Steam, James Watt, and George Stephenson have a great deal to answer for. They will ruin the breed of horses, as they have already ruined the innkeepers and the coachmen, many of whom have been obliged to seek relief at the poor house, or have died in penury and want

Its trade has been entirely ruined by the opening of the Southampton and Great Western Railroads, and its numerous inns and public-houses, which had long been profitably occupied, are now almost destitute of business. Formerly thirty stage coaches passed through the village, now every coach has been taken off the road

Bagshot-Surrey 49 horses and Harness. To coach proprietors, Mail contractors, Post Masters and others --To be sold by Auction, Mr Robinson, on the premises Kings Arms, Inn, Bagshot, on Friday, November 2nd. 1838 at twelve o'clock precisely, by order of Mr Scarborough, in consequence of the coaches going by Railway.

About forty superior good sized, strongly, short-legged, quick actioned fresh horses and six sets of four-horse harness, which have been worked the Exeter Telegraph, Southampton and Gosport fast coaches and stage one of the Devonport Mail. The above genuine stock merits the particular attention of all persons requiring known good horses, which are for unreserved sale, entirely on account of the coaches being removed from the Road to the Railway

Then homeward again by Hartford Bridge and the old "White Lion" posting inn, with its memories of George III., and the prince Regent, and the forty coaches each way that stopped to change horses on their journey between London and Southampton, and the terrible end of the old ostler, who cut his throat on the day the London and South-Western Railway opened. Then up the long, beautiful Star Hill, where the flowers in the cottage gardens are always a week earlier than anywhere else in the neighbourhood; and over the great heather-clad stretches of Hartford-bridge Flats, and down Brick House Hill past the Mount to the Rectory, to recount our adventures and display our treasures.