Genre:

Regular Feature, Reportage, Drollery

Subjects:

Engineers, Railways, Heroism | , GovernmentMilitary Technology, Government

    Reporting on William F Cowper's blocking of an attempt to erect a statue of Joseph Locke, notes Long 1833–43, which praises the engineer as a leading figure in the development of railways, and thus considers it immaterial 'whether an official refuses or denies' a place for the statue. Later reports the observations of Henry J Temple (3rd Viscount Palmerston) concerning the remedies to defects in the Armstrong gun and George C Lewis's facetious remarks on large and small bores. (102)