January 7.] 
THE FIELD 
5 
CHESTER SPRING MEETING, Mat 9. 
Nominations for the Chester Cup. 
Weights to bo published in due time, and forfeits to be declared on or 
before the 1st of February. 
The Early Bird, 3 yrs 
Aquila, by Gladiator, 
6 yrs 
Ossifrago, 3 yrs 
C by Tearaway out of 
Ballinasloe's dam, 3 
yrs 
Crusader, 4 yrs 
Queen’s Own, 3 yrs 
Innthe, G yrs 
Jepnson, 3 yrs 
Umbriel, 4 yrs 
Acrobat, 3 yrs 
Jonvenee, 4 yrs 
Mountain Deer, G yrs 
Sine qua Non, 3 yrs 
Toggery, 3 yrs 
La Belle, 4 yrs 
Annie Sutherland, 4 
yrs 
Bod Lion, 5 yrs 
Bit of Blue, 5 yrs 
Dear Polly, 4 yrs 
Janey, 4 yrs 
Itch, 4 yrs 
Geoigey, 4 yrs 
Miss Peddle, 4 yrs 
Lindrick, 5 yrs 
Lerrywlieut, 6 yrs 
Chief Justice, aged 
Gabriel, 3 yrs 
Peggy, 4 yrs 
Itobin Hood, 3 yrs 
Ilex, 5 yrs 
Joe Miller, 6 yrs 
Aldfovd, 4 yrs 
Cheshire Marquis, 3 
yrs 
Dagobert, 4 yrs 
Battle, 4 yrs 
Brigadier, 3 yrs 
Typeo, 4 yrs 
Communist, 3 yrs 
Veteran, 4 yrs 
Contentment, 4 yrs 
Grey Tommy, 5 yrs 
Bro. to Grey Tommy, 
4 yrs 
Sir Mark, 3 yrs 
Jack Frost, 3 yrs 
Talfourd, 4 yrs 
Caliph, 3 yrs 
Baalbee, 3 yrs 
Ptolemy, 3 yrs 
Windsucker, 5 yrs 
Ilaco, 4 yrs 
Audubon, 4 yrs 
Valour, 4 yrs 
Lambton, 4 yr9 
Wild Huntsman, 3 yfs 
Muscovite, 5 yrs 
Torment, 4 yrs 
Pcllon, 4 yrs 
Nightshade, 3 yrs 
Sandhurst, 4 yrs 
Ireland's Eyo, 4 yrs 
Mare Antony, 3 yrs 
Dr. O'Toole, 3 yrs 
Marchioness, nged 
Epaminomlns, 3 yrs 
Little Tom (latoCory- 
bantes), 4 yrs 
Benita, 0 yrs 
Royalist, 3 yrs 
C by Cotherstono out 
of Duchess of Lor- 
raine, 3 yrs 
Orson, 3 yrs 
Dan Cupid, 3 yrs 
Tavistock, 4 yrs 
Tonic, fi yrs 
Dear Me ! 4 yrs 
Jujube, 3 yrs 
Little Davie, 6 yrs 
ltichd. Primmer, 5 yrs 
Ticton, 4 yrs 
Slmkspenre, 3 yrs 
The Reiver, 4 yrs 
ltoliinoor, 5 yrs 
Elcot, 5 yrs 
B f by Verulam out of 
Jennnlu, 3 yrs 
Sleeping Partner, 6 yrs 
St. Spiro, 3 yrs 
Hybla, 4 yrs 
Eecleston, 3 yrs 
Grimalkin, 3 yrs 
Tested, 5 yrs 
Farsa, 3 yrs 
Cnndlewlck, nged 
St. Clare, 3 yrs 
Eva, 3 yrs 
Rally, 3 yrs 
Nabob, 5 yrs 
Little Harry, 5 yrs 
Catspaw, 4 yrs 
Virago, 3 yrs 
King Pepin, 6 yrs 
Mr. Sykes, 4 yrs 
B. to Little Swift, 3 yrs 
Contender, 9 yrs 
Trilie, f> yrs 
Defiance, 4 yrs 
Adine, 5 yrs 
.Mortimer, 3 yrs 
Sextus, 4 yrs 
Pantomime, 4 yrs 
Gossip, 4 Vi's 
The Crulsk, 5 yrs 
Domino, 3 yrs 
Black Doctor, G yrs 
Miss Sellon. 3 yrs 
Merry Monk, 3 yrs 
Barrel, 3 yrs 
Kennysido Hero, 3 yrs 
Horatio, 3 yrs 
Sarsfleld, 3 yrs 
Alexia, 4 yrs 
Kilquade, 6 yrs 
St. Stephen, 3 yrs 
Whittington, 3 yrs 
Lnmprocles, 3 yrs 
Ulster 
Brown Brandy, 3 yrs 
Bridesmaid, 3 ors 
Roebuck, 3 yrs 
Little Jem, 3 yrs 
Lurley, 3 yrs 
Newminster, 6 yrs 
Star of Surrey, 3 yrs 
Chaseaway, G yrs 
Warhawk, 5 yrs 
Morning Star, 5 yrs 
Shunting, 3 yrs 
Ham, 3 yrs 
Amos, 3 yrs 
Ida, 4 yrs 
Sir Jus. Graham, 3 yrs 
