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Orator and Lord Fitzhardinge's Caustic. 

 Opal produced two litters last season, the first 

 in March, and the second in October, but, 

 unfortunately, she will have no more, in con- 

 sequence of an injury she sustained by being 

 run over by a train. During the very learned 

 deliberation, Judge Ayris was observed with 

 his spectacles, not in the usual place, where 

 it is generally supposed they are worn for the 

 purpose of increasing the power of the visual 

 organs, but in a position high up on his fore- 

 head ; it will, therefore, be presumed that he 

 was able to dispense with these valuable appur- 

 tenances, and the^«^, quite in accordance with 

 general opinion, was pronounced by the two 

 judges in favour of Storraer, a son of Mr. Mor- 

 rell's Bajazet and Saraband, a daughter of the 

 Warwickshire Saffron. The very hospitable 

 treatment this young hound had received at 

 the hands of Edward Griffiths, Esq., of Marie 

 Hill, contributed greatly to the development of 

 his powers, and on the tape being tried round 

 him he was found to measure twenty-nine 

 inches. The second honours were awarded to 

 Factor, son of the excellent, but unfortunate 

 Opal and the Duke of Beaufort's Finder. 

 The plate will find its way to John W. Wil- 



