... Coimpnbcira. [The fact of the insertion of any letter in these columns does not necf s- sarilyimply our concurrence in the views of the writeis. nor can ve hold ourselves responsible for any opinions that m iy be expi essctl therein.] [To the Editor of tne Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, In your issue of Christmas Day, under the head of Stud News, appears a paragraph stating ...

... . [To the Editor Sir, It seems hard on me that I should be kept out of the great billiard handicaps. It cannot be that I am not good enough to play in them, having ran second in three and won one of the largest handicaps that have been played in England and I see men in Cook's handicap who have very little the best of me, as you can see by referring to the papers. I depend, like Cook, upon the ...

... I1ERR GUNG'L AND THE PROMENADE CONCERTS. To the Editor.) Sir, As a constant frequenter of the concerts at Covent- Garden Theatre and admirer of II err Josef Gun g'l, I trust you will allow me to call your attention to a portion of the interesting article respecting him which appeared in your issue of the loth inst., and which, I think, unintentionally conveys an impression that is hardly fair ...

... . [To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) 91, High-street, Worcester, Jan. 10. 1876. Dear Sir, I read with much pleasure the account given by Mr. F. B. Grant of the sparrows and, having been fond of birds all my life, I can tell some curious tales about them, and I quite believe all Mr. Grant says, except that he did not know a cock from a lien bird. Please ask that ...

... . [To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, Reading the instructive and amusing account of the little Barbadoes sparrow in your impression of Jan. 8 lias brought to my recollection similar traits of instinct, though not of such wonderful love and affection, which have come under my own observation in the Indian carrion crow. These birds, so well known to all Anglo- ...

... CRICKET.-- THE OLD MITCHAM PARISH ELEVEN. [To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, Will you kindly announce the fact that the Mitcham Parish Eleven is numbered with the things of the past, and exists no more It was inaugurated first in 1S6S, under the following circum stances There were, ten years ago, two or three clubs at Mitcham, but there was not a real good ...

... CurrMpititota. [The fact of the insertion of any letter in these columns does not neces sarily imply our concurrence in the views of the writers, nor can we hold ourselves responsible for any opinions that may be expressed flim-niTi i SPELLING-BEES. To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. London, Jan. 2'2, 1876. Sir, I read in your last Number an account of a Spelling- Bee ...

... C0tTf.t>pilitatCC. [The fact of the insertion of any letter in these columns does not neces sarily imply our concurrence in the views of the writers, nor can we hold ourselves responsible for any opinions that may be expressed therein.] To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir,-- As a shareholder in the Alhambra Company, and as the writer of the letter annexed to the ...

... ST. PATRICK AND SIIAKSPEARE. (To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, If it be allowed that one outside of an affray may give an opinion upon it, I will try in a mild way to show in what a tangle your Junior correspondent, dating from the county of Dublin, lias involved himself. I remember something of the criticism, and took it for a bit of banter. Junior, as I ...

... on o fact of the insertion of any letter in these columns does not neces sarily imply our concurrence in the views of the writers, nor can we bold ouiselves responsible for any opinions that may he expressed therein.] To the Editor of the Illustrated SroBTiKQ and Dramatic News.) Calcutta, March 22, 1870. e jfy attention has just been drawn to a picture in your of Oct. 2. 1875, entitled tlio ...

... To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News Sir, In your issue of March the nth last my attention was drawn to a paragraph from Pavo, of the Morning Post in reference to the great curiosity which existed as to a series of trials at Newmarket between the English and Arab horses, Mr. Chaplin having recently imported four of the latter, said to be of the highest caste. Although I ...

... . (The fact of the insertion of any letter in these columns does not neces- sarily imply our concurrence in the views of the writers, nor can we hold ourselves responsible for any opinions that may be expressed therein.] (To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) gTR? Two weeks ago I wrote a few lines to the Hornet object- in ...