During the next three or four days, while the preparations for the dinner and the election were going on, he was busy in respect to the American railway.  He again went down to Liverpool, and at Mr Ramsbottom’s advice prepared a letter to the board of directors, in which he resigned his seat, and gave his reasons for resigning it; adding that he should reserve to himself the liberty of publishing his letter, should at any time the circumstances of the railway company seem to him to make such a course desirable.  He also wrote a letter to Mr Fisker, begging that gentleman to come to England, and expressing his own wish to retire altogether from the firm of Fisker, Montague, and Montague upon receiving the balance of money due to him,—­a payment which must, he said, be a matter of...