The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-11 00:00:00

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Sir Robert Peel has, on the part of the
gOvernment, distinctly denied any intention to arro-
gate for the Board of Trade the right to do more
than express their opinion for the consideration of
parliathent ; and we have endeavoured to show what
that opinion is worth, by explaining the mode in
which it is arrived at, and the qualifications of the
parties for the office of deciding upon questions of
great complication, foreign to their ordinary avoca-
tions, and in which decisions they are unaided by
superior engineering ability. Our object is, to
guard the speculative portion of our fellow-townsmen
against the consequencer, to themselves, of being
led to place too implicit confidence in the effect
which these decisions will have on parliament.
The approval of any railway hy the Board of Trade
does not make it either a paying scheme or insure
its passage unopposed, or at all, through the usual
t,arliamentnry nrilenl_ it I.

1................,•• j •••• • ~.-.... • =L .IQ "Liu' tildUlletiN, mere- have seen them. On that day a keen frost set in, and the
fore, to imagine that such approval confers upon its wind still continuing brisk and north-easterly
the cold
stock any materially increased value, such as we was truly piercing, particularly on Friday and Saturday.
have seen recent decisions temporarily conferring On Sunday morning, shortly after dawn,—the frost and
upon various stocks in our own share market. It coldo
f still continuing iwnndtfhfinsvieje;istrlow came on,—and continued
fouran a
may be said, and has been said, " Oh, governmento'clocksligh t
ione occasional oantat
el
rno relaxation,o
co
will throw its influence into the scale to support the vtuenrtiLbtettiwieeegnyro,
ground generally to a depth of three or four
decisions of the Board of Trade ;" but that argu- inches, and in some places, where it was drifted by the
ment will pass current no longer; for the Premier breeze that prevailed, much more. The frost continued
distinctly declared on Wednesday, in the debate the whole day, but a slight rain fell about ten o'clock at
upon Lord Howick's motion, that government cnai gs•
ihotu.
al Ad
drizzling
commencedngrag.
and yteisiete Vasa/
ttogether
morning,ther ww ii tt hh
th°ee.
would not so interfere in influencing the fate of melting of the snow, has again rendered our streets ex-
Private bills. It would be indecent and improper, tremely swashy, and trying for shoe-leather. On the
moreover, were it so to interfere. vilime, the winter has been severe, though seasonable and
'We say, therefore, to our friends—caution ! Take " old-fashioned," and, we believe, propitious for the
the Board of Trade's decisions for what they are enreorapisi; aeovnearrdeeraerdly;)nilad.s4erainif in this country, being ge;
worth, and no more! Above all, do not be urged, vegetaYtion called foryth by it beingurl ts l
iaash 1
ed a
tnog dangerous,—the
eo u a
thrownth
by the rash spirit of speculation, to give more for back, to the injury of the plants, by even a night's frost
the stock of newly projected lines, because sane- in March or the beginning of April. Snow, moreover,
tioned by the approval of the Board of Trade, than on stiff land especially, operates as a sort of manure.
Somesnow,with an admixture of sleet, again fell last night ;
it is honestly worth, or likely to bring, even after the
gaad, we understand, thick snow-showers have been fre-
sanction of parliament itself has been obtained. In neatly experienced during the past week by seamen us-
three out of every four of the lines now at such vigating our outward channels.