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was a prominent member. Fidelity and rectitude, 

 combined with long service, are unquestionably 

 good reasons why an individual or a corporation 

 that may have been so well served should make a 

 handsome provision, accompanied by words of 

 appreciation and thanks, for a superannuated ser- 

 vant on retirement ; but they do not seem to call 

 for a public and pointed, and even invidious, notice, 

 attended with pecuniary emolument, upon ordinary 

 relinquishment of an exceedingly lucrative and 

 profitably exercised vocation. Else every man 

 who makes a competence, without cheating, in 

 any line of life, should be publicly complimented 

 and substantially rewarded by all and sundry, 

 high and low, whom his manner of life may 

 concern. But, at any rate, the 'John Osborne 

 Testimonial ' has undoubtedly tended to set the 

 jockey's horn on high. 



There was, on the other hand, the dissimilar 

 public appearance of Charles Wood, the jockey, 

 who, though he did not come in for any compli- 

 mentary address, figured as the possessor of wealth 

 beyond the dreams of avarice, of archbishops, or 

 even of brewers, as the Lord of Newmarket (with 



