The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-10-20 00:00:00

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YAMMA AND CAPT. 8.

771TPON7'/INT IMPROVA'AffHT iN THE CON-
.wTHUC floN 01: 11.111. WAY C4HRIA6E4.

Autimmelve various !wakes" which have beer Marled/ty
fdhlir esnmanles within the lust two years, there are none
ia. emir opinion, have such decided claims to potato
• queer as those which aim at the formation of rail-reads,
Mane bas of COllateTatiell altogether the pnvtits that tiny
or maws sat sterna to those who emhark in those unelected..
Inge, their vast utility sod importance are as obvious, that
irerwiritlerune • rims doubts csa he enterisined upon the
doh' •eve. IF canals he useful and important. it has been
Orr•innitrared that rail-mad. are capable of becoming much
over• am by the increased vapidity and diminished expense,
witt shirk the transit of merchandise can he rffectvl on
the'. Of entree, there will exist much hostility to their
for ostion. both on the part of. Canal Proprietors, whose
insereetr•arr immediately concerned, as -well as by the
areamaimel creepier* At the soil .through Which. the line of
ailwav oust peas. With .respect to the first class of a
cora, the simple answer to their complaints is, that
ro4iet •Must . always prevail over private joist
N. it did when canals were first made, and which AY
fotuse interfered with whatever was the then eXillt•
Ilif mode of lantl.earriage, in the same way as rail.
reeds .are likely to do now with canals. Pursuing the
lime mode of, argument, we should necessarily maintain
ItiaN, lifer yeses hence, a still sepeelor mode of convey-
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Cana Campania,

1 • 14,-,11. 1, was asseroal by the
a 1... who &lone' of tenth we cannot iv, that it would amount to
r.eoenet. le/aging In the line between Birmingham and Liverpool,
and wend(' he ofinal In rite expense of totting a trerieh 17 feet Ilea"
alone the whole fins. When. Is siditiso to this, the cumber of
!year. neemoars for thectutting doles en many bills and the filling up
• ro many volleys. the great male assendant ityon the settling of the
earth in the embankments far many veers, the difficulty of passing
.templbe.seenta sal rivers, of toning to this sod that direction.
5. ciersenatanees might require. and other dillicaltien of a similar
kiwi. ewe taken lout urnsidevatiem. It an. not to be wondered
.at that the militia mind botanist doubtful of the nitrite of rail roads.
• 0114 the' a degree of getters' asipiwenera succeeded in the place of
.4 at enthirsiewitt omildanee whie.ll was mated soon after the Bir-
reinfilium sari Liverpool line miser t pmjected. We are inclined 10
think. however, that all these difficulties are now obviated. We have
...en Mr. James's models ascend elevations of one one yard in
twelve, or. of four hundred and forty feet in the mile, with perfect
en^ and we ate given to understand that the simple machinery by
winch this accomplished. is attended with no waste of power
eh.tever. We have also seen the action of the wheels in turning
ortles. deviating 14 inch in the yard from a straight line, without
ant more friction ihan is necessary in passing straight forwards.
The hitter of these objects is accompliohed by simply causing
the wheel. of one aide of a Wain of carriages to travel over the
side, -

Ira lewelllngs
"lag I.lverpertt'will be full tes-ebirdw l'lne emitter In the Leis re;
qquilte fbr Laying dun the rend he madden touch avenue. We
• ale not protean to judge how tar he may be sanguine in hia deka-
hniseart, hat-from our inorpeedree of hie ntodela (which are each up-
Wed. of fire itet in length, and wring upon an inclined rail-way
/erfiltreeet), we here we reason ta doubt their correctness; and it
• 'elllnifew tea reinserts Own?, as find that experience 'entire= our
611eillesnik-inapnisiaes. The mottle are now exhihitiag at Mr.
exiserther's ileafier-yard, near the Crescent, where they may pm-
bald: hula a few days longer, about 12 o'clock in the day.
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I :The troth of the following interesting btory is avouched
by the author of the volume in which we Sod it. It is
Imp riches arid Toles O. a &Min's Life, by the author
'uf Pi ern Years in India
" my friend towards the Parsee cemetery, on the sea
shirr. The Parsee writhes bury .aor-hurn the bodies of
their dead, but expose them in two Weeptacles, one for
• ithdes and the other ter females, maisaf solid masonry,
and open only at the top, for the adeglision of birds of
,I..gep,, Haying deposited the corpse faille of these sepul-
-dun, through a door at the bottom, it is left, slightly
euenc,i with a unwire cloth, to bedevoured. The bones
are then carefully colleeted, and buried in an urn, with
certain ceremonies. Thin mode of sepulture was common
ifkiaument tunes, in some parts of' Persia. It radio sur-
prise now; by its seemiagUebariam ; and that it should be
practised by such an enlightened and humane tribe as the
Fences of Smithey, who are very justly called the Quakers
the cast, is strange. Precept and example will how-
ever school the human mind to any thing, and therefore,
nse nerd not wonder at strange customs, when we reflect
tarn our own are considered surprising and ridiculous in
their turn.
" As we wets nearing thin curious golgotha we beheld
about forty men anti women, whom we recognised. askew-
ing a Parsee funeral nronsvintr. Amidst them watt maple,
which we afterwards found to be the body of a young
teanit, on a cut, or tow bed, that served for a bier. They
all seemed to be her near relations, and iustead of the
• 'Anna decency which I had before observed at such tame-
.•;itertAties, this exhibited hurry and secrecy : the hour was
„operate:ly early ; the lamentations were not loud ; there
was no heating of the breast by the women ; Itut in long
ilresses sheared with ashes and paint, and with dishevelled
Lair streaming• to the morning breeze, they were uttering
s worn; and imprecations. Tears were flowing copiously
•liiirn two of the women's cheeks, and we could hear them
Yarns that ever they had been born, and utter wildly..
huppressed rejoicings, that she whom they bore along was
drod. When they arrived at the receptacle, instead of un-
locking the door, and placing the body on the platform,with
"'hallanness, it was thrown with apparent detestation from
..4sisgsgrapet, and we heard the echo of its fall with a chill
of honor. •
t Iris amorally mused iny curfiesitjOillr.ulfoußb
the juxtrunienialiiy of Ilurmongee snit Miniagae, to the
' !sink Of whom I promised my Inter* respecting the can•
tom, •hy way of I,.ibe fur divulgiug the Secrets of his' fret, I
received the following particulars, which I have every
'MIMI to Lehi. %e perfectly true, and in strict accordance
'tittle Parses usage.
Limgee Donilljes, a respectable trader in jewels* had
• seelmenhsr.calied 'femora, whose beauty equalled the lustre
• le she Oa.* diamond. She appeared among the vi ins
• .01 is. r tribe. as a gion of t.;(1.1coorls. amidst beads of glass.
meatus saw i• lon, as iu a fanning mirror, their

