+-----------------------------------------------+ | 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 CHAPTER XIII. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. In strolling down Lothbury, in the City of London, the stranger suddenly sees, opposite to the dull dead wall of the Bank of England and pointing down an alley, the forefinger of a little black hand, under which are written the following words:-- “TO THE CENTRAL TELEGRAPH STATION.” and accordingly, at the bottom of the small _cul-de-sac_ there it stands, appropriately designated by its “Electric Clock.” On entering the door of this establishment the visitor suddenly finds himself in a very handsome reception-hall, 53 feet long, 32 broad, and 45 feet high, illuminated from above by a skylight, which also gives light to three galleries, one above another, communicating with the various departments of the establishment.