The New York herald., 1876-07-06

Cambridge to greet them as they passed Here was
certainly enough blood royal TO content the greatest
tufhunter who ever breathed Among the coacnmen
also many whose style we'll worth looking a.
and faces that we have not before sccn or at any
rate noticed or course, such men as Lords Potmore
and Craven and Colonel Anstruther Thomson credited
this week Dy contemporary with the Mastership Oh
mo fie would DC sure TO eaten the eye o, any Que
whose heart Is in hunting and they were all workihs
on this occasion. We have. when attending these
meets kept readers posted up in the teams and as
few alterations had been made ia what we have before
seen Will only add, IN the words OF the Old coaching
song
,,Twa. that cattle such goers IS Pey.on neer hcld
Were driven by whips, scarce by Beaufort cxceUed
As well as that
In this fam d driving club IL were endless to trace
All the notable coachmen the ribbons who grace.
For truly could only catch face here and there,
SO great was the crowd One well known face at tho
covert side must not miss, for Lord Coventry on
Lord Lordesboroughs drag, and the sight of him makes
think ohis hound Roman which did such good SER
vice, Notwithstanding he was once pronounced "bg
enough to draw u truck" Lord Londesboroueh has
his good looking black browns usual, which appar
entity well taken OF that wonderful Stick
covert for which the Holderness country much in
go cracker with the York aud Ainsty,
has hold OF bay and brown lot; and Mr. Oakcey SO
regular at these meets that we should surely put 1t
down TO an oversight on our part did we fail to note his
well known team The sight oil them sends US away IRON
crowd, park and draes to the red brick kennels at
Athcrstone, where this grcets readers eye,
puppy show will be held, with Colonel Thompson, at
any rate, Tor of the bench and Caseman clerk
OF the court and the proud rearers of the future sres
and dams OF the Atherstonc pack VIII receive much
coveted hoDors Aye and there will be another show
to the iul as useful IN its way as The great one the
riders those drars going TO for Mr. Oakley,
with spirit worthy of universal commendatlon gives
prize. for young horses bred within his hunt, and
III nix Of the quiet pasture the cosy hound talk, tho
look at the young horses aud the adjournment to the
Pyichley flags next day and as the hot sun beats down
on us, we envy the happier man whose pen, we hope.
will record their dongs. and then awake to the
scousness that we have been day dream and letting
precious moments s'eai away, while several Of the
drags and their drivers have gone past unmarked in
our notebook. However, here are Sir Henry ruton's
browns, Mr.. Oswad's roans Colonel Dickson's
powerful ,cam hlch he handles with an art acquired
difficult school than this So
they 60 and the great crowd melts gradually but yet
quickly, like snow before summer sun; aud we turn
and wonder, perhaps more than ever before, how men
aud women wait in heat or rain AS we have
them do be bulcd by boobies, crushed by the OF
MammCn and rendered generally helpless and uncom-
Portable for the sake OF sight which at hest lasts but
few IN nutes, until that inner voice, which speaks in
such an audible whisper TO every Brson, ssys:-"You
know why you do It, John disguise II how you may you
are proud OF sight which no other country can show
The horse Is your idol, and you fancy yourself his
prophe dufcr you often are In regard 10 treating
and handling him. You know that most, If not all, OF
these men have forgotten more than you knew
concerning him. and in your hearts core you honor
them accordingly, and compare them with all other
men IN the world that is the driving world and find
that tor coachmansnp, carriages harness and horses
there are none like unto them Then. having listened
unto that voice, IL were, pat ourselves the
back and so home like the Pharisee giving thanks that
We are not as other men.
On Thursday there was a large meet of The Coaching
Club, most OF them bound for Alexandra Park, though
fcw declined the whole journey and fell early out OF
tho rank. Among those present were the President,
again driven by Lord Arthur Somerset: Captain Ashton
Lord Charles Bcrcsford, Captain Charles Bill. Major
Carlyon. Colonel 4. Chaplin. Sir Talbot Clifford Con-
stable Sir Bache Cunard Sir w. Eden, Mr.. Arthur
Flower. Mr.. Yatc Hunt. Major Jarry. Mr. c. de Murri-
eta, Mr. W. Powell, NJ. F., Mr.. Winthrop. Mr. Praed,
Mr.. j. G. Reade, Mr.. Alfred de Rothschid. Mr.. Le
Gendre Starkie. Colonel Thorsby Sir Francis Winning
ton, Mr.. Joseph Carter Wood, &C. Several ladies'
the drags which, for the most part well
loaded, and may remark among the passengers
some whom we were more accustomed TO sec handling
the ribbons than merely looking There
plenty OF people usual to the muster and start
and as the by means so hot as on the pre-
vious day things went off even more pleasantly than
on that OCCASION