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Sous farther pertieolus of the fearful accident
which occurred on Friday last at Bromley have
reached us. The general account we gave In yester-
day's publication was in all essential features perfectly
correct; but certain of the fears therein expressed
appear to have been premature, if not unfounded ;
and harrowing as details of imminent peril to
life and property may prove to the more tender-
hearted of our readers, we deem it an imperative
duty to dwell for a few moments on an event whole
incidents may possibly prove a warring In future Us
rash and conceited drivers.
It would appear that a little before the usual hour
es Friday last, the slow coach " Protection," heavily
laden with revengers, but carrying very little
de,
ey .The ed the " Real Old Goat" inn at
Bromley greater number of the passengers
seemed to be of rather an inferior description; and
teem their loud tone of 'inside' and excited
manner, persons unacquainted with the fact that this
vehemence of gesticulation in many owes is habitual,
and indeed professional, might hove mistaken their
incessant cues and shouts about labour and wages for
indications, that either the turbulent " outsides" were
of the working classes, or were frenzied with zeal
for their welfare. It never could have been in-
ferred from the violent language so freely indulged
in, that the idea uppermost in the thoughts
of thew worthies wee how to benefit themselves, COIL
other people what it might, and that the immediate
topic of their discuss:ea was how they could most
&etc ly attain that object. Inside the slow coach
was not full. Two elderly gentlemen only occupied
the interior ; the one of aristocratic and good-natared
look, bat somewhat silly in expression ; the other un-
like his companion in every particular.
Though not in over-good condition, the team came
in tolerably fresh, a circumstance which evidently
served to stimulate the anger of the seats behind the
box. "See," they exclaimed, " tow we have been
jockeyed all the last stage! At tide rate 'tie clear
we shall not reach the ' office' before the half of us
an famished with hunger and cold. It will do
to go on any longer with this humbug of a whip.
Either he doesn't know the road, or tat a us ever so tar
about on purpose." And with inch explosive sublimates
el rhetoric the whole roach crew descended from
their places and entered the " Real Old Out." Th
scene that then and there ensued has already been
described. The accused coachman was not present :
a swdonic on-looker wan heard to soliliquise—" How
few of these brawlers would venture to wag a tongue
if BEN were by!" But Ban unfortunately was too
confident in himself and his knowledge of
donkeys (his favourite animals) to give any
heed to the mutinous eloquerce and unani-
mous denunciations with which the best
parlour rang. Had he not served his time to the
art and mystery of driving under the severest master
of the day P Had be not fagged without honour or
reward for seven long years under "Pancake Bonier,"
as his Leine whirs fellow-townsmen to this day delight
in calling him, in allusion to the fact of his happening
to have come into the world at Shrovetide ? And had
not BEN, weary at length of ill-usage, snatched the reins
one day out of the great driver's hands, and flinging
them to the first man of rank and pluck he could find,
bid him meant the box and drive on P And when
that rash and impetuous guide was removed, had net
BEE, for want of a decent or presentable whip of
quality, actually installed himself in office, and at au
easy pace, though doubtless by most dark and wind-
ing ways, brought the slow coach into Bromley
that very day P
Little he dreamed that his last day of ccachman-
ship was come! While he was out of sight patting
the sides of his donkeys, which be had selected to pull
through the next stage by Five per Cent. to Sinking
Fund,—suddenly a wild and maniac shout fell upon
his ear, and eta he could reach the fatal spat, the
" Proeeetion." with all its demented passengers, was
rolling at frightful speed out of the village, amid the
inhuman laughter of .me of the bystanders, and
more incredible still, to the apparent delight of the
impatient outsides. Away it rolled or rather seemed
to fly, scattering an infinite quantity of dust and dirt
on all sides, and endangering the safety of honest
people, the testimony of whose senses hardly
convinced them that the Lumber Van, as the
slow coach was familiarly called along the road,
could by any possibility go at such a rate. But the
rapidity of the apparition did not prevent people
from discerning the tree solution of the mystery. In-
stead of well-bred donkeys, an unmanageable team of
half-broken dewa blood had been surreptitiously
yoked to ; and before the insurgents could agree
among themselves who should be driver, the new
teem bolted!
They were speedily out of sight and bearing.
Nobody could tell what would become of them and
their crazy burthen ; and we are bound in condone,
though we must say not without condt-mnatioe, to
add, that few people seemed to care. It may perhaps
be very little matter in what ditch the luckless old
concern is found finally upset. Nor are we
about to insist that it can make much difference
one way or other, whether we ever hear of
the outsides again. But we really should not
like to hear of the poor old runaway hcrees
having hurt themselves, as it is very probab'e they
may do, being all, it is said, stone blind. The last
time th.t "protection" was distinctly recognised it
was proceeding at apparently unslackened speed
across country, having long quitted the ordinary road
aid taken to the fields "in a truly straightforward
manner." Instinct alone could have been guiding its
course at the time, for reason and reins were alike want-
ing. But the direction *sensed unmistakeable, and the
panting leaders were straining every muscle to reach
the well known livery stables in Downing-street.
How they were to clear certain fences, or to swim
Pertain deep currents that lay athwart their path, we
do not undertake to say.
When our express left, the deposed driver was to
be seen still standing in the same posture of mute and
incredulous astonishment into which he had involun-
tarily fallen at the moment when the melancholy fact
be came obvious at a glance to him, that his eirvices
were no longer wanted, and that the creatures of his
protection had dismissed him—
Pensive, but not in thought, he stood at the window be-
holding.
A grim smile played over his features, as if by anti-
rpeiticia he foresaw the ludicrous civilise, the sprawl-
ing in the mire, the mutual reproaches, and
too late lamentings over the mutiny at Bromley.
Bast must have doubtless felt, likeliouis PHILIPPE,
whose frequent ejaculation after Ws overthrow is
reported to have been, " Just like my predecessor ! "
Their fates are not dissimilar. Conspirators and sup-

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