THE FIELD 
oil Tuesday, Oct. 31, at Craiguethan ; Saturday, Nov. 4, 
at Monklaud House ; Tuesday, Nov. 7, at Daldowie Gate ; 
Saturday, Nov. 11, at Neweudins House, at a quarter to 
eleven. 
Mr. Wheble’s Hounds will meet on Tuesday, Oct. 31, at 
Bulmarshe Court ; on Thursday, Nov. 2, at Sulhampstead 
Park ; on Friday, Nov. 3, at Basildon Park, at eleven. 
Mr. Meynell Ingram's Hounds will meet on Thursday 
next at Chertley Park, instead of Bagot’s Pork, as before 
reported. 
The North Warwickshire Hounds will meet on Wed- 
nesday, Nov. 1, at Honley Abbey ; and on Saturday, Nov. 4, 
at Ilenley-in-Harden, at eleven. 
Mr. Garth's Hounds will meet on Monday, Oct. 29, at 
Haines Hill ; on Wednesday, Nov. 1, at Bramshill House ; 
and on Friday, Nov. 3, at Newnham-greeu, at half-past ten. 
Mr. Henley Greave's Hounds, Essex, will meet on Mon- 
day, Oct. 30, at Macliiug Green; on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 
at Porter's Hall ; and on Saturday, Nov. 4, at Roswell, each 
day, at eleven. 
The Worcestershire Hounds wall meet on Monday, Oct. 
30, at Monk Wood ; on Thursday, Nov. 2, at High Green, 
Croome; and on Friday, Nov. 3, at Crowle, at half-past ten. 
Captain Hampton Lewis’s Hounds will meet on Tuesday, 
Oct. 31, at Llandyfnan Mill; and on Friday, Nov. 3, at 
Hunting House, at eleven. 
The Heythrop Hounds will meet on Monday, Oct. 30, at 
Heythrop ; on Wednesday, Nov. 1, at Farwood ; on Friday, 
Nov. 3, at Farmington Grove ; and on Saturday, Nov. 4, at 
Blenheim, at half-past ten. 
Mr. Assheton Smith's Hounds will meet on Monday, Oct. 
30, atQuarley Hill ; on Tuesday, Oct. 31, at Oare Hill ; on 
Wednesday, Nov. 1, at Doles Wood; on Thursday, Nov. 2, 
at Conholt Park ; on Friday, Nov. 3, at Everleigh ; and on 
Saturday, Nov. 4, at Clarendon Park, at eleven. 
The Cheshire Hounds will meet on Monday, Oct. 30, at 
Sandhvay Head ; on Tuesday, Oct. 31, at Oxhay’s Farm ; on 
Thursday, Nov. 2, at Duddon Heath ; on Friday, Nov. 3, at 
Highway Side, at half-post ten. 
The Carlisle Harriers will meet on Tuesday, Oct. 31st, 
at Dalston ; on Friday, Nov. 3rd, at Waterloo ; at ten 
each day. 
Mr. A. D. T a it's Scotch Harriers will meet on Saturday, 
Oct. 28, at Hopkins's Cross Roads; Wednesday, Nov. 1, at 
Grongar Mains ; Saturday, Nov. 4, at Craigie Village ; Wed- 
nesday, Nov. 8, at Largie Toll; Saturday, Nov. 11, .at 
Kilmaurs Mains, at half-past eleven. 
IRISH HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. 
The Meath Fox-hounds will meet on this day (Saturday, 
the 28th) at Beauparc ; Monday, 30th, at Clifton Lodge, at 
eleven. 
The Louth Fox-hounds will meet on Tuesday, the 31st, 
at Clermont ; Friday, Nov. 3, at Tallanstown, at half-past ten. 
The Route Hunt will meet on Tuesday, the 31st, at 
Ballytibbert, at eleven. 
The Palmerstown Harriers will meet on Monday, the 
30th, at tho Twelfth Lock, Grand Canal, at twelve. 
The Wicklow Harriers will meet on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 
at Redcross, at eleven o’clock. Should the weather prove 
unfavourable, the hounds will meet the following day at the 
kennel. 
STABLE-MANAGEMENT.— THE HUNTER. 
Turn we now to the hunter, and see how far he demands 
our consideration before and after his run with the hounds. 
It will be unnecessary to dwell Upon the course of training 
proper to be carried out, as we are not writing for the stud- 
gmom, but mainly for those whose hunters will be most 
effectively trained by their performance of general work 
during the time they are not required for the field. Assum- 
ing, then, the animal to be in a condition to go, let us at the 
outset oppose our protest to the absurd system of giving no 
food or water after six in the morning until the horse is 
returned to his stable at night ; we should not mention such 
a thing did we not know it to be commonly done ; and how 
an animal can be sustained during severe exertion under 
such circumstances it is difficult to see, particularly an animal 
like the horse, which naturally, from the conformation of his 
digestive system, is always feeding or sleeping. Remember- 
ing the time at which meets take place now, there can be no 
objection to the usual feed and water the first tkiug, and 
another feed and a smaller portion of water prior to starting, 
especially if the meet should be a few miles distant. 
