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Wonderful Members of Parliament, who, httle more than twen ty years before, had made themselves merry with the wUd railroad theories of engineers, aud given them the liveUest rubs in cross-examination, went down into the North with their watches in their hands, aud sent on messages before by the electric telegraph, to say that they were coming.  Night and day the con quering engines rumbled at their distant work, or, advancing smoothly to their journey's end, and glid ing like tame dragons into the aUotted corners grooved out to the inch for their reception, stood bubbling and trembling there, making the walls quake, as if they were dUating with the secret knowl edge of great powers yet unsuspected in them, and strong purposes not yet achieved. "  I don't know where it is !"