£300 was the sum allowed for Tearaway. Epirus arrived at the 
Curragh on Tuesday last, in the best health nud condition. 
Mr. Cupperthwaite, of Crotenstown, co. Kildare, has pur- 
chased the celebrated English race-horse Mountain Deer, as 
a sire, £600 is stated to be the sum given. 

COURSING FIXTURES. 
( Weather permitting.) 
OCTOBER, 1 854. 
FLACK. 
DATS. 
JUDGE. 
Biggnr Open (Lanark) 
Combermcre Open (Cheshire) 
3 
3 and 4 
4, 5, and 6 
0 and 6 
IB, See. 
17 
18 and 19 
18 and 19 
19 
25 and 26 
2G 
25, 2G, and 27 
20, Ac. 
Mr Dunlop 
Mr. McGeorge 
Mr. A. Bennett 
Mr. A. Bennett 
Mr. Warwick. 
Sir. Dunlop 
Mr. Nightingale 
Mr. A. Benuett 
Mr. Norvnt 
Border (Roxburghshire) 
Wiltshire Champion (Ayles- 
bury) — 
Market Weigliton ( Yorkshire) 
The Baron Hill (Beaumaris, 
▲nglesea) 
Blackpool (Lancashire) 
Caledonian Open (Lanark) .. 
Dairy and N. of Ayrshire .... 
N. Berwick and Dirleton (Ber- 
wickshire) 
S. Lancashire Open (South- 
port) 
Scooton (York) 
NOVEMBER. 
Mnltoa Open (York) 
Ridgway (Lancashire) 
Nithsdalc and Galloway Open 
l . 2, nnd 3 
2 and 3 
2 and fol. days 
7, &c 
9, 10, nnd 11 
9 and 10 
13 
16 
20 
22 and 23 
22 and 23 
28, 29. nnd 30 
Not fixed 
Mr. McGeorgo 
Mr Watson 
Sir. A. Bennett 
Mr. Lawrence 
Mr. A. Bennett 
Mr. Nightingale 
Mr. A. Bennett 
Mr. A. Bennett 
Mr. Warwick 
Cardiugton Club (Bedford- 
Spelthorne l’uppy Cup ( Wilts) 
A Hear Club (Lancashire) — 
Cnledonian St. I.egert Lanark) 
Ashdown l’ark Champion 
Sundorne (Salop) 
ChnUworth Oj>en( Derbyshire) 
Newcastle. Northumberland, 
and Durham 
Coquetdule (Northumberland ) 
DECEMBER. 
5 
7 and 8 
7 and 8 
14 
Mr. Lawrence 
Ridgway (Lancashire) 
Spelthorne (Middlesex) 
Caledonian (Lanark) 
JANUARY', 1856. 
Biggar Club (Lnnurk) 
The renewed trial between 
North-Western nnd South- 
Western Coursers, at Ly- 
23 
29 nnd fol. days 
FEBRUARY. 
Spelthorne (Wilts) 
Newmarket Open 
Biggar Champion (Lanark).. 
Baron Hill, Bcaumaris( Angle- 
7, 8, and 9 
12 
13 
Mr. Lawrence 
MARCH. 
Caledonian Open (Lanark) .. 
15 
27 
North Union Coursing Club.— The members of this 
club will meet at Antrim, on Wednesday, the 11th October 
next, when the vase and cup will be run for. The Puppy 
Stakes will also be run for on the occasion. The president 
is the Viscount Massarene and Ferrard, and the judge is Mr. 
Owen. 
Deer Shooting Extraordinary.— A feat which, if 
equalled, perhaps has not been excelled in the sporting world, 
was performed by Mr. Begg (sportsman to Mrs. Power, of 
Gurteen), on the 31st ultimo. He went out for the purpose 
of shooting a buck, and having sent some men into a planta- 
tion to beat about, he lay down in the brushwood at the end. 
