man himself, standin' outside of a windy, and he was | clined to give the doomed wretch up to his fate
pullin' down a swallow's nest."
without a struggle.

"An' ye seen him doin' that, Meehowl? then its likely enough that Bridogue Mooney is right in her sayin'."

"I'll stand up for my sayin'," replied Bridge Mooney, "he puts the charms on us, howsomever he finds manes to do it."

"I'll tell ye what I hard of them swallows, neighbours," said Daddy Leeach; "them swallows and them birds, too, that goes by the names o' willy-wagtails, I'm tould for sartain has three drops o' the Devil's bloud in them, Lord be good to us!"

“Tis often and often I took notice of both kinds of them birds, the foulhogues, and the spiddogue coppel; the spiddogue coppel is never known to sing his varse of a song, only when the day is bitthèr could, and dripping wet; and then it's a mournful thing to hear him, and to look at him, standing on a could wet stone, by the road side, and by the river side, liltin' his bit of a croondun, and lookin' about him so 'cute, and waggin' his long tail, for all the world as if he gloried in the dark rainy-day, that puts a cloud over the mind of all christhin cratures; and them swallows, agin, they skim about, from the risin' to the settin' of the snn, and they never put foot to the ground like our own birds; but, when the storm is comin' to vex the earth, they all get in a row, together, upon an ould wall, or on the top of a body's house, and they sing, and they sing, all of them at once, and as loud as ever they can, makin' merry at the doleful change that's comin' on, and that they know is comin' on, more be-token, better nor the people themselves; and moreover there's not one among us can tell how they come here to Wind-gap, or where they come from, or where in the world they go to in the winter-time; and I often hard it said as well as our neighbour, Shawn Leach, that the three drops o' the Devil's bloud is in them, and in the willy-wagtails."

Fearful things are reported of the strange man of the Inch, and some of the doings in his house are thus described :-

We extract from bye conversations of our good friends of Wind-gap some assertions that did not tend to set up the character of the subject of their shannauchs. It was vouched that the only person known to live with him was a wrinkled haggard woman; and yet many figures were seen after twilight going to the house and coming from it; and at hours of the night, when wellconducted people ought to be at rest, that uproarious rioting was known to continue under his roof till daybreak. "Boys of the neighbourhood" had once been venturous enough, during one of these commotions, to approach the premises. It was very dark, and they were moving stealthily onward, when suddenly they heard a fearful, hellish shout; the lights, they had previously seen so vivid within the house, became extinguished; before they had time to advance or recede, each in his consternation was seized, as all averred, by a "horned Devil," for the group was young and strong, and could not otherwise have been so overcome; and, thus mastered, they were urged supernaturally along, in sich a hurry, that they hed'nt time to bless themselves;" until they arrived at the river's bank, which, as has been mentioned, flowed near the house; and into the river they were plunged, and out of the river they barely escaped, although good swimmers, with the wise resolution never again to oppose earthly prowess to hendish agency.

We shall notice the second tale next week.

The second and third volumes, though clever, are not equal to the first: we reach the climax of horrors at the very commencement of the hero's outset, and the remainder of his career, unenlivened by a ray of sunshine, seems like a dull fog succeeding to the sublime fury of the tempest. The kidnapping of a youth on board a slave ship, the hope of deliverance from the chase of a man-of-war, the capture by pirates, and the final wreck, have all been told before, but never, we think, with so much graphic power. There is no straining after effect, no adventitious display of horror; but the whole bears the impress of truth, and affords one of the most terrible, and, at the same time, we fear, correct details of crimes committed upon the high seas which we have ever read. We would gladly extract the whole, but must be content with a small portion of this appalling narrative.

as dead as the negro, and shuddered into a perfect dəprivation of strength; the very touch of the corpse had nearly deprived me of reason, and at that moment I could have kissed the hand which would have in reality finished my existence.

"Halloo!" said the mate, "here's a pretty fuss about a live gentleman and a dead nigger! we must make the youngster better acquainted with his companions. Why, what the devil is he afraid of? does he think the black will eat him? Here, Jones," said he, addressing one of the sailors, "hand me a rope-yarn or two whilst I lash them together until he endeavours to bury the negro."

