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THE FIELD. 
[Saturday, 
Wilson, a Foun- 
biff itu. Cash and 
The Life and Adventures of Georg* 
dation Scholar. By Georg® Ob 
M‘Glashan. , 
. . . U the vehicle (as doctors say) in 
hi dwdT nauseous drugs mo presented to the popular 
" T. »i lf . iv be a new era of political thought? 
author oi me »v*nv uuuu i>* 
deemed it vise to follow in the popular foot-track, and 
has delivered over his views on the very important subject 
of school foundations and education in general, to the 
hands of the few characters in his book. We are much 
inclined to doubt bis wisdom in this particular respect, 
first, because the story he has adopted is very fragile in 
its materials, and the characters singularly uninteresting 
in themselves, and secondly, because the writer s vigor- 
ous wav of putting what he has to say, would have wrought, 
we think, much more conviction if it had been conveyed 
iu a straight-forward manner. . 
The matter of the book is, however, of such import- 
ance, that it otters large atonement for defective treatment. 
The very name of Charitable Trusts is unpleasant, and 
makes every honest man feel glad that he is not a trustee, 
for. independently of the obloquy which many late revela- 
tions has thrown upon the whole body of trustees, on 
account of mismanagement of one sort or another the 
difficulty of really applying charitable funds according to 
the wishes of the founders, would be no small weight on 
the shoulders and digestion of a conscientious trustee. But 
the author of “ George Wilson ” has made such a case 
against the managers of educational endowments, as to 
leave all scruples of these honest people far out of view. 
It cannot be doubted that in the larger number of 
instances, the benevolent founders of what are called 
grammar schools, intended them exclusively for i he 
benefit of those youths in their own localities, whose 
parents were unable to provide them with proper educa- 
tion ; and that the college exhibitions which are so 
liberally attached to some of these institutions were 
intended still further to assist the more deserving 
and able among them, to continue and perfect their 
education at the principal seats of learning. And we are 
afraid there can le no more doubt, that by prohibitions, 
discouragements, and gross favouritism, these advantages 
have been made to flow mainly, ii not altogethei, to the 
advantage of the middle and wealthy classes. The pro- 
hibitions have consisted in making classics the only 
sort of education ottered, in demanding fees of the founda- 
tion scholars, in creating invidious and cruel distinctions 
between boys, and in allowing the masters to take into 
the very houses which were the property of the school, 
boarders, who by paying something more than the foun- 
dation boys for instruction, withdrew the attention of the 
master from his charity pupils. The college exhibitions 
and other premiums falling to the share almost exclusively 
of the boarders, — their superior attainments the natural 
excuse— while those superior attainments were the result 
of a fraud upon the foundation scholars. 
Doubtless it will be a very difficult task for any legis- 
lature, that is not independent enough to cut Gordian 
knots, to grapple with the enormous abuses of scholastic 
trusts, for they will be disturbing the very wasp-nests of 
trustees who have misappropriated; tenants who have 
received wickedly advantageous leases ; clergymen who 
have added school endowments to small livings ; bishops 
who have sanctioned or not prevented improper adjust- 
ments ; lawyers who have had "family suits,’ that have 
been a regular source of income from father to son tor 
generations, and last and not least, the Court of Chancery, 
that has aided and abetted all these misappropriators, and 
been itself the greatest leech of all. 
If it were not for these impediments, an economical 
nation such as we are, would immediately see the enormous 
advantage of applying its resources in the immensely re- 
munerative investment of “ real” education, and so saving 
itself a very unprofitable outlay in punishment— instead of 
siding with those (in the author's words) “ who, whilst 
they shut out the poor from their free schools, w ithout the 
least compunction, feel utterly astonished at their igno- 
rance, and hope they will learn their duty in gaol/’ 
It is probable that so much has now been said and 
written on the subject, that it cannot again finally sleep, 
and though Mr. Griffith is a little Utopian in his hopes, he 
may congratulate himself that he has done good service to 
the good cause. 
POULTRY. 
GRAND POULTRY EXHIBITION. 
