The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-02 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Lord BROUGHAM rose M-being.under the notice of the
home a skeet which was second to nose in importance—
ha ewe the seaway badness of the country, a prodigious
seem of easimeree, vest hindmost of capital, and great en-
tanglement of oredie. The modern system of loomed=
was, is tiseht, of pest admen, to the public ; bat the
promat eimillisa of reams was deservisfm:te eeriest at-
tandem Mtheionnuesat and parliament, urns whatever
might be its ullimete benefit, yet wheel be regarded its pre.
seat state, sad be van ea& complieated details, he was
fill'd with apposhomisa sad dismay. If during the railway
mania there were any of their 'Whin who were
blind to the deep= sad evils whisk might re-
sult from the eztreordiany ewe of ',gelatins
la then matters two or three years ago—if there were any
while lards who did sot de their duty to warning parliament
again the gambling is railways—if then were any such
ise was set sae of them ; for with the Roble and gal-
-1 sad the late Lord •shlamese, m long ago as
1816-9, they took every means is their power to warn the
I elm* whist the wimbikag and rola which might ensue.
They weed poillement sed the esseitry against the mad-
' sees whisk was sehibbsil lathes. miller, bat *Meat edict.
Their 'Whip Wirral*, bi te basso laws, and to non
these aitheesse, the gmalMe. essapardes—conferring on
them the meat Weele pew is tlestywith property,
end the smut eznesedieley . Net had they the
power of seesidas hob byOath prelims sod Waive—not
I only did they Miser thus eposeheem te shine Led, ass one
stn of whisk wall the law of the had bate bard—but
they allowed all primes rights to be est at asoglit—usurp-
usg the APIs of the harrow mud the
Wig this, pewee te p *nosh everygZtra= with
their aglow ad holes, led they edlawed them to obtain
=ste se swum seism* by mbeeriptioe. Writer, on
.enemy had smi there was some advaatage in
Joist stook eseepaeles ; bee all them polities' philosophers
had saiditi WINS Was peat sore not to go too far, other-
who you same man into iato those shawls than
the bee Ws of the curds agriculture and tom-
mores would resoler desirable. Nevertheless,
wee to give plea le hesetethe, and ao theyeTp:lrrei"ti
numberless bills to peas. He admitted the arranges which
had arises from rWwaye—but they enabled pubes who..
object wee sot to eve fin:reseed fanlike to losomotion—
they enabled eagiesere, surveyors, sad the makers of at-
torneys' bilis, who ady wanted to get up these esilways to
suilmlarge ems of mosey—they enabled them to afoot their
without my regard to the making of the railways.
They ambled the Widnes sad pmblen in railway
stock to obtain sham, whisk they dimpled of to themarkin
to get from their daps the messy whisk they _......
into their *we Wen, sad upon the ruin ol[ many
smeller Mews made priasely fortunes of their own. What
had hose the ewe of this realms kgidetiou / (Hear.)
In 1846 so lees them 619 reilway bills were in parliament.
Their bedsit,' were perhaps not aware of the nature of
many of the Were is these bilk. The Great Western
Railway had power to We any extracts from their books
endow wiliest proving that they were eoneet—they were
made evideell• ei the payment of money. If they wanted, for
Wpm" te prove a payineat of 25,0001., that entry wee at ow
main endow. He mentioned this to show the great reel
whisk pediment felt in hurrying forward the measures
and the eau sespoadine arrelemases with whisk they per-
mitts d all sorts of clauses to be Minted in these bills. In
England aid Seethed ekes, without insivoling
British Guises, Demerits, Jambi, and eats Passe
the sera, there had been la these speeslatioes, or
rather aohially paid up, 180.090,0001. No peat weeder if
the mosey market and the Chmeellor of the Isehequer
should hel the effect of this. Well, but that wee not all—
we had had a wish, a commercial sad monetary erieis—
end when he talked with the lets Lord Ashburton last,
and mid what a realaasit*_ thiog it was that it
wee, in fast, es bad es ia M—fee lamented nobleman
said it was sod leek eat of his pocket a state-
ment of the 109 dIIAOIt whisk had then bees paid
• bat now the sum we animated to 180,000,0001.
eremomisel sad easetal Beet had been devoted to this
gambling mown as the same wealthy aadeareless Ikaglander.
leo, had led r share, and had paid up in million
sad a a post polka et whisk, se we from
gl (Beer.) • Wiliest and a hell bed been paid
up is
Demerara and the other *sleeks. Bat hew meek re-
mised yet to be pold sp_l 160,006,0001. min had to be
added to the 180,009,0904, for the was the sum remaisisg
to be paid; sad it estikell be mad brat ore, or est he a
few seethe, or The oyltel of the shareholders was
thmehre up—lhey we is a slide of meshed anxiety
—there was a Mead beagfagover them Wok might burst in
a sew that west& Wag 'wettable dostruatka upon them,
sad they WI set see the cheerful light el day. Might they
net leek Sensed to another pooh whoa they found that
1110,099,0111. bed not bees mew* le mlYy the maw of
pest; bat that 160, ,0001. more was to be de-
resarrieliff From such a system of wallas, the monster
evil of the present day the worst results wen to be apps..
headed. Basil or it might have been at the beginning, the
spirit of gambling would, if not checked, become over-
whelming at last, and lay its fell hands upon the soil.