The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-13 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LONDON TIMES

Sir,—The whig papers in town and in the country have
lately been trying to keep up the spirits of their party by no-
ticing the success of several members of the cabinet at recent
elections. What will they say now ? Cheshire has reject,ed
the Paymaster of the Forces ; Mr. Fox Maule has been com-
pelled to fly from Elgin to Perth ; Sir Hussey Vivian has
prudently retreated from Cornwall ; the Attorney-General
has been driven from Newark ; Mr. Le Merchant, the new
Secretary of the Treasury, has been defeated at Harwich ;
Lord John Russell was lowest on the poll in London, and
succeeded only by nine; Lord Palmerston has been rejected
at Liverpool ' • and, above all, Lord Morpeth has been de-
feated in the West Riding !
On the other hand, after all the bluster of the whig-
radicals, the leaders of the conservative party have, every one
of them, except Mr. Herries and Sir George Murray (who
were not in last parliament), been triumphantly returned ;
and that for such constituencies as Liverpool, North and
South Lancashire; Exeter, Tamworth; and the University of
Cambridge.
Now let the whigs " look on this picture and on this,"
and then mournfully cast their eyes over the Channel, and
tremble for the fate of their master, by this time, 1 hope, the
rejected of Dublin.
By the by, as the West Riding has done so well, is it not
time that the North Riding of Yorkshire bestirred itself?
There can be no doubt that Mr. Cayley has been illegally
returned, and that the election is void. Of course the sheriff
had no business to refuse to put any person's name up who
was duly nominated, as Mr. Lascelles was. I trust that the
petition on this ground will be presented directly parliament
meets, and that then the Yorkshiremen of the North Riding
will be ready with a fit colleague for Mr. Duncombe ; that
would be a crowning victory, to have all eight members for
Yorkshire staunch conservatives.

How very popular the ministry must be? Beaten in
Leeds, Westminster, London, Bradford, Hull, Liverpool,
Warrington, Kidderminster, Wigan, Blackburn, and in
nearly all the counties, including Lancashire and Yorkshire,
the most populous of any.
Your obedient servant,
Temple. A. B.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT WITH Loss OF LlFE.—Between
ten and eleven o'clock on Wednesday night, as six luggage
waggons were proceeding-along the tunnel from Wapping to-
wards Edgehill, a man, whose name we believe to be John
Stubbs, who was in the employ of the Liverpool and Man-
chester Railway Company, met with a sudden death. It ap-
pears that the unfortunate man was sitting on the top of the
luggage of the second carriage, and by some means was pre-
cipitated from the place where he was sitting down between
the first and second carriages. Two of the men were on the
spot at the time, endeavoured all they could to stop the car-
riages by putting bricks before the wheels, but, unfortu-
nately, they did not succeed before three of the wheels had
passed over his body. The man was immediately carried to
Wapping, where Mr. Graham, sureeon, was sent for. who,
upon examination, found the body almost severed in two
portions. The bowels had protruded, and the pelvis and
thigh were much shattered. The man lived for three quar-
ters of an hour after the accident, and then expired. A
coroner's inquest was held on the body on Thursday, and a
verdict of accidental death returned.
FALL OF A BUILDING—FOUR LIVES LOST.—About noon
on Friday, the greatest alarm and excitement was caused in
the neighbourhood of Bradford-road, Ancoats, by the fall of
a building, five stories in height; and it was first reported
that many hands, engaged in the upper floors at the time, had
perished in the ruins. We are glad, however, to be able to
state, that the hands, who were all females, succeeded in
effecting their escape; and, at the time we are writing, there
is no reason to suppose that more than four men, workmen
and labourers, employed in the erection, have lost their lives
by this unfortunate accident. As to the cause of the acci-
dent, it appears to be the general opinion amongst experienced
men, that, during the late continued wet weather, the rains
have acted on the mortar of the new brick-work of the
arches.; softening it, and even in parts washing it away; till
it ceased to bind the bricks together, and then one or two of
the arches in the uppermost floor falling in, its weight on the
floor below was too much for.the beanis to resist; it tore
them out of the walls, and so dragged- the walls in, bringing
the whole building down together.

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