The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-05

could furnish hundred thousand mules for
transport. The return journey, after suoh a
reception was triumph, and people who had
looked shy on the explorers in their outward
march were oficiously friendly as they came
back. The population Of the countries visited
is so numerous that the trade, when once
opened, will probably become of great import
apce, with Rangoon as port of entry. And in
addition to trade, there are interesting dis
coveries to be made in the botany and zoology
of those little known regions.
In confirmation of the view taken by
certain modern writers and speakers-a view
unquestionably true historically--that men,
bers OF Parliament were looked on as the paid
servants Of the electors, bound to represent
their opinions, we quote from the alliterative
poem on the Deposition of Richard the Second,
written A. d. 1899, the argument of some Of
the Knights of the Shire, or members of Par
lament, why they should not vote the large
taxes the King asked for:-
We beth servauntis,
and sallere hongen,
and ysente fro The Shirts
to shewe what hem greveth
and to parle flor her propnete (prohU,
and passe no fferthere.
andto graunte of her gold
10 the grett watts dwight f0lk)
by no mRnere wrong way,
but IL WE'RE were
and II we ben falls,
To tho us here dyndyth,
evylle be we worthy
Nothing can be clearer than this declaration.
The members are servants, and take their
salary; their business is to represent the cleo
tors grievances, talk only for the electors
profit, and grant extra taxes only in case Of
war. If they are false to those who sent them
to Parliament, i'll worthy are they to receive
their hire.
1T is proposed, among the schemes for
improving London traffic, to make an open
railway, with three-feet gauge, from Is
lington to the Moorgate street station of the
Underground Railway. This notion of using
narrower gauge than the common is good
one, and deserves favor. The Festinieg Rail-
way, of which the gauge is only two feet, has
carried, as of course it might, and hundred
times the numbers, 120, 900 passengers and
| 125, 900 tons of goods in year. This plan, il
adopted, will be reversing Brunel's system
with a vengeance. That engineers broad
gauge, after causing the waste of millions, is
to be disused even on the Great Western
itself, and the common marrow gauge substl-
tuted. This is not perhaps the best on its
own merits, but the best because it is in COM
mon use-an argument which might, by the
way, be used with effect against the three
| feet gauge. AS the third rail on the Un-
dergrOund line which accommodates the
| broad -guage engines of the Great Western
Company will soon be disused, why should
not the space then left vacant between the
present ordinary guage lines be made to serve
for trains with narrow, say three-feet, guage,
which might go at express speed, and with
| very few stoppages, from one end OF the line
to the other The longest journey might
thus be accomplished on this line in one-third
| the present time. No London railway scheme
is so certain to be carried out as that which is
revived for a line from the City to the Marble
Arch, parallel to Holborn and Oxford street.