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from joining in the exhibition by a trifle of bad 

 weather. 



Consequent partly iipon the disastrous state of 

 the weather, the attendance was reduced to this low 

 ebb. In vain we watched for the advent of his 

 Grace the Duke of Beaufort, the President of the 

 Coaching Club, and the staunch supporter of the art 

 of whipcraft. Many were the regrets expressed at 

 his absence from the gathering, as well as that of 

 his son, that first-rate coachman, Lord Arthur 

 Somerset. Not a scion of this noble family put in 

 an appearance ; not even that good workman, Colonel 

 Arthur P. Somerset, whose clipping team of chesnuts 

 always attracts the greatest amount of attention, 

 and whose mode of handling four horses is a treat 

 to behold. Wanting on this occasion, also, was Mr. 

 Arthur Byass, whose topping team of handsome 

 chesnuts is usually to the fore ; Captain Whitmore, 

 whose beautifully-matched and clever-stepping greys 

 invariably command the admiration of the by- 

 standers and judges of coachmanship ; Mr. Murietta, 

 with his handsome, carefully-selected lot ; and sundry 

 other well-known artists, who, in the teeth of such a 

 discouraging condition of the elements, did not care 

 to join in the meeting. Some of the members of the 

 Coaching Club, no doubt, were pursuing the duties of 

 their calhng, by attending to the comfort of the as 

 yet limited number of passengers, for whose accom- 

 modation the various stage coaches start daily on 

 their different journeys; but the falling off of artists 

 on the bench, idle spectators, curious critics, admirers 

 of the horse, and saunterers about town, resulted 

 from the unspring-like policy of the clerk of the 



