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"I should forget that I had one . " For it is of large size in superficial area , and not easily lost sight of , while its useful information is just in the right place to catch the eye . Talking of diaries , a prospez-ous man once said , that the secret of his success was his always having one and making careful entries in it . How suggestive is even , such a thing as a shilling scribbling diary . This , for instance , basides recalling these anecdotes , reminds us that we are now advanced into the new decade in good earnest . Tempus fugit , <§ -c . The nUutrated Pai > er Model Maker . By K . T . andelU , author of " The Boy ' s Own Toy-maker , " "The Girl ' s Own Toy-maker , " "Home l > astime , " &c . London : Griffith and iarran , St . Paul s Cliurch-yarcl . This ingenious little work consists of twelve engravings of the subjects , with descriptive letter-press containing practical instructions , and diagrams showing how these amusing toys for children may be constructed . The subjects in question comprise a country church and a pump , the entrance to St . James ' s Palace and a rabbit-hutch , a railway - station , a Swiss cottage , a bridge and dove-oot , a windmill , a summerhouse , &c . ¦ a , Z ™ pera , " Z . TaIl's- No- *• " Gilbert AVarminster , a Ghost Story . " London TV . Twecdle , Strand . J ' If there are actually no palpable ghosts ( if we may be allowed that expression in allusion to unrealities ) , in this tale there is a good deal about evil spirits . The ravages of intemperance ( to whom King Death , in Gray ' s . Fable , awards the palm of destrucfiveness in preference to every other cause of mortality ) are strongly enlarged upon . Evidence of the Honourable Ashley Eden , taken bvfore the fndiyo Commission Sitting at Calcutta . London and Edinburgh : Williams and Xorgate > 1860 . This evidence , reprinted from the " minutes of evidence" taken before the Indigo Commission , will be read with interest by those concerned with the subject to which it refers .
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Nov . 17 , 1860 ] The Saturday Analyst and Leader . 9 4
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The New Magazine . —" Temple Bae . "—As the time approaches for the appearance of Mr . George Augustus Sala ' s new periodical , which is attracting so much attention everywhere , " and in other places besides , " as Dr .. Dulcamara lias it , we have taken care to obtain from the very best sources the ' very best information on the subject , and void what we have ascertained . It was at . first rumoured that the popular expectation , founded on some , of the more rapid passages in Mr . Sala ' s earlier works , , was , that Temple Bar would be the exemplar of " fast" writing . This , we learn will not be the ease , a graver system and a more solid design being intended . Among the contents of Number One will be an article on the " Epic Poem of the Finns , " by John Oxenford . This is the poem on which Longfellow ' s " Hiawatha" is said to have been founded . There will also be an account of " Travels in Syria and the Holy Land , " by the Rev . J . M . Bellow , the reigning clerical lion of Belgravia , and most fashionable of persons . Articles on " The French Press ; " Criminal Lunatics , " by Dr . Hood , physican of Bedlam ; " Circumstantial Evidence in Criminal Cases , "—which might find illustration in the last great murder case at Stepney , for which ilullins ie under sentence , convicted solely on circumstantial evidence : an essay on" Robert Herrick , poet and divine ; " a story by Miss Marguerite Power , niece and companion of the late Countess of Blessington ; with a variety of other articles too numerous to mention . The Editor , Mr . Sala , will give the first of a series of papers called " Travels in the County of Middlesex "—a title which suggests metropolitan experiences ; and an essay on the " Language of the Beasts "—Mr , Sala being a universal linguist . Mr . Edmund Yatee , who will do for Mr . Sala what Mr . Wills does for Mr . Dickens , and Mr . James Hannay was supposed to do for Mr . Thackeray , contributes a paper on " Soldiers and Volunteers , " a subject on which , as a prominent member of tho Civil Service Corps , ho may be considered competent to dilate . The arrangements fur the opening of Temple Bar arc , therefore , sufficiently diversified . In form Temple Bar will bo , wo aro told , about the same as the Coni / iiU , but sixteen pages larger , at tho sumo price . Wo have not hoard if thoro aro to be any illustrations ; but tho ngo cries out for pioturo books , and gonorally gets what it crioa for . Tho venerable " Bar , " onc . e a human butcher's shops , and now a banker's strong box , will , of course , be bravely designed on the covor ; and , ns all our now publications since Household Words must bear a motto , Mr . Sala , being " of the streets , Btreety , " takes his from little Uozzy ' a unmatched biography—< " Sir , " said JDr . Johnson , " let us take a walk down Fleet Slrevt . " We hoartily wish Mr . Sulu and his Magazine all possible success , " and a grout dottl more to the back of that . "
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STREET RAILWAYS .