The sport being ended, the next course will depend on the 
condition of the animal. If the run has been moderate, the 
horse not exhausted, but still fresh and light in his rider’s 
hand, his stable not many miles distant, let him be ridden 
steadily home at once, not walked all the way ; because, after 
the excitement has passed off, the longer he lias to bear his 
master’s weight on his back the more he will suffer for it 
afterwards. The system of stopping on the road for an hour, 
to give the horse a pail of gruel — which, by-the-by, should 
generally be read, to give the rider a chop and a glass of 
sherry — is a bad one, if it can possibly be avoided ; the stables 
are nearly certain to be bad, the accommodation altogether 
very rough ; the horse, being merely a chance customer, is 
not much cared for, and probably gets cold and stiff before 
he starts again. Should, however, the distance from home 
be considerable, a little refreshment for man and beast may 
be necessary before the distance be completed; but as soon 
as the horse has taken his gruel, or water and a mash, or 
whatever can be obtained for him, by all means keep him 
moving. Arrived at his stable he may be treated very much 
ns the hack after a long journey ; carefully dressed, well 
littered down, a bran mash witli oats in it placed in his 
manger ; and the next day be again, in most cases, ready for 
quiet exercise with the saddle on. 
We have taken for granted that our hunter has been ridden 
by a mau who knows his capabilities, has remembered that 
he does not keep a large stud, and has gone accordingly, 
giving his horse no more than a good day's work. But we 
must indulge a moment in a glance at the exclusive hunter, 
the animal that is cultivated for the special purpose, ami 
whose owner would as soon think of using him in any other 
capacity as he would of losing him altogether. We must see 
him arch his proud neck as his rider takes him in his hand, 
and steadies him at the first ‘‘rasper" to the music of the 
ringing “Tally-ho!" We must follow him through “a good 
thing, over a stiff country, five-and-forty minutes without a 
check— uhas » a clipper." We will see him quietly taken 
back to his stable by the servant in attendance, and next 
superintend the arrangements for preventing the probably 
serious consequences of his severe exertion. If our establish- 
inent is properly supplied with all the requisites, washing 
a 1 over with warm water is without question very excellent 
treatment , but unless quite convenient, and plenty of help 
at hand to dry the skin afterwards, it is much better left 
alone, and the ordinary grooming performed as rapidly as 
possible ; a mash placed in the manger, after a pail of gruel 
or tepid water has been taken, the stable darkened, and the 
animal left to himself ; no oats or beans should be dreamt of 
now, the stomach will shortly feel the effects of the general 
exhaustion, and be ill-adapted to digest such food. The 
following morning may find the horse dull and stiff, but not 
so as to prevent half-an-hour’s walking exercise being taken 
with advantage ; let him have a feed or two of oats during 
the day, and by degrees return to his full feeding and exercise, 
a week sufficing to restore him to his former condition. 
It may, however, happen that the exhaustion shall be 
extreme, the horse incapable of moving, and shrinking with 
fear from the touch of a finger ; in such a case, we have found 
a newly-stripped sheep-skin placed over the loins for twelve 
hours a most valuable remedy, assisted by the horning-down 
of good gruel, mixed with occasional doses of old ale. As 
the patient will not eat for a few days, by no means think, of 
bleeding (many a fine animal has taken leave of society from 
such mistaken treatment) ; and should any more serious 
symptoms arise, send for proper assistance at once, remem- 
bering the old adage about “ a stitch in time.” 
“MY FIRST MEET.” 
[Tho following, which we extract from an Irish paper, 
may not be uuinteresting to a large number of our readers 
just at present] : — 
“ Mr. Seymour Alien's hounds will meet at Milton Bridge 
on Tuesday, aud at Lawreeny on Friday, each day at half- 
past ten o'clock.” This paragraph headed the sporting 
column of the Pembrokeshire Herald, the first week in 
October, '47- Many an anxious wish I indulged in anticipa- 
tion of the first meet of the Cressell hounds, justly termed 
the Melton of South Wales. As I fancied, my preparation 
deserved some reward in the shape of sport, “ I shall have 
at least one day in the week," was my oft-repeated soliloquy. 
