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And a third friend sends word, speaking of the Albrighton hounds, same date as the above.

"We had a capital day's sport from each of your covers on Saturday last (which is detailed before); on Thursday previous we had a good thing for forty-five minutes and killed, and a good day also from High on straight away to Ranton Abbey-hard work, and desperate-man and horses put to it-no time for joking. E-'s staked his horse (no joke certainly for a 200 or 300 gs. horse such as Mr. E. rides) and a Dr. H. broke his leg, so you see we do keep doing something.

"Your's truly."

The above accounts are I trust but preliminary ones to further doings, which, upon the breaking up of the present frost, I hope I may be enabled personally to witness, and to send you the particulars of, Your's truly,

January 10th,

A SALOPIAN.

NAUTICAL NOTICES.

ROYAL WESTERN YACHT CLUB.

The Annual Fancy Dress Ball under the Patronage of the above Club, took place on Friday, December 24th, at the Assembly Rooms, Plymouth, when upwards of 300 persons were present; this number was rather less than is usual on such occasions, owing to another Ball being given at the same time.

ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.

On Thursday, January 13, the usual Monthly Meeting of this Club took place at the British Hotel, Cockspur Street; but in consequenee of their not being sufficient numbers present to form a quorum, the Meeting was adjourned until Thursday, February 3.

It is reported that the Widgeon, 20 tons, belonging to T. E. Snook, Esq., is sold; but the purchaser's name is not at present known.

Lord Alfred Paget is building a beautiful Iron Yacht of 25 tons, and he intends in the forthcoming season, to contend for the splendid prizes annually given by this Club. Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare are engaged upon her; and, I believe, that she is already in a very forward state.

The Annual Ball given by this Club, will take place on Thursday, February 17, at the Hanover Square Rooms, and from the spirited manner in which they are always conducted, and from the excellent selection of the Stewards, an entertainment of the highest order may be expected.

XOXIV. VOL. III.-NEW SERIES.

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Mr. N. Coudy, jun., has just finished two beautiful paintings, one of the Kestrel Yawl (Lord Yarborough), and the other of Xarifa Schooner Yacht (Earl of Wilton), both belonging to the Royal Yacht Squadron, which are intended to be engraved by Mr. Dancan, and published by Mr. Ramsden, of Finch Lane.

DAVY DEADEye.

TATTERSALL'S.

VERY few changes have resulted from the business transacted at the Corner, since our last number; indeed what with the frost, and the Gurney affair, sporting of every description has been almost at a stand still of late. As far as the immediate object of this notice is concerned, we have only to state that the rising favourites, up to the close of January, were Attila, Wiseacre, Auckland, the Joanna colt, and Espartero; and the seceders, Lord of Holderness, Dirce colt, Curator, and William de Fortibus; the latter, as well as the two colts purchased by Lord Westminster, from Mr. Booth, having been "knocked over" in a trial, by Auckland, who, according to the report, gave 10lb. and ran away from them! (was the trial in skates?) Ballinkeele nominally at 25 to 1, is not at all recommended to the public by the change of ownership" they don't propose."-The Oaks is not at present in the market, our last quotations therefore stand good. Subjoined is a list of the average prices at the close of the month.

DERBY.

3 to 1 agst. Scott's lot

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Sir G. Heathcots's lot

Col. Anson's Attila

Col. Peel's Chatham

Lord Westminster's Auckland

Lord Verulam's Robert de Gorham

Mr. Dixon's Ballinkeele

Mr. Wreford's Wiseacre

Mr. G. Clarke's Lord of Holderness

Lord Chesterfield's Joanna colt

Mr. Ramshay's Moss Trooper (t)

Mr. Pettit's Espartero

Mr. Bowes's Meteor (t)

Mr. Batson's Brother to Potentia

Lord Chesterfield's The Artful Dodger

Duke of Cleveland's Pharold

Mr. Gregory's Defier

Mr. Cooke's Palinurus

Duke of Grafton's Canadian (t)

Mr. Isaac Day's Curator

Lord Jersey's Brother to Phoenix

Mr. Clarke's Master Thomas

Mr. S. Herbert's Nessus.

WINNING JOCKIES.-The following is a list of the number of races

won by the most successful jockeys in 1841 ;

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GOODWOOD.-The Ham Stakes 1844 closed with 54 subscribers, and the Gratwicke Stakes 1845, with 66 subscribers.

NEWMARKET FREE HANDICAPS.-Not one of these stak es filled

THE LATE EDWARD HOWARD, ESQ.

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AUTHOR OF RATTLIN THE REEFER," SPORTS OF THE SEA," &c.

