... . Sib, In consequence of the large number of the public who visited the galleries of the Society oil the Bank Holiday in August, the Council have decided upon again opening the Exhibition free on Monday next, the 27th inst As tlioy feel that the previous successful result was owing to the publicity given by the Press, I am desired by the Co incil to ask the favour of your kindly inserting this ...

... . Sir, As the contributor of the article on the mastiff in your journal has done me the honour to refer to me, would you kindly allow me to point out some errors into which I think he has inad vertently fallen with regard to my own and other breeds, and which may more or less mislead those interested in the subject. First, although it is true that I may have spoken highly of the strain of Mr. ...

... . [To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News). Sir, Noticing some remarks in your paper about big jumps, you may, perhaps, consider the enclosed worthy of notice. Copy from Court Journal, 19 th Nov., 1870. EXTRAORDINARY LEAP IN TIIE HUNTING FIELD. The Cheshire Hoimds met at Marbury, on 5th inst., &c. In the course of the run Sir Claude de Crespigny made a splendid jump with ...

... Sie, In last week's edition Jack Spur asks if it in usual in ji.iiv P.mmtvrv fur Inifips f-.n virlp a. In. Dun.iipaa Hp Tlorri 0 no j w., U a gentleman astride. In Mexico and the States of the River Tlate this is the usual mount of the fair ones of the district, and, clad in loose Turkish pantalettes tucked into the riding- boots of soft yellow leather, a loose sort of tunic secured by a belt ...

... Sie, The letters of your correspondent, Mrs. Power O'Donoghue, are very instructive and trustworthy because founded upon practical experience. In her letter of last week she recommends the feeding of hunters upon cooleed food. This to many sportsmen will be a new theory not so to me, and I wish to confirm her views, but I carry them out in a more economical way. My establishment is but a ...

... . To the Editor of the. Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, For the last few weeks I have been reading with great in terest the correspondence on the above subject from. Mr. De Vere, Amateur, and South Kensington. Commencing with the letter -which appeared in the issue of July 8, in which South Kensington describes the cage as being constructed with steel bars and sharp edges, ...

... . [To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, In your last number, at the end of a rather too flatter ing mention of my musical achievements, I find that you say the articles in the World of which I am the reputed author are judged hy people jn general, and by yourself, to he written with excessive bitterness and severity. With all due deference to the writer of the ...

... . Sir, It is pretty generally admitted by actors who have played with Macready, that he indulged in a very brusque not to say occasionally offensive, bearing towards his brother and sister artists at rehearsal, and even at night, when acting, if everything was not done in strict accordance with his wishes, or when sur rounded by performers of more than ordinary obtuseness. His notorious ...

... Sir, In your biographical notice of Mr. Alfred Thompson you say that at Cambridge he founded the Thespis Club, which subsequently, under Mr, F. C. Burnand's management, grew into the famous A.D.C. No, sir; the A.D.C. was my child, and did not grow out of any previously existing club. Until now I had never heard of the Thespis Club, though in my time, at Trinity, there still existed a vague ...

... . (To the Editor of The Illustrated Bporting and Dramatic News. SIR,-- In a letter on French plays, which appeared last week in your columns, Mr. Samuel takes up a new standpoint by propounding, and. essaying to prove, the startling theory that the recent productions on the Parisian stage are successful in direct ratio to their purity; at the same time carefully ignoring the objections taken ...

... Sin, I nm informed that a paragraph appeared in your paper of recent date intimating that my late lamented brother, Mr. C. Ross, of Leek, who met with an accident whilst playing football (which proved fatal) had been suffering from an abscess when he played. Allow me to state that such an impression is entirely erroneous death resulted solely from injuries received in the accident, as shown bv ...

... . To the Editor o/Tnz Illustrated Sportimo axd Dramatic News). Sie, In your issue of the 29th of March was an article or letter on the above subject, and M that of the oth of this month is a sceptical correspondent, Baron Munchausen, who, because he has never seen a fox in a tree, doubts that any one else has done so. For the last forty years I have many times in every year seen foxes in ...