April 1.] 
THE FIELD. 
293 
, >„• express train, proverbial for Its dangers along tho rails 
(rjvel, not i nevertt , cless going nt Government speed along 
of progress, Agricultural and Commercial Lino which leads to 
|hC Station of Prosperity, without the slightest apprehension of an 
overturn 
i I sold 
Sam 
’ Realised. 
£ 8. d. 
89.8T0 0 •) 
£8,740 4 0 
119,081 « 0 
an, (560 1 o 
Land 
Revenue, Ac 
Ordinary 
Revenue. 
Gold 
Revenue. 
Total 
Revenue. 
£ 8. <1 
3,817 14 3 
4.239 4 11 
S7.771 18 1 
18,418 11 0 
£ 8. d.| £ s. <L 
131 4X10 4 6 
127,046 18 1 
102,325 4 1,19,711 2 B 
240,345 11 11 1 16,735 0 4 
£ 8. d. 
024,317 18 !> 
220,026 7 0 
348,889 4 7 
567.139 9 8 
7 , . v : th „ frontage in King William-street— our great north and 
^"♦hnrouehfare— has lately been sold at the rate of £21,000 per 
foath tnoro g . 5 fcet hv 2i xuider the Exchange Colonnade, in 
acrc ' «^eet has just been taken by an enterprising young ship- 
llroker o OTnm *nclng business, at the extraordinary annual ground 
rental of ^^countrha in the world, the location for a labourer; 
T "!Ln with a pnir of arms can get from 8s. to 10s. a day, and we 
niiy for thousands more at tho same price. Wo have 
i'iv'.OOO.OOO of acres in the colony, of which .barely 1 .-000 000 have been 
In spite of a good deal of gaiety in tho way of dinners and dances, 
this place — after tho thousand and one ways of killing tirno which 
dear old London spreads before the votary of pleasure— is most terribly 
dull; an occasional concert, and a fortnight now and then of most 
villanous “sock and buskin;" the Adelaide and North Adelaide 
Mechanic's Institutes; a Juvenile (in age) Debating Society; a pri- 
vate Whist Club, together with tho ofore-mentloncd prandial and 
saltatory amusements, constitute the sum total of our “ er\joyances." 
Yours, &c , “One of the Smiths." 
[The continuation of tills despatch next week.— E d.] 
‘ „ nn nnn of acres in llie colony, UI WUH.U UIUUJ l,vuv,vuu nu.c 
only 85,000 brought into a state of cultivation. Either this 
f ot ' be sufficiently known amongst tho poverty- ground 
» who are tolling at home for nine and ten shillings a 
wretciies stcm 0 f f rcc emigration is clogged by too many 
WC 7V ?' True It is we want mechanics and tradesmen, but we also 
restnciioi ■ „ nBVT j e g j .' labourers, and agriculturists, to develop our 
natural wealth ; our copper, lead and gold mines are 
CXh ,K- nnworked. Thousands of square miles of rich plain and fertile 
nt u„v are lving waste, their virgin mould unturned by mortal share; 
mnnsauds and tens of thousands of sheep, oxen, and horses arc 
arlfimr among our hills almost untended the waters of our gulfs 
^ swarming with all kinds of delicious fish, swimming about, 
ni r •• Conic catch me, come catch me," yet a fresh dish is scarcely 
in be had, and, when procurable, the price is so extravagantly high, as 
n nhicc U beyond the reach of any but the very wealthiest classes. All 
, i' ,i, e result of want of labour. We have comparatively no poor, 
" inmates of the Hospital and tho Lunatic and Destitute Asylums 
, "in , . barely one quarter per cent, of the whole population ; and as for 
wears. I have met with none except one German child, and a few 
ibrkieCwho turn up the whites of their eyes in a most comical manner as 
an accompaniment to “ Ah ! white fellow, you plenty money- give black 
follow penny 1 ” which, if complied with, is followed, Oliver 1 wist like, 
liv “ Give me more?” but denied by “ Havn’t got any," excites the 
aboriginal witticism of “Plenty gammon, plenty gammon.” All 
persons writing homo give instances of curious changes of position ; I 
L.-sclf have met with personally an officer of the 4th Dragoons 
unking a pound a day by hawking oysters, a captain in the rifles 
officiating as a dnirvman, an Oxford graduate selling small beer, and a 
eentleman once worth £1,500 a year performing the “ unboiled lob- 
ster," plainly showing that as yet the thews and sinews of a giant arc 
infinitely preferred to brains and giant intellect. 
