TATTERSALL'S LIST. BETTINGS FOR APRIL. As the principal changes in the Derby and Oaks odds took place during the Craven and First Spring weeks, at Newmarket, they will be noticed in the accounts of those meetings, in the present number. Little remains to be said of the ruses played at the Corner, with the market-horses. Foremost among them were Eleus and Lord of Holderness: and those who did business upon them at the rise, will hardly sell out at a premium. The Frederica colt, who jumped from 100 to 1 to 6 to 1, in a few weeks, without any overt cause, apparently belongs to the same division he has only one solitary engagement, and, should he win that, his owner is a lucky man. Attila is, at this hour, a formidable horse to be against-hedging to him now is hopeless, and to beat him will be no easy achievement. Auckland is amiss, but mending fast; were he well, his chance would be among the best. Jack will, we believe, certainly go to Epsom; and some people will still have it that he is the Derby horse of the stable: they'll win with the best pay-master, and no one can blame them for that. The days when patriotism and horse-racing went arm-in-arm, are past. As far as present appearances warrant an opinion, the Derby field will consist of about one-and-twenty. On the Oaks nothing was done, consequent upon the race for the Thousand Guineas, save that the winner, Firebrand, was nominally at 8 to 1. THE long and disastrous dispute between Lord George Bentinck and the Jockey Club was brought to a conclusion in the middle of last month, in manner following, as announced in the "Racing Calendar" of the 20th ult. :- "At a general meeting of the members of the Jockey Club, held at Willis's Rooms, St. James's, on Tuesday, the 19th of April, 1842 :- "Lord G. Bentinck stated that, anxious to conciliate the goodwill of the Club, whilst he still adheres to all the principles and maxims of turf law, laid down in his protest of the 12th of February, he is desirous to withdraw and express his regret for so much of the language in which that protest has been couched, as has been offensive to the feelings of the Jockey Club. "It was unanimously resolved that this statement was satisfactory to the Club." The whole of Lord Chesterfield's racing stud-sires, dams, and young stock,-is to be disposed of during the season. The number of subscribers to the Goodwood Cup is fifty-one. The following is an extract from Earl Fitzhardinge's hunting journal, from August 31, 1841, to April 2, 1842:-"Hounds out, 107 days; foxes killed, 136. Of these, 79 were dog-foxes, and 47 vixens; the sex of 10 was not ascertained. Up to the 2nd of April there had been no blank day." CHELTENHAM STEEPLE CHASES.-The 28th and 29th of March were selected for the decision of these events, which had caused a good deal of conversation in sporting circles, as we had occasion to remark in our last number. The principal race was won by Dragsman, ridden by Holman, beating a dozen after a close contest, and an awful lot of moving accidents." The second was won by Barker, on Wildfire. The Imperial chase Mr. Robinson carried off on Imperial Tom. The fourth and last, Rebel won, ridden by Dupper. The sport and attendance were both good. A long, but unimportant list of steeple-chases, occupying almost every day from the end of March to the 5th ult. brings us to the Nottingham, which the fortunate Mr. Elmore earned with Gaylad, beating half a dozen. It was something between a race and a regatta, as the majority of these affairs are, and the Londoner won in a style that astonished the natives. Name any rural sport, from a fox-chase to a flea-hunt, and we'll find a cockney that shall beat the pink of Leicestershire into fits. We'll give Tempé and take Covent Garden, and back ourselves at a bouquet, ten to one: who would be a yokel, and sti— smell offensively of violets! There was a good day's sport at Ashby-de-la Zouch, on the 8th ult. ;-only one was killed outright; indeed, but several were dangerously wounded. Vanguard won the principal race, and John Bull the suborninate; poor John! hard boards for you to do such a job for a 2 sovs. Sweepstakes. Unless we could borrow a double broad sheet from the "Times," we could not hope to do justice to the industry and energy that distinguished the steeple-chasing of the past month. It is over-requiescat in pace-we leave the reader to make the application. It is announced that H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT has added his name to that of her Majesty, as a patron of the Royal Yacht Squadron. Anglers will be glad to learn from the monthly report made by the Thames water bailiffs to the committee for the preservation of that noble river, that there is every likelihood of the lovers of the piscatorial art meeting with plenty of sport this year. A spacious new Subscription Room is in progress at Tattersall's, which will be ready for the reception of the subscribers by Epsom races. HAMPSHIRE HUNTING.