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served—no matter who-no accounting for taste, or, more properly speaking, the want of it; accordingly, who will marvel at humanity herding together in a more intolerable condition than cattle on railways, in an atmosphere that fails not to deal around its pestiferous poison, to the painfully elaborated enunciation of Madame Celeste in the " Green Bushes,” and thievish slang of “ Jack Sheppard"? What is the Board of Health about ? and, oh! where--and, oh! where-is the Lord Chamberlain ?

Now, there is some fun to be met with at the STRAND THEATRE in listening to the African Troupe, the most mirthful part of the entertainment being the Nigger's description of “ The Bohemian Girl,” which certainly eclipses the original, whatever Messrs. Balfe, Bunn, and Harrison may think.

In addition to much that is amusing at THE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, there will be found no inconsiderable share of the instructive ; although there may be those who, instead of subscribing to the philosophy, of “ The art of preserving provisions," incline to the opinion that the great art is in first procuring provisions, and then assuredly not to preserve.

NOTES OF THE MONTH PAST.

It is with very sincere regret that we have to announce the death of Mr. Vincent Dowling, which took place on the 25th of October. Mr. Dowling, who was in the 67th year of his age, was well known as the editor of Bell's Life in London, an office in which it may be said with every justice that he gained the respect of all who knew him. Few in so trying a position could have preserved so high a character for integrity of purpose. In dealing with the eccentricities of the Ring, a department of the paper more particularly under Mr. Dowling's own superintendence, he evinced extraordinary tact and temper, doing wonders to maintain a not generally popular nor very grateful branch of British sports. The decease of Mr. Clement, the proprietor of Bell's Life, preceded that of its editor only a few months ; while it was only in our last number that we had to record the death of Mr. Chapman, the editor of the Sunday Times.

The obituary of the month further includes Mr. Henry Angelo, on the 14th, at Brighton, in his 72nd year, a gentleman well known as the most accomplished and elegant swordsman of his time—and his reign was a long one, too. Also the death of Kennedy, the champion of Highland sports, hammer throwing, caber tossing, and such athletic feats ; and in another line the who-whoop of Edward Ellum, or “ Ned Allen,” for nearly half a century head whip and huntsman to the father of the late Duke of Grafton!

While regretting the loss of so many good men, we may mention the sale of the late Mr. Fielding's hunters at Hyde Park Corner, on the 18th. "A dead man's stud always sell well," and these are thought

by good judges to have reached quite their value. They were thus priced : GS. GS.

GS. Congreve........ 270 The Roarer ........ 100 Denbigh............. The President ...... 180 The Pet............ 79 Hercules .......... 23 Weathercock ...... 110 |

THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE THAMES.—Combes not being satisfied," was treated to another trial with Coles on the 14th, over the former course from Putney to Mortlake, but all to no purpose ; the young one never gave him a chance, and won much easier than on their first encounter. On the course, as well as the river, age has had to succumb to the vigour of younger men, Jackson, the champion of pedestrianism, having been beaten after a close race by Levett, a runner hitherto not so well known,

Lord de Blaquire's challenge in the Times to match “ the America” against anything we have, has been accepted by Lord Londesborough, as well as by one or two other owners of yachts, but nothing we believe has yet been settled.

The two following “ extraordinary shots” are worth preserving. We don't at all dispute the miraculous in the second, although one or two of our Ramrodian friends consider it “ hard to beat :"-One day during the past month, Mr. Palmer, head park-keeper to Earl Fitzwilliam, Wentworth Park, accompanied by his son (his under park-keeper), was out for the purpose of killing a stag. The son shot a stag at full speed, the ball entering behind the ear, passing along the neck bone through the stag, and then entered the head of an old buck which was following the stag. What makes the shot remarkable is that the buck was at from ten to fifteen yards behind the stag in rather an opposite direction. That of course was accidental; but here is something a little more determined :-Mr. J. F. Malins, of Chipping Norton, Oxon, undertook for a wager, a few days ago, to lay a gun (a double-barrelled one) on the ground, throw up two small apples in the air at once, then turn head over heels, pick up the gun, and hit both apples right and left, before they fell to the ground, once out of six times. He performed this extraordinary feat the second attempt, and consequently won his wager.

STATE OF THE ODDS, &c.

SALE OF BLOOD STOCK.-By Messrs. Tattersall, in the Second October Meeting ; the property of Mr. Angerstein—a sale interesting as showing the amount of esteem in which close crosses of the Arabian are now held :HORSES IN TRAINING.

@s. Waverley, b. c., by Dromedary, dam by Vanish, 3 yrs. ....... 165 Pan, b. C., by Alarm, dam by Dromedary, 3 yrs....... Solyman, b. c., by Dromedary, out of My Dear, by Bay Middleton,

3 yrs...................................................... 37 Ravenswing, b. g., by Gibraltar or Alarm, out of Apricot;f3 yrs.....

105

Ninus.........

