The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-07-16 00:00:00

BRIDPORT.

TRM annual meeting of the Bridput Cu sod Call
COM p.ny was held in the Council-chamber. Town Halt tia
fueriday. July lith. There were present Me-em S Wepliens
tehairmank W. Golfo:, Fl Howell 111.ynri. T. a
imunds, C. Tucker. W. Turner, J. Templemaa, P.
Squill S. W. Whetham. S. Whether& C. Raker, C.
Newtorry, ft. Cornick. Mr. S. S:ephens said he was
pleased to be with th..ni once mon.. and in permeating the
uaiited statement of acronnta for the year ending May
31st, the directors wished to raper.e their entire sate.
faction at the continued prosperity of the company,
although the income from au-rent-41 had diniitaisherk
owing to. late reduction in price. He should proper. a
&vidirad of 10 per cent., free of Income-tax, payable in
. July next. 81...ded by Mr. Howell, and curried
unanimously. Mr. S. Whetham proposed that Mr. S.
Stevens be again elected director. Seconded and carried
unanimously. Mr. Moist proposed Mr. R. Cnroick es
director. Mr. Cornick pro Mr. Temple. .an be elected
auditor. ft,th carried. Mr. Howell said there etas the
utura of £5O, which he proposed should be devoted to the
one of the directors for their work during the put yesr.
Mr. &atilt proposed • vote of thanks to the chairman let
his duty that day and during the past year. Cured
unanimnimly. Mr. Stevens briefly thanked the company.
Mr. 8. Wbetham mold they must feel it their duty to
acknowledge and thank Mr. James Lnwe. secretor,, end
hi. assistant, Mr. Ginter, for the efficient manner in
which they had done their work for the company. (Ap-
pian. This occluded the bit•ineet of tb• meeting.
Comm Poucz. Monday.—B. fore Mr. J. P. F. Handel',
Mr S. Lunde., and Me C. Weld.
Frew& Iferses. In the employ of Kr. James Sion,
merchant, of Axminster, Ira. charged with leaving •
lneornotire engine on the highway, at Chideock. on the
!Sod of June, and further with leaving • horse and cart at
•he same place unprotectot—Mr Tweed defended.-
PriSOIVT pleaded not guilty—PC. Greenstock said that on
Saturday. tend June. +limit quarter to one in the moroing,
he was going to Marcomhe Lake, when he found •
locomotive engine and shores and cart at the top of the
toll, near Cbideock. The horse was loners and could have
orm ed at its wilL He saw the defendant on the engine
asleep.. Soon afterrards he came . beck with another

collat.-able-I-ma-M;(1- -HMI-a:and called his attention to the
obstruction. Awoke defendant and asked him where the
other men where? He replied some were here. Going
round by some trocks he saw this. men and a boy woad
asleep. they were snoring. Defendant told him be had •
right to stay than.. provided one man was looking daft
the engine. Storm was escaoing from the engines the
trucks were loaded with bark, and stretched farther into
the road thou did the engin*. -Mr. Tweed asked the
constable if the horse, to., were close to the hedge f-Yes.
There .118 roomnieuipa for a motion to paw by the side
of It-Mr. Tweed: C mid von swear the men were asleep!
Yes. For thsy were snoring-A rnaristrsta inquired if
any steam was up at the time-lit Tweed thought the
question was as to whether the engine and truck. had a
right to be there -Mr. Boon then said that water had
I".°•titoot to be taken in, this causing considerable delay.
On that particular ooeasion he gave hie men instructions
not to enter into the town (Bridport) until day-light. so he
did not wrists to &roues the inhabitants durine the Malik
and that they should stop at the most convenient spot on
the road. Every means of safety had also been provided.
-George Welch, a veinier. said he ow in charge of the
engine on the night in question, and about halfspeet 12
they arrived at the summit of the hlll, sad halted on the
right of the road, as does as praeriesble to the hedge. The
width of the road at the top Is feet wide, width of We
engine is 7 fset • ladies more than 14 feet of road being
left for traffic. He heard the policeman COMO up. ID was
not asleep he could swear. -Mr. Tweed: The POIiCOMOI
sold you were oaken, and snoring. then YOU OMM noel—
Wftneas : L ir, no, I Dever snored in my life. (Loughtsf2
-Georg. Davis was also called, but the Hooch imposed •
fin. of Cl with costa.

