966 
THE FIELD 
{jiceepstates of 5 sovs ouch, 3 ft, with 26 addeil. For two-yr-olds. Colts, 
Sstfilb; fillies, Sst. Chain in. .lib allowed to untried stallions or 
marcs, but not to both, to bo claimed at the t ime of entering. All 
horses entering subject to Ik- sold i'or£l00. Allowances for horses 
entered to bo sold for £75 and under. Winner to be sold by auction, 
See. To close and name at ten o'clock on previous evening. Five 
subs or no race. 
TURFIANA. 
Matos. — Houghton Mbbtino (Saturday). — Mr, Copper- 
thwaite’s The Eaily Bird, Sst 71b, aget Mr. Fenning’s 
Humboldt, 7st 71b. Cambridgeshire Coui-se. 1 mile 240 
yards. 
Warwick October Meeting. — It will be seen by the 
Programme of the Races, that the stakes are well filled, 
an l as ucarly £400 is given, good fields may be anticipated. 
Should the weather prove favourable, a numerous attend- 
ance! is certain; Mr. S. Merry, the Clerk of the Course, 
(although having been very ill for some time), has been 
indefatigable in his exertions to get a good meeting up. 
Full particulars of entries, with colours, riders, and exact 
time of starting, will be found in Mr. W. Rose's cards of 
the day. 
Northallerton Races. — The following decision has been 
given relative to the dispute for the Northallerton Handicap: 
— “ We. the Stewards of Northallerton Races, having gone 
into the objection made to Horatio's receiving the stakes, are 
of opinion that, under Rule 27 of the Racing Calendar, the 
objection on the score of his being in arrears of forfeits was 
not made in proper time, and therefore award the stakes to 
Horatio. (Signed) H. Van Straubenzee and Frederic 
Bell. York, October 5, 1854.” 
Lord Anglesey has given the following names to two 
yearling fillies : — Br. f. by Chatham, out of Anspach — Alma. 
Filly by Red Hart, dam by Camel Junior, grandam by Gladi- 
ator, out of Canezon'8 dam — Elvina. 
The Duke of Boccleuoh's Fox-hounds will meet on 
Monday, the 16th, at Mossburnford ; Tuesday, 17th, at 
Min to ; Thursday, 19 th, at Liudenlaw ; Saturday, 21st, at 
Wooplaw, at half-past ten. 
The Carmarthenshire Hounds will meet on Monday, 
October 16th, at The Red Roses, and on Friday, the 20th, 
at Mydriiu, at ten o’clock. 
The Halsdon Hounds will meet on Monday, October 16th, 
at Huntshaw Wood ; Friday, October 20th, at Wick Cross 
Gate; Monday, October 23rd, at Woolley Pound; Friday, 
October 27th, at Glen Cottage, at half-past ten. 
Mr. Trelawney’s Hounds will meet on Saturday, the 21st, 
at Flete Western Lodge, at a quarter before eleven. 
Mr. Trelawneys Hounds meet on Tuesday, 24th, at 
Kingsbridge-road Station ; and on Saturday, the 28th, at 
Kitley, at half-past ten. 
Mr. Deacon's Hounds (late Woodovis) will meet on Mon- 
day, Oct. 16, at Grenofen Turnpike-gate ; and on Thursday, 
the 19th, nt Callington New Bridge, at half-past ten. 
South Down Fox Hounds. — We are informed by the 
Committee that a book is open at Messrs. Hall, West, and 
Co.'s bank for subscriptions, the same as last season, for the 
above hounds. The town is much indebted to Freeman 
Thomas Esq., the gallant master, for bringing Bport so near 
home to our visitors and residents. 
Captain Hampton Lewis’s Hounds will meet on Mon- 
day, Oct. 1 6, at Peutreath Park ; and on Friday, Oct. 20, at 
Trevor Gate, at eleven. 
The Carlisle Harriers will meet on Wednesday, Oct. 
1 8, at the Kennel ; and on Friday, Oct. 20, at Broadueath, 
at ten. 
Deer Hunting. — A few days ago a valuable hound, 
belonging to a gentleman staying at the Lion Inn, dropped 
dead, while coursing one of the Jeer in Lullingstone Park. 
