THE FARMEK'S MAGAZINE. 



JANUARY, 1861. 



PLATE I. 



PORTRAIT OF THE DUKE OF RUTLAND, 



PLATE II. 

 ENGLAND'S GLORY. 



A CELEBRATED CART STALLION, THE PROPERTY OF MR. B. TAYLOR, Ot PETERBOROUGH. 



THE DUKE OF RUTLAND. 



Charles Cecil John Manners, sixth Duke of 

 Rutland, was born in the year 1815, and succeeded 

 to the title on the decease of his father, in January 

 1857. The present Duke completed his educa- 

 tion at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gra- 

 duated M.A. in 1835. Two years subsequently 

 he entered the Commons' House of Parliament as 

 a Member for Stamford, for which borough he 

 sat until 1852, when he*was returned for North 

 Leicestershire, a post he only relinquished on his 

 accession to the peerage. And then Dod goes on 

 to assure us that he is Lord-Lieutenant of the 

 County, a Major in the Militia, the patron of some 

 thirty-odd livings, is unmarried, and so on. 



But it is hardly on any of these showings that 

 the portrait of the Duke of Rutland appearb here. 

 It is rather as an enlightened country gentleman, a 

 fine horseman, and true sportsman, and the still 

 liberal exponent of those princely hospitalities, the 

 very fame of which have become a national tra- 

 dition. The glories of Belvoir suiFer nothing in 

 their present keeping, and whether we look to the 

 stable of horses, the kennel of hounds, or " the 

 company" at the Castle, we shall find either alike 

 worthy of those good old times when the dandies of 



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the day came to stop for "the season" — when 

 Assheton Smith ordered his muffins, and Brumrael 

 sipped his claret as it flowed fresh from the cask. 

 The Duke's name, in fact, will live for itself. As 

 the young Marquis of Granby, a title by which he 

 was so long and so familiarly known, he at once 

 entered upon the duties of his station. As the son 

 of a large landowner he made the cause of the 

 tenantry his own ; and though fighting from the 

 first a losing battle, the energy and courage with 

 which he threw himself into the struggle will 

 never be forgotten. It was, indeed, during this 

 anxious crisis, that the Agricultural Hall at Wal- 

 tham was erected, mainly at the instance of " the 

 Marquis," and where the meetings of that influen- 

 tial association are still held. Built of Ancaster 

 stone, and admirably adapted, by Wilson the ar- 

 chitect, to its purpose, the Hall stands as something 

 of a monument to his Grace's exertions in the cause, 

 and who, both as the Marquis of Granby and the 

 Duke of Rutland, has continued President of the 

 Society to whose proceedings the edifice is devoted. 

 The Belvoir tenantry are themselves deseivedly 

 distinguished as amongst the first of their order, 

 and nothing can exceed the good terms upon which 

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