1888] RESIGNATION OF THE "SQUIRE." 147 



that decision, and of the overwhelming motives which must 



have impelled him, after much consideration, to cut off his 



connection with hunting in this country. We believe the 



real reason of Mr. Chandos-Pole's resignation is attributable 



to a seeming want of trust in his lead — for we are quite 



certain it was only a seeming one, and was shared by no 



large following — as Master of the Hunt. If the Squire of 



Radburne, in his anxiety to show sport, liked to have a 



pack of hounds of his own, and to hunt two days a week 



extra with them, i.e. six days a week altogether, we cannot, 



for the life of us, conceive what on earth there was in this 



to call for hostile comment, except, indeed, from the farmers 



whose lands were ridden over. [If a precedent was needed, 



it was set by Mr. Lort Philips, who did exactly the same 



thing in Pembrokeshire.] The fact is, no one is more 



popular among all the farmers of the Hunt than Mr. 



Chandos-Pole. Tlieir feeling was pointedly expressed by 



Mr. White of Egginton, who said, if he liked to hunt six 



days a week, they would find him foxes, whilst another 



farmer, when Mr. Chandos-Pole definitely announced his 



resignation, observed, ' It's all up with the Meynell now — 



they'll get no more foxes.' Several farmers, with clenched 



teeth and angry looks, endorsed the threat, and those who 



know wliat hunting would be without the co-operation of 



farmers will scarcely relish the prospect. Had the fact of 



Mr. Chandos-Pole's resignation been more generally known, 



and had the meeting been held on a Friday, when all 



interested in the Hunt could have attended, the St. James's 



Hall would hardly have held the gathering, and their 



expression of feeling in his favour would have been as 



hearty as it would have been unmistakable. As it is, apart 



from the handsome presentation that will doubtless be 



made by the Hunt, we hear that an address of confidence 



and thanks from the leading tenant farmers of the district 



is contemplated. It is, unhappily, too late to affect the 



retiring Master's decision, but it will, at least, show the 



universal respect and esteem in which he is held by those 



without whose co-operation and good-will hunting would 



