The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-20 00:00:00

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

Her Majesty's Stag hounds meet on Tuesday at Bolton's
Bench ; Wednesday, at Boldrewood, and on Friday at
Stoney Cross—twelve.
Devon and Somerset Stag hounds, Tuesday, at Hayne,
Bishopsympton ; Friday, at Harford, near Dalverton.
Mr. Farqubarson's hounds, Fridays at Martin Wood—
half-past ten.
Pantykendy hounds, Thursday, et Raymond Lodgo
--ten.

H. H. NNeinesday, at Ramsden Bottom ; Friday, at
Laublin Farm—eleven.

N. F. H., Thursday, at Brattloy Water, and on Satur-
day, at Fighting Cocks, Godshill—half.past ten.
Lord Portman's hounds, Thursday, at Milton Park—
eleven.
Craven hounds, Wednesday, at Savernaker ; Friday, at
Stipe—ha'f-past ten.

THE PLAINS OF I-lUNGARY.—We had heard
much of the dull and monotonous character of the great plain
of Hungary. We had now a veritable specimen of it before
us : for many long and weary miles we drove, ere so much as
a cottage made its appearance, and all the while the corn waved
on either hand, rank and luxuriant. Yet, singular as to us
this state of things appeared, it is but a copy, and an imper-
fect one, of what prevails elsewhere. There are parts of the
country, especially in the great plain of the Theiss, where
you may travel an entire day without encountering either
the houses or the faces of men ; and all the while your
route will be through fields loaded with abundant
crops of wheat and rye. Moreover, the customs of the
people who occupy that plain are to the full as striking
as the external appearance of the country ; and it may be
as well if I describe them. The long and fierce wars
which Hungary sustained with Turkey, and the expo-
sure of these open districts to perpetual invasion, first induced
the inhabitants to congregate into heaps, and the habits then
contracted have never since been laid aside. Accordingly,
there are no such things as villages and hamlets, far less de.
tached dwellings to be seen anywhere ; but at remote intervals
one from another, you come upon towns, towns of the veriest
huts, where dwell six, eight, ten, and sometimes as many as
thirty thousand peasants together. Hew they preserve order
among themselves I do not know, for their Magistrates seem
to possess little influence over them; yet they do live peace-
ably enough ; and, though all are poor and squalid, and filthy
to .a degree, there seems to be a perfect indifference to the
evils which poverty awl squalor bring with them. They are to
a man agriculturists. It is by the labour of their hands that the
boundless plains through which you have travelled are
cultivated; and the process by which the mighty operation is
performed is this : —When the season for plougning and sowing
comes round, the males march in a body from their homes.
They erect wigwams, or huts, here and there in the fields;
and then setting to work, they toil from Monday till Saturday,
living on the provisions which they may have brought with
them, and sleeping at night in their bivouac. On Saturday
they all return to the town, and do not leave it again till Mon-
day. In this manner the first processes are carried through ;
and, when all the feed has been scattered, the people march
back to their permanent habitations, there to abide in idleness
and filth till some fresh operation becomes necessary. Finally,
when harvest is ready, the bivouac is resumed, the women
coming forth this time to assist in getting it in. And as the
.completion of the sowing season sent them back to town, so,
when reaping ends, the lints are abandoned.— Gleig's Hungary.
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.—The National
slates that a distinguished mineralogist has just communicated
the following fact to the Editor of that Journal, which he con-
siders most important to the commercial interests of the
country :—" A wonderful discovery has just been made in the
south of France. It consists of a coal mine of 100 square
leagues in extent. The coal obtained from this mine is found
to. be superior to the coal produced from the most celebrated
collieries in existence. The south of France, Africa, Italy,
Spain, and even Great Britain, will derive considerable advan-
tage from this discovery, and the trade of the Mediterranean
will be benefited by itlo an incalculable extent."