“ The run from Holyhead to Stafford, 130 miles, occupied only 145 minutes, being at the rate of no less than 54 miles on hour, and although so high a speed was judiciously not attempted over the more crowded portion of the line from Stafford to London, the whole distance from Holyhead to Euston, 264 miles, was performed by the London and North-Western Company in exactly five hours, or at a speed of about 52 2/3 miles an hour, a speed unparalleled over so long a line, crowded with ordinary traffic. ”

“ Her mails and the despatches from Lord Lyons were placed on board the small tender in waiting, and arrived at the Queenstown pier at 10 5 p.m., at which point they were transferred to an express steamboat for conveyance by river to Cork. ”