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THE FIELD. 
[Saturday, 
reassemble until Thursday, the 1 8th of August, on the 
morning of which day they were found At .Maidstone. But 
here again the event was g-eatly interfered with by the 
badness of the ground. All ^tches are indeed unsutis- 
factory where there is the absence of the first essential 
for fine cricket, namely . apod ground. The present match, 
however was closely contested tor.it was won by Maidstone 
bv 6 runs only. Maidstone scored 65 and 56, or 121; and 
(not out), 6 and 24. From Maidstone tho United wended 
their way over to Bradford, in Yorkshire, and what 
was done in that match we must delay the description of 
till our next number. 
CHESS. 
PROBLEM No. 41. 
By Mr. Prims, of Boldon. 
White to mate in firo moves. 
SOLUTION OF THE LAST PROBLEM. 
Blaok. 
1. Q takes Q 
2. K to K Kt 2nd 
3. B to K B 6th 
4. I 1 to K 11 5th, mato 
R takes Q 
R takes Kt (best) 
P to K R 3rd 
THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT'S HOUNDS AT COMPTON 
BASSET, DEC. 23. 
Sir, — As we are come to a check, if not too late since 
our meet, we will, with your permission, have a run in 
the pages of the “Field” — the meet, Compton Bassett, 
the seat of G. W. llcneage, Esq., M.P. This locality oi 
late years has not been very healthy for Master AN dey, 
as when he gets into suoh a fix as represented in your 
last impression he does not easily forget it 5 but better 
times are come. After the festivities of the house were 
concluded, the lady pack were thrown into the house 
covert, and, as of old, found directly, breaking across tho 
park (to give the ladies a view), over the vale, rather a 
stiff run to Calston, pointing for Blacklands, but altering 
his course, he went through Calston plantation, to the 
Downs, which were a sheet of ice, steering to the right 
of Sutton’s Gorse, to Roundaway, where we lost him, 
after fifty minutes as good a hunting run as you would 
wish to see, the hounds doing their work beautifully. 
The field, across the enclosures, were led by Captain 
Miles ; the road, which comprised by far the greater 
number, were led by J. B, Fuller, Esq. 
I remember years since it was said these hounds would 
not stoop to scent — this day would have convinced the 
most sceptical on that point, that they can hunt as well as 
race, which we should have known from experience if 
the scent had been run a fair one. W o retraced our 
steps back to Compton, and found in a small covert a 
brace, if not a leash, of the varmint, getting away close to 
the brush of one of them. After a short, sharp skurry, 
we tucked him up, one hound alone having the first shy ; 
he was in good condition, no doubt he had fared well, as 
I believe there are plenty of rabbits, whioh Scrutator in 
his letters convinces all from ocular demonstration, that 
Charley prefers to other game. The present Duke of 
Beaufort I think will make one of the best sportsmen of 
the day ; very agreeable in the field ; his heart is in the 
noble science— a good eye to hounds — a good hand — but 
hold hard cries the youngster in front, or you will spoil 
the sport, which will ill accord with 
An Old Sportsman. 
DISEASE IN RABBITS. 
Sir, — The paragraph quoted in last week’s paper, 
wherein a Mr. Pain mentions “the disease in rabbits,” 
having dissected one and found a tape worm destroying 
the kidneys, which he states would ultimately cause 
death, I beg leave to contradict such a statement if you 
will allow me through the medium of your paper. Sir, 
I have been a gamekeeper all my life, (now at the age of 
sixty years,) I have paunched many thousands of rabbits, 
and invariably find the tape worm (Mr. Pain alludes to), 
more or less, in fact it frequently occurs, the worm so 
called will be found in the first conditioned rabbits, and 
in tho height of their season. Mr. Pain is quite at liberty 
to ask me any question on the subject of rabbits. 
I am, Mr. Editor, 
A supporter of “ The Field,” 
“A Flash in the Pan.” 
