being-1,565 brace of grouse, 575 head of other game, and 6 red-deer. -Inverness Courier. As a sequitur to the above synopsis, we may add that an Anti-Game Law Association is about to be formed at Edinburgh. MORPETH COURSING CLUB.-The members of this club have come to the unanimous resolution of compressing their numerous meetings, and only to hold two during the season, in order to give to each a more important character; by which, with the facility of railway communication direct to Morpeth, numerous and highly-respectable meetings are confidently anticipated. The arrangement of the field will be under the direction of that true sportsman, John Angus, Esq., Whitefield. Mr. Braithwaite will officiate as secretary; and the decisions will be left to the unerring judgment of Mr. Nightingale. ROYAL DEE YACHT CLUB.-The following letter has been received by the secretary of this rising club :— "Admiralty, 19th November, 1847. "SIR,-Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter of the 17th inst., I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to send you herewith warrants for the vessels belonging to the Royal Dee Yacht Club named in the margin, authorizing them to wear the blue ensign of Her Majesty's Fleet, with the distinguishing marks of the club thereon. "William Ayrton, Esq., Chester." I am, sir, your most obedient servant, STATE OF THE ODDS, &c. Mr. Meiklam retires from the turf. His stud, including Trueboy, Aristotle, Lightning, Godfrey, Poynton, Fancy Boy, and other wellknown names, came under Tattersall's hammer, at York, on the first. Mr. Pedley has sold Pink Bonnet to Mr. Carr, of Heslington, and Mr. Copeland Arthur and the Prime Warden to the French government. By the "book" Calendar just out, four hundred and forty-two thorough-bred colt-foals and four hundred and thirty-five fillies were dropped during the past year in Great Britain. This list is a most important addition to Messrs Weatherby's work, and one to which there can be no "opposition." THE FRENCH TURF.-" The whole of M. Aumont's racing stud was, some weeks since, brought to the hammer in Paris. Just as the sale was about to commence, the auctioneer received a notice from the President of the Jockey Club, pointing out certain animals he was about to submit for sale, as unqualified. This denunciation of disqualification by such an authority, announced by the auctioneer, had its effect upon the sale of the animals: no one looked at them."— Bell's Life. This charge of disqualification implied that the horses were not bred in France, and consequently seldom capable of running in that country, it being a leading condition in nearly all the great stakes that horses must be home-bred and reared. M. Aumont, one of the most fortunate of Parisian turfites, has long been a "marked man," though it has been impossible hitherto to bring any proof against him; and certainly this last act of the Jockey Club reads as yet more like might than right. Our monthly table needs, if possible, less exposition than usual. The great feature of the time has been a row at the Corner over a trotting. match bet. How are the mighty fallen! The Liverpool Steeple-chase :-15 to 1 against the Curate, 20 to 1 against Sir Arthur, 20 to 1 against Richard the First, 20 to 1 against the Nigger, 20 to 1 against Wolverhampton. The Two Thousand Guinea Stakes :-5 to 1 against Surplice, and 10 to 1 against Rosslyn. EMBELLISHMENTS. PORTRAIT OF J. F. HERRING, ESQ. ENGRAVED BY J. B. HUNT, FROM A PAINTING BY W. BETHAM. AND 66 THE STEEPLE CHASE-PLATE I.: WHAT ABOUT THE GREY ?". ENGRAVED BY E. HACKER, FROM A PAINTING BY J. F. HERRING, SEN. CONTENTS. DIARY FOR FEBRUARY PROSPECTS OF THE TURF IN 1848.-BY CRAVEN INTERCEPTED CORRESPONDENCE FROM NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Page. 75 81 88 A PEEP AT THE PROVINCES; OR, THE CRACK PACKS OF OBSERVATIONS ON THE HARE, AND LINTON THE POCKET AND THE STUD.-BY HARRY HIEOVER THE BURTON HUNT SPORTING INCIDENTS AT HOME AND ABROAD (FROM THE MS. LIFE OF THE HON. PERCY HAMILTON).-COMMUNICATED DOINGS OF THE BATAVIA RACE CLUB EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL KEPT DURING A CRUISE ON MEMOIR OF J. F. HERRING, ESQ. LITERATURE: THE BRITISH ANGLER'S MANUAL PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS OF THE METROPOLIS SPORTING INTELLIGENCE STATE OF THE ODDS, ETC. THE TURF REGISTER, 1847. BANFF, AND KINCARDINESHIRE-DONCASTER-BRECON- UPTON-UPON-SEVERN BASINGSTOKE -OSWESTRY-MANCHESTER-BREWOOD-TEWKESBURY -UTTOXETER-NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING -WREXHAM 125-140 Our monthly table needs, if possible, less exposition than usual. The great feature of the time has been a row at the Corner over a trottingmatch bet. How are the mighty fallen! The Liverpool Steeple-chase-15 to 1 against the Curate, 20 to 1 against Sir Arthur, 20 to 1 against Richard the First, 20 to 1 against the Nigger, 20 to 1 against Wolverhampton. The Two Thousand Guinea Stakes:- -5 to 1 against Surplice, and 10 to 1 against Rosslyn. THE STEEPLE CHASE-PLATE I.: WHAT ABOUT THE GREY ?" ENGRAVED BY E. HACKER, FROM A PAINTING BY J. F. HERRING, SEN. CONTENTS. DIARY FOR FEBRUARY PROSPECTS OF THE TURF IN 1848.-BY CRAVEN INTERCEPted correSPONDENCE FROM NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. A PEEP AT THE PROVINCES; OR, THE CRACK PACKS OF Page. 75 THE POCKET AND THE STUD.-BY HARRY HIEOVER THE BURTON HUNT SPORTING INCIdents at home AND ABROAD (FROM THE MS. DOINGS OF THE BATAVIA RACe club 81 88 89 98 104 A CRUISE ON AND SOUTH THE HORSE.-BY G. W. B. PENCILLINGS IN THE PROVINCES.-BY WHIZ MEMOIR OF J. F. HERRING, ESQ. LITERATURE: THE BRITISH ANGLER'S MANUAL PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS OF THE METROPOLIS ABERDEEN, RICH BANFF, AND KINCARDINESHIRE-DONCASTER-BRECON- · BASINGSTOKE · UPTON-UPON-SEVERN- |