The second exhibition of the Houiton nud East Devon 
Association for the improvement of domestic poultry, 
opened in the Market House at Honiton, on Wednesday 
week, and continued next day, was attended by n large 
party of amateurs from a distance, as well as the clue ot 
the neighbourhood. The late patronesses were the Kig fit 
lion. Lady Rollc, the Hon. Mrs. Addington, the Light 
Hon. Lady Seaton, Lady Kcnnaway, Miss F. Fattcson, 
Mrs. Locke. Mrs. Baily, Mrs. Somerset, and Mrs. 1 ortcr. 
The president, the lion. W. W. Addington, assisted by 
the co-operation of the Right Hon. Sir. J. Patteson, Sir 
E. S. Fridcaux, Bart., E. S. Drew, Esq., J. Tyrrell, Esq., 
W. Fortcr, Esq., and the Mayor of Honiton, (as vice- 
presidents,) and the Rev. II. K. Venn, as Hon. Secretniy 
and Treasurer, rendered very efficient services. Indeed 
with so much fair assistance it would have been hard it 
this fowl scheme had not passed olT with eclat ; and we 
Class XXVI.— Black Poland;— ( with white crests.)— Cockerel mid 
two Pullets, Chicken ol 1851. . 
Prize of lOs. Henry Iliac, Bedford Brewery, Plymouth, Devon, hatched 
August r>tli ; prico 61. 6s. 
Class XXVII.— Golden Poi.AND.-Cock nnd two Hens. 
1st prize 15s. Robert II. Bush, Littleld House, Clifton, Bristol; not 
Class XXV III.— Golden Poland.— Cockerel and two Fullets, Chicken 
of 1853. 
must say that upon the whole few provincial shows have 
conic up in point of excellence to that we saw here. Hieie 
was a goodly brood of the best varieties, including the 
Dorking, Malay, and Spanish, the gawky Cochin China, 
in feathery unwhispcrables, was placed check-by-jowl with 
the unpretending game fowl; golden Poland was pitted 
against his silvery brother, while the haughty bantam ap- 
peared to regard himself as mighty nnd as dignified as the 
rarest and costliest member of the pencilled or spangled 
Hamburg family. We had nearly omitted to mention that 
there were turkeys, ducks and geese, all very fine in their 
respective walks 'in life, but the latter gentry appeared to 
us not only to possess remarkable good proportions, but 
J - ' There was also 
The Ladies' Companion. Rogcrson aud Tuxford, 24G, 
Strand. 
Miss Pnrdoe, Ada Trevauion, Mrs. Merrifield, Maria 
Norris, Mrs. Newton Crosland, Mrs. White, Mrs. A. 
Crawford, Miss Jewsbury, Alice B. Neal, and other well- 
know n authors, have cae’h and all contributed, and ably 
so, to the .January number of this drawing-room maga- 
zine, which contains, as a frontispiece, and in addition to 
the usual plates of fashions, an equestrian portrait of 
H.R II. the Prince of Wales. The new volume commences 
with the new year, and bids fair to attract a number of 
subscribers from that truly English class, who are ever 
ready to patronize literature when “ it blends the highest 
moral influence with amusements.” 
Beo> - IU/.utved yon Review.— Horsemanship for the Road and 
Field- Uncle Tom’s Cabin The RIHe and the Hound In Ceylon— 
Molyneu*. Rook of Poouis— Home Thoughts— Flotsam and Jetsam— 
London Cal. farm — Botanist's Word Book— Young Voyager-Slave's 
bon— John Curlton— &c. 
more than an ordinary share of loquacity 
shown some choice specimens of dead poultry. W e append 
a list of the prizes awarded. The office of judge was ably 
discharged by Mr. Edw'avd Hewitt, Eden Cottage, bpnrk- 
brook, near Birmingham. 
Class I. -Spanish — Cock and two hens. 
1st prize If., James E. Marshall. Belmont, Taunton, Somerset, ago 
unknown ; price 21/. 2nd prize 10s., Boughton Kingdom Exeter, age, 
cock and one lien, 18 months, one hen unknown ; not for sale 
Class II — Spanish. -C ockerell and two Pullets, Chicken of 18o3. 
