The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-02 00:00:00

THE SURREY HOUNDS.

Having finished my inspection of the stud, I next
made some inquiries respecting the reports, both in cir-
culation as mere rumour and likewise in print, relative
to the dismissal of fie late huntsman and whips (one
of whom was his brother, and the other, I believe, his
son), and also touching the secession of Edmund An•
t-obus from the management of the hounds,
and was not a little surprised to find that
there was not the slightest foundation for either. With
respect to Tom Hills, who hunted these hounds for
many year?, I found that having taken umbrage at the
pack havidg been put upon a certain allowance of

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food, which, though probably ample, was in
hisVesti-
mation insufficient, he thought proper himself to give
warning to his employers and to resign his situa-
tion ; nor is it at all to be wondered at that his desire to
I•ave was complied with, since we all know how irk-
some a thing it is to a master to allow himself to be
dictated to by his servants. Tom accordingly lost his
berib, and the first and second whips, having followed
his example, also received their conges. The two for-
mer men keep a public-house et Bletchingly, near
Merstham, and the latter has obtained a situation as
whipper-in to some pack in Orfordshire.
With respect to the rumour that Sir Edmund An-

trobus was no longer connected with the establish-
ment, I was glad to hear that he is not only in the
enjoyment of excellant health (illness having been
assigned as the cause of his retirement), but is
still, in conjunction with Colonel Cator, of South-
end, the manager of the pack. The stud has never
been put upon any other allowance than that of having
as much as they could eat, neither have the horses or
hounds ever been fed by contract, as has been asserted
by a correspondent of a Weekly Sporting Journal.
So much then for repot ts, that, tending only to dissemi-
nate discontent, I am glad to be able to contradict on
sufficient authority.
As from the proximity of the Old Surrey hounds to
the metropolis their meets are necessarily kept secret as
much as possible, to prevent too large a field from
riding over the land, and many people are unac-
quainted with the locality of the coverts they draw,
I will just add, that Limpsfield and Godstone
Green are at the extremity of their country on the
Lewes road ; that the kennel, the Half Moon on
the Godstone Road, the Red Lion at Riddlesdown, the
coverts round Sanderstead, the Swan at West Wick-
ham, the Cricketers at Addington, Botley Hill,
Farley Green, Warl ngham Common, the Fox
at Kenton Common, Tatsfield, Crown Ash
Hill, and Wallington Heath, tire all within
reach of Croydon, where good accommodation may be
found for man and horse at the Greyhound or the
Crown ; and prime attention to such as choose to have
their horse at a hunting stable is always paid to them at
B.gnell's, at the lower part of the town on the road
leading to Mitcham. The charge is four shillings per
night, without any stint ; and if your horse come in wet,
two or three fellows are about him in no time, and strip
to their work " with a will." The coverts at Keston,
Crown Ash Hill, Tatsfield, or West Wickham, are
equally easy of access, or rather more so, from Bromley,
where at the Bell or White Hart everything needful
may be had ; and the White Lion at Lock's Bottom
will not be found bad quarters by those who intend to
meet the fox-hounds at Cudham Wood, Pratt's Bottom,
Westerham, or the coverts near Riverhead. With the
names of the meets ronnd Merstham and Reigate I am
almost entirely unacquainted, never having hunted so
IoW down the road, and shall therefo• e sum up with Sir
John Reid's coverts at Banstead, the nearest and best
hostelry to which I take to he the Cock at Sutton, a
eell•known house, or the Greyhound at Carshalton,
where the accommodation to be obtained, although far
from first rate, may be put up with for a night by any
sportsman. If given to beguile time with a weed,
though, I should recommend him strongly not to forget
his cigar-case.—Old Sporting Magazine.

METROPOLITAN POLICE.--The Lords Com-
rr,issiorers of the Admiralty and the Honourable the Board
of Ordnance have sanctioned the introduction of the me-
tropolitan police force into the above departments of the
public service. Arrangements have in consequence been
already made for carrying the same into immediate ef-
fect in the Ro3 al Dock-s and and Victualling-office, Dept-
ford, and the Royal Dock-yard and Arsenal, Woolwich.
The change will take effect on Monday next, and it is in-
tended as speedily as possible to extend the operation to
all the other naval and ordnance departments in the king-
dom. The whole of the present arrangements will, we
understand, altogether cease, and the respective officers
will retire upon pensions suited to their ages and periods
of servic-. Wilt regard to the men, an offer has been
made to enter into the metropolitan police force on the
same terms as those already employed.
A case came before the Insolvent Debtor's Court
on Wednesday, in which the petitioner, a lady who had
kept the Sackville Hotel, and lost all her own money, as
well as some belonging to other persons, ascribed her in-
solvency partly to the Whigs. It appeared that she told
the agent of the opposing creditors that " if she could get
the abominable Whigs out of her house and the Tories in
she should go on like clock. work." The Commissioner
said she was not the only foolish person who had thought
for the last four years that the Whigs would go out.