April 1.] 
THE FIELD. 
311 
Captain W. Sankcy, 47th Foot. 
Captain It. Blanc, unattached. 
Captain J. Woodford, Rifle Brigade. 
Captain A. H. P. IT. Worslcy, Cape Mounted Ridea. 
Captain II E. Weave, 50th Foot. 
Captain H. T. Bailer, 55th Foot. 
COMMISSiHIAT. 
Conunissary-General Fieldon. 
The Royal Murine corpse nt Stonebo'ude now pr.icllco three 
days a neck with the rille nmsket (which is, it is said, superioi 
to "the Minie rifle), nt Mount Batten. 
On Saturday, the 14th received orders to prepare for otnbnrkn- 
tion at Cork, in the Bombay, 1000 tons, for Mnltn. 
An order received in Limerick to transmit forthwith (o Wool- 
wich the nrtillcry nino-pounder guns, for service in Turkey. 
Tliero is not n single horse left with the largo battery of artil- 
lery in Limerick. 
HOSPITAL STAFF. 
(From the London Gazette of Tuesday.) 
Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, John Hull, M.D., to be In- 
spcetor-General of Hospitals. 
To be Deputy Inspector-Generals of Hospitals— Staff-Surgeon of the 
First Class William Henry Itnmll, M U.; Staff-Surgeon of the First 
('lass David Drumbeck, M.D. ; Staff-Surgeon of the First Class 
Thomas Atkinson, UP.; Stnff-Snrgeon of t he First Class John 
Forrest; Staff-Surgeon of the First Class William Linton, M.D., vice 
Hall, promoted. 
To be Staff-Surgeons of the First Class— Staff-Surgeon of the First 
Class Peter Robertson, M.D., fi-om hnlf-pny, vice Burrell, promoted; 
Surgeon Alexander Sheriffe Mncdoncll, from the 03rd Foot, vice Hum- 
breck, promoted; Surgeon William Cmickshank, M.D., from the lTrh 
Foot, vice Atkinson, promoted; Surgeon George Gordon Robertson. 
M.D., from the 1st Foot, vice Forrest, promoted; Surgeon Joseph 
Samuel l’rendergast, M.D., from the 77th Foot, vice Linton, promoted; 
Surgeon Thomas Ross Jameson, from the 91st Foot; Surgeon Robert 
Smith, from the 23rd Foot; Staff-Surgeon ot the Second Class Richard 
James O’Elahci'ty; Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class John Thomas 
Telfer; Surgeon George Carr, from the 71st Foot; Surgeon Arthur 
Anderson, M R., from the Rifle Brigade; Staff-Surgeon of the Second 
Class John Charles Graham Tice, M.D. 
To he Staff-Surgeons of the Second Class -Assistant-Surgeon Alex- 
ander Fortenth, M.D., from the 2nd Dragoon Guards, vice Telfer, pro- 
moted ; Assistant-Surgeon George Cunningham Meiklclinm, from the 
51st Foot, vice O’Flaherty, promoted; Assistant-Surgeon Robert Mar- 
shall Allen, from the 3rd Dragoon Guards, vice Levvin, appointed to 
the G3rd Foot; Assistant-Surgeon George William Powell, from the 
31th Foot, vice Tice, promoted; Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Moore 
Suntcr, M.B., from the 7th Foot; Assistant-Surgeon Verc Webb, from 
the 10th Foot; Assistant-Surgeon Charles Frederick S:cphmson 
from the Slst Foot; Assistant-Surgeon Samuel Smith, from the Ceylon 
Rifle Regiment; Assistant-Surgeon David Anderson, M.D. , from’ the 
9th Foot; Assistant Surgeon Peter Mackey, M.D., from the 12th 
Foot; Assistant-Surgeon Hnmpdon Hugh Massy, M.D., from the 1th 
Light Dragoons; Assistant-Surgeon Mark Stanley Todd, from the 8Gth 
Foot. 
