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

uney naa a nome into troregate-street, opposite to the ancient outpost called
government, Ireland could not be in such a state of the Bars, which, when completed, will be the handsomest
wretchedness, for, if a parliament were sitting in College- approach into the city ; and, in conjunction with the sta-
green, the ports would be onened. and flipv v.'s+ b

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told that the- 1/11
Irish should
starve, lest the English might erected
suffer in their trade. Mr. O'Crynna 4,„,„ +h. Government has ordered an inquiry into the condition

upon a most magnificent scale is to-Ee

meeting at great length

observing-,

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would have au address issued to the people, calling upon at the request ofut the town council of Bolton, and of
them to desist from attacking or plundering convoys of several county magistrates.
provisions—to resign all resort to violence, to give up all The Colebrook Dale Company and the firm of Bailey
force, and to endeavour to assist each other in the terrible Brothers, have taken the contract for 35,000 tons of rails,
crisis which was upon them. Some sums of money were for the Great Northern Railway, at £lO per ton, 721 b.
then handed in ; the rent for the week was announced to rails.
be £57 7s. 4d. • LONDON AND YORE.—The contract for the works from
FATAL COLLISION Peterborough to London (7" miles) 1-- 1,--
13rassey, by a sort of half Ir.

On Saturday week, near Dungar-
a proceeded to the place to arrest a

ies _ms neen let to Mr.
.ivate, half public tender. It is
,vgluan, on a charge of I said that Mr. Brassey's tender was no less than £120,000
murder. On entering the house, the candles were put below the next highest bidder.
out, and a man named Michael Mooney cried out that The cutting of the first sod of the Blackburn, Clitheroe,
" Coghlan should not surrender," which, it is stated, he and North Western Junction Railway took place on Wed-
offered to do. The police were then assaulted with the nesday, near Clitheroe, by the youthful Lord Ribbesdale.
utmost violence ; in fact, chairs and tables were literally The Rev. Ambrose Dawson was among the company pre-
smashed on their heads, their carbines were broken; and sent.
their baronets lost or taken in the melee. In mif-defem,T, Ou the morning of Saturday, owing to the fog, an acci-
the police Were' obliged to fire, when Coghlan and dent occurred on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Ashton
_ and the notice effected railway. Two trains cameslnn life . into collision, awndass
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passengers were much alarmed, and a delay of forty mi-
nutes took place.
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'Connell, Engineer of the Bristol
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, of the
Great Western Company, and Mr. Glyn, of the North-
Western, there appears to be slight hope of any cordial
agreement betwen the promoters of the broad and narrow
guage respectively. The Morning Herald, however, says
that there is every prospect of an amicable arrangement
being come to.
The wor

Railway haveulne pr sr
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emnpt leodyteod Aolnr. tHh ee
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Watson,ai
late locomotive superintendent, with a handsome service
Birkenheadd
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 Friday a fatal accident oc-
curred 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 missed him immediately
stopped the train, and in going back found him lying on
tht.

uae of the truck; ha;;ing passed over hisjboay.-
On Thursday, Lord Morpeth cut the first sod of 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-
caster and Carlisle line. There is also a branch to Lan-
caster; and including this, the line will be sixty-one
miles long. A very handsome silver spade, with rosewood
haft. was nrpam,+,--1