The Hampshire campaign has commenced with a misfortune. On Wednesday
the horses of the 1st Life Guards, 250 in number, were picketed out, when a fight, as is supposed, between two dogs frightened the animals, and an extraordinary rush, known in the Far West as a stampede, began. The horses rushed in all direc- tions mad with fright, staked themselves, drowned themselves, or spoilt themselves by racing at top speed over fifteen miles of country, The pursuit lasted hours, and when it was over it was found that thirty or forty valuable horses had been killed or rendered useless. The accident is a very unusual one, and could scarcely have been provided against, but it would seem to indicate seine serious defect either in the mode of picketing or of watching the horses. Is it quite certain that nobody flung a cracker among the animals ? A stampede has always some definite cause.
