stakes of £10 each, for Two-Year-Olds, Sixty-Four Subscribers, was run for by eight, of which three were placed. The first in the betting was Paletot, 7 to 4 against him. Mr. Howard's filly-sire Surplice, dam Elopement-not named in the market, won by a length. Sweepstakes of £200 each subscription, for two-year-old fillies, 8st. 7lbs. each, the produce of sires or dams that never bred a winner allowed 3lbs., if both 5lbs., six nominations, was run a Match between Mr. Greville's Antoinette and Mr. Mare's Whistle. The odds were 10 to 1 on Antoinette, and she won in a canter by ten lengths. The Racing Stakes, of £50 each subscription, for three-year-olds, to carry Sst. 7lbs. and Sst. 4lbs., with various penalties for winning, had Twenty-Two Subscribers, of whom four started. The favourite, Scythian ; 2 to 1 on him an estimate whose sound policy he established by winning-half a length-first. There was no second-Champagne and Pumicestone running a deadheat for that honour. The Second Year of the Third Bentinck Memo. rial Stakes, for Three-Year-Olds, had Sixty-One Subscribers and four runners. The speculative laid 10 to 1 on Dervish, who only snatched them out of the "fire" by "a short head.” The Third Year of the Second Bentinck Memorial Stakes, a triennial stakes of £10 each, for four-year-olds, with many conditions, thirty-six Subscribers, was run a Match between Lord Eglinton's Vanderdecken and Lord Exeter's Filbert, &st. 7lbs. each. They laid 5 to 2 on Lord Eglinton's horse, and he won by twenty lengths! Andover having walked over for a Sweepstakes of £50 each, half forfeit, this day of wondrous ups-and-downs was concluded.

Friday brought the princely Goodwood Meeting to a bright Sportset. The card was a bumper at parting, of which but a sip here and there can be administered. The opening race was a Sweepstakes of £100 each, half forfeit, for four-year-olds, Four Subscribers ; run a Match between Lord John Scott's Catherine Hayes and Mr. Mare's Pharold : the mare was the rejected of the market—the odds being 5 to 4 on the horse, which was “ putting the cart before the horse,” for she won all the way—a long one--and ended first by a length. Then came to pass one of those bottomless, rather than hollow things, The Nassau Stakes of £50 each, for three-year-old fillies, eighteen subscribers, and four starters : betting, 20 to 1 on Virago. Of course she won casily—by a length and a-half: it was useless to win by more, where “a foot's as good as a mile.” The Chesterfield Cup Handicap, value £300, &c., for all ages above two years old, had Forty-Two Subscribers and a field of twenty-three: two placed. The favourite was Brother to Gray Tommy—5 to 2 against him : the winner was Catspaw, with 10 to 1 against him. A very badly run race. In a Match for £100 aside, Course T.Y.C., Mr. J. M. Stanley's Helmet beat the Duke of Bedford's Diomedia, with 7 to 4 on her... The Second Year of The Rous Biennial Stakes of £100 each, for three-year-olds, ten subscribers, each subscriber to name two-one to the Post. It was run a Match between Lord Derby's Boiardo- 8to 1 on him-in a waiting race, beating Mr. Greville's Qnince by three-quarters of a length. This was followed by The Nursery Stakes, Handicap, Sweepstakes of £15 each, £5 forfeit, for two-year-olds, thirty-seven subscribers, fifteen runners and four placed: Lord John Scott's Miama filly was the favourite-about even with the field : Squire Osbaldiston's Rifleman was the winner, with 10 to 3 against him. As it so often happens in the “Nursery," one of the young Misses fell down, and much hurt her nurse-jockey upon the turf.... Count Batthyany's Determination won the Duke of Richmond's Plate-4 to 1 against him-beating five, at the usual variety of handicap weights. For the Queen's Plate, Epaminondas walked-over. The Cowdray Stakes of £10 each, h. ft., with £40 added, for all ages, Mr. J. M. Stanley's Helmet-6 to 4 against him -won by four lengihs : four were started, and three only passed the Chair; seven Subscribers. The March Stakes, Handicap, £10 each, £5 forfeit, with £50 edded, for all ages over two years old, eleven subscribers, amateur jockeye. Mr. Greville's Young Norval, rode by the Old Squire !-long may he ride--won by a length; Mr. Elwes’ Narcissus, ridden by the owner, second : the winner was not quoted in the betting. Thus closed the noble Sussex Meeting.... It were well for the Great National Sport had it more such patrons as the Duke of Richmond.

