NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

B. X. (Doncaster).—A rider falling in a steeple-chase may remount any where in the same field, but if his horse be not caught before entering another it must be brought back.

AMICUS (Hampstead).-The Duke of Dorset lost his life from an accident while hunting in Ireland, in February, 1815, and the expression, "I am off!" the last he made use of, merely referred to a hard mattress, from which he fancied himself to be slipping.

QUIZ (Gravesend).—It was in 1826 that James Hirst favoured the Doncaster quidnuncs with his singular equipage: a body composed of hazel sticks, secured by a cord, supporting a head of check bed-furniture, and mounted on four large light cart wheels. The "old squire" had a great objection to paying taxes, and even carried his evasions to the extent of training a pig to serve as a pointer, and riding a bull with the Badsworth hounds.

RESEARCH (Knightsbridge).-A Steeple Chase Challenge Cup was presented to the 5th Dragoons by J. F. Scott, Esq. on leaving the regiment, and first won in 1834 by Lieutenant Knocker's bm Nanny.

J. T. S. (Wales).—The point of racing law involved in the case of Loutherbourgh in 1838, will be best seen by quoting the question submitted to the Jockey Club:—“ Mr. Theobald's horse Loutherbourgh having won the Goodwood Stakes this year, and the pedigree under which that horse started in 1837 having been ascertained to be a false pedigree by an investigation which has taken place since the race, is Loutherbourgh thereby disqualified, and the second horse, St. Luke, entitled to the stake?" It was decided that Loutherbourgh was not disqualified.

NIL DESPERANDUM (Worcester).-Right, young gentleman; never say die. Jackson shed tears on mounting Theodore for the Leger of 1822; the horse was at any odds, with sore feet and corns, but on Jackson sticking the spurs violently into him, he forgot his legs and won.

BET (The Strand).-The money should be put together and divided.

F. D. (Birmingham).-Don John won the Leger of 1838 in 3 m. 17 sec. COURSER (Exeter).—Mr. Thacker's amendments of the Duke of Norfolk's rules are, we believe, very generally in use, and we cannot do better than answer your question by his own impromptu :

"Give me the dog that runs the most fair,

Performing the most towards killing the hare."

WILL. (Cambridge).-Whether a polished bore or ring-bored barrel be the most desirable in a gun must always he a matter of individual opinion; the latter undoubtedly shoots very close, but then it leads very much, whilst the partisans of the polished bore insist that it greatly increases the velocity by never doing 80. We have heard of oiling and wetting shot when shooting for prizes, but recommend in preference to charge by dropping in succession a few shot at a time wrapped in a little tow. H. I. (Newcastle).-The prices of fox-hounds have greatly varied: Mr. Osbaldeston once sold ten couples for 1,000 guineas, and Mr. Beckford mentions an appraiser who valued a pack at a shilling a-piece.

B. L. (City).—We do not see that walking in a horse must of necessity commence with one of the hind feet; for instance, if you face a horse, and draw him forward by means of the bridle, he almost invariably first moves his fore-foot. Mr. Lawson's theory of progression, that the horse is supported by a triangular position of three legs can only be true of the very slowest walk. When the trot is accelerated to the rate of ten or twelve miles an hour, the near fore and off hind-leg are elevated before the off fore and near hind-feet reach the ground, so that the animal is literally all in the air.

TOOTH (Cork).-All decisions of a horse's age by his tusks are liable to error, and as to the remotest chance of doing so beyond the age of eight years, why a Frenchman may pretend to it, but he will find few believers in his skill. We say, with Sir Robert, "Register, Register."

X X. (Oxford Street).-Dr. Syntax started forty-nine times, and won thirty-six times, gaining no less than twenty gold cups.

SPORTING ANECDOTES.

COMORANT HUNTING.-Dr. Edmonston gives the following account of this sport on the Noss Rock of Shetland. Large flocks settle for the night on projecting ledges of these rocks, but before they commit themselves to sleep, two, three, or more, of the number are appointed to watch. To quiet them is of course the first object. With this view the leader of the expedition creeps cautiously and imperceptibly along the projecting ledges of the rock, until he gets within a short distance of the watch; he then dips a worsted glove in the sea, and gently throws the water in the face of the guard; the unsuspecting bird either disliking the impression, or fancying from what he conceives to be a disagreeable state of the weather, that all is quiet and safe, puts his head also under his wing and soon falls asleep. His neck is then immediately broken, and the party despatch as many as they

choose."

PLUTARCH'S DOG.-He took a part in a farce which was played before the Emperor Vespasian at the theatre of Marcellus. Amongst other things he counterfeited himself dead, after having feigned to eat a certain drug; at first he began to tremble and stagger, and at length stretching himself out he sufferered himself to be dragged from place to place; but afterwards, when he knew it was time, he began gently to stir, as if newly wakened, and lifting his head, looked about him.

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