To be Assistnnt-Snrgcon to the Forces— Assistant-Surgeon Thomas 
0 Kearney Gordon, from the 76th Foot, vice Barrett, promoted in the 
Hospital Waggons. — The Board ©F Ordnance Khs ordered (bo 
manufacture of twenty hospital waggons for Ihc use of tlio first 
division of the nriny. Theso waggons are designed to carry the 
wounded from the field of battle, and the sick and disabled upon 
the march, until Kiev can lie deposited in hospital. Tliov are 
upon four wheels, nrrnngcd to turn in the shortest possible space, 
and are furnished with springs of unusual length, strength, and 
elasticity. The bodies arc divided into four horizontal compart- 
ments, (>), feet long by 2 feet in breadth and depth; each com- 
partment is filled with a moveable stretcher carefully webbed and 
pillowed, on which the severely wounded will be raised from I be 
held ol battle and placed, thus reclining in n compartment fni 
removal. The compartments nre amply ventilated and protected 
by \enetmn shutters from the sun nnd night air; and over all is 
a waterproof cover, supported on light hoops of wood. A door 
closes theso compartments behind, which, ns it is necessarily deep 
and large, can lie converted into ft table, whereon wounds may lie 
conveniently dressed. In front of one waggon-hodv is a capaci- 
ous looker, designed to curry wnter-ensks, surgical* instruments, 
and drugs, and on it arc seats capable of holding six men, whose 
wounds do not prevent them travelling in a silting posture; 
these seats nre provided with guards, to support the wounded il 
mint, and the entire 6ents nnd half the sides of Hie waggon fold 
together, so that this capacious vehicle, by removing the wheels 
mid axles, may bo nmdo to occupy on shipboard n space not 
more than two feet in depth. 
Sailor's Hospital Ship.— Tl.o Bclleisle, originallv a shin of 
guns, but of laic used os n trooper, will shortly lie ready to 
proceed to the Baltic as n hospital ship. Great praise is due to 
~‘ r 'Villinm Burnett, Hie director-general, Captain Milne, nnd 
Uio Admiralty officials generally, for the care and attention dis- 
ptnyed in titling out this important adjunct to the fleet. Nothin* 
wlueh the first hospital experieme in the country has been able 
to suggest in tlio way of medicines, instruments, "and all surei- 
cal "Bplmncea Las been omitted. The Director-General 1ms had 
Y«rfc lluwhc to provide all tilings needful ; nnd perhaps the 
-UclJcislcj with Ii or 104 hods, is ns near perfection ns po>gil>Ie 
Jhc stall of medical officers bns also been well choscn-I)r’ 
M beehnio, the inspector, Into of Mnslnr Hospital ; Dr. Leith 
first surgeon, late of Greenwich Hospital; .Mr. Martin, second 
surgeon, °f Malta; Mr.Wliichor, first assistant. Into of Greenwich • 
n '" 1 Mr. Breen, or Plymouth Hospital, have nil lmd the ndv ini;.-,. 
01 considerable experience ; and should their services ho needed, 
°'>r gallant defenders may bo satisfied that they will receive the 
most skilful treatment which art can administer.— Uni ted Savin 
v met to. 
B/dau College op Sdiiobons.— T he following gentlemen, 
Having undergone the necessary examination for tho diploma 
ere Admitted members of the college at the meeting of the Couri 
0 Lxnminers on the 24th ult. : -Messrs. Alexander Garden, 
j on - Lust India Company’s service; A exander John Conic 
mm Last India Company's service : ltd win Hooker Marsh, 
Aorthampu,,, ; hrederirk Pennington, Meedlmm-markct ; J.mirs 
iC ’ London; .Josinli Taj lor I'owell, London; Alfred 
lwiv 0,K Ind,: ' 1 ompauv’d service; Henry Hdwaids, 
‘ r ;, a ^nvy; and Owen 0’ llaro llel fast. At the same inccliuy 
'a court, Mr. \\ illhitn Hector Cnincrun piissctl his examination 
nvu ‘ surgeon. This gcnllemnn had previously been nd- 
c,!| voi*) ln< rrvL l,cv ** ,c I'* 3 diploma hearing date Dec. 
