6 OCTOBER 1877, Page 3

English politicians rarely take money, but Englishmen have, we fear,

little to boast of as to fraud. A report was recently circulated that the Midland Railway had been victimised by a series of "gigantic frauds," and though this is an exaggeration, it appears that the Railway has really been plundered by some of its own officials on a great scale and for years. Officials on the Settle and Carlisle line have, it is asserted, built houses for them- selves with the Company's property—one actually so building a row of houses—have accommodated each other with bricks and other materials, and trains to carry them, and have falsified the pay lists of workmeee. Three of them have been arrested.