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in a steeplechase, took all the old-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 ma^urs," and an 

 assemblao;e which included Eno-land's then 

 Prime Minister and Lord Chancellor, and Sir 

 R. 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 Weig;ht, and 

 of the Hon. Alfred Lyttleton's Corunna (a 

 Retreat 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 Gaylad, who 

 had made strong running during the early 



