THE FIELD. 
The Hon. G. W. Fitzwilliam has named the following year- 
lings : — brc by Bay Middleton out of Bohemienne, “ Milton ; ’ 
hr c by Bay Middleton out of Dart, “Wentworth.” 
The recent .successful Royal paddock sale has given birth 
to the following new stake: — Newmarket Craven Meeting, 
1850. Tuesday.— The Sale Stakes of 50 sovs each, for now 
yearlings, purchased at the annual sales in 1854 of the 
Hampton Court stud, Althorp Park stud, Maresfield stud, 
and Marble Hill stud ; colts to carry 8st 91b, fillies, 8st olb ; 
those by stallions or out of mures that never bred a winner 
allowed* Bibs, nnd those sold for less than 500gs. allowed 3)b, 
for less than 500 gs.. Gib ; A.F. To close aud name on the 
Tuesday after the Jul? Meeting 1854. Eight subscribers, or 
no race. Those members who have candidates to proposo for 
the Brighton Race Club, must send their names to Messrs. 
Wetherby by the end of the July Meeting. No fair damsel 
has claimed the “ Perrnm ” donution this year, so the 31 sovs 
will be forfeited by Hymen to the winner of the Town 
Plato. 
IRISH TURFIANA. 
Kilcock Races. — These annual sports arc announced to 
come off on Monday and Tuosdav, the 14th and 15th of 
August, under the stewardship of Nicholas J. Ganuon, J.P., 
and Francis E. M. Donnell, Esq., J.P. Three events, to 
which £100 will be added, form the bill of fare. 
Death op Paddy Hefpran. — This promising three- 
yr-old colt, the property of George Watts, E»q., wns de- 
stroyed last week, having met with an accident whilst ot 
exercise. 
Lord Waterpord’s bay colt, by Seahorse, out of Red Rose, 
engaged in next year’s Derby, fell on pulling up at the end of 
a long gallop at Curraghmore, on Thursday week, and broke 
his back. Mr. Whaley’s Toby Fillpot, by Burgundy, out of 
Betty Swipes — also engaged in the Derby — met with a similar 
accideut at Curragh, on Monday last. 
Irish Foals. — At Ardee, Mr. Hatch’s Touch-me-Not, u 
filly by Crozier. Mr. Hatch has named his colt by Crozier 
out of Andromeda, “ Wynnstaye.” Lord Howth’s yearling 
filly by Sweetmeat, out of Folnnualla, is called “ Mincepie.” 
Galway Races. — This meeting is announced to come off 
over the Kiltulla Course, on the 8ih and 9th of August. Lord 
Dunkellin, Sir Thomas Burke, Bart., T. M. Blake, Esq., 
and P. S. Comyn, Esq., are to be the stewards. The pro- 
gramme consists of a Handicap Sweepstakes of 8 sovs. each, 
50 60V6. added ; Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. pp., 25 sovs. added ; 
Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. pp., 25 sovs. added, over walls ; Handi- 
cap Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. pp., 25 sovs. addod ; Selling Stakes 
of 3 sovs. pp., 25 sovs. added ; and a Handicap Plato for the 
beaten horses of the meeting. 
• Bellewstown Races. — This annual meeting will take 
place on the 5th and 0th of July, under the stewardship of 
Patrick Cusey, Esq., Mayor of Drogheda ; M. E. Corbally, 
Esq., M.P., James M’Cann,Esq., M.P., and James Matthews, 
Esq. Five events are announced for decision, including Her 
Majesty’s Plate, and the Drogheda Tradesman's Plate of GO 
sovs., added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft. 
Bold Boy (late Themistocles), by Fancy Boy, a winner of 
several races, including the Lord Lieutenant’s Plato at the 
Curragh last year, beating Cliaseaway and several other first- 
class horses, is now the property of a car-owner in the county 
Kildare, and is to be seen every day in the shafts. 
Westmeath Fox Hounds. — The sporting gentlemen of 
Westmeath will not, we trust, forgot tho important fact that, 
a first-rate pock of foxhounds are now in safe keeping at 
Knockdrin Castle, the seat of Sir R. Levinge, Bart.; that the 
season is rap:dly approaching when, “ to join the chase at 
break of day’’ will be tho ambition of every breast capable of 
pBiticipating in this noble pastime; and last, not leust, that 
the su bscription list is invitingly open for subscriptions; for- 
ward then, let the exertions ol the gentlemen who have under- 
taken this onerous duty not be unaided. 
