Thomas, Hutchins, & Co., contractors, and has
been carried through in an admirable manner, in the face of every kind of
difficulty, without an hour's delay. They will open in March next. The
first stone was laid by Prince Albert in May 1849, when he electrified the
audience at dinner by one of those bursts of eloquence with which the events
of the Great Exhibition have made us familiar. It was on the occasion of his
ride to Brocklesby that Lord Yarborough's tenantry rode out to meet the
Prince, and exhibited the finest farmers' cavalcade for men and horses in
England.
Lord Yarborough has done for Lincolnshire what the Duke of Bridgwater did for
Lancashire; and, like the Duke, he has been fortunate in having for
engineering advisers gentlemen capable of appreciating the national
importance of the task they undertook. It is not a mere dock or railway that
Messrs. Fowler and Rendel have laid out--it is the foundation of a maritime
colony, destined not only to attract, but to develop new sources of wealth
for Lincolnshire and for England, as any one may see who consults a map, and
observes the relative situation of Great Grimsby, the Baltic ports, and the
manufacturing districts of Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cheshire.
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