s ur ely some old woman has the direction of the South Australian 
mails in London, for none but the eldest and most Insane of unmarried 
females, could mismanage the poor mails in such a dreadful manner; 
the June bugs were sent in the Stratford round by Sydney, and we 
cot them in live months, the July by the Vlmiero, via Melbourne, 
reaching us on the 2Gth of November, and the August by the Ncleus, 
which also called in at Victoria en route, making a better run of only 
‘ii; davs. Surely a colony of such importance ns South Australia, with 
nn export trade of £3,000,000 per annum, and importing yearly to tho 
value ol £2,000,000, with so many fust steamers and flying clippers 
coming direct to its port, deserves a little better treatment. Is the 
Postmaster-General at all acquainted with the geography of Australia ? 
lie surely cannot be aware of the fact that Melbourne is 600, and 
Sydney 1,000 miles of difficult and tedious navigation beyond Adelaide, 
and that a delay of from ono week to four is the general result of his 
present course, "or we would never suffer as wc do from his circuitous 
and crawling policy. As long as the present system of selecting the 
veriest tubs, going the most roundabout course for the conveyance 
of the Adelaide mails, is persevered in, I would recommend all 
persons writing from England to send their letters by the bi- 
monthly Indian mail, via Southampton, the postage being the 
same, and the period of transit two months instead of four or five, 
Or in the event of missing one, and not finding the Sydney, Victoria, 
or Australian steamers starting with a bftg’ln the Interior, to retain 
their letters until the next mail overland, and I pledge my reputation 
that in nine [cases out of ten, without an Irishism, time would be 
gnined by the delay I 
The Honourable Mr. Justice Boothby, who arrived here by the 
" Indemnity" In August last, commenced his official career as second 
Judge, by presiding at the quarter sessions which began on the 26th 
Nov., when he staggered some gentlemen from the interior, whoso 
knowledge of “meum” with regard to horses and cattle, was much 
more strongly developed than that of “ tuuin,” by his sharpness and 
severity, they having been accustomed to a very easy, milk-and water sort 
of justice lately. His honour is gaining laurels on all sides, by the clear- 
ness and promptitude of his decisions in court, as well as by his courte- 
ous and urbane manners out of it. 
At evening parties the weather is a standing topic with Indies and 
gentlemen whom Providence has endowed with a limited understand- 
ing and unfertile brain. ‘ Pour passer le temps’ between the figures 
of a slow quadrille, and talking or rather writing of the weather, the 
climate of this colony is well worthy of remark. The year may bo 
divided into six months’ dust, four mud, and two medium. This is 
the fourth month of tho dusty or summer season, and we have had 
some fearfully hot days, the wind blowing half a gale from the 
north, heated and maddened with its furious race ncross the arid 
deserts of central Australia — blowing on our exhausted frames so hot 
and parching, that standing at the mouth of a baker’s oven or a 
hot-blust furnace, would give you but n faint idea of its power; 
whilst the light and sandy soil, dried and baked with the intense 
summer heat, is rnised and driven along in almost impenetrable 
volumes of dust— London in a fog or a Highland snow-drift being the 
only natural images which I have witnessed at all appronching It— 
tends to aggravate our hitherto almost unbearable misery. The 
other morning, when I was walking to town, I noticed a whirl- 
wind, the dust rising in a solid looking perpendicular column, 
30 yards in diameter at the base, and tapering away to a point 600 feet 
in height, whilst several scraps of paper and pieces of rng that had 
been caught in its ecstatic embrace, did whirling “deux-temps" a 
thousand times more wild and erratic than ever volatile Frenchman 
at “Cremorne," or bearded German at the “Argyll" However, 
thank God, this state of affairs is seldom of long continuance; and 
nbout seven in the evening of the second or third day, tho hot wind 
blowing awayas fierce as ever, If, looking down the Port Road, we can 
see the dust turning and twirling about, and begin to rush up towards 
town, apparently right in the teeth of the wind, wlion all nt once the 
delicious sea-bree/.e funs our burning cheek, and springing up from 
the mat beneath the vernndah, whereon we had flung our listless frame 
on returning from business, in five minutes am a new mortal, puffing 
away nt a prime “ Number 2,” and drinking “ Brandy Pawnee," as if 
no such tlesagremens as hot winds had been ever felt or heard 
of Fancy Christmas Day with tho thermometer at 100 s Fah. 
