From 1st March the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway will
run trains for working-men between Victoria and Ludgate Hill, but the experiment has been commenced in a half-hearted way. The tickets will cost a shilling a week, and be available fix one journey per diem each way, fair rates, though dear for the distance ; but the company add the absurd proviso that they will only sell the tickets to working-men. Are they going to issue a sumptuary law, sell to fustian and refuse broadcloth, or submit a photograph of every passenger to a jury of ladies to decide if he looks " like a gentleman?" Fortunately they have no power to do anything so absurd. They are common carriers, and if they run a train they must sell tickets for it or pay damages, just as they like. We thought this Board too keen for nonsensical restrictions of this kind. If the cheap trains do not pay, the directors have no right to give away shareholders' money to workmen ; if they do, the more passengers the better.
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