Sampson, 4 yr3 
The Cripple 
Tom, 3 yrs 
Goldflnder, 6 yrs 
Le Juif, G yrs 
Charley 
Llanforda, 5 yrs 
Comfort 
Oxus, 3 yrs 
Lancashire Lass 
Rosnlba, 4 yrs 
Cobnut, 4 yrs 
Guicowar, 4 yrs 
Lady Frances 
Blame, 3 yrs 
Boddicot, 3 yrs 
DONCASTER SPRING MEETING, March 7. 
Entries for the Grand National Steepecha.se. 
Miss Mowbray, aged 
Oscar, aged 
St. Mark, G yrs 
Robin Hood, nged 
Br. g by Algar, dam 
by Wanderer, aged 
•Simple Peter, aged 
The Old Rake, nged 
Lucy Neale, aged 
Trout, oged 
Bourton, aged 
Spring, G yrs 
Chester 
Burnt Sienna 
Maley, aged* 
♦Peter Simple, nged 
♦Ilalf-and-Hulf 
Clansman, 5 yrs 
A. Y., nged 
Royalty, fi yrs 
Br. g. by Y. Priam, 
dnin by Woldsman, 
nged 
Victress, nged 
The Colonel, nged 
Ccrvus, aged 
Star of England, aged 
Lnck’s-all 
Melon 
Jump Away (late 
Quickstep), G yrs 
Peter, nged 
Sir Peter Laurie, nged 
Forest Lad, nged 
Abd-el-Kader, aged 
Bedford (h, b.), aged 
Tom of Tiiain, aged 
The Farmer (li.b ), 
aged 
Garforth, nged 
Swiftsure 
Little Charley, aged 
Those marked * having been entered without the knowledge of then- 
owners, will be struck out at the time prescribed, unless specially 
ordered to remain in. 1 
SPORTING MISCELLANEOUS. 
“The Good Oid Times.”— It is said that, with but 
one exception, the last aristocratic equipage has now 
left the W incisor-road. The exception alluded to is 
that of the Duke of Norfolk, who, whenever he is offi- 
cially summoned to Windsor Castle, has relays of mag- 
nificent greys, and travels to his Sovereign 'in the good 
old style. 
New Year’s Cricket Ball.— The eighth annual ball 
of the St. James’s Conservative Cricket - Club, will take 
place on Tuesday the 10th of January, at Willis’s Booms; 
the service of Adams’s band being secured for the occa- 
sion, and other advantageous arrangements being made by 
the Committee for the gratification of their friends. 
The Duke of Richmond’s Retirement from the 
Turf — We are exceedingly sorry to have to state that 
the reports, which have been in circulation for some time 
past, concerning the contemplated retirement of his Grace 
the Duke of Richmond from the turf were too well founded. 
Various causes are assigned for this decision on the part 
of one of the greatest supporters our national sport of 
racing ever had; but without venturing to particularize 
them, we can only express our deep regret that one should 
have arisen to produce a result which can be regarded 
only in the light of a heavy drawback to the interests and 
pleasure of the sporting community. The horses in train- 
ing at. Goodwood, and the young stock, have been bought 
by Messrs. Greville and Payne. 
Knook Knoll — On Monday last, at Tattersall’s, eight 
guineas was the selling price of this once well-known 
racehorse. 
