13 JANUARY 1872, Page 3

A correspondent of Tuesday's Times makes a very useful and

reasonable suggestion,—that all the suburban railways should issue third-class season tickets, as they already do first and second-class season tickets. Why has not this been done, and very early morn- ing trains been put on, long ago ? It might enable the artisans to live out of town, and nothing could be more profitable to the railways than that, to say nothing of the benefit to the working- men.