This severely-contested and instructive game is Hie first of (he 
eeries played at Brussels, last summer, between Mr, StauxtoR 
and Von dbr Laza. 
Whits. Black. j White. 
Mr. Staunton. Von dev Laza. 1 Mr, Staunton. 
1. K P 2 R T 3 36. K Kt P 1 
2. K Kt to B 3 Q Kt to B 3 27. K to Kt 2 
3 K B to Q B 4 K Kt to B 3 (a) 2d. K Kt 1* 1 
4. Q Kt to B3(5) K B to Q lit 5 (f ) 29. R to K R 
5. Castles Castles 
6. QP1 Q P 1 (d) 
7- Q B to K Kt 6 B takes Kt 
8. P takes B B to K 3 (e) 
0. B to Q Kt 9 Q R P 2 
10 . Q R P 2 B takes B 
11. P takes B K It P 1 
12. B to R 4 Q to K 2 
13. Kt to K K Kt r 2 (/) 
14. B to K Kt 3 Q It to O 
15. K R P 2 Q I* 1 
16 
KRP takes R P takes P 
P(ff) 
17. Q to B 3 
18. Q B P 1 
19. Q to B 5 
20. Kt to B 3 
21. Q to Kt 4 
2-2. Kt to K R 4 
Q P 1 
K to Kt 2 
Kt to R 4 
K B P 1 
KtoKH 
K to B2 
30 . Q to Q 3 
31. Q to Q B 2 
32. Q B P 1 
33. K to B 3 
34. B takes Kt 
35. R takes R 
36. 11 to Q 2 
37. B takes Kt 
38. K to Kt 2 
39. « Kt I* 1 
40. O to Kt 3 (ch) Q to K 3 (4) 
41. (/takes P K to Kt S (f) 
Black. 
Yon der Laza. 
Kt to R 6 (ch) (») 
Q Kt to K 2 
R to R 2 
Q It to IC R 
Q to Q Kt 3 
Q Kt to K Kt 3 
Q to Q It 3 
K Kt to B 5 
R takes It 
R takes R 
Kt to B 5 
Kt P takes B 
R to R 2 
1* takes P 
j 42. Q takes P 
I 43. Q It P 1 
' 44. Q R P 1 
] 45. K to Kt 
K to Kt 4 
K takes P 
KCP1 (cli) 
Q to Q It 7 
23. Kt to B 5 (ft) Q to K 3 
24 B to K R 2 Q R to K Kt 
Kt to 
46. Kt to K 3 (ch) P takes Kt 
, 47. q to q B 8 K to It 4 
(ch) 
| White resigned 
25. Q to q Kt to K B 5 
(а) This move is certainty Inferior to the old one of B to B 4, ns it 
Involves the loss of a Pawn at least. 
(б) Here White should have played his K Kt to Kt 5, obtaining jnucta 
the better game. 
(«) Black cleverly takes advantage of his opponent's weak play. We 
prefer Black's game already. 
(«/) At page 92 of Janisch this position is given as a good defensive 
game for Black. 
(«) Opposing B to B thus is better than playing it to K Kt 5. 
( / ) Opinions are divided as to the merits of this move— it certainly 
looks hazardous. 
{</) By this move White opens his R file for his opponent's R'g, which 
will no doubt be troublesome by-and-by. 
(4) This Is a showy position for the Kt, but, unasslslod, he cannot do 
much. The student will perceive that both the Q and B are coin- 
pletely shut out. 
<0 Analysis proves that Black might have left the Kt to be taken, 
as he would have recovered more than an equivalent afterwards. 
(/) While now maintains an attack for a time, but It is of no avail. 
(k) Black appears compelled to make this move. 
(0 These moves are admirably calculated by Black. 
**• For answers to Okess Queries see “Notices to Correspondents." 
©nr fEtfer-|it(j, 
CEB OF Til a SPUR. 