My vocation placed me within a mile of the Cressell kennel.— 
My mare’s appearance and breeding gave me some hopes 
that a little schooling and cultivation would make her a 
hunter. She was five years old, 154 bands high, more than 
half-bred, strong, compact, aud symmetrical, and every care 
was taken of her condition. But here her pretensions to a 
sporting character ceases, as no inducement, however plausi- 
ble or severe, could ever make her fence. A bank three feet 
high she would throw herself over, if persevered with, with- 
out ever making the slightest effort to light on her feet ; 
a drain, or any slight obstruction in the way of a leap quite 
unmanned her : at the sight of it, all courage, nerve, and 
spirits deserted her. As a last resource, I tried high condi- 
tion, aud the force of example aud company. In anticipa- 
tion of the “ first meet," I had her very fresh, aud her 
spirit as high as could be, hoping that in the rush aud ex- 
ample of the other horses, some emulation might possess her. 
But I shall not anticipate. The hounds, in going to cover, 
had to pass my domicile. I walked after them to tho place 
of meet, a short mile ; the time was up, and no halt was 
made. We arrived at Maystonmoor cover, a splendid square 
of some fifteen or twenty acres, the gorse in some parts 
growing to an enormous height, and impenetrable to all but 
a throughbred foxhound. As I walked into the cover, I 
took my stand at the top, the hounds beating on the one 
side in a direct line down. While this was being done I 
ran my eye over the equestrians assembled, and counted fifty- 
seven. A good field, thought I, being a stranger to all except 
one gent in the company. I knew I was the object of 
many a remark, aud my mare also underwent a thorough 
scrutiny. My acquaintance soon came up, mounted on his 
nag Creeping Jane. He had been asked by twenty who I 
was, and had stated that I was an Irishman. Protheroe 
asked him if I could ride, and remarked that Irishmen were 
the d — 1 to go it, but my friend replied that I did not know 
the country. I was soon left to myself, and as the hounds 
had been full half an hour in cover, I was beginning to 
thiuk it would be a blank. At this time I had my back 
to the cover, and the mare’s head towards a bank on which 
was a small gorse bush, over which a man could have stepped. 
I fancied, in looking at it, that I saw something peering at 
me. I was convinced I saw a pair of eyes glaring at me ; 
I continued to gaze at it till it became too painful to my 
sight. I winked — it was only for part of a second — anil 
they were gone. I moved up one step, reached over the 
mare's neck to get a view on the other side, and about five 
yards off, hi the dike, a fine old fox, mangy on the back, 
and his brush all ragged, was stealing away. I waited a 
moment, then gave a Tallyho, with a heart and a will that 
brought every hound in the cover in a short time. “Hie 
over!" “forward!” “ Tallyho 1” were then the words, and 
the music began. Imagine fifty or sixty horsemen making 
a rush in one direction. When I gave the hounds a fiual 
cheer, I slacked my rein, and on flew the mare. Before me 
was a wide gap, which appeared to be somewhat sticking 
and deep, but who could wait aud such thunder behind ( 
Through the mud I faced, a plunge, aud my mare is up to 
the chest, and I over her head ! You have often seen a pig 
enjoy a ‘sciesta’ on a July day in a pool of sluge ; such was 
my appearance on emerging from the spot, and removing, 
as best I could, from my features the effects of my mishap. 
I saw my mare at a distance, with her bridle rein thrown 
over a gate-post, and away went the gents of the hunt over 
the fences, topping it in beautiful style and in quick succes- 
sion. “ He does not know this country," was my first thought, 
when, with a few handfulls of long grass I gave myself a 
quick rub down, went to the mare, opened the gate, and up 
along the road in a parallel line, to which, streaming along 
at a racing pace, came hounds and horsemen. Lower Nash 
is skirted, the hill of Cochester crossed, Lawrenuy faced, 
and then a short turn to Goodmoor. Disdaining to enter, 
he races for Parkesou. But, good reader, you will ask how 
I know where I have been. On the road, dashing along ; 
happily there was a net work of them there or my know- 
ledge of their doings would have been very scanty. In 
making for Parkesou, I got a good start, and os the hounds 
came roaring down towards it, I got into a large pasture 
field fair iu the way. I had scarcely entered it when I saw 
the fox coming down it at a fearful pace, and, forgetting 
all prudence and discretion, I cantered toward him and gave 
a halloo. As I did so, Mr. Allen, the master of the hounds, 
with a roar, came thundering down, arid as he confronted 
me with a “ d — n you, sir, what do you mean," the per- 
fectly ludicrous and miserable plight I was in, was too much 
for his risible faculties, and, bursting into an uncontrollable 
fit of laughter, he turned his horse and dashed along. The 
effects of my indiscretion was not so bad as it otherwise 
might have been. The locality saved me. When I headed 
him he turned in a parallel line to the hounds, who, run- 
ning from scent to view, he narrowly escaped into a small 
planting, from which lie soon emerged, and was again iu 
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• jvuiw m aim passed a iew neids, gaps being 
'ery opportune." Parkesou avenue was gained, a strong 
quicksot hedge, with deep drop beyond, yet away they go. 
