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      Nov. 17, 1860] The Saturday Analyst And ...

      Nov . 17 , 1860 ] The Saturday Analyst and Leader . 9 4

      "I Should Forget That I Had One." For It...

      "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 . Tw-ecdie , 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 . al m JJ i £ a « fe , ' c a ,, !

      Serial. The New Magazine.—"Temple Bae."—...

      SERIAL . 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 . Tliis 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 j Mr . Thackeray , contributes a paper on "Soldiers and Volunteers , " a sub- ] ject on which , as a prominent member of tho Civil Service Corps , ho may be considered competent to dilate . The a r ran go men Is fur the j opening of Temple Bar arc , therefore , sufficiently diversified . In form ] Temple Bar will bo , wo aro told , about the same as the CornJtill , but j sixteen pages larger , at tho sumo price . Wo have not hoard if thoro aro E to bo any illustrations ; but tho ngo cries out for pioturo books , and a 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 , bo t bravely designed on the covor ; and , ns all our now publications since t Household Words must bear a motto , Mr . Sala , being " of the streets , fi 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 r more to the back of that . " n i [¦ v e

      Street Railways. ™ Itiwenty-Six Years Ng...

      STREET RAILWAYS . ™ ITIWENTY-SIX years ngo the first application was made to l'arlia- G _ I _ mont for powers to construct tho Groat-Western Jtallway . Tho tl heads of colleges and inhabitants of Oxford got up a virulent opposition , and prevented tho lino from passing within ten miles of their soared tl walla . Tlioy asserted in thoir petitions , and at numerous public " meetings , that tho railway waa the speculation of attorneys , engineers , "V \ and capitalists . Tho fuoilities of the railway uould not be compared to with thoee of tho rivor . Tho Oxonians than proforrod ( ho canal-bout to sii the flrat-oluss oarriago . They said tho people would bo emoLliorod in fu tho tunnels , and those that , osonpod euuboalion would bo roastod alive . pi jBlopea woro magnified into proaipices , engines wore to bo upsot ovory sit journey , nooks woro to bo broken \ thoro would bo so much iaoilily for bo the oollogiuns to run up to London , ihoro would bo no study , no gr decorum , no roligion loft in tho town , & o . ; so tho Groat-Western route Bo vrae diverted from Oxfoi-fl . But ; what was tho result P A few years , or bo rather months , found tho good people of Oxford petitioning , bogging flu and p raying Purllamont and tho Board of Dirootora of tho railvvuy to M make a branoh lino from Didobt to Oxford , anil it wns giwntod thorn jiii —• within throoyears from tho tiuio whon tlioy so ridiculously oppoaod ox tho railway coining nour them , and whiuh opposition cost , llioin and tho hi ; railway ovor 50 , 000 / . pn A parallel oaao to tho abovo , now booomo a matter of history , ia tho ooi absurd hubbub raised by tho Marylobono vestry agalneb Mi * . 0 . IP . tva drain ' s proposition to inbroduoo stroofc railways into tho metropolis . aiv G th th ' " to fur but bo flat hi and

      | Alexander Easton , C . E of Philadelphia ,. in hL , ' "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 ne \ er theless practically true , that the more useful the measure advocated , the greater has been the amount of opposition brought to bear against it even by parties who have subsequentl y been benefited by X very measures they sought to defeat . ' ^ - > tl " £$ **}? at the T ' ly i t 7 ° f turn P ^ roads will clearly show the difficulties encountered by their projectors ; but which , when over-™ " S f ea -M e 6 71 , ^ P ^ penf 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 Hie 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 ignited . " * * . * * * # '¦ # ° * . 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 oit ' er 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 Mi-i 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 nei ghbour , 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 , ainull " badly horsed , and worscly wanned omnibuses , :-iv . 'ns con ^ cni ' iil l )(! , ci feelings of Mr . Truin ' d opponents in Muryli . b . Kn- ; iinlivil , *\ u sironyly euspoct that thoso futand selfish old follows who luko thu to [ i , ; cj of two inodorato-sized people , and ait forward , pluoing 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 laat comer of tho twelve insides , aro theso very gentlemen or tho people of Bukorstreet and Port man-square . Tho omnibuses of London . have not adanced 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-vontilaLod machines as wo romouibor twenty years ugo , not by many inchos long nough inside for six persons of a side , and yat your after your no extension of eiy . o . New machines aro built of precisely the same dimensions . Whon wo had a fovv oomfortablo Saloons in our stroela , tho London onorul Omnibus Company , by u persevering opposition , ran thorn oil ' e roads , and yot no improvement in their inucihinoB . This boing the oaso , what right has tho London General to oppose eir influence in Mai-ylebono to tho introduction of stroot railways . They bog tho vostry not to grant so great a monopoly to Mr , Train . " Wo should- like to know how they can imagine it possible for Mr . Truia oxoroido u greater monopoly tliun they do tliomdelvos . A foi'luiglil einoe a resolution was passed by tho Marylobono Vestry , to udjuitrn I ho ther consideration of thosubjooL for xmtUM jiONXiid , fur thu ( wpross purpose of aiouil ' uu / tho result oj' Mr . Train's e . vp < tt'iiiitiul in ficfu / 'iu " street , fVaatiniuttter . "This wus certainly tho umlurslunuiiitf oomo to ween tho VostX'y and Mr . Truin " our Hurpriso in , tlioroforo , very grout to loarn that on Saturday lust a M " . Mitoliull , ono of tJio Murylu-Bono Vostry , eamod a motion " to tho oH ' eot . that the Paving CouuniUoo instructed to asoortuiu how fur it would bo dodiruble to lay down u stone tramway in Oxford-streot . " NVo ( juito agi-oo with Moasre . liVeoth und Hodgos ( who characterised this umciooding as a grout injualieo and breach of iliith towards Mr , Tniin , ami it in ccrtuinly \ u \ ' y extraordinary that a Hoard , ooinporied of ho nmny businottd-Uko and ylily rospootable gontlouion , uhoidd linvu rcfuaod U > oarry uo vory proper un amendment as that proposed by Mr . Hodges , " That in oommon justiee to Mr , Train , I ho djstmssiou on tho nubjeot of titroottramwaye , boadjouruod to that duy ton weeko . " We hope this / lagraut un-English broach of Aiith will not moot tho approval of tho oonsti-

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 17, 1860, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17111860/page/11/