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DURING
the exciting period when the country was
anxiously awaiting the result of the discussion on the Reform Bill of
1831-2, the late Thomas Atkinson, bookseller, and Sir Daniel Keyte
Sandford, Professor of Greek in Glasgow University, made themselves
conspicuous by frequently riding out to meet the mail, in order that they
might communicate the news a little sooner to the quidnunes
in the Exchange.
In reference to this, the late
William Motherwell remarked— "That the public were amused by the sight of
a flying kite and a
flying stationer." |