1 passed along, looking for a place to get through, bat no 
sipi there of horse or man haviug done so, though done 
e ore my eyes, Mare s head is now through, and over she 
?rT» nt , v ' * lcr l' ca< * ! giving me a sore crush ; down 
io held, at tho bottom of which is a small drain ; no use 
to attempt crossing it; back again, up the avenue, aud into 
io ioa ueai Milton. On nearing which the hounds crossed 
beforo me on the road ; °n I go through Milton, a couple 
ot Helds iu advance of all, and along the road to Upper Nash, 
the hounds on my right-hand side; a lane is hero-up it. 
Nash is passed through, and Felix himself went drooping 
?r«Tr!‘ e Wh , e ? Uot twent y yards >'i tho next field, 
the foremost hound burst along : in with him I went— and 
not even Grantloy Berkeley could beat the cheer I gave tho 
gallant dainty as she pinn d him iu the field, whoop ! whoop ! 
aud as they camo straggling into the field, I had the brush 
in my hand. 
“ Not a bad beginning," said my friend, “but where tho 
d— 1 were you all through ?" 
“Did you not see me I" was my reply, “but I suppose 
you had euough to do yourself.” 
He replied in the affirmative, aud invited me to dinner. I 
willingly accepted the invitation, and off wo went. I re- 
marked him admiring my mare ; indeed, onco ho said she 
was fully mistress of his weight. Over our glass of gin toddy 
iu the evening he offered to exchange his bay filly, by Sultan, 
dam by Record, for my mare. I asked wliat he would 
give me with her. He refused to give anything, stating 
that she was the making of the best mare iu Pembrokeshire. 
I laughed, told him not to think of such a thing, and to 
drop tho subject. However, later iu the evening, over 
another bumper, he returned to it. Ami that night I went 
home with the filly by Sultan, my fox's brush, and a ton- 
pound note in my pocket. Such was tho result of “ my first 
meet. 
The New Cheltenham Staq-hounds. — Capt. West, a 
gentleman who, for tho lost few years, has huutod the Bath 
country with great satisfaction to tho sportsmen of that dis- 
trict, having this season removed his establishment to Chel- 
tenham, held his first moot at Andoversford on Friday. Tho 
morning proved fortunately very fine, and many took ad- 
vantage of the circumstance to ride as far to witness the 
uncarting, which took place at noon. Tho hounds, after the 
usual law, were laid ou, and a stag started off before them at 
a fleet pace, and passing through Dowdcswell Wood, was 
captured in the mill-pond at Prestbury, after a sharp run of 
about an hour and a half — tho bust twenty minutes <-f which 
was prouounced by the Nimrods who followed to have been 
excellent. From tho way the hunt was conducted on this, 
its first appearance in the field, it may bo safely said that 
Captain West will become a great favourite . — Cheltenham 
Chronicle. 
South Down Fox Hounds. — The first meet for the sea- 
son came off on Wednesday, at Ratton, the seat of the 
master. Freeman Thomas, Esq., and although tho weather 
was most uupropitious, there was a large attendance of 
country gentlemen, nnd many ladies (the latter, however, 
arriving in close carnages) to partake of the worthy Squire's 
hospitable fare. After the dijeuner, about fifty gentlemen, 
in “pink,” turned out, including, from Brighton, Captains 
Betliuue and G. Ballard, Bowen May, G. Nash, aud — Vuu- 
sittart, Esqs. Lord Cranstouu and Lord Sheffield were not 
present. A fox was soon unkennelled, which ran to the 
Downs ; and, after a run of about half an hour, was killed iu 
tho open. Another fox was found ; but tho weather was too 
severe even for these veteran sportsmen, and the hounds 
were whipped off about three o'clock. 
The Earl Fitzh.ykding's Hounds will leave Berkeley 
Castle ou Monday next for their Cheltenham kennels, to com- 
mence their season. They have had a capital cub-hunting. 
On Wednesday, Nov. 1, they will meet at Down Nathcrley ; 
on Saturday, Nov. 4, at Broadway Country. 
Winslow. — This town presents brilliant arrangements for 
the forthcoming hunting season. M. Maurice, Esq., of the 
Times, is about to make Winslow his head-quarters, iu tho 
place of Addington House, which is passing into the hands 
of the great financier, J. G. Hubbard, Esq. ; and other gentle- 
men are making arrangements for quarters amongst us. The 
Bell Hotel, as usual, will be fully occupied ; for mouths 
improvements have been in progress for increasing the 
capabilities of that well-known establishment. 
CHESS. 
PROBLEM No. 63.— By Herr Klinq. 
Black. 
White to checkmate in three moves. 
New York. — The artificial propagation of fish, particularly 
of trout, is beginning to attract attention in the United 
States. A very valuable little work ou this subject lias just 
been brought out by the Appletons, of New York, coutaiu- 
iug a collection of the best treatises that have appeared iu 
Europe. 