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ITIWENTY-SIX years ngo the first application was made to l ' arlia-_ I _ mont for powers to construct tho Groat-Western Jtallwuy . Tho heads of colleges and inhabitants of Oxford got up a virulent opposition , and prevented tho lino from passing within ten miles of their sacred walls . They asserted in thoir petitions , and at numerous public meetings , that tho railway waa the speculation of attorneys , engineers , and capitalists . Tho fuciilities of the railway oould not be compared i with thoee of tho rivor . Tho Oxonians than proforrod tho canal-bout to i the flrst-oluss carriage They said tho people would bo smothered in 1 the tunnels , and thoso thuk osoapod suuboation would bo roastod alive . j jBlopes woro magnified into proaipicos , engines wore to bo upsot ovory j journey , nooks woro to bo broken j thoro would bo so imioh iuoilily for I the oollogiuiis to run up to London , ihoro would bo no study , no t decorum , no roligion loft in tho town , ito . ; so tho Groat-Wostorn ' route I iroe diverted from Oxfoi'fl . But ; what was tho result P A fow years , or 1 rather months , found tho good people of Oxford petitioning , bogging I and praying Parllumont and tho Board of Directors of tho railway to ] make a branoh lino from Didobt to Oxford , anil it was grant oil thorn j —within throoyears from tho time whon tlioy so ridiculously opposod c tho railway coining nour thorn , and whiuh opposition cost , them and tho 1 railway ovor 50 , 000 / . j A parullol oaso to tho abovo , now booomo a matter of history , ia tho o absurd hubbub raisod by fcho Marylobono vestry agalneb Mi * . G . JP . t ; Train ' s proposition to inbroduoo stroot railways into tho metropolis . a
; L Alexander Easton , C . E of Philadelphia ,. in liLs "Practical Treatise . on Street or Horse-power Railways ? says : _ "Popular prejudice is the great , enemy with which the advocates of innovation have had to combat , and strange as it may appear it ° s never theless practically true , that the more useful the measure advocated , the greater has been the amount of opposition brought to bear against t even by parties who have subsequentl y been benefited by X very measures they sought to defeat . ' ^ - > tl ^" fl ^ - tlie efrI 7 ^ story of turnpike roads will clearly show the difficulties encountered by their projectors ; but which , when overcome became the favored improvement of the age , and legislative halls sounded with angry debate for their protection , so soon as railways were proposed , denouncing them as a nuisance , and their corporators as visionary speculators . So it was with the introduction of canal * steamboats , and even gas , the arguments against which , brought forward by the opposition , have in each instance ; exhibited the grossest ignorance of science , and of the practical eifect of the proposed improvements all of which is applicable at the present day and has been experienced by those who proposed the introduction of street railways . " The interest which operated against turnpike roads was that of the muleteer ; the interest which operated against railroads was that of stage coach and wagon proprietors ; and in the case of street railways , the opposition is from omnibus companies and antiquated sta ^ e cornmumtied , whose palpable interest it is to defeat a measure whicirinvaries their imagined rights , by the substitution of a means of communication so manifestly useful and necessary , as to completely destroy the system to which they aro so faithfully wedded . They use the means employed in their interests to . influence and lead on opposition , until having obtained certain provisoes in the charter for their especial benefit , the time has arrived to fraternize with Ihe enemy—whon they at once become strong advocates for street railways ; and , unfortunately , -without the influence to quench the flames of . prejudieo which they have ign ited . " * * . * * * # # ° * . Mr . Train , a wealthy and intelligent citizen of the L nited ' States after having tesled his system most thoroughly in the cities of Boston and New York , United States , comes over to us , his . English cousins , and offers to give us the advantage of his . experience , " and receiving a hearty welcome at Birkenhead , has there laid down and established a street railway , which carried in seven weeks after it was opened , over 81 , 000 passengers , an average of 11 , 600 per week . The otter was made to the Marylebone vestry to lay down rails on the road