SPECIMENS OF RAILWAY CHARTS.-The South Western Line, 1845 (see page 71, Vol. I.). 17 Weybridge offers scenery more varied than any other spot within the same distance of the metropolis. Hills almost as steep as mountains at the COBHAM 3 miles HORSHILL I To Southamp ton and Gosport. Woking PYRFORD 2 miles RIPLEY 3 WOKING I 22 Woking is an attractive centre for the botanist, who will find hill and bog plants, and the geo Weybridge Lock and Bridge, near Chertsey. south of the line-the park of Oatlands-meadows towards Chertsey-the Thames ever sparkling, musical, peaceful yet animating. Worplesdon church possesses relics of its ancient state which entitle it to a visit ;-remnants of stained glass-a painting of St. Christopher, &c. Worplesdon Church. 24 Knapp Hill to Woking logist, who may, within a short distance, examine the Bagshot sand and the Weald formations. The visitor to Newark Abbey, about three miles from Woking Church. At Woking Church. the station, if in the enjoyment of archæological or artistic taste, will at the same time see Woking church, the ruins of the royal palace on the banks of the Wey. Send Church. SPECIMENS OF RAILWAY CHARTS.-Birmingham Line, 1846 (see page 71, Vol. I.). Little Brickhill-now a poor place, with less than 100 houses, was the assize town for Bucking hamshire in the sixteenth century, and had the Linslade Church celebrity of possessing a gallows of its own, on the Wing was of much more importance in the 15th Mentmore. century than at present. The country is varied, wooded and hilly. heath towards Woburn. It seems always to have been of more consequence than Great Brickhill. Simpson. Stoke Stoke Soulbury parish possesses one of the most ancient mansions in the county-Liscombe House. Soulbury. The chief part is not earlier than Queen Elizabeth's time, but the chapel is as old as the 13th century. Newton Longville church is one of William of Wykeham's, or his scholars' structures, worth going out of the way to see. A.D. 1845 GAUGE. MITY OF UNIFOR 1849. Part II. Selections. Designed by J. H. TOWNSHEND, engraved by THOMPSON, and published in the "Illustrated London News,' 1845 (see par. VII. page 82, Vol. I.). UNIFOR MITY OF A.D. 1846. UNIFORMITY OF GAUGE. (See par. VII., page 82, Vol. I.) JEAMES ON THE GAUGE QUESTION. M' "Punch," vol. x., No. 253, 16 May, 1846. R. PUNCH has received from that eminent railroad authority, Mr. Jeames Plush, the following letter, which bears most pathetically upon the present Gauge dispute : "You will scarcely praps reckonize in this little skitch the haltered linimints of 1, with woos face the reders I, of your valluble mislny were once fimiliar, the unfortnt Jeames de la Pluche, fomly so selabrated in the fashnabble suckles, now the pore Jeames Plush, landlord of the Wheel of Fortune public house. Yes, that is me; that is my haypun which I wear as becomes a publican-those is the checkers which hornyment the pillows of my dor. I am like the Romin Genral, St. Cenatus, equal to any emudgency of Fortun. I, who have drunk Shampang in my time, aint now abov droring a pint of Small Bier. As for my wife-that Angel-I've not ventured to depigt her. Fansy her a sittn in the Bar, smilin like a sunflower—and, ho, dear Punch!' happy in nussing a deer little darlint totsywotsy of a Jeames, with my air to a curl, and my i's to a T! "I never thought I should have been injuiced to write anything but a Bill agin, much less to edress you on Railway Subjix-which with all my sole I abaw. Railway letters, obbligations to pay hup, ginteal inquirys as to my Salissator's name, &c. &c., I dispize and scorn artily. But as a man, an usbnd, a father, and a freebon Brittn, my jewty compels me to come forwoods, and igspress my opinion UNIFORupon that nashnal newsance—THE BREAK of GAGE. MITY OF A.D. 1846. Selections. "An interesting ewent in a noble family with which I once very Part II. nearly had the honer of being kinected, ocurd a few weex sins, when the Lady Angelina S, daughter of the Earl of B-cres, presented the gallant Capting, her usband, with a Son & hair. Nothink would satasfy her Ladyship but that her old and atacht famdy-shamber, my wife Mary Hann Plush, should be presnt upon this hospicious occasion. Capting S was not jellus of me on account of my former attachment to his Lady. I cunsented that my Mary Hann should attend her, and me, my wife, and our dear babby acawdingly set out for our noable frend's residence, Honeymoon Lodge, near Cheltenham. "Sick of all Railroads myself, I wisht to poast it in a Chay and 4, but Mary Hann, with the hobstenacy of her Sex, was bent upon Railroad travelling, and I yealded, like all husbinds. We set out by the Great Westn, in an eavle Hour. "We didnt take much luggitch-my wife's things in the ushal bandboxes-mine in a potmancho. Our dear little James Angelo's (called so in complament to his noble Godmamma) craddle, and a small supply of a few 100 weight of Topsanbawtems, Farinashious food, and Lady's fingers, for that dear child who is now 6 months old, with a perdidgus appatite. Likewise we were charged with a bran new Medsan chest for my lady, from Skivary & Moris, containing enough rewbub, Daffy's Alixir, Godfrey's, with a few score of parsles for Lady Hangelina's family and owsehold. About 2000 spessymins of Babby linning from Mrs. Flummary's, in Regent Street, a Chayny Cresning bowl from old Lady Bareacres (big enough to immus a Halderman), & a case marked 'Glass,' from her ladyship's meddicle man, which were stowed away together; had to this an ormylew Cradle, with rose-coloured Satting & Pink lace hangings, held up by a gold tuttle-dove, &c. We had, ingluding James Hangelo's rattle & my umbrellow, 73 packidges in all. "We got on very well as far as Swindon, where, in the Splendid Refreshment room, there was a galaxy of lovely gals in cottn velvet spencers, who serves out the soop, and 1 of whom maid an impresshn upon this Art which I shoodn't like Mary Hann to know -and here, to our infanit disgust, we changed carridges. I forgot |