WEALTH OF ENGLAND SUFFICIENT TO MAKE RAILWAYS.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 326, 10 July 1849, Page 3

WEALTH OF ENGLAND SUFFICIENT TO MAKE RAILWAYS.

[t js a vemaikuble proof of vhe wealth of E»gl/ind that tiiere was paid mt) the Court of Chancery in England, under the standing ordir 33 and 39 A, on account of Railway Billi laid before the House of Commons be « tween the 26th of January and the 6 h of February, 1846, ue. in twelve days, the enormous sum of £11,396,783 on account of 137 Railway Bills; into the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, between the 17th of January and the 15th of February, 1846, the turn of .£2,22.3,671 on 102 Riilway Bills; and into the Court of Chan- ery in Ireland, between the 19ih of January and the 6th of February, 1846, on 47 Railway BiJ)-, £853,072 •, (linking a total sum actually deposited nith the Government in a few da}s of .£14,573. 22 G. — Parliamentary RJurn, No. 208, o/ 8/A ApnL , 1846, C.P.

QITAUTURLY RbViEW (No. 62) of 1825. "As to those personi who speculate on making railways tlirough out the kingdom, and supcrced ng all the canals, all the waggon*, mai's, nnd &tagii coaches, post-chuisi-8, and, in short, every mode of convey jme by Imi and by water, we deem t'\em, and their visionary schenv s, un vvoi thy of notice. Whit, for iustance, can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous in which a prospect is held out of locomotive travelling twice as fast as coaches. We should as toon ezj» ct the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congrove's ricochet rocket?, n» trust themselves to the mercy of mch a machine, going at eucli a ratf-. We will baik oU Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any sum. We trust that Parliament will, in all Railways it may sanction, limit the speed to eiyht or nine mi If s an hour, which we entirely agree with Mr. Silvcstie is as great as can be rentuied upon with sufcty."

QUAUTDULY RKVIEW (No. IG7) of 1818. " Waggons of coal and heavy luggage, ncw-a-dajs, flj across Leirestcriliire fister and firther thai Mr. Osbalduttm could q^ f notwiths'anding hn cond tion and that ot all his hoiscs. C \Hudintr. to his feat of riding 2CO n ili-8 in ten houis oa tliorough-brcd liciscp, and choosing bis own tv I.) Now a traveller may g» 500 instead of 200 miles in ten hours, aud knit or read all the way, pei fot in . ing the journey cither in darkness or in daylight, in sunibine or in storm, in ' thunder, li^htnin^, or in rain.' We trust that the wonderful discorery which it bat )>!cnsid the Almighty to impart to u=; r instead of becoming among Ui a siiljjtct of angry dispute, may in cvt'iy region of the globe hm\£ tha human Jamily com> munion ; that ii miy di->-I'd mtional v lc 'J a Ucc^, ÜbSUiigc animosities, i < slioit, that l»y ci eating <i fcclinjj of gratitude lo thi Power from which it lias proceedcdi it ouy produco on eaith peace and g'ioi will towards men." — l J ubIhftcd 301/t Deccmla 5 1848,