August, with thirty-three meetings, had but one of any account, and that was York, where the quantity was enormous, but the quality not “in a concatenation accordingly." We will therefore take up our retrospection at Tattersall's on Monday, September the 11th. There we find a few of the industrious gleaners still picking up what seems to them to be worth the gathering; foremost Boiardo at 7 to 4, or 2tol against him—if they can get no better-for the St. Leger: Dervish was at the head of the odds-15 to 1 against him—but no takers. With a little patience, and a run down to the North, they might have backed Boiardo at 5 to 4 against him: anon, it will be seen with reference to this animal any odds—10 to 4-50 to 4 or a hundred per cent. more_" eadem” fuit “ratio."..

On Tuesday the 12th, at 1 P.M., Doncaster Races began with the Fitzwilliam Handicap Stakes of £5 each with £50 added for all ages : there were twelve subscribers, and ten starters : Orinoco the favourite, at 5 to 2 against him; won easily by three lengths. It was a very poor exhibition : but four had any places—and there were nine lengths between the first and last of these. The Filly Stakes of £30 each, £20 forfeit, for-two-year fillies, ten subscribers. The Mosquito, with 5 to 4 against her, won by a neck: three started. A Match for £500-£250-over the last half-mile, Cimicina—2 to 1 on her-won; beating Evangeline by ten lengths. The Stand Plate Handicap of £70, for all ages above two years old, The Early Bird, 5 to 4 against him, carrying 7st. for his three-year-old weight, 's won by three-quarters of a length : ten ran, and three were placed.... The Great Yorkshire Handicap of £25 each, £5 if declared, £100 added, the St. Leger Course, had ninety-seven Subscribers—fifty-six declared. The Grand Inquisitor was favourite, at 6 to 4 against him, and five others were backed-the worst at 100 to 6; seventeen ran one of them (The Reiver) without his jockey (Job Marson), whom he left behind before they came to the road. Grapeshot-not named in the Ring --won by half a length, The Reiver leading him past the Chair, as the coursers fly away from their followers at Astley's. The Revival Plate of £100, for two year and three-year-olds, the straight Course in, had three at the Post, the winner being Ellermire3 to 1 on: the first was a dead heat with Mrs. Rigby. We now come to the most interesting race of the day, if not of the meeting --THE

CHAMPAGNE Stakes of £50 each, b. ft., for two-year-olds; thirtythree subscribers ; Course as before from the Red House in. The betting was confined to Bonnie Morn-9 to 1 on him and he led from end to end without an effort, winning in a canter by two lengths. This is not the style in which the Champagne is ordinarily carried off. His weight being 8 st. 7 lbs. is not the portion of the performance that should pass unnoticed; Job Marson rode him. The day's list finished with the Selling Stakes of £5 each, £40 added; for all ages ; 6 Subs.; all ran ; won by Trifle, with 5 to 1 on her. It is true the weight (5st. 1llbs.), even for a twoyear-old filly, was little better over the T.Y.C. than “turning her loose.” At the Rooms, in the evening, they were backing Boiardo for the Leger at even!

