QUICK TRAVELLING.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 90, 29 July 1895, Page 2

QUICK TRAVELLING.

The triumph of the railroad and the steamboat are steadily knocking our insularity on the head, There is hardly one of the great companies connecting us with the Covtinent which has not this summer some important improvement in its regular service to announce. The London and Brighton have started a newline of ships to Caen, the London and South-Western, have accelerated their service to Paris by Southampton, and Havre, and the London, Chatham, and Dover have established a new service to Paris by the Calais route, which onables the traveller to leave Victoria com fortably after breakfast, at 9 o’clock, and to be in Paris by half-past 4 in the afternoon. In connection with this service, too, they have replaced their smaller boats with a vessel of magnificent proportions luxuriously fitted up, so that the whole journey can be accomplished with a minimum of fatigue and discomfort. It is. in fact easier and pleasantci to get to Paris or Brussels then to get to Edinburgh or Glasgow, and the result is that year by year at holiday time there is a greater exodus of visitors to Continental pleasure places. I believe that the London, Chatham, and Dover alone carries over I K),ooocontmental passengers per annum and it must be fairly hard run by lines like the London aud Brighton, which despite the greater length of the sea passage, are much patronised for the picturesqueness of the route and its greater cheapness. In the coming Whitsuntide holidays the boats will be crowded with the people running over to the Continent for a few days of that thorough change which is quite as important as rest. A large number will of course be going to different parts of Prance, and the number would be still greater if it were not for the unfortunatate sense the Englishmen have of the scarcely concealed ill-will with waich outside the hotels and re* staurants we are regarded by our change--abla neighbours just now. It is a pity, because we have entirely no reciprocal ia*fes)ing towards tie fmoh*