GRIFFIN, Attorney.
Mankind are so prone to draw distinctions where no real differences exist, that among our readers there are probably many who conceive that, although they themselves are fully competent to enjoy Fanny Kemble’s readings from Shakspeare, such a mental luxury would be altogether out of character at New Crewe! In short, that shops full of smiths and other varieties of workmen (particularly him of the steam-hammer, and most especially the artificer we saw squatted in the boiler), although all exceedingly useful in their ways, could not possibly appreciate the delicate intonations of voice or the poetical beauties to which we have alluded. Now, without the smallest desire to oppose this theory, we will simply state, that while, during the men’s dinner-hour, we were strolling through the streets of Crewe, we observed on the walls of a temporary theatre, surrounded by a crowd of gaping mouths and eager unwashed faces, a very large placard, of which the following is a copy:—
BY PARTICULAR DESIRE.
MR. JONES WILL REPEAT
The Scene from Macbeth and Cato’s Soliloquy:
LIKEWISE
IMITATIONS OF CHARLES KEMBLE, EDMUND KEAN, AND MR. COOPER.
The town and shops of Crewe are well lighted by gas from the Company’s works, which create about 30,000 cubic feet per day—the foot-paths of the streets being of asphalt, composed of the Company’s coal-tar mixed up with gravel and ashes from the workshops. The town is governed by a council of fifteen members, two-thirds of whom are nominated by the workmen and inhabitants, and one-third by the directors. Their regulations are all duly promulgated “by order of the council.”
Although our limits do not allow us to enter into many statistical details, we may mention that the number of persons employed on account of the London and North-Western Railway Company, including those occupied in the collection and delivery of goods, is as follows:—
| 2 | Secretaries to the Board of Directors. | ||
1 | General Manager. | ||
| 3 | Superintendents. | ||
| 2 | Resident Engineers. | ||
| 966 | Clerks. | ||
| 3054 | Porters. | ||
| 701 | Police-constables. | ||
| 738 | Engine and Firemen. | ||
| 3347 | Artificers. | ||
| 1452 | Labourers. | ||
| Total number | 10,266 | ||
| The number of horses employed is | 612 | ||
| Ditto vans, &c. | 253 | ||