The hound, from its celebrity, is said to have been worth 
£50. 
SPORTING MISCELLANEOUS. 
Sporting Accident. — A few days ago, a woman named 
Freeman, the wife of a collier residing at Heath, was gleaning 
in a field in the occupation of Mr. George Goodwin, farmer, 
when a covey of partridges rose from near the place where 
she was. A party of gentlemen, who were shooting in the 
field at the time, not seeing the woman, fired at the birds, 
when a quantity of Bhot entered her light elbow, leg, and side 
of her face. She was in a stooping posture at the time they 
fired. She was removed home, when medical assistance was 
speedily procured, and the shot extracted; she is now going 
on favourably. 
Caution to Sportsmen.— Mr. Freeman Parson, of Edward- 
stone, Suffolk, appeared, at the Buxford Petty Sessions, to an 
information, laid by the surveyor of taxes, for shooting game 
without a certificate for that purpose. He was fined in the 
penalty of £20, and double certificate duty, in the whole £28. 
It is due to Mr. Parson to state that he had no desire or 
intention to defraud the revenue, as it was proved on the 
oath of Mr. Smith, the collector of taxes for Edwardstoue, 
that Mr. Parson had applied to him for a certificate but found 
he had not sufficient wish with him, and it was arranged that 
he should send his man with the money for it. He, however, 
unthinkingly went out on the 2nd of September last without 
a certificate, and was detected by Mr. Charles Mortimer, 
gamekeeper to Sir Joshua Rowley, *Bart,, shooting pheasants 
on that day. — The defendant in the last case, Mr. Freeman 
Parson, together with Mr. George F. Parson, of Waldingfield, 
and Dr. G. Gurdon, of Boxford, were then charged, upon the 
information of John Gardiner, fanning bailiff to Sir G. Rowley, 
Bart., with killing four pheasants on the said 2nd of Septem- 
ber last. The case was proved as to the Messrs. Parson, and 
they were fined 1 0s. for each bird, and 1 2s. expenses. The 
information against Mr. Gurdon was dismissed. 
Curious Fact. — A correspondent at Amesbury informs us 
that there is at the present moment, near the South Gate iu 
this town, and on the farm of Mr. William Long, a rook’s 
nest, containing a brood of young birds. The circumstance 
has attracted the attention of many persons in the neigh- 
bourhood. 
A Rare Occurrence. — Mr. Harvey, of Cullompton, shot 
a cuckoo on the 3rd of October, which is now iu the pos- 
session of Mr. Truscott, of North-street. 
■***•»./. «>!*•« ~ 
COURSING FIXTURES. 
( Weather permitting.) 
O CTO BE It, 1854. 
Wiltshire Champion (Ayles- 
bury) 
Market Weighton (Yorkshire) 
Limerick 
Belsay (Northumberland) — 
Bend i iggOpen ( Westmorelnd i 
The Baron Hill (Beaumaris, 
Anglesea) 
Blackpool (Lancashire) ; 
Caledonian Open (Lanark) .. 
Dairy and N. of Ayrshire 
N. Berwick and Dirleton ( Ber- 
wickshire) 
S. Lancashire Open (South- 
port) 
East Surrey (Surrey) 
Scoot on (York) 
Workington (Cambridgeshire) 
South mins tcr|( Essex). 
10, &C. 
17 
17 and 18 
18 
is and 19. 
18 and 19 
18 and 19 
19 
25 and 26 
2G 
25. 20, and 27 
26 and 27 
20, &c. 
30 and 31 
&c. 
Mr. A. Bennett 
Mr. Owens. 
Mr. B. Slater. 
Mr. Warwick. 
Mr. Warwick. 
Mr. Dunlop 
Mr. Nightingale 
Mr. A. Bennett 
Mr. Lawrence. 
Mr. Norval 
Mr. Braithwaite 
Mr. T. Tibbett. 
NOVEMBER. 