This warning roused me from my situation; I resolved to exert all my power in preference to being lashed to the dead body, and therefore taking the hand of the enfranchised slave, I vainly endeavoured to move the body in the direction indicated.

"It's like an ant at a black-beetle," said young Smith; "we must lend him a hand :" and without the slightest expression of fear he seized the other hand, the mate and Jones taking each a leg, and in this manner we dragged the negro to the starboard-gangway: here we rested him.

I thought that some prayer for the dead was about to be offered up, for the crew had assembled by the mainmast and on the booms, and those who wore their hats, unconsciously uncovered their heads.

"Come, bear a hand," said the captain, "and bury the poor fellow."

Ay, ay, sir," said the mate; "come, you Ganjam, lend a hand at the launch, and get accustomed to cutting away the dog-shores."

The slaves were the first to feel the sad effects of the
reduction of allowance; some sickened immediately,
and wasted gradually away. The heat of the hold was
oppressive beyond imagination, and the nauseous
effluvia arising from such a congregated mass of ne
groes, by no means tended to render the ship more
agreeable. It was unsafe to allow them the trifling re.
Again I applied my little power,-less perhaps from
creation of liberty; they were suffering from the want
the unwillingness of the act, and the fear occasioned
of water, and the half-madness it occasioned made it by touching a dead man: we edged his head over the
doubly necessary to keep them in the securest contine-side, when the mate lifting the legs up, overtoppled the
ment. The spirit of insubordination soon manifested
balance, and calling out launch oh!' propelled the
itself amongst the ship's company, and nothing but the
body over the gangway; the corpse, touching against
determined conduct of Captain Smith and his blood-
the side, fell with a dismal splash into the sea, and the
waters rolled over the dead.
hound, the mate, could have controlled the half-muti-

nous crew.

It was on the third day after the calm had established itself, and the idle sail had hung without motion from the yard, when the long expected calamity in the shape of death, first occurred. A young negro who, when shipped, had been suffering from the wounds occasioned by the rust of the shackle, and who was of a violent and uncontrollable disposition, had hastened the end of his miserable existence by his fretful temper and excited manner. I shall never forget my first feeling when the poor emaciated slave was brought on deck in order to try the effect of what little air the heavens allowed us.

He was then nearly totally exhausted, and
even the unmerciful and tyrannous conduct of the mate,
in order to excite the poor sufferer to some exertion in
his own behalf, perfectly failed; he was stretched upon
the deck under the awning, his eyes already fixed, but
with a beam of joy lighting up his sickened countenance
which rivetted me to the fatal scene. Oh! that smile
which grew over his face as the poor wretch felt the
application of a wet sponge upon his lips-the heaven
of his expectation! the eye for a moment blazed with
life, and even this poor, miserable, degraded victim ap-
peared to cling to existence, as if Hope had pictured
some futurity of greater comfort beyond his present suf-

ferings. He lingered on, apparently without any parti
cular pain, until the hoarse gurgling of his breath, as it
rattled in his throat, announced as near at hand his
delivery from the thraldom of this world's tyrants.

The crew had assembled abaft the mainmast, and in
silence watched the termination of their victim's life.
The features were gradually sharpening, and even the
nose, which death could scarcely alter in a negro, as
sumed a different shape; the bright black of the com
plexion gave way to a dark sodden blue, whilst the
lips were livid, and the eyes sickening into inanima
tion. At last they fixed, and fixed their glassy balls
upon the captain's face; the expression of exertion
died into a calm and tranquil repose, and without a
convulsive start, as if the body were struck by death,
the slave was freed from his master, and his life of

misery was terminated.

There seemed an awful feeling of respect for the dead. Captain Smith's eyes were rivetted on the negro's; he remained for some moments more like a statue than a man, when suddenly some tears broke through their barriers, and he turned away his head, and walked aft. The mate had no feeling even when the negro lived, and his hatred for the race was manifested directly the poor wretch was dead. "Here," said he, addressing the crew, "take hold of this black beast and bundle him overboard; we shall have enough to do with these stinking devils yet before we get safe back again."

