Saracen's Head Handicap, with a field of seven, which Tommy Lye won on the Cocktail-a filly so called in Mr. T. Dawson's stable. The Selling Stakes, Tommy also won on Cantab, beating half-a-dozen, also; and a Handicap, won by Lord Warwick's Avia defeating five, wound up the day's amusement-seven races and no heats. Wednesday opened with the Black Doctor again triumphant, being suffered to walk over for the Grand Stand Handicap, because no one had the courage to encounter him. The Chester Stakes Handicap, with 100 added, brought out nine. Fugleman the best fancied at 5 to 2 against him-the highest bidding. He won-but that was all he could do-by a neck. For a Fifty Pound Plate for all ages above two years old, there was a field of eleven, Cantab the favourite with 2 to 1 against him. The Savage, however, was the winner, though "boots" in the market. The Leviathan Stakes, 6 subscribers, came off a match between Mark Tapley and Jack Briggs; the former at any odds from 5 to 10 to 1 on him. He won "in a concatenation accordingly." The Tradesmen's Welter Cup of 50 sovs, an amateur affair, had five starters; won by General Sale cleverly by half a length. The Scramble Selling Stakes Emily Ann won, beating four others. The Helter Skelter Handicap, Reality did the same, by beating half-a-dozen; and the mecting, at least, so far as related to the doings on the Roodee, terminated. Is not this the golden age of the turf? Three meetings per season at Epsom; and no respectable place satisfied with less than two.

In a sporting paper of the 29th of September there appeared a letter from Mr. Conrad Montgomery, the owner of Priestess, one of the nominations to the Leamington Stakes, to the following effect" On the first day of Warwick races, Mr. Merry, (clerk of the course, handicapper, and starter,) addressed himself to me, saying, that as I had bought Priestess, he should expect £200 from me in the event of her winning the Leamington stakes, as Mr. Hope Johnstone had promised him £200 for having put a favourable weight upon her." This startling announcement was met by Mr. Merry with a point blank contradiction in the columns of the same journal the following week; and a desultory correspondence produced a notice to this effect, published in the same paper on the 13th ult. :-"The Warwick Race Committee have called upon Mr. Conrad Montgomery to substantiate or withdraw the charge made against Mr. Merry, the clerk of the course at Warwick." Of the neces sity for an inquiry there can be no question; a graver imputation could not be laid against a racing official.

The wild time of the equinox was followed by a succession of delicious autumnal weather, which put brilliantly on the scene the Second October Meeting at Newmarket. Anomalous, as the present position of the turf is, "decorum" does not run so "quite athwart quite athwart" in its metropolis as at other places. The Heath still contrives to preserve that "gentle and aristocratic" character for which its sports were distinguished before the days of seven shilling excursions from Shoreditch to the Devil's Ditch; and rank and " file "mingled together in most unadmired disorder. Let us not despair: omnibuses do not rendezvous at the "the bushes," neither can it yet be said that "St. Giles's is St. James's." The crisis of "sweeps" and "lists" cannot be far off......

Once more steam, the diminisher of time and space, brought modern Elis within easy reach of everywhere and everybody-the Newmarket line was again opened for traffic; for the exercise of the shareholder's philanthropy and moving stock. Private interest was sacrificed to

public convenience, and trains of carriages were stationed at Chesterfield, pro bono Pimlico, as the cockney says in the play. The company began to assemble on the afternoon of Sunday, the 13th ult., and by noon of Monday the town was filled. The programme of sport was an ample one, and speculation went on as it is reported to do at the diggins." I should have said that at noon the town began to move into Cambridgeshire, the first race being appointed to come off half-anhour after mid-day. A mighty cavalcade then having gone forth for the Flat, we will suppose all ready for a start, secundum artem. The variations in the odds were legion......

"Will you play upon this pipe?" 'My lord, I cannot.....

