The Midland Railway Company, amazed at the disfaVorn- with - which
their-recent 1, reform" has been received, have put forward a defence which contains new promises. They will put on Pal- man cars as fast as they can, they will set aside compartments for ladies, or ladies 'with gentlemen ; they-will allow four passengers to purchase a whole compartment, and they will give return tickets to all classes without restriction as to date of return. The last will be a highly-valued concession, and so will be that of compartments for gentlemen with ladies, but it is on the Pnlman -cars ordinary travellers must in future rely for comfort. The Com- pany add that they will risk, at the outside, only £25,000 a year, and believe they Will gain greatly by decreased expenditure, a propo- sition we have never disputed. What we urge is that the profits will be made by disagreeable packing. Six of the'greatest railways have asked 'them to postpone the change 'till the half-yearly meetings are over, but as yet they have only agreed to meet their ewn shareholders on 17th 'November.
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