... CORRESPONDENCE. THE LORD MAYOR OF DTTBLTN (To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sie, In easting my eyes over your welcome paper a few days ago, I was chagrined to find yon bracket the Lord Mayor of this city with Members of Parliament from whom on many points he is notoriously dissonant in sentiment. On the merits of Messrs. Parnell, O'Donnell, and O'Connor Power I am ...

... MR. F. BUCKSTONE'S. TRUST FUND. I o the editor of The Illustrated Storting and Dramatic News.,) Dear Sir, Mr. Frederick Buckstone (son of the celebrated comedian) is at the present time laid up suffering from con sumption, and so seriously ill that only a fortnight ago his life was despaired of. The disease has been brought on, we fear, chiefly through privation and anxiety during the last two ...

... Sir, I suppose it would he impossible to advance any opinions to which there would not be objections raised, but I write, not in a cavilling spirit, but as one really anxious for information, to know whether Mrs. Power O'Donoghue would seriously advo cate striking a horse between the ears when it rears. Surely such a thing would be exceedingly dangerous for any lady to attempt, and, as your ...

... Sir, Though not an aggrieved stirrup maker, it may not he out of place if I, as a saddler of many years' experience and a great lover of horses, offer a few comments on the hints and instructions set forth in your paper for the benefit of ladies on horseback, written by one of the sex who is evidently an authority on the subject she treats so ably. There is no doubt these articles will be ...

... Sib, I herewith send you an account of an accident that happened to me some time since, thinking it might be of interest to your readers also to those who had to do with the horse before he came to Natal. Morning Star is by Parmesan out of Wild Elower, and won the 23rd Triennial Stakes in 1876, being then the property of Mr. W. S. Crawfurd, and was ridden byT. Challoner, and was imported to ...

... Sib, Permit me to state that the object in having the screw rowel pin in the spur, recommended by me for the use of ladies in your number of Nov. 13th, is in order to enable the wearers to use a mild or a severe rowel, according to the requirements of the horses they ride. I am very much against very sharp Bpurs for ladies (or gentlemen either), unless they are abso lutely required hut from ...

... . [To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sib, With reference to the discussion now going on in your journal, respecting Ladies on Horseback, and to my letter which appeared on the 13th November, you will perhaps allow me to draw attention to the ill effects produced by the use of side saddles, some of which effects have been already incidentally alluded to by your ...

... Royal National Lifeboat Institution.-- On Thursday a meeting of this institution was held at its house, John-street, Adelphi, Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the chair. Richard Lewis, Esq., secretary of the institution, having read the minutes of the previous meeting, rewards were granted to the crews of different lifeboats for recent services. The Walmer lifeboat went to the ...

... . fTo the Editor o/Thb Illustrated Spobtiuq asd Dbamatio News.) Dear Sir, I cannot pass over the illustration in your issue of the 1st November, and the letter referring to it in that of the 8th, without making a few remarks, as 1 am personally ac quainted with the facts, which are as follows: A certain American missionary in Midnapore, on his tour through the district, happened one day to ...

... Nkwspapbrs —Weekly : Advertiser, News, “Reporter,” “Standard.” Market—Saturday. ™ . Bill Poster—O. Charles, 29, Charles-street. Scarboro’ (Pop. 25,000), Railway— North Eastern. Royal —Eldred and Yorke. IjONDEsbro' —W. Waddington. St. Oeoboe's Music Hall —R. Dunn. Newspapers— Weekly: “Express, “Mercury, “Post, “Gazette.” Markets— Thursday, Saturday. Bill Poster—S. R. Gould, 23, Queen-street ...

... . (To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, P. L. in his article upon the close of the fishing season, would imply that all the broads of East Anglia are left out of the Act of 1877, and that liggering may go on, and the wholesale slaughter of pike, &c., he practised undisturbed. It is true that most of the broads being private property are exempted from the ...

... . (To the Editor of The Illustrated Storting and Dramatic News. Dear Sir, I have been much amused at your drawing and your note on the above mysterious recreation. Thirty years ago (or thereabouts), when we were boys at Oxford (was it Stunning Joe, or Cherry Angell, or dear old Bossom of Brasenose, or Namportkey of New Inn some one sent to the then Editor of Bell's Life a quatrain asking the ...