The Unfortunate Man. By Captain Frederick
Chamier, R. N., Author of The Life of a
Sailor.' 3 vols. Bentley. 1835.
ACCORDING to our engagement, we have employed
ourselves diligently in making an acquaintance
with the unfortunate person whose misadventures
are now before the public, and we part from our
unhappy friend with a very high opinion of the
talents of his biographer. While, however,
doing full justice to Captain Chamier's literary
merits, we cannot compliment him upon the
choice of a subject. The wit of Cervantes can-
not neutralize the painful feelings which spring
up in every generous mind at the unmerited
suffering of the last representative of the days of
chivalry; and from the hero of La Mancha, down
to "unlucky Joe," an unbroken series of mis-
haps has ever been found disagreeable, not to say
tiresome. We care not how many scrapes the
hero or the heroine of a book may get into, pro-
vided the said hero or heroine be made happy at
the end; but when, as in the present instance,
this only made the desire of tyranny the stronger.
the very title page acquaints us with the catas-
Young Smith took me by the arm, and, leading me to
trophe, the interest is destroyed, and we feel in-wards the corpse, threw me over the body. I fell nearly

I shrank away from this inhuman villain and was sneaking towards the cabh; whil he called me ty name, and desired me in his usual coarse manner to "handle a leg, and learn to be serviceable to my friends." I could not escape, for the captain's son, who was smiling at my fear, freshened my way, as he called it, towards the corpse. Until this moment was! unacquainted with death; it was the first dead man I had ever seen, and I shrank from the negro with an unutterable horror. In vain I cried to be excused;

MISCELLANEOUS.

UNDERTAKEN by two such men as John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley, eminently qualified as they are in every respect for the task, "A History and Description of the Late Houses of Purliament, and Ancient Palatial Edifices of Westminster," cannot prove otherwise than a highly acceptable work. The object of the writers is, it appears, to present a particular account of the buildings mentioned, from the Anglo-Saxon dynasty to the final arrangement of the National, Parliamentary, and Legal Courts, at the same place. The first division of the work is before us, with four plates of considerable merit, from drawings by a rising young artist of the name of Billings:-1. A vignette title-page, exhibiting Part of the Interior of St Stephen's and Effigies from the Hall;-2. View in the Upper Chapel, a Niche from the Oratory in the Cloister} Cloister to St Stephen's Chapel ;-3. View in the Painted Chamber, looking West ;-4. Westminster Hall, compartment at the S. E. angle.-We anticipate most favourably.

The embellishments of the XIIth volume of

Valpy's edition of Hume and Smollett's History of
England, with a continuation by the Rev. T. S.
Hughes, are by far the best that have yet ap-
peared in the work the vignette title-page, the

66

Escape of Admiral Broderick from the Prince George; " the frontispiece, "The Execution of Admiral Byng."-Smollett's labours here are drawing near to a close: the present volume brings the History to the year 1758.

Letters from Albania announce the breaking out of a general insurrection. The warlike inhabitants have declared themselves independent of the Porte. Taphil Muzis, with 6,000 men, occupies Peroli, and the Zookedes, Tepelen, and Ayprokastron. The insurgents have everywhere expelled the local authorities. Two leaders are at the head of the foremost divisions, one of which advances against Joanina, the other towards Pitolia. The Albanians have bound themselves by an oath not to lay down their arms till their independence is acknowledged. They have appointed a council, and we understand that this insurrection is of a very serious nature.

FINE ARTS.

