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which pass through their hands, and are gathered from 

 every part of the country, by the aid of upwards of 

 twenty commissioners. Messrs. Wimbush and Deacon, 

 Mr. Gray, and Mr. Joshua East (who has succeeded 

 Mr. Dickenson, and is in partnership with Mr. 

 Phillips), Mr. Withers, and Mr. Hetherington, are the 

 largest purchasers of carriage horses, though some of 

 them do so merely in their own job-master capacity, 

 and not to sell again. They supply themselves not 

 onlyfrom Mr. Collins and the other London and country 

 dealers, but attend the great fairs in Lincolnshire, 

 Yorkshire, and Northumberland. It is a nice question, 

 which probably the surveyor of taxes alone can solve, 

 whether Messrs. Wimbush and Co., or Messrs. East 

 and Co., keep the largest number of horses to let out. 

 We believe that they run within three or four pairs of 

 each other, and that at times each firm has owned not 

 fewer than 1400 pairs. 



The Messrs. Mason, who succeeded Mr. Elmore, 

 buy their hunters and hacks from Mr. Collins and the 

 larger dealers, and not often out of the breeders' hands. 

 Mr. Ibbs Brown — or Harboro' Brown as he is popu- 

 larly termed — is also in that hne ; while Mr. Saunders, 

 Mr. Attwood, Mr. Greenway, Mr. Philippo, and Mr. 

 G. Waymark, &c., are what may be called general- 

 purpose men. Mr. Pearl and Mr. Sewell draw, we 

 beheve, their supplies chiefly from Norfolk and Suf- 

 folk. Mr. Blackburn principally looks after black 

 entire horses, for funerals, which he imports from Dun- 

 kirk and elsewhere ; and Mr. Smith, of Whatton, 

 makes his voyages of discovery into Germany and 

 Denmark in search of cart-horses. Among the prin- 

 cipal country dealers, Mr. John Payne, of Market 

 Harborough, drove a first-class business for many 

 years ; and Discount, and a countless number of 

 Quorn and Pytcheley hunters have passed through his 

 hands. He has, in fact, been to the Leicestershire 

 side of the country what Mr. Kench has been to the 



