32 
THE FIELD. 
[Saturday, 
CHESS. 
PROBLEM No. 42. 
By Captaiu Gowax. 
Black. 
White. 
Whitb lo mote in four moves. 
Just nloved at the Grand Divan between M. Wtyill, Esq., M.P., 
and Mr. Lows. 
White. 
White. Black. 
, SI. Wyvill, Esq. 
Sir. Lowe. M.P. 
1 . ITs T 2 Q BP2 
2. KBP2 KP1 
3. K Kt to B 3 K Kt to It 3 
4. K B to K s 2 Q Kt to B 3 
5. Castles K B P "Kt - 
*, QP1 K It to K 2 
7. KRP1 Castles 
8. Q Kt to B 3 Q’s HPI 
9. Q B to K 3 Q's Kfs P 2 
10. Q to Q 2 Q's B to Q's Kt 2 
11 . Q R to K sq Q's Kfs P 1 
12. Kt to Q sq Q's P 2 
13 . K P takes Q P P takes P 
14 . Q Pone (a) P takes P 
15. Kt takes P Kt takes Kt 
It to Q B 
Black. 
M. Wyvill, Esq. 
M.P. 
B to K 5 
B to K 2 
Kt to B 2 
Q R to Q B (e) 
Kt to Q 3 
Mr. Lowo. 
18. Q to K B 2 
19. K Kt P 1 
20. K to R 2 
21. QKtPl 
22. Kt to K 3 . 
23. Kt takes QP Kt to K 5 
24. KttakesB(ch) Q takes Kt 
25. Q to K Kt 2(d; Q to Q 3 
■>C. Q R to Q Q to K Kt 3 
27- B to K 5 K R to Q 
28. K Kt T l P takes P 
29. B takes P ( t ) R takes R 
30. R takes R R to K B 
31 R to Q 7 RtoB2 
32. R (Ch) R Interposes 
33. B to K 6 (clx) Resigned 
proprietors of landed estates in the favoured gold counties 
will eagerly examine it, with a view to opening operations 
on their territories. . 
It seems strange, with the aun sacra fames o out 
school days deeply impressed on our memories, with tne 
recollections of alchymists, and tho warnings ot scripture, 
to be told that it is, and has always been difficult to per- 
suade people to believe in the existence of gold fields. Mr. 
Calvert is an enthusiast on the subject of native gold, but 
he feels that there is no persuading others into lus enthu- 
siasm ; but with the example of other gold-bearing counties 
before him, trusts to the chapter of accidents tor setting 
speculation on foot. He relates how long it was known 
that gold in large quantities and easy of access existed m 
California and Australia, and yet how purely accidental, 
was at last the circumstance that set all the Eastern 
and Western world digging, delving, rocking and washing. 
The author is undoubtedly right in supposing that ic 
Crown claims on all mines of the precious metals ; and the 
lights which have been created under these royalties have 
been the most serious impediments to enterprise in tins 
branch of mining; for who would be at the expense of 
bursting through and digging up Ins acres to be pounced 
upon, on the first glitter of the precious oie, bj the 
aU M r ! Calvert perceives another impediment to gold-seek- 
ing in the prejudice of geologists; to all ot whom, however, 
ho manfully gives battle, declaring that their particulai 
objects of inquiry, such as oryctulogy, paleontology, and 
fossils, have turned them aside from mincralogical con- 
siderations. And if a good deal of his ttmo has been as 
well spent as a portion of it, m which lie says, I bioke oft 
three hundredweight of quartz (as much as my horse could 
carry away, being about thirty miles from my camp at the 
time) which yielded seventy six pounds weight of pure gold, 
value 3,700/.” It will not be lor the want of the sinews ot 
war, that he docs not conquer all opposition. 
S. W. Baker, Esq. 
16. B takes Kt 
17. B to K B 3(6) R to Q B 5 
(a) Well ployed, Mr. Lowe's object being to shat out his adversary s 
Q (ft) Good ploy. White's pieces are now In much better play than 
All this Is not characteristic of Mr. Wyvill's usually vigorous style. 
id) Well managed. 
(t) Much better than taking with the F . 
This interesting and instructive game wai pl»yd 
ino’s ago at the Grand Divan between Mr. A. Oliiohs, of the 
London Club, and Mr. Williams. 
Black. 
Mr. Simons. 
