Handley Cross; or, MrJorrock's hunt . ore delicateand difficult dilemma than he had ever yet known. The report of the action aboutthe horse having done good service to the London papers in the dul-ness of autumnal news, Mr. Jorrockss conduct and career had beengreatly canvassed by cautious citizens, and among others by his next-of-kin, with whom our wortny iriend had long oeen on indifferentterms, or rather no terms at all. To the uninitiated, the idea of keeping a pack of hounds is lookedupon as the surest proof of riches or ruin ; an opinion that is periodi-cally confirmed by the papers, in
Handley Cross; or, MrJorrock's hunt . ore delicateand difficult dilemma than he had ever yet known. The report of the action aboutthe horse having done good service to the London papers in the dul-ness of autumnal news, Mr. Jorrockss conduct and career had beengreatly canvassed by cautious citizens, and among others by his next-of-kin, with whom our wortny iriend had long oeen on indifferentterms, or rather no terms at all. To the uninitiated, the idea of keeping a pack of hounds is lookedupon as the surest proof of riches or ruin ; an opinion that is periodi-cally confirmed by the papers, in announcements of the great expensecertain establishments arc kept up at, Leicestershire and Northampton-shire being represented as hunted at an expense of five or six thousanda-year, though we dare say the present worthy masters would be gla<?if they got off for that. The expense of Mr. Jorrocks hounds was estimated in a like ratio,though they did not perhaps cost much above as many are two ways of doing MR. .MARTIN MOONFACE. OB, MB. JORROCKSS HUNT. 4^7 Without impeaching the motives of the parties, or indeed alludingto them in more than a general way, we may briefly state, that ourworthy friends jollities or eccentricities at length earned for him acommission of lunacy. After the necessary preliminaries, the Commission was opened iuthe long room of the Grays Inn Coffee-house, in Holborn, where thefollowing highly respectable jury were sworn to inquire into the meritsof the allegation :— Mark Stimpson, Starch-manufacturer, Pimlico ; John Brown, Greengrocer, High Street, Borough ; Henry Hobbs, Feather and Court Head Dress Maker, HattonGarden ; Richard Jones, Dustman, Edgeware Road ; John Lotherington, Shoemaker, Margaret Street, CavendishSquare ; Thomas Coxon, Poulterer, Hadlow Street, Burton Crescent j William Smith, Islington, Toy-shop-keeper ; James Rounding, Minories, Cheesemonger ; Albert Dunn, Sweetings Rents, Newsman ; John Cook, Pentonvil
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