in the shade! Braving the heat, wc had a bachelor's dinner, 
to keep up the time-honoured customs of home, the love of whose 
magic name still twines firmly around our heart-strings; there wo 
« ere, a joyous party, in our drill and cricketing flannel skin-curtains 
and our shirt sleeves, with the perspiration rolling down our faces, 
discussing ducks, geese, plumpudding, nnd politics, and prandlally 
regaling ourselves on all sorts of delicious fruit, tempered with prime 
Cavendish and Marseillas, and mellowed with cool odoriferous claret, 
and joyous bubbling champagne, tapering off in n gradual slope with 
the everlasting "Martell" und cold water. The temperature varies 
greatly and suddenly. On Monday, the 2nd inst., the thermometer 
rnngcd from 00 deg. to 110 deg. in the shade, and reached as hielv as 
133 deg, in the sun ; the next evening it fell front 105 deg. to 63 deg. 
in the short space of two hours. No ruin falls for months together, 
andiho herbuge gets brown and dry, so that the least spark sets every 
thing in a blaze, nnd “ bush fli cs," consuming grass, com, hay, trees, 
and buildings, in their rapid marches aevoss the country, are of frequent 
occurrence. In the beginning of the month, the hills to the westward 
t,le town were burning in four different places at once, forming an 
extempore and very brilliant natural illumination, to usher in tho 
birth of the new year. The flies are very troublesome, swarming in 
uiuusands in our houses, and tainting everything left uncovered for a 
m oment; out of doors, nothing but a blue veil (which, with a 
panama or cabbage-tree roof, almost every gentleman wears) can keep 
them from cruwling and buzzing about our faces, making us ten times 
hotter than we would otherwise be. In the morning about five 
o clock, just when we are settling comfortably into our second snooze, 
they are particularly active and lively, persisting in fighting duels or 
holding deliberative councils on our forehead, until we are obliged to 
U P and cover our face with one of the aforesaid veils. We firmly 
oeiteve that when their progenitors were expelled from Egypt by the 
great Hebrew lawgiver, they were so frightened, that they never halted 
“" t “ ,ll ®y arrived here, and the climate seems to agree with them 
'ondc-rfully well. Oh, for a second Moses I The three plagues of 
me country may be briefly described as heat, dust, and k flies. 
SPORTING MISCELLANEOUS. 
MELBOURNE. 
Drawn bt Harry Hall, ok Newmarket. 
This celebrated Yorkshire liorso, who now ranks in tho 
“ first class" of sires, along with Birdcatcher, Touchstone, 
Orlando, and Bay Middleton, is by Humphrey Clinker, dam 
by Cervantes, grand-dam by Golumpus. He was foaled in 
the spring of 1834, and is therefore rising twonty-ono ; but 
although he has begun to “knuckle over" a little, he is likely, 
with luck, to bring in between a thousand and two thousand 
a-yepr to Mr. H. Robinson for some seasons to come. Al- 
though his home-training somewhat militated against him, a 
stout heart, and the able handling of Job Mat son nnd Tom- 
pleman, pulled him through several capital conlests. He did 
not appear in public till he was a thi'cc-yenr-old, nnd then only 
once, running second lo the four-year-old, Itightou, in tho 
Beverley (handicap) Cup. In 1838 he ran seven times, and 
won thrice, to wit, £200 and a gold cup. At 5 years old, ho 
was only beaten twice (once by Beeswing), and wou £755 
and a cup. Lanercost ran second to him this year at Liver- 
pool, but he was giving 51b9. and a year away, and was very 
stale after his Scottish and Doncaster exertions. However, 
Melbourne achieved a moro signal victory for tho Notting- 
ham Cup, where King Colo, Tho Dean, Epirus, and In- 
dustry had all to bo content with a rear view of him. In 
1840 he mado his final appearance at Chester, and pulled 
up lame undor 9st. 41bs., after running in a good second to 
the four-year-old Doy of Algiers, who enrried 221bs. less. II o 
then travelled in Yorkshire for 6ome few seasons, without 
becoming a favourite with breeders ; and, if wo remember 
rightly, when he and Lanercost presented themselves in the 
“ blood-horse ” competition at the Royal Agricultural Show, 
the judges quite passed them over. In 1846 his first win- 
ning stock appeared in public* in the shape of Premier and 
Sir Tatton Sykes, and the Two Thousand Guineas and St. 
