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proprietors — Rail and road — Coach-horses — Immature — The 

 Telegraph — Coaching pictures — In the City — State of high- 

 ways — A Transatlantic opinion — Coaching misadventures — 

 High-roads passing through tunnels— Colonel Paterson's Road- 

 book — Other road-books — Cost of coach-horses — Lord William 

 Lennox — Death from exposure — Coaches racing — Convicted 

 of manslaughter — A careless coachman — An English coach on 

 a French road — Locomotives. 



CHAPTER in. 



IRISH MAIL AND STAGE-CARS 1 64 



Irish troubles — A clever novelist — Larry Flood — A sprig of shil- 

 lelagh — As safe as in church — These roads before they were 

 made — A rustic cicerone — A wild Irishman — Irish impudence — 

 Bianconi — Leaving home to seek a fortune — A spirit of mischief 

 — His first car — Car-drivers — Electioneering — The Bians — 

 Irish fisheries — Immunity from violence — Bianconi's popularity 

 — Mayor of Clonmel. 



CHAPTER IV. 



HACKNEY-COACHES, CABS, AND STAGE-CARRIAGES . . 19I 



Hobson's choice — Origin of Hackney-o-irriages — Hackney-coaches 

 in Paris — The first cab-stands — Cabs — Police supervision — Acts 

 relating to hackney-carriages — Abstract of Acts — Mrs.Prodgers 

 — A smart hansom — S. and T. — Station broughams — Amateur 

 cabmen — Growlers — Stage-carriages — First omnibuses — Acts 

 relating to the same — Omnibus companies — Tramways and 

 tram-cars. 



CHAPTER V. 



POSTAL TRANSMISSION — POST-CHAISES AND POST-BOYS . . 217 



Early letter-carriers and postal systems — The first English Post — 

 Further postal organisation — The Penny Post — Post-chaises 

 and post-boys — Postillions — Post-horses — Post-houses, post- 

 masters, and post-boys — Two good Conservatives — Rules of 

 posting-yard. 