Stretford Steeple-chases.— These events, advertised 
to take place on Monday, were postponed in consequence 
of the weather. 
Coventry Spring Races are fixed to take place on 
Tuesday, the 14th of March. 
The AssembUa says : “ Lord Edward Seymour, so well 
known in racing circles in Paris, has just died at Bou- 
Jogue-sur-Mer. He was 52 years of age, and unmarried.” 
■This must probably refer to Lord Henry Seymour, who 
lias lived at Boulogne since the revolution of 1848. 
Lord Derdy has been the greatest winner of stakes in 
Horse-raees this year ; exclusive of allowances for running 
i °l\ th "' d ’ he has Won WjOSW. Mr. Bowes has won 
child 0 638? Marquis ofExeter 8,155?, and Baron Roths- 
Thnrwbvv 1 I A *, rS 'T Th M s, ? wnrfls and committee mot on 
Thursday, at the Appolloman Hall, to audit the last year’s 
accounts .After afi disbursements were paid, a balance 
lonk?nw C< f 1,? for the n<?xt meeting, the committee 
looking foiwaid to a good day’s sport next year, and 
anticipated, in the event of funds' allowing, a second 
handicap. The thanks ot the meeting were given to Mr. 
J. B. Person, for his groat exertions as honorary secretary, 
and to whom, in no small measure, the public were in- 
debted for the satisfactory arrangements (hat characterised 
the races of the past year. 
° D Kaces.-TIip .Stewards this year are the 
Lml of Glasgow and C. C . Greville, Esq. 
Bromley ani» West Kent S*i;i:PLEcn.vs E s.— Owing 
to the continued seventy of the weather, theso chases are 
postponed sine die . 
ANGLING. 
River Def. Fishery Association. — A nursery for the 
artificial propagation of salmon has been established by 
some of the members of this association at Overton, and 
several of the river keepers have been at work for the 
last three weeks, under Mr. Ayrton’s directions, in laying 
down boxes for the reception of the spawn, and in making 
the channels, &c., by which the water is directed over 
them, and in obtaining the ova from the female fish to 
deposit in the artificial spawning beds. We are informed 
that they have so far been tolerably successful ; circum- 
stances, however, delayed the experiment until it was 
rather too late in the spawning season, and there has 
consequently been great difficulty in obtaining ova ; not- 
withstanding this, and the inclement weather which the 
men have had to contend with, they have succeeded 
in already securing and laying down from 7,000 to 
8,000 eggs, and it is anticipated that they may yet 
obtain some thousands more ; all of which, when safely 
deposited in the boxes, may be looked upon as certain to 
come to life, and to people the river at the proper time 
with so many young salmon. Mr. Ramsbottoin (who hus 
been so successful in conducting the nurseries at Perth 
anil at Oughterard) came over last week, having been 
written for, to superintend tho operations, but finding the 
men fully competent to the task, and proceeding as well 
as he could instruct them to do, lie returned florae the 
same week, very much pleased indeed with the river and 
with the locality selected for the experiment. This is the 
first time the system has been adopted in England, at 
least on so large a scale. Experiments have been pre- 
viously made, and scientific men have for their own satis- 
faction proved the possibility of thus producing fish ; but 
the credit of its introduction, as a matter of practical 
utility, in England belongs to a few Chester men, who have 
not been long in following the examples of France, 
Ireland, and Scotland. Its success in these countries 
has been so complete that its further prosecution can 
scarcely be considered an experiment. Its practicability 
is an established fact ; and though no doubt much 
remains for future cultivators of the science to make 
known, its first foundations have been laid, and we 
shall probably find the breeding of fish ultimately 
attended by as wonderful results as the breeding of any 
other stock. Whether the Dee salmon are to rival the 
Southdowns, the shorthorns, or other perfect specimens 
of a farmer’s produce, we will not venture to say ; but it 
would startle some of our readers no little were they to 
hear the conclusions arrived at, and we must confess with 
very great appearance of logical deduction, from the pre- 
mises already established. That salmon will in a few 
years be very plentiful, there seems no reason for a mo- 
ment to doubt ; and we must confess it does not appear 
to us that different rivers and different countries may be 
enabled by this new discovery to exchange their breeds 
of fish, as they would pigs or poultry, and produce al- 
most any kind for which there is most demand. This is 
quite enough for the present, and we must leave the en- 
thusiastic followers of the science to enter into the possi- 
bilities assumed by them, without pretending at present 
either to accept or deny them, being well content to ad- 
mit that we are on the eve of an entirely new era in ich- 
thiological science— or rather of its cultivation with a 
view to practical results.— Chester Courant. 
