6 Hark Away. 



and there are many members of the different hunts 

 who at present have not subscribed to the funds, 

 and who, no doubt, only require theh' attention to be 

 called to the matter to be found ready and willing to 

 add their names to the numerous list of subscribers 

 to this most meritorious institution, having for its 

 object a provision for a class of men who are more 

 especially liable to accident, and subject to many of 

 the ills that flesh is heir to in consequence of ex- 

 posure, early and late, to the weather. In the 

 absence of the president, the Uuke of Grafton took 

 the chair ; and, Mr. J. Anstruther Thompson having 

 read the annual report of the society, it was adopted 

 nemine contradicente. The usual routine being fol- 

 lowed, and the retiring members of the executive 

 committee, Robert Arkwright, Esq., Wm. Mortimer, 

 Esq., and Mr. Erank Gillard, having been re-elected, 

 the Hon. Francis Scott, in an elaborate speech on 

 the benefits of the institution, took the opportunity 

 of thanking the Press in general for the liberal 

 support it has at all times afforded to the move- 

 ment; and a vote of thanks having been passed 

 by acclamation to Messrs Tattersall for so kindly 

 allowing the use of the room for the purpose of 

 the meeting — which was responded to by Mr. 

 Edmund Tattersall, on behalf of himself and his 

 partner, Mr. Pain — the meeting was dissolved, but 

 not before a cordial vote of thanks was passed to 

 his Grace the Duke of Grafton for so kindly taking 

 the chair in the absence of the Duke of Buccleuch. 



After the meeting was over, the hunt servants 

 dined together, the entertainment being provided 

 by a voluntary subscription on the part of a few 