'Tis as easy as lying. Govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb; give it breath with your mouth....Look ye, these are the stops.' If ye would "pluck out the heart of my story," go into the ringgive ear to the pipes-ye will hear them played on to a pretty tune....... Business began with a Fifty Pound Plate for all ages above two-yearolds, A.F. Six went: Pitsford the favourite at 5 to 4 against him. The speed was bad to the bottom, when Mildew, Pitsford, and the Swede made it good to the finish, the former winning very cleverly by a length. The distance was not long enough to pump him out. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for all ages, 4 subscribers, T.Y.C. They all ran, and as fast as they could, Preslaw the fastest winning cleverly by a length. Honeycomb was the favourite at 2 to 1 against him. A Handicap of 20 sovs. each, for three-year-olds and upwards, 16 subscribers, four paid, T.Y.C. Eleven came to the post. 4 to 1 against Eliza Middleton, 5 to 1 Westow, the same about Second Chance, 6 to 1 Harriot, and the same against Ploughboy. This was, of course, a scurry; though the pace was indifferent. Up the ropes the race lay between Eliza and Ploughboy, the favourite having the best of it by a neck. Fifty Sovereigns, second class, for two-year-olds, T.Y.C. There were eight starters, the favourite being Turtle, at 2 to 1 against her; 5 to 2 the filly out of Ear-ring, 4 to 1 the colt out of Empress, and nothing else backed. A rattling set-to between Prestige and the colt by Dromedary, dam by Mulatto, ended in favour of the former by a neck. Match 100, T.Y.C., Uriel, 9st. 5lb., with 4 to 1 on him, beat Lord Glasgow's roan filly, by Lanercost or Retriever, out of Physalis, 6st. 2lb., in a canter. How oddly matches bring matters and individuals together sometimes! Fifty Sovereigns, first class, for two-year-olds, T.Y.C. Nine went for this. Betting, 5 to 4 against Theseus, 3 to 1 brother to Truthteller, 5 to 1 Care, and 6 to 1 the colt out of Miss Julia Bennettproh pudor! The favourite had it all to himself, and won easily by a length. Renewal of the Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, 30 ft., for threeyear-old fillies, &c., &c., D.M., 10 subscribers. The Duke of Rutland's Ondine walked over. Match, 300 each, h.-ft., D.M.; even betting. The Beehunter, after a waiting race, carrying 8st. 71b., beat Clelia, 7st. 11lb., by a length. It was a very resolute finish. A Sweepstakes of 300 sovs. each, 100 ft., for four-year-olds, 8 subscribers, B.C. This long journey had three travellers. Vatican backed to win at even, and 6 to 4 against Old Dan Tucker. The latter, taking the lead from the start, made all the running, and beat the crack in a canter by three lengths; Champion, the third, was "no where." A Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, h -ft., for three-year-olds, &c., &c., Ab. M., 3 subscribers, Bordeaux walked over for. Third Year of a Post Produce

Match of 300 sovs. each, Colonel Peel received 200 sovs. from Lord Glasgow; and a couple of other matches being disposed of without a start, the day's list came to a conclusion.

Tuesday, the grand day of the five, was ushered in with a dawn of paradise and a fresh breeze that set the springs of life sparkling. Alas! that noon should bring reality and ragamuffins by the thousand. So soon as those already on the spot had got over the formalities of breakfast, with what appetite they might, business in downright earnest conmenced. I care not even to epitomize the betting-I could not if I would. Imagine the subtlety of the serpent, "the rage of the vulture," the agony of hope deferred, the remorse of ruin assured, and you will have conjured up some of the flaming ministers of yonder fierce crowd.

"Pleasure! thou art indeed a pleasant thing"

for such as pursue thee with blood-shot eyes, clenched teeth, and hair on end,

"Like quills upon the fretful porcupine."

Shall we introduce you to the circle? The topic under discussion is the Cesarewitch. Not the Imperial Prince of that ilk, heir to the Crone of all the Russias, but a handicap so called on the lucus a non lucendo principle. In fact, a very peculiarly situated handicap. Once upon a time the northern prince aforesaid allowed it an annuity of £300; that being discontinued for some reason or other-or for none- -this year it

came forward, or was supposed to come forward under more national auspices a fact thus dealt with by the racing authorities of Bell's Life:

