The existence of this structure, however, was of short duration, for in the year 1745, the King's troops again applied the torch, and the wooden fabric blazed into light on the dark waters of the Ness, as a beacon for the gathering of neighbouring clans, that their chieftain was in danger. Such men as these, however, were not to be easily subdued by fire or sword, and once more the present interesting structure rose from the solid ruins of its ancient strength, from the remnants of which it was literally built, on the ashes of its predecessors. Nevertheless, the property was once more forfeited to the crown, and the name of Glenmoriston stood prominent in the list of attainted Highland proprietors for rebellion; but by the act, it is presumed, of some unknown friend to the family even to the present hour, his name was erased. And henceforth the heathered hills and dark mountains, fair fields and spacious domain of the Grants, are left in their peaceful possession. And may the well known loyalty of heart, liberality of conduct, and opinion of its present possessor, secure it to him and his heirs for ages. For any other details of this ancient family, to such of our readers who desire it we will refer them to a pleasing little book called " Ascanius, or the Wanderer," a work giving rather an interesting account of the Prince's wanderings after the battle of Culloden. That will tell them something, but a visit to the Glen will please them more. The present house stands on a lawn within two gun-shot of the waters of the Ness. Nothing can be more picturesque and sheltered than its present position. To the west the small park is encircled by the river Moriston, which, rushing over a beautiful waterfall within the pleasure grounds in the immediate vicinity of the castle, joins the lake below. The north or rear of the house is protected by lofty and wood-clad mountains, at the base of which a few houses repose, among which may be numbered a clean and comfortable little inn: the whole embowered in trees, mark the village of Glenmoriston as one scarcely surpassed in Switzerland by the wildness and beauty of its situation.

(To be continued.)

THE DISTEMPER IN DOGS.

TO THE EDITOR.

DEAR SIR,-With the exception of hydrophobia, the most fatal disease that attacks our kennels is the distemper; and the higher bred the dog is, the more severely he suffers; so that the greatest losses are among the most valuable of the species. This has induced me, through the medium of your Magazine, to communicate to your sporting friends what I have by long experience proved to be a certain preventive against that disease, or, in case of an attack, an almost certain cure.

For a great number of years I have kept white Scotch terriers, and Irish setters; and the blood being very pure, I have had so many

applications from my friends for pups, that I could hardly have litters enough. I mention this to show that my experience is not derived from a few cases, but from trials on a great number. I formerly used to lose two-thirds of the pups I bred, although using all the remedies given in different sporting works; but for the last ten or twelve years I have never had a single case of distemper in my

kennel.

My plan is simply this: So soon as I take the pup from the bitch, I give twice a week doses of garlic, and I continue this treatment till the dog is a year old. After that, I consider him safe, as the disease generally attacks dogs between six and nine months old. While the pup is very young, a piece of garlic the size of a pea will be enough for a dose; and as it grows older, it may be increased to the size of a bean or hazel-nut. If at any time it should purge too much, the dose should be diminished. I need hardly say to sporting men that the kennel should be dry and warm, although airy.

In cases where the distemper has attacked a dog, I would give the garlic three times a week, or oftener, keep him warm and dry, and nourish him with soup. In nine cases out of ten this will effect a cure, and has been used with great success by veterinary surgeons to whom I have told the method. The mode of giving the garlic is to put it in a piece of butter in the dog's mouth, and hold the mouth shut and the nose up till he has swallowed it, seeing that it is actually swallowed, and not spit out.

At

In cases where a dog has lost his hair from the mange, I have invariably reproduced it by rubbing in well equal parts of spirits of hartshorn and sweet oil, shaken together in a bottle. Laybach I saw one case of a dog that had lost his hair two years before, and this application restored it in about three months, and certainly quite contrary to my expectation.

Yours very truly,

ENGLISH

W.

SPORTS.- ANCIENT AND MODERN.

BY LORD WILLIAM LENNOX.

ARCHERY.

