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The article, as there printed, contains that portion of the subject which is least liable to change in the march of improvement. Alterations, however, will unavoidably take place to a certain extent in the various machinery and appliances of these important works and while we are now writing, a completely new and original mode of hanging the bodies of coaches to their under carriages, by Springs perfectly different from any at the present time in use, is under trial, and the impression is gene rally in its favour.
It is also beginning to be admitted in many quarters, that some government regulations are imperatively call ed for with respect to railways. The nature and extent of these regulations can only be fully developed by time and experience. The safest mode of proceeding, how ever, will be not to do too much at first.
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