I.eger Stakes wero at once scored to the credit of tho latter, 
who was out of a mare on Sir Tnttou’s Tibthorpe farm, after 
which tho foal was named, till poor Bill Scott insisted upon 
knighting him. Having made this good beginning, ho fol- 
lowed it well up in 1848, andCymba, the winner of the Oaks, 
and Canezou, wore the best of his nine winners. During 
the last five or six years, he has deserted Carnaby during 
the season, and held his receptions at Doncaster or Cawston 
Paddocks; Mowerina, tho dam of his great “double-event" 
son, West Australian, faithfully following his fortunes. In 
1851 no less than 42 foals were entered to him in tho “ Stud 
Book, and the nominations to him for this season were, we 
believe, filled up before ho reached his quarters at “The 
Turf Tavern.” At present the bede roll of his stock’s vic- 
tories comprises — 1 Derby, 2 St. Legcrs, 1 Oaks, 2 Two 
Thousand Guineas, and 2 One Thousand Guineas, along 
with 158 other races. His fondness for his cat quite 
equals that which excited, so much admiration many 
years ago in the Godolphin Arabian, and the same feel- 
ing was shared by his son, Sir Tatton Sykes, whose 
little black friend always travelled about with him. Ho is 
a most powerful, low, lengthy, horse, brown, with a very rich 
dapple; he has a plain head, wide ears, good shoulders, 
strong back, though a little hollow now from age; splendid 
quarters, hips, and thighs ; immense bone, perhaps the 
largest ever 6cen for a thorough-bred ; is short from 
hocks and knees to the ground, and has a white blaze 
on his fare, which he transmits pretty faithfully to his stock, 
who arc, as a general thing, remarkably speedy. Whether 
he is one of that hecatomb of “ roaring ’’ victims, whoso 
throat an indignant public writer lately proposed to cut 
along with Longbow’s, wo cannot pretend to say. One 
thing we can say — that no such taint has, to our knowledge, 
communicated itself to his stock. 
by Orlando out of Hurry Scurry, Messenger; and tho Derby 
favonrito by Orlando out of Gainclass mare, Ostrogoth. 
The Boeing Times says that “Jessamine has beaten 
Conspiracy in u trial. The Mayor of Hull has broken down . 
Muscovito has been put through tho mill with Adinc, Speed 
tho Plough, Dagobert, and Imasion, and beat them all." 
Game Return. — Killed this season, 3,260 head of game, 
on the estato of Liout.-Goneral Henry Wvudham, M.P., 
at Westward Parks, in tho county of Cumberland. 
Demand for Horses. — In consequenco of tho con- 
siderably increased demand for horses which now nppoar 
to exist in tho west, the Glasgow horso-doolcrs havo been 
very activo for some months past in buying up a great 
numbor of horses in tho shires of Perth, Forfar, nnd 
Abordecn, for tho west country markets. — Perthshire 
Courier. 
Value of Horses.— As nn instanco of the extreme 
value of furming-horsos, tho team belonging to Mrs. 
Rusby, of Fenwick Grange, near Askeru, sold by Mr. 
Oliver on tho 16th inst., realised from forty to near sixty 
guineas each, for horses aged from nine to three years. 
