Speaking out against the bridge and tunnel crowd

[From Estates Gazette, 1883]

We rejoice that the Channel Tunnel scheme has been rejected. The people in England would indeed be idiots to in any way injure or destroy our insular position.

Without doubt we should have been overwhelmed by the continental armies if we had not that natural fortification of that "little silver belt" round us. We should thank God for such a safeguard and let well alone.

Some highly gifted man has proposed a bridge over the channel! What next?