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Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry. Thirtytwo dogs were entered, and the sport terminated on Friday, when the prize was won by a dog named by Mr. Brown, of Chisledon winning five successive courses.-Better sport was never seen; the successful dog was thought very little of; and the knowing ones were completely taken in. A handsome breakfast was each morning laid out at Rockley-house for the Members of the Troop and their friends.

GREYHOUND STALLIONS.

Colonel Elmhirst's black ticked dog BUGLE, winner of the Appleby Carr Stakes at the late Barton Coursing Meeting (the exact colour of Brunette), out of Levity, by Sir John Johnstone's Balloon, Brother to Brunette and Blue Ruin, at Scawby, near Brigg, Lincolnshire, at 5 sovs. each.

SENATOR, a yellow dog, the property of Captain Lidderdale, at Hungerford, Berks, at three guineas.

SNAIL, a blue dog, also the property of Captain Lidderdale, at the same place and on the same terms.

SPORTING OBITUARY.

Frank Buckle, the most celebrated Jockey of his day, died at Peterborough on the 7th of February, aged 68. In our January Number we announced the publication of his Portrait by Mr. Ackermann, jun. with a brief notice of his racing career; and for an interesting biography of the

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Many of the pages of the present Number are occupied with an Exposé which the Proprietors have, however reluctantly, been obliged to make, not only in justice to themselves from the false allegations which have been industriously propagated, but in deference to the suggestions of many valued Friends and Subscribers; together with a Reply to a most illiberal and unprovoked attack by a Rival Publication. That our Readers, however, may not be abridged of the usual portion of Sporting Articles we have given twenty-four pages extra: though, even with this addition, we have still to apologise for the non-insertion of several articles.

ERRATA-In p. 255, first column, of our last Number, there is an error in the punctuation, which renders two sentences unintelligible: the passages should read thus:" My own ideas, however, lead me to still think highly of him; and I hope, for the sake of his liberal and worthy owner, yet to see him (Zany) make zanies of those who consider otherwise-As the viclent bruise and strain which he met with at Goodwood might have totally finished his career, had it not been promptly and effectually attended to, Mr. Stonehewer was fortunate in meeting with the skilful and friendly assistance of Mr. Watts," &c.-P. 259, col. 2, line 26, for "the Guy horse," read "the grey horse."

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Cock Shooting in Wales-the Spaniel and its Varieties-the Cocker, &c. . . . . . . . . . . 409 By-gone Scenes, or Days of Hog-hunting in India, No. VI........ Fragments concarning a raal ould Irish Squire, by An Ould Dragoon ... Hoitt, Somervile's Huntsman ..........422 Instinct, from the "Percy Anecdotes:" Retribution, the Swan and the Deerthe Boy and Dog-Friendship in Animals.......... ....... 426

A Brief Sketch of the Writings, with a

No. XXIV.

Memoir of the late Strickland Freeman, Esq. of Fawley Court, Berks, Author of" Observations on the Horse's Foot," and "The Art of Horsemanship," by B. Hart, with a striking Likeness of Mr. Freeman.......

430 Visit to Northamptonshire, and a Day at Melton, by Miles ........436 Leicestershire and Neighbouring Counties, by Will Careless....... ........444 Another Peep at the Suffolk Hounds-the Huntsman and First Whip, by Ringwood ...........

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Embellished with,

I. VIGNETTE TITLE PAGE.-II. THE YOUNG FOXHUNTERS.
III. PORTRAIT OF CURRICLE.

THE YOUNG FOX-HUNTERS.

ΜΑ ADAME VESTRIS having just brought out at her Theatre "The Two Hopefuls," we beg leave to declare distinctly that this subject has no allusion whatever to the burletta of Madame: ours is from real life; the other most likely a fancy sketch -but we have not seen it. is from horses that can go, and lads that can ride, and the scene near to which "foxes have holes."

Ours

On this title to our plate volumes might be written; as there are fox-hunters, though young in years, still old in experience, and others old in theory, yet young in practice, with others again (and by far the greatest number) who gallop about the fields all their lives without knowing why or wherefore, except that Squire Bugle and Sir Harry Highflyer do it; or for an excuse to take a 3 E

bottle or two extra at dinner to drink FOX-HUNTING! and Mr. Apollo Nimrod leave to gratify himself in nearly tearing off half the ears of those who surround him with his song of

"A southerly wind and a cloudy sky."

Fashion, too, does as much to spoil sport as it does at times to distort female beauty. Mr. Morant, a first-rater, once changing Bond Street for Leicestershire, on his return was saluted with, "Well, Morant, what sport?-first, I suppose?"-" No, I was not first, but I was two fields before the hounds." Our Young Foxhunters arrange things differently: they allow the fox to go first, the hounds to go next, and then everybody to go before themselves that can get there, and remain there, if they can last long enough. They know a hunted fox from a fresh-found one; when to speak, and when to hold their tongues (useful knowledge this in other places as well as the hunting-field): they know when they have good horses (as on the present occasion), how to keep them, and to prefer for every purpose a well-known good one to an unknown new one. The way to return home does not escape their consideration, regulating the pace according to the distance and the heat or cold of the weather, and on no account to allow

"skylarking" and fox-hunting to take place with the same horses on the same day.

The Bay Mare in profile is by Hedley, and is" all but thoroughbred;" and if the pedigree was carefully examined, perhaps the but might be omitted. She is a sensible careful leaper in trifling things; but if roused to great exertions, such is her natural courage that she thinks nothing in reason too high or too far for her, and never beyond her ambition: she is moreover as fast as anything in the chase or the chased.

The Black Mare foreshortened is not so well bred, but she seems to inherit in rare qualities what she loses in pedigree; is a superb leaper in all its varieties, with true beautiful action-the real source of durability in the field; and so fast, that, notwithstanding her "cartish" appearance, on the turf, where she is no stranger, a person having a young racer that can beat her certain distances, may nurse it through the winter with well-founded hopes of being repaid his expenses and care in the spring.

This picture is painted by MARSHALL, Jun. shewing a versatility of talent carefully and industriously cultivated to a degree that never fails of success. The engraving is by ROMNEY, an artist as well known as he is universally admired.

LINES ON BUCKLE.

BUCKLE, farewell! though winded now,
Thy juniors take the lead,

Hold hard-make play for wind-for thou
Must seek a higher meed.

Another race awaits thy winning:
Thy second heat is but beginning.

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