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env( ;moils from one manufacturing town to another, or
front maitufacturing to sea-port 'towns, were discovered,
ysibalods. most give way, for the public bare a right to
that which is best. Were, it not so, indeed, improvement
of every kind meat be stopped at once. The actionsi class
of oblectots are to be inet, of course, in a &Arent way.
'Fleet have rights and inter wt which will be protected by
the togitistore. Fair and reasoueble computation must
be Made to them for that portion of private property which
they surrender, to enable the community to enjoy the
beneiti of nn improved mode of communication.
We hare been led ludo dame observations by the perusal
of the eithjoined description of a new rail-road carriage.
x•hiel► we find in a Blemingisam Paper, and front which it
•e-ms that one of the greatest obstacles to the adoption of
't..'-rovrte has been nverehime. We hope most cordially it
'tea •t, tie found to answer every expectation :
base berm bieturad Milt a mew of Mr. W. 11-James's
er lernienved raft-mad carriages, working both upon
1,T.• 'I'M am* enrved neil.rnads. which are es:culated to ascend
end deweend hills .4 any elevation, and to turn at any angle which
• I,+ite he rimsired for the tail.rosd to assume. These groat
er's•dfscal oI ebe rail-mid arum appear to hive been fully ac.
.morlis‘ed bv Mr. James t and. if we ate not deceived in our
tirutst•onii. their effect upon the formation of rail-roads in this
...pint," will he very rest Milts-to it has been found irn.
raHeable finr loonmonvo engines, or steam horses, as they are
4 "Ital. in amend may of greater elevation than ten or fifteen
tvi in ri,e mu ~ Erna any remoderable burden attached to them.
711 E r,Ol-rods at prawn formed, therefore, have all been executed
e.4,-"t newly dead revels, wh;ch have been obtained by the cutting
t' f MN and the filling up of valleys ; or the rail-road car-
ry-. bare %Pen enabled to ascend the hills by the assistance of
ritatitwiary steam engines, or ether competent but expensive power.
The enennona expense attendant upon thus levelling the country,
1,..• teen Ciotti, soch as elmost to strangle the railroad system in
. Penh. It wine...wed by the agents of the Canal Companies.

round faster titan the wheels on the otiter—rsitie, according to the
curve they have ,to describe in changing the direction of the road.
The tame .beet of ascending the hills. is effected by causing the
ectlz upon m.ery wheel of a train of carriages.. so
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~..a , 41,, _• wheel a pe:fect rotatory motion of its own, which
C . e sward/ without being dragged by the loco-
. . -....-+, ' -as is neeessarf Is the present system. Thus every
yr mimes boa the same power of ascending hills
A,aa the wheel. of the loco-Motive engine Itself, which, it is well
iskoowc, whew not retarded I y a burden behind, wilt ascend eleva-
liens of 500 feet in a mile. It is tine that *greater power is necessaary
',..19 stable the cosine to climb hills than to travel upon a level plane,
,tslitthia is in part. if not whoily compensated by the lesser power
• ira in: descending stub hills ;or at any rate we should pre-
' iuite.• that in the numerous advantages ',Mich roil-roads present,
the expanse of a greater as lesser power in the loco-motive engines
cannot be of much conseqoenee. The grand object. we conceive, is
... to diminish the expel* attending the first outlay
.of the rail.resals ;
Ethen if it should hereafter be found that it is advantageous to
1,1 the ground upon which they are laid., it is easy to accomplish
' \skillet when the tonnages upon the !Menke!l have famished the
' handl* tin& ' Mr. Junes estimates, that the savings that mar
...I)entsde in the levylilnirs_ and earth work, between Birmingham
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