It includes, what is most remarkable of all, that triumph of private ...

It includes, what is most remarkable of all, that triumph of private enterprise-the railways.

'Trade considered merely as a trade, considered merely with regard to the pecuniary interest of the contracting parties, can hardly be too free.

But there is a great deal of trade which cannot be considered merely as trade, and which affects higher than pecuniary interests. Fifteen years ago it became evident that railroads would soon, in every part of the kingdom, supersede to a great extent the old highways.