Sib,— I too, as a lady rider, am a decided advocate for a 
spur, on all occasions, both on the road, and in the field. 
With regard to those little absurdities called ladies’ spurs, 
I think them almost useless, as they do not punish a horse 
sufficiently, and easily become broken, particularly if by 
accident you should kick hard against the flap of the 
saddle ; what I recommend is a small spur with a box, 
made of real silver, and with a long rowel, same ns a gen- 
tleman's. An extravagant girl cun have one of gold if 
she likes it. Doth my sister and myself have for years 
ridden with spurs, and consider them most useful ; flogging 
a horse is considered by females unladylike, so to punish a 
horse unseen, the spur for rno. Depend on It, no animal 
cares for the gentle hints of the heel of a lady’s thin patent 
leather riding hoot,— at least, so I used to find. And no 
woman should, if she lias a pretty foot be ashamed to wear 
a spur, for It is the greatest improvement to a perfect foot. 
AN ell do I know, that unless I hail worn a spur, a pretty 
sharp one, and used it well too. I never should huve reached 
Brighton after four hours with the Brookside about three 
weeks ago. Annie. 
ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION OF FISH. 
Paris, Monday. 
“The Field” did good service to the public by calling 
attention, in the number of the 29th Oct., to the artificial 
production of fish ; and all your contemporaries really 
ought to consider it their duty to do the same. For, by 
the artificial system, fiah may be produced to an almost 
incalculable extent in every stream, river, pond, and lake 
in the United Kingdom; and it may thereby be made the 
means of giving profitable employment to thousands, and 
of supplying, at an incredibly small cost, an enormous 
quantity of good, wholesome, healthy food to all classes of 
the population, and especially the poorer. In this country 
the system has already been practised with great success, 
at the expense of the government, in the rivers and ponds 
of Normandy, Provence, and the central and northern 
departments ; and in the course of a few years there will 
not be a single stream or sheet of water in the land which 
will not be literally teeming with fish. In saying this, I 
am guilty of no exaggeration ; for, by the artificial system, 
almost every egg deposited by the female, and fecundated 
by the milt of the male, can, with proper precaution, be 
made to produce a fish; and each female, it is known, de- 
posits, on an average, several hundred eggs — some even 
several thousands. From what has already been done in 
this country, there is no reason why fish manufactories 
should not ho established in every county in Great Britain 
and Ireland; they would no doubt turn out capital com- 
mercial speculations. But what perhaps, will make the 
new invention of peculiar interest to the majority of your 
readers is, that anglers, by its aid, need never be at u loss 
for sport; for, wherever there is a flowing stream, there 
may all kinds of fresh water fish be produced ad libitum. 
The modus operandi was succinctly and correctly de- 
scribed in your journal of the 20 tli . If, however, it be 
desired to obtain further details, I would refer your 
readers to the reports of the sittings of the Academy of 
Sciences of Paris in 1848-9; and to a very excellent work, 
published in this country, entitled “ Fecundation Artificiclle 
des Poissons," by Dr. Haxo, of Epinal. A little pamph- 
let on the subject, containing all the practical instructions 
that can be desired, has also been published in English, 
by Reeve and Go., Henrietta -street, under tho title, “Arti- 
ficial Production of Fish.” 
There is one point which, so far as I am aware (and I 
have paid great attention to the subject), does not seem to 
bo fully understood in England, and that is, that the 
artificial system need not exclusively be confined to the 
fish which live naturally in English waters, but may 
cause fish which have heretofore exclusively frequented 
the rivers of foreign countries to be naturalised In England. 