Til&Wer 7;7 merchant. tees th-b Hurffld .66
using the said locomotive engine, the wheels bring sow.
etructed in a different manner than that imposed by Let
of Parliament. As in the previons ease Kr. Tweed. of
Honitoti, defended. P.C. Oreanstock said be WM on duq
at Chilleock sad examined the wheilile of the mese. 553
Motive.] that around the centre of the tier of the front
wheels an iron bond was axed 3 inches wide and 1 iac.
thick, the tier of the wheel was about 10 inches, the
lenge wheel. being 15 inch wide. The front wheels did
'‘'`t sink into the ground and therefore did not hold ffe
Kr. Tr sod: He knew the engine had done a deal it
damage to the drainage in and time Chideock.
William Boma, son of defendant, said be knew the
encl., in question, and that the peculiar form the shoes
and whams presented were nestemere to 'b. Pm"'
working of it. The front wheel, are not intended to boar
the weigh, but for steerage Without the hies in question
tbe roads would he eat to pieces. The hare do not make
an impression except on • very 'oft road. This statement
wee crroborat.d by Mr. Houneell, of Rridport, who had
cio previous oncasicuts borrowed lir. &vies engine, and
had noticed that the state or the road was uninjured site
ensine had impelled over it.
Thomas Howard Head, an engineer, was then naiad,
and said there was certainly a continuous bearing pre-
sented to the road, exactly as if the bars attached to the
wheels were of an unbroken surface. Mr. Heed explained
this in a descried.* producing some large photo-
graphs of the engine in order to illuerram his evidence.
Referring to • clause in the Act of P.rliament it wee
found that a " continuous unbroken surface mud be
presented to the road," and the magistrates, failing to seeV,at Mr. Boons wheels were constructed in like manor
after retiring for a abort time, fined defendant 10 anti
Coat., An &application was then made "in the usual way
to carry the came to a higher court, and granted

11111111101LIBM
A Morel we, played between Sherhoree School sad
Clifton College on the ground of the f0r.,.. on Prides'
end Setur la last. The contest was an extremely &ins
one, the Clifton team hems very strong Shahan,
School—lit innings, 91 : 9.1 Innings. 50 Clifton Celle.
—lst tunito, 105 Ind innings. IST.
Tee remora match be, ..-en the Shoehorns and Moccombe
Clubs was played on Wednesday, and resulted In au sea
victory for the home team. A capita luncheon was ffon
'idea hy Mr Premien, of the Black Horse Hotel. The
scores were—Starborne, ; Moto:webs, lit Maine& *;
Ind innings. 17 f.Y nine wicket&
811111130111111 KOSICAL IJIIIOI/ —On Tuesday, evening the
Town Hall wee 611 ed bye, appreciative sudieece en*
bad his. drawn together by the ainioutkeement Mr. C IL
Whitehead, Bk, was to give a lecture on "floured
-
Bah the subject sad its expowent were new to Mahone
audacities; but the lectame achieved ass 1111,41141115105W0
Itleolol.
The employees of Mr. Seale, builder. haa their annual
16"4.1. nancting Weanouth and Portland as the
rendesvous. The party aft Ia the otorbi hror• sod foir
nbovtlY before eve o'clock. and arrived at Weymouth it
lan early hou,. flay viewed the "lane of the piece, l".* enheetiztly sew Me portion ot Plea reinsittillS 11
11111 ,
They re— home about midnight ion cheers for their worthy employee whet heartily given.