Malton Open (York) 
Itidgway (Lancashire) 
Nithsdale and Galloway Open 
St. Leger 
Kineton 
CardingtonClub(Beilfordshire) 
Spelthorne Puppy Cup ( W ilts) 
Altcar Club (Lancashire) 
Newmarket Open 
Caledonian St. Leger( Lanark) 
Ashdown Park Champion 
(Berkshire) 
Sundorne (Salop) 
Chats worth Open( Derbyshire) 
Newcastle. Northumberland, 
and Durham 
Coquetdale(Northumberlandi 
1, 2, and 3 
2 and 3 
2 and fol. days 
6 and 7 
7, &c 
9, 10, and 11 
9 and 10 
13 
1G 
20 
22 and 23 
22 and 23 
28, 29. and 30 
Not fixed 
Mr. McGeorge 
Mr Watson 
Mr. A. Bennett 
Mr. Lawrence 
Mr. A. Bennett 
Mr. Nightingale 
Mr. A. Bennett 
Mr. A. Bennett 
Mr. Warwick 
DECEMBER. 
Biggor Club (Lanark) 
Itidgway (Lancashire) 
Spelthorne (Middlesex) 
Caledoniau (Lanark) 
5 
7 and 8 
7 and 8 
14 
Mr. Lawrence 
JANUARY, 1856. 
Biggar Club (Lanark) 
The renewed trial between 
North-Western and South- 
Western Coursers, at Ly- 
tham (Lancashire) 
23 
29 and fol. days 
FEBRUARY. 
Spelthorne (Wilts) 
Newmarket Open 
Biggar Champion (Lanark).. 
Baron Hill, Beaumaris (Anglc- 
7, 8, and 9 
12 
13 
Mr. Lawrence 
MARCII. 
Caledonian Open (Lanark) .. 
Biggar Open (Lanark) 
Ridg way (Lancashire) 
15 
27 
SOUTHERN COURSING CLUB, CORK. 
The Club met at Crossbarry, on the 3rd inst., when a 
Puppy Stake, £1. 12s. 6d. entrance, was run for. Hares were 
numerous and ran stout, beating the dogs iu some courses. 
Three gentlemen amateurs most kindly acted ns judges, 
whose decision gave the most universal satisfaction. 
Mr. Payne’s bk w b Pretty Polly beat Mr. Wise’s r b Wildfire. 
Mr. Massy’s w f d Scythian the Second beat Mr. Haves’s r b ITaidie. 
Mr. Hayes's bk d Harry Bedlam beat Mr. Massy's r d Barrister the 
Second (1). 
Dr. ONeile's r d Galtymore beat Mr. Payne’s w f d King Cob the Second. 
Dr. O'Neil's r d Peel beat Mr. Wise's r b Witch. 
Dr. O’Neil's r b Mountain Sprite beat Mr. Parley's hr d Penumbra. 
Second Tics. 
Pretty Polly beat Scythian the Second. 
Galtymore beat Harry Bedlam. 
Peel a bye (Mountain Sprite being drawn). 
Third Ties 
Pretty Polly beat Galtymore, 
Fourth Tics. 
Pretty Polly beat Peel, and won. 
The following matches were then run off: — 
Mr. Parley’s brd Penumbra against Mr. Wise's r b Wildfire (undecided). 
Dr. O'Neil's r b Mountain Sprite, beat Mr. Hayes’s r b Haidie. 
Mr. Parley’s br d Penumbra beat Mr. Wise’s >• b Witch. 
Dr. 0 Neil's r b Mountain Sprite, beat Mr. G mid's f b Hebe. 
The next meeting will take, place Nov. 7, when a Puppy 
Stake, confined to the members of the club, will be run for, 
to which £5 will be added. 
Bodmin, Cornwall, Oct. 9, 1854. 
Sir, — A fine woodcock was this day shot at Dunmeer, near 
this place, by Henry Mark, Sir W. Molesworth's keeper. 
Hi is is, I believe, the first that has been seen in Cornwall 
this season. — Yours truly, H. Sandercock. 
The Moors and Forests. — The reports this year from 
the grouse-moors are excessively scanty. The fact is, that- 
instead of sport, the grouse-shooting is becoming a task. The 
grouse have got so very wild, that it is more a business of 
grouse-stalking than grouse-shooting. 
Rifle Club. — A meeting was held in Markinch, on 
Monday evening, for the purpose of forming a rifle club in 
this district, but from the meagre attend anco the matter has 
been but faintly advanced. 
HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. 
