of Ashdown Park. Two better champions of their different districts it would have been difficult to select, or any whose name or fame could have given more éclât to the event for which they fined down so gradually" in hostile array."

As the limit of our Coursing Calendar scarcely affords a sufficient chronicle of the prize meeting, and as the return itself is, after all, the only real proof of the prowess drawn together and exhibited on the occasion, we reprint it here.

GREAT WILTSHIRE PICTURE MEETING, HELD AT AMESBURY, MARCH 16, 17, 18 19, & 20, 1847.

THE DRUID STAKES.
I.

Mr. Keay's be. b. My Mary beat Sir St. G. Gore's r. b. Lincoln.
Mr. Vipan's bk. d. Victor beat Mr. Anstruther's f. b. Crisis.
Mr. Smyth's bk. d. Sherwood beat Mr. Miller's r. d. Magician.
Mr. Fowle's f. b. Phoebe beat Mr. R. Bagge's bk. b. Treasure.

Mr. Parkinson's f. b. Seidlitz beat Mr. Turvin's w. and be. d. Hector.
Mr. Gordon's bd. b. Camlet beat Capt. Wyndham's bk. b. Walburga.
Mr. Graham's w. b. Cricklet beat Mr. W. Etwall's r. d. William Rufus.

Mr. Randell's f. and w. b. Highland Lassie beat Mr. Rake's bk. b. Rose-de-la-Reine.

Mr. Parkinson's Seidlitz beat Mr. Gordon's Camlet, and won the stakes.

THE DEPTFORD STAKES.
I.

Mr. R. Bagge's be. b. Twilight beat Mr. Anstruther's bk. b. Clementina.
Mr. Esdaile's r. d. Bran beat Capt. Squires's y. and w. d. Omen.
Mr. Etwall's bk. b. Enford Lass beat Mr. Jones's r. and w. b. Juverna.

Lord Eglinton's r. d. Rufus beat Mr. Bigg's r. d. Be-rapid.

Mr. Long's r. d. Lord George beat Sir St. G. Gore's r. d. Pilgrim.

Capt. Wyndham's bk. b. Wildfire beat Mr. Rake's be. d. Royal Consort.

Mr. Miller's f. b. Mischief beat Mr. W. Etwall's f. b. Waterfall.

Mr. Parkinson's r. and w. b. Shepherdess beat Mr. Graham's bd. b. Send-back-themoney.

Mr. R. Bagge's Twilight beat Mr. Miller's Mischief, and won the stakes.

THE STONEHENGE STAKES.

I.

Capt. Squire's bd. and w. b. Conceit beat Mr. Miller's be. b. Victoria.
Mr. Long's bk. d. Figaro beat Mr. Vipan's r. and w. b. Verna.
Mr. F. Parkinson's f. b. Position beat Morant's bk. b. Minna.
Mr. Fowle's bk. d. Phoenix beat Mr. Lawrence's f. d. Lightning.
Mr. Anstruther's bd. and r. d. Native Industry beat Mr. Etwall's be. and w. b. Eaglet.
Mr. Buckworth's r. and w. Baksheesh beat Capt. Wyndham's r. b. Woodlark.
Mr. W. Etwall's f. d. Windfall beat Mr. Graham's bd. and w. b. Conciliation.
Mr. Parkinson's r. d. Smuggler Bill beat Mr. Rake's bd. b. Regina Victoria,

II.

Windfall beat Figaro.

Baksheesh beat Conceit.

Smuggler Bill beat Phoenix.
Native Industry beat Position.

III.

Baksheesh beat Windfall.

I Smuggler Bill beat Native Industry. IV.

Mr. Parkinson's Smuggler Bill beat Mr. Buckworth's Baksheesh, and won the stakes.

THE EVERLEIGH STAKES.

I.

Mr. Miller's f. d. Young Cecrops beat Mr. Morant's bk. d. Minstrel.

Mr. Smith's bd. and w. b. Symphony beat Mr. Langtry's w. and f. d. Jupiter.
Mr. Randall's bd. b. Thoresway Lass beat Lord Eglinton's bk. b. Bessy Bell.
Mr. Goddard's r. d. Gladiator beat Mr. Graham's bk. d. British Lion.
Capt. Daintree's f. d. Probity beat Capt. Wyndham's bk. d Winnibald.
Capt. Squire's bk. b. Helen beat Mr. Buckworth's bk. d. P. Buffer.
Mr. Rake's bk. b. Rushlight beat Capt. O'Brien's bk. b. Walbertha.
Mr. W. Etwall's r. d. Wyandotte beat Mr. Parkinson's f. d. Stockton.

I.

Mr. W. Etwall's Wyandotte beat Capt. Squire's Helen, and won the stakes.

Mr. R. Bagge's be. b. Twilight beat Mr. Parkinson's r. d. Smuggler Bill.
Mr. W. Etwall's r. d. Wyandotte beat Mr. Parkinson's f. b. Seidlitz.

DECIDING COURSE.

Mr. R. Bagge's Twilight beat Mr. W. Etwall's Wyandotte, and won the Picture.

In addition, and in the November previous to this performance, Twilight won the Oaks Stakes at Swaffham, of which the following is the

return :

THE OAKS STAKES, FOR BITCH PUPPIES.
I.

Mr. R. Bagge's bk. Trifle beat Mr. H. Villebois's be. Dewdrop.

Mr. R. Bagge's be. Twilight beat Mr. Hanbury's bk. and w. Gadfly.

