MR BIANCONI. 13 



is the way you treat men of capital and enterprise, who 

 are ready to embark both if they get the least encou- 

 ragement. For Id. a-mile the Postmaster-general sac- 

 rificed the protection such a coach would have given to 

 the mails, besides the better accommodation that would 

 have been afforded by it to the public. And here am 

 I, at a moment's notice, with 150 horses thrown idle on 

 my hands." Perhaps the Postmaster-general, as usual 

 in such cases, would have given a different version of 

 the story. Mr Bianconi was buying hay, of excellent 

 quality, at 18 s. to 20s. a-ton. 



