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they must each of them earn, the whole year through, 

 10/. daily, to earn anything like their expenses up and 

 down. These sixteen permanent coaches alone, there- 

 fore, must receive nearly 60,000/. a year merely to keep 

 them going ; and the eight butterflies, as I have heard 

 them called, or summer coaches for six months, must 

 earn nearly 15,000/. more. Looking, however, at the 

 lowness of my calculation as to expense, and at the 

 excellent waybills that most of them carry, both summer 

 and winter, I am quite satisfied that, including gratuities 

 to coachmen, etc., not a farthing less than 100,000/. per 

 annum is spent by the public between Brighton and 

 London ; and for the sake of the wheels, for which I 

 have always been a staunch advocate, I wish it were 

 twice as much. 



' Taking up a newspaper a few days ago, I was very 

 sorry to observe the death of Mr. Home, the largest 

 proprietor by far in England, and one of the best that 

 ever put a horse to public conveyance. The public has 

 sustained a great loss by his decease ; for he conducted 

 the whole of his immense concern in a most creditable 

 and spirited manner ; and his coaches, taken altogether, 

 were better horsed than those into any other yard in 

 London, my old ally Mrs. Nelson's, being always ex- 

 cepted. I have not heard what arrangements are likely 

 to take place, but I should think it will be difficult to 

 find any one customer with capital sufficient to take to 

 the whole of his various establishments, amounting as 

 they do almost to a monopoly of the best roads out of 

 London. 