Mr. Burroughes's bk. Cobweb beat Mr. Arabin's f. and w. Q. Ales (2).
Mr. Bennett's r. Why-not beat Mr. B. Smith's bk. Stop.

Mr. Gurney's bk. Amy beat Mr. Villebois's bk. Nora.

Mr. Buckworth's bk. Briar beat Mr. Gurney's bk. Augusta.

Mr. Gurney's Amy was withdrawn, and Mr. R. Bagge's Twilight received the stakes.

At the succeeding November Meeting she was again registered a winner at Swaffham, carrying off the Cup against a good field of dogs:

as see

THE CUP.
I.

Mr. Gurney's r. d. Aaron beat Mr. Arabin's bk. b. Q. Airy.

Mr. Villebois's bk. b. Doubtful beat Mr. Buckworth's w. d. Brutus,

Mr. Bennett's bk. d. Whittington (late Gustavus) beat Mr. Caldwell's be. b. p. Regina.

Mr. Hanbury's bd. d. Garlick beat Mr. B. Smith's bd. d. Sir Peter.

Mr. R. Bagge's be. b. Twilight beat Mr. Buckworth's bk. and w. d. Buonaparte. Mr. Arabin's f. and w. b. Q. Ales beat Mr. R. Bagge's w. and r. b. p. Torchlight. Mr. Bagge's bk. and w. d. p. K. Tom Thumb beat Mr. Wythe's bk. b. Fanny. Mr. Wythe's bk. d. Fancyboy beat Mr. Hanbury's bd. and w. b. Gondoline.

Mr. R. Bagge's Twilight beat Mr. Arabin's Q. Ales, and won the cup.

Wyandotte also came to Amesbury with some renown attached to his name, having won the Derby at the Ashdown November Meeting in very superior style.

THE DERBY.
I.

Mr. Lawrence's f. Lightning beat Mr. King's f. and w. Winks.

Mr. Bowles's f. Baltimore (Glideaway) beat Mr. Goddard's r. Gladiator.
Mr. Etwall's r. Wyandotte beat Admiral Dundas's f. Dictator.
Mr. W. Etwall's f. Windfall beat Mr. Drinkald's bk. Eagle.
Mr. King's r. Warminster beat Mr. Parkinson's r. Shuttlecock.
Mr. Bowles's r. Brown Jacket beat Mr. Lawrence's bd. and w.
Mr. Etwall's bk. Whitefoot beat Mr. Drinkald's w. Envoy.
Mr. Parkinson's f. Stockton ran a bye.

Lanercost.

Mr. W. Etwall's Wyandotte beat Mr. Parkinson's Stockton, and won the Derby.

Our extract from the Prize Picture we think our friends will allow to be a very favourable specimen of its merits. If they cannot all appreciate the portraits, still the grouping of hounds and hare, and the appropriate expression given to them, must be sufficient to warrant the work a word of approval. This said expression, too, is all true to the text of the running; the overbeaten and exhausted state of the dog being, ac cording to some, one great reason for Twilight's victory. His last essay but one, that with Seidlitz, was dreadfully severe; so much so, that his chance was generally considered gone when brought out again for "the deciding course.

NOTES OF THE CHASE.

BY CECIL.

CUB-HUNTING.

We are accustomed to view the different portions of the year, as time rolls on with various phantasies, guided to those issues by our respective tastes, dispositions, and pursuits. The votaries of fashion sigh for the commencement of the London season, when and where gaiety, dissipation, and luxury, fill the goblet to the brim with their intoxicating draughts. They abandon the delicious enchantments of agrarian beauties, the works of Nature's inimitable hand, at a period of the year when all the country is bursting forth with beautiful glory, for the enjoyment of artificial entertainment.

The racing world anticipate a two-fold gratification in the advent of that time when turf pursuits afford a source of speculation combined with pleasure. Thus another portion of the year is engaged.

The sportsman hails "the season with unalloyed prognostications of mirth and jollity, less subject to disappointment than any other pleasures sordid gain, or rather vexatious loss, interposes not to annihilate his felicity. The mysteries of woodcraft are not subject to so many disappointments as are wont to trespass on the path of mundane affairs in general. The twelfth of August may be said to be the first day of "the season," inasmuch as the trigger is on that day released from its bondage; but grouse shooting is an expensive, therefore an aristocratic amusement, confined to the more wealthy and comparatively small portion of her Majesty's lieges. Partridge shooting quickly follows, and affords opportunities of enjoyment to a very large number of England's population; and the first of September is a day long thought of, when hearts beat high with thrilling expectations.

Before this season of the year the labours of the statesman have usually been suspended, so that those who are disposed may enjoy the gratification of ranging over their patrimonial acres. On this occasion, however, their services in the senate house were not dispensed with till some four or five days of the month had elapsed. They had a lengthened incubation what they brought forth is more the province of the politician than the sportsman to investigate, save and except such matters as appertain to his diversion. On this subject they have presented a little bantling-puny, degenerate, ungraceful; legislating on certain privileges with respect to killing hares without paying for a certificate. As this act concerns the sportsman most importantly, a short digression may meet with grace.

The first considerations that offer themselves, to call for an alteration in existing laws, are the existing grievances. The principal cause of uneasiness hereunto attached, were the alleged depredations committed by the lepine race, on divers and sundry estates belonging to landlords persisting in the maintenance of a vast head of game, to the injury of