196 CANINE ESTABLSHMENTS. 



imported into this Country ; we trust, no Sportsman, who shall read the above, 

 will thereafter import any from America. 



CANINE ESTABLISHMENTS. The two largest Establishments of this kind, not 

 sporting- ones, are in the hands of two persons, who might be the least expected to 

 have them.- The first is her Royal Highness tlie Dutchess of York, who has a most 

 numerous nursery of Dogs of the smaller species, of every age, and nearly of every 

 Country. Not having the happiness to enjoy any other nuisery, they occupy many 

 of her best apartments, and are carefully accommodated with cushions to rest their 

 wearied limbs, when they incline to repose; and it requires some dexterity, on 

 entering her Highness's apartments, to steer your way so scientifically, as not to 

 tread on any of these sleeping beauties. 



Though some cynical philosophers might call this pursuit a mode of getting 

 through life dog-cheap, yet it affords some useful purposes. In the first place, 

 it is at least, an innocent mode of passing time ; and secondly, it has afforded many 

 opportunities for the painter, of exercising his talent, arid having his skill rewarded 

 by the munificence of her Royal Highness, who has almost found constant employ- 

 ment for the genius of an Animal Painter, Mr. Chalon, in painting these 

 favourites. 



We are not sure, we might not add another Artist to the account, we mean the 

 Undertaker, as we understand, many of the more favoured animals have been buried 

 in the park at Oatlands, with all due ceremony and decorum, in some measure, 

 realizing the Elysium of Virgil 



cadem sequitur tellure repostos 



Cura canuin. 



The next LADY, who exhibits this remarkable attachment to the canine race, is 

 the beautiful and amiable VISCOUNTESS CASTL.EREAGH, who has the same excuse 

 to plead, as her Royal Highness of York not having a nursery of her own, to 

 engage her attention, or employ her time. Her Academy of Dogs, if we may be 

 allowed the expression, is on a far different scale from those of the Dutchess of York, 

 hers being as diminutive as those of Lady Castlereagh, are grand and magnificent. 

 Whether the diplomatic interests of her Lord, may have favoured her wishes, is 

 uncertain ; but she possesses dogs of different Countries, wherever size and beauty 

 are to be found. Whoever may have the good fortune to meet this accomplished 

 lady, in her walks around her seat at North Cary, in Kent, will always find her 

 surrounded and defended by a most powerful and magnificent party of dogs, look- 

 ing * most terrible ihings,' but seeming most perfectly obedient to her voice. 

 Amongst her collection, we believe, she has Russian, Turkish, and Spanish dogs. 



The following whimsical anecdote is mentioned, as having occurred to her 