THERE are few of our readers probably who have not become acquainted with the death of our respected correspondent, Edward Howard, Esq.; and none, we are sure, who will not regret his loss with unfeigned sorrow. A month ago only-and we reckoned him among the gayest of our contributors: another month comes roundand his pen is silenced for ever! It is not always that the writer of gay thoughts and the propounder of lofty sentiments, is in himself the example of cheerful manners and high feelings; but who that has ever known Edward Howard could for a moment doubt that every noble sentiment he wrote did not spring from his own heart, that every virtuous action he pourtrayed was not practised in his own person? Mr. Howard began his literary career as co-editor of the Metropolitan Magazine with his old schoolfellow and shipmate, Captain Marryatt. For many years they conducted this periodical together. When Captain Marryatt left the magazine, Mr. Howard became its editor, and remained in that capacity to the day of his decease. All who have been in the habit of reading the critical portion of the Metropolitan, which was entirely in the hands of Mr. Howard, must have been struck with the originality of treatment, the comprehensiveness of thought, and the accuracy of judgment evinced in this portion of the work. We believe there is no periodical existing in which so many subjects have been so successfully treated by one mind. How many are there in which even a multitude of writers have failed to achieve what the reviewer of the Metropolitan effected alone!

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The novels and romances of "the author of Rattlin the Reefer," are too well known to need any mention here. The foolish practice in Vogue some years ago, of authors " editing each other's books, became the means of many of Mr. Howard's novels passing as the works of Captain Marryatt. In France and Belgium we have even seen "Rattlin le Marin," "Le vieux Comodore," and others, published among the Euvres complètes du Capitaine Marryat. At home, however, this mistake has been pretty generally corrected.

Mr. Howard's "Life of Sir Sydney Smith," is almost as well known as his novels and deserves to be; and we hear that his last work, the Adventures of Sir Edward Morgan, the Buccaneer is in every respect worthy of his former reputation.

THE MONTHLY MISCELLANY.

NEW METHOD OF HATCHING GAME.

Ir is a trite proverb that there is nothing new under the sun, but we think that the sporting world will acknowledge that there is some novelty in an apparatus intended to Hatch and Rear Game by means of hot water; and is so very simple in its construction and mode of operation that a person of the most ordinary capacity may attend to it with perfect safety, and it occasions but very little trouble.

It is small, circular in form, will occupy a very smail space, and may be moved about at pleasure. Its size is about thirty inches in diameter and twenty-four inches in height, but it can be made much smaller, and will hatch from about eighty to one hundred and twenty pheasants' eggs at one time.

It is composed of an outer case, and cover of iron japanned, and zinc and copper, and is therefore very durable. The interior arrangement consists of a zinc boiler, containing the hot water, upon which is placed an iron tray, lined with wool to contain the eggs, and a small zinc saucer to hold water, for the purpose of conveying the necessary moisture to the eggs. Beneath the boiler is a compartment lined with cloth, in which the young birds are placed, with doors to admit of their running out and in.

The water in the boiler is kept hot by means of a small copper furnace, containing a lamp which will burn for about eight hours at a time, and in which the common solar oil may be used. As far as I have been able to judge, the consumption of oil in an apparatus of one of the smaller sizes is about one gallon in three weeks; in those of the largest size the consumption will of course be something more.

The heat of the apparatus, 100 degrees of Fahrenheit, is regulated by a very simple comtrivance. The hot water in the boiler is conveyed

by a short pipe into a tube, fixed to the outer case, containing a float, and this float is connected by a short wire, with a valve in the chimney of the furnace containing the lamp. When the water in the boiler gets too hot it swells in the boiling and raises the float-this in its turn raises the valve in the chimney which closes and stops the draught of the furnace, and the result is that the lamp burns less strongly until the water in the boiler getting a little cooler, recedes, the float and valve drop again into their places, the draught in the furnace is restored, and the lamp burns again as strongly as before, and this action continues whenever necessary, and I have found it to be a most complete self-regulator. I have, however, to make the regulation of the heat more accurate if possible, for this is a most important feature in the apparatus, fixed in the iron cover, a small syphon containing mercury upon Dr. Arnott's excellent principle, which, whenever the thermometer (also fixed in the cover) rises above the proper heat, immediately rises also, opens a small valve, and allows the heat to escape. As soon as this is done sufficiently the mercury falls, and with it the valve, and this I have also found to answer its purpose exceedingly well. The whole trouble of managing the apparatus consists in turning the eggs once every day, and at the same time putting fresh water into the saucer for moistening them, trimming and feeding the lamp when necessary, and adding a little fresh water to the boiler once in three or four days to replace that which may have evaporated in the boiling. When the young birds are hatched they require attention for the first week or so. They are left in the tray where they are hatched for the first twenty-four hours, until they have gained a little strength, and are then placed in the compartment beneath the boiler, which is quite warm enough for them, and allowed to run out and in ; they will not eat for the first day or so-after that they will feed themselves; the best food for them are split groats soaked in warm water. There are now in the garden of the Zoological Society in the Regent's Park, two ducks which were hatched in the apparatus, and kept in the compartment beneath the boiler for eight days, and then sent to the Zoological Gardens and brought up by hand. I was compelled to send them away because they did not agree very well with some red-legged partridges which were hatched about the same time.

The advantages of the apparatus are obvious wherever a partridge has been killed on the nest by the mowers, a not uncommon occurence, the eggs can be taken up and placed in the apparatus as soon as possible, and if it could be done in good time, the eggs would be hatched in due season, and so where a hen pheasant may have been destroyed upon her nest by a fox or any other means, which has frequently happened; the apparatus would also afford a most ready means of saving the eggs; but there is another case in which the apparatus

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