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HORSES PURCHASED TO GO ABROAD.

Goshawk, ch. g. by Merlin out of Coquette; to Baron Lowenberg, at Florence.

Paradox, 4 yrs old, by Merlin out of Pawn; to Count de Demidoff, Florence.

Bay colt, 2 yrs old, by Emilius out Bartonia, and ch. f. 2 yrs old, by Merlin, out of Elizabeth, by Rainbow; to Mr. Palmer, Florence.

The members of the Royal Caledonian Hunt, before leaving Kelso, placed 501. in the hands of the Baillie of that town to be applied to charitable purposes.

Lord Chesterfield has purchased Non Compos, by Bedlamite out of Zora by Selim, of Colonel Peel, for 2000gs.

The veteran jockey Buckle has declared his intention not to ride after the present season. He has served an apprenticeship to the turf of nearly fifty years.

THE SPORTSMAN'S CYCLOPEDIA.

Mr. Johnson, of Liverpool, has just published a valuable and useful work, intitled "The Sportsman's Cyclopedia, being an Elucidation of the Science and Practice of the Field, the Turf, and the Sod." Mr. Johnson is well known in the sporting hemisphere, not only as a writer, but as an ardent follower of the Chase in Lancashire and Cheshire. From such a man, therefore, the reader expects real information; nor will he be disappointed, as the Sportsman's Cyclopedia developes much practical intelligence of paramount consequence to the Sportsman, the Naturalist, and the Country Gentleman. The subjects, alphabetically arranged, are treated in a pleasing and familiar manner: the work contains copious essays upon the principles and practice of all field sports, together with the natural history of those animals which are more particularly the object of the British Sportsman. The volume contains nearly one thousand closely printed pages, and is embellished with numerous well-executed engravings and wood-cuts illustrative of its diversified contents.

SPORTING LITIGATION,

Mr.

In the Court of King's Bench in Michaelmas Term, Sir J. Scarlett moved for a Rule to shew cause why a criminal information should not be filed against Mr. Henry Jadis, for sending a challenge to the Marquis of Blandford. It appeared that the Marquis of Blandford made a bet with the defendant at Doncaster races, which he contended that he had won, and the defendant disputed. The dispute was submitted to the Jockey Club (of which they were both members), who decided that the Marquis had won; and he therefore wrote to the defendant, stating that he was entitled to receive. Weatherby, Clerk to the Stewards, also wrote to the defendant, intimating their decision, and stating that if he refused to pay, it would be submitted to the whole of the Club to decide whether his name should be allowed to continue on the list. The defendant, on the 9th of October, wrote to the Marquis, to the effect that he had received a letter from the Stewards, to whom the Marquis had written for the purpose of getting his (Mr. Jadis's) name struck off the list-that such conduct divested the Marquis of any pretensions to the conduct of a Gentleman-that, notwithstanding his having resorted to so base a method of extorting money, by representing him as a defaulter, he should wave every consideration, and require satisfaction. The Marquis, on receiving this letter, wrote to remove the erroneous impression under which Mr. Jadis appeared to labour, and stated that he had not written to the Stewards to have his name erased from the list, nor had he stated that he was a defaulter. Since then he had heard nothing from Mr. Jadis. The only communication upon the subject which the Marquis had received was from Mr. Weatherby, in which he intimated that Mr. Jadis had withdrawn from the Club, and that the Stewards therefore could have no power over him.--Lord Tenterden said the letter was a direct challenge, and immediately granted the Rule.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

THE favours of our Correspondents have so increased, that, though this is the Double Number of the Volume, we have been obliged to give an additional half sheet, as well as to print some articles in smaller type in the hope of clearing our table. We are, however, still under the necessity of apologising for the omission of several communications, many of which, indeed (particularly some Coursing Meetings), came too late to insure their insertion in the current Number.

We have also received several letters requesting information on various subjects. Instead of inserting these, we take leave to reply to them, for two reasons: the first, that the questions would have occupied a considerable portion of our pages, for which we could not find room in the present Number; and the second, that our Correspondents may be furnished with immediate answers (where in our power to give them), instead of waiting, as they otherwise would do, at least two months for their solution.

In justice to Mr. Wilkinson, of Pall Mall, and following up our universal maxini, of Audi alteram partem, we insert a letter from that Gentleman, in reply to the communication in our last from A MEMBER OF THE BURTON HUNT.