1st prize 1/., Miss Dvott. 2, Torwood Mount, Torquay, age 8 months, 
price 10/. 10s— (Captain Hornby's breed, tookflrstpment Newton 
Abbot.) 2nd prize 10 j, to William Joseph Squme, Pl> mouth, age, 
cock 9 mon lbs. pullets 8 months and l week ; price 61. 6s. 
Class III —Dorking (Coloured).— Cock and two Hens. 
1st prize 1/, John Fortescue Pearse, Lower blew ton, \\liinaple, 
Devon, age 18 months; not for sale. 2nd prize to Mis. Brunei, Tor- 
quay, age unknown ; prico 50/. TOKO 
Clar- IV —Dorking.— Cockerel and two Pullets, Chicken of 1853. 
1st prize 1/., J U. Rodbard. Wrington, Bristol, age 0 months: prize 
25/ . grey. 2nd prize 10s , to II. Townsend, Honiton. Hatched March, 
1853 : not for sale 
Class V.— Dorking —Cock and two Hens. 
1st. prize 1/., Charles Edwards, Brislington, Bristol, age exceeding 
1 year; price 21/. 2nd prize 10s, Miss Ann Wilcox, Xailsca Couit, 
Bristol, age unknoAvn; not for sale. _ „ , 
Class VI.— Dorking (White).- Cockerel nnd two Pullets, Chicken 
onS53. 
1st prize 1/., Miss Fanny ratteson, Honiton, Devon, age 8 months; 
ClakVIL — Cochin China.— (Cinnamon and BiFF).-Cock nnd 
two Hens. 
1st prize 1/.. W. L Channing, Heavltrce, Exeter, age, cock and one 
hen, 1 venr and 4 months, one hen age unknown; not for sale, -nil 
prize 10s , Cyrus Clark, Glastonbury-, age unknown ; price 12/. 
Class VII.— Cochin China— (Cinnamon and Biff) — Cockerel and 
two Pullets, Chicken of 1853. 
1st prize 11., Captain W 11. Snell, London, cockerell hatched March 
t, 1853, one pullet March 13, one pullet May 7 ; not for side, buff. 2nd 
prize 10s., W. L. Channing, Heavitrec, age, cockerel 9 months, one 
pullet ~i months, one pullet 6J months ; not for sjiIc. 
Class 1X.-Co<hin China (White).— Cock and two Hens. 
No 1st prize awarded. 2nd prize 10s., Francis J. Coleridge, Ottcry 
St. Mary, age. Cock 18 months, Hens about 0 months; price. Cock 
15/. 15s., Hens 10/. 10s. the pair. 
Class X. -Cochin China (White).- C ockerel and two Pullets, 
Chickens ofl853. 
1st prize 1/., Cyrus Clark, Street, Glastonbury, Somerset, age 6 to 8 
months; price 10/ . 10s. 2nd prize 1 0s., James Turner, Exeter, age 8 
months : price 50/. . 
Class XL— Cochin China (Black, Brown, nnd Partridge.!. —Cock 
nnd two liens. 
1st prize 1/., Mrs. Dyott, Torquay, age, Cock unknown Hems hatched 
in 1852; price 50 guineas, black. 2nd prize 10s., Mrs. Madge Gittisbam 
Honiton, age various; price 2/., partridge. 
Class X1L — Cochin China (Black, Brown, and Pabtridgb).- 
Cockerel and two Pullets, Chickens of 1853. 
1st prize, I/., Captain W. H. Snell, London, nge, Cockerel and two 
Pullets, May I, not for sale, partridge. 2nd prize 10s., Thomas Bridges, 
Croydon, age. Cock 10 mouths, Pnllcts 7J mouths; price 10/., par- 
tl,dge ' Class XIII.— Malay.— Cock and two Hens. 
1st prize H, Charles Ballancc, 5, Mount-terrace, Taunton, Somer- 
set age. Cock and one Hen nearly 3 years, one Hen 20 months;- price 
50/— the Cock the celebrated Birmingham prize Cock ‘•Wallace. 
2nd prize 10s., William Manfield, Dorchester, Dorset, age unknown ; 
V 'cl\s^'x1V— Malay.— Cockerel and two Pullets, Chicken of 1853. 