Thus there is no reason why the peculiar fish of the 
Prussian rivers, tho magnificent species of the Lake of 
Geneva, and other waters of Switzerland, and the splendid 
pike of the rivers of Russia, should not bo brought into 
England. All that has to be done is to get at spawning 
time a few eggs and a little milt, and to place them in a 
box, in a pure stream— care being taken to let the quality 
and temperature of the water resemble as closely as possible 
that to which the fish are naturally accustomed. There is 
no necessity whatsoever for having recourse to the expen- 
sive and difficult operation of bringing live fish over— a 
few eggs and u little milt, we repeat, packed up in damp 
•and, will amply suffice. Moreover, by the artificial systom 
endless experiments may be made in crossing different 
sorts, and the best naturalists admit that there is no reason 
why pcculiur sorts of fish, not now existing, should not be 
created. 
It is not necessary to trouble oneself as to whether the 
system of artificially producing fish be French, or English, 
or German : tho great thing is to profit by it, The truth, 
however, on that point is this ; — A century or more ago 
a German naturalist discovered that he could produce fish 
by pressing the male’s milt on the female's eggs ; hut 
beyond recording his discovery in hooks written for tho 
learned, lie did nothing with it. Within the last few years 
Mr. Boccius iu England, and Mr. Shaw in Scotland, 
applied this system, and found it to succeed ; but took no 
means to make it generally known- Later still, two 
humble French fishermen, named Geliin and Rciny, dis- 
covered for themselves, by observing trout in rivers at 
spawning time, the same thing as the German had dis- 
covered a hundred years before ; and they saw that it 
could be turned to practical account by increasing the 
supply of fish indefinitely. Thus tho Germans have tho 
honour of the first scientific discovery; the English of the 
first practical application of that discovery ; and the French 
of having generalised it for tho advantage of the people of 
all countries, Amicus. 
The Young Vogageurs, or the Bog Hunters in the North. 
By Captain Maine Reid. Rogue. 
Captain Reid has already made himself so thorough a 
favourite with the rising generation that there needs little 
more than the announcement of another book from his 
fluent and graphic pen to ensure a “strong order” from 
parents and guardians. That little more is all that wo 
shall attempt to do in this notice— namely, to give an idea 
of the character of the book. He states that in the “ Boy 
Hunters,” already a Boy’s Own Book, he had endeavoured 
to illustrate the fauna of the temperate zone of tho 
American continent, hut in doing so he necessarily ex- 
cluded many most interesting animals, particularly tho 
“ iur-bearing ” class. He has now supplied tho deficiency ; 
and the track of country through which he takes his 
young adventurers is that district which lies north of a 
line drawn from Newfoundland to Vancouver’s. This 
wilderness “ out of which fifty Englands might be clipped,” 
is civilised only by the trading posts of tho Hudson's Bay 
Company. But it is rich in animal life. Here is a tempt- 
ing list even from this barren ground. 
“ Nature has formed animals tlmt delight to dwell there, and 
that ore never found in more fertile regions. Two ruminating 
creatures find sustenance npon tho mosses nnd lichens that cover 
their cold rocks: they are the caribou (roindecr) and the musk-ox. 
These, in their turn/beeomo the food and subsistence of proving 
creatures. Tho wolf, in all its varieties of grey, black, white, 
plod, nnd dusky, follows upon tbeir trail. Tho “ brown bear,” — 
a large speoies’, nearly resembling tho “grizzly,” — is found only 
in the Barron Ground ; and the great “ Polar hear ” comes within 
their borders, but tho latter is a dwellor upon thoir shores alone, 
and finds his food among tho finny tribes of the seas that surrouud 
them. In marshy ponds, existing hero and there, the musk-rat 
(Fiber zibethicus) builds his house, like that of his larger cousin, 
tho beaver. Upon the water Bedge ho finds subsistence; but 
his natural enemy, tho wolverene (Ghilo luscits), skulks in the 
same neigbourhood. The “Polar hare” lives upon tho loaves 
and twigs of the dwarf birch-treo ; and this, transformed into its 
own white flesh, becomes tho food of tho Arctio fox. Tho 
horbage, sparse though it bo, docs not grow in vain. The seeds 
fall to^the earth, but they are not puttered to doony. They nro 
gathered by tho little lemmings and meadow-mice ( arvicola ), 
who, in their tarn, become the prey of two species of mustaVdcB , 
the ermine and vison weasels. Have the fish of the lakes no 
enemy ? Yes — a terrible one in the Canada otter. The mink- 
weasel, too, pursues them ; and in summer, tho osprey, tho 
great pelican, the cormorant, and the white-headed eagle.” 