Wednesday was introduced to the Doncaster company by hope and misgiving. That which one took about a St. Leger fancy, another laid, and of a surety nothing else could have been expected ; for so open an anniversary of that Great Northern Olympic Star bas rarely occurred. Everybody asked everybody, “Well, who is to win ?” and nobody knew. What the bias at starting was, followed suit with the well-known moral, “ Thy wish is father to thy thought." The first race was One Hundred Sovereigns, added to a Sweepslakes of £10 each, h. ft.; for all ages above two years old; eight Subscribers, and three at the Post. Rataplan (5 to 2 against liim, last in the ring) won easily by three lengihs; Early Bird (first in the ring, wiih 2 to l on him) was last in the race. “ Thus coming events cast their shadows before.” A Sweepstakes of £10 each, h. ft., with £50 added, for two and three-year-olds, eight Subscribers, came off a Match, from the Red House in, between Jack Sheppard and the two. year-old filly, sire Pyrrhus the First, dam Conmore's dam, which the hero of The Road, 5 to 2 on him, won by twenty lengths. The Don. caster Handicap Plate of £10 each, h. st., with £70 added, for all ages above Two Years Old, thirteen Subscribers, ten runners. Florist, 5 to 1 against him, won by half a length. The “let me do or die" of the Meeting is now for the outrance ; while the ordinary routine--in the weighing-house, the saddling paddock, mounting, cantering, telegraphing, and so forth-was in process, it is needless to say the Ring was not idle. Upon what premises the prices were calculated, none took the care or caution to canvass. As the St. Leger Stakes of £25 each, all forfeit--for three-year-old colis, 8st. 7lbs.; fillies, 8st. 21bs. (Derby weights); 150 Subscribers; St. Leger Course-drew its field of eighteen, in various array, of course before the Grand Stand, and then into the spacious area where the start takes place, the final betting may, in the average, be thus quoted ---5 to 4 against Boiardo, 5 to 1 against The Trapper, 6 to 1 against Acrobat, 10 to 1 against Dervish, the same against Knight of St. Geoge, 15 to 1 against Scythian, 100 to 6 against Calamus, 25 to 1 against Autocrat, and 5 to 1 against Midsummer. From the Post to the Red House, places were being constantly exchanged ; and so far, there was no more indication of the winner than in the Rooms the preceding night. The first ostensibly beaten was Dervish, and thus a mere case of toss-tip the issue remained till, about two hundred yards from the Chair; the Knight of St. George and Ivan closed in furious fight, whereof Mr. St. George's whilom champion, the Knight of St. George, had the best by a head. The winner ran as Mr. Morris's ; Boiardo and Autocrat broke down; not one of the anticipatory winners was placed. The four placed were thus ridden : -Knight of St. George, Basham; Ivan, Ashmall; Arthur Wellesley, Prince; Scythian, Wells.

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies ;

But in battalions." Her Majesty's Plate of One Hundred Guineas-Kingston, 3 to l on him, won by twenty lengths; Reveillée second, beating El Dorado by about the same distance. The Municipal Stakes of £200 each, for two-year-olds ; Red House in, seven Subscribers, Lord Derby's De Clare, 3 to 1 against him, won easily by two lengths; Greina second, 4 to 1 against her. The Corporation Plate of £100, added to a Handicap Stakes of £10 each, 44 subscribers, Eva favourite, at 2 to 1 against her, won by two lengths, beating six.

