Mr. Willan to the Stewards of the Jockey Club.

January 10th, 1842. "MY LORD AND GENTLEMEN,-Having been furnished, by Mr. Clarke, with a copy of the paper which I requested of him, and which, certainly, corresponds with the statement in your letter to Lord George Bentinck, of the 16th of December last, I have no hesitation in withdrawing my letter to you, of the 23rd of December, and at the same time expressing my regret that, having acted under a misconception of its contents, I so hastily contradicted your statement, and have the honour to remain,

"My Lord and gentlemen, your obedient servant,

"JOHN WILLAN."

Mr. Clarke to the Editor of Bell's Life in London.

"11th January, 1842. "SIR,-Mr. Willan having informed me that he has withdrawn his letter to the Stewards of the Jockey Club, of the 23rd of December last, I have no hesitation in withdrawing my letter to you, of the 2nd of January, and, at the same time, of expressing my regret at having been compelled to say anything offensive to the feelings of Mr. Willan.

"Yours, sir, very obediently,

"F. CLARKE."

THE TURF. In the course of the late Houghton Meeting at Newmarket, a meeting of the Jockey Club was held, at which it was decided that No 24 of "Rules and Orders of the Jockey Club" should be repealed, and the following substituted in its stead.

"No person shall start a horse for any race, either in his own name, or in that of any other person, unless both the owner and namer of such horse shall have paid all former stakes and forfeits to the keeper of the match-book, before the time fixed for starting for the first race of each day on which he intends to start his horse. this rule shall extend to forfeits due elsewhere than at Newmarket, provided a notice of such forfeits being due, shall have been delivered to the keeper of the match-book by ten o'clock in the evening preceding the day of running.

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"No horse shall start for any race, unless all former stakes and forfeits due for that horse shall be paid before the time fixed for starting for the first race of the day on which such horse is intended to run, provided that an objection to such horse starting shall have been made by ten o'clock in the evening preceding the day of running, to the keeper of the match-book.

"A list of all stakes and forfeits due at Newmarket, or elsewhere, shall be exhibited in the coffee-room at Newmarket, and a similar list at Messrs. Weatherby's office, in London.

"The keeper of the match book shall enter upon this list all stakes and forfeits at Newmarket, that are left unpaid at the expiration of the week following that in which the same shall have been incurred.

"The stewards or managers of races elsewhere, are recommended to direct the person appointed to receive stakes, to send to Messrs. Weatherby a list of unpaid forfeits, as soon after the races as conveniently may be, in order that the same may be placed upon the forfeit list; and if the stakeholder shall omit to make such last-mentioned return within a reasonable time, it may be made by the respec

tive winners of the races for which the forfeits are due. These returns, in all cases, to be made in writing, and signed by the parties making them.

"In case any forfeit shall remain unpaid three calendar months from the time at which it has been first put upon the list, a notice of such forfeit being due, with the name of the subscriber to the stake, and the name or description of the horse, with the name or sufficient description of the stake, and the amount of the forfeit, shall be advertised in every succeeding sheet of the "Racing Calendar," until Messrs. Weatherby shall receive notice in writing from the stakeholder at the place where the forfeit was incurred, or from the winner of the race, that the same is paid, or until it shall be paid at Messrs. Weatherby's office.

"No person, whose name shall appear in such advertised list, shall be entitled to enter or name a horse for any plate, sweepstakes, or subscription, either in his own name, or in the name of any other person, unless he shall pay up all the forfeits, in respect of which his name appears in the list, before the expiration of the time of naming for such stake, &c.; and no horse which appears on such list shall be qualified to be entered for any race whatever, unless the forfeits mentioned in the said list, as due for such horse, shall be paid before the expiration of the time of naming or entering for such race; and no horse whose name shall appear in such list shall be qualified to start for any race, unless the aforesaid forfeits shall be paid before the time fixed for starting for the first race of the day on which such horse is intended to run.

"And, in order to prevent persons who are defaulters from evading these laws, and continuing to engage horses by the use of fictitious names, the stewards of the Jockey Club shall have the power of calling upon a nominator to produce satisfactory testimony that the horse named is not the property, either wholly or in part, of any person whose name appears in the advertised list of defaulters; and if the nominator shall fail to do so, the stewards may cause the nomination to be erased.

"All persons whose names appear on the list of defaulters, may be warned off the course, at the discretion of the stewards, and prohibited from training or exercising horses on any part of the ground in the occupation of the Jockey Club.

