every Monday and Thursday morning, and from the Bell Inn in Wood Street, London, every Monday and Thursday morning likewise; and arrives at the above places Wednesday and Saturday. Prices from Liverpool, £2 6s. ; Warrington, £2 2s. ; Litchfield, £1 7s. Half the money to be paid at taking place and other half on taking coach. 14 lbs. luggage; all above to pay 3d. per lb. Outside passengers and child on lap to pay half-price. And so in proportion for any part of the road. In June, 1763, the Flying Machine accomplished the journey in two days, travelling three days a week. But the times were difficult, and coach owners soon found that to maintain anything like a regularity in arriving at their destinations, it was absolutely necessary to have far better roads. Winter, with its flooding rain and snow, must have caused great inconvenience at the least to the travellers of those days, and one is inclined to think that a journey to London, especially in the winter months, required considerable fortitude. For instance, on 23 January, 1767, the proprietors of the local paper say: Since our last the London mails have come in here very irregularly owing to the prodigious fall of snow, which has been much greater upwards than here. The mail which, had it come as usual, would have been here on Thursday 15th, did not arrive till late on Sunday following; that for Friday 16th, and Sunday 18th, both on Wednesday. As the frost is now broke with rain we are fearful that the waters are so much out as to cause a further delay to yesterday's and this day's mails, which were not arrived this morning at 10 o'clock. Therefore we publish the papers without waiting any longer for them. Again, in February the following year, 1768: Owing to heavy rains which have fallen this week, the River Ribble at Walton Bridge was never known so high by 10 inches. The London mail, which should have come in here yesterday morning, did not arrive till 5 o'clock in the evening; and as we fear, from the rains which fell Manchester, Warrington, Prefcot, and Liverpool MACHINE, ETS out on Monday, September 1, 17607 and on every Monday and Thursday Mors. ing, at fix o'Clock, from Mr. Budworth's, the Ball's Head. Inn, in Manchester; will call at the R d.Lyon Inn, in Warrington; at Mr. Reynolds's, the Old Legs of Man, in Prefcor and lies at Mr Banner's, the Golden Fleece, in Liverpool. Returns from thence every Tuefday and Friday Morning, at fia o'Clock, and calls at the above Places on its Way back to Manchester. Each Paffenger to pay Eight Shillings, and fo In Proportion for any Part of the Road. To be allowed 14-15 Weight of Luggage, and all above to pay 1 d. per Pound. Perform'd (if GOD permits) by JOS STONEM EWER. JAMES FRANCE. The LIVERPOOL, WARRINGTON, & LITCHFIELD FLYING MACHINE, To LONDON in three Days, and as foon as the Weather permits in two Days, ETS out from the Golden Lyon, in Liverpool, every Monday and Thursday Morning; and from the Bell lun, in Wood-Trect, London, every Monday and Thursday Morning likewife, and arrives at the above Places every Wednesday and Saturday. PRICES: From Liverpool, a I. 65. from Warrington, a 1. 2 s. and from Litchfield, 1 1. 73. Half the Money to be paid at taking Place, and the other Half on taking Coach. No Plate, Money, Watches, or any Thing of Value, will be ae counted for, unicfs enter'd as fuch, and paid for accordingly Each Paflenger to be allow'd 14 lb. of Luggage; all above to pay three Pence a Pound. Out-fide l'engers, and Children on Lap, to Price; and fo in Proportion for any Part of the Road. pay Half TALBOT INN, WATER-STAPET LIVERPOOL The CLD and WELL-ACCUSTOMED LONDON and LIVERPOOL STAGE-COACH, la 20 hours, with a GUARD, which is eight hours lefs time than the usual performance HROUGH Warrington, Northwich, Middlewich, belt and much nearch road, every Sunday morning, at half past eight o'clock; and every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, at 5 in the evening. EARLY COACH ADVERTISEMENTS. N. B. Places to be taken, and Parcels taken in at Mr. Teadus, neat the Rayal-Out Inn, in Market-Street-Lane, MANCHESTER, and at the Som with a Narks in Lad-Lane, LONDON. The LONDON and LIVERPOOL EARLY COACH ADVERTISEMENTS. yesterday, the mail for to-day will be as late, we hope we shall be excused for publishing without waiting longer for Thursday's papers. But difficulties of weather or bad roads would not be likely to daunt the enterprising people of Lancashire; and in October, 1767, we find that another Liverpool Flying Machine to London in three days was advertised to run twice a week. Setting out from the Talbot Inn, Water Street, on Tuesday 27th, it was to go thence to London every Tuesday and Saturday; arriving in Liverpool Monday and Friday during the winter season. The development of local traffic is shown by an announcement that a Prescot stage coach would set out from the Angel Inn on Sunday, 29 November, 1768, about 9 a.m., for the Legsof-Man and Bull Inn, Prescot, and return about 5 o'clock for the Angel Inn; and would continue the same every day in the week. Fares, 1s. 6d. inside; 6d. out. Thomas Adlington, driver. It is important to remember that for those who did not want Flying Machines there were "The Old and Constant Stage Wagons." These set out from the Nag's Head, Workhouse Lane, every Tuesday and Friday evenings, arriving at the Axe Inn, Aldermanbury, London, every Tuesday and Friday, leaving to return every Wednesday and Saturday, arriving at Liverpool every Tuesday and Friday, in 9 days; carrying passengers and goods to London or any part of the road. Performed (if God permit) by JOSEPH HULSE, Thomas Sutton, Bookkeeper; who may be spoke with every day in the week upon Change at Change Hours. By April, 1773, the traffic to Manchester demanded a coach three times a week; for John Randles, on removing from the George Inn, High Street, to the Bull and Unicorn in Dale Street, states that the Manchester stage coach set out from the latter inn every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning at 7 o'clock. This coach dined at Warrington each day at the etc., etc. George Inn, carrying passengers, Travellers would meet with friendly usage and good accommodation at the above inns. Something must next be said about another route from Liverpool to distant parts: that by crossing the Mersey by one of the numerous ferries, thence to Chester, there connecting with coaches to all parts. The ferries in these early days were all sailing boats, the first steamer to ply on cross traffic being the Etna, in 1817. It has already been shown that coaches were running from London to Chester at least as early as 1658, and as early as 1707 Blundell's Diary records that the writer made use of the " Eastom ferry boat to go to Chester, and in 1709 he made use of the Rock House and Woodside Ferry. I can find no trace, however, of a coach running regularly between Chester and Woodside Ferry before 4 June, 1762, when it was announced that a new machine with six able horses would set out from the Golden Talbot, in Chester, for the Woodside Ferry Boathouse every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning at 8 o'clock, and take passengers at 4s. each, returning at 4 o'clock on the same day to Chester. The same machine went every Monday, Wednesday and Friday to Parkgate, at 2s. 6d. each. Boats would attend at the Woodside on the above days to carry passengers to Liverpool. It is somewhat difficult to determine what road the coaches used between Chester and Woodside. At first the route appears to have been from Chester to Bromborough Pool (the |