Landscape Illustrations to Allan Cunningham's
Edition of the Life and Works of Robert Burns.
With Original Descriptions. In Three Parts.
Parts II and III. Cochrane and Co.
THE first division of this interesting accompani-
ment to Cunningham's Burns, we noticed im-
mediately on its appearance; and we are glad to
see the work so promptly and so ably completed
within so brief a period. The plates, it will be
remembered, are all from original drawings taken
on the spot by D. O. Hill, S. A., of Edinburgh;
and in the transfer of these drawings to steel,
Goodall, Brandard, W. J. Cooke, Kernot, Miller,
Edwards, &c., have laboured with much success.
The respective subjects, in the two Parts now
before us, are:-
-The Field of Bannockburn
Taymouth Castle, Breadalbane-The Birks of
Aberfeldy - Nithsdale The Mausoleum of
Burns, Dumfries Dumfries The Castle
o' Montgomery-Culzean Castle-The Pier of
Leith-Town and Harbour of Ayr-Profile and
Seal of Burns. The value of the plates is much
enhanced by Mr Cunningham's descriptions.

Finden's Byron Beauties: a Series of Ideal
Portraits of the Principal Female Characters
in Lord Byron's Poems, engraved from Original
Paintings, under the superintendence of
W. and E. Finden. Part II. Royal 4to.
Tilt. 1835.

OUR opinion respecting the characteristic merits
of this publication, and respecting ideal portraits,
generally, was expressed some weeks ago, when
the Beauties' first reached us; and, therefore, no
detail can be requisite now. The present Part
contains Myrrha, by F. Stone; Anah and
Akolibamah, also by Stone;-and Julie (Rous-
seau's Julie) by Boxall.-In the fancy portrait
of Myrrha here given, we cannot trace the brave
and tender feeling, the proud melancholy, the
lofty bearing, the deep and sublime devotion of
the noble Greek girl so finely painted by Byron.
Mr Stone has been more successful-so we think
-in pourtraying the different characters of Anah
and Aholibamah: "Anah, soft, gentle and sub-
missive: Aholibamah, proud, imperious, and
aspiring; the one loving in fear-the other in

ambition."

These ideas are well preserved. Mr Boxall, too, has presented a sweetly interesting creature in Julie.

Illustrations of the Bible; from Original Paintings made expressly, by Richard Westall, Esq. R. A., and John Martin, Esq., the Painter of Belshazzar's Feast.' Part X. Svo. and royal 4to. Churton. 1835.

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Geneva from the Ramparts, which is also finely
picturesque, of The Convent of La Madonna del
Sasso, above Lacamo, yet more brilliant, or of
The Chateau Wufflens, Pays de Vaud-is worth
more than the cost of the whole. As we have
before said, Dr Beattie's work forms the best
guide that we have seen through the Swiss and
Italian cantons.

Memorials of Oxford. No. XXVI. Tilt. ALWAYS good, the engravings in wood, by Jewitt, are this month more than usually excellentthey are really beautiful. The subjects are: A View of the Walls of Oxford Castle, from the New Road;- The Ancient Well Room ;Ancient Crypt, or Chapel ;-General Plan of the Castle; and The Old Tower from the MillStream. Mr Mackenzie's designs are. The Castle, and the Town Hall: the former, beautiful as a production of the pencil; and both of them effectively engraved by J. Le Keux.

Hullmandel's Lithographic Drawing Book for the
Year 1835. By J. D. Harding. Ackermann
and Co., Strand.

A SERIES of 24 subjects of rural and marine
scenery, so admirable in execution that, at the
first glance, they must inevitably be taken for the
artist's original sketches. Mr Harding's pen-
cilling is astonishingly free, fresh, and spirited;
and the printing reflects the highest credit on
Mr Hullinandel's lithographic press.

on the careful and curious filling-up, and the elaborate finish of each individual part. Neither is the application of the two species of art the same-the lady's labours being shown in multiplied prints from the stone, and the Signor's being limited to the single paper on which his drawings are wrought by his hand. We have therefore no confession of error to make as to our former statement, though we are happy to repeat our approbation of the ability, per se, evinced in Miss Cole's productions.