21. Q Kt to B 3 
22. P takes P 
23. Kt to B 5 
24. P takes B 
25. Kt to Kt 
28. Q to K 4 
27. Q takes Q KtP B to Kt 3 
2*. B to Q B 2 U to Kt 4 
29. RtakesQ P(d) R to Kt 2 («) 
30. R to Q 2 T takes P 
31. K Kt P 1 Kt to K 3 (/) 
32. B to Kt 3 Kt to Kt 4 
33. Q to Q B 6 K P 1 (?) 
White. 
Mr. Williams. 
K Kt P 2 
B P takes P (e) 
B takes Kt 
K Kt P 1 
R takes P 
Q R to K B 
Black. White. 
Mr. Simons. Mr. Williams. 
1. KP2 K P 2 
2. K Kt to B 3 Q Kt to B 3 
3 K B to B 1 K B to B 4 
4. Q Kt P 2 B to Q Kt 3 (a) 
5. Castles Q P 1 
6. Q B P 1 K Kt to B 3 
7 Q P 1 Castles 
6. QRF2 Q R P 2 (6) 
9. Q B to K 3 Q Kt to K 2 
10. Q Kt P 1 Q Kt to K Kt 3 
11. KRP1 B to Q R 2 
12. Q Kt to Q 2 Q to K 2 
13. Q to Q B 2 K Kt to R 4 
14. Q B toKKt5Q to K 
15. K to R 2 K Kt to B 5 
16. Q R to Q K to R 
17. B to Q Kt 3 K R P I 
18. B takes Kt Kt takes B 
19. K Kt to R 4 K B P 1 
20. Q P 1 Q to U 4 
(a> This Is the best mode of evading the attack of this, tho Evans 
Gambit. 
ft wHh ..M 7 , but b. d.4 not „b» 
Very well 1 * played, as It is evident the R cannot be 
(e) The best move ; he could not sacrifleo his R here to advantage. 
(/) Corrects played. 
la) Shutting out the (). . , _ . 
(A) Verv plausible; White's next move, however, renders Blocks 
gome hopeless. 
34. R to Q 5 
35. K to R (A) 
36. R takes B 
37. K takes Q 
38. K to Kt 2 
39. K to It. 
B takes P 
P to K R 7 
P takes Kt Q (ch) 
Kt to R 6 (ch) 
R takes R (ch) 
Mote In 2 moves. 
For answers to Chess Queries see “Notices to Correspondents. 
ftoiitts of §oolt5. 
The Col/1 Rack of Great Britain and Ireland. JOHN 
Caltbrt. Chapman and Hall. 
The author of this elaborate work has travelled, he 
says, twenty-one thousand miles in Australia ; and his 
attention through that long and dreary inarch having been 
principally directed to gold, lie speaks with some authority 
when he applies the result of his researches in the anti- 
podes analogically to the rocks and river beds of his 
native country. Not that his researches have been con- 
fined to tho auriferous portions of the New World, for he 
has visited, examined, and collected materials for specu- 
lation, through the length and breadth of this country, and 
has fortified his theories and opinions by all that has been 
written on tbe subject of his favourite gold, for many genc- 
I , a - 1 . IIi» book will be a valuable acquisition to 
the Stock Exchange, especially to that portion of its mem- 
bers who arc interested in mining companies ; and the 
The Rifle and the llound in Ctfon 
Longmans. 
Here we have the adventures of another gentleman of 
the Gordon Cumming species, mighty hunters ot the true 
school of Nimrod. The author’s heart and soul seem en- 
tirely wrapped up in the exciting pleasures connected with 
the destruction of wild animals, and Ceylon appears to 
have afforded the most ample meal oven for his indo- 
mitable appetite. , . , 
After a panegyric to his countrymen for their honour- 
able sporting propensities— for their love of sport for 
sport's sake-lie dashes with characteristic impetuosity 
among the principal objects of his pursuit and as he 
lingers long and lovingly among them all through, and 
concludes among them, we must suppose that they arc lus 
favourite victims. These are no less than elephants, 
whose species for its courage, sagacity, strength, ferocity, 
and many other virtues, he proposes to crown king ot tho 
animals— v c the lion deposed. The feline race, indeed, 
though they appear to abound in Ceylon, have not 
met with much of Mr. Baker’s delicate attention ; 
but among boar, buffalo, crocodile, snake, and above all the 
elephant, he seems to be perfectly at home. Lest the grand 
battues that he makes among these noble and extensive ani- 
mals should appear cruel and unmanly to those who only 
know them as the docile, heavy, bun-devouring tenants of 
Zoological gardens and travelling shows, (or lie might have 
added if he had known it, wonder performing acrobats 
of Astlev’s) he introduces his readers at once to the Hogue 
elephant, ns he appears with his tail in the air, his trunk 
extended upwards, at once to guard his forehead and to 
be ready for a blow ; his savage and cunning eye, gleaming 
with hate and vengeance, dashing through jungle which no 
other animal can traverse, at the rate of a railway train, 
and with a scream exceedingly like its whistle. Nothing 
can withstand such an animal aided as the “ Rogue is by 
an extraordinary sagacity which gives him every advan- 
tage that man has, but one, and that is the lour ounce 
rifle. This weapon seems to bring matters somewhat to 
an equality and in the hands of so dead a shot and so cool 
a marksman as Mr. Baker, puts all doubt apart as to the 
i termination of a contest, unless the extraordinary cunning 
of the rogue deprives the sportsman of the opportunity ut 
using his weapon. In this case to be instantly stamped to 
death, is the certain termination of matters. 
