The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-18 00:00:00

NEW MINISTERIAL FAILURE

In a report of the ceremony of turning the first sod
upon the Tient Valley Railway, recently performed by
Sir Robert Peel, the Times of Friday has the following

" Sit' Robert, then taking the spa,e, proceeded to dig some of
the turf and throw it into the barrow. The turf had previously
been loosened for the purpose, but the trampling of the crowd
had made it firm again, and the right hon. hart found that it
pressure upon the spade than his right foot
•anged almost immediately to the use of the
ng about four spadefels into the barrow,
roceeded, amids .nuch cheetinz, to wheel it along a line of
planks placed upon the grass. The crowd retired in front to
enable this to be done, but the throng was too great for him to
proceed more than four or five yards, and for the same reason
he was unable to empty the barrow. He set it down, and re-
turned to his former place."
With all his ability as a Minister it is clear Sir Robert
will never make a navey. The change from the right
foot to the left quite in character will all his policy ; and
his failure in the attempt to perform his favorite evolu-
tion,—wheeling—we can only account for by the fact that
the " line of planks" was a straight line. A curve be
would have managed better. By the way, we wonder at
Sir Robert's recommendation of " direct" lines. We
should have thought, from his character, that a circum-
bendibus would have been more to his taste.

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I HINT TO RAILWAY

COMPANIES FROM A

HIGH 4UARTER

A few days ago Sir Robert Peel turned the first sod, in
commencing the formation of the Trent Valley Railway,
in a field near Tamworth, and took occasion to address
the following advice to the directors, which we quote as
applicable to some companies that we know of in this
locality :
" The way in which the directors of this railway must esta-
blish their claim to the continuance of the privileges they pos-
sess, is by being enabled to show that they combine the greatest
degree of velocity in travelling with the greatest degree of safety
to the traveller; they must show that they have neglected no
precaution that can have a tendency to diminish tne risk of
those accidents, the frequent occurrence of which L.hakls confi-
dence in railway travelling. (Hear, hear.) They must make
sacrifices of pecuniary gain for the purpose of taking those
precautions. They must be enabled to state that they have
consulted the comfort of all classes of railway travellers—of the
poor as well as of the rich. (Hear, hear.) They must be ena-
bled to show that their carriages are suitably provided with
comfort and accommodationfor the third class as well as for the
first; and if they are wise they will, by moderate fares and com-
fortable accommodation, increase that love of locomotion upon
which, after all, the permanent prosperity of railways must de-
pend. Now I advise them to take this course upon the compre-
hensive view of their own permanent interests, as well as of the
interests of the public; and if they do that, then I shall, in
turning the first sod this day, not only be commencing a line of
railway through the Trent Valley, but I shall be laying the
foundation of a permanent and pros....er_.us company, which can
establish a claim to parliament try support more powerful than
the union of great companies, more powerful than the canvass-
ing of members of parliament—a claim to public sup; ort which
will be founded on the proof that the privilege conferred on the
company is exercised for public advantage."