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Breakfasting at the Badminton towards the end of 

 August^ it was suggested that we should step into 

 Piccadilly and watch its descent down the somewhat 

 steep pitch opposite the entrance to the Club, as an 

 opportunity would be afforded of seeing the team and 

 noting how it was handled ; and he must be a captious 

 critic indeed who could find any fault with the coach, 

 its admirable horses, or the workmanlike way in 

 which it is handled by Mr. Shoolbred, who occupied 

 the bench on that occasion. 



The afternoon coach to St. Albans, the proprietor of 

 which is Mr. Parsons, still runs three times a week, 

 leaving the Cellar at 4.30 p.m. The Windsor coach 

 has been withdrawn, as also the Tunbridge-wells and 

 Sevenoaks, which is to be regretted, as a journey 

 through the ^^ Garden of England '^ at this season is 

 doubly charming. The road through Bromley, Seven- 

 oaks, Tunbridge, and Tunbridge-wells is delightful ; 

 and the traveller, if he be of a horticultural turn of 

 mind, may learn much respecting the cultivation of 

 cherries and cobnuts ; and if he is one of those 

 hardened individuals who have not the fear of Sir 

 Wilfrid Lawson before their eyes, he will see with 

 interest the growth of the plant from which the bitter- 

 ness of Bass is derived. 



It is to be hoped that the proprietors of this well- 

 appointed and excellently-horsed coach — the Earl of 

 Bective, Lord Helmsley, Lord Castlereagh, Captain 

 Dunbar, and Colonel Chaplin — have found the venture 

 sufficiently satisfactory to allow of its being put on 

 the road again at an early period of next season. The 

 coach which was worked between London and the 

 Orleans Club was withdrawn from that journey at the 



