gave up was the guager, who stopped most naturally when his horse came to a stand-still. A sixteen-stone attorney made marvellously merry at this defalcation in the Revenue. But he holloaed too soon after getting out of the wood, for his own bit of blood being a roarer, demurred in a very few minutes afterwards at the equity side of a potato-trench. "If I was you," said Bawley, as he helped the learned gentleman to emerge out of the mud, "I would sarve that baste with a process." "Clear the way there," said a young brewer who toddled up to the trench on the back of his flippant mare Hops. "I am going to make a show of you all." But, alas! Hops was worked out --she could neither hop, step, nor jump.

The time would fail were we to recount severally all the mishaps of this nature which befell. In a short time Bawley was alone within sight of a few of the Babbies, which, crossing the river again at another place, steered directly for the mountains. After a run of seven miles without a check, they at length came up to the flying fox which had yielded them such severe diversion. was suspended from the branch of a stunted oak, and as Grinder had been the first to nose it, so had he, likewise, the good fortune to devour it before any of his brethren could come to his assist

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INGLEWOOD HUNT.-A beautiful stag was turned off near Penrith on Thursday week, amidst a most numerous concourse of spectators, horses and pedestrians. He took a westerly direction for about three miles, then due south, crossing the river Eamont, at Yanwath Hall, over Yanwath Moor, through Lowther Wood,

ORIGIN OF TALLY-HO!

Tally-ho has long been substituted for Tan Io!-how long it is perhaps impossible to ascertain ; but that should be adopted for n will surprise no one who is disposed to examine the subject. The Attic dialect changes into

A, and the Doric A into v. This fact were alone sufficient; but the euphony of Tally-ho!" when vociferated in the field from stentorian lungs, is far greater that "Tan Io! to say nothing of the sudden jerk given to the tongue in pronouncing then, which as modern Nimrods ride, might endanger a front tooth or two. Should any incredulous person, however, see fit to question the correctness of our derivation, let him be so good as to furnish us with a better. Some have endeavoured to prove the joyous cry is a corruption of Talio, signifying thereby that hunting is the exercise of a species of lex talionis, as though one would say, Reynard, you have stolen my goose, and I will, in revenge, have your brush!" Revenge, indeed! Is there the most distant appearance of that vile spirit in the jolly, smiling, uproarious faces of a set of jolly fox-hunters ? None but a cockney could have dreamed such a dream. Let him creep out from beneath the "sul

phureous canopy fine morning, and waylay and shoot a fox when the hounds are in full cry, and truly he shall receive his reward for so kindly assisting the inveterate sportsmen in taking their REVENGE.

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The character of a brave warrior and a bold hunter have ever been synonymous among rude and uncivilized nations; and, in our late encounters on the continent, we have had no small reason to be grateful that they are frequently still united in the same person. Tan was the God of War, and in the field, where sport was to be found and alacrity of body and mind acquired, his votaries fitted themselves to defend and fight for their country. They acquainted themselves with every pass and rising ground, bog, wood, and valley. What need of more, than stating that the Duke is a foxhunter?

THE JOCKEY CLUB. Rules or Laws relative to Posting the Horses in all Cases that can happen.-1. A distanced horse in any one of the heats is not to start again. 2. A distanced horse, though he had won a first or second heat, is not to be rated in any place. 3. At two heats the horses always rank as they come in the second heat. 4. When there happens a dead heat, a distanced horse may start again as well as the rest. 5. In case of three heats, any horse that beats another twice is reckoned the better horse, though the other come in second the last, or in either of the other heats except the horse that has got a heat. The horse that beats another twice, if he comes in second the third heat, is rated best deserving, except as before, and unless there should be four heats. 7. No horse can start for a fourth heat that has not won a heat; if the fourth be a dead heat, all three must start again, and rate as they come in. None can be distanced.

