So, upon the vision musing, back he rode to Camelot.
[1] This historical personage was apparently the first landlady of the Belle Sauvage.
FRIENDS OF CABMANITY.
Sir Robert Inglis, Lord Dudley Stuart, and Mr Bonham Carter are to be congratulated on the highly respectable lifehold residence which, it appears, they have acquired. They are to dwell, conjointly, in the hearts of the cab-owners, where, let us hope, they will not quarrel: especially as Mr. Bright is to be their fellow-tenant. On Wednesday evening last, at a meeting of that worthy proprietary, convened for the purpose of asserting the principle of extortion against the Legislature, a man named Beadle, who proposed a shilling a mile fares, is reported to have said:—
"The gentlemen who sat at the Cranbourn Hotel had endeavoured to show the Government that they could not live under the law, but they had met few friends in the House, except Sir R. Inglis, Lord D. Stuart, and Mr. Bonham Carter, whose names, he hoped, would never be effaced from their memories. (Cheers, and cries of 'Mr. Bright.') Yes, Mr. Bright had spoken for them, but he had only met sneers and jeers from those very men who now said that changes must be made in the bill before they came to work it."
Some people value any kind of popularity. Mr. Bright may exult in the shouts of the least respectable Manchester people. Lord Dudley Stuart may like to be cheered by the baser sort of Marylebonians. Mr. Bonham Carter may rejoice in the huzzas of the lowest classes of the population at Winchester. Sir Robert Inglis may be elated with the applause of the inferior portion of the inhabitants of Ratcliff Highway. If they do, they will be proud of the position they occupy in the good graces of the proprietors of dirty cabs, miserable horses, and abusive, rapacious fellows.
It must be rather flattering to Church Dignitaries to observe what company they are in, as eulogists and admirers of the Honourable Member for Oxford. The fact itself is not wonderful; for cab fares as they were, and episcopal incomes as they are, are things not very dissimilar, except in having been eightpence a mile on the one hand, and being from five to twenty thousand pounds per annum and upwards on the other.