and guilt."

Of course the Motion was enthusiastically carried, and then a very heavy
shower of rain terminated the proceedings. The petition was afterwards
presented to Parliament by Mr. Atwood on the 14th of June, 1839.

On 17th Sept the London and North Western Railway (then called the London
and Birmingham Rly.) was opened throughout to Birmingham; the first
train, containing Directors and their friends, leaving Euston at 7.15
a.m. The times of this train are useful for comparing with the present
time. "The train left Euston at 15 minutes past 7, but did not take on
locomotive until 20 minutes past. It arrived at Tring station at 25
minutes past 8, where there was five minutes' delay. Arrived at
Wolverton at 6 minutes past 9, where the directors alighted and changed
engines. The train arrived at Rugby at 11 o'clock, where the Duke of
Sussex and his suite alighted, and proceeded by carriage to the place of
his destination. The directors remained at Rugby 10 minutes, and arrived
at Birmingham 3 minutes past 12, having performed the whole journey,
including stoppages, in 4 hours 48 minutes, and, exclusive of stoppages,
in 4 hours 14 minutes. This is, unquestionably, the shortest time in
which the journey from London to Birmingham has ever been performed,
being upwards of two hours less than the time occupied by Marshal Soult
and attendants a few weeks ago."

"The fare for one person from London to Birmingham, or back, by the 'four
inside' carriages, by day, or the first class, 'six inside' by night,
will be 1 pound 12s. 6d; by the second-class carriages, open by day,
which is the cheapest, it will be 1 pound. The intermediate fares will
be 1 pound 10s. and 1 pound 5s."

It is not generally known that the two lodges at the entrance of Euston
Station, were the original ticket office and waiting room.

People were beginning to wake from the torpor in which they had hitherto
slumbered, with regard to locomotion, and on 12th October an influential
meeting of merchants and others was held at the Jerusalem Coffee House to
hear a Captain Barber unfold his scheme for a quicker communication with
India. This was that passengers and goods should be taken by steam to
Cairo, and thence, by omnibuses and vans to Suez--as was afterwards done
by Waghorn, who was already forming an Overland Mail (see _Times_, 29
Nov., 1838).

With the very heavy duties on foreign goods, of course smuggling was very
rife, and the Inland