‘ Tho following gentlemen were admitted members <>| 
"• college tit the meeting of (lie court on tho27i)i ult. : — Messrs. 
D , uW "? Tnlpi", Lincoln ; Wallace llnw aid, LitlU 
m- kenhan, Ipswich ; Robert Jnlhuid, Ollorton, Notlin<rhnmshiiv, 
1 " 1 ®? Flower, Stratford-upon-Avon ; John Lewi, 
'"am Thudiclinm, London ; Robert S.nidci 15 .teson, l.uncartcr ; 
wJi'ih "'ir ' " 1,1,1 cl »Pr<*Pficld f Reading, licks; Charles Luc!;. 
1 1, 1 1 1 JI « ruc Riston, near Bedford; JCdword La.scv 
jiTf | reston ; Spenser Edmonds, St. Helens, Lw.i.-hire"; 
Stal r 0 ",, 15 "’"’’ Wcndovcr, Buck ingbamsMc,. ; 
'dito D re nni1, I,r i n :T. llS ‘; Thomas ..lid. ill, Ci c- 
ail0u > Devon ; nnd Allred Hooper, NotUug-hill. 
POULTRY. 
DATES OF SHOWS. 
Aran..— Royal Dublin Society’s Spring Show, April 1A. and tin 
Secretary, W. E. Stock, l5 q .. Ml,. Enn 
beta Domestic Poultry and Flower Show wilt 
neia at 1 arnlngham, the first week in June. 
T^SS? S n B '~i^ ,W ' n J , ! n ,hL ' Tiomcnade G aniens, Wednesday n 
MeiVn V i- 1,c at " 1 1 l,h of September. Honorary Secretary 
r r f,‘ rn Ho « sc ’ M «>vcrn. Entris, close August m ’ 
DEeEMctn.— Colchester Second Annual Exhibition. 
Avusdi’rt. — Tho prospectus of the “ Valo of Aylesbury 
Association lor the Improving of Domestic Poultry,” sets 
I'ftli that it is open lo nil England ; and amongst tho names 
if the patrons are those of tho Right Hon. Lords Curding- 
,n 'i» Southampton, and Lonsdale; tho lion. H. Disraeli, 
U.P., C. C. Cavendish, M.P., and R. Cavendish; Sirs 
R. Bethel), M.P., A. P. Cooper, Bart., A. do Rothschild, 
Baron Rothschild, C. G. Dupre, Esq., M.P., A. 11. Lay or d, 
Esq , M.P., T. T. Drake, Esq., T. R. Barker, Esq'., H. 
Hn inner, E>q., High Sheriff; G. Carrington, Esq.. Jno. Lee, 
L^q , LL.l) , J. 3. Senior, Esq., P, 1). P. Duncombe, Esq., 
be Vcn. Archdeacon Hick, rstoth, C. Hull, Esq., J. Had, 
E-q. ; Ruvds. O. Cbetwodc, \V. E. Partridge, J. S. Drake, 
i. Phillimore, E. N. Voting; among the ludy patronesses 
■u e, Lady Franklund Russell, A. P. Cooper, Voro Cameron, 
'Iis. Drake, nnd Mrs. George Carrington, jun. As this is a 
subject which concerns agriculturists above nil others, and 
ns the county is purely of that class, it is hoped this society 
will ba supported by all classes. There can bn no doubt that 
(be improvement which bus of luto bedn noticed in cuttle 
ms been caused by the different societies, and it is thought 
i here is no better way of improving tho breed of poultry 
'ban by forming a society like this one. Tho minimum sub- 
scription is 'Cs., which will entitle the member to free nrl- 
mission to tho annual show, A subscription of 10s. Oil. 
confers the privilege of admission to the private view. Tho 
society’s show will lio held in July, 1854. 
AGRICULTURAL TALK. 
Part I. 
