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We learn from the Railway Magazine that 

 a ffentleman lately went from Manchester to 

 Liverpool in the morning, and purchased a 

 hundred and fifty tons of cotton, which he 

 immediately took back with him to Manches- 

 ter, He there sold the lot, and was offered a 

 similar sum for the same quantity. He im- 

 mediately went once more to Liverpool, pur- 

 chased the second lot, and, returning to Man- 

 chester, delivered it that evening. 



We shall conclude this article with a pa- 

 ragraph quoted in the History of the London 

 and Birmingham Railway, from the Railway 

 Times : — " The ordinary rate of a man per 

 econd, in walking, is 4 feet ; of a good Horse 

 in harness, 12 ; of a rein-deer in a sledge on 

 the ice, 26 ; of an English race-horse, 43 ; of 

 a hare, 88 ; of a good sailing ship, 19 ; of the 

 wind, 82; of sound, 1038; of a twenty-four 

 pounder cannon ball, 1800. A railway steamer 

 travelling at the ordinary rate of 30 miles an 

 hour, performs 44 feet per second, which is 

 e'even times the speed of the man walking, 

 nearly four times that of the good Horse, twice 

 that of the rein-deer, and only about one half 

 less than the swiftness of the wind itself But 

 man, Horse, and rein-deer, all become soon 

 exhausted ; even Boreas is sure to ' crack his 

 cheeks' before long ; while the railway steamer 

 is as fresh and strons: at the end of a Ions: 

 journey as at first starting. Miles to it are 

 but as paces to others. A racer, such as the 

 Flying Childers, might possibly rival the 

 steamer for the last half of a single-mile heat; 

 but we know a Fire Fly that would do more 

 miles in one day than 360 Flymg Chiiderses. 

 Again — a racer doing one mile m two mmutes, 

 and no more, can but carry a leather weight 

 foT that brief time and distance . wivile the 

 •teamer could draw the Grand niana, ana half 



the sporting world along with it, from Don- 

 caster to Newmarkoft, uud lifienee to the Hippo- 

 drome, in one day." 



ADDRESS OF AN ARAB ROBBER 



While some of the Mamelukes were en- 

 camped about Minich, a thief set his mind 

 about carrying off the Horse and wearing 

 apparel of one of their Beys, and with this in- 

 tention contrived, in the dead of the night, to 

 creep unperceived within the tent, where, as 

 it was winter time, embers were burning, and 

 shewed the rich clothes of the Bey lying close 

 at hand. The thief, as he squatted down by 

 the fire, drew them softly to him, and put 

 them all on : and then, after filling a pipe and 

 lighting it, went deliberately to the tent door 

 and tapping a groom, who was sleeping near, 

 with the pipe end, made a sign to him for the 

 Horse, which stood piquetted in front. It was 

 brought ; he mounted and rode off. On the 

 morrow, when the clothes of the Bey could no 

 where be found, none could form a conjecture 

 as to what could become of them, until the 

 groom, on being questioned, maintained to his 

 fellow servants that their master was not yet 

 returned from his ride I and told them how 

 he had suddenly called for his Horse in the 

 night, which at last seemed to give some clue 

 to what had really happened. Upon this, the 

 Bey, anxious to recover his Horse, as well as 

 curious to ascertain the particulars, ordered it 

 to be published abroad, that if the person who 

 robbed him would, within two days, bring 

 back what he had taken, he should not only 

 be freely pardoned, but should receive also the 

 full value of the animal and of the suit of 

 clothes. 



Relying on the good faith of this promise, 

 and possibly, too, not a little vain ol his e<' 



