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WANTED an Experienced TRAVELLER to represent a Sheffield House, doing business with Railways, High Salary and Commission will be paid.

Address Box 217 Post Office Sheffield

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Over 100 Sheffield hits in that document, I don't know what is of interest. I hope someone can extract some interesting bits.

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The Career Of A Runaway Train.—On the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway on Friday a luggage train, consisting of 30 or 40 waggons, started from Sheffield towaids Dunford. At Dunford there is a steep incline, and while the train was ascending this portion of the road a coupling chain broke, and the waggons, becoming detached, ran back. The guard in charge of the train telegraphed to Penistone, with a view to having the runaway waggons shunted on the down line. The message was received three minutes after the mail train from Manchester had passed, and the waggons went forward in the same track. The mail train reached Sheffield first, and was shunted out of the way just as the waggons rushed through the station at a very rapid rate. The waggons continued their course unchecked until they reached the Dunnall banks, about five miles from Sheffield. Here there was an incline, and they were brought to a stand after running about twenty miles. Fortunately, no damage was done either to person or property.

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Parliamentary Blunders.

Two incidents occurred lately in connection with Parliamentary proceedings which merit notice on account of their unusual, if not unprecedented character.

On Monday, June 27, the Votes of the House of Commons state that the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Bill was,

"as amended, considered."

On the same evening, by some accident which is unexplained, the bill was carried to the Lords, although it had not been read a third time; and an entry in the Lords' proceedings of that date alludes to the bill as

"brought from the Commons, read in, and referred to the examiners."

The error was, of course, soon discovered, and on the following day, June 28, the Commons ordered

"that a message be sent to the Lords to request that their Lordships would return to this House the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Steamboats) Bill, the same not having been read the third time in this House, and having been taken to their Lordships' House by mistake."

An entry in the Lords' proceedings under the date June 28, written in the curt and precise style which characterizes that work, thus describes what their Lordships did thereupon :—

"Message from the Commons to request that this House.; will be pleased to return to them the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Steamboats) Bill, the same ----------- blah blah blah"

The rest of that is around page 80.

If you can make any sense out of it you're welcome to it.

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They got paid for doing this kind of twaddle and, guess what, they still do ! and we pay 'em ! and expenses too !!

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