dividends, [ib.];

as compared with the national debt, [151];

powers of, for conveyance of every article of commerce, [152];

for personal locomotion [157];

value to the humbler classes, [158];

railways and free trade the twin sisters of progress, [165];

working and traffic of, [166];

accidents upon, [176];

locomotive and carriage repairing shops of, [209];

number of men employed upon, [211];