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delegates to visit Canada, and report upon 

 its suitability as a field of emigration ; 

 and the reports of those gentlemen were 

 of great value and interest. Col. Fane in early 

 life had a distinguished military career, having 

 raised and commanded the Peshawur Light 

 Horse during the Indian Mutiny. He also 

 commanded the 25th regiment, and saw con- 

 siderable service in Canada in connection with 

 the Red River Expedition. The deceased, 

 who was in his 68tli year, was one of a 

 younger branch of the Fanes, Earls of 

 Westmorland. 



About the beginning of the next month — 

 February — there was a meet at Newton Bar 

 one terribly rough morning, when nobody 

 thought hounds could run a yard. In the 

 afternoon, however, they found a fox at 

 Boothby Little Wood, and going away down 

 wind close to his brush, raced at a terrific pace 

 across a beautiful stretch of grass to within a 

 few fields of Lenton, with Mr. Jas. Hutchinson 

 leading the field all the way. The burst, al- 

 though lasting only about sixteen minutes, 

 was a brilliant affair, and the pack would 

 assuredly have ended the career of their fox 



