Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860

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The statistics of the English railways given in this article are taken from the volume here referred to. Because some cunning English contractors in South America took advantage of the statements in this book to depreciate the American railway system and American civil engineers, for their own private advantage in obtaining work, some Americans have been so foolish as to decry the book altogether, as traitorous to the interests of the country. Such mingled bigotry and conceit, shrinking from just criticism, would fetter all progress but fortunately it is rare.

The cost of operating this railway for 1859, as per last Report, was only 37.4 per cent. of the receipts, while that of the railways of Massachusetts for the same year was 56.9 per cent. The result is a dividend of 8-1/2 per cent. on capital, after paying the interest on bonded debt.

Translated in that excellent periodical, which no lover of chess should be without, The Chess Monthly , edited by Fiske and Morphy, New York. (Vol. i. p. 92.)

Mediaeval name for the Queen, (originally the Counsellor,)—the strength of the board.