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"SIR-Permit me to assure A MEMBER OF THE BURTON HUNT, that, so far from feeling injured by his observations, I have already derived some advantage from them, in consequence of Gentlemen having called who might not otherwise; and as I fortunately am enabled to shew many letters from sportsmen who have used the breeching in question more than one season, whose opinions are in direct opposition to those of your Correspondent, the effect has always been beneficial. Even this Gentleman may, perhaps, admit that those who have tried any new invention are as capable of judging as one who has not; but I fear he may be offended that a gun maker should presume to answer what he no doubt considered unanswerable. If, however, he wishes any person to imagine he understands the subject he attempts to criticise, he should not assert, that with this breeching you are absolutely compelled to shoot always at the same distance,' and without increasing or diminishing the charge; nor insinuate that there is any probability of bursting-both being so void of all foundation that it is perfectly astonishing how he should so far misconceive the nature of the invention, whether old or new. An absence of his former courtesy being the only novelty I can discover in this Gentleman's last composition, I shall content myself with merely requesting those who may feel sufficiently interested to read the original letter, and reply, in your Numbers for July and September. I will not again trouble your readers on this subject, but leave the MEMBER OF THE BURTON HUNT in undisturbed possession of the field, should he favour you with a continuation; by doing which he will confer additional obligation on, Sir, &c.-HENRY WILKINSON."

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Immediately on receiving the above letter, we forwarded it to our valued Correspondent, who requests us to say, that "notwithstanding what is therein contained, his opinion, which was not expressed without some thought, remains fixed. Once more, he begs to assure Mr. W. his intention in thus openly expressing his opinion was very far from the wish of doing that gentleman an injury; and he is excessively sorry it should have been taken in that light."

“J. S." is informed, that Chateau Margaux ran a dead heat with Lamplighter for the King's Plate at Newmarket in October 1827. After the dead heat Col. Wilson and the Hon. Chas. Wyndham compromised.

In reply to " W. D."-Sultan is the first produce of his dam : he was foaled in 1816. Centaur and Godolphin were both of the same year, 1818.-Godolphin, 8st. 101b. beat Centaur, 8st. 3lb. in a Sweepstakes at Newmarket First Spring Meeting 1822, Across the Flat. Sultan beat Godolphin, Craven Meeting 1823, Across the Flat, a Match, even weights, 8st. 4lb. each.-Centaur, 9st., beat Sultan, 9st. 3lb. over the B. C. Nov. 1st, 1824: 7 to 4 on Sultan.

In answer to a Correspondent in Norfolk respecting the Quagga, or Wild Horse, announced for Sale on the 21st at the "Corner," we can only say it was not sold, though money was bid for it. We may add, a “ríght good 'un" said, there were but two fools in earnest about the animal-the one, who offered to purchase; and the other, for refusing to touch the penny.The Quagga is thus described in the London Ency

clopedia :—“ The Quagga, or Quacha, is striped like the Zebra on the head and body, but with fewer lines. The Hanks are spotted; the rump is plain; the ground colour of the head, neck, body, and rump, a bright bay: the belly, thighs, and legs are white, free from all marks. This species, till latterly, was supposed to be the female of the Zebra; but recent observations prove that the male and female Zebra are marked alike. The Quagga differs likewise in being thicker and stronger made, and in being more tractable, one having been broken in by a Dutch Colonist at the Cape to draw in a cart. The Hottentots also distinguish them from the former by the names of Quagga and Opeasha."

We have made inquiries on the subject of INVESTIGATOR's letter, and we find, on looking into Pratt's Supplementary Gleanings," that Bury-farm, in the neighbourhood of Southampton, was formerly the property of Sir Charles Mill, Bart. The manor is held by an ancient grant of the Crown, on condition of its possessor's presenting to the reigning Monarch, on his entering New Forest, a pair of white greyhounds. This custom was observed when His Majesty Geo. III. visited the New Forest in 1789, and the late Rev. Sir Charles Mill presented them to him on the King's alighting from his carriage at Lyndhurst. The family, it is said, still preserve a brood of these animals for this purpose.

We cannot undertake precisely to answer A YOUNG SPORTSMAN's queries; but we have heard Fawsley Park, in Northamptonshire, named as possessing the heaviest deer of any Park in England. Stanstead Park is celebrated for small deer and the finest-flavored venison, which is ascribed to the excellent quality of the herbage. Another cause also contributes to this reputation: the animals are in the habit of feeding much upon wild thyme, which abounds there. Forest deer, at seven years old, will weigh from 9 to 10 stone-the skin about 9lbs. The rutting season generally commences about the middle of October, and lasts three weeks or a month.

The letter of a TRAINING GROOM contains little that is not familiar to every lover of field sports; and while we thank him for his communication, we may be permitted to differ from him in his mode of treating Craving Horses. Water should never be given to craving horses in training, immediately before their food, nor immediately after for this reason, that they are known to eat a great quantity of food; and that water given to them directly after, occasions the grain to swell: this produces a distension of the stomach, weakens its contracting powers, and consequently retards the process of digestion.

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To "T. S."-The Lammergeyer is a species of Vulture: these destructive birds abound in Switzerland, near the Lakes.

