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Hobart Town, where they have three days' 

 racing for plates, matches, and sweepstakes 

 (one of fifty sovereigns each), with ordinaries, 

 and balls, and six thousand spectators on 

 the course ! This little colony is progressing 

 in many odd ways ; it turns out, inter alia, 

 as pretty an { Annual/ whether we look to 

 the poetry or the engraving, as any one 

 could have expected from a place of three 

 times its standing ; though the engraving, to 

 be sure, may be accounted for. 



Until lately France made very little pro- 

 gress in racing ; it did not, neither do we 

 think it ever will, generally suit the taste of 

 that people. Much encouragement, however, 

 being given to it by the government, in addi- 

 tion to a strong penchant for the sport in the 

 heir-apparent to the throne, it is at present 

 greatly on the increase; and there are no 

 less than twenty -four race meetings 1 ad- 

 vertised in the French Racing Calendar^ in 

 France and Belgium ; at several of which 



1 Aix - la - Chapelle, Aurillac, Blois, Bordeaux, 

 Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bruxelles, Chantilly, Compiegne, 

 Jouy (au clocher), Liege, Limoges, Maisons-sur-Seine, 

 Moulins, Nemur, Nanci, Nantes, Paris, Pir (le), 

 St. Brieux, St. Josse-te-Noode, St. Trond, Spa, 

 Tarbes, Versailles. 