Norwegian Christmas Customs. — Ono of tho 
prettiest of Christmas customs is the Norwegian practice o 
giving on Christmus day n dinnor to tho birds. On tha f 
day every gable, gateway, or barn-door is decorated with t 
sheaf of corn, fixed on tho top of a tall polo, whereupon it ia 
intended that tho birds shall tako their Christmas dinners 
Even peasants havo a handful set by for that purpose, an. 
what the birds do not cut on Christmas day, remains fed 
them to finish at iheir leisure during tho winter. v 
Antelopes in the Zoological Gardens.— In tlm 
general collection no greater progress bus been made than 
with tho antelopes, among which tho most conspicuous fact 
is, tho probable acclimisation of tho eland. It will bo rc- 
mombored that, by tho bequest of tho Into Eurl of Derby, 
the society became possessed of two males nnd three females 
of this noble species nt the close of the year 1851. Of these 
one female was adult, having beon bred by his lordship at 
Knowsley, in 1844; the others were scarcely n year old, 
having been then recently imported us fawns. Tho three 
females have this year produced a mule and two fcmalo 
fawns, all fine and perfectly-developed animnls, thriving ns 
well as calves of the most highly-bred cattle would do nt the 
6nme ago. If equally successful iu the current year, the 
original herd will havo doubled itself before tho expiration 
of tho next twclvo months. As tho amount of protection 
which tho eland requires in this country is scarcely moro 
than is ordinarily given to tho most voluablo agricultural 
stock, there appears to bo no difficulty whatever, if tho sub- 
ject is taken up by proprietors who have the requisite 
facilities, in the way of introducing a now and most valuublo 
venison into our parks. Tho mognificcnt character of this 
species, and the weight which it attains, is beginning to 
manifest itself in tho oldest bull, who is, however, far short of 
maturity. A few minutes given to this extraordinary 
animal, which bus been removed to the Wapiti House, will 
satisfy any one of its beauty, power, and activity ; while wo 
have tho concurrent testimony of evory sportsman iu South- 
ern Africa as to the excellent quality of the meat as nn nrticlo 
of food. 
Rugby Steeplechases. — Tho L l ‘* c o s lc r8 ^^ re > North- 
amptonshire, and Warwickshire gathering is to como off 
on tho 1 7th of April, under tho stewardship of tho Earl of 
Hopctoun, and G. l’ayno, W. S. S. Crawfurd, and R. Sut- 
ton, Esqrs. It is intondod to have threo races. 
Lancaster. — R. Cliisnoll, the celebrated Lancashire 
skater, was accidentally killed last week by a largo door fall- 
ing upon him while at his work at Messrs. Bromilow’s col- 
liery, Blackbrook, near Si. Helen’s. He was considered tho 
swiftest skator in Lancashire. He has left u wife and family 
Turfiana. — A new two-year-old 8lake called the 
Rawcliffe Produco Stakes, is lo be run for nt the York 
August Meeting, 1856. It is for tho produco of marcs in 
1854, which have been sent to the establishment in 1853; 
or for the produce of mares foaled at the establishment in 
1854. It is 10 sovs h. f., with 100 added by the proprie- 
tors, and closes on the Saturday after the York Spring 
Meeting. A portrait of that excellent Malton sportsman, 
the late Mr. William Allen, will shortly be published. Wc 
also observe that Mr. Herring, senior, (true to his early 
love) intends to bring out four racing pictures : they arc 
styled, “ The False Start,” “Saddling," “Returning to 
Weigh,” nnd “The Run In;” and will bo published by 
Messrs. Fores as matches to their celebrated fox-hunting 
scries by the same gentlemen. Mr. Heart, of Melton, is the 
new clerk’of tho course at Ripon. Durham races are fixed 
lor August 3rd and 4th. Voltigeur is having a fair season. 
Three subscriptions to Irish Birdcatcher are for sale. It is 
6aid, that if Lord Londosbro continues his £50 purse, 
Beverley will liuvo two days of steeplechasing next year. 
Twenty horses belonging to the late noble master of the 
Heythrop will be sold on Monday next at Tattcrsall’s ; and 
the V. W. H. horses, hounds, and vans, on April 24th. 
Grimston fetched 152 gs at Tattersall’s lately. Ho won tho 
Goodwood Cup in 1846, and the last time wo saw him 
(some two years 6ince), ho was being ridden as a hack at 
Newmarket. The late Sir Henry Peyton’s team of greys 
also fetched very fair prices. At an early period of his lile 
he always drove bays. Strange to say, two other members 
of the four-in-hand, each of them several years older than 
the late baronet, died within two or three months of him. 
At a meeting of the Caledonian Hunt Club, hold last week, 
the races wero fixed for the 11th October, and two following 
days. On the 14th inst., o maro bolonging to Mr. Jos. 