"When a horse is sold with his engagements, or any part of them, and a notification of such sale is delivered to the keeper of the matchbook, the seller shall not have the power, after the delivery of such notification, of striking the horse out of the engagements with which he is sold; but, as the original subscriber remains liable to the respective winners for the amount of the forfeits in each of these engagements, he may, if compelled to pay them by the purchaser's default, place the forfeit on the forfeit list in the usual manner, as due from the purchaser to himself; and until this forfeit be repaid, both the purchaser and the horse shall remain under the same disabilities as if the purchaser had been the original subscriber. In all cases of sale by private treaty, the written acknowledgment of both parties, that the horse was sold with the engagement, shall be necessary to entitle either buyer or seller to the benefit of this rule.

"When a person has a horse engaged in the name of another person, and is entitled, by purchase or otherwise, to start the horse for such engagement, but, in consequence of the namer being on the list of defaulters, should be prevented from starting his horse without previously paying up a forfeit to which he was not otherwise liable, he may, if he pay this forfeit, start his horse, leaving the forfeit on the list, and substituting his own name for that of the person to whom it was previously due; and if he should be compelled by the laws of racing to pay any forfeit which had not yet been put upon the list, he may, after paying the amount of the forfeit, have it put upon the forfeit list in the usual manner, as due to himself.

"When a person takes a nomination for a stake, in which the forfeit is to be declared by a particular time, and does not declare forfeit by the time fixed in the article, he shall thenceforth be considered to have taken the engagement on himself, and his name shall be substituted for that of the original subscriber.

"ADDITIONAL RULE RESPECTING BETS.-When any person has been adjudged to be a defaulter by the stewards of the Jockey Club, notice shall be given to him that he will not be permitted any longer to come into the coffee-room yard, at Newmarket, nor upon the racecourse there, until it shall have been certified to the keeper of the match-book, by his several creditors, that their claims have been satisfied; and if after such notice he should disregard the prohibition, it shall be enforced against him by the usual legal process; at the expiration of the Spring and October meetings, the names of such defaulters shall be communicated to Messrs. Tattersall, in order that they may be also excluded from the betting-room in their yard. The stewards of the Jockey Club will not entertain any claims emanating from a person who has received the above-named notice, until the claims upon him shall be certified to have been discharged."

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ROE-DEER.-The amount of twaddle and ignorance which is mixed up with that portion of our literature, called sporting, is "prodigious.” A few weeks ago the papers were full of a remarkable zoological experiment about to be tried in Windsor Forest, at the especial instance of His Royal Highness Prince Albert; namely, the possibility of naturalizing the roe-deer in England. Now it is a fact that many persons, have had a liberal "schooling," would as soon believe that the reindeer was common to our southern counties, as the roe-buck; and even Mr. Blaine, in his "Encyclopædia" (an excellent work on its general merits), writes thus of that variety of the deer tribe. "The roe, once common over the whole of our island, is now only to be met with, in its wild state, in the Highlands of Scotland." Without enumerating the various parks, in England, stocked with chevreuil, apropos to Windsor, it may be enough to observe that, at PETWORTH, as the crow flies, not fifty miles from St. George's Tower, a thousand head of the roedeer may be seen in an hour's ride. This will dispose of the fact of their naturalization in England: another, and an important question, is as easily and satisfactorily answered. A great deal has been said of the injury that would result to fox-hunting, from the introduction of the roe-deer, as affecting the steadiness of hounds. "The chevreuil," it has been urged, "is the most pernicious of all riot." During the

life of the late Lord Egremont we have hunted repeatedly in the park, at Petworth, with General Wyndham's packs, both dogs and bitches, and, though the roes were popping up, every instant, under their noses, the hounds took as little notice of them as they did of the robins in the hedgerows. "Train up a FOXHOUND in the way he should Go," educate him morally (by example and precept, not by twisted leather and a whipper's thews and sinews), and he will fulfil your purpose, though he should plump up to his throat in a venison pasty.

Our learned cotemporary, the old "Sporting Magazine," with its peculiar felicity of expression, thus conveys to its readers a notice of the incident referred to at the commencement of this paragraph: "The Marquis of Brædalbane has presented His Royal Highness Prince Albert with ten roe-deer. . . . . They were taken on the estate of the Marquis, with a number of others, when very young, and brought up, by hand, by Mr. Guthrie, his Lordship's keeper, and presents a remarkable instance of bringing them so far tractable, the roe-deer being animals extremely wild by nature."

