The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-08 00:00:00

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.

The annual meeting of the Governors of this hos-
pital took place yesterday afternoon iu the board-
room of the institution, Gray's-inn-road—:-Mr. Jas.
Hopgood in the chair. The report of the committee
of management, which was read by the Itet.4. B.
Owen, stated that during the past year the diree-
tors of the Great Northern Railway, in recognition
of the constant services rendered to cases of acci-
dent occurring on their line, have doubled their sub-
scription, now amounting to £5O a year. The sus-
:pension of the Agra and Masterman's Bank, an
event which evoked the deepest • sympathy of the
committee with their highlyrespected treasurer, Mr.
E. Masterman, inconvenienced the committee less
than it might have done, as they had only a ba-
lance of £153 Bs. 2d. in. the bank at the time.
Having regard to the harsh external circumstances
under which this high-class company succumbed,
and mindful of the long and faithful services of the
late Mr. John Masterman, and of his son, Mr. Ed-
ward Masterman, successively treasurers of this
hospital, the committee saw no reason whatever
for withdrawing their confidence in the latter gen-
tleman, and, on his proposal to resign his office
of treasurer, solicited him to continue his
valuable services, with which request Mr. Master-.
man complied. Their banking account was then
removed to the firm of Messrs. Brown, Janson, and
Co,, from whom the hospital has been recently
favoured with handsome donations. The committee
gratefully acknowledge a liberal grant of bibles
from the British and Foreign Bible Society, and
several handsome donations. During the past year
the committee have to record with unfeigned regret
the decease of one of its oldest members, a constant
and generous supporter of the charity,,the late Mr.
George Simpson. The report, in referring to the
death of Dr. William Marsden, the founder of the
charity, stated that, independently of any other
shape of memorial which the governors and other
friends of the deceased may hereafter see fit to
adopt, a member of the committee having most
generously offered to guarantee 1200 a year for five
years, on condition of sufficient extra funds being
raised to support oue additional ward iu this hospi-

PRICE.... 4d.
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tal, to be called " The Founder's" or "The Marsden
Ward;" and, moreover, as there already exists a
cDmmodions new ward, as yet uaopened, every way
suitable for the purpose, the committee strongly re-
commend this meeting's acceptance of the above
offer, and its making immediate arrangements for
carrying out the object. The committee will not
o.nit to notice that during the year the sum of
2s. 5J., chiefly in small coins down to farthings, was

taken from the street Loxes. The large number of
cases admitted during the year diEplay a total of
78,40 G, indicating a mass of individual and family
distress at least alleviated, if not wholly relieved. The
financial statementfor the year showed that the total

income amounted to £10,353 ss. 7d., and the total
expenditure to £9,789 Os. 10d., leaving a balance of
£564 ss. 9d. The report and statement of accounts,
together with the report of the medical officers,
were received and ordered to be printed for cir-
culation. Votes of thanks were then passed to
the committee, the vice-president, the auditors,
the treasurer, and the various medical officers, and
the secretary, for their continued exertions on behalf
of the institution. A brief discussion then took place
on ri motion from Dr. O'Connor, respecting the
suggestion in the report as to a memorial to the late
Dr. Marsden ; and a resolution was ultimately passed
to the effect that a committee be appointed to con-
sider the subj..,,ct, and that in the meantime the
generous offer of Mr. Hopgood ((he member cf the
committee who had promised to guarantee £2OO a
year for five years) be thankfully accepted, and that
efforts be made to carry out the proposition in regard
to an additional ward. A sub-committee was then
appointed, and a cordial vote of thanks to the chair-
man concluded the proceedings.

Thoughts on Stag-hunting.

(From Bailey's Magazine)

Catching your own again, as Sam Nicoll called stag-
hunting, will never be a popular amusement with the ma-
jority of sportsmen. The very fact that you need not take
every advantage of the animal you aro pursuing, as you
needs must do when you are after a wild animal, deprives
the sport of half its zest. But it is quite an error to sup-
pose that there is no hunting in it; for hounds will stick
to the line of a stag as closely as to that of a fox or a hare
and it depends entirely upon the system that is pursued,
whether it is a sport fit for men, or whether it is as tame as
coursing rabbits with cur dogs in an enclosed paddock. In
addition to the bad name which stag-hunting has acquired,
with good reason, from the practices which we are about
to condemn, there is a vast amount of prejudice against it
from the circumstance of its being the sport of Londoners,
whose vocations preclude them from hunting frequently,
and to whom a certain find and a probable gallop are the
great attractions. The principal packs of staghounds have
always been to be reached from the metropolis, formerly by
road and now by rail; and in seniority, as well as in loyalty,
wo must first rank that of her Majesty. Within the last few