011 evotliti • riri.l6 aosidset happened 10 •
litU• tow named Sled. The Fire BA's& were havinin
prattle, in the W 4 Dear Mr. Roseledee's boom Goa ,
0n.,.. there wal the meal throng if &Mires shout. This
lad got meg the 11111111111 when 1b.,.,. were poteoinif and
by aim means or other sot his bead in contact ..6111 the
handle and neesived a terrible blow across the foes/sad
and ocher places. He wee taken to the Yealman Hoepitsl
and attended by Dr. Richman& and hops..,, sotertainns
of hi. recovery, although the Wear were very serious
A amt. utsesiiing order parade of the 7th D R V. te*,
Moods, smile& Aseemblim at the DrillHaS
gr on
oceopsey marched to the cricket Bel& where *eV
were closely Inspected. The head was in sittendalson
After the drill the CO Enpaer partook ofmisomment the lawn at the residence of llotrLiesdeeent V7illisse who litswally provided the spread, whisk we. missb.k.enice*
after the encase the onesesay bed JIM gam Loud cheers sena gives for the Sub-
father the 11.nonkr7 411111.101 i of the carps.
Poolt Otm Lawrie Dibedalle. or Jimmy Dibed&a.“l"
we. the mem familiarly known. is deed. At the name
age of 78 he has mum the way of all Ask se ember be hes gym in • way that al flesh dose not usually go. Vet 05
Friday night he was loused lying deed on the door of hie
bitches, covered with • par of begs sad some him shook.
WO. Many Sherbornima will remember -tbe Mlle OW
MD he used to 64. with the lit, Mg. Pes4 In Mee
babas% sal Mega :2 1=143a6 104

Hotel, for • great number et Teen. He wee formerly Sgriculturai clerk to Mr. Peter Bdue, a respected attorney practiaine
Is this town. He would hey° no one to attend bin, or to
get his daffy food. but lived in an indeecribable wanner,
either at home or in the inns of the town. 11. had some We DISEASED POTATO&
ye regret to learn that many of the Potatoes lately
Perty. hut woe of • mleerly diets-410th. When deceased
was found he was lying about two feet from the received from Citeehenegt Jereeet and Outrage) are
m many instances so much diseseed as to be totally
grate with the coal and ashes apparently raked from
the gm along aids of him. On the other aide was • tettle, unsaleable.
don it were chamber ware, food, medicine battles, At the Manchester City Police Court Thum's! the
...m.0., cum saucers( with tea or other liquor in thenA Rev. Marko Morris, an officer of one of the Jewish
pillow.. La The furniture WY "anyhow and nob...
and worm*, is that shy, and hr.. went,
u of
and all presented& tome of the utmost its trier end filth. charged with cruel.y to, a bullock which the'', bad The urea ran be said the otpnhetricerce„sunma.,Th..tea,keayteor slau.dered according to the Hebrew method for the
f
i
the premise. was handed t o the
the discovery on Friday night, to be k-pt until after the has of the Jewish community. Tit alleged cruelty
inquest. On S Aortal,. the Ingo 'two, held at the Sean consisted in the defendante allowing the animal to
Hin by the Coroner of the liberty, when, tarter 'hart bleed to death, instead of stunning it by mean. of •
consultation. the jury returned a verdict of " Found dead; poleaxe. and then severing the c inflection between
died frogs natural munies." the brain and the spinal cord in the ordinary way.
IProfessional witnesses were called to prove that um.
method employed was not cruel, and the magistrates
dismissed the cum
THE DUKE 08 PORTLAND AT WELBECK
ABBEY.
(Prom Celebrities at Home". The World).
The tall, slender, almost emaciated man, with
shoulders but slightly b erred by age, with the final
clear-ant Isotope., and with • fir-away cat* culminate
ing in a Gothic-arch collar, is the ',resent head of the
historic family of rentinck. He has n d approached
the great ridiniphouse in the fashion of ordinary
in trt sla It pleases him to penetrate his magnificent
domain by • eerie' of burrows, and to startle his
dependents by unexpected appurancee from theu
subterranean depths. Theme burrows are no narrow
tunnels, hut lofty di,oicious paintausa lighted by costly
apparatus for letting in the eon at intervals, ant by ,
innumerable gaslights. Lined with brick and stone,
and perfecly water-tight, they enable their owner to '
be everywhere by turns and nowhere long, unless it
please him to go into detail with tiny of the numerous
subdirectors of the extraordinary work. complete and
in the wane of construction, at Welbeck. The suidsa
apparition of a great duke among the grooms exercis-
ing his h nes in the great riding-house, whose like
egad, nowhere du, astonish..., but d we not dismay.
