... Sir, Matt Stretch is still out of it. The Noble Cava lier, in his present position, has no business to touch the cover. His civic neighbour should have removed it, bowing the while, and should then have replaced it, receiving the cup at the same moment, and turning to his next neighbour to raise the cover for him. Matt Stretch is unapproachable in his line, but he has yet to serve his ...

... . Dear Sir, While thanking you for your kind notice (m your issue of the 28th inst.) of the dinner of No. II. Battery, which I have the honour to command, I regret very much the mistake made by your representative in stating it to have been a dinner given to No. II. Battery. The fact is that it was the annual dinner of the Battery, to which had been invited Lord Ashley (the commanding ...

... . Dear Sir, While thanking you for your kind notice (in your issue of the 28th inst.) of the dinner of No. II. Battery, which I have the honour to command, I regret very much the mistake made by your representative in stating it to have been a dinner given to No. II. Battery. The fact is that it was the annual dinner of the Battery, to which had been invited Lord Ashley (the commanding ...

... BEARING REfNS. Sir, No one answered X. Y. Z.'s first communication, so he writes to say that the lighter breed of the London cab horse may account for the difference in the size of his neck and crest in comparison with the carriage horse properly so called. I do not think the great difference observable can be accounted for in any other way thaD the one I pointed out. I venture to say that ...

... 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 ...

... . Sir, In the elaborate notice attached to your charming por trait of Madame Rcse Hersee I perceive you give the names of that lady's professors, including Signor Manuel Garcia, Madame Rudersdorff, and Signor Arditi. As the sole and absolute direc tor of Madame Rose Hersee's vocal studies, and as her teacher in all the parts which she has added to her repertoire during the past two yeais, I ...

... . Sir,-- Among the graduates from the various Veterinary Col leges in England and Ireland there must be many who are at something of a loss to determine where to settle in the practice of their profession. Throughout America, and more especially in the New England and Middle States, there are scores of lively, growing cities and large towns, where the services of skilful, thoroughly well ...

... . Sir, --In your issue of the nth January there is a letter from the writer of the article upon Bearing Reins, containing the fol lowing I venture to say that those persons who hold that the muscles of the horse's neck are strengthened by the necessitated action induced by the bearing-rein, do not forget that most muscles are used by momentary woik, then a similar period of rest, the woik and ...

... ETRES IN LIBRARIES. Sir,-- Every thoughtful mind must feel .lor the calamity with which Birmingham has been afflicted. Two splendid libraries have been destroyed by fire, each containing many unique objects of interest to the student, historian, archtcologist, and others. I speak not of the third loss, the Lending Library, for that can be replaced, comparatively speaking, easily, as money is ...

... . Sir, I have observed an extract from your journal relative to setting steel traps for rabbits, birds, &c. It is a subject which has long attracted my earnest attention. I joined the society of which I am now secretary with a view to doing something towards its suppression. I have not been successful, but I have discovered a few persons in this county, each of whom has been making spontaneous ...

... . Sir, My answer has not only not satisfied X.Y.Z., but he writes that Veterinary Surgeons say that bearing reins injure horses and they can see injured muscles where others cannot. They are a wide class, being over 2,oco in number, so that hewould have been as specihc practically it he haa said people say as Mrs. Brown is wont to argue. I have practised the craft twenty years, and have ...

... . 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 ...