... . (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, 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Sir, In your controversy on the subject of 4 4 Foxes in Trees I must unhesitatingly join with 44 Baron Munchausen, who dis believes in the existence of foxes capable of such eccentricity, against 44 A Constant Reader, who fancies that he has seen such an unlikely sight for I would not of course impute deliberate misstatement to any gentleman. Whether he has seen a squirrel, or whether what ...

... Sir, I have read with considerable amusement, and so I doubt not have many others, the letter in your issue of to day, signed 44 Baron Munchausen, on the subject of foxes in trees, in which your correspondent ridicules in no measured terms the idea of such a reversal, as he seems to think, of the urovisions of nature, siinplv I suppose because he has not seen the extraordinary ft) phenomenon ...

... . Dear Sir,-- Permit mc to draw your attention- to a slight mis take in your last impression of The Illustrated Sporting axd Dramatic News. In a notice of Mr. and Mrs. German Reed's entertainment, your critic speaks (and speaks favourably) of a Mr. Law in the part of Diggles. Now I am not a jealous man hi such matters, and had the criticism been adverse Mr. Law might have retained the credit ...

... . Dear Sir, I have read a lot of twaddle about foxes in trees in the last few issues of your, of course, valuable paper. I have not read the Duke of Beaufort's letter on the subject, nor have I time to refer to it, but I cannot resist pointing out to you that any man who has the least smattering of natural history, and stiff more of anatomy, and the formation of animals' limbs, must know that ...

... . Sik, Among your admirable illustrations last week I noticed a picture of an Indian bear in hot pursuit of a missionary, which is stated to represent a true incident. I have myself been in the unpleasant position of being forced to stand the charge of a wounded bear, and I have seen and shot them both in India and elsewhere. But 1 was under the impression that the black bears of the East ...

... THE MOURNING MUSE. Sir, Permit mo state that the marble statue, The Mourn ing Muse, by Robert Cauer, represented in your last issue as ereoted in the cathedral at Mainz, is placed as a monument in the cemetery of that city on the grave of Frau Commercieu- rath Schrott, a lad}r who was a munificent patron of art, and whose death the mourning muse is represented as bewailing. I am, &o., Gustav ...

... . bra, 1 notice a letter 111 your last impression from A Sportsman on the above subject, which reminds me of an amusing circumstance that occurred within six miles of the good old city of York a few months ago. An acquaintance of mine who had not long resided in the neighbourhood was from home one night rather later than usual ou busiuess, Thinking that he knew the road pretty well, he ...