HINTS ON “DRIVING, FUR BEGINNERS. 
( Concluded from ]>age 429.) 
driving in the country. 
Railroads are now 60 numerous, that you can be put 
down almost at any place in England you may wish to 
visit, so that long drives are very seldom taken, although in 
the summer, and if you are not pressed for time, there is no 
doubt that driving is by far the most pleasant way of 
travelling. Should you take a driving tour, the following 
articles you might find very useful in case of mishaps, and 
they would not incommode you. 1. Lamps with wax 
caudles all ready to be lighted in them ; they are rather in- 
dispensable in the country, especially if you don’t know the 
road, and they may prevent other people from coming in 
contact with you. 
A hammer and a few nails, and a pick too, may be often 
required, as btones frequently get into horse’s feet. A 
knife, aud some strong cord and 6tring, you would 
be in a fix without, in case of breuking a shaft or spring, 
or harness, perhaps a long distance from any habitation. 
Say you are going from fifty to a hundred miles, and don’t 
wish to hurry (if you do, I should recommend the train), 
as thirty miles a-duy is enough for any horse, and a man 
who is fond of his beast will not drive him more, stopping 
now and then to wash his mouth out, and give him two or 
three mouthfuls of wet hay. It is bad to give a horse much 
to eat on a journey, except when stopping for the night, 
when they ought to be properly fed und looked after. Of 
course they require a feed in the middle of the day, the same 
as we do our diuner ; at such times see to your horse’s coin- 
fort before your owu ; have his feet well washed out, and 
look to his clinches — the nails sometimes protrude too far 
through the hoof and cut the horse — and rub his shoulders 
and back, where the collar and saddle have been, with salt 
and water, if possible, but do not take his collar off until lie 
is cool. The following is a sufficient feed when on the 
travel — viz., a quartern and a-lialf of oats, a handful of 
beauB to entice him to eat, mixed with a little chaff, the 
latter being intended to muke him masticate the food ; al- 
ways have the ehill taken out of the water before he drinks ; 
shut him up, and let him feed quietly, and after ho has dono 
so, have him groomed. Should your horse lose a shoe, 
drive very gently until you can get another put on, other- 
wise you break the horse’s hoof and make the foot tender. 
Should you prefer to pic-nic, which is very ugreeable in a 
pretty country and on a fine day, do not forgot a nose-bag 
for the horse, with the before mentioned mixture in it ; in 
such cases you would most likely have to lake your own 
horse oqt, and then you would find out the necessity of 
knowing how it should be done, and which you can learn 
much better by assisting some one who understands it, than 
by any one telling you. One thing I will remurk, — never 
remove the bridle before the horse is clear out of the shafts. I 
have witnessed several accidents by such tricks being done. 
Once, at a race-course, a gentleman, lady, and little child, 
drove in just behind where I was stationed, and immediately ou 
stopping, tho gentleman came from the chaise to the horse s 
head and pulled the bridle off. The horse, at once seeing to 
what he was fastened, gave a bound and went through the 
carriages, when horse, chaise, lady, and child, rolled com- 
pletely over the ropes on to tho course, though luckily thero 
wus no fatal result. 
It is never pleasant driving unless your horse pulls at you 
slightly; if he will not do so, and shakes his head when 
you try to feel his mouth, loosen the curb chain, or put the 
reins to the check, that being the hole by the side of the 
hit that is level with the piece that goes through the mouth. 
In going n long journey, the bearing rein should not be too 
tight, but just tight enough to ullow the horse to carry his 
head in its natural position. 
Many a horse, in going into tho country, will shy at an 
object ho is not familiar with, but do not beut him when he 
does so— it will only tend to make him worse the next time. 
Coax him, and, if possible, get him up to tho object, when 
his fear will bo dispelled. If you Hog him, on the next oc- 
casion his shying propensity will increase, as, expecting the 
whip, he will dart on before you are aware of wliut he is 
going to do, and will run you against anything that may bo 
in the woy. For example, a friend of mine hud a very nice 
young horse that ho used to drive, but he was unfortunately 
given to shying, and my friend being rather hot-tempered, 
flogged him whenever he did so ; the consequence was, that 
the horse at last got fright after fright, and one day jumped 
over a hedge into a field, gig, master, and all ; the gig was 
smashed, and the horse, to my knowledge, never fit to drive 
again. 
