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about three hundred. Carriages of various descrip- 

 tions, to the extent of one hundred or thereabouts, 

 are also in readiness for the numerous customers who 

 patronise "Newman's," flocking into this noted place 

 during the height of the season to an extent that 

 exhausts even the great resources of the establish- 

 ment. 



A new feature in the arrangements of this business 

 is, as I see advertised weekly in the columns of 

 BelVs Life, that persons hiring horses on job have 

 the option of purchase. An advantage which, no 

 doubt, many of their customers will readily avail 

 themselves of, as among the number that I saw on 

 the occasion of my visit, there were many high-class 

 horses, suitable for double and single harness ; 

 animals showing symmetry, and having action suit- 

 able for town work as well as appearance, without 

 which they would not command the class of cus- 

 tomers who go to Regent Street to supply their 

 wants. Well, when I looked over this noted estab- 

 lishment, what a host of recollections flashed across 

 my mind. What an important part in the drama of 

 life Messrs. Newman have played in their time. If 

 the gamester losing his money at Crockford's, and 

 quarrelling with his boon companion over the hazard 

 of the die, called out his fi'iend, or was asked to give 

 satisfaction, for some idle words spoken over the 

 green cloth, according to a fashion in vogue, when I 

 was young, what did he do? Why ordered four 

 horses at Newman's to be at the door of his lodgings 

 in St. James's, and went to his fate ; or gave satis- 

 faction to his opponent by shooting him through the 

 head, as the case might be, on Wimbledon Common, 