In a few minutes two fine deer came bounding out, and after 
running about 150 yards they leaped on a ditch and turned 
round to take a view of their disturbers. Mr. Begg instantly 
levelled his rifle, and kept it to his shoulder until one of the 
deer brought his head in a line with the neck of the other, 
bang went the rifle, and down went the two deer, both shot 
dead with a single ball, one through the eye, the other through 
the neck. They being brought to Gurteen-lodge, he pro- 
ceeded to draw a second cover, when, perceiving the antlers 
ot a buck above the underwood, he calculated where the head 
ought to be, fired, and the ball pierced the head of a noble 
animal between the untler and the ear. Of this we have been 
informed by an eye-witness, and in whose credibility we 
place til 9 utmost confidence . — Tipperary Free Frees. 
The Shooting Season about Winchester is not likely, 
we hear, to be so satisfactory to sportsmen us was anticipated. 
.Birds are, in many localities, extremely scarce, and the hot 
and dry weather renders it difficult to obtain sport where the 
i s are more plentiful. It must be indeed a keen sports- 
11,1111 w .l 0:111 ,^ Rlve *he heat and drudgery of a prolonged 
r ou £ 1 a tubble-fields in a temperature such as 
w® "'^—Hampshire Advertiser. 
„ “° v «|7 fine specimen of the Capercailzie or 
WdL ma o°; d < wbich ma 7 now be seen at Mr. 
Williams, 155, Oxford-street), was shot in the woods of 
THE F IELD. 
Ballechin Dunkeld, Scotland, by Mr. K. Fowell, on the 7th 
inst. This splendid bird weighed eleven pounds and a half, 
and in perfect plumage. Grouse on these moors are very 
plentiful. Return of three days, 216 brace to two guns. 
SPORTING MISCELLANY. 
TALLY-HO ! YOICKS ! 
Keep silence, good folks, now, I pray you’ll attend ; 
I'm no common singer, you’ll find in the end. 
Tully-ho I Tally-ho ! Tally-ho f 
I’m a huutiug physiciau, and cure every ill, 
Disorder and paiu, without bolus or pill. 
Tally-ho ! Tally-ho! Tally-ho! Tally-ho! Tally-ho! 
Come on, ye old codgers, whose nerves are unstrung, 
Only follow the hounds, and you’ll hunt yourselves young. 
Tally-ho ! Tally-ho ! Tally-ho ! 
’Twill cure the short cough, and tho rheumatic pain — 
Only follow the hounds, and you’re all young again. 
Tally-ho ! Tally-ho ! Tally-ho ! Tally-ho ! Tally-ho ! 
Ye lovers who foolishly simper and sigh, 
And droop at the frown of a blue or black eye. 
Tally-ho ! Tally-ho ! Tally-ho ! 
Brush up to them quickly and try them ngain, 
For ladies love sportsmen, aud sportsmen love them. 
Tnlly-ho ! Tally-ho ! &c. 
If chalice you are plagued with a termagant wife, 
Who instead of tho pride is the ourae of your life, 
Tally-ho ! Tally-ho ! Tally-ho ! 
When Madam her “ small talk ” begins to "lot go,” 
Then pull on your boots, nud away — Tally-ho ! 
Tally-ho ! Tally-ho ! See. 
When Death, that old pirate, shall after you stride, 
Then mount your best hunter and ride for your life. 
Tally-ho ! Tally-ho ! Tally-ho ! 
Ne’er mind his grim looks while your hunter can “ go " — 
Foryou’ll itercr be caught whileyoucry‘‘Tn-n-lly-ho ! Ya-oicks !” 
Tally-ho ! Tally-ho ! Tally-ho ! Tally-ho ! Tally-ho ! 
The Devon and Somerset stag-hounds will meet on 
Monday, the 18th of September, at Poole Town, Luxborougli, 
at half-past ten o’clook, and on Thursday, the 21st, at Lee- 
worthy Post, Brnltou, at half-past eleven o'clock. 