This book is entirely sport, and would probably become 
monotonous were it not for the constant change of the object 
of attack and the exciting character of all the adventures, 
which will probably conduct even the least sportsman- 
like reader from the first page to tho last ; and to the 
enthusiast in field sports it will prove more entertaining 
I than the most exciting melo-drama. 
i The volume is adorned with several coloured illustiations, 
which if they are not very valuable as works of art, are, 
1 like the rest of the book, vivid and characteristic descriptions 
of the scenes of wild excitement which the chase m Ceylon 
affords. 
Hol&am and Jetsam. By JIookanil Bf.e, Esq. Saunders 
and Ottley. 
Tins little volume consists of a collection of light poems 
and rhymes, which have been contributed from time to 
time, to some of the periodicals. To say that neither the 
style, nor the style of thought is very original, is to say 
very little indeed in disparagement, in these days, when 
the best rewarded of exertions seems to be in walking 
successfully in other people's lootsteps. I lie nutlioi, who- 
ever he may be,— for surely the fantastically sounding, 
Hook anil Bee, can only be a nom de plume, lias a very 
nice ear for metre, and a great facility in rhyme. In the 
funner particular, he is unusually pleasant, and plays with 
his dactyls and spondees, ns we have heard Persian! or 
Sontng dally about a "la” or a "sol." Perhaps this 
facility deceives him, when the temptation of some happy 
rhyme, or quaint turn of thought or metre induces him, 
in such compositions as Oriande, which is of serious pur- 
pose, to slip in little bits of buffoonery, which seem an 
offence to taste. In the other poems in the style which 
Barham and Hood had almost monopolised, of course the 
very essence is the sudden transition of thought and man- 
ner, and in these he is felicitous. 
The Art Journal. 
The January number of this journal is very full of 
interest, and tends to sustain the well-earned character of 
the publication. The large pictures nroGoodall’s ‘‘Raising 
the Maypole,” engraved with great spirit by h. GoodnU; 
a very beautiful and delicate engraving of Gibsons 
group of “ Ilyins and the Nymphs,’ the only piece of 
sculpture which is included in Mr. Vernon’s bequest. I his 
group stands in the entrance hall at Marlborough House, 
and like sculpture in halls in general, we fear gets much 
overlooked. This beautiful engraving will probably cause 
the attention which it deserves to be bestowed upon this 
elegant group. The third largo engraving is one of 
Stodlmrd's “ Vintage also one of the Vernon collection, 
and probably as good a specimen of Stodhnrd ns any 
existing. It is engraved by Garner, with great care, 
breadth, and effect. 
Among other woodcuts, well and richly dispersed 
through this number, are specimens of tho illustrations in 
a recent edition of “Tapper's Proverbial Philosophy.” 
They are wonderful examples of wood-engraving, especially 
that of a” Sea Shore,” by Duncan. 
The letter-press portion of the journal is valuable ns 
usual, and wo cannot help drawing attention to a paragraph 
on the “ Bequest of Mr. J. M. W. Turner,” in hopes of 
increasing the alarm therein raised, that the miserable delays 
of litigation w ill deprive us of the valuable collection which 
the wonderful old miser intended the nation to enjoy. 
Far better would it be, that the nation’s claim should at 
once be given up, than that while the seven counsel are 
taking sevenfold fees— damp and neglect should be allowed 
gradually to nibble away what no legal proceedings can 
restore. 
Home 'Thoughts. A Magazine of Literature, Science, mid 
Domestic Economy. Kent and Co., Paternoster-row. 
