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has failed to improve in manners, education and taste, is in 

 all communities a public misfortune. 



Among the English residents, there are several good sports- 

 men, like Mr Payne Galway and Mr Buckridge, who play 

 polo, race, and are fond of horses. The same may be said of 

 the Germans, who are quite English in this respect. It is an 

 unfortunate circumstance that there is in our language no 

 term to designate the inhabitants of the United Kingdom. 

 That of ' Britishers ' will not do ; for it does not include the 

 Irish. Without any disloyality to my native country, I, as a 

 travelled Irishman, see no impropriety in putting them all 

 down as Englishmen, when out of Ireland, where such a 

 broad generalisation might hurt the hypersensitive feelings 

 of those who regard life only from one standpoint. I 

 make this explanation on account of having dubbed Mr 

 Galway a Sassenach. The mention of his name reminds me 

 that when dining one night with him at the Randt Club, I 

 had a striking proof, one among many, of the smallness of 

 the world. As we sat down, he told me that he had just 

 received a letter from his brother, who is a tea planter in 

 Ceylon, telling him that his greatest friend had broken his 

 neck when riding one of his horses at the late Colombo Races. 

 ' You don't mean to tell me,' I said, involuntarily jumping up, 

 ' that poor Waller is dead ? ' Hearing me repeat the name 

 of his brother's dead friend, without his mentioning it ; Mr 

 Galway was naturally surprised, and asked me how I could 

 have guessed it. I explained that both Mr Waller and his 

 brother were friends of mine, that I had stayed with them 

 when in Ceylon, and that I had seen a good deal of Mr Waller, 

 who was a fine gentleman rider, and who always rode for Mr 

 Galway's brother. 



Mr Buckridge, who is a Devonshire man, is a type of John 

 Bull for which I have a great respect ; although nature has 

 built me on altogether different lines. He is as English in 

 his speech, manner and style, as if he had never left his 

 native land, whose ways and institutions are perfection in his 



