The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-03-03 00:00:00

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Tint pries prillets• ra"nitairmrs."—li had
been rumoured la bastintiiiirelei that the visit of Ohs
rimo Pof Wades to AI would mate the able
host to exhltifree his Royal Highness ilse .g.
of the oththinted Prtehlire peek and eb.P=
or four haters from the /loyal stables dein the
Mori h•Weeterti line on Friday woad iteeff liks wildly.
Ihivigh any a hunting-04d es that day. Accordingly.
whim the hands met at Weltoo-p/aoa on Saturday, and
C tare when the met on Monday at Holdealey (the
Holetbs.bouse Of Whyte Melville's
-.eel), all the bravery et Northemptoeshire tit=
host a horse, be it hunter, roadster, or machine", were
eseembled. At Holdenby it was calculated that no
fewer than 2,000 harmonies appeared, and there eassa
have been at least double that number on foot. Tim
pen of fir. W. James would hem been litly sa
describe the cavalcade whisk 1.. i forth from I tri -
-.ark and was seen threats( his way slag the.
a the enthusiastic multitudes who crowned the
on which stand the enetest mener.hoses and dare\ of
Floldemby. It really was • brilliant eight, and whom
the Prince, seserted by Lord Sasser and the distin-
guished party who eceompanied Ida from •
rode into the amphitheatre formed by nature os=
el the hill, where Charke Papas sad the hounds were
waiting, mad the earruges, harasses, and foot people
were drawn up avoaad,tlis vesernbie picturestia bailor
the squire domineering the eminenoes and crowded from
besemiest to roof like Use Greed Stand at Amok an the
Cup-day, it was the asivenel impression that the sweet
experienced landesthe genisner Gould mot hem towed •
eller site is Emdand for Wattles ep ismsdaii epos-
task.—The Prism on seek day showed hlsl in the
lirst Sight. snil Wyly won his mum is the °Maimit
all Northamptonshire. Whim lye* &seethe sem
bs.ti shot, sad several thonnend bend ee
p plummets are duly registered to seem U-
doses guns, we fear that , the impression caved
in the neighbourhood by every dietharge ef e
fowling-piece is anything but theasershis. It teas ii
immense outlay for the gratilication of. very few, a
temptations offered to the thoughilem which lead to
crime, of wholesale destration to fora and the beat
interests' of agriculture. But foxhunting Is eillillellay
popular; all classes enjoy it, ell can participate a it,,
from the youth oe an active mir of legs, or the lather's,
boy on his pony, to the eelco of the,ntost Illostrionw
house in England, or emit to the Sovereign klineelf
and all this was fully enraged in Borthemplomebfrer
on the days we are recordisg. At every village email.
were Rambled who vociferously displayed Oa delight
at seeing their future ruler go as well in the ame!
ainnerment, and if St. Crispin himself had appeseed us
horseback be wad not have galled forth greater mirm-
hen or elicited greater ealibition of fervosr from thy
numerous votaries of his eat who are found in Wm
county. If after recording the enthusiasm displayed by
the squires the fanners the villagers, and the shoe-
makers of Northimptonlire, we were to enumerate
the many distingeithed personages whom Mae meets
attracted from all parte, we should three to d w deeply
from the lists of the Hostess of Lords end
But of masters of peeks we may notice that lard
Grommet, from Cheshire ; Lord Naas, from baba -
Lord Beeliorocgh, nether of the Bitekkonnith ; Mr /AZ
Johatose, M.P., from Yorkshire ; and Lord Eglintear,
from Soothed, represented so many bunting loathes.
of the British Islas, and that they and tB, it the ease
elusion of the two days sport, reseed deeply ha..
premed with the idea that • young Prince who had thew
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favourably exhibited himself as • pliant you(
Englishman in the hunti Geld had ebeem the surest
line to win at once the aus of his ciosstrymem ;.
while all, whether hating pieta, mikes, fano"
dealers, sportsmen of every graded and the large circle
Interested in the animal " horse," Med. ham rejoicing*
that the noble sport of fox-huntlayf bad received an
additional stimulus from its cordial alithrosiMie by the,
Prises of Wales.

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