THE WARD UNION HOUNDS. lOI 



Morrogh. Those who have seen her performances in 

 the hunting field will be glad to acknowledge how 

 suitably this lady is mated to the gentleman whose 

 conduct in and out of the field has done so much to 

 establish and sustain the prestige of the Ward hounds. 

 Mr. Morrogh is an admirable horseman, and hailing 

 as he does, from the very difficult but sport loving 

 neighbourhood of Fermoy, where he was "entered," it 

 is not hard to account for those qualities which distin- 

 guish him in getting through the queerest places in 

 any and all sorts of runs on the accomplished horses 

 which he knows so well how to purchase. The first 

 celebrity in that way he had was a very big Sir 

 Herculeus grey horse which, perhaps, enjoyed as 

 deserved a reputation as any other hunter in any 

 other country. 



Mr. Cranfield will, no doubt, obtain many pur- 

 chasers for the admirable autotype of the picture 

 under notice, if only on account of the very striking 

 likeness of Lord Spencer. His popularity here was 

 unabated by any political considerations, and the crowd 

 of good sportsmen, who still preserve warm recol- 

 lections of his hospitalities and his horsemanship, will, 

 no doubt, contribute to swell the numbers of Cran- 

 field's clientele. And Lord Spencer's friends in the 

 Shires, and the flourishing Althorp tenantry, who love 

 him so well, will be pleased to preserve a record of 

 the time when some twelve of the latter, the guests of 

 their noble landlord for a week, tried conclusions with 

 the best men of old Ireland over the " grass" of 

 Dublin, Meath, and Kildare. The writer would hope 

 that Lord Spencer, whether as Viceroy or unattached, 

 may find his way to Ireland again ; and within the 