-Things are wearing a more settled appearance for the ensuing season than they were a few weeks ago, when three countries were open in this county-the H. H., the Hambledon, and the New Forest. Major Barrett has wished, for some time, to resign the management of the H. H. to a younger man, but said he would hold it till one could be found, who should be approved of by the members of the hunt, and on the 7th of April Mr. Augustus Onslow commenced the duties of master of the H. H. Major Barrett gave great satisfaction during the three seasons he has held the office, and the members are about to present him with a piece of plate on his retirement. Mr. Long has decided on continuing the management of the Hambledon, which gives great satisfaction to all connected with the hunt. On the 7th of April the farmers resident within the limits of this hunt invited Mr. Long to a dinner at Bishop's Waltham, in compliment to him for the spirit with which the hounds have been managed since he has been master, and to express their sentiments as to the manner in which he has conducted himself towards them. The dinner was attended by about five-and-twenty of the most respectable yeomen of the county, and several members of the hunt. Hilarity and good feeling prevailed till a late hour, and every promise of support was offered to Mr. Long, as to the preservation of foxes. It is not yet settled on whom the management of the New Forest hounds will fall, but the person most spoken of is a gentleman named Colborne, who has been keeping hounds in the neighbourhood of Honiton, and is desirous of taking this pack. The sporting world has had a serious loss in their late master (Mr. Codrington) who died about a fortnight since. A better sportsman never lived, or a man more popular in every position of life. He had determined on giving up his hounds at the end of this season, and was about to leave the Forest, and reside at his family seat, at Wroughton, in North Wilts, where he intended to keep a pack of harriers. I only knew Mr. Codrington in the field, where his manner was alike pleasing to all, and his management of hounds the admiration of every one; but I am writing this in the neighbourhood in which he lived before he went to the Forest, and it is gratifying to hear the manner in which he is spoken of by all. Whether as a sportsman or a private gentleman, he lived generally beloved, and has died universally regretted. April 22, 1842. W. MISSING. SPORTING LAW. Legality of Steeple-chasing.-The following important decision was delivered in the Court of Common Pleas, on the 20th of January last, on a motion to discharge a rule nisi in arrest of judgment on a verdict obtained at the last Shrewsbury Assizes, in the case of Evans against Pratt. The action was upon an agreement for a steeple-race between the parties, wherein the decision of the umpire, Mr. Holyoake, was set aside, and a verdict given for the plaintiff. In the absence of all legislative enactment, having reference to Steeplechasing, this judicial law laid down in the case, will be held, no doubt, as authority in all similar instances. Lord Chief-Justice Tindal :-" The difficulty which is thrown into this case, by the argument on the part of the defendant, is the conclusion at which it would compel us to arrive; for if my brother Ludlow is right, then, as the law now stands, no race would be legal, because the 13 George II. having only licensed the running of races at Black Hambleton and Newmarket Heath, and that statute having been repealed by the Act 3 and 4 Victoria, c. 5, unless the statute 18 George II. renders horse-races legal, all horse-races are illegal under the statute 9 Anne, c. 14. Now, it would be a most singular thing if the Act 3 and 4 Victoria had the effect attributed to it, when we cannot but see that the object and intention of that statute was to encourage horse-racing, by preventing common informers from suing for penalties, rather than to increase the restrictions which the law had already laid upon it. I cannot help thinking that the law on this subject now stands upon the just construction of the statute 18 George II., c. 34; and, looking at the 11th section of that statute, I see no objection to the match set out upon the present record being considered to be a legal race, within the meaning of that clause. The |