Court Gazette (Newspaper) - December 6, 1845, London, Middlesex THE COURT GAZETTE AND FASHIONABLE WITH WHICH IB INCORPORATED THE NEW COURT Journal published Saturday Mornin at Six and may be had of all respectable Booksellers and Newsmen in Town and Country price Six and Sixpence per LONDON DECEMBER PRICK THE MODERN CAB AND THE ANCIENT HACKNEY in the style of by Sir John Dean Written for the Court In a dull which few A hackney coach In solemn sadness roof Of long neglect gave dusty Like an old ship in And there The pole beneath the perch was And decadence about it Like a poor when made to Who hides beneath his his tail One eve a smart young cab came Whose owner did full oft repair To a while his nag Enjoyed his corn within a The coach lookd was painted But the gay cab displayed a When met the vehicles gan speak Of the past business of the Said Poor ft case 1 I grieve to see you in this place To suit Whilst with this highmettled Skim thro the town with cheerful speed For onethird less the frugal beau May from his club to opra fate save a by the winged rail al Jarvey to bear What the fat With Three an hour your With acumen he plied hia he was almost moved to He mournful coach Fashion tis true is on your But fashion is a jade most and capricious This change bespeaks a vicious Now locomotions all the And man amusement seeks While the poor wife is left to Ill be no more ja Cries off for You Jack to Scotland rare is railroad trip to Paris But in old in full Was for domestic With six insides and sometimes A goodly patriarchal tho slow and quite wheels to Hampstead went Old times will when this freaks Mankind their senses will recover Jarvies again be seen At Hammersmith and Turnham Where future with their wives Will gladly take their As their respected yore In hopes ojf no But peacefully and silent RAILROADS AND THEIR In the first we must refer seriously to the commercial enterprise in which in the midst of every disadvantage which the panic has maintains its ground with the great body of its share holders as a proof of this fact we may refer to a com which has just been made to us by a gentle man on whose veracity we can scrupulously The new issue of shares were so greedily sought for by the original notwithstanding they reached a premium of five pounds a short time unequivocal signs of joy at the triumphs they had The method adopted for the reception of the docu ments was as follows parties charged with their delivery were admitted to the lobby of the office of the Board of where they entered the name Of the agents for whom they were concerned in a book provided for that The name was then passed to an who conveyed the same to the inner where it was entered by the The several parties were then successively called in to describe the name and titles of their respective and afterwards fell to such is the enthusiasm of the bona fide that they confidently that eventually the investment will surpass the most suc railway here and in India the dissemination of which railway communication must will reflect as much honour on the enterprising projectors as advantage to the We extract the following paragraph from a New York dated 17 11 An Indian burial took place at a few days According to a custom founded upon the religious faith of the red all the worldly effects of the departed including his shot even a mare and colt belonging to him were de posited with his remains in the to carried MtH according to romantic faith of his sunny hunting grounds and floral galleys beyond the grave bythe Great Spirit of the good and or the bleak and barren deserts and icy hills provided for the punishment of the depraved and Enterprise has achieved much towards find the extended intercourse which railway communication will will most undoubtedly bring habits and customs of other nations more and conse with less before the misguided and savage who have the capacity to investigate and the courage to digest the existing difference pf truth This arrangement went on very well until 11 when the delivery became so rapid that the clerks were quite unable to keep pace with the A good deal of amusement was caused by the simi larity of names amongst the particularly when any gentleman of the name of Smith was when many voices here 1 As the clock struck the doors of the office were about being when a charged delivery of the plans of one of the Surrey and with the greatest difficulty obtain ing this her that with drove Up h In a moment its and error we therefore God speed the DIAN We turn now to the and though the poor gentlemen and their supporters are entitled to we cannot help smiling while we are writing the of their The better the day the better the we will he discarded from the quotations formerly in no by some of the parties and Sunday the thirtieth of will be substituted as a black day in their We think ourselves that Saturday should have been the and had it so hap the unlucky wights to whom we are about to would have found some persons in their way more likely to have kept them It was the most amusing scene The follow ing account is by no means and as regards our hapless of whom we have since it is buta faint description of the misery created by one half hours At one oclock the offices were and during the afternoon cabs and carriages of all descriptions came not in very rapid succession and the plans without much trouble to the Government or those who had charge of As the evening advanced the arrivals became more and at nine oclock they poured down Whitehall rushed towards the office bearing large On reaching the of I prompted by the gave a loud the which was answered informed him that it was too wait for the conclusion of the in their tremendous which were into the street with as delicacy as into the The door was again only to meet a similar fate from the three agents were now principal amongst them commenced tortell to the from which it that t that morning left charged with the of the plans of a certain railway proved to district that they had arrived in London as early past but through the ignorance of driving office of the Board of hour and a half previous to their cious had patiently listened of the unhappy their burst seemed to banish the little fortitude left to valiant of the three unfortunate who return and tell the tale of their misfortune to their disappointed one of the most hurried and weeks upon record in the annals of deposits upwards of to go in the ensuing were on Sunday lodged with the Board tf 3 Thick as autumnal leaves that strew vale of disgorged their of parchment and the drew and the exhibited We hear with much pleasure who attempted by out of Thus mapy arising with the has by the pf been averted we that the and at the as tfa City
