40 Saddle and Sirloin. 



Howard, cf Greystoke, with a unique species of throw, 

 so to speak, at the other. For neatness all round, no 

 one excelled Mr. Ripon ; and his daring catch, as he 

 followed up his ball mid -wicket, and held it with his 

 right hand close to his side, when Mr. Foster had 

 "opened his shoulders," and returned it with com- 

 pound interest, made the lookers-on almost tremble. 

 Mr. Orridge the Governor of the gaol, and a very tall 

 and handsome man, with the exception of rather high 

 shoulders, was a most remarkable bowler. He took 

 his sight with the ball to his eye, at an angle of some 

 60, and fully six or seven yards on the right of his 

 wicket, and then made a very straight delivery, and 

 with a most remarkable wrist-screw. 



The carnage horses were better in those days, and 

 the Corby Castle blacks, the Harker chestnuts, the 

 Rickerby greys, and the Warwick Hall bays, whose 



loved, like Sir Charles Knightley, to see hounds puzzle it out, without 

 being over- ridden. Not many days before he died, the Cottesmore 

 brought a fox at a splitting pace from Ranksboro' over some beautiful 

 country, and raced into him after a quarter of an hour, on the very 

 door-step of Barleythorpe. This was the last sight he had of hunting. 

 As a J.P. he was well known by the poachers in the Lowther district, 

 and woe betide those "fly-by-nights" if they were caught trying their 

 hands on those wonderful hares the ' ' Shap Beckers, " which know Mr. 

 Warwick in his scarlet and old Baggott so well. When Lord Palmer- 

 ston died he became the Father of the House, which he entered in 1812 

 for Westmoreland. For 55 years he sat for that county, and yet his 

 speeches during the whole period would not fill two columns of an 

 ordinary newspaper. We believe that he never spoke in the House. 

 Sir James Graham, who was never at a loss for a simile, described his 

 politics as of the "old long-horned breed," an allusion which the Dale 

 tanners caught up with great gusto. His hardest Westmoreland fight 

 was with Harry Brougham, then in the excellency of his strength. The 

 Blues objected to two brothers standing for one county, and desired 

 "not to eradicate the old family tree," but to have "a laurel of our 

 own planting." The Colonel did not see it, and said that Earl Lons- 

 dale was nothing to him. " I have no connexion with him ; I will 

 stand whether he pleases or not. " And so he did, and won, after a 

 seven days' fight, by 1412 :o 1349. Lord Lonsdale was at the head of 

 the poll, and duly made his acknowledgments; but when it came to the 

 Colonel's turn he would say nothing but "Least said is soonest mended 

 I point to the poll." 



