Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-14
5onrnaL auo Courier.
Monday Morning, August If, 1882.



 In the winter of 1849,5O the great Sir Robert Peel made application to MT. Ander- son, requesting to be provided with steady hack, equal to his weight, good at delivering and placing his feet safely in 8 walk and trot. and so quiet that he would not shy at what Sam Weller called "a magazine full of monkeys with their tails singed off, Mir. Anderson was we'll aware that the illustrious statesman had imposed upon him task of no ordinary difficulty. Sir Robert was 8 very timid horseman and, in addition to sitting awkwardly upon his horse, had no and lightly to feel the animals mouth, and not to hold on by. He rode, moreover, 8 great weight which was increased by his helplessness in the saddle, and, as was natur- al for man ''deep on whose front engraven deliberation sat and public care,'' he was always wrapped in thought, and therefore more likely than most people to get into a scrape from absence of mind Mir. Anderson did not half like the commission confided to him, as he well knew the vast value set up by the country upon Sir Roberts life, and therefore he deputed it's discharge to MT.
 Rice Many months passed away before the
 latter found the animal that he wanted, and
 at last he presented himself at the door of
 Sir Roberts house in Whitehall Gardens,
 mounted upon magnificent brown cob, up to any weight, with faultless shoulders
 and perfect manners. Sir Robert tri-
 ed and liked the horse, and up
 on inquiring his prjce E.1n was va told .fou, , l riding horse worth such 8 sum ?" asked the | astonished statesman, as he peremptorily de l clined to have him at that figure. ''The i Premier'--such was the animals name 1 having been taken back to Piccadilly wal l immediately purchased by Mir. Hall, of OK
 ford, who was then Master of the Heythrol 1 Hounds, and who after riding him for
 short time in the park, gladly closed at thu price which Sir Robert had thought so exor ] bitant.
 In the meanwhile, the Prime Minister l disre1arding the advice of one of his neigh l bors in Warwickshire, who, having been hi l schoolfellow at Harrow, had often told hin
 that he was too bad rider to trust himsel ! in the saddle at all, determined coute qal ' c0atte, to take equestrian exercise. In hi perplexity he turned to Mir. Evelyn Denison 1 then Speaker of the House of Commons ! who had married sister of Lords Georg and Henry Bentinck, and who from his boy ] hood was familiar with horses of all kinds 1 The Speaker more rash, or less experienced d l than Mir. Joseph Anderson, undertook t' ! find horse for the ex-Prime Minister, ant picked up half bred brute for the purpos | at an outlay of sixty five pounds. Sir Robert old and faithful coachman at once pronounc I ed that the Speakers hack would never sui l his master, and entreated Lady Peel to dis
 suade her husband from mounting him. w
 all know the result. On the 1st of July, 1850 Sir Robert, who persisted in turning dea 1 car to his coachman's warnings, went ou l riding, and met Lady Dover's carriage upol ! Constitution Hill. As he endeavored, witl ! the awkwardness of naal- adroit rider, t. 1 lift his hat, the horse upon which he wa
 mounted began to ourvet, and without th 1 least effort to save himself, Sir Robert fel heavily to the ground, breaking his collar
 bone and two of his ribs. One of the frac tured ribs punctured the sufferers lungs and he obstina, ely refused to permit Si
 Benjamin Brodie to put him to any pain b. | feeling and examining the wound Chloro ! form and other ansesthetics were then un ! known, and one of the most valuable lives il l the world was sacrifed before it's time, be | cause the Speakers services were substitute' l for those of Mir. Anderson and MT. Rice il selecting riding horse for an elderly an' l absent-minded gentleman who did not knov l how bad horseman he was. The stor.
 sufices to show the importance to statesmen ! and, indeed, to rich men generally, of no l grudging the price which is necessary to SC 1 cure to them that valuable possession ''a saf 1 quadrupedal conveyance'