from St . John ' s-wood to Regent ' s-circus ; afterwards the offer was reduced to Oxford-street only , viz ., from the Marble-arch to tho Tottenham-court-road . No ! No ! No ! was the . cry of Marylebone . Shopkeepers protested ; vestrymen sputtered ; tradesmen would be ruined , trade injured , and vestrymen ' s influence gone for ever , if Mr ; Train was allowed to touch one stone of the highways of Marvlebone . The ancient inhabitants of Oxford preferred journeying , to London iii the canal boats at two miles an hour , to the Great-VVestern express at sixty miles per hour . Now twenty -six years ago this peculiar funcy did not cause so much astonishment to the world at large , as the refusal in this enlightened age of the people of Marylebone to listen to a proposition so necessary to tho community at lnvge . Mr . Train offers to lay down a line of rails , and also remove them again if not approved of , at his own expense , and build and place on tho rails , also at his own expense , some very handsome carriages , calculated to carry some sixty or seventy people , and drawn by a pair of horses . These carriages aro separate conveyances , not in trains of several carriages , ns is erroneously by many supposed ; and , as worked in America and at Birkenhead , are light , airy , and commodious ; every seat divided from its neighbour , a necessary improvement to all London conveyances , to prevent the selfish praotico novy so common , in omnibus truvollers occupying two seats , and paying for one . Tho old system of aluw , diriy , small " badly horsed , and worscly wanned omnibuses , * iv . 'iis con ^ cni ' iil l )(! , ci feelings of Mr . Train ' s opponents in Muryli . b . Kn- ; iinlivil , *\ u sironyly suspect that thoso futand selfish old follows who luko thu ^ . . icj of two lnodorato-sizcd people , and ait forward , placing thoir hands on stick or umbrella , squaro out their elbows , und refuso to niaUo way by their side for tho unfortunate who happens to bo tho last comer of tho twelve insides , aro theso very gentlemen or tho people of Bukorstreot and Port man-square . Tho omnibuses of London . have not advanced with the ago , they aro the most old-fashioned of anything that meets our eye in this vast metropolis . They aro , with very rare exceptions , precisely the same uncomfortable , narrow , ill-vonliliiLocl machines as wo romouibor twenty years ugo , not by many inohos long enough inside for six persons of a side , and yat your after your no extension of size . New machines aro built of precisely the aamo dimensions . Whon wo had a few oomfortablo Saloons in our streets , tho London Gonorul Omnibus Company , by u persevering opposition , ran thorn oil " the roads , and yot no improvement in their inuoninos . This boing tho oaso , what right has tho London General to oppose thoir influence in Mai-ylobono to tho introduction of stroot railways . " They bog tho vostry not to grant so great a monopoly to Mr , Train . " Wo should , liko to know how they can imagine it possible for Mr . Xruiu to oxoroiso u greater monopoly tliun thoy do themselves . A fortnight , ainoo a resolution was passed by tho Marylobono Vestry , to udjuiirn I ho further consideration of Ihosubjool for xmtUM jiONXiid , fur thu ( wpross purpose of aiouil ' uu / tho result oj' Mr . Train's expert hi mi I in ficlu / 'iu " dreel :, W oslinitiator . "This wus certuinly tho umlornlunuiiig oomo to jot ween the Vosti'y and Mr . Train" our aurpriao i » , thoroforo , very » rout to loarn that on Saturday lust a M " . Mitoliull , ono of thu Muryluxmo Vostry , oiu'riod a motion " to tho oil ' eot that tlio Paving Couuuittco jo instructed to asoortuiu how fur it would bo dodiruble to lay down a lat stone tramway in Oxford-street . " Wo quite agi-oo with Messrs . Ifreotli und Hodgos ( who olmraolorisoil tin ' s umcioodnig us a grout inuslioo and brenoh of faith towards Mr , Tniin , ami it is oertiiirily vory ixtmordinary that a iJoiird , ooinporiod of ho niuny businosd-Uko and liylily roapootable gontlouien , » hmu \ l Jmvo rcfiisod to oarry so vory irouor un umondinont as that propotioil by Mr , Hodges , " That in ominon justice to Mr , Train , Ihu cluscussiou on tho subject oi titrootramwaysj boadjouruod to that duy ton weeko . " We liopo this / lagraufc nd un-English breach of Aiith will not moot tho approval oi'tho eonsti-
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 17, 1860, page 947, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2374/page/11/
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