"The merit of the addition of the 300 sovs. has now been claimed by the Jockey Club; but in point of fact, the public are the donors; for, to raise the sum, an increased demand has been made upon owners of horses, two sovereigns having this season been required to be deposited for each horse named to the handicap, instead of the one sov. heretofore put down; and the nominations having amounted to 149, it follows that the subscribers contributed the 300 sovs. added,' with the exception of two golden pieces, which the Jockey Club furnished." That is to say, 149 multiplied by 2 gives 298, which, with forty shillings added by the Jockey Club, makes up a sum of £300 sterling. Well, they are wagering upon this event, whose issue is now so near at hand. If the Prince of Darkness be really one of the actors in the " mystery" of life, we may be sure he never misses a race meeting at these presents. He goes to make acquaintances, to be ripened into intimacies at a future day. Avaunt! grim fancies! the ink wherewith we trace you has an odour of brimstone...... Trials there had been, and consequent upon reports of them up went an outsider and down went a "pot." However, all agreed, nem. con., that Landgrave couldn't lose. Whilst these things are going forward, the pickpockets-I mean the actual "cly-fakers," the people who draw you with fingers instead of fair words were not idle, They lightened a lord of his coin-£300; a large haul at the current quotation of wheat. But by-and-bye we shall come to something like robbing.......I say they said "Landgrave must win."......

"But soon a wonder came to light,

Which show'd the rogues they lied,"
(But not a word about "the bite,"
Or wrong may be implied).

With your leave we will adjourn to the Heath, and set the first race of

the day a-going. This is a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, for all ages, Criterion course, 3 subscribers. The winner was Montpensier.

The

as the

net produce, deducting expenses, his own stake, and so forth, would be,
say, about five-and-thirty shillings. A Handicap Sweepstakes of 16 sovs.
each, 10 ft., for two-year-olds, R.M., 4 subscribers. Like the preceding
event, whose prices, however, we did not give, they betted away about
this event." 10 to 6 against Antigone, (or "Aunty gone,
lads called her,) 2 to 1 brother to Willingham, and 5 to 1 against
Theorem. The favourite won cleverly by a length, We now come to
a race-a good old Newmarket standing dish-" et tali dignus honore."
The Clearwell, 30 sovs. each, 20 ft., for two-year-olds, &c., &c., 29
subscribers, T.Y.C. From this capital came nine "to the scratch," as
the gentlemen gladiators of modern times express a contest. They took
6 to 4 against Prime Minister, 2 to 1 about Confidence, and 4 to 1
against Breda. The running was in this wise:-The favourite, attended
by Solomon, took a lurch to port at starting, the pair having the
first of the fun to themselves. As they rattled up the cords, Confi-
dence put her best leg foremost, being finally beaten, however, by Prime
Minister in a canter a couple of lengths. Turtle was third, a length
from Confidence. The Royal Stakes, of 200 sovs. each, 120 ft.,
for three-year-olds, with a long list of penalties and the like, 14 sub-
scribers, across the Flat. The odds were 6 to 4 against Longinus
2 to 1 against Cranberry, and the same about Tomboy. The fourth-
which made up the field-was Colonel Anson's colt by Irish Birdcatcher,
his dam by Dr. Syntax. Between the first three it was as fine a race
as ever was seen: at the cords Tomboy and Cranberry came stride for
stride, the former just winning on the post by "a short head." Lon-
ginus was three parts of a length behind Cranberry, the Birdcatcher
colt being beaten off. And now the mighty matter of the meeting
stands forward for the sentence of the judges......The Cesarewitch
Stakes a free handicap of 25 sovs. each, with three hundred added by
the Jockey Club, &c., &c., &c., Cesarewitch Course, 59 subscribers.
This event, so long in the market, and so distinguished for its ups and
downs therein, finished, as regarded speculation, at the subjoined
prices-2 to 1 against Landgrave, 5 to 2 Backbiter, 9 to 1 Esse-
darius, 12 to 1 Lady Eden, 15 to 1 Wanota, 16 to 1 Snowstorm, the
same about Bolingbroke, 20 to 1 Priestess, 25 to 1 Trouncer, the same
about Russborough, the same about Legerdemain, 33 to 1 Letitia, 40 to
1 Tophana, and "boots" without a friend that would have given a
maccaroni for her chance, Glauca at a nominal 66 to 1. Thus a good
lot, apparently, was in negation for the bettors round: how it actually
was will be gathered from the circumstance of the winner being-as
regarded the market-as little thought about as though she had never
been foaled. The following, after sundry chops and changes, consti-
tuted the field :-

Mr. Payne's Glauca, by Cotherstone, 4 yrs., 7st. 7lb.
Sir R. Pigot's Essedarius, 4 yrs., 8st. 5lb....

.....Chapple 1
...A. Day 2

Mr. Gratwicke's Landgrave, 4 yrs., 6st. 13lb. (carried 7st. 2lb.)

Mr. Combe's Trouncer, 6 yrs., 8st. 4lb.