A little domestic production which has achieved its first 
venr of existence, and comes recommended by its modesty 
and utility, at a time of year when most of our thoughts 
are more particularly directed homewards, than at any 
other seasons. There arc biographies and chess for the 
studious, draughts and riddles for the young, remedies for 
the afflicted, and crotchet for the industrious ; and when 
we add that there are illustrated stories fol 1 the romantic, 
and varieties for everybody, what more can be said to re- 
commend a cheap little homo companion, to those who 
are in want of such a useful fireside friend? 
®ar 
POULTRY EXHIBITIONS. 
Mr. Editor,— It is much to be regretted that such great 
dissatisfaction is expressed at the award of prizes for pigeons 
at poultry exhibitions. I bear high censure of the decisions 
of the judges, both at the late Birmingham and Surrey 
shows, not quite undeserved, I am sorry to say, and from 
what I gathered there were two strong operating causes 
against their selection for the office. In one instance, the 
officiating member lmd not kept birds for five-and-twenty 
years; in the second, parties were judging mark you, 
Mr. Editor I— a general collection, w hile their experience 
is limited to the Almond Tumbler only. 
The facilities given by steam navigation for the importa- 
tion, among other live stock, of pigeons have materially 
extended the species in England, and the parties I allude 
to from their confined (fancy) rango cannot surely be 
equal to the task of properly adjudicating, where, as in 
these cases, they had never before scon, much less kept, 
varieties such as were then brought under their observa- 
tion ; hence the mistake of giving prizes to cross bred 
birds unworthy serious attention, and surrendering to 
inferior and foul birds the distinction which should have 
been attached to more perfect specimens. 
Should my remarks be taken ns intended, in a friendly 
spirit, ns it would appear these errors arise merely from 
inexperience and insufficient acquaintance with the estab- 
lished rules ns to the properties of pigeons, when offered 
for competition, I could not object, if called upon by any 
manager of a poultry exhibition, to submit for consider- 
ation such suggestions as would, I trust, remove much of 
the unpleasant feeling existing; and which if not checked 
may prevent owners of good collections from contributing 
hereafter. 
Let mo in conclusion here hint to the feeders of the 
st >ck that the supply of water to the pigeon ought to be 
continuous, n 9 ouo pigeon drinks more water than three 
or four fowls. I am. Mr. Editor, yours, &c., 
A Friend of the Feather. 
A RUN WITH T1IE DORSET BLACKMOORVALE 
HARRIERS. 
5m, — This celebrated pack established in 1807, met at 
Mappowder bridge on Monday the 9th of January, in 
order to shake oft' the lethargy of a long frost, and to show 
to their friends and followers that they were ns ready and 
elastic as ever “ to do the state some service.” They met 
on the domain of tbe Mappowder, where (thanks to the , 
generous Earl of Beauchamp and Ins lnghly-respectcd 
tenant, Mr. W. James, of Mappowder Court), the Black- 
moor Vulo Harriers and their followers are never dis- 
appointed. In the forenoon, from tho quantity of snow 
which filled up the “ Menses” and the crossing-points, the 
hares ran short, nnd two or three were killed; but the 
worthy master of the Blackmoor Vale Hamers, acting 
upon the principle of the illustrious John Ward, that 
there is a turn in the day” to those who will' only have 
patience, declared to his eager friends that there was a run 
in store for them, and so it proved ; for in a few mmutes 
twenty couple of these symmetrical dwarf fox bitches weic 
seen going right away with a flying jack Imre of ada- 
mantine power before them, down the fine Mappowder 
Vale direct to the crook which divides that parish from 
Stoke Wake, and across for Stoke common, and on, at a 
tremendous pace, under Stoke lull, across the fine Vn» 
for Croft Wood, leaving that cover a little to the right, 
and on for Woolland, leaving that wood slightly to the 
right, as also Mount Pleasant coppice, away to Locketts, 
swimming the brook there for the Hazelberry enclosures, 
and on for the lmmlct of Zonr, where the hounds were 
brought to hunting terms ; and here how would a geiWJn 
sportsman have rejoiced to seo what high-bred fox biten • 
could do with an execrable scent, ns they ploughed tne 
way through heavy drifts and masses of snow, and woiK 
on over cold and greasy fallows, picking out the hingu* 
line of scent along half frozen roads, till they bit their lm 
into Cockroad Wood, when they dropped their stern* 
again as they rattled him through that cover “with a cry 
most tuneable,” taking the fences flying ns they raced 
down tho dell to Fifehcnd Neville, and ran into him 
open view .it Lower Fifehcnd, at tho cud ot n fino 
ing run of one hour and twenty minutes, through to 
parishes direct, and over seven miles at the minim 
without a turn, ns the ordnance map will shfcff. I ■ *» 
yours 