BROOD MARES.
Doctrine, b. m. (bred in 1844), got by The Doctor, out of Bay

Araby; covered by Footstool .. ........ .... .... ... 160
Bay Araby, sister to Dromedary (bred in 1836), by Camel, dam by

Sultan, out of a Marengo mare; covered by Double Cross (XX) Dahra, b. f. (bred in 1849), got by Theon, out of Bay Araby (Doc.

trine's dam); covered by Double Cross (XX) .....vroncorrono Bay Roan Mare (bred in 1848), got by Dromedary, out of Nightcap;

covered by Ninus, and by Double Cross (XX).................. Saba, sister to Bay Araby (Doctrine's dam), bred in 1844; covered

by Double Cross (XX) ................................ 20 Sakara, b. f. (bred in 1850), got by Ion, out of Saba ; covered by

... ..... ... ..... 13

YEARLINGS.
Mookadder, b. e. (own brother to Sakara) ...........Doornro.... 100
Djeddah, b. f. by Ion, out of Bay Araby.oooo...................
Yafa, b. f., by Dromedary, out of Apricot .... ................ 45
Mas'hara, b. C., by Bentley, dam by Dromedary, out of Nightcap.. 30
Zoomara, b. f., by John oʻGaunt, out of a sister to Waverley ...... 28

FOALS.
Sahar, b. c., by Jericho, out of Bay Araby ...................... 110
Sahara, b. f., by Jericho, out of Doctrine........................ 62

STALLION.
Ninus, by Dromedary, dam (Frantic's dam), by Mulatto, out of
Lunacy .... .............................................

........................... 50 (XX, or Double Cross, is by Liverpool, dam by The Exquisite, out of Dromedary's dam, by Sultan.)

The märes on the following Monday, at Hyde Park Corner :Apricot (Ravengwing's dam) by Sir Hercules, out of Preserve; covered by Dromedary .....vorio

......icii 53 Brown Mare, got by Sir Hercules, out of Lucy Banks; covered by

Dromedary ......
Ayesha, by Dromedary, her dam by Vigo, out of a Marengo mare ..
Zina, a bay yearling filly, by XX (Double Cross) out of Waverley's

and Willingham's dam ................................ 17 Ameer, a brown colt foal, by Lanercost, out of Pan's dam ........ Brown Mare, got by Dromedary, her dam by Talisınan, out of Marie,

Tufthunter's dam; covered by Don John ......
Brown Mare, Pan's dam, got by Dromedary, her dam by M'Adam ;

covered by Alarm ....oon .............................. 10$ Grey Mare, got by Marengo, by Partisan, out of Vanity; covered by

Dromedary ..... Mr. Kirby has sold Van Tromp to the Emperor of Russia for 2,000 guineas, and the horse has left this country. It may be remembered that he joins Peep-o'-Day-Boy also in the Emperor's service. Harpsichord has been sold to go to Germany, and Timid Fawn to Mr. Morris ; Azaël, in the Second October Meeting, to Mr. Elwes, for 1,500. The stallion Harkaway is advertised for sale by private contract, " on terms which, it is deemed, will render him a highly-profitable investment."

Lord Zetland's horses have arrived at Osborne's stables at Middleham, where they will stand under the especial care of George Abdale. His lordship's late manager, Atkinson, has left Ashe. Mr. Mare has engaged George Bloss as his private trainer.

In the obituary of the month we have the death of Mr. Bowes's brood mare Emma, by Whisker. She was the dam of two Derby winners, Mundig and Cotherstone, as well as of Trustee, Jagger, Michel Fell, with a dozen others more or less known to fame. Emma was foaled in 1824. A portrait of her, after Herring, with full particulars of her produce and performances, will be found in the April No. of the Sporting Review, 1845. We also have to notice the deaths of Belgravia, by Robert-de-Gorham, at Newmarket, from an accident; and of Mr. Cookson's The Confectioner, by Sweetmeat, who broke his leg in a gallop.

Poor James Robinson's leg, we are sorry to hear, has been set two inches shorter than the other, and he will never ride again.

DECISION OF DISPUTED RACES.—The objection against Titterstone for the Welter Cup, at Chester, as not having carried extra weight for winning a handicap at Liverpool Hunt Meeting, in his favour ; the Stewards of the Jockey Club, to whom it was referred, considering these Hunt Races as private ones, from their not being recorded in the Racing Calendar. The disputed Hunters' Stake, at Lincoln, in favour of the owner of Dandy Jem, who ran second, the Little Queen not having carried the penalty for winning the Lincolnshire Handicap-by Mr. Rudston Read, the steward of the meeting. The Bedfordshire Stake in favour of Azaël, who ran first for it. The point here was whether, in raising the weights of the acceptances, the Messrs. Weatherby should have included penalties for winning. This they took the trouble to do. The decision is generally considered as wrong, and the following rider to it not likely to be much respected :

“ The stewards observe that this question was only raised after the race, and they take this opportunity of stating that the more proper course would have been for those who had horses in the race, and entertained any doubt as to the correctness of the weights published in the Calendar, to have appealed to the stewards before the race was run.

"(Signed)

“GEORGE ANSON." The Derby, and that now is all we have to talk of, has been a dead letter of late at the Corner, though it has received some “ interim" notice during the October Meetings. In the first of these Cheddar was backed for some money at 20 to 1, Umbriel for a smaller stake at the same price, and a fifty laid out on North Pole at just double these odds. The result of the Cesarewitch week kept the market at something like these prices : 12 to 1 against Orestes, 18 to 1 against Cineas, 20 to 1 each against Sittingbourne, Umbriel, Pharos, the Reiver, and Elmsthorpe, 25 to 1 each against Cheddar and Filbert, 30 to 1 against Ninny-hammer, and 50 to 1 against PindusOrestes, Umbriel, and the Reiver, commanding the largest outlay. The Houghton, with a further study of performances, thus adjusted the wants of layer and takerthe racing of the month will mostly explain the why and the wherefore-15 to 1 against The Reiver, 16 to I against West Australian, 20 to 1 against Umbriel, and 30 to 1 against Cheddar. The Reiver in great force, and looking very like reaching the first position again.

" EXETER.

EMBELLISHMENTS.

“THE THORN.”
ENGRAVED BY E. HACKER, FROM A PAINTING BY W. SEXTIE.

AND

“ MORTALLY WOUNDED."

ENGRAVED BY J. SCOT

'ROM A PAINTING BY COOPER.

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