Although archery cannot be ranked among the principal sports of the present day, yet as there are a variety of toxopholite societies still kept up, and as these meetings are always attended, and the prizes contended for, by the fairer portion of the creation, we cannot exclude the bow and arrow from our catalogue of national amusements. Since the invention of gun and cotton powder-for we presume we must include the latter modern invention the bow and cross-bow have been in disuse both in battle and in what Byron calls "the faint image of war”—the chase ;

but still they furnish recreation for those beaux and belles (we mean no pun) who love to congregate upon a summer's day at the romantic plaisance of Kenilworth Castle, the interesting precincts of Carisbrook, in the picturesque glades of Kent, on the wild wealds of Sussex, by the side of the winding Wye, in the merry forest of Sherwood, under the battlements of Belvoir's proud castle, or in the peaceful vales of Gloucestershire.

With regard to the modern prowess of archers we shall have little to say, as their deeds are blazoned forth in the fashionable columns of the Morning Post" and "Court Journal." We shall, therefore, go back to by-gone times.

At the earliest period we find the bow in use, not only as a weapon of hostility, but also as one employed in the chase; and there are few nations that have not employed archers in their warfare as well as hunting fields. Even to this day the North and South American Indians retain the bow and arrow. There is no mention of archery in this country until the time of the Saxons; Camden, however, gives the following remark as to its introduction into England :-" Amongst all the English artillery archery challengeth the pre-eminency as peculiar to our nation as the sarissa was to the Macedonians, the gesa to the old Gauls, the framia to the Germans, the machora to the Greeks: first showed to the English by the Danes, brought in by the Normans, and continued by their successors. William the Conqueror was a first-rate archer, as was Richard Earl of Pembroke, called "Strongbow;" Cœur de Lion was killed by an arrow from a cross-bow at the siege of Chaluze. It was during the reign of this monarch that the sylvan hero Robin Hood and his merry men flourished; but for an account of his exploits we must refer our readers to the old ballad or to Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe," in which there is a most soul-stirring account of a trial of skill with the long-bow between Locksley, as Robin Hood was called, from the place of his birth in Staffordshire, and Hubert, a forester. This brave freebooter died in 1247 at the Priory of Kirklees. Previous to his death, when all hopes of recovery were abandoned, he pointed out the place of his sepulture by discharging an arrow, and the spot upon which it fell was to be his grave. The first falling in the river, another was procured; and there, in the park, where the shaft dropped, was the outlaw buried.

The inscription upon his tomb, which has long been obliterated, but which was preserved by Dr. Gate, Dean of York, ran as follows:—

"Here, underneath this little stone,
Laiz Robert Earl of Huntington;
Nea Archir ver az hie sa geud,
An piple kauld im Robin Hood.
Sick utlawz az hi an iz men
Vil England nivir si agen."

Of William Tell it is unnecessary to speak, as his history is well known to all. In our own country we find the youthful Edward the Third issuing orders for bows and arrows for the intended war with France. At Cressy and Poictiers the superiority of the English archers is well known. At the victory gained over the Scots, near Halidon Hill, Lord Percy's archers did great service with their deadly arrows; and at the battle of Shrewsbury the bowmen on both sides evinced the

greatest valour. It was here that "sweet wag Hal," afterwards Henry the Fifth, was wounded in the face by an arrow. In the reign of Edward the Fourth an act was passed, compelling every subject of the realm to have a bow made of his own height; and also establishing butts to practice at. We to this day have a reminiscence of this edict— Newington and Brentford Butts still continuing. The crook-backed tyrant, at the battle of Bosworth field, placed his bowmen in the midst of the line.

“ Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head.”

Henry the Seventh, in 1486, established fifty yeomen of the guardthe first standing army-who in those days used bows. This monarch, in his early days, was extremely fond of archery, as were his sons, Arthur and Henry. Henry the Eighth passed a law in the third year of his reign, that every youth, when he attained the age of seven, should be provided with a bow and two arrows-by his father; and it was subsequently enacted that all, except the dignitaries of the church and bar, should be obliged to practise at butts.