S. Mann 3 .... S. Rogers 0

Lord Clifden's Wanota, 6 yrs., 8st. 1lb. (carried 8st. 3lb.).. Robinson 0
Mr. Mangan's Russborough, 3 yrs., 7st. 111b. (including 6lb. extra)

Mr. Meiklam's Snowstorm, 4 yrs., 7st. 91b.

Whitehouse 0

.T. Lye 0

Mr. W. Edwards's Bolingbroke, 3 yrs., 7st. 8lb. (carried 7st. 10lb.)

Mr. W. Smith's b. g. Make-ready, 5 yrs., 7st. 8lb...
Col. Anson's Backbiter, 5 yrs., 7st. 71b.....
Mr. Elwes's Priestess, 4 yrs., 7st. 7lb.....
Lord Stanley's Legerdemain, 4 yrs., 7st. 4lb.

Mr. Osbaldeston's Fugleman, 5 yrs., 7st. 3lb...
Mr. Jaques's Chantrey, 4 yrs., 7st. llb.

Mr. Drinkald's Sauter-la-Coupe, 4 yrs., 7st. 1lb.
Mr. J. Shepherd's Alp, 4 yrs., 6st. 10lb.

Lord Clifden's Honeycomb, 4 yrs., Gst. 8lb.

Lord Exeter's Tophana, 5 yrs., 6st. 71b.

W. Boyce 0
.Wakefield 0
... Flatman 0
.Dockeray 0

(carried 7st. 6lb.)
G. Simpson 0
. Pettit 0
.Charlton

Rodney

0

0

Walker 0
..G. Mann 0

W. Harlock 0

Mr. Moseley's Alonzo, 3 yrs., 6st. 5lb. (carried 6st. 81b.).. W. Sharpe 0

Mr. Pilling's Lady Eden, 3 yrs., 5st. 11lb....

Mr. Copeland's Candlewick, 3 yrs., 5st. 11lb..
Mr. Nevill's Letitia, 4 yrs., 5st. 10lb.
Lord Exeter's Nutcracker, 3 yrs., 5st. 8lb.

.....

..J. Osborne 0

......

Wells 0

..T. Smith 0

. Barker 0

Legerdemain carried 2ĺb. over, of which no declaration was made.

The first off was said to have been Honeycomb, with "the crack" next to him, and then the body of horses-the course commencing at the starting-post of the Two Middle Miles, it is unnecessary to say more as to the early portion of the race being invisible from the finish. The first to show on the flat was Landgrave, and as they closed the bushes his attendants, who formed a division clear of the grand ruck, were Fugleman, Trouncer, Glauca, and Essedarius. As they raced down the fall Landgrave was pulling his jockey, who, they say, tired before his horse-haud meus hic sermo. At all events, ho didn't-the horse -look like a 2 to 1 good investment at this part of the race. In the bottom-the course finishes at the end of the Flat-Trouncer and Fugleman had passed him, and were themselves presently given the go-by as they rose the bill, by Glauca and Essedarius. Half way up the cords this pair set-to, and after a very resolute struggle the mare won by a neck. Essedarius swerved just on the post, from sheer distress. Landgrave was third, a neck in advance of Fugleman, who was fourth: Trouncer was fifth, making all but a dead heat of it with Fugleman. The tailing was considerable, the "tip" being Honeycomb. It was very truly run from end to end: "hinc illa lachrymæ." The individual that is called "the Leviathan” “for short," but whose real name is Davies, must have made something handsome by the affair: as nobody backed the winner, he never had much opportunity of laying against her. He dropped a few thousands, it was said, to Mr. Payne; but what's that to a man made of money?......A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each for three-year-olds, &c., &c., D.M., was run for by three, whereof Bullfinch was the best, beating Fernande-second-a length. Musician received forfeit (£150) from Sergius in a match for £300, which closed the day's engagements: whether that portion of the " obligations" which stands over for the morrow will then be closed also, remains to be seen.

Wednesday came in all smiles as regarded Aurora; but not so in the matter of certain parties interested in the late Cesarewitch. Rumour's thousand tongues were all a-going; and the burden of their song was in this wise-One Mr. Pewminster, as it should seem, has lately had

* Sic in some of the readings: it is also rendered "Puneston," and "Pemiston." Is the gentleman a member of Tattersall's? and if so, how is he entered on the books there by 1 is godfathers.