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the Eden — pulled up, nothing loath, at its hospitable 

 front -door. 



The mails were received and delivered now in 

 Blackfriars Street, then in St. Cuthbert's Lane, and 

 again in English Street, at old Post-office Court 

 — so mobile was the department in Carlisle, when 

 coaches carried its correspondence. 



Here, in the streets of Carlisle, not far from the 

 Cathedral, the philanthropist, George Moore — a 

 member of the firm of Messrs. Copestake, Moore, and 

 Company, in London — was knocked down and killed 

 by a runaway horse. Besides doing good deeds in 

 the world at large, Mr. Moore had helped the Post- 

 Office in its scheme of establishing postal notes or 

 orders, by presiding over .a departmental committee 

 on the subject, in July, 1876. 



Half an hour, or even less, after the arrival of the 

 London and Manchester coaches, away from the Bush 

 or the Crown and Mitre went splendidly appointed 

 four-horse coaches — travelling even faster than the 

 London mail — for Glasgow, by Abington, and for 

 Edinburgh, by Hawick. 



From Carlisle to Glasgow there are two great high- 

 ways : the direct mail road, via Abington, and the 

 indirect road, thirteen miles and a half longer, which 

 passes through Dumfries, Sanquhar, Strathaven, and 

 Kilbride. It is 95f miles from Carlisle, by Abington 

 and Beattock, to Glasgow, i.e., 396^ miles, via Barnet, 

 from Hicks' s Hall. Two Glasgow coaches started, in 

 the thirties, from Carlisle at the same time ; but the 



