stood the brunt of Waterloo; returned once again to England when the allied armies quitted France, and in the year 1820 embarked for Ireland, and in this year for the last time to Old England, drooping from extraordinary length of service, still possessing undaunted courage, exhibiting the remains of a fine and generous animal, which never lost a day's work, but from wounds, during the period of eighteen years." The old charger, after this long career of danger and glory, ended his days in the quiet shades of Windsor Park. A Correspondent has forwarded to us the "Shrewsbury Chronicle," of the 19th ult., in which appears an excellent paper on the preservation of foxes, by "A Salopian." It is well timed, and cannot fail to be of use; we regret our limits will not permit us to do more than intreat farmers and gentlemen to exert themselves. Our friend says, "I can assure you the injury done to hunting by the evils pointed out in the paper is incalculable. A pack of hounds is about to be given up, it is reported, by Mr. Smyth Owen, in consequence of a deficiency of foxes." To add to the distress in countries, we find the following advertisement in the very last Number of Bell's Life. Where are these Custom-house foxes to be found?"To Noblenien, Gentlemen, and Masters of Fox-hounds.-The advertiser, residing in Germany, wishes to enter into a contract for from fifty to two hundred foxes, delivered, free of expense, at the Custom-house Quay, London; warranted strong and healthy. Any letter (post-paid) addressed R. Baker, 29, Old Fish-street, Doctors' Commons, London, will meet with attention. None received after the 4th of May." The electors of St. George's, Southwark, have been fearfully agitated during the past month, in consequence of a struggle between a Mr. Harris and Mr. Barlow for the " Inspectorship of houses or places for the slaughtering of horses!" The strife was fierce. Coaches with placards paraded the streets, public-house windows chronicled the hourly state of the poll, and appeals of the most touching nature were made to the rate-payers. Barlow would seem by the following to be irresistible; but Harris triumphed :-"Ladies and gentlemen, you have a duty to perform to yourselves, before you give your votes, which is, perhaps, in many cases, only out of compliment to the parties who solicit you for an unfit candidate, but humanity speaks loud for the poor old horse, and your consciences must dictate to you the necessity of choosing a man of strict integrity and of a humane disposition, for the office was instituted as much out of compassion for horses as it was for the protection of men. It is a well-known fact, that when the supply of live horses has been greater than the demand for their dead flesh, they have been known to stand without food, in open yards, exposed to all the inclemency of the seasons, for days, until the welcome knife puts an end to their miserable sufferings." STEEPLE-CHASING. We must make short work of this kind of sporting. It will be seen that Mr. Elmore's Lottery is the stoutest and truest animal at steeple-chasing on record. Northampton. A Steeple-chase of 5 sovs. with 50 added.-Four miles. Four-year-olds, 11st.; five, 11st. 7lb.; six and aged. 12st.; the owner of the second horse to save his stake. The following eight horses, out of the nine entered, came to the post: Mr. Goode's b. h. Comet, 11st. 7lb. 5 yrs.-J. Mason.... Mr. Westley's The Queen, 12st. 6 yrs.-Oliver Mr. Foster's ch. h. Blue Ruin, by Tiresias, 12st. 6 yrs.-Murray. Mr. W. Ekins's br. m. Sally Brown, I1st. 7lb. 5 yrs.-Goddard Mr. Evans's b. g. Sportsman, 11st. 4 yrs.-Whiting Mr. Elworthy's ch. g. Middleton, 11st. 7lb. 5 yrs.-Owner 0 0 0 0 The grand Steeple-chase.—A Steeple-chase of 20 sovs. each, with 100 sovs. added; 12st. Mr. Elmore's b. g. Jerry.-Mason.... Mr. Lambden's b. g. Transport.-Powell Mr. Stevenson's ch. g. True Blue.-Barker.. Hon. Capt. Forester's The Kite, aged.-Beale.. Lord Cassilis's b. g. Embassy. Oliver.... Mr. Bruce's g. h. The Miller.