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

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A new locomotive engine is now in the course of con-
struction at the manufactory of Sharp Brothers and Co.,
Manchester, possessing greater power, and likely to ac-
complish a higher speed than any yet attained. It has
been invented by Mr. M'ConnAli F.nainonw of fhn lAriel-n1

and Birmingham Railway, and is calculated to be equal to
between 70 and 80 miles an hour on the narrow gage
From a correspondence between Mr. Saunders
Great Western Company, and Mr. Glyn, of the
Western, there. appears to be slight hope of any cordial

-of the
North-

guage respectively. The Morning Herald, however, ;;;;-s
that there is every prospect of an amicable arrangement
being come to.

The workmen and others employed on the Cho,
Birkenhead Railway have presented to Mr. Henry Watson
late locomotive superintendent, with a handsome servic€
of silver plate and gold snuff box, on his removal to' the
Liverpool and Bury line. The plate was manufactured
by Mr. Wordley. The testimonal was presented to Mr.
Watson on Friday night, at a splendid :public dinner, 'at
Mr. Harwood's, Market Inn, Birkenhead.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Frit:lnv a fslt.nl nn_

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cured on the Ayrshire Railway. One of the guards on
the luggage train, which leaves Glasgow at five o'clock in
the morning, when between Paisley and Johnstone, had
accidentally fallen off the train, and was instantaneously
killed. The second guard having missedhim immediately
stopped the train, and in going back found him lying on
the rails, ode of the trucks having passed over his body.

On Thursday, Lord .11forpetlient the first sod o('the
North Western railway at Settle, amid unusual rejoicings.
The line commences at Skipton, and passes in a north
'westerly direction, through Settle, Ingleton, near Kirby
Lonsdale, Sedberg, and near this point, joins the Lan-

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Sir W. W. 'Wynn's hounds, on Tuesda'

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POLITICAL MISCELLANI

nounced.his intention of retiring at the next election.
The }lon. W. 0. Stanley, M.P. for the county of An-
glesey, states that he has no intention of resigning the
representation of the county as reported.
W. F. Campbell, .Esq., son of Lord Campbell, has an-
his intention of coming forward at the next

Adair, on ti-

The Standard ar,

liberal it

Idge, in conjun

ices a probable contention for the
eats on the front opposition bench, between Lord George
Bentinck's followers and Sir Robert Peel's, on the opening
of ,Parliament. , ,

Lord Stanley has issued cards to a distinguished circle
of Protectionist peers, inviting their presence at a grand
banquet to be given to his lordship on the evening of the
18th inst., the day before the opening of Parliament.
Lord Stanley has formally taken up the leadership of
the opposition in the House of Lords, and has addressed
a circular to the protectionist peers hoping they will be in
the house the first day of Parliament meeting.
-sAmmrrEs.—The

MASTERMAN AND JEWISH- Di,
above-named gentleman has publicly declared his hostility
to the removal of the disabilities under which the Jews at
present labour.

. .
Mr. Oastler and Mr. W. B. Ferrand, M.P., have been
well received in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other places in
Scotland, held in support of the Ten_Hours' Factory Bill.

in favour of the measure advocated by dastler were una-
nimously_agreed to.

The. Morning Chronicle says, that the most prominent
place in opposition during the ensuing session will be
conceded to Lord Lincoln. This does not, however, ap-
pear
_likely, except on Irish onestions. about whirl,

_-.,..., ..—.. ....,, n.e.y take a leaning part, from his
connection with Ireland under the Peel ministry. The
Dublin Mail however, says, that Sir Robert Peel will not
relinquish the leadership,, and that to that end Mr. John
ire members.

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THE S'

(From the Morning Herald.)
We have just read a letter addressed to the Premier by
the Rev. Canon Al`Neile, of Liverpool. The letter itself
is introductory to the republication of a series of letters,
written in 1778, but as applicable to present circumstances
as if prepared in 1846.

Without committing ourselves to all the sentiments
which have been thus resuscitated, we very much agree
with the eloquent and single-hearted minister of St.
Jude's that the substance of these letters not only embo-
-

lie im-

" In vain,

mediate peace and prosperity of the empire.
says Canon Al`Neile, " shall the fiscal arrangements of
the country show a balance in favour of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer ; in vain shall the interests of agriculture
and manufacture be harmonised ; in vain, with all due de-
ference to Mr. Macaulay, shall literature be encouraged
and flourish—there is ' a worm in the gourd' so long as
this question is neglected or dealt with in "oppoSition to
the unchangeable principles of revealed truth and right
reason. Why is Ireland the burdensome stone' under
the weight of which one British minister after another

sinks and retires ? Because this question has been so far

31`Neile merits the immediate and