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Although so closely connected with the railway interest, and although, as a proprietor in most of the leading railway companies, he was constantly called upon to attend meetings, his great energies found other spheres of action. He was a promoter, and one of the most active directors, of the Crystal Palace Company, at Sydenham; and he was a director of the Great Eastern Steam-ship Company.
These truisms were of course undeniable; but to them was quickly added another fact, about which there could be as little mistake namely, the arrival at Southampton, after a voyage which, considering it was the first, was quite successful, of the American-built steam-ship Washington from New York.
The driver of the express train may be a man of large sympathies, of cheerful heart, of tolerant views; the man in charge of the engine of a coal-pit or factory, even of a steam-ship, is apt to acquire contracted ways of thinking, and to become somewhat cynical and gloomy in his ideas as to the possible amelioration of society.
The Lord willing, I look to leave Liverpool by steam-ship 'Scandinavian, March 7th. Miss Reavell, who has for two years been our scribe in the Refuge, accompanies me.
"Have you heard the news?" said the doctor, while he examined the splints of the broken leg. "No, what is it?" rumbled the captain. "Why, the Burrawalla has put back for repairs, Just seen her tugged in good deal damaged; they say, a collision with the steam-ship, Ariadne. "By gosh! that's bad.
"We expect an Italian steam-ship to arrive in port before the evening," said the superintendent. "Who knows what may happen?" He bowed and left me. I felt no great elation on contemplating the barren prospect which his last words had placed before me.
It took the Royalist five months to reach Singapore, but that was in the days before the Suez Canal was made. The journey from England to Singapore can be made in a steam-ship at the present time in less than a month. On arriving at Singapore, James Brooke met a shipwrecked crew who had lately come from Borneo.
Thus, too, in a catalogue published about twenty years ago, the "Flowers of Ancient Literature" are found among books on Gardening and Botany, and "Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy" is placed among works on Medicine and Surgery. Dickens' Origin of "Boz." A fellow passenger with Mr. Dickens, in the Britannia steam-ship, across the Atlantic, inquired of the author the origin of his signature "Boz."
When we reached the steam-ship wharf, we walked out to the end of it, to get rid of the rope and grapnel. I whirled the grapnel round and round, and let the whole thing fly far out into the harbor. It was a sheer waste of a good strong rope, but we should have had a dreary time getting the knots out of it.
Thus, because the sailor, who to-day steers the Hibernia or Unicorn steam-ship across the Atlantic, is a somewhat different man from the exaggerated sailors of Smollett, and the men who fought with Nelson at Copenhagen, and survived to riot themselves away at North Corner in Plymouth; because the modern tar is not quite so gross as heretofore, and has shaken off some of his shaggy jackets, and docked his Lord Rodney queue: therefore, in the estimation of some observers, he has begun to see the evils of his condition, and has voluntarily improved.
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