The Duke of Westminster writes to yesterday's Times entreating the
owners of carriages to instruct their coachmen to loosen the bearing-rein on their fretted horses at the times when they are not actually driving, but only waiting for their masters or mistresses. The true remedy is to discontinue altogether these very useless bits of display. Coachmen are not apt to be solicitous about the comfort of their employers' horses. Indeed, they are just as certain to fret against small injunctions of this sort, as are the horses themselves " to throw up their heads from the discomfort of their bearing-reins," as the Duke's not very elegant English oddly phrases it. Only, unfortunately, the coachman can evade the bond of his master's injunctions, while the horses cannot by any tossing of the head evade the bond of the bearing-rein.
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