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my remembrance, various minor establishments of 

 this kind in the metropolis, and such is the case at 

 present. 



The Horse Bazaar in Kino; Street, Portman 

 Square, remarked for the novelty of the appellation, 

 and for the extent and splendour of the establish- 

 ment, was opened about eight years since. Having 

 detailed, somewhat at large, particulars of the inter- 

 nal state and management of this great concern, in 

 two numbers of the Sporting Magazine (July 1822, 

 and August 1824), I must refer the reader thither 

 (a reference indeed, of universal and popular noto- 

 riety) ; having nothing to add but the general opinion 

 of the now solid and permanent situation of the 

 Horse Bazaar. The repository in Gray's Inn Road 

 was opened in 1828, upon too large and expensive a 

 scale, certainly with respect to those spacious apart- 

 ments above stairs ; and with a most unaccountable 

 blunder, as to the purpose for which they were pro- 

 fessedly intended. A recent example ought to have 

 demonstrated to the speculators, the impossibility of 

 attracting to Gray's Inn Road, and of filling their 

 rooms with a company of that description of which 

 they dreamed ; otherwise, and granting there is yet 

 sufficient business for another repository in the me- 

 tropolis, the situation is not inconvenient, the stablino- 

 is excellent, and the scheme, commenced upon a 

 smaller scale, might have gradually succeeded. 



Sale days at Tattersall's are Monday and Thurs- 

 day, the auction commencing with much regularity, 

 at twelve o'clock. At the Horse Bazaar, they sell 

 on Tuesday and Saturday, commencing at one o'clock. 