Ocl. 14, Saturjay (lit. .... 7 19 
,, IS, Sunday 7. A-S 8,43 
,. 10. Monday 9 US 10.13 
„ 17, Tunday 10.60 1U0 
fo ram lliou Watbr nt the subjoined pint 
Oct. 18, Wednesday. . 
„ 19, Thursdaj 
„ SO, Friday 
.. 31, Saturday 
, take the shore lirno at 
nd add or subtract the time In the following Table. 
mobw. art w, 
• • o' 1 
■ ■ 0.43 
.. 1.18 
.. 1.31 
Londou Bridge, 
0. 23... 
1. 3... 
. 1.36.. . 
•uornacT most loxdox dhidor. 
Brighton 3 0 
Boulogne 3 41 
Calais . . .3 19 
Chester Bar ... :t 37 
Cbwcs 3 32 
Dublin 3 65 
Dover Pier.... 3 67 
Dunnosc 4 3! 
Gravesend 0 37 
Greonoek .... 2 22 
Greenwich 0 20 
Havre 4 16 
Harwich 3 37 
Ipswich 2 7 
Lowcstoa 3 37 
Margate 3 2 
Needles 4 32 
Noro 0 83 
Ostend 1 12 
Portsmouth... 3 27 
Ramsgate 2 47 
Sboreham 3 63 
Southampton.. 2 27 
Spithcad 4 37 
ADD TO LOXDOK DRIPOR. 
Amsterdam 
. U 63 
Humber, mih. 
Antwerp ... 
. 2 18 
of 
Brat 
. 1 39 
Laud's End . . 
Uridnort ... 
. 3 6;i 
Leith 
< hcruourg . . 
. 5 33 
Cardigan — 
4 53 
Plymouth . . 
3 38 
i ork 
. 3 
Rotterdam. . . 
1 lownj . 
. 3 38 
Exmouth ... 
Weymouth , . 
4 33 
lowcy 
. 3 23 
Whitby .... 
1 33 
Guernsey 
. 4 23 
Wl, bench 
Hamburgh . 
. 3 63 
Youghal 
3 63 
CLUB MEETINGS, 1854. 
October 16. — Meeting ol' the Royal London YachtClub.at the Caledonian 
Hotel, Adelphi. 
October 18 and 28. — Meeting of the Lilley Club. 
November 1. — Meeting of the R.T.Y.C. 
Noeember 3. — Meeting of the Prince of Wales Yacht Club. 
November 7 — Meeting of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club, at the Club- 
house, Duke-street. 
November 20. — Meeting of the Royal London Yacht Club. 
November 23. — Annual Dinner of the Itoynl London Yacht Club. 
December 1.— Monthly Meeting of the Prince of Wales Yacht Club. 
December 2 — Monthly Meeting of the Royal Harwich Yacht Club. 
December 5. — Monthly Meeting of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club. 
December 6. — Monthly Meeting of the London Model Yacht Club, at 
Anderton's. 
December G.— Weekly Meeting of the Lilley Club, at the Nell Gwynne, 
nt 8 p.m. 
December (i.— Monthly Meeting of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, at the 
Bedford Hotel, Covent Garden. 
December 18. — Monthly Meeting of the Royal London Yacht Club. 
December 27 ( Wednesday). — Full Meeting of the Lilley Club, being the 
last for the year 1854. 
SAILING MATCHES AND CLUB REGATTAS, &c. 
October 1C. — Sailing Match of the London Model Yacht Club, on the 
Thames, between the 12ft. boats. 
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.— Oct. 12. 
Arrivals. — Oct 4. Pandora, yawl, Capt R. H. Smith Barry, from 
Ireland. — 0. Sultana, yawl, Lord Colville, Cherbourg and other ports. — 
11. Zara, schooner, Com. Eari of Wilton, West of Scotland, and came 
into harbour to lay up; Sapphire, schooner, Rt. Hon. T. M. Gibson, 
M.P., Mediterranean ; Dream, yawl, Geo. Bentinck, Esq., M.P., West of 
Scotland. 
