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large amount invested in turnpike trusts, 

 now become bankrupt in consequence of 

 substituting railroad for stage-coach tra- 

 velling, which has been more than once 

 mooted in your Honourable House, would 

 proceed at once to shew the direct injury, 

 the devastating ruin, that has fallen, not 

 only on those immediately connected with 

 stage-coach business (with the exception of 

 a few, and those of an extraordinary cha- 

 racter), but through them with every class 

 of tradesmen inhabiting towns situate in 

 any of our great thoroughfares, whether 

 they be North, South, East, or West. 



" And your petitioner would further 

 proceed to shew that this injury has its 

 ramifications from one end of the Island to 

 the other, threatening the depreciation of 

 property to a ruinous extent ; as a proof of 

 which, your petitioner need only point to 

 every town in the kingdom which a rail- 

 road has approached, except two or three of 

 our largest cities and towns ; and even to 