Another panic in the Corn Market:— the other day a 
rapid rise, now a heavy fall, in tho price of wheat, and that 
in the face of war. It is rumoured that tho old stocks were 
under-estimated, as well as the capacity of foreign ports to 
supply our wants. And there are farmers who argue that 
this state of perpetual anxiety and regret is wholesome for 
agriculture. Tho same men who complain of tlio uncer- 
tainty of tho seasons, cherish that, uncertainty of prices 
which arises from our total ignorance of what is grown in 
every harvest until it is half consumed, and our utter depen- 
dence on the idlest rumours at all times. 
By this fall some largo farmers will bo hit very hard. 
They have been storing, in expectation of prices of the famine 
year. We do not blame them for thus trying to equalise 
losses by gains. Ifsomo did nbt store, we "should live from 
bund to mouth. It is the hope of profit that protects us in 
exceptional years against reckless consumption. But, per- 
haps, a result so udverse to their calculations may alter the 
opinion of those who maintain the advantage of igno- 
rance, and danger of truth, about the results of harvests: 
while, on this subject, we cannot help asking, how it is 
'I at the genus fanner, so renowned for hospitable good 
feeling, is the only class that halos its customers. The 
surgeon does not abuse his patients, or tho lawyer his 
clients; tho manufacturer of broadcloth lias no hard 
words to throw at tho tailor who puts one bundled 
per cent, over the wholesale price on tlio retail gar- 
ment; the brewer calmly resigns Ids boor to the pub- 
lican, to bo debased in quality and enhanced in price ; 
tho wholesale jeweller nnd culler are not thrown into firry 
indignation by scoing in shop w indows the monstrous per 
cent age which retailers think or find essential to pay tl.cir 
manifold expenses, and losses by bud debts and change ol 
fashion. But how seldom can n farmer speak with common 
patience of a corn factor, « miller, or even a cattle jobber, 
although it is to their exertions (not disinterested, of course) 
tbut ho owes the circulation and rise in the price of the 
staples on which lie Urpmds. Farmers scorn to think that 
I he profit-price on a quarter of wheat or a score of sheep ob- 
tained after leaving their hands, is something of which they 
have been unfairly drpi iv ed, instead of the distributor's profit, 
crimed by extra risk nnd extra anxiety. The fact is, that all 
pleasant pursuits — all pursuits that give leisure or position 
— are more followed, and therefore less profitable, than those 
winch, requiring risk and daily care, afford no portion. 
t he country squire may have less money than the ship- 
owner or marine-assuror; but the squire can sleep calmly, 
the wind whistling among his oaks, while the subscriber to 
Lloyds lies tremblingly awake, thinking of risks at sea. 
Farmers, il they wish to bo as influential as their social 
position deserves, must give up this prejudice against classes 
who act as brokers between tlio growers and tlio public. 
There is no pleasing a patentee unless you go the whole 
way with him, and declare, wliut lie believe*, that his in- 
vention i» i bo finest thing ever invented. For instance, wo 
staled tlio other day that there was no sign of the rotatory 
cultivator superseding tho plough; that where it is henry it 
kills the horses, and where it is light the spikes or tines’ do 
not penetrate; we might have added, although wo did not, 
tlmt mi most land it does expensively what the cultivators 
m.d scarifiers do cheaply, and quite ns well. Thereupon 
Mr. SnmuelBon writes to declare that his rotatory digger is 
not a failure, for that ho has sold forty of them ; but he docs 
not venture to assert tint they have anywhere superseded 
tho plough, or to say how many horses it would take lo do 
a whole day’s work on ordinary clay land. No doubt there 
are soils where a rotatory cultivator can lie used il'y.m have 
horses enough, and expense is no object ; but the question 
is, whether, having spades and steel fin I,.-., ploughs, snn i- 
tins, cultivators, and harrows of all kinds, tliero lias or hns 
not been invented an instrument which will do more com- 
pletely and Cheaply the work of any or nil of them. 
