e of Captain
John T. G. Campbell, of the 91st, who, accoutred in the heavy marching
order of a private soldier, on the Mallow and Fermoy road, did ten miles
in 107.25 minutes. All honour be to such! long may their memories be
green! Let me beg the considerate reader not to forget West, who ran
forty miles in five hours and a half. Ten miles an hour is done by all
the best runners. It is said West accomplished 100 miles in 18 hours. I
read in a certain work devoted to manly exercises, "at the rate of four
miles an hour a man may walk any length of time." The writer begs to
inform the reader that he doubts this very much.

CHAPTER IX.
OVER LONDON BRIDGE.

Mr. Commissioner Harvey is particularly fond of figures. The other day
he caused an account to be taken of the number of persons entering the
city within a given period. The result shows that the amazing number of
706,621 individuals passed into the city by various entrances during the
24 hours tested; and as the day selected, we are told, was free from any
extraordinary attraction to the city, there can be no doubt that the
return furnishes a fair estimate of the average daily influx. Of this
large number it appears only one-fourteenth, or 49,242, entered the city
in the night--that is, between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. Now this
enormous population in very large numbers patronises London Bridge for
many reasons--the principle argument with them in its favour undoubtedly
is, that it is the shortest way from their homes to their places of
business, or _vice versa_. Last year, for instance, the North London
Railway carried nearly six millions of passengers; the London and South
Western more than four millions; the Blackwall nearly five millions;
while 13,500,000 passengers passed through the London Bridge Station.
Mr. Commissioner Harvey, however, makes the importance of London Bridge
still clearer. On the 17th of March last year he had a man engaged in
taking notes of the traffic, and he furnished Mr. Commissioner Harvey
with the following figures:--In the course of the twenty-four hours it
appears 4,483 cabs, 4,286 omnibuses, 9,245 wagons and carts, 2,430 other
vehicles, and 54 horses led or ridden, making a total of 20,498, passed
over the bridge. The passengers in the same period were, in vehicles
60,836, on foot 107,074, total, 167,910. As we may suppose this traffic
is an increasing one. The traffic across the old bridge in one July day,