Batty removed his company and stud at Whitsuntide to the Surrey, for a short season, Dewhurst taking another benefit, on which occasion he issued the following characteristic appeal:— ‘On this particular occasion Mr Dewhurst’s tongue will be placed on a swivel in the centre, and black-leaded at both ends, to bring laughing into fashion. ‘I wonder how the people can Call me Mr Merryman! Worn are my clothes almost out By being whipped and knocked about; Torn is my face in twenty places By stretching wide to make grimaces. My worthy cits, Now is it fit That you should sit, Gallanting it, The whole kit, In box and pit, To see me hit, Boxed, cuffed, and smit, Sham dead as a nit, And laugh at it, Till your sides split? There you sit, Though requisite To rack my wit These rhymes to knit, Which I have writ To bring the folks to a house well lit, To fill the house before we quit, For a great attraction all admit Will be on Dewhurst’s benefit.’ From the Surrey, Batty and his company removed to White Conduit Gardens, where a temporary circus was erected for the summer season, and in early autumn to the theatre at Brighton. Astley’s was re-opened shortly afterwards with a powerful company and a numerous stud of beautiful and well-trained horses. Batty was himself a capital rider; Newsome, his articled pupil, was already a very promising equestrian; and the company was now joined by the celebrated Stickney, who was a great attraction during several seasons. A bull-fight was one of the special features of the programme of 1842–3, a horse being, as on other occasions when the conflicts of the _Corrida de los Toros_ have been represented in the arena, trained to play the part of the bull.