BLOOMSBURY— 1839, 



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they are competent, no lawyer can pretend to correct their 

 j udgment ; if they are not so — they should not be appointed. 

 As it was, a most complete confusion was the consequence. 

 Parties with Bloomsbury's name on the wrong side of their 

 books, at once refused to pay, screening themselves behind 

 the notice given to the stakeholder, whilst some even went 

 so far as to refuse to settle at all, even as regarded other 

 homes in the race. In short there never was upon the Turf 

 so complex a business as the " Bloomsbury question," and 

 it is much to be hoped that the Jockey Club, by some more 

 rigid enactment, will provide against the possibility of a 

 recurrence of such a " case." 



To dispose at once of the question, it is as well to state, 

 that after running at Ascot, " under protest," the case came 

 on on the 22d of August, at Liverpool, before a special jury, 

 and a well-feed corps of learned Serjeants, counsel, and the 

 like, when a verdict was returned in accordance with the 

 decision of the Epsom stewards, and thus this troublous 

 matter was finally put to rest, after having made a " regular 



row amongst 



"THE DONS A I IHF, CORNER. 



