" Stint quos cuniculo, &c " HORA.CE. 
VEN at the present wonder-working 
period, 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 pro- 
jects have multiplied with our years ; 
and the fairy -petted princes of the 
Arabian Nights' Entertainments were 
scarcely transported from place to place with more facility 
or despatch, than Englishmen are at the present moment. 
From Liverpool to Manchester, thirty-six miles, in an 
hour and a half! surely Daedalus is come amongst 
us again : but we will, for the present, confine 
our observations to the road; to coaches, coach-horses, 
coachmen, and coach-masters. We are not thinking 
of the travelling chariot and four, though, to be 