masterships the country formerly bunted by these hounds
has been grievously curtailed. The Harrow country, over
which they used to have their best sport, has been, of neces-
sity, given up, and the line of the famous Poll-hill run would
be found to be intersected with hundreds of wire fences. The
trip to Lyndhurst has been discontinued since the disforest-
ing of the Crown lands and tho deStruction of the red deer
in the New Forest. The want of condition of the deer in
their wild state prevented any great runs over the forest,
and the deer invariably died soon after being taken; but
these were pleasant gatherings, making a fitting conclusion
to the season, and the discontinuance of them was much
regretted. Time and modern improvements have done
their worst, as far as sport is concerned, fen• the Queen's
county. The Surrey staghounds, a subscription pack, with
Squire Heathcote at their head, hunt the countrywhere the
late Earl of Derby showed such sport for upwards of 40
years. But here again the face of nature has been sadly
changed. Open fields, over which Jonathan, on Prosper,
used to cheer his hounds, are now covered with villas,
streets, and crescents, and retired spots have become rail-
way junctions. Forest-hill was then rightly named, and
Reigate Station was a deep morass. By the courtesy of
the directors of the Brighton Railway, who carry the
hounds andseuants' horses on their lio9.freq of charge,
this pack is now ontible7d to get more frequently '!below
hill." This is a cotintry well calculated for making good
men to hounds, and Messrs. Shaw, Simpson, Metcalf, Gil-
les Pie, and others, are quite up to sample.- A tale is told,
the authenticity of which, however,- wo cannot vouch for,