According to a decision of the Council of the Russian Empire, the administration of the department of the public buildings has authorized the Imperial Academy of the Fine Arts to educate, at the expense of the Government, fifty young men, who, after having finished their studies, shall be obliged to serve in the first administration in quality of architect for a certain number of years. The registrar of the department of the public buildings has consequently published a notice, stating that twentyfive pupils will this year be admitted into the Academy; and requests parents, who wish for the admission of their children, to present themselves at the principal office in order to register their demands. The sons of Nobles, and of public servants, will be employed in preference. The candidates are to be at least fourteen years of age, and will have to undergo a preliminary examination on religion, the Russian and French languages, history, geography, arithmetic, and plan-drawing.

POLITICAL NEWS.

Dedicated, by Permission, to Her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent, and the Princess Victoria:
Leaves from the Memorandum Book of Alfred ACCORDING to last night's Gazette, the newly-
Crowquill. No. 3. Smith, Elder, and Co.
1835.

Ay, why, why will not Alfred Crowquill give us
something new? Why has he given us more
Travelling Companions?' And why does he

Is it impossible to impress him with the idea that
continue to patter behind George Cruikshank?
even a moderate original is better than a fine
imitation? Imitators constantly lag behind.
Really there is talent enough in these Leaves to
enable their author to leave many a conceited
fellow behind him, instead of suffering himself to
be left behind by Georgy.

Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Ingrey.
FOUR views of the life of man;-very fair speci-
mens of the art of lithography, in its improved
state.

CHIT-CHAT ON LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS.

created Peers are as follows:-Sir James Scarlett, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, as Baron Abinger, of Abinger, in the county of Surrey ;— Sir Philip Charles Sydney, as Baron de Lisle and Dudley, of Penshurst, in the county of Kent; -Lord Vesey Fitzgerald, of Ireland, is elevated to the English Peerage, as Baron Fitzgerald, of Desmond, in the county of Cork ;—and George James Pratt, commonly called Earl Brecknock, as Baron Camden, of Camden place, in the county of Kent.

2,310; Hobhouse, 1,808.—For Greenwich :— Angerstein, 1,794; Barnard, 1,104; Atwood, 1,025.-For the Tower Hamlets:- Lushington, 2,580; Clay, 2,779; Burton, 465. Captain

Yesterday, at the final close of the poll for Westminster, the numbers were:-for Sir Francis Burdett, 2,860; Colonel Evans, 2,709; Captain Cochrane, 1,614. — For the Borough of FinsMARTIN'S Nehemiah mourning over Jerusalem is very finely conceived. The artist has supposed Pen and Ink Portraits. Our recent remarks bury, Mr Hobhouse having previously resigned: Nehemiah "to have arrived by moonlight before on the merits of Signor Minasi, in connection-Duncombe, 4,447; Wakley, 3,339; Spankie, Jerusalem; when, beholding its external deso- with this style of drawing, of which, in its highly lation, its walls broken down, and many of its wrought and elaborately complete state, we have gorgeous edifices overthrown, he goes apart upon held that artist to be the originator, have drawn an elevation where he can overlook the holy city, forth some expression of dissent from a correand pours out his soul in tears.' The feeling spondent, who claims the priority in behalf of a and expression are poetical as well as artist-like. lady (Miss Augusta Cole), and has sent us, with Martin's other subjects in this number are, Ezra a due regard to the rules of evidence, a couple of reading the law-An Angel Slaying the As- specimens in support of his proposition. For syrians-and the Destruction of Tyre. Manoah's the talent shown in these specimens, which conSacrifice-Joash saved by Jehoshabeath-Thesist of a man's head, and a copy of the subject of Unfeeling Creditor-and the Vision of the Four Queen Esther, after Guercino, we freely express Chariots, are by Westall. our admiration. They are drawn with a vigour and breadth of effect such as rarely characterize the work of a female hand. They belong, howserve, to a different class of art from that in ever, as we would beg our correspondent to ob. which Signor Minasi exercises his ingenuity. They are sketches-spirited sketches, of which the chief merit lies in the outline; while his are pen and ink miniatures, dependent for their effect

Switzerland, by William Beattie, M. D., &c. Illustrated in a Series of Views taken expressly for this work, by W. H. Bartlett, Esq.

