3IO A MIRROR OF THE TURF. 



in your columns from Admiral Rous, under the 

 title of ' Admiral Rous on the Turf,' containing 

 reflections on me and my family. I have now to 

 request the favour of your giving publicity to a 

 letter which has been addressed to me by the 

 Admiral, withdrawing his former letter, and a 

 copy of which I beg to enclose." 



The following is a copy of the letter referred 

 to : 



" As the legal proceedings pending between 

 us have been stopped by you, I now withdraw 

 my letter published in The Times newspaper on 

 the 1 6th of June; and the fact of my having 

 addressed a second letter to the editor on the 

 same day requesting him not to insert the first, 

 is a proof that I did not consider myself justified 

 in desiring it to be published." 



These letters reveal a curious ending to what 

 might have proved, had it been suffered to 

 become public, one of the most remarkable 

 "cases" ever investigated in a court of law. 

 One of the public journals of the time, in speaking 

 of the withdrawal of Mr. Day's action, said : 

 " The action is withdrawn, and the letter is with- 

 drawn, but whether the action is withdrawn on 

 condition of the letter being also withdrawn, or 

 whether the letter is withdrawn on condition of 

 the action being withdrawn, and which withdrawal 

 was first proposed and first accepted, and from 

 which side the surrender was suggested, we, at 

 any rate, know not." But it certainly seems, from 

 a passage in the Admiral's letter, that the trainer 

 had the best of it. "The fact of my having 

 addressed a second letter to the editor (of The 

 Ti7nes) on the same day," writes the Admiral, 



