rder in
which they arrive. We understand that each shareholder in the railway
will be entitled to a seat (transferable) in one of the carriages, on
this interesting and important occasion. It may be proper to state, for
the information of the public, that no one will be permitted to go upon
the railway between Ordsall lane and the warehouses, and parties of the
military and police will be placed to preserve order, and prevent
intrusion. Beyond Ordsall lane, however, the public will be freely
admitted to view the procession as it passes: and no restriction will be
laid upon them farther than may be requisite to prevent them from
approaching too close to the rails, lest accidents should occur. By
extending themselves along either side of the road towards Eccles any
number of people, however great, may be easily accommodated."

Of the carrying out on the 15th the programme thus carefully laid down, a
contemporaneous reporter has left the following account:--

"The town itself [Liverpool] was never so full of strangers; they poured
in during the last and the beginning of the present week from almost all
parts of the three kingdoms, and we believe that through Chester alone,
which is by no means a principal road to Liverpool, four hundred extra
passengers were forwarded on Tuesday. All the inns in the town were
crowded to overflowing, and carriages stood in the streets at night, for
want of room in the stable yards.

"On the morning of Wednesday the population of the town and of the
country began very early to assemble near the railway. The weather was
favourable, and the Company's station at the boundary of the town was the
rendezvous of the nobility and gentry who attended, to form the
procession at Manchester. Never was there such an assemblage of rank,
wealth, beauty, and fashion in this neighbourhood. From before nine
o'clock until ten the entrance in Crown street was thronged by the
splendid equipages from which the company was alighting, and the area in
which the railway carriages were placed was gradually filling with gay
groups eagerly searching for their respective places, as indicated by
numbers corresponding with those on their tickets. The large and elegant
car constructed for the nobility, and the accompanying cars for the
Directors and the musicians were seen through the lesser tunnel, where
persons moving about at the far end appeared as diminutive as if viewed
through a concave glass. The effect