Editorial note — From The Dublin University Magazine. Solutions of Some Parisian Problems.

[Footnote 241: It (the embarrassment) was to provide cabs To which they yoke poor hack horses, Whose leathers all shrunken, Ugly, greasy, and badly dressed, Represent the ghost Of the old cab belonging to Fiacre, Who was the first of the trade, That hired out carriages at the Quarter Of Monsieur St. Thomas of the Louvre.]