A.. hie pale face rises from the earth in the left-hand
corner of the enormous building, there is no sign of
torpi lotion amon4 th se assembled, while their muter
surveys the magnificent work raised at a c st which sets
calculation at defi.noe. Nearly four hundred feet long.
with • width of rather more than one-third, this riding
house, car -aged with tan, ha. wall, of solid stone,
and • roof of wood, glass, and iron. Two rows of
column+ divide it into a nave and two aisle., the latter
with beautiful wooden roofs. The great central
compartment is decorated with a frieze of painted
brace-work, retweeenting birds, beasts, sod foliage;
while the whole structure is adorned with a stone
frieze of elegant &Um anti perfect workmanship.
On the latter Imality the Duke of Portland iodate.
Endowed not only with thebuilding pr tpensity of Bess,
of Hardw ck, to whom all the Nottinghamshire
dukeries have been traced, hut wi .1) refined tads and
conelderable skill in architecture, he is • builder-up of
an sl work, and a puller- 'own .0 bad. There are many
cries of his impatience of ugliness, &IA tenderness to
its authors An architect at one time emPoyed
by hint built a gateway, which when completed
became abhorrent to him: yet so considerate was he
o• the artist's Coiling, that he could not find it in his
heart to remonstrate with him. So he tried an dher
way. One night he waited till the architect had
driven off in his dog-cart, and then set all his men to
work at overtime and double pay to pull down the
hated a Mee. By morning not • vestige remained,
an I the architect on his arrival 'Mitts.' hi. eyes in
amazement ; and neither he nor the Duke ever took
the Mideast notice f it. 'Reappearance. There was
ton a memorial bridge erected to the memory of lord
Ginnie Bentinck, near the spot where he breathed his
lad, cl.. t t the wood end opposite the village of
Norton. Short work was made td Ili, bridge, as ,4
numerius other Ade and ends of architectore on the
domain, and the Present reign of Perfection was
inaugurated. The half-hundred lodges for keepers and
other aervants on the Welbeck estates have all been
built by their resent proprietor. who barn in their
conetruction carried out his tosesion for subterranean
work. idke asparsorue, only thei• most beautiful part I
I. ehme ground. The dining-rooms and bedchambers
make a handsome little house enough, solidly and
perfectly built of stone. The unseemly part of the
dwelling is buried in the earth ; kitchens, pantries,
and other offices are plunge I below. Many of the
finest apartments in the Abbey itself are actually
antler-ground. and illuminated by all kinds of ingenious
device*. Welbeck louts a subterranean library of
great size, whose natural g oom is c moletely dispelled
by gae-hurnere sempiternally aglow. Near this
strange room, hut above ground, is the riding-house
built by Huntingdon Smithson. from the designs of
the Duke of Newcastle, in 1623. now c invert. I into
a nnperh picture-gallery. Of c urge the gas used at
Welbeck is made on the premises. and lofty mounds
covered with rhododendrons hide four unsightly gas-
ometers from the eye.
The Duke of Newcastle above referred to wu the
author of the famous treatise on the art of breaking
and training home, esteemed a dusk in its peculiar
way, and especially valuable, not only from the
knowledge of horssfieth displayed therein, but from '
the Mate+ ti -Inc views of the various dwelling.plaoss
of the author. This love of horseflesh has clung to the
Bentincks, the first of whom mar, ied • daughter of
the hones 44 Newcastle. Setting aside the racing
ta.m, of his late brither. the present Duke of
Portland may be pr.nourced one of the best judges of
• horse in England. Foonerly an admirable viler,
he is still a profound man tiseeur in horse,; has •
curiously perfect knowledge of every 11l that hot:v.-
11mb is heir to, ani now and then finds an opportunity
of eet•ing a veterinary surgeon right upon some nice
point in his art. Without breeding, or caring
particularly for racing-stock, he yet retains a
singularly acute interest in the result of great mem
On the day of the Derby, the St. Legei, and other
important event., hi, groom may be gun waiting at
the telegraph offire at Workeop to carer the result to
his master, who, with all ht. rage for improvement,
cares Col little f u• the outer world to have telegraph-
wires laid on to his house. Hale most interested in
what may be called "the works" at Welbeck-the
mighty burrowings and scooping., the levellintrs, the
widening and deepening of the lake, the building of
the new subterranean church. and the manufacture
"on the premise." if the rolling-eock necessary to
the operatiorts in the woodyard and machinethops
hard by the new riding-home and covered tan-gallop.
