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6 to bear upon their operations when incorporated in public bodies, committees, boards, &c., &c., the proprietors of every railroad would contribute handsomely to a compensation fund, to repay some of the enormous expense incurred, in their experimental outlay, by the shareholders of the Liverpool and Manchester Railroad; for, as their intelligent and talented secretary observes, in his able pamphlet, "In matters of detail, no less than in the grand outline and structure of their work, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company have found, that on them has devolved the task of making experiments for the rest of the world." Alas! I fear this act of justice will never be accomplished. There is no chivalry in "Companies."

The anxiety of the gentlemen into whose hands the prosecution of the project had now been consigned was, to conciliate and do away with the opposition of the landed and canal interests; this they were most successful in accomplishing, and that too with a very small sacrifice of money, as compensation for ideal