1st prize, Charles Ballancc, Taunton, age 7 months and 1 week ; price 
50/. 2nd prize, Edmund Stamp, Honiton, hatched !• eb, 18 jJ, not tor 
Class XV.— Game.— C ock and two liens. 
1st prize 1 /., John It. Rodbard, Aldwick Court, Bristol, age 1 year nnd 
9 months; price 105/., black breasted red. 2nd prize, 10s, Charles 
Edwards, Brislington, Bristol, age exceeding 1 year; price 21/ 
Class XVI. — Game — Cock and two Pullets, Chicken of 18o3. 
1st prize, John F. Mortimer, Plymouth, nge 8 months; price 5/. 
2nd prize, Edmund Timms, Stoke Bishop, Bristol, age 8 months; price 
51. 5s, black breasted red . 
Cl ass XVII.— Golden Pencilled Hamburgh.— Cock nnd two Hens. 
1st prize, 15s, Mrs. Devcnlsh, Honiton, age, Cock 1J year, Hens 7 
months; price 1/. 11*. 0 </. 2nd prize, 10s, William Wcvill Rowe, 
Milton Abbot, Tavistock, age, Cock 5 months, Hens 1 year; price 
10/. 10s. „ , „ , 
Class XVIII - Goldeh Pencilled Hamburgh.— Cockerell and 
two Pullets, Chicken of 1803. 
1st prize. Miss F. ratteson, Honiton, age 8 months; prico 1/. 
10*. 2nd prize, Charles lloxlcy, Honiton, Devon, age 0 months; price 
* ( i ass XIX.— Golden Si-angled Hamburgh.— Cock nnd two liens. 
1st prize, 15s, Charles C. Teinplcr, Bridport, age cockerel 9 months, 
ms 2 years; price 3f. 3s. 2nd prize, 10s, Charles C. Templer, Brld- 
port, age 2 years; price 10/. 10s. 
Class XX.— Golden Si-angled Hamburgh.— Cockerel nnd two 
Pullets, Chicken of 1853. 
1st prize, William Kennaway Spregge, Paignton, age 21 weeks; price 
21/. 2nd prize, Clmrlea C. Tcmpler, Bridport, ago 9 months; price 
^Class' XXL— Silver Pencilled Hamburgh.— C ock^and two Hens. 
1st prize, Cyrus Clark, Street, Glastonbury, Somerset, nge 6 to 8 
mills ; priced/. 6s. 2nd prize, Charles Edwards, Brislington, Bristol, 
9 6 m cLAM XX IX. -Silver Poland.— C ock and two Hens. 
1st prize 15s. Cyrus Clark. Street, Glastonbury, age unknown; prico 
i ]n. 2nd prize 10s , William Wcvill Rowe, Milton Abbot, lavis- 
■it crick hatched July 13th, 1852, hen, October 1852; price 6/. 6s. 
.K, c OCK I flnrLr.K.1 an.ltwn PllUntS. Glllcketl 
of 1853. 
1st prize, Charles E. Coleridge, Eton College, hatched in May; not 
for sale. 2nd prize, Charles Edwards, Brislington, Bristol, age 7 months; 
Class 2 XX XL — Bantams. — (Gold and Silver Laeed.)-Cock and two 
liens. 
,t prize 1 0s., Joseph Goodenough, Godmnnstone, nbout 2J years; 
not for sale— Sebright. 2nd prize 5 s., John George Gully, Quceu-stiect, 
Exeter, ago about two years; not for sale— Scimgnt. 
Class XXX1L— Bantams.— (Black, white, or any otlici variety). 
Cock and two Hens. 
1st prize 10s.. ago cock and one hen 2 years, one hen 10 months; price 
8t.-?hB. 2nd prize William Coimett, Exeter, nge 3 years; price 
10/. 10s. ^pclw XX XI If TURKEYS.— Cock nnd one Hen. 
1st prize 1/., Charles Edwards, Brislington, Bristol, age 8i inonths 
price 50/. 2nd prize 10s., Mrs. Griffin, Honiton, age 18 months , prico 
51. 6s Black Norfolk. _ „„ 
t'. ..... yvviv — Gander and one Goose. 
