IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCOMOTION. 63 



Monday, near Brighton, and dined with my 

 father in Merrion Square, Dubhn, at six o'clock 

 on the following AVednesday, distance four hun- 

 dred miles." 



It was done thus : — He went from Brighton 

 in an afternoon coach that set him down in 

 London in time for the Holyhead Mail, and 

 this mail, with the help of the steamer to cross 

 the Channel, delivered him in Dublin at the 

 time mentioned. 



What would the writer say now, when, by 

 leaving London at 7.15 a.m., he may dine at 

 the table-d'hote at the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin, 

 at 7,30 p.m., with ample time to have a 

 hot bath and change his dress before dinner 

 is served ? 



The writer then proceeds to say : — 



" In this wonder-working age few greater 

 improvements have been made in any of the 

 useful arts than in those applied to the system 

 of travelling by land. Projectors and projects 

 have multiplied with our years, and the fairy - 

 petted princes of the " Arabian Nights' Enter- 

 tainments " were scarcely transported from 

 place to place with more facility or dispatch 

 than Englishmen are in a.d. 1832. From 

 Liverpool to Manchester, thirty-six miles, in 