But he has yet plenty .4 time to care for the Allerneys
with black points which furnish Welbeck with milk,
ad the blacktmiled Scotch oxen which supply
Worksop as well as Welbsck with magnificent beef.
Welbeck it also famous for its deer. These are of
the three kinds common to Great Britain, red,
fallow. and re-leer, the latter being a recent
Importation from the Highlands, whence they
arrive in padded carriages. Ths me-deer have hardly
done well in Nottinghamshire. In their native land
they are aocustomed to much exercise and little food,
and at Welbeck are placed antler exactly opposite
conditions. Naturally they lansruith and die ; but this
to a small matter, for the Duke of Portland wishes
roe deer at Welbeck, and when one set expires soother
can he found to replsos it. Except for the merit of
Inking pretty, the roo"ivor is aleedutelY nukes. On
the Continent everybody has met the dry dish known
as filet de eheiveu,l ; but few Britons would dream of
comparing it with the plump haunch of a well-fed
fallow buck. The latter animal has plentifni food but
unkind treathunt at Welbeck, where he is, in sporting
language, "added to the Hat," and put up to fatten
oz-like in an enclosure. By these means there is
venison in the ;ark all the year round, in season and
out of swoon, fatted on Spanish cheaututa and other
&fleecier. This wealth of venison, al well as of other
game, furred and feathered, newer, by direct means at
least, finds its way into the hands of the poulterer. In
the coulee of the seamen thousand' of pheasants are
shipped from Welbeck to the friends of the Duke of
Portland who want a good day's shooting. Their
owner never fires a shot; and when, a few years ago,
he gave permission to the late Lord Galway in invite
friends to shoot the Welbeck covert., he sedulously
kept out the way, and, having provided in every
possible meaner for the comfort of the guests,
remained the in visible prince to the Iwo. As hooors. for
game so doss he care for fruit and flowers, for trout.
breeding and farming. "Haunch and ham, peach and
pine,
e and some of the finest black Hombre,"
Fritignan, and Muscat of Alexandria grapes are
despatched in huge quantities to Lady Cork-, Who also
receives frequent presents of ponies, dight for the
occasion in garlands of flowers. The Duke of Port-
land is satisfied with breeding and turning out 10,000
young trout per annum, with farming some 12,000
acres, with having the fitment avenues of • ple and
pear trees in the world, and with supervising the
disposition of his enormous wealth, provided always
that people will let him alone -a phrase on the most
liberal interpretation of which he peremptorily insists.
This great territorial magnate chooses to live quite
, alone-so far as his equals are concerned. Shunning
-
' their reunce with strange persistency, avoiding even
GiCLITT.II Puma GLUIL-The esseked superiority of
Pwho might almost claim by blood and neighbour.
this Laundry Blue over all others, and the quick ap-
pnociation of its merits by the public, has beam
afig a right to see him, he invests himself with the
atten teee.esp of Siegfried. His gardens are carefully
ded by the usual results-viz.. a flood of imita-
watched by his tumults to prevent the possible wriest
thins the merit of the latter mainly consists in the
fo a visitor ; and should any hapless tourist 11 ou Dairen
ingenuity exerted, not simply in imitating the square
shape, but making the general appearance of to the ground of the Nottinghamshire Tom Tiddlerthie
gre. Jotasitate hio self is opt to doisosnd upon him,
wrappers resemble that of the genun the
article. The
therefore to caution all buyers to el , not in thander,_but a lengthy gaberdine, and
Manufacturers her
see " Reckitt's Paris Blue" on each wicket. warn the intruder off. Not long ago • too-enterprising
Sheffield wandered from the highroad on to the
VALCaItLI DISCOVERY POI! THI GAUL -If your hair to !Zan of_,, d the Abbey. and Was rudely
turning gni or white, or falling off, um "The Mexican rflarm•", rete;:n &mine...tete,. himself Next day the
Hale Renewer." for it will peeilirsiv resters "n every rase warner; off the pro,- .
