38 THE QUORN HUNT. 



all honour is due to his lordship and the 

 baronet for the very profuse liberality dis- 

 played by them on all occasions when the 

 promotion of sport could be anticipated. 

 It is very remarkable that a country pos- 

 sessing so many agreeable acceptations and 

 delectable attractions, gifted as it is by 

 nature for the enjoyment of foxhunting in 

 its most fascinating form, should have 

 been subservient to such numerous vicis- 

 situdes. 



In the season of 1863, greatly to the 

 disappointment of all who had partaken 

 of the brilliant sport Lord Stamford had 

 shown them, his lordship's career as 

 master of these hounds terminated. The 

 report had been circulated during the 

 Houghton meeting at Newmarket the pre- 

 ceding year ; but it was not till official 

 notices had been given that the rumour 

 was acknowledged, so reluctant were all to 

 accept the intelligence. Soon after it be- 

 came known that the report of Lord Stam- 

 ford's resignation was not a vague rumour, 

 Mr Clowes, so well known in the country 



