THE ROAD. 
has multiplied, and many names and varieties have been 
adopted in succession. The quiet movement of their 
wheels, the nice equilibrium in which they are placed 
on the axle, the evenness of their motion by reason of 
their being detached from their shafts, and the ease 
with which they follow the horse, make gigs delightful 
carriages to ride in, and we could wish they were 
not so dangerous. The stanhope, so named after 
the Honourable Fitzroy Stanhope, who planned it, suc- 
ceeded the tilbury, so called from the well-known 
coach-maker ; and the cost, without harness, of either 
may be about seventy pounds. Now "every dog has 
his day," and so have our prevailing fashions. The 
buggy, stanhope, dennet, and tilbury, have all, during 
some seasons past, been supplanted by the cabriolet for 
town work, for which we must allow it is far more suitable 
though much too heavy for the road. In London, 
this has been seen at the opera, at the theatres, at the 
club-houses, and at dinner parties, with a neat little 
urchin on the foot-board, performing all the offices of 
the chariot with not a third of its expenses. The 
English cabriolet, however, is rather on the decline in 
the fashionable world, and the light and airy tilbury is 
making its appearance again. 
For country work nearly all these open vehicles have 
given place to the double-bodied phaeton and the britscka, 
both of which are much used in travelling post. The 
former is likewise in vogue with citizens and others who 
have families, and is now made so light as to be drawn 
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