STATE OF THE ODDS, &c.

The following comes "officially" from head quarters; the alteration, no doubt, being prayed for in consequence of the blind man's buff sort of game the November fogs, made of the Houghton week.

"At a Meeting of the Jockey Club, held at Newmarket on Friday, in the Houghton Meeting,

Cynric Lloyd, Esq., was elected a Member of the Club.

It was resolved

That in future the Criterion Stakes should be run on Monday in the Houghton Meeting, and the Cambridgeshire Stakes on Tuesday.

It was resolved

That an application should be made to the Master of the Horse, for permission to run the Autumn Queen's Plate at Newmarket in 1847, on the last Thursday in September instead of the first Thursday iu October, on account of the late period at which the October Meetings would otherwise fall.

The Master of the Horse's permission for the alteration above named has been given, and the Newmarket Meetings, 1847, will take place as follows:

Craven Meeting, Monday, April 5

First Spring Meeting, Monday, April 19
Second Spring Meeting, Tuesday, May 4
July Meeting, Tuesday, July 6

First October Meeting, Tuesday, September 28
Second October Meeting, Monday, October 11
Houghton Meeting, Monday, October 25."

Lord Strathmore's horses have left John Scott's string, and are now in the hands of Messer. The new broom has certainly begun "sweeping" clean enough with the Switcher.

Mr. Gulley has sold Weatherbit to the Duke of Bedford for £800.

Nearly £300 has already been subscribed towards the Metropolitan Handicap for Epsom Spring. Beyond twenty given by the South Western Railway, the money comes chiefly from the Sweep houses; and really, considering the swarms of ticket takers to be seen at these places, it should be liberally multiplied yet. The "Sporting Men" of London must be taught to look on it as the Cit's own.

Though the closing settling of the season was anything but satisfactory, the winter has commenced with a very animated appearance; far better than we could hope to expect from the experience of the last few years. It looks, in fact, at present, from the long catalogue we are enabled to subjoin, like a rare race for the round betters, a character that the two-year old running of itself would go a great way to support. There are plenty of "likely " improving young ones out, but-perhaps with just one exception-nothing over formidable or fond. Even with the best of them we can draw lines on lines, each under each, within a head or so of one another. Everything in work, then, ought to have a price and a friend-a consumation for which the professionals certainly do their best by behaving very liberally to outside fanciers. We'll lay you seven to one agen Tromp, and sixty or seventy to one agen Eryx; sixteen to one about Planet, and fifty to one if it is Mathematician." If our friends are any Mathematicians, they will prove from this that fashion, as usual, is to be paid for, though less dazzling bargains are to be had at a more reasonable figure. In proper market phrase, superior goods

are still looking up, and sought for with some avidity. The averages on Van Tromp, Epirote, Planet, Glentilt, and Lunedale, are our ergo for this, while the sister to Cobweb Colt-" name! name!" as they say in the House-alone threatens an uncertainty of position. In the next division the Marpessa Colt, Allertonian, Conyngham, Tantivy, and Brother to Joinville, are most prominently in favour and for a third sifting Christopher, Will-o'-the-Wisp, and West India Planter, are booked in long sounding sums to win on, and short ones to pay on. The Planter, especially, by these presents wins a great stake at great odds. For the et cætera we can only say, in the words of our old friend, that " you pays your money and takes your choice.'

The Oaks betting is a hundred to ten against Slander, and the Chester Cup something considerable about naming the winner in fact before he is named for the race-we can offer no comment on either.