that in a run with these hounds the huntsman and a gentle-
man got off their horses .to take a gate off its hinges, and
in the excitement and hurry of the moment each got upon
his neighbour's I;orse and rode'thrOugh* the run without
discovering the mistake. When the deer was taken the
huntsman, feeling for his horn, and not finding it, looked
down, and to his intense asionishmenthissdark brown horse
had become a mealy bay: The Great Eastern Railway will
take the sportsman to that first-rate plough country, the
Roothings of Essex, where the staghouuds are under the
able management of the Hon: Frederick Petro. The
absence of up-standing fences is favourable to the running
of the deer, but there is a sameness in the country which
detracts from it in the eyes of those who follow hounds.
Upon the borders of the Vale of Aylesbury is situated the
pretty village of Mentsnore, where the staghounds of
Baron Lionel de Rothschild aro kennelled. From hisyouth
up Baron Lionel was a hound man, and he spared neither
trouble nor expense to make his pack a perfect one. In
the year 1842 he purchased at Tattersall's one of the lots
of Mr. Osbaldeston's famous pack, at the price of one
hundred guineas a couple. By a judicious cross with this
blood ho bad the good fortune to breed one of the best
hounds that ever wont out of doors. This was Gunners-
'bury, by Mr. Osbaldeston's Falstaff, a son of Furrier, one
of the Cheshire Guilosonie. Guunersbury was a light-
coloured hound of enormous power and substance, and a
driving, forcing hound on a scout. As ho crashed through
the doubles he appeared as though he would tear them to
pieces. Guunersbury was used freely in the Mentmore
kennel, and his daughter, Dairymaid, through whom the
blood has descended, took very much after him both in
looks and style of hunting. Tho baron bred from all the
most fashionable. kennels of the day. Lord Fitzwilliant's
Marmion, Feudal, and Bluecap, Mr. Drake's Duster, Lord
Southampton's Herald, Lord Yarborough's Rallywood,
the Duke of Rutlaud's . Ragland, • Gamester, and Ranter,
and other hound sires of high repute helped to make the
pack; but tho Belvoir sort proved to be too mute for stag-
hounds. It was to the Fitzbardingo blood that the baron's
kennel was the most indebted. Among 20 couple from
Berkeley Castle came Paradox, and although, after hunt-
ing stag for two seasons, she was begged back by Harry
Ayriss, she left behind her at Mentinore two splendid
daughters, Primrose and Princess, by Mr. Drake's Satel-
lite, to perpetuate her blood. In the present pack Pilgrim,
by Lord Fitzhardinge's Palmerston, although a wayward
hound, is a great favourite of the huntsman, Fred Cox;
but the apple of his eye is Random, by Lord Fitzhardinge's
Roderick, out of a Yarborough bitch. Random is a tho-
rough line hunter, with a deep melodious tongue, good in
chase, and without an atom of jealousy. " I wouldn't
take 1,000 guineas for him," shouted Cox, in the act of
charging a blackthorn fence, an assertion which he quali-
fied the next morningwith the following important addition
—"if 1 had. the baron's money.", The first object of a
master of staghounds should be to divest the sport, as
much as possible, of all tameness, and to make it, as near
as he can, like the real thing. To effect this, he .deer
should be turned out into a quiet spot, unseen by
any one
except the deer-cart man, who can tell the huntsman
where to lay the hounds on. Nothing can be moreoot dheesfotrruoca-
live to sport than the plan of turning the dedesr
innioobreolfikpecospflaei,
rattily
anythinget
possibly by one
the deer is followed by the foot people, andameeteolfse.staFgoir tuhne first few generally
efiraelldlys
are accompanied by men on or two cur dogs, who thoroughly foil the ground.oop os
ponies,
second'i be e
hacks,
to boysrie the deer as long
horsemen, and others, who
as they they act as fuglemen for tho
they do in crossing the scent, h
can keep him inviecw, and, irrespective of the harm
hound sat: geti
the settledilar
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They are brought our
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ground,ohnauft'oeiledav°
riders instantly start off, heedless of the hounds, as they
do in some countries after the fox. Could any system be
devised more calculated to make hounds unsteady ? A
second deer-cart, to mislead the mischief-doers, has some-
times been tried with success. When once the hounds are
laid on, they should never be stopped. The practice of
stopping staghounds is the great blemish of the sport;
spoils the hounds, it spoils the run, it spoils everything, no
excepting the temper of the field. Just its they are expect
rug that they are in far a good thing, and excitement ie a
its highest point, their hopes are dashed to the ground
and their spirits sent below zero. The excuse that is made
in defence of stopping hounds is that it enables a stout slow
deer to got ahead, and thereby give a better run; a longer
and more draggling one, perhaps,whereas every endeavour
should be to make it sharp and decisive. Another reason
sometimes put forward is, that the hounds are stopped for
the sake of saving the deer, but it is a very futile one. A
deer is not so easily killed if run into whilst he is strong,
but when hounds have been stopped, and the deer has got
gradually weaker and weaker, the least accident will finish
him. An exception, however, to the rule of never stopping
the hounds may be made in the case of a view. A view
does harm to the hounds, as it takes them off their noses,
and causes them to look out for views. Besides, pt hest,
it is a little bettor 4kan a bad course, and however well

hounds may pack together upon n scent, they will string
all over the country when running a deer in view.
But the tamest proceeding of all is when, the hounds
having been stopped, persons are sent forward to
ride the deer and take him to the front of the hounds.
Reader, as soon as this takes place, turn your horse's
head to the nearest road and make your way hoine,
if you know it, and if not, inquire it. All pretence of sport
is over. The hounds should not be lifted, but encouraged
to hunt out the line for themselves. At times they may
be assisted, as when a deer has gone up and down a fence,
ling unable to find a way over; and there are some such
bad scenting days that the huntsman must take his deer in
the best way that he can. But the more the hounds aro
left to themselves, and the less the sound of the horn is
heard, the better. When the deer is rim into the hunts-

