Should the length of any train be found too great for such communication, surely it were better to sacrifice an extra guard's salary, than trifle with human life in the way we have hitherto done.

Each engine should have a second whistle, with a trumpet tone, similar to that employed in America, to be used in case of _danger_, the ordinary one being employed, as at present, only to give warning of approach.
With these sagacious hints for the consideration of my countrymen, I postpone for the present the subject of railways, and, in excuse for the length of my remarks, have only to plead a desire to make railway travelling in England more safe, and my future wanderings more intelligible.

I have much more to say with regard to New York and its neighbourhood; but not wishing to overdose the reader at once, I shall return to the subject in the pages, as I did to the place in my subsequent travels.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote D: This power of supervision, on the part of the guard, might also act as an effective check upon the operations of those swindling gamblers who infest many of our railroads--especially the express trains of the Edinburgh and Glasgow--in which, owing to no stoppage taking place, they exercise their villanous calling with comparative impunity.].