-Owner Lord Chesterfield's b. g. by Waverley.-Goddard Mr. Power's b. g. Valentine and Captain Rice's ch. g. Creeper were entered, but did not start. Maidstone. The grand Steeple-chase; Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 sovs. ft. with 100 sovs. added from the fund; 11st. 71b.-Three miles. The second to save his stake. Mr. Elmore's Lottery.-Mason Mr. Barker's Weathercock.-Martin. Mr. Rothschild's Orion.-Carlin Mr. Rothschild's g. gelding.-A groom. Mr. Bruce's Paddy Carey.-Owner Mr. Duppa's Memento.-Owner Leamington. 5 dis. A Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, h. ft. with 200 sovs. added by the town of Leamington; 12st.-Four miles. Lord Macdonald's The Nun.-W. M'Donough Sir. F. Mostyn's b. h. Seventy-four.-Oliver.. Mr. Lambden ns. br. g. Transport.-Power Bath Steeple Chases. A Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft. Mr. W. Haddy's gr. g. Billy the Beau, aged.-Oliver Mr. W. H. Smith's ch. g. Haythorn, aged.-Cunningham.. Mr. Haythorn's Sailor, 12st. 4lb.-Powel.... Captain Bisdee's Inez, 11st. 10lb.-Owner.. Mr. Adam's Jester, 12st. 71b.-Owner... Captain Langford's Maid of the Mill, 11st. 8lb.-Patrick. 1 0 0 1 20000 1200 Banbury Steeple Chases. Mr. Cockbill's b. h. Little Bob.-Oliver... Mr. George Ball's b. g. Needwood.-Owner. Mr. J. Elmore's b. g. The Yellow Dwarf.-Mason.. Mr. C. Simmond's ch. m. Aerator.-Owner. Mr. C. Marshall's Foreigner.. Mr. T. Bryan's b. g. Daring Ranger. A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, h. ft. with 20 added, 4 miles, 11st. 7lb. Mr. George's b. g. Pilot.-Barker.. Mr. J. Payne's b. h. Jerry.-Oliver... Mr. T. Hartley's gr. m. Brandy Nan.. Mr. Fisher's ne. Mr. Gulliver's Jim Crow.-Mason.. Nottingham. 0 dr. dr. 1 2 0 dr. A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with £50 added for four year olds to carry 10 st. 7lb; five 11st. 6lb.; six and aged 12st. Mr. J. Burgess's ns. ch. g. Stranger, 6 yrs.-Guy .... Mr. Willoughby s b. h. Topthorn, aged.-Whitworth Mr. B. Cartledges's ns. br. g. Rushcliffe, aged.- Wilmot Mr. Rushton ns. b. g. Rob Roy-Rushton Mr. Rowland's br. g. Exchange, aged, Owner Melton Mowbray. 1 A Steeple Chase of 25 sovs. each. The following horses were entered, and ridden by their owners : Mr. Villers's b. m. Lord Dysart's Sweet William Lord Suffield's b.g. Lord Waterford's The Sea Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, with a Purse; 12st. 7lb. Mr. Wm. Bathew ns Marianne, aged.-Ball 5 6 7 Mr. Wm. Princep ns The Queen.-Princep.. Mr. Capenhurst is b. g. Puffing Billy.-Cooper 5 The following were not placed: Mr. Jenkinson ns b. h. Thirty-one, aged; Mr. Gilbertson ns b. h. Archibald; Mr. Wragg ns ch. h. Barker. Here we must pause. We shall hope to conclude the list in our next number Mason appears to have "thrown in a hand.” EXHIBITION OF THE NEW SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS. This, to use the phrase of a florist, is an offset, and a very healthy and interesting one too, from the original plant; and as the taste for the fine arts is evidently making rapid advances in the public mind, it is impossible to say how many of these Institutions a few years may bring forth in this country. The more however we see, the better it will be for art and its professors; and when the charming and forcible effects, produced from so apparently feeble a source as water colour, are contemplated, who, but must desire to have so elegant a branch of the art cultivated. The drawings now exhibited, are 348 in number,-certainly of varied power and beauty, but still all beautiful in their way. This collection too, is the production of only forty artists, and we were truly glad to see that little encouraging label, “sold,” resting in the corner of so many frames. Lovers of the art, can often manage to secure a drawing for their drawing-room, when a painting is unattainable; and, where you meet with one indifferent work in water colours, you encounter a hundred wretched things in oil. But to turn to a few of the works, which pleased us best : No. 9.