With a dog-cart, when carrying more than two, a false 
belly-band is required ; I have been turned out backwards 
for tho want of it. 
You should always lean forward going up hills, and back- 
ward going down. Never drive fast over the top of a hill, 
as the weight will fly forward suddenly, and cause the crupper 
to become us suddenly tight, which will very often be the 
cause of making your horse kick, and perhaps run away. 
You should not drivo fast up hill in taking a long journey, 
as doiug so takes a great deal out of your horse; and I think 
it a great risk to drive fqst down, unless in a four-wheel 
chaise, when there is no weight on the horse’s back. There 
is a certain steady pace— about seven miles an hour (and 
your horso well in hand), so that, should lie make a blunder, 
lie mny be saved, but in going fast, tho horse is extended 
and off his balance, and if tlicro should be a blunder, nothing 
can save him. Erom seven to eight miles an hour, and 
walking up all the hills, is about tho pace that ought to be 
done in going a great distance. Should your horse go lame, 
stop directly, and examine his foot with your pick, as, by so 
doiug, you may prevent a serious lameness. To show you 
the necessity of paying attention to this,— once, in driving 
tandem, my wheeler went dead lame. I immediately 
stopped, and found a flat-headed nail driven half-way into 
his loot, aud it was with great difficulty I could get it out. 
Hud I gone on any further without looking, I should very 
likely have ruined a valuable animal, or, perhaps, have been 
the cause of his death. The interior of a horse’s foot is the 
most dangerous part on which lie can receive a wound, 
as it is almost impossible to do anything for its cure. 
I do not know a more fearful or disagreeable sensation 
than that of being run awuy with in harness. Some horses 
do it from vice, others through fear— perhaps a noiso behind 
them will set them off. I have known some start through 
having been driven fast from a smooth und noiseless road 
on to stones; some by getting the reins under their tails. Then 
is the time when safety reins are of great service. Horses 
that switch their tails when touched with the whip, if not 
carefully looked after, are likely to catch the rein, and 
should your horse do so, let the rein loose instantly before 
he knows what he has done, and you may be able to get it 
all right again without any mischief. But should you pull 
tho rein, the horse immediately sticks down his tail ; tho 
only thing to be done then is, if possible, to get hold of the 
rein beyond his tail, and pull him up (on such occasions) 
quickly. This is a dangerous experiment, and not always 
to be accomplished. 
If a horse cunnot be stopped when he first makes a start, 
by violently 6awing his mouth, the best thing to be done is 
to sit still and endeavour to guide him out of danger : should 
you attempt to throw yourself out, you are likely to get 
more hurt than by waiting to let him do it for you. 
A gentleman, after having visited me, was driving home 
alone in a gig, and, in lighting his cigar, let tho reins 
out of his hand, which directly slipped over tho splash- 
board and fell round the horse’s heels, who started into a 
gallop, and ran some distance, when the gentleman, being 
a tall, long-reached, and good-nerved man, sprawled ulong 
the horse’s back and got hold of the reins again. But this 
is not to be always done, and luckily this took place in the 
country. 
Accidents of this sort seldom happen with good coachmen, 
and by paying attention to what I have stated, they need 
not happen to you. 
No doubt many could explain the art in a clearer way, 
bnt I feel that I have done my best, and hope that my feeble 
efforts will be of some service to the young world. If I liuve 
not been sufficiently explicit, I know bow it should ho 
managed. I think I was told that I wus born with tho 
reins ill iny hand. I have in my time driven one, two, 
three, four, five, and six in all shapes, and hopo that my 
readers may all got off, as regards accidents, as scot free as 
I have done. 
Throughout these hints I have only alluded to the 
driving of one horso, as a man ought to thoroughly under- 
eland that before trying more. When ho understands that 
properly, and wishes to try something more scientific, the 
knowledge may soon be obtained. 
HIOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. 1854. 
MOBN. Bvr.lC. 
>1. H. II. 14. 
July 1, Saturday 0.30 O.M 
„ s. Sunday o.is o.as 
„ 3, Monday 7. 8 7 »J 
.. Vfuviday 7-M mi 
Bonn. IVM, 
II. M. u. II. 
July 6, Wednesday... 8.00 9,20 
.. 0, Thursday 9.00 lo.SW 
„ 7. Friday 19.09 11.39 
8. Saturday 0.0, 0.0 
To find Hion Water at the subjoined places, take the above time atLo&dou 
Bridge, and add or subtract the time in the following Table. 
