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railroads and the ' leaps and bounds ' of com- 

 merce. 



Jenny Lind, Jetty TrefTz, Yaller Gal, Coal 

 Black Rose, Sich-a-gettin'-up-stairs, La Polka, 

 Polka, and The Polka, testify to popular favourites 

 and novelties in the upper and lower musical 

 world. Qui Tam and Sauter-la-Coupe, recall 

 vexatious law-suits and a cmtse cHebre in 1837 ; 

 and Baron Martin testifies of the connection which 

 existed (and still exists) between the Bench and 

 the Bar on the one hand, and the turf and the 

 Jockey Club on the other. 



To return to the fair sex, we find Helen Faucit, 

 to do honour to the great lights of the stage ; 

 Clara Webster (the unfortunate opera-dancer, who 

 was burnt to death, and whose fate created quite 

 an uproar at the time), to commemorate a sad 

 catastrophe of the ballet ; and Baccelli, Delpini (a 

 he-dancer), Violante, Parisot, and scores besides 

 before Pitteri, to show the attachment between 

 the turf and Terpsichore ; and Lola Montez, 

 Skittles, Laura Bell, and a host more, to celebrate 

 the heroines of scandal. 



There can be no desire, however, to see a 