Thursday had a list of seven races, but none of them worth any reference, save the Eglinton Stakes, for which Dervish was beaten by The Chicken.... Friday, the last of the meeting, began with a Match for £500 a side, between Lord Derby's two-year-old filly, sire Melbourne, dam Meanee, and Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip filly. 7 to 4 on the latter. Won by the Meanee tilly by six lengths, in a canter. This was followed by a Sweepstakes of £260 each, h, it., for three-year-olds; eighty Subscribers. Walked over for by Mr. Howard's Apollonius. The Park Hill Stakes of £50 each, for three-year-olds, thirty-one Subscribers, Honeysuckle—7 to 2 against her-won easily by a length and a half, beating five others. The Don of £50 each, b. ft., for three-year-olds, seven subscribers, Andover-5 to 2 on him -won in a Match with Hospodar, by a neck. The Town Plate Handicap of £70, for all ages above two years old, Sir Rowland Trenchard won by a length and a half. The Doncaster Stakes of £10 each, with £100 added, for three-year-olds, one hundred and sixteen Subscribers, was run for by eight, three of them placed. Betting : 2 to 1 against Ivan, 5 to 2 against Acrobat, and 4 to 1 against Scythian. Acrobat won cleverly by a length; and as he returned to " weigh in,” there arose one of the most ruffianly riots I ever witnessed at a Race Course. Had it not been for two or three men with hearts and hands, not to be resisted, John Scott, whom all who know him esteein and value highly, might have fallen a victim to their villany. “Dis aliter visum est.” As soon as order was restored, preparations for “ The Doncaster Cup" commenced. Its conditions are value £300, for all ages above iwo years old. Several Norninations had been struck out on the preceding night. It was run a Match between Virago and Kingston ; 15 to 1 on the filly. She led from end to end, and finished first by twenty lengths. The Nursery Plate of £100, for two-year-olds; any number of horses the property of the same person may start for this race; Last Mile, Amy, with 5 to 1 against her, won by half-a-length, in a field of twelve inclusive. The Bawtry Stakes of £5 cach, with £25 added, for all ages, six Subscribers, all at the Post, Mr. Thomas Parr's Rabgill won, with 6 to 4 against him, A Match for £100, h. ft., being walked over for by Ruby, the meeting was brought to a close,..

All that in any degree bears upon the purpose of this article has

been said. The October and Houghton Meetings call for no more notice than the passing reference with which they are wound up. Here, then, I set my pen upon my sheet, with this reading of the Review, which I submit simply as a suggestion—that in the extraordinary contrasts, the mistaken conclusions, the peerless performances, and the mistaken anticipations of its two-year-olds, for the coming Derby, it is a season without parallel within modern memory. Three out of the four of my instances are notorious : for what the fourth may produce, in the words of Alexandre Dumas, I

: WAIT AND HOPE.

"MARK! COCK!”

signaling

ENGRAVED BY E, HACKER, FROM A PAINTING BY A. COOPER, R.A,

The “fox-hunting of shooting," as Colonel Hawker so happily terms it—the “ Mark cock !” the very “ Tally-ho !” and “Gone away !” that puts the whole cover in a state of excitement which nothing but the sight of a fox or a cock could accomplish.'.

Let us turn to the Colonel, again, as the best authority we could consult, and borrow a word or two apropos, from that latest edition we had to recommend in only our last number. Here we have it apropos enough:—“The pursuit of wood-cocks with good spaniels may be termed the .fox-hunting of shooting.' A real good sportsman feels more gratified by killing a wood-cock, or even a few snipes, than bags full of game, that have been reared on his own or neighbour's estate; and one who does not may be considered a pot-hunter. In a country where cocks are scarce, be sure and put a marker in a tree, before you attempt to flush one a second time; and when you have marked down a cock, remember how very apt he is to run, instead of rising from the spot in which you may have seen him drop. If a cock flies away, and continues to rise wild, go safely beyond where he may have last dropped, and then back again to beat for him, (leaving some one to make a noise on the side where you had before advanced on him), and he will then most likely either lie close, or fly towards you. If this will not do, take your station quietly to windward (as cocks generally fly against the wind), give a whistle when you are ready, and let the other person then draw on, and flush him. His cry of 'Mark!' will assist in frightening and driving the cock forward, and be a signal for your preparation."

Fox-hunting all over, even to the very terms of describing it. The other one drawing on to and finding him—the useful cheer he is allowed to give on getting a view, all lend a wild stirring character to cock shooting that our home-bred varieties can never put a claim to.