1st prize 1/., William Wevill Rowe, Milton Abbot Tn^ 
May 11th, 1853 ; price 3/. 3s. 2nd prize 10s., Miss Ann W ilcox, NaiLea 
Court, Bristol age 4 months; not for sale. 
Class XXXVI.— Docks.— Drake and two Ducks. 
1st prize ]/., Thomas J. Brcmridge, Heavitrec, Exeter ago 0 1 inon is; 
price 6/. 6s. — Rouen. 2nd prize 10s., William Wcvill XMh** l J° n 
Abbot, Tavistock, age of drake 2 years, duck 1 year, puce 10/. .10. • 
Highly commended : Thomas J. Bremndge, Heavitrec, ago 6 months , 
price 61. Gs.— Rouen. . . 
Class XXXVII.— riGKONS (Camel). 
Commended: W. L Channing, Heavitrec, Exeter, ago 14 months, 
)t for sale. There were seven more Pigeon classes. 
DEAD POULTRY. 
Turkey.— 1st prize 10s., Mrs. Griffin, Monlrion, Honiton, age i 
months. 2nd prize 6s., Mrs. Griffin, Monkton, ago 7 months. 
Couple of Cockerels.— 1st prize 7s. 6d , William Brown, Slmte, 
Devon, aged 5 months. 2nd prize 5s., Mrs. Venn, Upton Cottage, 
Ottcry St. Mary, aged 20 weeks; price 7s. 
Couple of Pullets.- 1st prize 7s. 6d., Dr. Rogers, Hon ton, aged 
6 months; price 10s. 6d. 2nd prize 3s. fid., Mrs. Banfield, Awlis- 
combc, Honiton, age 6 months; price 7s —Dorkings. . 
Goose. — 1st prize 10s., Clement Griffin, Honiton, aged 8 months 
price 10s. fid. 2nd prize 6s , Th ns Griffin, Honiton, Devon, aged 
8 Couple of Ducks.— 1st prize 7s. Gd., Clifford Shirreff, T^dburv, 
Colyton, Devon ; not for sale. 2nd prize 3s. Gd , Ihomas Griffin, Led 
Doors Farm, Luppitt, Honiton, Devon, nged 4 months; price 6s.- 
Woolmcr's Li tter and Plymouth Oacetle. 
The Great Metropolitan Winter Poultry Show. 
— The arrangements for the Great Metropolitan Winter 
Poultry Show, to be held at the Baker-street bazaar on the 
10th, Ilth, 12th, and 13th inst., progress rapidly towards 
completion. The show, irrespective of the pigeons and 
rabbits, will be divided into sixty-two classes, and the 
pigeons into nineteen classes. The rabbits will have eight 
classes. The amount of prizes is double those awarded at 
the show of last year, and includes also large and small 
silver medals in the respective classes. 
Dronfield Poultry Show.— A poultry show was held 
in the large room at the Swan Inn, Dronfield, on Wed- 
nesday, 28 th December. The exhibition excited somo 
interest, and attracted many visitors. There were some 
excellent specimens of the buff and partridge coloured 
Cochin Chinas, black Spanish, nnd silver and golden phea- 
sants; there were also some good specimens of the bantam 
and cross breeds. Mr. Wragge, of Endcliffe Cottage, near 
Sheffield, acted as judge, and awarded the prizes. 
Baker’s Poultry Restorative. — The inventors of this 
specific have, through many years’ experience, and their 
constantly possessing a large live stock of game and 
poultry, had ample opportunities of proving its efficacy. 
Their stock at "The Pheasantry,” at Chelsea, generally 
amounts to 2000 stock, a number far exceeding that to be 
found in similar establishments. Even the present bitter 
weather has not injured the birds. The establishment, 
winter or summer, is well worthy a visit, and is altogether 
so highly thought of, that most of the so vereigns of Europe 
are its constant patrons. The restorative has been adver- 
tised in "The Field,” and now that -the poultry mania 
eigns paramount, it cannot but be extensively brought 
into use. It is certainly the best we have. 
