of rest. The aged and the incurable are drafted off and sent to the
repository, and sold for a few pounds. Let me add, even these horses
continue their philanthropic career. No longer engaged in conveying the
verdant youth of the metropolis to business or pleasure, they drag greens
from door to door. The shoeing forge is close by. The physicking and
shoeing is taken by contract, by one man. He must have enough to do, as
in this yard and the one close by are generally a thousand horses. The
food, prepared by steam, is ground at the depot in Bell-lane.

Now for a word about the men. There are about three hundred in the
Highbury yard. The coachmen have six shillings, the conductors four
shillings a day, and are paid daily. The horse-keepers have a guinea a
week. The artisans employed in the carriage department earn from thirty
to fifty shillings a week. There are two sick clubs, one for the
coachmen and conductors, who pay sixpence a week, and receive when ill
fourteen shillings a week--and one for the horse-keepers, who pay
threepence a week, and receive when on the sick list ten shillings
weekly. On Sunday evening Divine Service is held in the harness-room,
fitted up for that purpose. This was commenced by Sir Horace St. Paul.
Once a year a grand tea-meeting is held, at which all the servants of the
company, with their wives and families, are present, and addresses are
delivered by Sir Horace St. Paul, Mr. Hanbury, M.P., and other
philanthropists; and for those who wish to improve a leisure hour, a
small reading-room is opened, access to which may be had on the payment
of a penny weekly. On the table are some newspapers and illustrated
periodicals, and thus not only is a little mental stimulus provided, but
the men are not driven to spend their money in a public-house. This is a
feature of the yard which cannot be too highly commended, and which I am
sure if it were known the general public would be happy to support. The
men are satisfied, I think. One of them I had known in better days
seemed glad to have secured a berth as a driver. One informed me that he
had 100 pounds, which he had told his Missus to draw out of the savings
bank and place in the custody of the Royal British; but his Missus was
obstinate, and her obstinacy saved the cash. Some of the men are
teetotallers, and those who wish to attend church or chapel on the Sunday
can do so. It is an advantage in a great company that it cannot res