-"Harm-watch-Harm-catch;" a whimsical drawing of a Fox in a Trap, with a Cock looking triumphantly down upon him, having very much the appearance and air of Lord Abinger. No, 24.-Is the production of the same artist, Mr. C. H. Weigall. "Charge of the Cavaliers." It abounds in long tailed black and white horses, and is spirited and well coloured. No. 53. This is an admirably drawn and forcibly coloured realization of the following passage. "The Earl of Warwick being appointed Captain of Calais, made his entry into that fortress in solemn procession, and, true to his chivalric notions, proclaimed a festival of arms. On the appointed day he repaired to the field in a sort of assumed incognito, in imitation of the unknown knights of the old romances. Three French knights, in the same spirit, accepted his challenge. The first day the Earl of Warwick entered the lists in complete armour, his helmet surmounted by a panache of ostrich feathers, his shield and the bases of his horse decorated with the coat of his ancestor the Lord Toney. He was encountered by one of the French knights, who called himself Le Chevalier Rouge, whom at the third course he bore out of his saddle and unhorsed. He then sent him a destrier or war-horse, as a gift.-The next day, with a chaplet of gold upon his helm, wearing the arms of Hanslap, he was met by Le Chevalier Blanc, to whom he gave proof of his prowess-smote off his vizor, pierced his armour, and dismounted him. He sent him also a courser.-The next day he appeared as Earl of Warwick, quartering Beauchamp, Guy, Hanslap, and Toney on his trappings. His vizor open, the chaplet on his helm, enriched with pearls and precious stones. His opponent was Sir Collard Fynes. At every course he bore him at the point of the lance from his seat. The French spectators thought there was some foul play, and exclaimed that the Earl of Warwick was bound to the saddle. He instantly corrected their error by dismounting from his horse. The third time victor, he recompensed his adversaries with noble gifts, fested all the company, and returned to Calais."- Vide Life of Richard Beauchamp. E. of Warwick. The spirit and the beauty of the grouping are extraordinary; and the colouring has all the decision and tone of oil. No. 89 and No. 96, by Mr. J. S. Prout, are two delightful drawings. The one being a Coast Scene, the other a Shrine in Chester Cathedral. The latter reminds us in its execution of the pencil of Cattermole. No. 107. The Whipper in," by G. H. Laporte. A man in Scarlet on a Salmon Coloured Horse, flogging a hound for rioting. A badly coloured picture. No. 130.-"King Henry the 5th. entering London with his Prisoners, after the Battle of Agincourt, 1415," by W. II. Kearney, This is a splendid work of art, recalling the beauty of the costume of the period, and the richness of the antique architecture. No. 137.-" Head of a Fox from Nature," by Miss L. Corbaux. From Nature indeed! No. 139.-"Donna Benedita” and No. 243.—“The Waiting Woman of Donna Paula, by H. Johnston, are two of the happiest drawings in the gallery. The face of the Waiting Woman is perfect. No. 265." Study of a Fox, from the Zoological Gardens," by Miss L. Corbaux. Another feeble attempt at animal portraiture. The sporting subjects are not numerous, and what there are form by no means the best executed drawings. There is no Landseer in water colours. The odds at Tattersall's with two exceptions, will be found to tally pretty closely with those at the end of the First Spring Meeting. Those exceptions, however, are important: the Dey of Algiers, so long a prominent favourite, underwent a decline of several points on the 25th ult.; he was reported to be amiss, and his friends disappeared at once, so sensitive are the nerves of betting men. The other change is in the King of Kelton, who has jumped up to 50 to 1, on the mere rumour that he is to be caravaned from the North to join Scott's lot, which, not having more than eight or ten in it, is not considered sufficiently powerful. The field for the Oaks is enlarging itself. |