2 OCTOBER 1875, Page 3

Darlington celebrated, on Monday last, with sumptuous hos- pitality, the

fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the first English railroad, crowning the occasion by erecting a statue to the memory of its eminent citizen, Joseph Pease. Upwards of £20,000 is said to have been spent on the festivities, and we believe invited guests were not merely nobly entertained, but con- veyed to and from their respective abodes. The Times has cele- brated the occasion after its own fashion, and very carefully, by compiling a most complete series of tables of all the railway statistics of the United Kingdom.