Tt is said that lust Saturd-y no fewer than half a million people left London in order to spend the groatest of the dunk holidays in the country, Probably many thousands of country people came up to spend their holiday in ube metropolis, as I notice that all the many and various pleasure resorts were largely Pa ronised; no fewer than 60,000 people spending the day on Hampstend Hexth anda like umber visiting Earl's Court Exhibition and the Alexandra Park; still it seems to me that Londoners are deeply indebted to the vinous railway com. panies, who, by the running of a number of choup excursion trains, make it possible for tens of thousands of peoples, who otherwise could never get a whiff of sen or moorland air now to do so at comparatively nemival expense, wud with very-little fatigue, as the excursion train of to-day is @ very different thing from that of & few years ago, when I believe it was no unusual thing to ran it isting and leave it there for hours; now express to its destination anil its carriages are quite as oleanas those ffordinary trains, which nay Hotsay much, out enrively conveys my meaning, as Boar the duily sweeping out of the railway curring is still a dream of the future atill an express excursion is something, and the rest may follow in time.
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