But iu the “ Wooded Tracts ” there is a still more 
inviting promise of sport. 
“Tlioso lie mostly in tho southern and tho oeutral regions of 
tho Hudson’s Bay territory. There are found the valuable 
beaver, and tho wolvereno that preys upon it. Thore dwells tho 
American lmrc, with its enemy the Canada lynx. There aro tho 
squirrels, and the beautiful martens (sables) that hunt them from 
tree to tree. There tiro found the foxes of every variety, the red, 
the cross, and the rare and highly-prized silver-fox ( Vuloes 
argentatus), whoso shining skin sells for its weight in gold! 
There, too, tho bluek bear ( Ursus Amerioanus) yields its fino 
coat to adorn tho winter carriage, t ho holsters of tho dragoon, 
and tho shako of the grenadier. Thore tho fur-hearing animals 
oxist in groatest plenty, and many others whose skins aro 
valuable in commeroo, as the moose, tho wapiti, and tho wood- 
bison,” 
There are also prairie lands, where range the buffalo, 
the prong-horned antelope, and the mule deer, the barking 
wolf and the swift fox, the marmot, and tho sand-rat, and 
thore too the horse runs wild. Again there is the region 
of the Rocky Mountains, among those “ lovely wilds” aro 
the mountain sheep, the wild goat, and the black and 
grizzly bear ; and westward again, and in a warmer dis- 
trict, are nearly all tho fur-bearing animals, including tho 
true felldoo, tho long-tailed cats, tho congar and tho 
ounce. But the boy hunters keep eastward of tho Rooky 
Mountains, and a magnificent battue is promised them. 
Battue is however, tho wrong word, for there is no cow- 
ardly and lazy slaughter, for the boys’ victories are tho 
result of hard work, patient observation, and tried skill. 
We fancy we have said about enough, but we will give a 
couple of additional extracts, not merely letter-press, but 
illustrative. Look at the majestic oaribou, ohosed by tho 
wolves. 
Wo need hardly say that the poor caribou is killed. 
But a nobler chase is before them. Luoion — wo need not 
re-introduce an old friend, has soon tho hunt, and wished 
to have his share in the sport. 
“It was about the middle of tho lake wlioro tho caribou had 
been overtaken. At tho time it first renchod the ico, Luoion had 
laid hold of his rifle and run forward in order to moot tho 
animal half-way, and if possible, get a sliot at it. Now that tho 
creature was killed, ho continued on with tho design of driving 
off the wolves, nnd securing tho carcass of the door for hiniBolf. 
lie kept along tho ico until ho was within less than twenty yards 
of tho pack, when seeing that the fierce brutes had torn llio door 
to pieces, and porcoiving, moreover that they exhibited no four of 
himself, ho began to think ho might ho in dangor by advancing 
any nearer. Porhops n shot from his rifle would scatter thorn, 
anil without further reflection ho raised tho picco, and firod. Olio 
of the wolves kioked ovor upon tho ice, and lay quilo dead ; but 
tho others, to Lucion’s great surprise, insteud of boing frightened 
off, immediately sprung upon their dond companion, and com- 
menced (oaring nnd devouring it, lust as they had done tho door! 
Tho sight filled Lucien with alarm; which was inorousod at 
seeing several of tho wolves— that had boon beaten by tho others 
from the qaorry— commonco making demonstrations towards 
liiinsolf. Lueien now tromblod for his safety, and no wondor. 
lie wae near tho mlddlo of the lako upon slippery loe. To 