Part V. 4to. Virtue.

THE View of The Jungfrau, in this division of Dr
Beattie's delightful work-to say nothing of

:

Burton resigned.-For Lambeth (first day):Hawes, 1,564; Tennyson, 1,532; Farebrother, 778.

We cannot enter into any detail respecting the progress or present state of the elections; appears, from tolerably good authority, that yesbut, independently of what is stated above, it terday's returns, in favour of the Conservative interest, were as follows:

Andover, one,-Pollen, vice Fellowes.
Exeter, one, Follett, vice Buller.

On the whole, there appears to be a gain of about 36 or 37, and a loss of about 7 or 8.-Another week, so far as England and Wales are concerned, will bring us nearly to a close.

We understand that Mr Weir Hogg, the talented and finally triumphant Conservative candidate for Beverley, in Yorkshire, is a civilian of high consideration in India, whence he has lately returned full of distinctions from that part of the British empire. Mr Hogg had no fewer than 335 plumpers-about one third of the intire constituency of Beverley.

The French papers of Wednesday are almost The intirely occupied with English politics. Court of Peers has decided on putting five of the political prisenors on their trial.

-The French journals state that General Sebastiani has declined proceeding to London. This is attributed by some to the state of his health, and by others to the objections made to him by the English government, on the ground that he was distinguished at Constantinople for his opposition to English interests.

The third section of the Polytechnic school, which was disbanded, has been re-established, and the students allowed to re-enter on their individual and collective promise of obedience.

-The seventh arondisement of Paris will, it is expected, elect on the 10th inst. the celebrared Bertrand, the bosom friend and partisan of Napoleon.

The German papers received yesterday bring no political news. In the north of Germany, the iron railroad between Hanover, Hamburg, Bremen, and Brunswick, is the subject of much conversation. It seems to promise considerable advantages, and the English engineers have reported in its favour. An attempt to assassi nate Prince Leopold, brother of the King of Naples, and governor of Sicily, or the Police Minister-for in this the accounts differ-while they were forming part of a public procession, has created a deep impression in Naples. The man who attempted the assissination broke in on the ranks of the procession, and struck at his intended victim, but was killed by the soldiery. No reason is given for the

outrage.

Brussels papers acknowledge the receipt of seventy-four volumes of records, presented to the eity of Antwerp by his Majesty the King of Great Britain.

- Private letters from Madrid of the 30th, inform us that the Christino Government is dissatisfied with Mina, and that Llauder is to take the command of the insurgent pro vinces.

A notice was put up at the General Post Office, on Thursday, stating that from and after the 10th inst., all letters franked by Peers and those Members of Parliament who have been returned during the present election will no longer be chargeable with postage.

About a fortnight since, ten enormous masses of the rock which overhangs the village of Felsberg, in the Swiss Canton of the Grisons, fell with alarming force and explosion into the valley, and strewed the meadows with fragments. Fortunately no lives were lost.

THE SPORTSMAN.
No. XI.

We have already adverted to the extraordinary
number of accidents that have occurred this sea-
son from hunting. Last week added two serious
On Friday, Colonel Stan-
ones to the number.
den broke his leg while hunting with the East
Sussex foxhounds near Brighton. Mr Cour-
thorpe has likewise fractured his arm, from his
horse falling during a run; but, we are glad to
The Irish
hear, is going on uncommonly well.
papers bring us melancholy intelligence of
Fogarty, Esq., who broke a blood vessel in his
exertions during a severe fox chase in December
last.

On Friday (yesterday week) a large field of
noblemen and gentlemen met the King's Stag
Hounds, on the occasion of Lord Chesterfield's
The fixture was the Three
débût as master.
Magpies; which, if they did'nt produce "a wed-
ding" on this occasion, produced a good run—
to our mind, a much better thing.

Our foxhunting friends will be glad to learn
that that thorough-going sportsman, Mr Holy-
well Goodricke, signs himself M. P. for Stafford.
We hope he'll bring in a bill, making it death
without benefit of clergy or brandy-and-water, for
any person to be guilty of the heinous and horri-
ble crime of vulpecide.

