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The Keform Bill of 1832, he says, passed the Lords 

 {e.g., was read a second time, for it did not actually 

 pass until June) at 6.35 a.m. on Saturday, April 14. 

 Mr. Young, of the Sun newspaper, started from the 

 Strand an hour later, in a post-chaise and four, for 

 Glasgow, taking with him copies of the Sun, in which 

 were twenty-two and a half columns of the debate 

 and the figures of the division. He went, no doubt, 

 through Barnet, changed at the Ked Lion or Green 

 Man, and reached Atkinson's, in Miller Street, 

 Glasgow, at 7.30 p.m. on Sunday — time occupied, 

 thirty-two hours and fifty minutes, or at the average 

 pace of eleven miles and a quarter in the hour, 

 including stoppages. Mr. Braid, the present post- 

 master, receives his London mail in ten hours and 

 two minutes from the General Post-Office. 



If the Glasgow mail-road had its points of interest 

 and natural beauty in respect of the streams which it 

 crossed, the road to Edinburgh might well, in modern 

 phrase, have been dubbed the Eivers Koute ; for at 

 least eight river bridges had to be crossed in the 

 ninety-one miles between Carlisle and that city. No 

 sooner were the leaders of the mail-coach cast loose 

 at the Crown, than the long bridge over the broad 

 river Eden presented itself; five or six miles further 

 on is the river Line ; in the eleven and a half miles 

 between Longtown and Langholm the beautiful Eske 

 runs three times under the highway ; and Hawick 

 itself, forty-three miles from Carlisle, may be said to 

 be on the Teviot. 



