The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-09 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SOCIAL POSITION OF THE RAILWAY KING,

(From the Railway Register.)
It is for the good of railway companies that the railway
board should have the proposed power, but we object to
it because it is not for the good of the public. Railway
shareholders have a yearning for " vested interests," and
a.well-grounded fear of competition, and will cheerfully
take M. Strutt's proffered boon. The great champion
of monopoly,- Mr. Glyn, the godfather of the railway
board, has already given his thanks for it, and that says a
great deal; but looking at the public interests, which are
of higher moment to all than vested interests," we be-
lieve that it would be very wrong to give railways a mo-
nopoly, even in the wardship of the new board, and it
would be worse to release them from wholesome respon-
sibility. We hold with Mr. Hudson that the interests of
the shareholders and the country agree ; and that such is
the head and front of all railway policy. For speaking of
his regard to public interests, Mr. Hudson has been
laughed at in the house and out of it, but we defy any
man to carry on a railway for selfish purposes without a
regard for the public interests. Many have tried it, and
all have failed, and most unwillingly do they acknowledge
their error, but they, have been forced to take up the
policy they slighted.
• If Mr. Hudson, if railway chairmen had no such regard
for public interests, how are we to explain the public po-
sition of Mr. Hudson, Mr. Chaplin, Mr. Russell, and so
many others ? The bloated and selfish monopolist, as
they call him, the golden calf of mammon, whose wor-
ship they say is a slur on the gentry of England, the
grasping sharejobber and gambler, Mr. Hudson, is the
most popular man in his own neighbourhood, and one of

the best1 beloved men in... England-. Let his revilers ex-
plain this consistently with their own malignant and con-
temptible slanders. They can put a fair face upon every
lie they invent, and can frame ill motives for every good
act such a man performs, let them try their hands on his
popularity, which is the real inducement to their envy,
hatred, and malice. It will not do to say that he has
given the poor of Yorkshire scrip at a premium, or that
he has juggled •to swell their share property ' • it cannot
be said that they are led by the influence of wealth to
worship him, for there are few worshippers of the wealthy
among the very poor, by whom the wealth of others is too
often considered as wrung from their own misery. Go
however among all classes, among the rich and the poor,
in his own neighbourhood, and in the city of York in
particular, and whatever envy, you may. find, still it will
be seen that with all Mr. Hudson is popular.
He is popular, because to his exertions and to his influ-

ttey trace the increase of

of their comforts, the cheapness of fuel ; they trace in
their own persons and in their own households undeniable
proofs of his well doing. If chalice first led Mr. Hudson
into this career, when he had first entered it, it was little
likely he should withdraw, but ambition as much as' any-
thing would carry him on. No man can cast away the
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love and praise of ;the people when offered to him ; wealth
we know to be but light in the scale when weighed against
them ; and if Mr. Hudson began as a railway chairman
with the hope of getting wealthy, he would soon, in
growing popular at the time, be moved by the ambition
of every Englishman to merit the confidence of the
people. Five years ago, Mr. Hudson was unknown to
the public generally : a year ago he was a humble member
of the legislature ; at the present moment, he certainly
)lace in the eyes of the public, as before
of railway shareholders. The career of

s great a

Id I he did

Mr. Hudson, though thoroughly English,. is without its
like in English history, and we know no example where
in time of peace a man has so suddenly clambered to

such a height, which in times of w

tion he finds it hard to reach. Here is -a
.man who has
the influence of a statesman, the political power of a
boroughmonger, the patronage of a minister, the wealth
of a capitalist, the skill of a financier, and 'the considera-
tion due to an honest man, whose sudden and unlooked-
for rise excites as much envy and curiosity as if he had
supplanted dome one else, instead of creating a position

of~liis own. This is a' man whom the city Of York
flatters, to whom Sunderland, Whitby, and Burlington
look up, whom Hull fears, whose patronage is courted by
towns, as that of a Roman senator was of yore. Here is
one holding no recognised public station, who administers
millions of money, and who has at his command re-

sources which woad enrich a mighty kingdom

A STRANGE INCONSISTENCY

-If a. single individual
olect, the case

in consequence of injustice or nc,

excites the sympathy of all classes, fills the -columns of the
press, occupies the public mind, forms the subject of ex-
cited conversation in private, the theme of animated dis-
cussion in parliament, and every one is anxious to apply
a prompt and effectual remedy. Proclaim that ten thou-
sand lives are destroyed in one quarter of a year, in a part
only of England, by causes which are removable—that is
to say, in consequence of the neglect of authorities who

have the power, and whose proper office it is, to remove
these :causes—and it produces scarcely any impression.
But while we remain apathetic, and do nothing, these de-
stroying agents steadily, though silently, pursue their
work.—Dr. Southwood Smith
RECEIPT FOR BOILING RICE

Rice is generally recom

mended to be used in lieu of vegetables during the preva-
lence of cholera ; but few persons are acquainted With the
mode of preparing it for the table. The rice must be
thoroughly scrubbed and rinced in several waters until
the particles of flour, which are often sour or musty, are
entirely removed. A handful of salt should be thrown
into a pot of water, which last must boil before the rice is
sprinkled in. The rice should be boiled steadily twelve
minutes by the watch ; the water should then be poured
off, and the pot covered and set close:to the tire to steam
for ten minutes. 1- --- "nrPd• and

_bus prepared, and eaten with milk or
rice is one of the most digestible articles of food