Part 15 (1/2)
”We re on the platforton when the Parliamentary train arrived It was detained for a considerable time to allow a more favoured train to pass, and, on the reers at the unexpected detention, they were coolly inforaw past, ye are only the nigger train”
”If there is one part of my public life,” recently said Mr Allport (Midland Railway) to the writer, ”in which I look back withelse, it is with reference to the boon we conferred on third-class passengers When the rich man travels, or if he lies in bed all day, his capital remains undiminished, and perhaps his income flows in all the same But when a poor man travels he has not only to pay his fare, but to sink his capital, for his time is his capital; and if he now consu a journey, he has saved five hours of time for useful labour-useful to himself, to his family, and to society And I think with evenwe have been able to confer upon women and children But it took,” he added, ”five-and-twenty years' work to get it done”
A GREAT DISCOVERY
Confound that Pope Gregory who changed the style! He, or some one else, has robbed the month of February, in ordinary years, of no less than three days, for Mr George Sutton, the solicitor, has discovered and established by the last Brighton Act of Parliaood-for-nothing Pope led us to believe it had only twenty-eight The language of the 45th clause of the Act or of the bill which went into the Lords is:-
”That so much of the said Consolidation Act as enacts that the ordinary s of the co thereof, shall be held half-yearly on the 31st day of July, and _thirty-first day of February_ in each year, or within one month before or after these days shall be, and the same is hereby repealed”
The next clause enacts, we suppose by reason of ”the 31st of February”
being an inconvenient day, that the s shall be held on the 31st of January and the 31st of July, a reat value of an addition of three days to our years, and, therefore, an annual addition to our lives of three days, we beg to propose that a handsoe Sutton, the ehton Railway Company, the author of the Act and the discoverer of the Pope's wicked conduct We further propose that it be given him on ”the 31st day of February” next year, and that his salary be paid on that day, and no other, every year
-_Herepath's Journal_, June 24th, 1854
A DREADED EVIL
When the old Sheffield and Rotherham line was contemplated, ”A hundred and twenty inhabitants of Rotherhaainst the bill, because they thought the canal and turnpike furnished sufficient accommodation between the tns, and because they dreaded an incursion of the idle, drunken, and dissolute portion of the Sheffield people as a consequence of increasing the facilities of transit” For a time the opposition was successful but eventually the Lord's Committee yielded to the perseverance of the promoters of the bill
_Sheffield and Rotherha lady soo thus related an adventure sheat Paddington, in an e off, by a strange-looking younghair He was, of course, a little hurried, but he seemed besides to be so disturbed and wild that I was quite alarht mind, nor did his subsequent conduct at all reassure erly, at once, which was the first station ere advertised to stop I consulted my Bradshaw and furnished hi man looked at his watch
”'Madam,' said he, 'I have but half-an-hour between me and, it may be, ruin Excuse, therefore, my abruptness You have, I perceive, a pair of scissors in your workbag Obligeoff all my hair'
”'Sir,' said I, 'it is ied, and a look of severe determination crossed his features; 'I am a desperate man Beware how you refuse me what I ask
Cut my hair off-short, close to the roots-immediately; and here is a newspaper to hold the aht he was erous to thwart him, I cut off all his hair to the last lock
”'Now,a s out of the , as I ae my clothes'
”Of course I looked out of thefor a very considerable tier put you to any inconvenience,'