Sl'BTBiCT THOM LONDON KBIDOE. 
ADD TO LONDON DRIDOE. 
It. M. 
Brighton.... 3 0 
Boulogne a 41 
Calais 3 19 
Cheater Bar.. 3 37 
11. M. 
Harwich 2 37 
Ipswioh 2 7 
Lowestoft 3 37 
Margate 2 3 
Needles 4 32 , 
H. M. 
Amsterdam.... o 03 
Antwerp 2 18 
Brest 1 39 
n. u. 
Humber, tnth. 
of - 
Land's End... 2 2.1 
Cherbourg .... 5 2:i 
MllfordHovonS 33 
Plymouth .... 3 i.3 
Rotterdam.... » (H 
Torbay 3 ." > 
Weymouth.... 4 2 
Whitby 1 33 
Wisbcacli 0 21 
Yougbal 8 iJ 
Dublin 3 M 
Dover Pier.. 3 0 7 
Dunnosc 4 22 
Gravesend... 0 37 
Greenock 2 23 
Greenwich.. 0 2o 
tlavro 4 10 
Ostcu'i 1 12 | 
Portsmouth . . 2 27 j 
Ramsgate 2 47 j 
Shorenum .... 2 02 
Southampton 2 27 
Spithcad. 4 37 1 
Cork 2 23 
Downs 3 38 
Exmouth 4 18 
Fowey 3 23 
Guernsey 4 23 
Hamburgh.... 3 03 1 
CLUB MEETINGS, 1864. 
July 4, Tuesday ....Meeting of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club. 
„ 4, Tuesday... Meeting of the London Model Yacht Club, at Ander- 
ton's Hotel, at 8 p.m. Prizes won in the last Match to bo then 
presented. 
July 6, Wednesday... Full Meeting of ‘‘The Lillcy Club,” at tho Nell 
Gwynne, ot 8 p.m. Members may Introduce their friends. 
„ 6, Wednesday. .Meeting of the Royal Thames Yacht Club. 
„ 7, Friday Monthly Meeting of the Prince of Wales Yacht 
Club, at the Freemasons' Tavern. 
19, Wednesday.. Meeting of tho Liverpool Yacht Club. 
Aug. 1, Tuesday Meeting of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club. 
„ 1(1, Wednesday.. Meeting of tho Liverpool Yacht Club. 
Sept. 20, Wednesday. .Meeting of the Liverpool Yacht Club. 
SAILING MATCHES AND CLUB REGATTAS, &c. 
July 1 Birkenhead Model Yacht Club Sailing Match for £10. Bouts 
of two tons, fixed keels. 
July G, Thursday. —Second match of the Royal Thames Yacht Club- 
Schooners only. [Off for want of entries.— Ed.] 
July 8.— Royal Mersey Yacht Club— Challenge Cup. 
„ 12 . — Regatta of the Liverpool Yacht Club. £60 Cup. 
„ 15, Saturday.— Annual Regatta of the Royal Harwich Yacht Club. 
„ 18, Tuesday.— Annual Regatta at Lowestoft, Suffolk. 
....—Match between the Second Class of the London Model Yacht 
Club. 
July 18 and 19.— Regatta of the Royal Irish Yacht Club at Kingstown. 
„ 29.— Birkenhead Model Yacht Club Sailing Match for £10. Two 
ton boats, fixed keels. 
August 1, Tuesday. — Grand Regatta at Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire. 
„ 2— Annual Regatta of tho Royal Western Yacht Club, In 
Plymouth Sound. 
August 8.— Annuul Regatta, at Southampton, of the Royal Southern 
Yacht Club. 
August 9, and following days Annual Regatta of tho Royal Vic- 
toria Yacht Club, at Hyde. 
August 15. — Royal Yacht Squadron Regatta Prlneo Albort’a Cup. 
Fireworks in the evening. 
August 16.— Royal Welsh Yacht Club Regatta, at Carnarvon ; ond about 
this date, a Match on the Mersey, under the patronage of tho Liver- 
pool Yacht Club. 
August 16.— Royal Yacht Squadron— nnnual dinner. 
„ 17.— Her Majesty’s Cup of 100 guineus, by schooners of 140 
tons nnd upwards. 
