The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

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have peace and quiets
great proposal,—that two r

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ut one of the
shall be sex

Let our Reforn

id our Conservatives, as they
11 themselves agree in this matter. Let them each have
respectable, high-conditioned, and competent man to
represent their interests; and let the Conservatives have
a Protestant man. It would be well, indeed, if both were
Protestants. And why should not it be f Why should
we suppose that the Reformers in this town, or in the
country, are opposed to Protestantism ? Why should we
suppose they are such great fools as to be duped with an
appearance of liberty of conscience, Which is only a pre-
lude to universal persecution ?"

The inference to be drawn from this is, of course,
that Dr. M`Neile asks only, on behalf of the Con-
servative party, for one Protestant, whereas we
apprehend nothing could be further from his wish.

In another column we give a report of the lecture,

containing our reporter's correct version of the

passage in question, whici

h we here repeat

" If there be a large section of the town that wants a man
to represent them, well, let us have fair play, and let us
have peace and quietness. lam going to take upon me
a g.reat proposal—that two respectable men varying in
politics, but at one and determined for Protestantism
shall be sent to Parliament, without a contest. Let our
Reformers and our Conservatives, as they call themselves,
wee in this matter. Let them each have a respectable,
ingh-conditioned, and competent man to represent
their .secular interests, but as far as Protestantism is
concerned, both Conservatives indeed. And why not both
Protestants ? Why should we suppose that the Reformers
in this town or in this country, are opposed to Protest-
antism ? Why should we suppose they are such great
fools as to be duped with an appearance of liberty of con-
science, which is only a prelude to universal persecution."
The difference between the signification of the two
versions will be seen at once; and the latter one
certainly must be admitted to agree best with the
context.

THE Legislature will inevitably have shortly to
take some steps to protect the lives of her Majesty's
subjects who travel by railways. A fortnight ago,
we had to record an accident, attended with a la-

mentable loss of life, caused by the falling of a'
bridge upon the river Dee, at Chester. To-day we
have to record a still more disastrous occurrence at
Wolverton, caused by a train of passenger carriages
running into a train of lumber carriages placed in
a siding. The one has occupied, for some time, the
attention of a coroner's jury, and scientific men of
all grades have given their testimony ; the other,
doubtless, will do so forthwith, In'the first case,
the evidence offered has been directed to the object
of exonerating the Company from any blame,
arising from the mal-construction of the fallen
bridge ' • in the second, the conduct of the party,
whose duty it was to see that the "point" was
-properly adjusted, after the luggage waggons had
been driven into the siding, will doubtless be the
chief matter to consider.

It really does strike us, however, that the time
has come when something more satisfactory to the
public than these inquiries, after the mischief has
been done, must be attempted. What is the worth

ment officers of railways about to be opened ?
Positively nothing. General Pasley, or some other
party, may come down from London ; be taken in
a kind of triumphal procession along a line ; get
out of his carriage and take a survey of a bridge

or a viaduct, with an engineer and directors to tell
him- everything about the span of this arch,
the solid contents of this pier, the number of piles
that have been driven for a foundation, the weight
of girders, and the cost at which the whole has

or any other government engineer, whose decision
has to intimate to the public whether they may
railway knnw Annt

have alrea

been exi

erton acciden

still a

le OChUI

ponsi-

[,rd of an under official

lecting that due attention to an important office,
which they have a right to see paid. It is very
generally understood that such men are not the
st the staff a railway

men amon
the duties_ thonah not

best remuneratf

nt with t

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Olin columns this day record the fate of further
victims to the pestilence which the condition of
Ireland is entailing upon us. Another and another

estimable life is weekly sacrificed

ad where the

evil is to stop none can t

One thing, however,
is tolerably clear to us, viz., the fact that the com-
munity have a duty to perform towards that devo-
forl of mon-411 anwrcnnna of T

We must tai

care that these gentlemen

leers, who are employed to dispense relief
poor in their own wretched homes,
lom also death has been busy, are

sbOuld be made

the public expense, for thc- se whom

they leave by their death widowec

and fatherl

medical men and the relieving officers is inadequ

is not in proportion either to the labour performed

X hundred a year for a