The Express.
London, England, 1858-11-30 00:00:00

RAIL WA 18 dArD COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.

Ought the luggage of a commercial traveller to be
eimerpre while pesneg backwards sad forwards en railways
t Melees@ peryow i That is a queatioa—mul something
Wbe mid ea seise. The system, we believe,
is Wilk emedilleseety, gni • beam arrangement
mil* be lalmelseed If the laces INllployuig tra-
velers were to bring the ealikia to • imemoble mama.
beim kw venous railway ONSINI•111. • ON/Brie se patient
la very connocely is badness amemmegene limed entirely on
• difiareet footing tram grab h kr isle. A wept@
at the Custom-house may be pawl ear des, sad • sample
may be obtained from • atimier sr weer im—st least
hi many instances--witheut pmmeere Than kt, tbatefore,
a piennaption in faros, dimples Wig ferweaded ea Hasa
of railway without pivotal of this and Image charges,
provided the samples appears& the Iles am the lorenunters of
geode that are to be tornados the same Mesa. This Is not
aa namesonshie demand, end the leave don ameroial
travellers is composed elostepies whisk In many mess me
only performing a emoted routine, ad ere only jeka!=
seetatives of good@ whirl are attirwaide to be
To the commercial leveller it le both • hardship==l-
meet that he shoeid Os salted on to pay luggage fare when
Al. samples exceed the customary im4ht showed by the
compares. The private traveller, who jouroeys once in
• two or three months, or perhaps only once in • year, with an
excess {Corsage, nature°, enema to pay full faro for lila
luggage ; but lime not reasonable that the seam rula should
be inictly applied to the temples of • oottentecial traveller,
which are paring perhaps ea often ea once a month, or ma
once • fortnight, along the same lira. What thee is the re-
sult? The charge is often evaded—and frequiatly also
evaded by the pernicious system of bribery. This hot I. too
notorious to be • slander, sad too well knowa to be capable
of dispute. But bribery is this case le not like intenueetal
fraud. When the same bites and the same pore* appear
math after 'math, sad year after year, ea a ilea, the Mass
may ease es be rased almost as • matter of course. But
that system it nut strictly sorre. It is net strictly just to
she railway, and it Is particularly offensive to continental
travellers, who would gladly be delivered from all such preo-
noes. It, then, it be rettaanatila that movie, should yam, an
arrangement might really be effected by commercial houses
briefing the subject before the rail rimy companies—aid either
by spacial tickets or tievellare luggage tickets obviating the
digester system. It is estimated that there are from tsar to
five dimmed commercial tom licrs oonatantly on the toed—
, spending, between railways and hole* so average of ll.per
day. This is an enormousrevenne—einonntlog in the
owes of the year to a million arid a half of money—which is
so Mt a tax on UN proem of trade. Even for their own In-
trans, railways should afford every facility and encourage-
meat loth@pa sge of eocumarciel travellers, and when they
do not—as to the cased the Leedom and North. Western—
they suffer, teems the travellers on that line prefer the
Great Northern whim they can see it, and send their goods
by the Great Bartle= M meimiace to the North-Western.
We imagine that theeemmenial travellers of the country
might, In their Mat etaefty, baba ace this subject and bring
ft to a clear unestme—es there could be no difficulty in
mieblkhing a opium that @head be bulb jut and hemear-
able.—Glimgew Umansionntaita.

Paattamamtat Itsroam.—A public mat*, at
throb Uwe w • very Iry misedemem wee Mal La eve-
s* g_ a& Noweeette-epeerTyse, eammiles with the
Worthies Rehm Mafia. Mt. W. Cial• preildest ad the
nudes, pesidedl, end the steetrag was addiseeed by Mr. J.
Cowes. lea, Mr. Charles Lads* Mr. J. P. Cabot. mad
mama rosatialose la limey el the preelyies at the Lipka
le wen miopted witheet oppeohles. nematode et means wire
to obtota samdeuks to do badly; la which the
meemas was held hem he arairdal Mita