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Show Hunting In Great Britain. Although a good many of those whose apparent desire it is to curtail or destroy the sports and amusements of others would have it otherwise, it is a fact that hunting, whether of stag, fox or hare, is in a more flourishing condition at the present moment than it ever was before. There are now no fewer than 23 packs of staghounds in tbe United Kingdom, King-dom, 188 of foxhounds and nearly ,200 of harriers and beagles, while in each succeeding year followers of hounds get more numerous until it has actually bp? come a serious question with some masters, mas-ters, How xjan we keep down our fields? The cub hunting season, which ia practically at an end, has, excepting with the Earl of Yarborough's and a few other packs, been scarcely so successful suc-cessful as usual, owing to the dry state of the ground and consequent lack of scent, but the great desideratum was rain, and now that we have had that in abundance the pcv?pects cf the regular season as$ rosj, Lr-rdcn Telegraph, |