Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign
Chapter 26
1846 Collapse of the Railway Mania--Sheriffs' 284 Officers--Hudson, the Railway King--First "Ethiopian Serenaders"--The Nigger Minstrel Craze--Commencement of Irish Famine--"The Battle of the Gauges"--Railway Surveyors--Suicide of Haydon, the Painter