, their country's pride, when once--I forget
how it goes on. Why, they have not got any hedges, just fancy. That
isn't good farming, is it, MR. JENKINS?" That Master of Arts, who, under
happier circumstances, might have here given a quotation from _Virgil's
Georgics_, was meekly prostrate beneath the vicissitudes of travel, and
quite unable to reply. As we stop at occasional stations we see groups
of happy country people, the women in jackets and white caps, the men in
blouses, mounted in open cars, and laughing and jabbering without end.
Houses become more frequent--tall, slim, chilly-looking white
structures, with Venetian blinds outside each window. More careful
cultivation marks the proximity of a great market. Finally, we pass deep
ditches, low massive walls, not visible till you are close to them when
you see how enormous they are, a ragged suburb, and we are in Paris. A
fresh searching of luggage, a light one this time, for butter, eggs, and
cabbages, I believe, sets us free--that is, as free as any one can be
out of dear Old England.

The philosophic traveller here makes one reflection. What assurance a
man must have to bore the British public with the description of a
journey that every one has made, and knows as well as he does the
Greenwich Railway, or the route from Chelsea to the Bank!

* * * * *

ALARMING RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

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An accident, the consequences of which have proved more serious than was
at first anticipated, has occurred on the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway, the rails and sleepers of which had, we understand, been, for
some time previously, in an insecure condition. The result has been
damages to the amount of above L7,000, incurred by the Company at the
Northern Circuit Assizes for loss of life attributed to that state of
things. As the sufferers in this instance are directors, instead of
stokers or engineers, the calamity will perhaps prove a salutary lesson
to them, by teaching them to make better arrangements for the safety of
the public. Many of the victims, we believe, have wives and families, to
whom, however, it is not apprehended that their loss will prove
unusually distressing.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

Since the accident, we are informed by our special contemporary, the
_Morning Post_, that the authorities of the Railway in question

"Have issued the following ticket, which passengers on their
dangerous line are require