The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-07 00:00:00

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THE RAILWAY MONITOR. —TO
- TRAVELLERS.
(From Punch.)
The existing railway arrangements render it im-
perative that you shol.ikl provide yourselves with a
large stock of philosoply-, to enable you to put up
with certain inconveniences, which you will be sure,
to a greater or less ey.tent, to encounter on most
lines, and whereof a dasification is hereby appended
for your benefit.
First- Class.-- Tin- inconvelice
this class is, that your fare will be about twice as
much as you ought in fairness to pay. You run,
perhaps, rather less risk in this class than in the others
of having your neck broken ; but you must not be
unT.epared for such a contingency.
Second Class.—ln travelling by the second class
you will do well to wear a respirator, unlc,s you
wish to be choked with dust and ashes from
the engine close in front of you. Also, if you
are going far, you are recommended to put on a
diving-dress, like that esed at the P. lyteebnic : h•
cause, is it shoul.i ran much our
the sides of the carriage being- open, ycu a in to
ride in a pool of water. &pity must not
bait, should you have for next neighbour a riga-
muffin in :handcuffs, with a policeman n •xt
Ile hardness of your seat is a iiii•re trill • ; th:it is
the least of the annoy ances to which you are judi-
ciously Subjected, with the v.ew cif driv,ag you into
the first-class
Third Class.—Make up your mind for or mitigated
hail, rain, sleet, snow, thunder, and lightning. Look
out for a double allowance of sn:oke, dust, dirt, and
everything that is disagreeable. Be content to run a
twofold risk of loss of life and limb. Do act expect
the luxury of a seat. As an individual and a tra-
veller, you are one of the lower classes—a pm r, beg-
garly, contemptible person—and. your comfort and
convenience are not to be attended to.
All Three Classes.—Punctuality may be the soul
of business, but suppose not that it•is the spirit of
railways. If you do not care whether you keep an
appointment or not, make it on the faith of the com-
pany, by all means; but otherwise by none. Regard
starting, or arriving at your destination, only half-
an-hour too late, as luck. You pay nothing
extra to attendants for civility, so you must
not hope for it. Remember that you are
at the mercy of the company, as to wht re
you may stop for refreshments; for which, ac-
cordingly, be not surprised if you have to pay through
the nose. Beware, if you quit the Vain for an in-
stant, lest it move on ; you have paid your money,
the rest is your own look-out, and, you may depend,
will be no one else's. For loss and damage of lug-
gage, and the like little mishaps, prepare yourself 115
,a matter of course; and if at the end of your jour-
ney you find yourself in a whole skin—thank y our
I stars.

LOSS OF THE PRESIDENT.

INGENIOUS MODE OF "RAISING THE WIND."

On Monday morning, Mr. James Reay, the Se-
cretary of the Liverpool Guardian Society, received
a letter-from Edinburgh, informing him that a prin-
ter, or pretended printer, of thd name of Jobn Neale,
had been apprehended in that city, on a charge of
having obtained money from the public by means of
the representations contained in a printed paper. -A
copy of the document was enclosed to Mr. Reay, with
the view of his ascertaining whether it was genuine cr
fictitious. It set forth that a meeting of the Ladies
Association had been held in the Rotunda Booms,
Liverpool, in January, 1843, for the pu-pwe of
raising funds to relieve the orp' ans '1 widows
of those who had perished in ii.e
that a Rev. Mr. Field presided on the o. ca-i° red
delivered an opening speech. Then followed the
speech,. drawn up with con4derable tact and !kiP,
in which the Rev. Chairman was made to entage
upon the lamentable catastrophe which had occurred,
to speak of the sufferings of the hen 1.•;,. d in
language of the most humane and s., n-
pathy,. and to conclude by attributin.! ,Itc ad vent
to one Of the incrutaisle pr.,‘ide;ccs of an tli.vvise,
merciful, and inumetil (I*.. A • io:, as
next given, to the ~tfcet 11 ; widows or!,han,;
of the deceased were d,se, t..bjece, o, s.
sion; a Mrs. Ferguson and Mr. Sterling. ,aid
to have. been appointed as COll.OO, s r f
and a statement was made that 300/. wt 'le e,•lh eted
at the close of the meeting. Then folov ed a
donations, with the names of the donors. ller Ma-
jesty was down for 100/,; Prince Albert thr.so/.; the
Duke of Devonshire for 100/ ; the Earl of Sutton for
100/. ; Bishop of CheCter for 20/. ; Potter, Brothers,
for 201.; the Messrs. Hornby fur 20/. ; the Misses —,
who had lost their father on board, 20/. ; and so on,
all in a printed form, and executed in excellent typo..
graphy, on a sheet of letter paper of superior qua-
lity. So far as Mr. Reay's inquiries have gone, it
would appear that the whole was a most ingeniously
contrived scheme. • No such meeting of the Ladies
Association was, it seems;. held at the 11.0•Aulda
Rooms ; there is noi`any reverend gentleman, of
denomination, of the name of Field in Liverpool ; ?Jr.
Sterling and Mrs. Ferguson are unknown ; and some
of the parties who are represented as having contri-
buted 20/., deny that they ever gave a shilling. Fur-
ther inquiries will, however, be made, and the result
will be communicated to Edinburgh. We under-
stand that a copy of a similar document has been
'.aken round in some of the towns in England and Ire.
and.—Liverpool Courier.