Whichever kind of chase is pursued, the ultimatum of enjoyment is much the same; horses, hounds, air, exercise, health, society, and exhilaration, constitute the aggregate: and TIME, which, to the opulent and independent, seems of _trifling_ value, is to the scientific inquisitant, or professional practitioner, neither more nor less than a LIFE ESTATE, no part of which should be _wasted_ or squandered away. The former class, in general, are industriously engaged in _killing_ time: the latter, who know and feel its worth, are as constantly employed in its preservation. The loss of time in the enjoyment of the two chases, is nearly or full _half_ between the one and the other: this is a circumstance, however, not likely to attract the _serious_ attention of the gentleman who has thus attacked the "_pomp_ and _parade_" of hunting the STAG; for as a clerical character, he had, of course, all the week upon his hands, being _particularly_ engaged only on A SUNDAY. To one of this description, who has most of his time to _kill_, and very little to employ, a long and dreary day through the gloomy coverts of a dirty country, without a _single challenge_, or one consolatory _chop_ of drag, must prove a scene of the most enchanting enjoyment; and in the very zenith of _exultation_, it must be acknowledged by professed and _energetic_ FOX-HUNTERS, that riding thirty or forty miles in wet and dirt, (replete with alternate hope, suspense, and expectation,) to enjoy the supreme happiness of repeated disappointments, terminating with a _blank day_, is equal, if not superior, to a STAG HUNT of even the first description. STAG HOUNDS are very rarely kept, and the sport but little known in many parts of the kingdom: those of the most celebrity are the Royal Establishment upon Ascot Heath, in Windsor Forest, (see "KING'S HOUNDS;") the Earl of Derby's, near the Downs, in Surrey; and the Subscription Pack near Enfield Chace. The greatest inducement to hunt with either of which, is, the invariable _certainty_ of _sport_, that first object of desirable attainment, not to be insured with hounds of a different description; the great gratification of going away with the pack, and covering a scope of country, without perpetual interruption from frequent intervening coverts, where checks, faults, delays, and a repetition of _wood riding_, so often ensue. Stag-hunting, indifferently as it is spoken of by some, is too _severe_ and _arduous_ for others to pursue: laborious as it is to the HORSE, it is in many cases not less so to the RIDER: difficulties occur which require great exertions in one, and fortitude in the other, to surmount, and none but those can lay at all by the side of the hounds.