T m often tho real use of agricultural implements is he. 
coming lost in print and woodcut advertisements. Every 
year something astotiishii g comes out at the Royal Agricul- 
tn:al shows, and, after a hr ief newspaper ovation, is heard ol 
no more. 
i lie yard of implements Las ceased to have other uso, so 
overgrown are its proportions, than as an advertising shop; 
the trials, where the operations are not perfectly simple, arc 
a fin ce. Tin ro is no lim • to do any real work. And thus 
it happens that every year the great competitors among im- 
plement makers tor agricultural fuvonr, think it necessary 
to bi ing out some monster machine, glowing in polish and 
pumf, not meant to be repealed, but intended os a sort of 
y ronntl boil to uttrnct the visitor farmers to their more 
simple staple stoc k of manufactured goods. Messrs. “ Steel, 
lyre, and Co.,” exhib t a useless whirligig in order lo 
sell harrows or ploughshares. 
We must retrace our slips; encourage our implement 
makers to be, not less ingenious, but more genuine. 
Part II. 
Tiif. Law op Settlement has been twice debated in 
the House of Commons, nnd twice adjourned. 
The measure which « year or two ago would have slipped 
part without notice, now receives close criticism. The first 
heavy stone Ihrowu at this result of Mr. Chadwick’s labours 
was thrown by Mr. Knight, M.f. for Bfl t W r Or€fl fll ri In. <-, 
late secretary to the Poor Law Board, who, in a couple of 
pamphlets ouo statistical and tho other argumentative — 
made an cxamplo of the Chadwickian statistics, and showed 
that they were as much “ tho ro verso of fact ” as his Board 
ol Health experiments and reports. Tho next discourage- 
ment, and that more serious, was the Irish part of tins 
i " ' ‘ ho "- puis Taffy, the Welshman) working on on Bngltah 
harvest, tails ofi tho waggon, breaks ins i. ^, and boobiuos > 
permanent cripple, and chargeable to tho nearest English 
I uion for lilo; while Paddy, in reaping, cuts off his hand 
on the sumo day — is ho to lie sent oil’ to his native county 
to be there supported. ? Tlio inequality becomes too glaring 
"hon tho two reapers are placed side by side— novortholoss 
tbe seaport towns have an unpleasant remembrance of tho 
> ear when they received weekly largo cargoes of paupers 
despatched in gross, to save Irish landlords nnd Unions the 
exponso of maintaining them. 
Mr. Knight argues, fairly enough, that settlement in n 
parish where a man is known, secures, or is more likely to 
secure, consideration for tho aged decayed labourers in his 
own parish, and contends that tho result of enlargin'* tho 
•‘ottlemont would be to grind down relief in all cuscs 
without personal exception, lo more suslenance. 
But Mr. Knight argues as if it wore, and always would 
bo, (lie inovitublo lot of tlio labourer to labour in youth anil 
be destitute in age, — as if English children could not, or 
would not, provide for their poverty ns Scotch children 
do,— and us if every labourer was justified in looking 
forward to lodgings in the workhouse after a certain 
age. °f. at any rate, for outdoor relief. And so those dread - 
in,' tho Irish invasion think of the famine year of 1818, or 
of those more distant times when horde* of loss than hulf- 
elolliod native Irish spread over England’s land, gulhei inghnr- 
vost for us, and rent for their rack-renting landlords, living on 
scraps and buttermilk, and reducing the wages of tlio bacon- 
outing, beer-drinking Englishman. 
But wo soo very different signs on every side. Tho talk 
of agriculturalists is not of the invasion of paupers, hat of 
tho scarcity of labour. What brings thrashing machines, 
reaping machines, and every other contrivance for .'living 
hand-labour in farming, into fashion, bat tlio want of an 
unlimited supply of paupers from the parish rates, and 
Irishmen from the road-side. With the largo demand lor 
labour in our manufacturing towns, and the steady lido of 
emigration, wc may reasonably expect to si c rural luhoiir 
rise to a rate which will make tlio sight of u band of Irish 
harvesters a matter of rejoicing, nnd tlio current wuges of 
a farm labourer sufficient to enable him to lay something by, 
like the town mechanic. 
The whole class of labourera is rising in physionl con- 
dition ; we must take care that education keeps prec with 
wages. 
