... . Sir, As you have done me the favour to publish my letter of the 19th ult., relative to Westgate, in extenso and whLh I did not anticipate or intend, will you allow me, through your kind medium, to express my regrets to those gentlemen whose names I have used for having done so without their permission At the same time, as a misconception may arise, will you also permit me to alter the ...

... . Sir, In your issue of February I, the writer of the article on Bearing Reins requests me to mention the names of those veterinary surgeons who contend that the bearing-rein is inju- tious to the muscles of a horse's neck. The following is an ex tract from a letter, written by Professor Pritchard, of the Royal Veterinary College, London, and published in the first number of the Animal World ...

... 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 ...

... . Sir, As an amateur I cannot refrain from begging you to in sert, in the interest of fair play, a reply to an article written by a correspondent from Brighton in your number of November 30. From the fact that your correspondent writes an ill-natured article, acknowledging at the same time that he has no reason for doing so, I should suggest that he might have culminated his confession by ...

... . Sir, I was passing the Duke's Theatre just after the doors were opened, when I saw an individual issue from the box entrance and walk rapidly round to Brownlow-street. He wore a long-caped military overcoat, and the Glengarry bonnet common to the line regiments he carried a small cane, and presented generally a respectable soldierly appearance, with the singular exception that he had got no ...

... . Sir, I have nothing to say about the meaning of the word slot, but I wish you would inform Atlas that stopping is not synonymous in good English with staying, though it is constantly so used in the fashionable slang of the day. A writer of Atlas' pretensions should be more careful. It is possible however, that he used the word in quite a different sense, ana w'shed to inform his readers ...

... . MR. G. A. SALA MACREADY. (To the Editor of Ike Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir,-- Kindly afford an old actor a small space in your valu able paper, to endorse the able letters of your correspondent (W. C. Day,) in your impressions of December 29, and 12th instant. All honour to him for his straightforward manly vindication of Macready against the scurrility of Mr. Sala's attack. ...

... Sir, Will you permit me to intimate through your columns, to those of your readers who are interested in swimming matters, that an additional swimming event has been provided for next and the following seasons AIr..Wallace Dunlop, C.B., having offered for competition a cup value 50 guineas, the arrangement of contests for it has been undertaken by a committee, consist ing of the following ...

... . Sir, Will you allow me to seek through your aid any infor mation concerning the Hutchinson family, of Shipton, near York, after the death of John, the breeder of Hambletonian, Overton, Beningbrough, who, as the Druid informs us (Post and Paddock, chapter 2), departed this life in 1806, leaving a very large fortune behind him(?) From tradition, this statement I have reason to dispute. ...

... . [Received by Telegraph.] Constantinople, 23 Jan., 1878. Sir,-- I beg that you will allow me space in your columns to request the support of my countrymen for the movement which is going on here for the establishment of an International Refuge Fund for the succour and support of all refugees, without regard to race or religion. Full information as to the reasons which have led to the ...

... '■THE CELEBRATED CASE. Dear Mr. Editor,-- At Easter we are to see at the Adelphi the famous Cause nillhre a play that has made considerable stir in Paris. The unfortunate soldier in the original play is called Jean Renaud, who, strange to say, is the hero of a very old French ballad I heard years ago and whose words I have with difficulty recalled. There is something so weird and strange in ...

... . Scene The Mart, December 13. Messrs. Farehrother, Lye, and Palmer (loj.). WALK up, walk up, ladies and gentlemen, and see the last of Rule's Oyster Rooms in Maiden Lane, the lease and goodwill whereof is now offered to you. Observe the three Rules fathei and two sons, as like one another as three oysters. The home of the Rules is about to be sold, so there is no end of Home Rule, or ...