Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . :J. About the same time liurns began the WestHighland trade, subsequently taken up by the firm of Hutcheson(now Macbraync). After her Majesty ])asscd over the RoyalRoute in 1847, an immense iiiipetus was given to Highland 880 THE SUCCESSION OF THE DEMOCRACY. 11865 touring. Kaihvays followed, beginning with tlie Highland (LS65),extended ultimately to Wick. The Callander and Oban Railwaytapped much of the west
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . :J. About the same time liurns began the WestHighland trade, subsequently taken up by the firm of Hutcheson(now Macbraync). After her Majesty ])asscd over the RoyalRoute in 1847, an immense iiiipetus was given to Highland 880 THE SUCCESSION OF THE DEMOCRACY. 11865 touring. Kaihvays followed, beginning with tlie Highland (LS65),extended ultimately to Wick. The Callander and Oban Railwaytapped much of the west coast. But to reach the more centraldistricts, and ultimately the remoter north-west, a railway fromGlasgow to Fort William was projected. Thrown out in Parlia-ment (1883), it was not. opened till more than ten years later,and was subsequently extended towards loch Ness and Pkttli}: Uilnon, .ibi:tili^i-ii. CROFTERS HOME SKYE, 1S85. P. w. JOYCE. Ireland The Fenian Society. The Fenian Society, which took definite shape in 1862, had forits object to efibct the independence of Ireland by force of arms;and the members were sworn in and the proceedings werecarried on in secret council. The leaders, like those of theYoung Ireland party, were men of education and high moralcharacter; and their organ, tin; Irish. People, which decried con-stitutional agitation and openly advocated armed resistance, wasconducted with great ability. In 180-5 a number of the leading-Fenians were arrested, including the chief organiser, JamesStei)hens ; but a few da^s later Stephens escaped from prisonby the help of his warders, who themselves had been sworn in asFenians. The others were sentenced to various ter:jis of penal IBELANB. 881 1885] scrvilude. The inoveinent spread, however, not only in Irelandbut also in England and America; and the ranks were swelledbv the accession
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