St. Leger Statistics. — The St. Loger nice on Wednesday 
next will be the 79th contest for that celebrated prize, which 
was instituted iu 1776, four seasons beforo the Derby was 
established nt Epsom. In the three-quarters of a century 
which have elapsed since then, a dead heat lias occurred only 
twice, the first being in 1839, between Charles XII. and 
Euclid, and the second in 1850, between Voltigeur and ltus- 
borough. In 1789, when a colt of the Duke of Hamilton’s 
came in first, the winner was disqualified on account of his 
rider having "jostled” in the race, and it was giveu to Lord 
Fitzivilliam’s Pewet. The Leger has been won twenty-three 
times by noblemen, Lord Hamilton being the most frequent 
recipient of the " blue riband" in the olden time, and Lord 
Eglintoun iu latter days, tho former having carried off the 
prize four times, and the latter three. Four has been the 
lowest number of starters for this race, and thirty the highest, 
when it was won by Mcmnou, in 1S25. Four times tho 
start has been limited to 5 ; six times to 7 ; ten times to 8 ; 
five times to 9 ; seven times to 10; six times to 11; four 
times to 12; thrice to 13; four times to 14; thrice to 15; 
once to 16 (Paulina’s year) ; thrice to 17 ; twice to 18 ; twice 
to 19 ; once to 20 (Rockingham’s year) ; once to 21 ( Reveller 
achieving the victory in the shortest time on record); twice 
to 23 ; thrice to 24 ; once to .26 ; twice to 27 ; once to 28 ; 
and once to 30. Five horses — Champion, Surplice, the Flying 
Dutchman, Voltigeur, and West Australian — have won both 
Derby and Leger ; and five horses— Mameluke, Priam, Coro- 
nation, Cotherstone, and Cossack — which had won tho Epsom 
prize, failed to carry off the Leger, each getting the Becoud 
place. Ion gained secondary honours in both races in 1838. 
The Surrey seconds have twice only borne off the Leger lau- 
rels, viz., Launcelot and Sir Tatton Sykes. The Doncaster 
prize has never been obtained by a first or second filly for 
the Oaks, with the exception of the Queen of Trumps, which 
won both Oaks and Leger iu 1835. Nine of the Leger win- 
ners have descended from previous winners of this event ; five 
others from Derby winners. The present is the largest num- 
ber of entries for the Leger, being ten more than the number 
in 1846, when it was 149. 
CHESS. 
PROBLEM No. 62. — By E. B., of the United States. 
Black. 
White. 
White to checkmate In eight movoi. 
A Novel Remedy for Swearing. — The California 
Christian Advocate, commenting upon the great temptation 
to the sin of profanity in that country, says : — "An intelli- 
gent lady of our acquaintance, whose little boy was beginning 
this strange talk, anxious to express to her child her horror 
of profanity, hit upon the novel process of washing out his 
mouth with soap-suds whenever he swore. It was an effec- 
tual cure. The boy understood bis mother’s sense of the 
corruption of an oath, and the taste of suds, which together 
produced the desired result." 
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September ‘2 o — Meeting of the Liverpool Yacht (’lul>. 
October 3. — Meeting of the London Model Yacht Club, at Andorton's 
Hotel. 
Oetober 3.— Meeting of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club. 
October J. — Meeting of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club, at tho Marino 
Station. 
October 4 — First Monthly Meeting of the R. T. Y. C. since July 5. 
October I. — Meeting of the Lllley Club, at thu Nell (2 Wynne. 
October c.— Meeting of tho Prlnco of Wales Club, at tho Freemasons’ 
Tavern. 
October 7. — Meeting of tho Royal Harwich Yacht Club. 
November 7. — Meeting of tho Royal Mersey Yucht Club, at tho Club- 
house, Duke-street. 
SAILING MATCHES AND CLUB REGATTAS, &c 
September 1(5.— Royal London Yacht Club give £16 to tho lint boat, 
nnd £r. to tho second, to bo soiled for by yacht* not exceeding 7 tons, 
belonging to any club. Entries to be made to the Secretary, Cale- 
donian Hotel, Adelphi, at any time previous to Soptombor 0. 
Distance to bo sailed 1* from Krlth round a bout moored ulT 
Kosherville and back to North Woolwich, 
September 10. — Liverpool Yucht Club Challenge Cup. 
September 18. — Medway Yacht Club Regatta. 
September 25.— Six of tlio l’rinco of Wales Model Yacht Club raco on 
tho Serpentine, at eleven o'clock. 
THE STING SCHOONER YACHT. 
