... . 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. ...

... . 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,-- Will you give publicity in your columns to a few lines. I arrived in Melbourne, from England, beginning of this year, opened at the Academy of Music in Two Roses as Digby Grant. The comedy was an immense success. The papers did me the honour to confess that it was due in no small measure to my exertions. However, in the Era especially that of the 28th of May, boththe part and myself ...

... . Sir, I read lately in your interesting journal (copied, I believe, from the Daily Telegraph), some short memoirs of the late Thomas Lake Crommelin. Few (as it is there observed) can re member him in his palmy days but I was one of the number indeed related to him, his father and my mother being sisters' children. Charles Russell Crommelin, the father, only son of the Governor of Bombay, was ...

... . To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, Will you allow me to call attention to one of the peculiar customs in the Chess-world at Purssell's, most of the players being altogether unknown by their ordinary names The following is an account of an evening's play On enter ing the room, I found His Lordship, with his private chess-board, anxiously looking out for a ...

... . 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 ...

... THE SCORPION. {To the Editor or the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, As an old contributor to your paper, will you kindly permit me to make a personal statement. On an advertisement illustration in a new half-penny comic, the Scoipion, some person has appropriated the initial or sign which I sometimes attach to my sketches. This, no doubt, has given rise to the many inquiries I ...

... {To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and dramatic jnews.j DEAR SIR,-- I have only just seen the review of the songs, Jack's Vow, My Star, and The Trooper's Dream, the words of which were written by me, appearing in the Weekly Musical Review of your impression of the 30th of June last. As the observations of your critic are calculated to do me great injustice, and therefore ...

... THE JOYS OF SNIPE-SIIOOTING. To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, As an old Fenman, I must say I don't quite agree with your description of snipe shooting. The most fascinating sport we have in the Fens is snipe shooting; as to mud and water being discomforts, we are used to it. Our turf pools and sedge fens require a Fenman's experience to explore an ...

... . Sir, By an accident, it appears that the names of the judges for poultry and pigeons have become transposed on the first page of the schedule of the Granville Show. This will be corrected by the two gentlemen first named judging in the poultry classes and the other two in the pigeon classes. Will you allow me also to point out that although runts from any county in the United Kingdom, with ...

... . Sir, To all interested in our Caledonian Asylum children, or who have enjoyed our Caledonian ball, or who are about to enjoy ranging over The heath covered mountains of Scotia, I appeal to help me to give the bairnies a happy holiday in Jthe country, and the chance of seeing a Bit of brown heath and shaggy wood, Miniature mountain, lake, ana flood, so like the land of their sires, that there ...

... CORRESPONDENCE. MR. WEATHERLY'S EXPLANATION' [To the Fditor o; the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Sir. You compel me to repeat my statement tliat saw no proof of Across the far blue hills, Marie The fault was certainly not yours. I never said it was. Nor was it mine. It is unfortunate that publishers should not send proofs in all cases to all writers. But it is a notorious fact and is ...