August 18.— Royal Yacht Squadron Ball. 
* 19.— The Squadron Cup, value £100, open to all yachts of tlio 
squadron. 
August 16.— Birkenhead Model Yacht Club Sailing Match for £20. 
Centre-boards 
August 29— Dover Regatta. 
September 2.— Birkenhead Model Yacht Club Sailing Match for a 
Fifty Guinea Challenge Cap, open to all the world. 
THE QUEEN’S ANNUAL EXCURSION. 
Her Majesty’s yacht the Victoria anil Albert, Captain the 
Hon. Joseph Denman, went out of Postsmouth harbour O'* 
Wednesday, for her trial cruise, to prepare for the reception of 
the Queen on her Majesty’s voyage to Liverpool aud Scotland 
in the course of next month. 
llOYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. 
COWES. 
Arrivals. — June 23rd; Cygnet cutter, Hedworth Lamb- 
ton, Esq., from Ryde. 24th ; Enchantress schooner, 
Sir Thomas Whichcote, Bart., from Lymington; Shark 
schooner, W. Curling, Esq. from Ramsgate, and proceeded 
for Poole. 
Yachts at and about the Station. — Resolution, Titania, 
Enchantress, Coral Queen, Spider, Amazon, C.iguet, 
O.'proy, Stella, Turquoise, Frisk. 
Yachts Fitting out in Cowes Harbour. — Zara 
schooner, Commodore Earl of Wilton ; Irene schooner ; 
Surprise yawl. 
Members at the Royal Yacht Squadron House 
during the Week. — G. Bentinck, Esq., M.P., G. Ark- 
wright, Esq., M.P., Hedworth Lambton, Esq., Lord 
Colville, Lord Dufferin, A. Fountaine, Esq, John Petre, 
Esq., T. Thornhill, Esq., Sir B. R. Graham, Bart., and J. 
Maxse, Esq. 
THE VICTORIA YACHT. 
The Victoria, 13 tons o.m., was built by Mr. Moiling, Hon. 
Secretary R. M. Y. C. in the year 1849, to try the American 
principle with a sliding keel, and wo believe she wus the first 
yacht on that principle built in Englund. She is a wholesome 
boat, and decked all over, with a cockpit to sit in. Her dimen- 
sions ure 32 feet over all, and 11 feet beam. She draws 3.) 
feet aft and 1 foot 9 inches forwards. Her sliding keel is lo 
feet long, cased with iron, and drops down ubout four foot. 
She conies one large mast with mainsail and fore-staysail. 
Has two tons of iron ballast. In tho drawing there is a dark 
lino on her deck, through which the keel slides, and which 
is held by n chain on each end on deck. [See page 601.] 
GREAT GRIMSBY REGATTA. 
The first regatta over held at this port will come off on 
Thursday, the 3rd of August, under the patronage of Lord 
Yarborough, and tho Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 
Railway Company. Wo understand that £200 will bo dis- 
tributed in'yacht und rowing prizes, and that tho North of 
Europo Steam Navigation Company will have a stiurner in 
attendance to convey visitors round the course with the racing 
yachts, among which, the “crack” vessels of the Royal 
London Yacht Club will be present. John James Andrews, 
Esq., having undertaken tlio arrangements, wo liuve full 
nssurauce that everything will be done to secure success. 
The port of Grimsby can be reached by train from King's 
Cross. 
ROYAL HARWICH YACHT CLUB. 
This regatta bids fair to be the best Harwich has ever seen. 
The schooner yacht Novice, Vice-Cominodoro Arccdcckuc, 
will be the bend- quarters of the Committee, the owner having 
again generously placed her ut their disposal. Tlio date has 
been fixed for Saturday the 15lh of July, anil wo understand 
the Itoyul Loudon Yacht Club will visit Harwich on their 
woy to LowcBtoft. Wo shall in our next enter into details of 
the sports. 
ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB. 
The monthly meeting of this club will bo hold on Wednes- 
day next, ut tho Bedford Hotel, Covent Garden, at hull-past. 
8 p.in. The following are on the candidates’ list for ballot : — 
Messrs. Samuel Smith Truvors, John Shnpluiid, Duguhl 
Stuart, R. M. Dunn, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir IIow Dulrymplo, 
Burt., and Messrs. James Soaloy Fourdrinicr, P. Hammond, 