STEEPLE-CHASING.-This sport, if such it may be called, an ill weed from the forcing-house of excitement, is fast on the wane. Not half a dozen events of this description of any pretension are announced for the remainder of the season, and those are never alluded to beyond the immediate neighbourhoods to which they attach. Many reasons may be assigned for this: foremost, that the system of handicapping has put the leading patrons of the sport hors de combat. Mr. Anderson, of Piccadilly, one of the most spirited of the promoters and supporters of steeple-chasing, has given it up from that cause, and all the possessors of good horses will follow his example. We shall see it, then, fall to the condition whence it originally sprang, an instrument in the hands of the knavish horse-chanter to enable him to "oil his screws," and pick up such "verdant blades" as the winter may bring forth.

A great many admirable inventions are either wholly unknown, or little heard of, that deserve to be far more familiar. Thus for years we went on reading, in the newspapers, advertisements about "patent pedometers," with as little real knowledge of their practical science as of the operations of mesmerism. To remedy our ignorance, we paid a visit lately to their ingenious inventor, Mr. Payne, of New Bond Street, from whom we gleaned many interesting facts as to their uses and appliances. Every man who walks much, either for health or amusement, having the opportunity, should make himself acquainted with these most admirable inventions, and we can promise all alacrity upon the part of the patentee to afford the information sought. To those who may not have facilities of the kind, we offer our own verdict in his favour, and can in conscience say, that the money laid out in the purchase of a pedometer will not be among the items with which the buyer will have ultimate cause to be least satisfied.

For the lying old saw, "there is nothing new under the sun," read "there is always something new springing up." The most striking novelty of the present hour is the system of railway travelling, whereby you conquer distance almost at the onset, or are in a condition

to despise both time and space: as Flaccus says-“ What's the odds as long as you're happy?"

"Quid enim, concurritur-horæ Momento cita mors venit, aut victoria læta."

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The principles upon which men may be reduced to the consistence of sausage-meat are various: here it is done by a tender," there by a pretender. Most people know that Mr. George Stevenson is a firstrater at locomotion. It was only a few days since we learnt that Mr. Coles, of Charing Cross-by no means unknown to fame-had also taken to similar speculations. "Two of a trade," is an old adage, and a true-so there has broken out some small difference between these "eminent hands;" Coles probably feeling sore that Stevenson should exclusively "pluck" the proprietors of railways, while he might only truss them. Mr. C., it seems, has invented a locomotion that can never wear out (or something to that effect), and wrote Mr. S. an account of his discovery. Stevenson, in reply, crabbed his friend's discovery, who thereupon flew to the Muses, and thus rejoined:

"Very few can boast as you and I've done,

Since our earnings were eightpence a day:
Whatever I get, yours is fifty to one,

So enormous does railway's pay:"

and, alluding to his own improvements upon the principle of steamtravelling, he continues:

"What must we call it, luck or good management,

That they haven't yet killed many more?— 'Twill be time enough to adopt improvement,

When they pick up dead men by the score.'

The remedy for this pleasant alternative is to be seen daily, "free, gratis, for nothing," at No. 3, Charing Cross :-is there a man within the bills (or chances) of mortality, that will refuse it a visit?

EXTRAORDINARY CURE.-On the 13th of October last, a favourite horse, the property of a gentleman, got loose in the stable, and put his head between the jamb and the door of the harness-room adjoining. The animal becoming alarmed, tried to draw back. The consequence was, a frightful compound fracture of the lower jaw, the bone being forced through into the mouth. The owner sent him to Mr. Mavor, the veterinary surgeon, of Bond-street, with directions to have him destroyed; but Mr. Mavor, thinking it possible to save the horse, immediately proceeded to set the jaw. Considerable inflammation followed, subjacent to the fracture; various abscesses formed, and burst; and there was extensive exfoliation of the bone. For five weeks the animal was supported entirely by thick gruel, composed of oatmeal, peameal, and bran. The gruel was administered by gently raising the head by means of a pulley, and, by the aid of the stomach-pump, conveyed into the pharynx. The horse is now quite recovered; and, allowing a short time to regain his condition, and for the newly-formed bone to consolidate, will be fit for his usual work. This extraordinary cure reflects the greatest credit on the scientific skill of the operator.