The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-11-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE WATER COMPANY.—A company has been formed and provisionally registered, under the title of the United Kingdom Artesian Water Company, for obtaining pure water by sinking artesian wells. The water used last year by the water companies is estimated at 314.553,012 hog,b,ads. And it is calculated that, from the chalk bed on which London is built, more than ten times the quantity needed for all the towns in England could be raised The company propose, in the first place, to supply the public baths and washhouses, and, instead of iron, to use glass or porcelain pipes. Baron Lit big imagines the essence of the potato disease to consist in the conversion of the albumen, usual constituent of healthy potatoes, into caseine, a ptinciple which, by its great instability of composition, is supposed to cause the potato to putrify rapidly.— The Plough. The Rev. F. Dauvenoy states, in the Taunton Cow ser, that he has discovered by the microscope a minute insect, crystal-like and transparent, resembling a Fri ider, in the midst of potato mildew, evidently feeding on it, and making its nest among the thread-beds of fu tai. From observations made, there must be more than 100 HI a single tuber.  A WHOLE CORPORATION DEFUNCT !-It iS the op', nion of legal men that the Town Council of Worcester has. virtually committed an act of felo de se, and has no longer an existence, in consequence of the vacancy occasioned by the death of the Mayor not having been duly filled up Within ten days, as required by the act. By this neglect, which occurred before the recent annual election, the number of Councillors fixed by law was incomplete, and consequently the acts of the remainder are null and void. On Saturday, at the Croydon Police-court, a fortune* teller, named 6iddens, was charged with obtaining considerable sums of money from a young and attractive lady, named Elizabeth Markby Dodd, by means of fraudulent pretences. The prisoner informed her t hat a young man named Anderson, in the East India Colkge, Addiscombe, had fallen in love with her ; and, strengthening the belief by the most artful means, such as the presentation of dresses, billets-doux, &c., succeeded in obtaining from her considerable sums of money. The infatuation was carried so far that the young lady left home clandestinely, accompanied by the prisoner, to go to India to marry her unknown lover. They were stopped at Dover. The magistrates were of opinion, however, that the evidence did not support the charge, and the prisoner was discharged. The Editor of the Salopian Journal has published a circular marked " Private and confidential," from one of the recent lecturers of the Anti corn-law League, in which be explains the cbjects of the " Liberal Registration Offices," After a somewhat inflated flourish about " the exhaustion of the septennial cycle," which will render a general election necessary, this document continues—" It becomes essential to the interests of the liberal party that  they should be able to form some estimate of their actual position in the various counties and boroughs at tEe date of the commencement of the present revision of the register, and of the results of that revision with reference to the state of parties. I shall feel much obliged therefore by the inter position of your kind offices to'procure for me such information as you possess or can obtain on this  subject, in reference to the borough of Bridgenorth."