The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-06 00:00:00

tow average twenty-five horses to each, contuaquently five
hundred horses will give employment to two hundred and
fifty men. About forty packs hunt three days in the week,
using fifteen horses each, which, amounting to six hundred,
employ three hundred men. Thirty packs two days a week,.
with ten horses to each, will be three hundred horses, and
consequently one hundred and fifty men. In the numerous
fox-hunting establishments, therefore, eight hundred men
are engaged.
" It may be computed that at the very least one hundred
sportsmen are regular attendants upon the four first-named
packs, who on the average keep three horses a-piece--of
course many keep considerably more; they will at that low
rate have an aggregate of twelve hundred horses and six
hundred men. 'The twenty packs hunting four clays in the
week, supposing them to have an equal number of attendants,
each keeping two horses, will be two thousand horses, and
one thousand men. Forty packs hunting three days a week,
and reducing the estimate of the number of attendants to
sixty, and allowing them the average of a horse and a half
each, will be three thousand six hundred horses, and one
thousand eight hundred men. There will then be about
twenty-six packs to account fur, which hunt two days in the
week : supposing they have only forty regular attendants,
keeping the same average number of liorses as above, they
will possess one thousand live hundred and sixty horses, and
seven hundred and eighty men. Summing them up, we find
nearly four thousand men engaged in the care of hunters
alone."

A considerable quantity of sporting intelligence, " the
State of the Odds," and the Courting Calendar, close
an excellent number. There are two good engravings
also,—" All on the Downs," and portraits of the grey-
hounds, Moses and Albemarle.

THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE. No. XVII.
By Codes Lever.
The brilliant, sketchy pen of Mr. Lever revels in these
chapters over the expedition of Abercrombie to Egypt.
That expedition was undoubtedly conducted with a
valour and alacrity most creditable to the British army,
and it was particularly creditable at a moment when the
various powers of the known world were being con-
quered by the indomitable prowess of the French
soldiers and the wonderful military genius of the French
commanders. With Kleber in Africa, and Desaix as his
assistant, and Moreau in Germany, and Hoche in La
Venee?, and Bernadotte in the interior, and Bonaparte
now in Italy, now upon the eastern shores of the British
Channel, and now again in the deserts of Syria, France
offered defiance to all the hosts of Europe and Africa,
and marched through a succession of victories and
through leagues of vanquished territories. The tri-
umphant expedition undertaken by the veteran Aber-
crombie, and opened by his heroic dissolution, was the
first discomfiture of the French battalions since the
Revolution had merged into the Republic One and In-
divisible. Harry Lorrequer is so elated by the recollec-
tion of these successes that he degenerates into the
flatterer of our insular vanity and the traducer of the
valorous children of liberated France. To him the
English military service is of course the very beeiu ideal
of chivalric perfection: its leaders are to him, of course,
sans peur et sans ra,nproche: the regiments are to him, of
course, congregations of heroes. To him, moreover, the
French military service is, of course, the most damnable
of modern institutions: its generals are to him, of course,
ignorant parvenus and rascally marauders : its privates
are to him, of course, mere assemblies of convicted
felons and profligate ruffians—ragged, insubordinate,
sometimes even mean and pusillanimous. We protest
against these egregious John-Bullisms, they are tar
becoming a generous and fine-spirited race. Apart from
these little contemptible nationalities,we are gratified with.
the progress made in the fiction, although we are sorely
distressed at the protracted absence of our old favourite
Bagenal Daly. In this seventeenth number, Dr. Hick-
man is discomfited in his treacherous designs
upon Lady Eleanor, the Knight himself is cap-
tured by the French troops on their flight
from Aboukir to Alexandria, and Forester, who
had enlisted in " Darcy's Volunteers," and been
seriously wounded in endeavouring to rescue the gallant
old Colonel, is exchanged among the ordinary pri-
soners, and discovered to have succeeded to an earldom,
in consequence of the death of his elder brother. We
may consequently anticipate the speedy celebration of
his marriage with Helen Darcy, and the close of the
narrative. The incidental portraiture of Menou—the
most incompetent of all the French Generals—is clever
and faithful.

FERGUSON AND TAYLOR'S