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Having an idle moment to spare, and having long felt desirous to give you a lift in your laudable undertaking-that of affording to sporting men in India a public channel of communication, and for which you deserve their best thanks-I think I cannot, perhaps, hit upon a better opportunity than the present of making the attempt, and therefore take up my grey goose quill" to try what it can produce. You must accept the will for the deed, Mr. E., so here goes, slap bang, to say a few words about some thoroughbred English dogs, consisting of between eight and nine couple of fox hounds and harriers, which I believe have been purchased at different times from captains of free traders, and have at length grown into something considerable enough to be deemed deserving of the appellation of the "Bombay Fox hounds." And gladly do I hail their establishment, for the thing once set agoing, doubtless it will last, as from all I can judge there are plenty of people here quite alive to the advantages of a gallop before breakfast, and willing to subscribe liberally towards anything that will enable them to substitute for the "lily white,"

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the "rosy hue," and I don't despair of seeing at no very distant period a very respectable pack of hounds in Bombay. Yes! let Nimrod open his eyes when he hears all this! and not be surprised now if even the " great behemoth" should FLY across the Island, or Job himself make his appearance some of these fine mornings "booted and spurred." I agree with him that Bombay is unfit in many respects for hunting with hounds, and the thing at the first "coup d'œil" looks almost impracticable; but custom reconciles us to many disagreeable things, more particularly when connected with our favourite pursuits, and to view what once might have been considered as difficulties in the light of mere trifling obstacles. There is nothing, however, as far as the riding goes, to prevent any man with tolerable nerve from keeping a good place with the dogs, and if they can shake him off (barring accidents) let him abuse nothing but his own bad horsemanship, provided he is mounted on a surefooted nag, who has no dislike now and then to a "stone dyke," -nothing worth talking about, however, as upon a tolerably active one they are easily left behind. I

can fancy a real good hog-hunter, well accustomed to the Rocks of Rasahbosah," tittering at the idea of there being anything like a stopper throughout the whole line of country that I have ever seen the dogs take. "Credat Judæus Apella," I think I hear some of your

"wash ball" gentlemen exclaim; but it's no less true. Let me advise these, however, should their "sticking powers " in the saddle not be very great, to adopt the remedy mentioned by "Nimrod in the West" in one of his letters which was made use of in his presence, and by an Irishman too, who got a very unnecessary "purl" at a gate which his horse cleared cleverly, viz. to sponge the inside of a pair of "buckskins" well with water till they are perfectly saturated, and I'll defy the devil himself to pull them off; added to which it will give them confidence and their nerves will be considerably strengthened by it. I must hark back! to say a few words more of the little " Čry." Should they es

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the ravages of an Eastern climate, so peculiarly fatal to the breed of hounds, I have no doubt next season that I shall hear an account of some good sport in Salsette. I am glad to learn that they have been as yet very healthy, and that the losses have been but few. I must beg pardon of the gentleman to whom they belong, and will freely confess I was for a long time prevented having, as I conceived, a good "horse laugh at them (I don't mean, Mr. E., that my steed should have exerted his risible qualities) for reasons, first some little regard for my own neck, and secondly for that of my hunter's-the latter

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* An expression of Sir Bellingham Graham's as related by Nimrod in the E. S. M. when speaking of a fellow rather loose in his saddle.

no trifling consideration to a poor Sub; but my fears were one lucky morning very quickly and pleasantly dispersed; for whilst in the act of taking a "vile constitutional" the "gallant chiding" of the pack struck upon my car, and in an instant they were close by my side. Now, thinks I, I will have a look at them, at all events; but there happened to be between us one of those numerous stone fences with which the country thereabouts is so abundantly intersected; but being no "funker at them sort of things, I put my nag's head the right way, gave him the rein, and he soon brought me to the tail of the hounds. "O'er holt, o'er hill"-away we flew with a burning scent breast high-heads up and sterns down, and without a check we ran intowhat do you think, Mr. E. ?-not a fine jackal, as I fondly imagined, whose "brush" or tail, if you choose, I intended to have claimed for my gallant riding;-No, Sir! no such animal; but as fine a piece of raw beef as ever, in its bedecked state, graced the table of an unsportsmanlike alderman. "Sacre nom de Dieu," exclaimed I, who had never seen a

drag" before in my life. Is this what you keep hounds for? But after an introduction to the gentleman who hunts them (a right good sportsman, too, and no cocktail, as some may imagine from this run), he very politely told me it was Hobson's choice" with them, for that they must either have a "drag" occasionally, or their dogs would be in no wind, should a jackal or fox make his appearance; hares (bagged ones, of course) being unable to stand before the pack more than a few minutes. Still I thought this poor fun, and had not the pleasure of thinking otherwise, till one day I espied