We thank AN ANTIQUARIAN for his many interesting anecdotes touching the sporting localities of former times. Our readers in Lincolnshire will be pleased to read the following notice (from Camden) of that county, written more than two centuries ago." At certain seasons of the year, not to mention fish, amazing flights of fowl are found all over this part of the country: not the common ones, which are in great esteem in other places, such as teal, quails, woodcocks, pheasants, partridges, &c., but such as have no Latin names-the delicacies of tables, and the food of heroes, fit for the palates of the Great; Puittes, Godwittes, Knots, which I take to mean Canute's birds, for they are supposed to come hither from Denmark; Dotterells, so called from their extravagant doatishness, which occasions these imitative birds to be caught by the fowler's gestures by candle-light: if he only puts out his arm, they put out a wing; and if his leg, they do the same: in short, whatever the fowler does, the bird does the same till the net is drawn over it."

ONE OF THE LINE AND ROD desires information on the Antiquity of Angling. There can be little doubt that it was coeval with the earliest periods. It has been asserted by some writers that it was first found out by Deucalion and Pyrrha (his wife) after the Flood: others state that it was the invention of Saturn, after the peace concluded between him and his brother Titan: others again, that it came from Belus, the son of Nimrod, who first invented all holy and virtuous recreations. And all these, though they savour of fiction, yet are not materially at variance with truth; for it is certain that Deucalion, Saturn, and Belus, are taken for figures of Noah, and his family; and the invention of the Art of Angling is truly said to come from the sons of Seth, of whom Noah was the principal.

"T. S." is informed that the River Lea was first made navigable in the reign of Henry V.

We have to apologise to "X. Y. Z." for having mislaid his communication. There was nothing new in his "Hints ;" and we must repeat that when letters are once laid aside we cannot undertake to be responsible for their recovery.

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I. PORTRAIT OF SMARAGDINE.-II. JOCKEY CLUB NEW SUBSCRIPTION

ROOMS AT NEWMARKET.

SMARAGDINE,

Engraved by ROMNEY, from a Painting by MARSHALL, Jun.

SMARAGDINE, a bay mare, thirteen hands high, with uncommon strength and symmetry, is the property of William Ramsay, Esq. of Barnton, M. P. She is by the Arabian Borack (late Pet), out of Blinker, a blood mare that was never beat by anything of her size. Smaragdine, a short while ago, challenged any pony of her size in Scotland for 100 sovs. November, 1831.

We should have considered this beautiful pony, which does so much credit to both painter and

engraver, as rather too large according to the above statement of measure and challenge, were we not well acquainted with it, and therefore fully competent to speak as to the likeness, which we have no hesitation in pronouncing as quite perfect. MARSHALL, the father of this promising young artist, assures us, that "of all animals in the creation the most difficult to describe on canvas is a little horse; for (says he) every pony is a little horse, but every little horse is not a pony: a horse in miniature, he ought to be

called, as he has all the just proportions of a horse of fifteen hands; whereas a real pony has not one of them." Marshall further says, that he once met with one of these difficult rarities at Carlton Palace, in a little beautiful creature named Sancho, and was employed to paint him for His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, as a present to Miss Seymour. It was a small picture but whether the picture be twenty inches or twenty feet high, it has no effect, and is no assistance in describing the difference between a large and a small horse; i. e. if the proportions are perfect, like Smaragdine, the one before us. When His Royal Highness first saw his picture, he pronounced it very like, but thought it might be taken for Sancho the Great, or Sancho the Little; to which the painter re

plied, "If I had the aid of that dog (a large one running about at the time, and the picture only half done), I could make it plain to every eye, and understood by every capacity." The Prince, with his usual good nature, said, "Use him as you like; only remember he is a great favorite:" and on his return was astonished to find Sancho and Comus in the picture, side by side, the dog making the little horse a pony, and the little horse making the dog a great beast; at which His Royal Highness was pleased to say it was now decidedly perfect, and that he thought nothing short of magic could have wrought so great a change.

This hint is kindly intended for those young artists who may one day or other meet the difficulty.

A DORSETIAN SKETCH.-No. X.

MR. EDITOR,

"Veni, VIDI, vici!”

"I too can hunt a would-be Critic down!"

N first taking up

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"My gray goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will,"

as a contributor to your Magazine, it was with the intention of taking no notice of any attempt at critical comment that might cross my epistolary path, simply deeming it not worth the trouble. The morning, however, proving a wet one, and having nothing better just now to occupy my attention, I am induced, pour passer le temps, to make an exception to my rule, by proceeding without farther ceremony to the dissection

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of VIDI and his witticisms, with the least possible delay, coupled at the same time with the greatest possible placidity: and should he, during the run, by chance encounter "A Roland for an Oliver,' (lamenting, as I do, that there should be no Maria Darlington with "wakening harmony" and "bewitching smile" to act the part of peace-maker to the contending parties,) he will, I am quite sure, have the candour (the organ of which is so strongly developed throughout his letter) to bear in mind that it was entirely of his own seeking; and, as such,

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