evidence given by Mr. George Rowley
in 1834, on behalf of the Great Western Railway Company.

"You have been a general salesman of live and dead stock of all
descriptions in Newgate Market 32 years?"--"Yes."

"What is about the annual amount of your sales?"--"I turn over 300,000
pounds in a year."

"Would a railway that facilitated the communication between London and
Bristol be an advantage to your business?"--"I think it would be a
special advantage to London altogether."

"In what way?"--"The facility of having goods brought in reference to
live stock is very important; I have been in the habit of paying Mr.
Bowman, of Bristol, 1,000 pounds a-week for many weeks; that has been for
sending live hogs to me to be sold, to be slaughtered in London; and I
have, out of that 1,000 pounds a-week as many as 40 or 50 pigs die on the
road, and they have sold for little or nothing. The exertion of the pigs
kills them."

"The means of conveying pigs on a railway would be a great
advantage?"--"Yes, as far as having the pigs come good to market, without
being subject to a distemper that creates fever, and they die as red as
that bag before you, and when they are killed in good health they die a
natural colour."

"Then do I understand you that those who are fortunate enough to survive
the journey are the worse for it?"--"Yes, in weight."

"And in quality?"--"Yes! All meat killed in the country, and delivered
in the London market dead, in a good state, will make from 6d. to 8d. a
stone more than what is slaughtered in London."

THE ANXIOUS HAIR-DRESSER.

"Clanwilliam mentioned this evening an incident which proves the
wonderful celerity of the railroads. Mr. Isidore, the Queen's coiffeur,
who receives 2,000 pounds a year for dressing Her Majesty's hair
twice-a-day, had gone to London in the morning to return to Windsor in
time for her toilet; but on arriving at the station he was just five
minutes too late, and saw the train depart without him. His horror was
great, as he knew that his want of punctuality would deprive him of his
place, as no train would start for the next two hours. The only resource
was to order a special train, for which he was obliged to pay 18 pounds;
but the establishment feeling the importance of his business, ordered
extra steam to be put on, and convoyed the anxious hair-dresser 18 miles
in 18 minutes, which extricated him from all his difficulties."