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railway. Such batteries being stationed near 

 the coast might easily be placed in threes, so 

 as to command every road threatened with in- 

 yasion, and again shifted, if necessary, to follow 

 the motions of the enemy. 



It may here be mentioned that in the same 

 Exhibition were two spirited pictures by Mr. 

 Smith; one being a sj)orting piece, representing 

 the stag at bay in the New Forest, already 

 alluded to, and the other a scene of yillagers 

 preparing for the marriage of the clergyman's 

 daughter next day. 



A visit that Mr. Smith paid to Eyde, where 

 an invalid relative of his was resident, led him 

 to devise the tramway on the pier that has 

 since been carried out, and adds so much to 

 the comfort and convenience of all who resort 

 there. He sent the plan to Captain Brigstock, 

 an active director of the Pier Company, who 

 soon wrote to say that it was highly aj)i3roved 

 of, and Avould be carried out forthwith; but 

 that the feeling among the porters, piermen, 



