... 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 ...

... . (To the Editor of The Illustrated Spoetino and Dramatic News.) Deab Sib, As at once a dramatist, and a member of the company at the W. M. T. House performance of Thackeray's only play, permit me to assure you that, all question of the acting altogether apart, it succeeded very well indeed, as it deserved, so well as to show anybody with eyes to see that the scarcity of British plays is due ...

... CORRESPONDENCE. LADIES ON HORSEBACK. To the Editor of Tun. Illustrated Spouting and Dramatic News.) Sir, I cannot but feel flattered that my Ladies on Horse back papers should have called forth so large a correspon dence. I read every letter most carefully, and on perusing that of Hersilie, which appeared in last week's issue, it struck me, from two of her observations, that persons might ...

... Sib, In your issue of the 4th December, Farmer writes that his horses are fed upon oats which have been soaked in cold water, and that he has the com thus prepared because he could not easily manage to have a steaming apparatus for cook ing the food in the way that is recommended by Mr. Edward Mayhew, M.R.C.V.S., in his Illustrated Horte Manage ment. The plan that I have adopted during the ...

... . Sib, In consequence of the large number of the public who visited the galleries of the Society oil the Bank Holiday in August, the Council have decided upon again opening the Exhibition free on Monday next, the 27th inst As tlioy feel that the previous successful result was owing to the publicity given by the Press, I am desired by the Co incil to ask the favour of your kindly inserting this ...

... . 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 ...

... Sie, In last week's edition Jack Spur asks if it in usual in ji.iiv P.mmtvrv fur Inifips f-.n virlp a. In. Dun.iipaa Hp Tlorri 0 no j w., U a gentleman astride. In Mexico and the States of the River Tlate this is the usual mount of the fair ones of the district, and, clad in loose Turkish pantalettes tucked into the riding- boots of soft yellow leather, a loose sort of tunic secured by a belt ...