man should draw off his hounds, and attend only to them,
whilst he leaves the securing of the deer to others. Harry
King, when whipper-in to Mr. Charles Davis, was a first-
rate hand at taking a deer, and would plunge into water
up to his neck to effect it. And now a few words to the
field. Start with the hounds, anti ride to them, and to
them only. if you find it necessary to take a pull, as yolk
very likely will, take it, but do nut take an advantage to • .
the detriment of the hounds. Deer usually take so direct
a course that staghounds will bear more pressing than
foxhounds; but do not, therefore, think it right to ride
upou their line, but ride a little to the right or to the left.
We take it for granted that you mean goiug. Have you
a well-bred, fast horse, that can stay? Can he go well
through dirt ? Is he a bold, resolute fencer, active as a
cat, and fit as fiddle ? Unless he possesses these qualifi-
cations, you had better not take him stagging. A feat of
the late Colonel Standen, of the Guards, now mord than
40 years ago, created a great sensation at the time. At the
finish of a severe run with the Hon. Grantley's Berkley's
staghounds, the colonel and Mr. George Payne were riding
to save the deer, when they came to the river Brent, over
which was a wooden bridge for foot passengers, with a stile
at each end. The bridge was 33ft. long and only 20in.
broad, and more than 20ft. down to the water. Col. Stan-
den jumped his horse on to it, crossed the bridge, jumped
him off again, and saved the deer. Some of poor Join.
Mason's feats with the staghounds in the Vale of Ayles •
bury have been chronicled in the pages of Bailey. He 'I
was one day sailing down to the B,owshain Brook upon a
soft-hearted but big-jumping horse named Mulatto,,wie: jet"
Mr. George Cook, who knew every yard of the country, IP'I.IF
shouted out to him, " You can't get over there, Jem !"
but in vain. Jem was not to be denied, and putting more
steam on, got well over. The place was afterwards mea-
sured with a tape, and from fore hoof to hind hoof proved
to be 29ft. This sensation jump sold Mulatto for 400 gs.
Another great artist in the Vale was the late Tom, Ball, but'
his style of riding was very different. In the early part of
a run Torn would suffer others to go before him, while he .
rode his own line and his own pace. His intention was
to get through the run and so save his deer, and he rarely
failed to effect his object. When Wm. Barwick was hunts-
a good man in kennel, but a very poor performer in
the saddle, and for whom Toni had a supreme contempt,
the hounds met at Tring Windmill, and ran straight up
the Vale. Tom had cut down the whole field, and was
alone, when his horse stopped, going. up the hill to Ov-
ing, the hounds having got the deer in view. Toni jumped .
off and took his deer, on foot, into Sir Thomas lutirey's
stable-yard. "But where's Barwick ?" says Sir Tho-
mas. " Oh, he is tiding round some field or other, look-
ing through for a gap to get out," answered Tom. " There)
are the thoughts suggesting themselves to me during the .
frost. To such of my young friends as are not above ad-
vice some of these hints tray be useful ; they are foUnded
on experience of 30 years, during which time the writer
has enjoyed many a good day's fun with staghounds.

SALMON FISIIERIES.—Mr. Frank Buckland has
been appointed an Inspector of Salmon Fisheries, in the
room of Mr. Eden, who has retired from that appoint-
ment.

On Tuesday evening Mr. Goldwin Smith con-

eluded his course of lectures at Bradford on the Political

History of England, and at the close received a cordial
vote of thanks.

A PARALLEL.—Mr. Bright is a reading man, and
therefore it is to be supposed that ho knows something of
the history of the 18th century. Does he remember what
took place on the 2d of June in the year 1780, while the
Mike of Richmond was advocating Parliamentary Reform
before his brother peers, and urging them to adopt annual
Parliaments and universal suffrage ? On that very day an
enormous multitude met in St. George's-fields, for the per-
Pose of presenting a no-popery petition to Parliament, under
the guidance of Lord George Gordon. There were no trades'
unions in those days; nevertheless, the multitude were
duly marshalled, and marched by three separate routes from
the place of meeting, and finally assembled in front of the

