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“ When found, make a note of.”—Carrain Corr, 
No. 3.] SaTurDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1849. rence ese ag fe 
i CONTENTS. single day. Perhaps the day extended from 
OTES : — Page TEC j i idni 
DeateVing in-Bialatd |.c ia a f ri Page | about fiv e o'clock in the morning to midnight, 
Sanuto’s Doges of Venice, by Sir F. Madden - - 35} but still the coach was, as it called itself, a 
Letters of Lord Nelson’s Brother, immediately after the “ ” : dalld d if 
Battle of Trafalgar, by the Rev. A. Gatty ~ - - 36 Day-coach,” for it travelled all day ; and i 
Misquotations 38 
Herbert’s and Dibdin's Ames — Rowland’s Choise of 
Change — Greene’s Royal Exchange - - - 38 
Notes from Fly Leaves, No. 3. ~ = = - 39 
Abdication of James II. - - - - - 39 
Writers on English History - - - - 40 
Queen Elizabeth’s Domestic Establishment - - 4} 
Register of East Peckham Church, Kent - - - 41 
Pawnbrokers’ Golden Balls - - - - 42 
Lions in the Tower - - = 5 Ee 
Notes on Authors and Books, No. 1l., by Bolton Corney- 42 
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Form of Petition - - - - - - 43 
Query as to Notes — Greene of Green’s Norton - - 
Busts of Charles I. and James I. and Ancient Tapestry - 43 
Origin of the term “‘ Factotum” - - - - 43 
Inscriptions on ancient Church Plate - - - 44 
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Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. - - - 44 
Queries stillon our List - - - - - 45 
Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 46 
Notices to Correspondents - - - - - 46 
Advertisements - - - - - - 46 
TRAVELLING IN ENGLAND. 
I suppose that the history of travelling in 
this country, from the Creation to the present 
time, may be divided into four periods — 
those of no coaches, slow coaches, fast coaches, 
railways. Whether balloons, or rockets, or 
some new mode which as yet has no name, 
because it has no existence, may come next, 
I cannot tell, and it is hardly worth while to 
think about it; for, no doubt, it will be some- 
thing quite inconceivable. 
The third, or fast-coach period was brief, 
though brilliant. I doubt whether fifty years 
have elapsed since the newest news in the 
world of locomotive fashion was, that—to the 
utter confusion and defacement of the “ Sick, 
Lame, and Lazy,” a sober vehicle, so called 
from the nature of its cargo, which was 
nightly disbanded into comfortable beds at 
Newbury —a new post-coach had been set up 
which performed the journey to Bath in a 
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it did somewhat “add the night unto the day, 
and so make up the measure,” the passengers 
had all the more for their money, and were 
incomparably better off as to time than they 
had ever been before. But after this many 
years elapsed before “old Quicksilver” made 
good its ten miles an hour in one unbroken 
trot to Exeter, and was rivalled by “young 
Quicksilver” on the road to Bristel, and 
beaten by the light-winged Hirondelle, that 
flew from Liverpool to Cheltenham, and 
troops of others, each faster than the fore- 
going, each trumpeting its own fame on its 
own improved bugle, and beating time (all to 
nothing) with sixteen hoofs of invisible swift- 
ness. How they would have: stared if a par- 
liamentary train had passed them, especially 
if they could have heard its. inmates grum- 
bling over their slow progress, and declaring 
that it would be almost quicker to get out 
and walk, whenever their jealousy was roused 
by the sudden flash of an express. 
Certainly I was among those who rejoiced 
in the increased expedition of the fast-coach 
period ; not because I loved, but because I 
hated, travelling, and was glad to have periods 
of misery abridged. I used to listen with de- 
light to the stories of my seniors, and to 
marvel that in so short a space of time so 
great an improvement had been made. One 
friend told me that in earlier life he had 
travelled from Gloucester to Hereford in a 
coach, which performed the journey of about 
thirty miles between the hours of five in the 
morning and seven in the evening. I took it 
for granted that they stopped on the road to 
dine and spend a long afternoon in smoking, 