Artificial Propagation of Salmon in the Tay. 
The works for the artificial propagation of salmon in the 
river Tay, at Stormont Bleachrield, on the property of 
the Earl of Mansfield, and agreed to at a recent meeting 
of the salmon fishing proprietors, are now completed. 
There are 300 breeding boxes in all, aiul two ponds for 
the reception of the young fry. The works were exe- 
cuted under the superintendence of Peter Brown, Esq., 
civil engineer, of our own city. Operations have been 
commenced, under the superintendence of Mr. Ramsbottom, 
of Clitlieroe, Lancashire, a distinguished pisciculturist, 
who arrived in Perth on Tuesday, and proceeded on 
Wednesday morning to Stormontfield. Several gentle- 
men belonging to the district, as well as from a distance, 
were present to witness the first operations in trying- the 
experiment of propagating salmon, and which has been so 
successful both in France and Ireland. In all probability 
in our next we shall have more information on this 
subject to communicate to our readers. —Perthshire 
Courier. 
Ai’ioius on Brinf, and Garum. — Apicius, the man of 
culinary progress, proposed a prize to any one who could 
invent a new brine or garum, made with the liver of red 
mullets. History has not transmitted to us the name of 
the fortunate conqueror ; but Juvenal informs us that 
Asinius Celer offered sixty pounds for one of these fishes 
which weighed six pounds. This was, after all, but a 
trifling folly, in the midst of so many extravagances which 
several writers have carefully registered. Lucullus, the 
most ostentatious of the patricians, had a mountain cut 
through, in the neighbourhood of Naples, so as to open a 
canal and bring up the sea and its fishes to the centre of 
the gardens of his sumptuous villa. — Soyei^’s Pantrop/ieon. 
Artificial Propagation of Salmon in the Tweed 
We understand that the Duke of Roxburgh is at present 
hi8 liberty, had all of Vedius’s vases broken, and ordered 
that the pieces should be used to fill up the reservoir in 
winch the barbarous knight fed his murcena Helena 
foyer's Pantropheon. 
yachting. 
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Jan 
CLUB MEETINGS, 1864. 
in’ ll i c . R °y al Harwich Yacht Club, Emcx. 
10, Tuesday Ball of the Prince of Wales Yacht Club, at the 
Freemasons’ Tavern. 
* 10, Tuesday Annual ball of the Birkenhead Model Yacht Club 
, at tho Monk’s Ferry Hofei. ’ 
„ 16, Monday Meeting of the Royal London Yacht Club, at the 
Caledonian Hotel, Adelphi-ferrace. 
_ » 20 « Friday . ... ... Lecture before flic Prince of Wales Yacht Club 
Feb. 1, Wednesday. Mootings of the Itoyal Thames Tacht Club and 
of the Birkenhead Model Yacht Club. ' 
„ 3, V riday Meeting of the Prince of Wales’ Yacht Club 
„ 4 , Saturday . .Meeting of the Royal Harwich Yacht Club ' 
„ 6, Monday . ..Meeting of the London Model Yacht Club' ot tho 
a „ T , , . Esscx UeBd > Essex-street, Strand. ’ 
„ lo. W ednesday .Annual Bull of the Royal Thames Yacht Club 
„ 17, Friday .... Lecture before the Prince of Wales’ Yacht Club 
„ 20, Monday ....Meeting of the Royal London Yacht Club. 
Mar. J, Wednesday .Meetings of the Royal Thames Yacht Club and 
Birkenhead Model Yacht Club. 
„ S, Friday Meeting of the Prince of Wales' Yacht Club 
» L Saturday .. Meeting of the Royal Harwich Yacht Club 
« 7, Tuesday ..Meeting of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club 
•« Hi Friday . . . .Lecture before the Prince of Wales Yacht Club 
„ 20, Monday ... .Meeting of the Itoyal London Yacht Club 
April 1, Saturday . .Meeting of the Royal Harwich Yacht Club 
6, Wednesday .Sleeting of the Birkenhead Model Yacht Club. 
