The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-04-05 00:00:00

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DUBLIN, Tharsdny Morning.

THE L4TI MARQUIS OF WATZIOIORD.—Tbs death
of this excellent nobleman has east • deep gloom over
all classes in the south of Ireland, where be was best
known as an indulgent resident landlord and • model
oountry gentleman. The following additional particu-
lars of the sad accident by which he lost his life are
furnished by the Comae! Chnnsick, which arrived this
morning ' The Marquis's foxhounds were to meet at
Cutlemorris, in the county of Kilkenny, and within •
few wiles of Carrick-on•Snir, and two of his Lordship's
best hunters, with the hounds, were sent ones usual at an
early hour from Curraghmore to the place of meeting. At
about 11 o'clock Lord Waterford, having breakfasted,
mounted • carriage and pair, and with reins in hand,
dashed out of the court-yard in his accustomed splendid
style. On he drove throught that delightful demesne,
, but for the last time! At Castlemorris a numerous
field, numbering a great many of the well known resi-
dent admirers of the sport, awaited the noble lord's
arrival, to welcome him again to his favourite enjoy-
ment. Two foxes had been killed, and on a third run
Lord Waterford and about 15 gentlemen who remained
to the close started from Corbally towards Dowlan-hill,
his Lordship seated on his favourite hunter, May Boy,
which he purchased about • year ago from the Master
of the Meath hounds. On coining to • narrow by-road
near the mountain grove, and after peeling through a
grass field, the huntuuazi in advance, J. Ryan, called
out to Lord Waterford, who was approaching a small
fence about three feet high, and then pulled up the
hunter in order to allow the animal to step Over it.
'My lord,' said Ryan, 'there is a bit of a gripe at the
other side (the road side of the ditch.) 'Oh, never'
mind?' said the Marquis, as his horse got his forefeet
over easily, bat at the outer side of the gripe some loose
stones caused the animal to fall forward on its knees.
throwing the Marquis over on the aide of its neck. He
remained in that poeition two or three moments, but
the horse not recovering itself, Lord Waterford fell out
of the saddle sideways, and came down upon his head
on the road—a very slight fall, but yet unhappily suf-
ficient to cause dislocation of the neck, and probably
concussion of the brain, causing almost immediate
.tenth. Johnny Ryan, the steeple-chase rider, and
George Thompson, groom, who saw his lordship fall,
dismounted, and while the former held the dying noble-
man,' bead on his breast, and the latter chafed his hands,
the Marquis ceased to breathe. Captain Jepheon and Dr.
0 Ryan were instantaneously on the spot, with the
bniitaman, and brandy was retired into his mouth and
externally applied, but animation returned not ; he was
dead. The remainder of the field returned in 20 minutes
—after the death of the third fox—to learn with dismay
the sad accident which had taken place. The body
having been placed on • bier, was conveyed to the road,
as no car could get up the lane, and there it was laidl
on a break carriage belonging to Lord Besaborough, and
slowly the mournful group wended their way to Cur-
ragbisiore, where it arrived about nine o'clock last night.
The fearfully sad intelligence was broken to the
bereaved Marchioness, who awaited his Lonlahip's
returning ; but who can describe her ladyship's feelings
as she listened to the suppressed grief and the strange
stilled sounds in the courtyard below on that painful
occasion, while bearing the remains of • deeply beloved
husband into his late joyous residence? Last night the
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