old one the option of combining its resources with our own, so as to produce a periodical worthy of the country from which it emanates (though we must also express our satisfaction at the offer being declined); but beholding the rapid strides other countries were making towards us-not only in field sports, but also in their records of them-we could not sit quietly by and see the national character lowered for want of a proper and efficient organ. Hence this Magazine; and of its necessity let our circulation be the witness."

Indeed! so the New Magazine was set up to raise the national character! and the principal writer in it claims to have been the leading contributor to the Old!!-Ergo, this highly-talented egotist first debased the national character by his former lucubrations, and now sets himself up to restore it!!!-Admirable casuit! No, no! Mr. Nim South, you know better: you know, that because the Proprietors of the Old Magazine refused your modest demand of a share in the concern-and that an EQUAL MOIETY-you declined to adorn its pages by your contributions, which, according to your present admission, degraded the national character!

It will naturally be asked what pretensions this would-be partner had to make such a demand-what length of service or what claims he had on the gratitude of the Proprietors-what influence he possessed that might induce them to comply with this unreasonable, not to say impudent, request ?-His pretensions amounted to a few months' contributions—and of their merit he certainly must be the best judge, and we have just recorded his opinion on that head: his claims, to an over-weening ambition or an egregious vanity, presuming that there was no talent equal to his, and that consequently we could not do without him: and as to his influence in the Sporting World, it consisted in drawing brief sheets instead of coverts. Neither his habits nor his associations gave him any weight on the turf, in the field, or the sod: nor was he even known in the "Rooms." As well might one of Mr. Tattersall's strappers claim a share in his establishment as Nim South in ours-their services were equally valuable.

Of the other writers we decline saying anything in compassion to their infirmities" the lion preys not upon carcases." DASHWOOD, the only talented one among them, has joined our cotemporary; and we hope he has benefited by the change. Every man is entitled to carry his wares to what market he chooses-but "all is not gold that glistens." With the exception of this Gentleman, and of Abraham Cooper, Esquire, R.A., we know of none connected with VOL. IV. SECOND SERIES.No. 23.

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the Old that are engaged in the New. We beg pardon, Mr. Richard Lawrence has deserted us, and has given them his powerful assistance, by re-producing articles worn threadbare in ours!

A very few words will suffice to shew the originality and superiority of their contributions. In our December Number we gave the Review of the last Racing Season by THE YOUNG FORESTER. In "one little month" (the January Number), they also gave the "Racing Season," admirably made up, with a little turning and twisting, from us. At the close of the article, it is announced "To be continued;" and it will naturally be asked why its continuation does not appear in the Number just published—and no apology made for it? We can give a pretty considerable shrewd guess. Our Correspondent was ill, and could not continue his “ Review” in the January Number-ergo, they could not shoot from want of ammunition! It will doubtless appear in their next. At all events, their claim to priority of intelligence is rather unfortunate, as they are always a month behind!!

Again-On comparing WILL CARELESS's Epistle from Leicestershire in our December Number with Nim South's recent visit to that county in his February Number, it will be found that it is far easier to concoct an article in Lincoln's-Inn-fields, when the documents are so readily come-at-able, than to travel so far in a light coach! This travelling is certainly very fatiguing, and totally unnecessary! We could also point out numerous instances of new articles made up from our old volumes:

"How great the crime, how flagrant the abuse,

T'adulterate generous wine with noxious juice !”

We drop all allusion to "A Day with the Surrey," which was admitted to be a "fancy sketch," and the characters introduced fictitious-so much for superiority of information! But "A Day's Shooting in Surrey, alias Jorrocks in trouble," in the last Number, by the same writer, is the ne plus ultra of wit! the very essence of manly, plain, straight-forward writing!!—and the day too on which this said shooting took place!-New Year's Day!!-Sunday!!!-This was commencing the year well! From the forensic eloquence displayed by Counsel in the appeal against Jorrocks' conviction for a trespass-one half of his toe being over his “ right of way"--we should have thought that the mantle of Nim South had fallen upon him, only we are told he is no Lawyer!

Of the " twenty years' experience derived from the Old Magazine,”

Nim South's engagement to write in that Journal commenced in April 1830!! He had, however, sufficient experience to take our very title, and to imitate the very form and feature of our publication-thus shewing the weakness of his own pretensions.

But enough of this:-We can give due credit to an honorable competitor-we despise a mean one; and that cause must be weak which is supported by malignity, falsehood, and chicanery. But whilst we have such valuable supporters as

we need not fear an opposition founded on disappointment, and supported by writers, who, from their own admission, tended to debase our pages, and therein the national character.

Of the boasted superiority of their embellishments, we can only say "self-praise is no commendation." No one doubts the ability of Mr. Cooper, who superintends that department; but true merit never eulogises itself. If that Gentleman had made the same exertions for the widow of "the best friend he ever had in his life,” as he now does, he might still have been in our service. The New Magazine has published ten Numbers, in which TEN subjects have been furnished by him, whilst, during the last four years he officiated in that department for us, we had but thirteen and five vignettes from him! "Look on this picture and look on that!" Every eulogy paid to his superintendence now is a tacit admission of a former dereliction in duty! But whilst we can boast of the two Marshalls, of a Ferneley, a Smith, a Laporte, a Turner, a Woodman, a Golding, a Romney, a Cook, a Bishop, cum multis aliis, we have no fear of not giving satisfaction to our Readers and the Sporting World, notwithstanding the vituperations of a Nim South, or the retirement of an R. A.

A LETTER TO "ONEOFUS" FROM LEICESTERSHIRE.

I remember one day finding a fox, but there was very little scent: hounds were at fault, when one of the whips viewed the fox going a field or two a-head: he halloo'd and rode forward cap in hand, but the hounds were a long time coming to him. In the mean time he kept going along, keeping pug in view, and the field after him, some before the hounds, some after them, but all galloping at a good pace and taking the fences. I should think the whip and about a dozen, in spite of "hold hard! hold hard!" went nearly a mile in this manner before the other whip (the huntsman was not out) could get the hounds up, which he accomplished at last, giving a few hearty damns to those Gents who had ridden on; which occasioned a certain Noble Lord, who had been one, to say quietly to some of the party, "Curse those infernal dogs, they always spoil sport! What a capital hunt we should have had if it had not been for them!"