average six miles and three furlongs.[414] In Scotland the highest speed was ten miles and four furlongs an hour, the slowest seven miles, and the average eight miles and two furlongs.[415] [408] London _Times_, 1817, Aug. 28, p. 2. [409] _Rep. Commrs_., 1830, xiv, p. 347; 1831-32, xvii, p. 7. [410] London _Times_, 1819, July 17, p. 2. Yarmouth is distant from London 124 miles. [411] _Ibid._, 1821, Aug. 23, p. 3. [412] _Acc. & P._, 1836, xlv, 364, pp. 2 f. The following times are given in _Rep. Commrs._, 1830, xiv:-- p. 348 London to Liverpool 22 hrs. 7 min., distance 202 miles p. 349 London to Bristol 13 14 122 p. 350 Bristol to Milford 19 38 149 p. 351 London to Carlisle 34 7 311 (via Leeds) p. 352 Carlisle to Portpatrick 11 32 85 p. 353 Bristol to Birmingham 10 29 87 [413] _Acc. & P._, 1836, xlv, 364, p. 4. The following times are given in _Rep. Commrs._, 1830 xiv:-- p. 354 Dublin via Cashell to Cork 22 hrs. distance 126 miles p. 355 Cork to Waterford 12 hrs. 4 min., 72 p. 356 Dublin to Belfast 13 15 80 p. 356 Donaghadee to Belfast 2 24 14 [414] _Acc. & P._, 1836, xlv, 364, p. 7. [415] _Ibid._, 1836, xlv, 364, p. 5. The mails which left London at 8 P.M. arrived in Holyhead at 12.6 A.M. on the next day but one. The packet left Holyhead twenty-five minutes later for Howth. The packet left Howth at 4 P.M. for Holyhead, and the mails for London left Holyhead at 12.15 A.M. The passage across the Irish Sea took from five to eight hours. The London coach arrived in Milford at 5.27 A.M., travelling at a rate of eight miles an hour, and twenty-five minutes after its arrival, the packet left for Dunmore. Another left Dunmore with the mails at 12 P.M., and the coach left Milford for London at 7.30 P.M.[416] The London mail coach arrived at Portpatrick at 10.27 P.M., fifty hours and twenty-seven minutes from London. The packet did not leave Portpatrick until 6.10 A.M., after the arrival of the Glasgow mail, which left Glasgow at 4.45 P.M., arriving at 5.6 A.M. The packet left Donaghadee at noon, and the mail left Portpatrick at 4 P.M., arriving in Glasgow at 6 A.M. Ordinarily the passage across took four hours. The London mail coach arrived in Liverpool at 6 P.M., twenty-two hours from London, and left at 10.30 P.M. Packets sailed from Liverpool and Kingstown at 5 P.M. and 5.15 P.M., the time for crossing being about fourteen hours. No London letters went via Liverpool until 1841.[417] [416] _Rep. Commrs._, 1831-32, xvii, pp. 7, 373-74. [417] _Ibid._, 1831-32, xvii, pp. 373-74.