Grry or Waite loar to ite original colour, without leasing stheffielder wrote a letter to the Doke of Portland
the dmsgresable smell of most " Restorers." It realms complaining bitterly that he had been greetenel7
the hair charmingly beautiful, as won as promoting the insulted by one of his dependent.. This and hundre4
growth of the Leis on held spots, where the glands are not of similar stories are told in Worksop and the neigh.
decayed. Ask your Chemist for "Ti Ilixxxos HAS
Itralwaa," metsued GINIT C. GALLUP. OM Oxford-
brourhood; and it is not wonderful that country folk
street, Landon, and sold by Chernistand Parr should believe anything of a man who, when he travels
where at :le M., Per bottle. on Fere occasions beyond the limits of his domain,
Taunt. arezencons AXD suffering immures himself in an old-fashioned travelling-carriage
from irritation of the throat and boareeness will he wee like that of the first Napoleon, provided with ev•ry
ably summed at the almost immediate relief afforded by device for excluding the gaze of the vulgar. This
the use .4 "Brown's Firetachial Troches.' Them famous wonderful carriage Is driven to the railway-station,
Itaarntry. areal 1711,711 'teeth"' homPr "PLPaetahltitgedunt'ilth• ln. laced on a truck, and on its arrival finds borers wait-
this twain. o slight
cold,,„or bronchial ar.r.tio.4 poll it to its destination.
cannot try them ton soon, as similar troubles if allowed see addition are viewed with mixed feelings by
to proem., result in serious Poltnon and, Aathmatic the inhabitants of North Nottinghamshire. On the
affeettons. See that the words "Brown's Bronhts one hand there is the potent incentive to tenants and
Trorbear are on the Government Stamp d hho dependents to exalt the rich man by whose spoils they
U-ttted"*Statieres,red Tilpotjo.essitti.Oßirordlnitreiardir""Loids:Bmteez' ye and on the other, a slightly r•bellions fesliner
rasounnett -Foe Too yr, Ledo,. against territorial absolutism. Decsl freaks ate COG-
drops of the nesid tidßnearn- -A few h. doors' by partronage In the region known as the
brush produces a elewah; ;floc% 6 thoroughly t" du k arise." It is true Unit North Nottingham is not
Hammes th. teeth trona all parasites Or, flon arri quite so rich in dukes as of old. Tharestay, once this
the
gun'' erer"ta tartar. "Vs decay, givetarito Mahe teeth emit of the Dukes of Kingston, the lost of whoa
,rliartrerleitetwee, and • delightful hoarser, married "the Chudialgh," is now the seat of Earl
fr decayed teetZni"" all unpleasant admit arising hfanvera Worksop Manor, after pasting snooseeively
or tobacco math& "The F • Inseilioe," hew onommiln
of Ter" through the hands of the Dnkes of Norfolk and of
herb us delicious to the wok Zadnu...,,,"7„.1 Neweastle, is tbs home of Mr. Cookson ; Clamber,
Isllet die-
e'werrof the are Price es, at., of ~„,1 famous for its Spaniels, is in abeyance; and irdveton
prriura,m rrepargi by Henry C Out.ry, ant Oxford- Hall, owe the residence of the Dukes of Leeds, is no
strs• t
more-pulled down, it is said, to escape the con.
Torsion ono Ta•VIILLIIIL-Lsdiall riultiog, visit- , sequences of a wager. The frst of the "dnkeriss" is
jag the seaside, or °thawing exposed to the scorch.agi Welbeck, hut in notoriety it abundantly supplies the
ray, the we and heated of dust, will nos places of all the rest One of its chief marvels is the
ROWLANDS' KALYDol=tiessocliag awl refresh_ tunnel, or rather c meted way, built across the park
hug for the face, hand., sad arms; it eradicates am- lest any Plebeian ieeen should °"ape betwixt the tight
here, bee. beeiel•S le.. *liege the Path mad betted°. and Ow notility of the Duke of Portland. It seems
besocautifublyanmosqd delutte"acsoßptextee'at h 161.4. 4..Peedernalst
sma • right of wai exists across Winelbecitua Panark
afor4.
