ough the gardens of his tenants, and
trampling down the strawberry beds, which they were cultivating for the
Liverpool market?"

_A_. "I have found it sometimes very difficult to get through places of
that kind."

In some cases, Mr. Williams remarks, large bodies of navvies were
collected for the defence of the surveyors; and being liberally provided
with liquor, and paid well for the task, they intimidated the rightful
owners, who were obliged to be satisfied with warrants of committal and
charges of assault. The navvies were the more willing to engage in such
undertakings, because the project, if carried out, afforded them the
prospect of increased labour.

LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.

Mr. C. F. Adams, jun., remarks:--"It was this element of spontaneity,
therefore,--the instant and dramatic recognition of success, which gave a
peculiar interest to everything connected with the Manchester and
Liverpool railroad. The whole world was looking at it, with a full
realizing sense that something great and momentous was impending. Every
day people watched the gradual development of the thing, and actually
took part in it. In doing so they had sensations and those sensations
they have described. There is consequently an element of human nature
surrounding it. To their descriptions time has only lent a new
freshness. They are full of honest wonder. They are much better and
more valuable and more interesting now than they were fifty years ago,
and for that reason are well worth exhuming.

"To introduce the contemporaneous story of the day, however, it is not
necessary even to briefly review the long series of events which had
slowly led up to it. The world is tolerably familiar with the early life
of George Stephenson, and with the vexatious obstacles he had to overcome
before he could even secure a trial for his invention. The man himself,
however, is an object of a good deal more curiosity to us, than he was to
those among whom he lived and moved. A living glimpse at him now is
worth dwelling upon, and is the best possible preface to any account of
his great day of life triumph. Just such a glimpse of the man has been
given to us at the moment when at last all difficulties had been
overcome--when the Manchester and Liverpool railroad was completed; and,
literally, not only the eyes of Great Britain but those of all civilized
countries were directed to it and to him who had originated it. At just