to, which were generally good, Jem Burn again challenged Baldwin to another trial of skill in three, six, or nine months. Bob's friends, how ever, declared he should not fight again, and praised the prudence which would induce him to leave off while his "shoes were good." Jem Ward, the unopposed candidate for the Championship on the turf, had a bumper at the Tennis Court on the 17th, when several of the first-raters exhibited, affording the highest satisfaction. The great novelty was a set-to between Harry Jones and a swell amateur from Cambridge, whom he soon hit out of all conceit of his amateurship, but left him more swellish than ever about the eyes, nose, and mouth. Jem Ward and Josh Hudson's New Black closed the games; but the inimitable science of Ward did not leave poor Sambo a chance. Jem's right and left were always at work with his cannister; and but for a little of Jem's gammon, Young Molineux (as he is now called) would have "cut it" much sooner than he did. Blacky wants to be at work, and has chal "lenged any man in England, barring Jem Ward. Jack Randall, the Nonpareil, has... also announced his willingness to make a match with Dick Curtis, the Pet of the Fancy. Isle of Thanet Leicester..... ..25 Carlisle .25 We thank "Candour" for his communication, although we must decline inserting it. If the Correspondent he alludes to is a little out of the course, we know he will soon be in his proper place again. Opinions differ much, and our wish is to consult all tastes, deviating as little as possible from the line which" Candour " recommends to be fol lowed. The stanzas on the late Charles Dignum have merit, but the subject is not quite adapted to our columns. Other favours stand over till our next publication. ERRATA.—In Page 208 of last Number we made an error în stating that Linkboy won the King's Plate at Guildford-it was Leeway. In the account of Ascot Meeting, likewise, there was an incorrectness Tirailleur, instead of beating Lord Mountcharles's Royal Oak, paid forfeit. THE I. A Portrait of CAPTAIN ROSS on CLINKER. 53 III. FANNY DAVIES, Engraved by MR. J. SCOTT, JUN. from a Painting by MR. C. TOMSON, of Nottingham. CAPTAIN ROSS. WE have this month the honour of presenting our Subscribers and the Public with a beautiful engraving, by Webb, from a painting by Ferneley, of that justly-celebrated sporting character, Captain Ross, mounted on his famous horse Clinker, and in the dress in which he rode the steeplechase over Leicestershire on the 31st of March 1826, against Captain Douglas, on Radical, formerly a hunter in Mr. Thomas Asheton Smith's stud. We do not feel it necessary to enter much into farther particulars relating to this sporting match-(a match, it will be recollected, in which All England was challenged)-having been accurately described by NIMROD, are who witnessed it; but we happy to be enabled to state, that both painter and engraver have been eminently successful in their respective arts, by producing a most striking likeness of the gallant Captain, as also of his horse, which must be allowed, by all judges of this noble animal, to be a complete specimen of a Leicestershire hunter. In addition to his symmetry, his temper, we hear, is so docile that the most timid ladymight ride him, even with a pack of foxhounds; and, when a placid temper is united to such shape and Rr make as Clinker's, it must be admitted that we have-what is rarely met with the animal in perfection. Clinker was at this time the property of Francis Holyoake, Esq. of sporting celebrity, but purchased afterwards by the Captain, in whose possession he now is. His pedigree we find to be as follows-He was got by Clinker, dam by Sancho, grandam by Fidget, out of Lily of the Valley by Eclipse. His opponent, Radical, is also got by Clinker. The picture from which this plate is engraved is one of considerable magnitude, and in which are portraits of most of the distinguished characters of the Melton Hunt, assembled on this occasion. Not having the honour of being even personally acquainted with many of these gentlemen, we can only report what we hear; but we understand, from good authority, that Mr. Ferneley has been successful. We are well aware that we are only performing our duty to our readers by ornamenting our work with portraits of such characters as Captain Ross; and we sincerely wish it was oftener in our power to gratify our inclinations on this head. We have often wished, but wished in vain, to obtain those of masters of fox-hounds-beginning with the Father of the Field, John Warde, Esq.; for we are well aware how highly they would be esteemed by our numerous subscribers, and particularly by those abroad, where our work has an extensive circulation ; but even our friend NIMROD cannot achieve this for us, although he did once flatter us with the hope of obtaining a sketch of Mr. Warde; and then, perhaps, the example might have been followed by others. Leger, than any other Meeting in the North of England; and public running, it is well known, will, out of a in ninety-nine cases hundred, whereby to form any judgment of prove the best criterion the merits of the several horses entered for that interesting race. truth of this assertion, we need If any proof were requisite of the only refer back to the Racing Calendars for past years, and there William, The Duchess, Reveller, we shall see recorded, Altisidora, St. Patrick, Theodore, Barefoot, Jerry, and Memnon, all winners of the Doncaster St. Leger, running with and beating fields of horses over York. Concluding from these circumstances that an account of the York August Meeting of the present year cannot fail to prove highly interesting to your numerous readers, I take up my pen, to send you some particulars, knowing, as your correspondent X.Y.Z. observes in last Number, that you what is going on in their part of wish every one would let you hear the world. ALFRED HIGHFLYER. TUESDAY, August 7. The weather this day uncommonly |