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in a steeplechase, took all the olcl-fashioued 

 lawyers by surprise. Shades of Erskine, 

 Mansfield, and Brougham ! suppose any one 

 had been rash enough to propose such a 

 thing in their day ! Excommunication would 

 surely have been deemed too good for him. 

 But " autre temps, autre mwurs,'' and an 

 assemblag;e which included Eng;land's then 

 Prime Minister and Lord Chancellor, and Sir 

 E. Webster, the present Attorney-General, 

 were at Combe to give the event a good 

 " send off," and witness the success of Mr. 

 Gee on Defiance in the Light Weight, and 

 of the Hon. Alfred Lyttleton's Corunna (a 

 Eetreat horse), ably handled by Mr. H. 

 Godsal, in the Heavy Weight contest. An 

 unfortunate accident, at a wretched little 

 fence with an awkward landing on a litter- 

 covered road, brought three horses to grief, 

 of which Mr. Smith - Bosanquet's Ladybird 

 and Mr. Higgins's Cymbeline were both 

 killed on the spot. At the same time 

 and place Mr. Terrell, on Gay lad, who 

 had made strong running during the early 