In 1515, Henry the Eighth and queen Catharine, accompanied by many lords and ladies, rode a Maying from Greenwich to the high ground of Shooter's Hill, where they found a company of two hundred tall yeomen, all clothed in green, with green hoods and bows and arrows. One, who was their chieftain, was called Robin Hood, and desired the king and all his company to stay and see his men shoot; to which the king agreeing, he whistled, and all the two hundred discharged their arrows at once; which they repeated, on his whistling again. Their arrows had something placed in the heads of them that made them whistle as they flew, and altogether made a loud and very uncommon noise, at which the king and queen were greatly delighted. The gentleman who assumed the character of Robin Hood then desired the king and queen, with their retinue, to enter the green wood, where, in arbours made with boughs, intermixed with flowers, they were plentifully served with venison and wine by Robin Hood and his merry men.

Edward the Sixth, according to Barrington, was fond of archery. The martyr Charles seems also to have promoted the use of the bow, as did the merry monarch" and his brother, James the Second. From this period archery has been on the decline, and the only remains of ancient bowmen may be found in the Artillery Company, formerly the Finsbury Archers, and the Scotch Archer Guard. Robertson describes the Caribees as very expert archers-a fact that will be borne out by the following circumstance, mentioned by that historian as having occurred to Columbus, in his second voyage. "A canoe," says the historian, "belonging to these people, having accidentally fallen in with the fleet under his command, a vessel with a few men was sent towards it, while the other ships surrounded it, in order to cut off a communication with the shore. When the persons in the canoe saw it was impossible for them to escape, they fought with great resolution and wounded many of the Spaniards, although they had targets and other kind of armour; and even when the canoe was upset it was with difficulty the people were taken, as they continued to defend themselves, and to use their bows with great dexterity while swimming in the sea.

The Persians, too, are first-rate shots with bows and arrows, especially upon horseback; and at the cavalry reviews, as the troops gallop by in single file, each man as he passes the king shoots an arrow against a target, and the successful competitors are, at the end of the day, rewarded according to their deserts. In every village throughout the country "the young ideas are taught to shoot" at a very early age. We must here, for the present, conclude our remarks, and may probably hereafter revert to the subject.

THE RING.

"Onerandus est Pugnis probe."

AMPHITRYON-PLAUTUS.

"My fists must lay a good load on him."

COOKE'S TRANSLATION.

Although the pugilistic ring has fallen greatly from its former high estate, we cannot, as true chroniclers of English manly sports, exclude it from our notice; and while upon the subject, we cannot refrain from paying that eulogium to the memory of one of its most distinguished supporters, who, since many of the following pages were written, has "shuffled off his mortal coil :" we allude to the late Mr. Jackson-a man who, during a long life, never made an enemy; whose kindness, charity, and liberality were unbounded; and who, amidst temptation's flowery path, never for a moment swerved from the strict line of rectitude. Poor Jackson! Peace to thy manes!

In approaching, then, this subject, we cannot but admit that within the last ten or fifteen years some most disgraceful transactions have taken place in the prize-ring. Not only as respects foul play, but also robbery, scenes have been committed which are a disgrace to a civilized country, and which have called down denunciations, not only from those canting hypocrites who would entirely put an end to all the amusements of the humbler classes, but also from those sportsmen of the old school who would support every practice that tends to enhance our national character, both for courage and independence. The ring has, as I have already said, latterly lost one of its greatest ornaments and supporters. I allude to Byron's old friend, and corporeal pastor and master, the late John Jackson, Esq., who up to the day of his death "retained the strength and symmetry of his model of a form, together with his good humour, and athletic as well as mental accomplishments." The superior regularity, the good conduct of the fighting men, and the entire absence of those barbarous and demoralizing abuses which have lately disgraced the ring, were entirely attributable to having a man of respectability and fair character at its head. Such was Mr. Jackson, who for so many years presided over the pugilistic club, and in the school, with such honour to himself and advantage to the science. I cannot conclude this faint tribute to his memory without quoting some lines from Moore's Memorial to the Congress. In a note to that work the poet writes as follows: "This gentleman"-Mr. Jackson" (as he well deserves to be called, from the correctness of his conduct and the peculiar