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milli ftecimdus ; next the Earls of Sefton aud 

 Craven, Lords Londesborougb, Avelaud, Car- 

 ington, Cole, and Tredegar, Colonels Tjrwhitt, 

 Owen Williams, the Honourable C. White, and 

 Arrnytage, Messrs. Cooper, Trotter, F. Villiers, 

 and H. AVombwell. 



It may appear invidious to select the above 

 when there are probably many more equally good ; 

 but I have witnessed the prowess of the above, 

 and speak not only from what I have my- 

 self seen, but from what I have heard from 

 others. 



There was somethinsf in the nature of a stao-e- 

 coachman, a whip of bygone days, that smaclced 

 (we mean no pun) of conscious importance. 

 He was the elect of the road on which he 

 travelled, the imitated of thousands. Talk of 

 an absolute monarch, indeed ! The monarch 

 even on his own highway was but a ginger- 

 bread one to the " swell dragsman." To him 

 Jem the ostler rushed in servile eagerness, to 

 him Boniface showed the utmost deference, for 

 him the landlady ever had a w^elcome reception, 

 towards him the barmaid smiled and glanced 

 in perpetual amicability, and around him the 

 helpers crowded as to the service of a feudal- 

 lord. Survey him as he bowled along the road, 



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