inch of whipcord; and if, some years
hence a petrified whipple tree, or the skeleton of a coachman,
should be turned up, they will be hung up side by side with rusty
armour and the geological gleanings of our antediluvian ancestors.

We cannot part with our civil, obliging, gentlemanly friends of the
road without a feeling of regret, and an expression of gratitude
for the benefits they have done us. It was pleasant, after a warm
breakfast, to remove our heels from the hob, and ensconce oneself
by the side of our modern whip--to establish a partnership in his
cosy leathern apron--to see him handling his four spirited bays as
though his reins were velvet--and having, with a few familiar words
and a friendly cigar, drawn the cork from the bottle of his varied
information, to learn, as we slapped along at ten miles an hour,
whose park it was, stretching away to the left, to listen to his
little anecdotes of horse and flesh, and his elucidation of the
points of the last Derby. "Peace to the _manes_ and to the names"
of our honest coachmen, one and all of them, and of their horses
too--we speak of their whippish names, for in the _body_ we hope
they may long tarry, and flourish to _boot_, in other departments
of the living.

AN OLD FRIEND AND A NEW FACE.

_To the Editor of the_ "_Exeter and Plymouth Gazette_."

SIR,

You will oblige me by inserting the following in your paper, which may
be amusing to some of your readers:--

It is a fact well known that when the subscription coaches started,
in the year 1812, William Hanning, Esq., a magistrate of the county
of Somerset, residing near Ilminster, was a strenuous advocate for
their support, and it was in great measure owing to his exertions
that they were established. This gentleman, from some motive or
other, or perhaps from his known fondness for new speculations, is
now the avowed supporter of a new coach, called, above all other
names, the "Defiance," and it is professedly meant as an opposition
to the subscription coaches. It started from Exeter for the first
time on Sunday, April 13th, 1823. One really would have supposed
that under such patronage a name better calculated to keep the
peace of his Majesty's liege subjects, and to preserve harmony and
good-will among men, would have been adopted for th