IIow to Sell Turkeys. — A young farmer having some 
turkeys to dispose of, and having prolonged his sitting over 
n social glass, after market, for some few hours longer than 
usual, bethought him of offering his turkeys for sale to the 
landlord, but not finding a purchaser in that quarter, he 
then put in practice the dodge generally learnt by school- 
boys of selling a horse by the number of nails in bis shoes, 
" a farthing for the first, half-penny the next, and so on 
doubling the amount every time.” Having 14 turkeys he 
ottered to sell them in ihe same way : this was immediately 
accepted by one of the company, and each deposited a 
sovereign with the landlord to make the bargain binding ; 
but imagine the purchaser's astonishment when he found 
the amount to he 17/. 1 We opine that he gladly 
forfeited his sovereign. 
1st prize, 15s., Francis 11. Aberdein, Honiton, nge 8 months; price 
51 5s. (Took prize at Surrey Gardens ami Taunton.) 2nd prize, 10s , 
William Weevlll Rowe, Milton Abbot, Tuvlstoek, age 1 year; price 
10/. 10*. _ , „ , . 
Class XXII Silver Pencilled Hamburgh.— Cockerell and two 
Pullets, Chickens of 1853. 
1st prize, Francis II. Aberdein, Honiton, age 7 months; price 51. 5s. 
2nd prize, Miss F. l’atteson, Honiton, Devon, age 8 months ; price 1/. 
Ci ass XX III.— Silver Spangled Hamburgh.— Cock nnd two Hens. 
1st prize, 15s., Charles C. Tcmpler, Bridport, age 2 years - price 
51. 5s 2nd prize 10s , Charles Edwards, Brislington, Bristol, ago 
exceeding 1 year; price 21/. 
Class XXIV.— Silver Spangled Hamburch.— Cockerel and two 
Pullets, Chickens of 1853. 
1st prize, Frank Paige, Tor, Torquay, Devon, age 7 months; price 
10/. MU- 2nd prize, Charles C. Tcmpler, Bridport, ugo 9 months; 
^ Claims XXV. BLACK Poland.— ( with white crests) Cock and two 
Ileus. 
Ld prize 15*., James p. lime. Thlckthorne, ncur llminstcr.uge, cock 
9 mouths, lien 17. 2nd prize 10*., Jninc-i Newtek, Hinton St. George 
llminoter, ago 1 year; prico 51. 5i. 
AGRICULTURE. 
Short-Horns and Highlanders— If you introduce a 
petulant Highland cow into a dairy of short-horns, of which 
every individual is double her own weight, she at once be- 
comes mistress and leader of the herd. We have been in 
the habit of attending annually a sale of fat cattle where 
the stalls are filled with beasts of various descriptions. The 
short-horn is released from the stake to which he has been 
tied for four months, nnd proceeds to the hammer with all 
the solemnity which befits an animal who is walking to his 
own funeral. The West Highlander, as soon as he ascer- 
tains that he is free, rather in frolic than in fury, breaks 
through the ring of his intending purchasers, blunders over 
a fence, and celebrates his recovered liberty by most 
extraordinary antics. The butchers get but a passing 
view of him. “Now, gentlemen,” says the facetious 
auctioneer, “you must shoot him flying.” His sale pro- 
ceeds without the solemn pinching and punching, and 
the wise looks which, in the case of a more patient ani- 
mal, are preliminary to a bid. Some excitement lias been 
produced by the scene, and, if the gin-bottle has done its 
duty, lie generally sells well.— Gisborne's Essays on Agri- 
culture. 
To Pig Breeders. — Tn the month of September, a sow 
farrowed thirteen pigs, two of which, with the mother, 
from having been in too high condition, died the following 
day. The remaining eleven were assiduously served with 
new milk out of a lamb’s tin and teat of parchment for 
about a week, when they gradually began to help them- 
selves from the trough. They are all alive, and as well- 
grown as if they had not lost their parent, 'l’he only 
difficulty experienced in rearing them was to cheek the 
diarrhoea, which invariably followed from a change ot 
diet. This was obviated by boiling flour and then mixing 
chalk with their milk ; and, when very violent, adding for 
each pig from fifteen to twenty drops of laudanum us the 
case required. This last addition had a wonderful effect, 
not only in subduing the looseness, but also that restless- 
ness which accompanies diarrhoea. 
