text:  What has been the effect of all these improvements and to what do they all tend? If the whole prosperity of a nation depended on rapidity of conveyance there could be but one answer to the enquiry--but even in that case the prosperity must depend on rapidity of conveyance between the particular places which the railway unites--Manchester and Liverpool Birmingham and London and generally the great towns at the _termini_ and some throughout all of the intermediate stations have cause to rejoice in the improvement