Simpson, of Holme House, near Kirkby Lonsdale, foaled 
three colt foals. Mr. B. Land’s two-year-old colt by 
Chatham has been named Dartforrl, not Dartmouth. 
Census was bought in three distioct times at Warwick for 
85 gs, 120 gs, and 170 gs. Tom Oliver has vouchsafed no 
reply to Mr. Bignell’s letter. Honey Dew was omitted by 
mistake from the list of Brough Handicap (Catterick) ac- 
ceptances. William and Charles Balcbin, the trainers, have 
dissolved partnership. The stables lately occupied by H. 
Coombe at Newmarket are to be let “ at a low rental.” 
IRISH TURFIANA. 
Chit-Chat, own brothor to Chatterbox und Clmttorer, 
after a short but rather successful career on tho turf, bus 
been put to stud, and willbo stationed this season nt Ossory. 
in the Queen’s county. 
Twenty-three out of fifty-eight horses havo uccoptcd for 
the Corinthian Cup, to bo run for at the Kildare Hunt 
Meeting, on Thursday next. Tho top weight is I2st. 4lb., 
and tho lowest lOst. 71b. 
The members of the Clare Hunt have issued the articles of 
their meeting, by which we purcoive that £145 will be 
added to the different events. Tho days fixed on oro tho 
25th and 26th of April. 
Tho Irish Grand Military Steeplechases, which we wero 
given to understand would not take pluco this year, will 
come off fover the Fairy House course, on Easier Monday, 
the 17th of April. 
A match for 10 sovs. came off in tho Phoenix Park, Dub- 
lin, on Saturday, between Mr. T. Brady’s Iago nnd Mr. 
Nicholas Rico’s Faino ; owners riding. Aftor a well-con- 
tested race, the latter won by a neck. 
Serious Hunting Accident. — We dcoply regret to 
announce that an accident of a most ularming nature oc- 
curred on Thursday week to tho rospocted muster of the 
Kildare fox-hounds, Win. Kennedy, Esq., brother lo Sir 
Edward Kennedy, Bart. The meet was at Salima, whore 
they found, aud'while iu full cry aftor a fine dog fox, tho 
sport received u chock, in consequence of Mr. Kennedy’s 
horse bungling at an up-fence, and falling back on his rider. 
On assistance being procured, it was ascertained that threo 
ribs hud been broken, ono of which had punctured tho left 
lung. Mr. Kennedy is at present being attended by tho 
Surgoon-Gonerul and other eminent modical men, who havo 
but slight hopes of his recovery. Out of respect for their 
worthy master, the hounds will not hunt again this season. 
Closely Contested Billiard Match.— Mr. Atkinson, of 
Blackburn, and Mr. Smith of Manchester, played the first part 
of a mntcli, 2,000 up, for £100, a fortnight since, nt tl.o Bull 
Hotel, Blackburn, when Mr. Smith won by six. Tho second hnlf 
of the game has since been played at Manchester, nnd nt tho 
commencement tho betting was (i lo 4 on Smith. The garno 
commenced by stringing for the start, and the choice of balls, 
which was obtained by Mr. Atkinson, who kept the lead for tho 
first 300, by some very good play, and had then n clear lead of 
90. Mr. Smith got a fortunuto break, and when tho game stood 
at 500, Mr. Smith was leading about 90 points. ARcr a short 
interval the gnrao was resumed, and Mr. Atkinson agnin suc- 
ceeded in lending his opponent. Tho game fluctuated between 
800 and 900, Mr. Smith being at ono time 50 a-hend. Tho gamo 
then went on steadily, until tho last 50, when the gamo became 
% .i . • 1 • ...i: -i IIia lIuIa 
very exciting, and at the finishing portion most critical, tho slate 
of the gome being, Smith 1,999; Atkinson 1,998, and both balls 
They have eight loose boxes, fourteen stalls, itc. The North in b Qu ik. It was Mr. Atkinson’s break, so that he dare not give 
Derby for 1855 has closed with 26 subscribers. Brother to a mjgg, Ho went for a cannon, but did not succed, and his ad- 
Andover has been christened Anton; Colonel Peel’s foal versnry ogoin scoring, ho lost the gome by two. 
