LIST OF THE HUNTSMEN, &c., OF SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL PACKS OF FOXHOUNDS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, NOVEMBER 1ST, 1856.

York and Ainsty,

Philip Tocock,
Francis Beers,

Sir C. Slingsby, Bart. Wm. Orveys, (ken- Acomb, near York.

nel huntsman),

Stephen Shepherd,

George Wells,

Wynnstay, Wrexham.

Trueman Tuff,

Brocklesby, Caistor.

Duke of Buccleuch, | William Williamson Peter Collisson,

St. Boswell's.

[We regret that, owing to our having received answers to only

half our circulars, the above list is by no means so complete as we could have wished.]

SALT WATER ANGLING.

For some years past, I have been in the habit of spending a month or six weeks, annually, at a small retired village known by the name of Boldre, which abuts on the New Forest, in Hampshire, and is situated about one mile from the sea-port town of Lymington. I have, for the most part, selected the present month for my intinerant excursion into that delightful part of the country, when the May-fly, just bursting into active life from its torpid sub-aqueous imprisonment, is to be observed toying throughout the day, during its brief existence, over the surfaces of brooks and streams, falling an easy and unconscious prey to the trout, grayling, and other muscicapous fish. Although I have devoted much of my time to the fascinating pastime of fly-fishing, yet, by way of a change for I am addicted to variety-I have frequently indulged in the practice of salt-water angling, which affords a wide and diversified scope for piscatorial sport. I know of no spot, in the immediate locality I am speaking of, so well calculated for this particular class of diversion, as is the Lymington river, which, taking its rise at a place called New Park in the forest, and skirting the rural villages of Brockenhurst and Boldre, ultimately disembogues its waters into the Solent, a strait that separates the Isle of Wight from the main land, partaking of the character of an important estuary.

The abundant shoals of divers salt-water fish, that come up at this season of the year with the tides, towards the freshes, admit of excellent sport to those who are fond of general angling; and, if "pot luck" should prove an object of consideration to such adventurers, they will find themselves amply remunerated for their pains in following up this order of maritime recreation. The earliest spring visitor of the flood, that manifests itself in these waters, is a small fish somewhat less than, but greatly resembling, the smelt, under which name it is appelled by the inhabitants generally throughout the neighbourhood; but it does not possess that fragrant cucumber odour so peculiar to the latter delicacy, neither does it entertain the flavour of the pride of the Trent. It is known in ichthyological treatises as the anthera, and, in some parts of England, is called the rosette or sand-smelt. Towards the latter end of May, these finny shoals arrive in prodigious numbers, penetrating into the ostia or mouths of all our fresh water rivers, whilst they are mercilessly pursued by their unsparing enemies the gore-bill or mackerelguard, and the whiting coal, provincially named grundel, both which tyrants follow up their prey with unceasing avidity. I have stood on Lymington bridge just as the young tide has been making its way up from the Needles point, and have taken, in the course of six hours, with a single rod and line, twelve score of these fish and upwards, for they seize the bait ravenously when it is offered them, and are hooked and secured without any trouble. A No. 10 hook is the proper instrument to be employed in angling for the anthera, for the mandiles of these