Railway Flying.
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F0fty-n five miles an hour is the cUnA tractsd time for carrying the mails in England, per railway, and rapid as is this transit. it has been recently outdonc. A late London paper gives an account of extraordinary rapidity on the railway, which seems to make us almost realize the idea of Puck-' I'll put girdle round about the earth in 40 minutes The road was the London and the Northwestern railway-and special train, consisting eff 5 carriages, was taken from London to Birmingham in two hours and thirty minutes.

 The actual time If travelling. did not not exceed 2 hours. being an average speed of 56 miles per hour, the train being stopped times on the road to al- ow other trains to be clear of the line, besides stopping ut Wolverton to change engines. The engine which starled from London is one of Mr. Slevenson's ordi- nary patent engines, and the latter part of it's journey, twenty one miles, was performed in twenty ono minutes. The maximum speed tor upwards of mile was 75 miles per hour. The engine from Wolverton to Birmingham was also a patent engine of MT. Stevenson's, hav~ ing 3 cylinders, and it performed the lst part of the journey. forty one miles, (un> til it was stopped by another train) in 42 mathematician speed on this DOT. tioa of ihe journey, GA miles per houh- A side wind was blowing throughout the journey. Mr. M'Connell, the locomotive superintendent of the London and North Western Company, and Mir. Winter, the superintendent of Mir. S,evsnson's patent engines, were on the engine. and describe the motion at the highest velocity. as being perfectly steady.