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One long gallery is still in its original condition with its stucco 
roof adorned with pendants. Two objects particularly attracted 
the attention of the natural historians of the party in this room. 
The first a fine golden eagle caught in a trap in a forest on the 
Charlton demesne ; the second a wren’s nest in the carcass of a 
dead crow. Several handsome cabinets adorned this long gallery, 
and the walls bore many portraits of the Howard family as well as 
the well-known picture of King Charles I.’s three children, in half 
lengths. The works of old foreign masters, Leonardo da Vinci, 
Caracci, Guido Reni, Gaspar Poussin, W. Vande Velde, Van der 
Heyden, and Proccaccini, eight pictures cut out of their frames on 
October the 10th, 1856, by a dismissed servant and afterwards 
recovered, are restored to their frames, the cuts being concealed 
by a small gold beading. On the staircase of the mansion hang 
also many pictures, one being a likeness of Moll Davis, one of 
King Charles II.’s favourites, a native of the village of Charlton, 
and numerous copies or originals of Sir P. Lely’s paintings of the 
same monarch’s beauties of higher rank, 
As his Lordship was absent from his mansion on this visit of 
the Club, a vote of thanks, proposed and seconded by the two 
Vice-Presidents, was unanimously voted by the members present, 
and directed to be forwarded to him for his kindness in opening 
his grounds and house to the Club, and betaking themselves again 
to the brakes, a return was made by the party to the railway 
station. Leaving Malmesbury at 4 p.m., the Great Western 
saloon was affixed to the main line train at Dauntsey, and after a 
pleasant delay of 35 minutes at Chippenham, which enabled the 
members to indulge in their accustomed tea, Bath was again 
reached at six o’clock, after an Excursion which will leave much 
in the pleasant memories of the members of the Bath Field Club. 
Netley Abbey, Southampton and Romsey.—How many travellers 
pass through the ancient town of Southampton, a county in itself, 
in order to start for the West Indies, South America or the Cape, 
or in returning therefrom, without being aware of the interesting 