HOTAL TACT1T SQUADRON CLUB-HOUSB ; COWES. 
MOVEMENTS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. 
Malta, December 9 , 1853. — The yawl rigged yacht 
Talisman, 96 tons, H. C. Okeovcr, Esq., arrived here nt 
8 p. m. this day; all well. The Talisman sailed from 
Algiers at 4h. 30m. on the evening of December 1st, and 
has had adverse winds and calms nearly the whole time. 
The party on board speak in the highest' terms of the con- 
venience and security of the port and harbour of Algiers, 
and also of the civility and attention of the French autho- 
rities. The Talisman remains here a few days, and then 
sails for Corfu. The Anaconda schooner is also here, but 
leaves shortly. 
Corfu, December 16, 1853.— The Talisman, II. C. 
Okeover, Esq., arrived at 7 p.m. this day, after a fine run 
of 54 hours from Malta. The Talisman brings a mail and 
other dispatches, there being now no regular communica- 
tion between Malta and the Ionian Islands. The Ana- 
conda schooner, William Spicer, Esq., sailed from Malta 
on the 14th of December for Syracuse. 
» 
ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB. 
Every evening during tho present week (Thursday 
excepted), has been devoted in some part of England to a 
yacht club meeting. The new year has been worthily 
inaugurated by the lovers of aquatics, and, though our own 
: -k ponu oi a similar description is m course of i the distance more distinctly than at the present epoch. Each 
formation at Knapton Burn, where boxes sufficient to club seems to be doing well, having more candidates and 
fecundate 208,000 salmon fry have been laid down — less defaulters than hitherto. It will indeed be no sine- 
JxeiSO JHO/ll. mire to he either trAiumrer nr cnnrnterw in the nrecnnf 
Kelso Mail. 
The Love of Fish among the Ancient Romans. — The 
love of fish became a real mania: turbots excited a furore 
of admiration — the murcena Helena was worshipped. 
Hoi-tensids, tho orator, actually wept over the death of 
tho one he had fed with his own hands; the daughter of 
Drusus ornamented hers with golden rings; each had a 
name, and would come with speed when it heard tho voice 
of the master, whoso happiness depended on his fish. 
Sometimes, in a moment of over tenderness for his dear 
murema Helena, Vcdius Pollio, a Roman knight of the 
highest distinction, and one of the intimate friends of the 
Emperor Augustus, could find nothing better to do than 
to teed them with Hie flesh of his slaves, who were thrown 
to them alive. It is true that these wretched creatures 
generally deserved this terrible chastisement ; for instance, 
Seneca speaks of one who had the awkwardness to break 
a crystal vase, while waiting nt supper on the irascible 
Pollio. This unfortunate slave, having managed to escape 
from the hands of those who were conducting him to this 
horrible death, lie went and fell on his knees at the feet of 
Ca*sar, whom lie implored to inflict some less frightful 
torture. Augustus, moved to tho very soul, granted him 
cure to be either treasurer or secretary in the present 
month of January, and when moreover the lists of our 
clubs are by-and-bye published, the aggregate number of 
subscribing members will mightily astonish more than the 
uninitiated. There is no sport which is so rapidly rooting 
itself in the public mind as yachting, and even here iii 
London, despite the almost Arctic appearance of our river, 
we can point to several vessels of different dubs that 
have given their burgees to the breeze during the past 
fortnight, and sailed saucily along the Thames, as if their 
owners were altogether incredulous of the existence of cold, 
and frost, and ice, and snow. But there has also been 
much business to transact on shore. The London Model 
Yacht Club met on Monday, and the Royal Thames Yacht 
Club on Wednesday. We havo here only to notice tho 
latter. In obedience to the summons of the monthly cir- 
cular, about thirty members met at nine r.M. on Wednes- 
day, at the Bedford Hotel, Piazza, Corent Garden, when, 
owing to tho absence of tho commodore and vice-commo- 
dore, the treasurer, Captain Wheeler, was, on motion, 
voted into the chair. We announced last wi-ek in “Tin: 
Field” that Mr. Secretary Alldridge had been appointed 
to U.M.S. Diamond, now <m route to tho Mediterranean 