The present week, of course, is blank as regards all manner of hunting-except hunting-theslipper, at which, old as we are, we had a jolly good game on Twelfth Night "last past." We cannot do better than employ the interregnum in laying before our readers some correspondence which we had intended to give them last week, but were prevented from want of

MAN."

space.

"To the Editor of the COURT JOURNAL.
"SIR, I am no courtier, though a constant
To say the truth,
reader of the COURT JOURNAL.
I have but lately taken up the latter character,
and my inducement to do so has been your [our
modesty will not allow us to insert the epithet-
Sp. C. J.] articles under the head of "THE SPORTS-
Í need not tell you after this that I too
am a sportsman; and consequently an advocate
of every measure that may tend to support or
improve the glorious pastime of the chase.
Johnson has said that there is no man whose
experience must not have furnished him with
something or other which may be usefully com-
municated to his fellow creatures. I think, then,
I shall not be considered immodest if I claim
SPORTSMAN" of the COUURT JUORNAL, and thro'
attention to my one suggestion from
his means, the Sportsmen of Great Britain in
general,

"THE

Every foxhunter must have experienced an inconvenience which the sport' is liable to in all countries, but particularly in small ones. It is but three days ago that, in the country This is perhaps best explained by an example. where I hunt, we ran a fox a long burst out of our own country into an adjacent one; but, from the intervention of some ploughed land, failed to hit him into the cover for which he had made; though we knew he was there, as we had brought him into the very field adjoining the wood. We had no cover of our own within seven miles of the spot, and were of course interdicted from entering the one under our noses. The end of it was that, by the time we had resumed proceedings in our own country, the day had so completely changed as to put a stop to our sport altogether. This, a thing occurring daily in some part of the kingdom or other, must be admitted to be an extreme annoyancefor a whole field of sportsmen to be baulked of their enjoyment just in the very 'crisis' of the sport. How then to obviate it? The means seem very simple. Let it be agreed among all masters of hounds, that, when a fox is run out of one country into another (and lost), and the covers of the former are at a great distance, while those of the latter lie close at hand, permission shall be given to the pack at fault to draw the nearest cover to the spot, whether to dislodge the hunted fox, or to provide another As this would for the amusement of the field. be done upon the Roland-for-an-Oliver system, there could be no loss to either master of hounds, and a most decided benefit would be conferred on the whole body of English foxhunters.

"As a rider to this bill-and to what bill could a rider be more appropriately fixed than a foxhunter's?—I would provide that, in case of any meet in one country taking place in the neighbourhood of any earths in another, the former country should have the privilege of The vexations arising stopping such earths. from the absence of some arrangement like this, are too well known to every brother sportsman to need my saying a word more on the subject. As foxhunters are (I flatter myself) a body of gentlemen-not likely to take any undue advantage of arrangements made for the general accommodation, I hope soon to see these proposals acted upon; though put forth by so humble an

individual as, Sir,

"Your obedient servant,
"A WILTS-MAN."

The best proof of our concurrence in the views of our friend, the "Wilts-man," is our insertion of his letter. We can only say, in addition to that, that if we were to commence the mastership of hounds, one of our first acts would be to propose an arrangement of the nature here advocated.

The old system of hunting, we see, is not The Whitehaven Herald altogether exploded. gives an account of a run with Mr Beeby's hounds (of Birkby) which occupied five hours, and extended "over a space little short of forty The hounds were so much fagged at the miles." snap their fox." end as to be unable to " P.S. We beg to remind some of our contemporaries, who crib our articles wholesale, retail," and for exportation," that it is considered genteel in such cases just to give a hint of where they stole 'em from.

THE ARMY.

Office of Ordnance, Jan. 2. Royal Regt. of Artillery-Second Captain W. A. Raynes, to be Captain, vice T. Scott, deceased; First Lieut. J. Somerville, to be Second Captain, vice Raynes; Second Lieut. T. Elwyn, to be First Lieutenant, vice Somerville.

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