the engine passed the horse, and a great hurrah hailed the
victory. But it was not repeated, for, just at this time, when the
grey's master was about giving up, the band which draws the pulley which
moved the blower slipped from the drum, the safety valve ceased to
scream, and the engine--for want of breath--began to wheeze and pant. In
vain Mr. Cooper, who was his own engineer and fireman, lacerated his
hands in attempting to replace the band upon the wheel; the horse gained
upon the machine and passed it, and although the band was presently
replaced, and the steam again did its best, the horse was too far ahead
to be overtaken, and came in the winner of the race."

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN OPPOSITION.

What wonder that such an innovation as railways was strenuously opposed,
threatening, as it did, the coaching interest, and the posting interest,
the canal interest, and the sporting interest, and private interests of
every variety. "Gentlemen, as an individual," said a sporting M.P. for
Cheltenham, "I hate your railways; I detest them altogether; I wish the
concoctors of the Cheltenham and Oxford, and the concoctors of every
other scheme, including the solicitors and engineers, were at rest in
Paradise. Gentlemen, I detest railroads; nothing is more distasteful to
me than to hear the echo of our hills reverberating with the noise of
hissing railroad engines, running through the heart of our hunting
country, and destroying that noble sport to which I have been accustomed
from my childhood." And at Tewkesbury, one speaker contended that "any
railway would be injurious;" compared engines to "war-horses and fiery
meteors;" and affirmed that "the evils contained in Pandora's box were
but trifles compared with those that would be consequent on railways."
Even in go-aheadative America, some steady jog trotting opponents raised
their voices against the nascent system; one of whom (a canal
stockholder, by the way) chronicled the following objective arguments.
"He saw what would be the effect of it; that it would set the whole world
a-gadding. Twenty miles an hour, sir! Why you will not be able to keep
an apprentice-boy at his work; every Saturday evening he must take a trip
to Ohio, to spend the Sabbath with his sweetheart. Grave plodding
citizens will be flying about like comets. All local attachments must be
at an end. It will encourage flightiness of intellect. Veracious people
will turn into the most immeasur