The Chairman of the Metropolitan Railway Company states, we perceive,
that he intends to meet the crash of traffic on that line by increasing the number of carriages in each train from five to six, and by increasing the trains until there shall be 24 per hour on the same line of rails. He wanted to defer the expense of doubling the lines as long as he could. Supposing all engines in perfect order, all drivers perfectly competent, all telegraph clerks -always zealous, and all signallers always sober, that would be an admirable arrangement, but if one of those conditions is wanting there will be a smash on this line some day to which all previous smashes will seem trifles. The trains will for half their journey be passing other trains in a tunnel, and in sight of the previous and the next despatch. We admit that the extremity of the risk of itself secures safety, but Mr. Parson should see that the in- cessant work does not wear out his employds' faculty of attention. Very few tempers, at all events, can stand it.
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