[8] Mr. Badnall’s recent patent may make it advisable to state that this paragraph, as well as the far greater part of the Letter, was written prior to, and got ready for delivery at a meeting of the Kensington Canal Company, which was fixed for the 26th of September, 1832. Owing, however, to this meeting having been deferred, sine die, by an advertisement in the Times of the 21st of that month, opportunity has been given for additions; though the paragraph to which this note refers, has neither been added to, nor altered, since it was first written.
[10a] The decision of the Committee reported to the House of Lords, was, that “It does not appear to the Committee that the promoters of the bill have made out such a case as would warrant the forcing of the proposed railway through the lands and property of so great a proportion of dissentient landowners and proprietors.”
[10b] “The London and Birmingham Railway, in seeking an act, spent 50,000l.: and, as they did not get the act, that sum was lost to them.”
Mr. Hodgson’s speech, at the Liverpool and Birmingham Railway meeting, held at Liverpool on the 21st of September last.
[11] 488l. per mile, per annum.
[13] Vide Grahames’ Letter to Wood on Chapter IX. of his Practical Treatise on Railways: and his “Letter to the Traders and Canal Carriers, on the Navigations connecting Liverpool and Manchester.”
[14a] This allusion is to the number of miles between Brighton and London: which was the comparative length of what they saw.
[14b] Member for Lewes, and principal ground landlord of Brighton.
[14c] Baronet and magistrate for the county.
[14d] Vicar.