The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-05 00:00:00

ie occasion to _
-On Friday

D ISTRES

a re acci-
uunu occurred upon the Lancaster and-Carlisle Railway
i
iovernment has under near Kendal, by which a man and two horses were killed.
a royal commission of It appears that whilst the man was engaged removing
some earth from one part of the line to another, he had

ACCIDENT

iord Morpeth

consideration ti project of sendin
inquiry to both the. Universities.
Last Tuesday's Gazette contains an order in Council I ov(
approving a scheme of the Ecclesiastipo .

ime at which the train was , and was
----......qu commissioners crossing the line when the train which leavesdue Preston at
for augmenting the incomes of the smaller bishoprics from half-past nine in the morning came up and killed both
the revenues of the Bishop of Durham.
horses and man, mutilating the animals shockingly.
Christianity The Rev.
Lewis Way, when the Society for Promoting It is mentioned in Herapath'g Journal, that Mr. G.
among the Jews was on the point of dissolu- Stephenson, C.E., has invented a three cylinder engine,
tion, subscribed XlO,OOO, and thus preserved it for future that is, one with two outside cylinders acting both ioge-
efficiency.
• ther the same wan in the same ane, and a rd cy-
The Rev. John Lyons, at one time Incumbent of All Ender, with a ay
crank din the middlepl of the axle,thi at right
Sattleints Bo ,in this town, but more recently of St. George's, angles to the plane and crank pins of the other cylinders.
Lilton preached his farewell sermon at the latter The middle cylinder is double the capacity of either of the
place, on Sunday week. -
The Archdeaconry of Derby has been conferred on the reported as so least wriggle takes
Rev. T. K. Hill, M.A., vicar of Chesterfield. The replace at the highest velocities
ep
eerofenctdr
tshataito nnohty t
ht lei is middle cylinder is
about four miles from
TT--;nn line on Tuesday last .
--., train leaving Wigan at
vontleman has been appointed chaplain to Dr. Shirley,v, RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—AI; accident occurred on the

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ishop of Sodor and' Man, formerly

JVCI uy. . Wigan. When the passeng
THE Bisnoe OF IVIANenusT.B...--wo hiwo.onom.,oa :half-past six for the south had proceeded a short distance
the intention of government to make Lancashire into a along the line, it came in contact with a coal train which
separate see, under the like of " the Diocese of Mulches- was coming down a branch to the main line, but which,
ter." In addition, we may state that the Warden and' owing to the dense fog, was not distinguished_ The
Fellows of the Collegiate Church of M

, ••••••.,
anchester are con- crash was awful, two waggons were smashed to

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-- ...— ~...,,„„ „,„,, ~m,,,, (fie see of Manchcs- and the engine was forced upon a third. The stoker per-
ter will be in the province of York. Mr. Murray, of ceiving a collision inevitable, jumped olf the tender, and
Chancery-lane, has been appointed Registrar for the new the engineer laid himself down amongst the coke, and
diocese. The annual income of the t» ,1,,,,, L ,_ _ ~.. ~ f L„,.,_ , ... .. .. . .

at,500 per annum. ---'l.' .41 Ottill IJAVU uut.o uut ,peu wirn sugnt injuries. One of the guards was
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£4
a little bruised, and some of the passengers suffered a few
On Thursday, a gentleman came before Mr. Yardley, scratches. The man who was in charge of the coal wag-
at the Thames Police Office, to complain of the conduct gons has been taken into custody for neglect of duty, as
of the Rev. Bryan King, the rector of St. George's-in- •he omitted to make any signal whatever.
the-East, who had refused to read the burial service over At the banquet given by Messrs. Stephenson, Brassey,
the body of the applicant's sister-in-law. The dispute is and Mackenzie, the contractors, in celebration of the
between the Rev. Bryan King and his nr.),.;.1,;„,,,,... in onenine of the " ' -at- 'C— - --
consequence of the innov-

_uancaster ana ,arlisle," the following
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ations he has introduced in the facts were stated in a speech from Mr. Mould, the con-
service of the church, and the numerous vestry meetings tractors' superintendent. In the blasting of rocks no less
held on the subject must be fresh in the recollection of than 4,800 barrels, or 200 tons, of gunpowder had been
our readers. It is understood that the rev. gentleman used. The patent fusees alone, if put on a line, would
has determined not to perform the funeral rites of the reach 400 miles. The number f nights during which the
church over the corpse of any one supposed to have com-
mitted suicide. Hence arose the men worked was 152,147. The number of horses em-
present singular appli- ployed was 10,500. No fewer than 400,000 yards required
cation to the bench. The deceased had been found blasting, as it could not be removed by any other means.
drowned, but there was no evidence to lead to the sup- The number of bridges on the line was 219; of culverts
position that she had destroyed herself. Mr. Yardle
said he could not interfere. y 230, and of viaducts 500. The greatest number of men
employed was about 10000, and the number of workmen
TRACTARIAN INNOVATION.—The Church after invit- altogether was equal toy 3,000,000 in one day ; whilst the
ing the attendants on Divine worship to come to the excavations averaged 100,000 cubic yards per mile. The
Holy Communion, directs any who are troubled with number of waggons employed was 2,200, which, if ex-
scruples and doubtfulness," to come to some minister tended in a line, would reach nearly five miles ; and the
. and open their grief." Considering how many there temporary wheeling planks, placed end to end, would ex-
lways are who doubt their fitness and worthiness to come tend to 35 miles.
) the sacrament, nothing could be more proper or judici- PIADSEY DAWSON, ESQ.—At the banquet on the ocea-
ns than such an instruction. Yet this plain and simple sion of raising the first sod of the North Western Rail-
lirection, for " the removing of doubts," is now wrested way, on Thursday, Lord Morpetb, in proposing the health
to the purpose of authorising regular, stated, auricular of Pudsey Dawson, Esq., C,hairman of Directors, thus
confession. Dr. Pusey, in his last sermon at Oxford, alluded to that respected gentleman :—" Gentlemen, I
boasted that there were thousands in England now prat- think it right to interpose, because really if we go onpro-
tising confession to a priest, under cover of this injunction. posing any more railways, our map of toasts will begin to
Whether this is not a vast practical innovation,—a re-in- look very much like the gridiron which objectors to rail-
troduction of Popery among us, under cover of a violent ways say our country is about to beFome. You will, no
wresting of the Church's meaning, any man's common doubt. antieinsit. .-..,, 4----, --:- --
----.al practice of t}

Church for 'centuries, will Oas-il

tisfy hin

val.. 1 VCIII,III-1
tO propose Without the leave of your worthy chairman
it is his good health I ask you to drink (cheers). Re ha: