dreadfully bruised ; he had, however, suffi-
cient consciousness and presence of mind to snatch the bur-
ning fused from the charge (in doing which his hand was
burnt), and thus providentially escaped a catastrophe which
would have been certain death !
Tum. " ARCHBISHOP OF. TRIPOLI.—The Times and the
Record have both published the following authorized docu-
ment :—" The Committee of the Church of England Society
for promoting Christian Education in Syria having had se-
veral :communications respecting a dignitary of one of the
Oriental sects, who has been about 15 months in England,
collecting funds to be applied to some purpose in Syria, de-
sire to make known to the members of the above named
Society, and to the Public generally, that they have no con-
nection whatever with that dignitary (Athanasius Tutangi),
to whom is given the title of Archbishop of Tripoli. The
Committee have received a letter from Methodius, Patriarch
of Antioch, and Benjamin, Archbishop of Beyrout, of the
Orthodox Greek Church, in which they disclaim any connec-
tion with the said Archbishop of Tripoli. The Committee
have further ascertained that the said Archbishop of Tripoli
has frequently said mass in the Roman Catholic chapel of
Saint Mary, Chelsea, and that he has distinctly avowed his
allegiance to the " Holy See." The Committee are authorized
to state that the money which the above mentioned dignitary
received from the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of
London was given by these prelates last year, in consider-
ation of his immediate necessities, and for the express pur-
pose of enabling him to leave this country."
GWALIOR.—RELIGIOUS CEREMONY.—The grand festival
of the Dusserah took place on the 13th, which is always ob-
served by the Mabrattas with particular magnificence. It is
the commemoration of the victory gained by Ram Chunder
over giant Rawun, in the island of Ceylon, and is properly
called Beeja Dusumee, the true Dusserah occurring in the
month of Jeith, and being reckoned the commencement,. as
the Beeja Dusumee is the conclusion, of the rainy season.
At this period the Indian armies are accustomed to take the
field, and accordingly warriors of all casts and descriptions
their arms, and preparing
are to be seen busily employed throwhout the preceding dm
in bathing their horses, polishing
new trapping for the exhibition of the following morning,
when every one prides, himself in displaying as much mag-
nificence as he con. The battalions and. the park were
under arms at three o'clock p.m- in their respective pa-
rade-gromads. The Melia Raja through severe indisposition
did rot, make his appearance, At five p.m., the roaring of
great guns from all the oarripa announced that the pundits in
attendance had commenced the woojah, or sacrifice, by pour-
ing milk and curds upon the branches of a tree, and smearing
over the loaves with wetted rice. The Maha Raja was too
unwell to perform the ceremonies. The head pundit, in en-
cleAvauring to strike off a branch with his sword, dropped his
! kurban, and applied the weapon to the shoulders of the
Rajah's uncle, and severely wounded him. This sad occur-
rence is accounted by all as a very bad omen. The wound
of the unfortunate sufferer was immediately dressed, and there
is no great danger of its mortifying. Thus ended the Dusse-
rah, with the usual signal of several jays, that were kept in
readinoss for the occasion, being let loose, and hailed by the
Mabrattas as a propitious omen. Severalnther incident/and
\
the loss of a lives hapened the same evening, but
I have not half
todozen come the particullp irs of them as yet.—October
,
15, 1842.