It is no matter whether Poor-Law Chadwloklaus hovo 
cooked statistics or not ; it is quito dear that Hie labour 
laws ol tho days of pack horses and hrond-wlicdi d waggons 
will not do for tlio ngo of railways and telegraphs. Tho 
destitute must not perish, but tho able must nor. I.ofcllcved 
fmm availing themselves of l ho locomotive advantages of 
tlio age. Wo cannot help noting that tlio model agricul- 
tural labourer is tho Lowland Scotch peasant, who lias no 
Union-house in his perspective view of life ; but then ho is 
educated, mid receives, instead of beer, milk from his em- 
ployer. It is not tho aims, but tho Imrsll words of tlio 
Chadwickian school, und their unscrupulous mode of gather- 
ing mid modelling fuels and figures, that make them so 
much disliked, und so little trusted. 
Thu London Fammkuh' Club discuss tho value of 
liquid manures at llioir mooting on the Bid April, when Mr. 
Spooner, inventor of the liquid manure drill, leads u paper, 
and Mr. Mccbi is expected to state the final result ol Ids 
experience. 
CAVALRY HOUSES. 
Tlio breeding and training of ' cuvulry horses is naturally 
attracting a good deal of attention in agricultural circles, 
und one question has lately boon dit-emsed, on which hunting 
farmers could cast some light from their experience in thu 
Hold— that is, whether cuvulry cun rldo through infantry. 
On tho one si do, wo have the historical fuel, that cavalry 
have but in few instances ridden through u square of dis- 
ciplined infantry. On the other me cited instance* in which 
irregular Turkish cavuliy, In tho olden duys of "their pride, 
were considered irresistible by iiiliinlry, mid also the buttles 
won by Frederick the Great, who-., cuvulry gouerals were 
consummate horsemen, and who himself inuintaiiu d lliut 
l lie spur was worth us much as the sabre. Again, a writer 
in the Times refers, in proof of tlio irmdstiblo power of a 
hor.su ridden straight at full speed, to turnpike gules smashed, 
and stone wulls curried down on mnsxc by horses at speed ; 
and then lie argues that it is tlio rider tlmt falters and turns, 
and not the horse. Then follows another wore SHginious 
‘‘ Dragoon," who point* out Unit cavalry horses uro truinrd 
to charge Infantry in sham field, and turn by threes to ifie 
right nnd left. Iloro tlio murder’s out, Imrn:me wlmi tho 
value of a hunter would he, trained to gallop and tutu sharply 
| from a fence. Wc know that in a hunter early training is 
everything, and that ilio hotsc will seldom turn out a pcrferl 
fencer, unless he bus been ridden in a dutenniued stylo 
daring Ids first season. 
It is for this reason Clint few horns ato more snfo and 
pli'ertint in tlio field tlimi iho»c that linvo teen trained by 
Voik.diiro, Lincolnshire, or fibrlliumptonsliire laniiri.’, 
and ridden to sell. Such horses do not iiinlei . tnnd lim 
meaning of refusing, nrnl wo will undertake to say, that a 
squadron of them would go straight, and never ilincb, if 
their riders did not, bunt any army of men and Imyonets ; 
hut if wo t ike tlio instance of tiio sited, however weil-bicd, 
of ft timid training rider, wc shall find them fulling just 
when most needed. Tlio same dragoon recommends the 
adoption of black hoots and wor n d cord breeches instead 
ot the draggling trousers — and i* right. He might go farther ; 
the dress of u huntsman is as near the perfection a cavalry 
co.rtamo us possible. The neat but ampin fcurlet frock, 
buttoned to the chin, but protecting the thighs mid stomach 
from rain; the close-filling cap, which u very little altera- 
tion would turn into a Roman helmet, would, with u sword- 
belt ami cartridge- box, form a capital uniform. ImJcnl, if 
wo wished to improvise, at the shortest po slide notice, u 
model cavalry costume l»y only changing tin* top boot for a 
black boot, and Hie velvet cup for a light helmet, we should 
find what wc so much need in the gallant ex-Lftiicer, tho 
master of the Rufibrd hounds, than whom no better hoist- 
man over drew table, and uo better qiorUman ever hulloud 
to hound. 
