Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Transport, Steamships, Engineering, Invention

    Announces feats of transportation, including the sending of a gentleman 'at one of the West End Clubs' to Coventry in 'less than five minutes'. Notes that the statesman Joseph Hume has been appointed chairman of a company to investigate the use of screws on ships 'from his intimate knowledge of putting on the screw generally'.