Se 11.1. per bottle ROWLANDS' MAC &WAS Ott freht,...; hodie.p.a. Duke.
of porthudi
prevents the hair falling off dosing hot wweeiewe
RoWLANDS' ODONTO whitens the imd,
z0mez....., sod bakerware. Hai cagy z=mi
lit=i4erhat
„nowt
we
se to el Or

more liberal nobleman who admit the public on show-
, days even to their houses, he declined that, as the
I right of way through Worksop Mandl' and Welbeck
could not be contested, his part of it should be med.
se unoornfortable art possible. To that end be con.
"treated • oovered way, which, decked with turf,
rhododendrons, and other shrubs above. should not
prove an eyesore to Welbeck. and by ifint of thorough
lighting and vectiltition should se•isfy the public.
The public of Worksop and Whit eel' Is easily satisfied
by • duke who employe a couple of thousand work.
men, end thia 6 'great violation of public rights has
evoked no village Hemplen to denounce IL it is not
a small matter of passing under • road or slows, but •
mil* and a half of tunnel to be traversed by the voyager
In that partiouLu• direction, and can only be avoided by
• tedious datour. It Ls perhaps lucky for the Duke of
Portland that his subterranean " Folly," as the
country folk call it, is not nearer to Sheffield or some
great town rich enough to care nothing for his
age, and strong enough to maks him pull his ridiculous
structure down. As the matter stands, the tunnel,
although es illegal and Impudent outrage, is only
laughed at by the vassal' who make • good thing out
of Welbeck generally.
As strange men are excluded from Walbeck, no are
dogs forbidden to come nearer to the Abbey than the
kennels. The "works," as they may be culled, are
held peculiarly sacred, so far as the public or the
neighbouring gentry are concerned. A fustian Jacket
or a suit of corduroy is • sure tessport to any part of
Welbeck; while a stove-pipe hat is certain to bring
down upon it an army of the myrmidons, to whom
their muter Is, to do him justice, kind enough—so
kind that after a year or teo's er„yk gg wgibeck they
require to be put into training before they are fit for
another jlO 111. towards his equals that it pleases
the Duke of Portland, like the old Duke of Newcastle,
to insist on his right to do what he likes with his own.
How ter a great Landholder is justified in withdrawing
himself from his kind is a question hardly worth our
while to disown. (Inc thing, however, is run-clear—
that he haa only himself to thank for the mass of
legend which hair already oryetallised around his name,
queer stories .if Harcourt House and of Welbeck are
muttered with bated breath among the dukeries of
N ittinghamihire ,• some speakin4 well for the heart, if
indiffersiitly for the hood, of the great nobleman, who
I. their subject, and who. soon...ling to the taste of the
narrator, figures either an • baleful wizard or se a benev-
olent sprite like Robin Goodfellow.
GAME PROSPECT.i,
Mr. D. G. F. Macdonald, write.:—" I have taken
some tr ruble in getting trustworthy Information as to
our crop of game for 1878. Reports unite in stating
that grouse are well up to an average, remarkably
vigorous, showing no appearanoe of dieease except on
overitocked moors The heat, after so much rain,
pushed herbage on en quickly that there is plenty of
excellent fee I for the young birds, and capital shelter
at night. Met of 'he pheasant preaerv-s show • fair
member of long tails, whilst partridges, except on fiat,
strong lands, are abundant and healthy, teeny coveys
containing 15 and 18 chrepere Black•gatn• ptarmigan,
duck, teal, and wi d f .wl generally have bred well all
over the country. Hues and rabbits are much below
an average, many young having been drowned by
heavy rains. Deer forests ere a I that can be &aired.
the high swards and the grass in the valleys being
exceptionally luxuriant. Stags are well forward, and
stalker, may venture on an early shot. Upon the
whole, then, sport Is more promising this year, both
In England and Scotland, than for many yews back."