Sailings. — Oct. 5. Virginia, yawl, Joseph Gee, Esq., for Hamble 
river, to lay up. — 9. Shark, schooner, Wm. Curling, Esq., Gravesend — 
10. Nymph, cutter, Sir John Bayley, Bart, Dover. — 12. Sultana, yawl, 
Lord Colville, Channel Islands. 
Yachts at and about the Station. — Sapphire, Aurora, Gem, Pan- 
dora, Zara, Dream. 
ROYAL LONDON YACHT CLUB. 
Tlie closing trip came off on Saturday last under a spank- 
ing breeze from E.N.E., just enough to render a t >psail 
unnecessary and a reef in the mainsail advisable. During one 
part of the day a launch took place at Deptford, which will 
he found mentioned below, and off the Folly House an eight- 
oared gig capsized close to Mr. Cooper's yacht, Pearl. Luckily 
all hands were saved, and Mr. Cooper himself was among the 
first away in the boats to pick them up. The rendezvous at 
four p.m. was Blaukwall-pier, whence the Avalon, with Mr. 
Monk and a party, Amazon, Mr. Young, also conveying 
several gentlemen, and the Dart, Mr. Clark, started together, 
and beat down the liver in company. Blue-Eyed Maid, Pearl, 
Curlew, &c., being of lesser tonnage, had started before that 
hour ; but, in working down, were seen every now and then 
making the best of their way to Erith. The closing dinner 
at the Crown was attended by about thirty members of the 
club, among whom we noticed Mr. Eagle (iu the chair), Mr. 
W. Goodsou (vice-chair), Mr. Crockford, Mr. Monk, Rev. Mr. 
Cooke, Mi-. Staubridge, Mr. Dutton, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Farmer, 
Mr. W. Knight, Messrs. Fradgeley, Mr. Bonner, Mr. Greening, 
Mr. Taylor, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Heseltine, Mr. Dunbar, &c. &c. 
Another party of yachtsmen were assembled in the same 
hotel, among whom were Commodore Tuckwell, Vice-Com- 
modore Knibbs, Mr. Thomas, and others. Mr. Eagle gave 
the customary loyal and patriotic toasts in his usual able 
manner ; and Mr. W. Goodsou, in the absence of his brother, the 
commodore, responded for that popular officer, and explained 
the interesting necessity for his temporary absence from the 
chair he had so frequently filled at Erith. It is unnecessary 
to add that the commodore's health had been drunk with the 
greatest enthusiasm. Atthe conclusion of the banquet the mem- 
bers returned to Londou by train, to meet again on the 16th, 
not, of course, at Erith, but in London, where, at the Cale- 
donian Hotel, Adelphi-terrace, the monthly meeting of the 
club will be held, on Monday next (the 16th), at eight 
o'clock p.m. precisely. On that evening the following notice 
of motion given by Mr. Crockford, will be discussed, viz. : 
“ That yachts not remaining at the station appointed fpr 
their measurement a reasonable time, be disqualified." 
We may here remind our readers that the annual dinner 
will take place on the 23rd day of November next, and that 
the following gentlemen have consented to act as stewards, 
viz. : — 
J. W. Heseltlno, Esq. 
R. P. Monk, Esq. 
S. Morton Peto, Esq , M.P- 
E. S. Phillips, Esq. 
J. Scott Russell, Esq. 
G. R Stephenson, Esq. 
Richard Tress, Esq. 
A. J. Young, Esq. 
The Commodore. 
The Vice-Commodore. 
J, Crockford, Esq. 
E. Downs, Esq. 
C. F. Fanner, Esq. 
W. Frndgloy, Esq. 
W. Goodsou, Esq. 
J. Diitf Gordon, Esq. 
O Halfhide, Esq. 
Tickets for the dinner may be obtained by members on ap- 
plication to the stewards at the club house. It is unnecessary 
to say that members wishing to dine at the club dinner at six 
o’clock on the evening of Monday, the 16th, are to give notice 
of their intention to Mr. Elder before two o'clock on that 
day. Each member may introduce one friend, upon giving 
such notice, but not otherwise. 
The gentlemen proposed for election on Monday, are Mr. 
Edward James Eliot, C.E., Erith ; Mr. Samuel Orchard, 
Islington ; and Mr. Charles Brurafitt, Bradford. With 
regard to cruising, the season must be considered closed, anil 
