the House of Commons

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the House of Commons

mail, at an average of ten miles an hourhow were the Brighton expresses at twelve milesto be superseded ? No one except two men in remote and opposite corners seems to have dreamt of it. Those two men were old George Stephenson and Goldsworthy Gurney. The latter, according to a Report of the House of Commons, which we remember reading some twenty years back, was trying experiments in 1822 or 1823 for running steam carriages on ordinary turnpike road In 1824 or 1825 he hit upon the expedient of the steam jet, the effect of which in intensifying the furnace is such, that it has been the real means of acceleration of speed on Tory Burch Outlet railways from eight to fifty and sixty miles an hour. Mr. Gurney stated in his examination, as far as we remember, that one of his workmen left Tory Burch Flats him as he was completing his experiments, and engaged with George Stephenso Two or three years after, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was opened, and George Stephenson reaped the triumph and glory ; and we trust, in the result, a handsome fortune likewis For whether he or Gurney were the real originators, or both as often occurs when the times of Providence are rife simultaneously, let no one grudge to the enterprising, enduring genius of George Stephenson a rich and ample recompensRailways for the conveyance of passengers were now accepted as a reality, and the day after the great opening, agents were canvassing in Liverpool for subscribers for shares in the Liverpool, or Manchester, and Birmingha Shortly after was started the scheme for the London and Birmingha The through line must have been opened somewhere about 1835, for we think it was in 1836 that the great fight took place for the Trent Valley scheme, which was to cut off an angle, and so shorten the distanc In those days committees were wholly unreforme The county members of all the counties through which the line passed, and even contiguous counties, besides the various boroughs bordering in any way upon the line, were, by the standing orders of the House of Commons, members of the committe A small number sat to support the chairman; the rest were whipped up for a divisio In this committee Sir Robert Peel