Ifon;es of Parliament to present their monster petition.
Everybody remembers, or ought to remember, the result.
Protestantism, pure and undefiled, was in league with
ruffianism, impure and defiled ; and through tho
stupidity, cowardice, and irresolution of the magistracy,
London for six days was given up to flames and plundering
on a gigantic scale. We do not suppose that if the threat-
Atterflte,[oriss procession ever male its appearance at West-
minster it would pelt Mr. Disraeli, drag Lord Derhy from
his carriage, knock General Peel into the dirt, or cry "A la
lauterne !" when Mr. Lowe appeared. There is a vast dif-
ference between that time and this; but it is as well to
remember, when such propositions as that of the League are
made, how easily and rapidly the gathering of a mob may
lead to a riot. It should not be forgotten that once on a
time a vast mob professed to come to petition but really re-
mained to kick the President of the Council and drag Lord
Boston from his carriage, and trample on him, and so nearly
finished the Archbishop of York that he was forced to put
on woman's clothes in order to get safely home again from
a neighbouring house. It is well also to remember that,
having smashed these and a good many more peers and
M.P.'s, the offended Protestantism and pickpocketism of
London straightway proceeded to execute justice oa their
enemies, burning two or three Catholic chapels, just by
way of getting their hands in ; and that on the next night
they burnt a few more chapels, and then burnt Newgate and
set all the prisoners loose, and did not go home in the morn-
ing until they had also burnt Lord Mansfield's house in
Bloomsbury:square, with all his rare and costly library.
Being further kindly encouraged by the Ministers and
magistrates of the day, who did nothing st all to stop
them, they continued to propagate Gospel truth by burn-
ing the Fleet, the Marshalsea, and the King's Bench
prisons, with sundry private and public buildings, so that
at one time 36 fires were to be counted blazing at one mo-
ment. It is true that by the Bth of June it was all over, at
the cost of shooting down a few hundred Protestants and
burglars-285 being actually killed, and some 200 or 300
wounded. Afterwards, moreover, what used to be called
"justice" did its work, and 29 rioters, chiefly young men
and boys, were actually hanged; while the instigator of
all these things was tried, it is true, but was acquitted,
and sent about his business. No doubt there is a good
deal of difference between Lord George Gordon and the
council of the Reform League.—Pall-Mall Gazette.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.—He can say the
most unpalatable things iu the pleasantest possible way.
He does not appeal to the pride and pugnacity of his
cijouwnhtricyhmaenm,
mons tellcan them that
pi
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He thinks there is "no sufficient flavour of humanity in
heonybrepalathe°.
the soil" out of which they grow, and that it makes a man.
humane to "live on the old humanised soil" of Europe.
He will not deny the past for the sake of glorifying the
present. " They say a dead man's hand cures swellings
if laid on them ; nothing like the dead cold hand of the
past to take down our tumid egotism." He is equally the
enemy of "high-falutin," and spread-eagleism, and social
slangs "First-rate," " prime," "a prime article," "a supe-
rior:piece of goods," a "gent in a flowered vest ;" all such
expressions aro final. They blast the lineage of him or
her who utters them for generations up and down. He
tells them that " good breeding is surface Christianity."
He slyly consoles them with the thought that " goad
Americans when they die go to Paris." He is thoroughly
national himself, and woulttagerite-Asreerican patriotism
large and liberal, not a narrow provincial conceit. The
"autocrat" is assuredly one of the pleasantest specimens of
the American gentlemen, and one of the most charming of
all chatty companions; genial, witty, and wise—never
wearisome. Wo fancy the "Autocrat of the -Breakfast
Table" is not so well known or widely read in this country
as it deserves to be. A more delightful book has not come
over the Atlantic.—Quarterly Review.
THE CONDITION OF SPAIN. A Madri d
reigns o' e
at -
spondent (writing Feb. 1) says Order
Madrid, but how long it will last the most prescient cannot
say, except that such order is as precarious as the regi-
men that uphold s it. Those among the inhabitants of
Madrid having something worth saving have made

heir preparations to leave at a moment's notice.
lowever, the terrorism adopted by the Government, and

the recent arrest and seminary convictions of journalists
a not prevent their revolutionary papers and proclama-
tions front appearing in the very heart of the capital. Al-
though all that braggadocio from the revolutionary press
is duly appreciated by impartial people, it produces a bane-
ful influence upon the masses. As to the public distress,
it is prevalent above all in the southern provinces. Tho
newspapers of Grenada, Cordova, and Seville, daily bring
us harrowing pictures front those parts. The, Palace of
the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier is always full of
people without the first necessaries of life, and who daily
receive their assistance in food and money. It is rumoured
in official circles that the Government is trying to revive
the national credit. It is even said that Narvaez himself
applied to the representative of the house of Roth s
schild for
a loan to be applied.to the settlement of Spain' foreign
debt. The represent.'e of the Rothschilds is said to
have replied that, sting the guarantees offered were
good, it would not that the succesrs of Narvaez
and Gonzales Bravo would respect andobsoserve the con-
tracts of their predecessors. The exile of the Duke of
Montpensier has been decided upon in principle ; the Go-
vernment is only
his Royal Highness is determined not to give the least
waiting for a pretext, but it seems that
chance to the Cabinet. There has been'a rumour that
peace had been concluded between Spain and the Souther,
Republies, owing to the
.resolnte interveiMion lid thoa
United States ; but no official news hos-s)Deen_wc•kijoi
that effects effect,: ~,,,,p,-, ~,,,
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