Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Subjects:

Railways, Sound, Travel, Politics

    Expresses irritation at 'the number of ridiculous suggestions' for signalling between passengers and guards on railway trains, including 'pulling the guard off his perch by a rope tied around his waist', and 'a speaking-trumpet' running 'throughout the whole train of carriages, with a tube terminating in the ear of every passenger'. The illustration depicts a guard having to deal with a signal from Henry P Brougham (1st Baron Brougham and Vaux), a statesmen ridiculed for his verbosity.