[Set page 803.) 
Tho Birkenhead Modul Yacht Club i« not without its 
representatives amongst tho fleet of beautiful croft that at 
present enliven tho Frith of Clyde. Conspicuous among 
these is the subject of this sketch, tho Sting, the property of 
R. Bennett Browne, Esq., of Bondimigh. 
She is an iron yacht, built by Napier ; and from this cir- 
cumstance, as well as her great beauty, with which she com- 
bines stiffness under canvass, great things wero evpootod from 
her. Those hopes, however, Imvo boon disappointed ; ns yet 
sho has done nothing extraordinary. She is, however, well 
worth observation, as another variety of tho gonus yacht. 
Her lines are extremely hollow, ami yet sho requires almost 
no ballast. 
THE LATE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA. 
Mr. Editor, — I request space in your next publication, as 
I have in another paper, to reply to observations relative to 
the conduct of the crew of the U.Y.S. yacht Alarm, after 
the race for tho Squadron Cup, on the 19th ult. Mr. Weld 
is now au old stager in yacht-racing. It will, I believe, bo 
readily conceded that ho luw invariably “ borne his honours 
meekly" when successful ; and most certainly he has not 
been disheartened when his yacht was not first at the goal. 
It bus always boon the custom for the crew of tho winning 
yacht to give three cheers on passing tho station-vessel, and 
to return the cheers of uny yacht's crow, whose congratu- 
lations at the success of tho winner wore thus heartily 
manifested. Tho race of tho 19th terminated at the Nab; 
the Alarm cheered as usual on passing that station-vessel. 
On the return to Cowes Roadstead the royal yacht passed 
closo to tho Alarm ; her Majesty was on board ; tho Alarm dipped 
her ensign, the proper mark of loyalty to the sovereign; and 
then three hearty cheers, and " ono cheer more," were right 
lustily given to convey to our beloved Queen a manifestation 
of dc-light at having lowered tho bunting to the royal standard 
iu the presence of her Majesty : thoio was no crowing, and 
he who dares assert there was, is not truthful. Mr. Weld 
was honoured by an inquiry' from tho royal yacht if tho 
Alarm had won the race ; nnd, on being informed, in reply, 
that such was the fact, her Majesty most graciously acknow- 
ledged the intimation. The cheering on hoard tho Alarm 
was then renewed uproariously, for the hearts of every ono 
on board gave utterance to tho warmest, most joyous exulta- 
tion nt her Majesty’s condescension ; but there was no crow- 
ing. Mr. Weld went on shore immediately after the Alarm 
had anchored, and on the following morning ho was informed 
that some of his crew, in returning tho cheers of yachts that 
had so complimented tho Alarm thu previous day, hod ex- 
hibited their proficiency as ventriloquists by imitating the 
crowing of a cock, and that a piece of floor-cloth had been 
converted into a very doubtful similitude of that bird, and 
displayed on tho bowsprit. This was not premeditated by 
any one on board the Alarm, os certainly it was not sug- 
gested or approved of by Mr. Weld; though, at such a 
time of exhilarating merriment and rejoicing on tho part of 
his skilful captain aud crack crew, after their 
admirable judgment and hearty exertions, in sailing the 
Alarm throughout a most exciting raco with the Arrow 
as a competitor, Mr. Weld could not resist laughing very 
heartily when told of their rather unusunl mode of rejoicing. 
Before tho contest of tho 19th, Mr. Weld was informed by 
Mr. Curling, the owner of tho It.Y.S. yacht Shark, that lie 
should not sail her again iu a race within the island. But I 
really must entreat permission to have my crow ; the Arrow 
(then the property of, and recently built by Mr. Weld) won 
the first R.Y.S. cup twenty eight years ago ; she would have 
won the cup on the 19tli ult., if Mr. Weld’s Alarm had not 
competed with her ! Tho midship sections of both vessels 
are precisely as they wero originally designed and built by 
Mr. Weld. I must ask u question also. If mere tonnage 
enabled Mr. Weld to carry ofl’ the prize " as anticipated," 
how happened it that the Julia, of 111 tons, did not beat tho 
