... ARCHAOLOGY AND CITY IMPROVEMENTS TO THE EDITOR OF THE GRAPHIC Sir, Some three weeks ago a discovery was made in Aldgate of what appears to be an ancient church, the arches and columns of which are i ...

... [To the Editor op the Illustrated Sportixg and Dramatic News.) Sir, The owner of a prize donkey near Shrewsbury lias in vented a collar for it which is a great improvement on the common one. The collar and harness are in one piece, and the collar opens 011 a hinge at the bottom where the hames usually open, so that, instead of slipping it over the animal's head, it is put on its neck, as the ...

... CORRESPONDENCE. MR. HENRY LESLIE'S COPY OF THE ILLUS TRATED SPORTING AND DRAMATIC NEWS. To the Editor of the Sporting and Dramatic News. Sir, The counterfeit presentment of your valuable paper published in this city, was started on cheek, carried on in fraud, and will end its shameful existence in ignominy. And that time is not far distant. Already the grand proprietor is unable to pay ...

... . {To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, I have read with great interest B. W.'s article on Cricket Reform in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of September 13, but am surprised not to find any allusion to the numerous extraordinary specimens of bowling analysis, curiosities in which appear to me to have been remark ably frequent in recent first-class ...

... . (To the Editor of Tite Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sin, Would you allow me, through the medium of your ■widely-circulated journal, to call attention to the boating acci dents on the Thames, now of almost daily occurrence, and to point out that most of the accidents are dtre to the wash of the large saloon steamers which voyage up the river above Ham mersmith. When out boating a ...

... . (To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, Your correspondent, A Gentleman Jockey, must be a very clever man, although his spelling is somewhat indifferent. He is also a peculiar man, for he likes capped hocks. Clean legs, too, arc objectionable to him. He is, moreover, a terrible man, for he threatens to drop his subscription. When the Gentleman Jockey's ...

... . {To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News., Sir, While speaking of Bazin, it may not be uninteresting to know that the following eminent musicians are mentioned, amongst others, as candidates for his vacant place at the Academie des Beaux Aris Massenet, Saint Saens Guiraud, Delibes, JonciJres, Ernest Boulanger, and Membree. Bazin's last work was sung at the festival of the ...

... . 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 ...

... . 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, ...

... . 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 ...