the Earl and Countess of Eglinton. Mr. Vansittart was the breeder of Darioletta, Galaor, Magawiska, Slight, Rubini, Sepoy, Raffle, Elisena, Van Tromp, De Witt, the Flying Dutchman, and other distinguished horses. He was in the sixty-fifth year of his age. DEATH OF Mr. ETTY.-It is with the most sincere regret that we announce the death of this gentleman, which took place at Liverpool on Friday morning last, after a long and very trying illness. Mr. Etty was for many years clerk of the course at Manchester and Newton, and for the last three or four years was lessee of the Liverpool Race-course. In each capacity he had the rare fortune to see his efforts for the promotion of the interests of the meetings entrusted to his management crowned with the most complete success, and to win the good opinion of all who knew him. His private character requires no eulogium, it was above all praise. Butler, for ten years huntsman to the Badsworth, is now out of commission, in consequence of a change in the management of these hounds. "Go where he may," says a correspondent of Bell's Life, "his experience with hounds, and his respectful and easy demeanour, must gain the good wishes and esteem of all fox-hunters; for a more honest, upright man, or better huntsman, does not exist." OXFORD ANGLING SOCIETY. --The Oxford Angling Society, for the preservation of fish, has gone on most prosperously, considerable numbers of the followers of Izaak Walton having recently joined it, and the committee having added to their already-extensive fisheries that splendid portion of the Isis reaching from Freewater Stone, near Oxford, to the island at Kennington. If the stringent portions of the bye-laws are strictly enforced, the waters round Oxford will abound with fish of all descriptions, affording plenty of sport to the lovers of the rod and line during the approaching season.-Local Paper. REMARKABLE LONGEVITY.-Mr. Sharp, farmer, Newton of Kiltearn, has in his possession a small Highland pony, whose history is certainly somewhat extraordinary. This beautiful little animal was first brought from Orkney to Cellardyke, in Fifeshire, in a fishing-boat. He was then full-grown, but his age was not known. He was purchased by Mr. Sharp's late father, by whom he was used as a riding pony for many years; next by his son, who is forty-five years younger; afterwards by his grandchildren, the youngest of whom is eighty-five years younger; and lastly by his great-granddaughter, who is one hundred and seven years younger. The most remarkable circumstance connected with this pony is, that, notwithstanding his extreme age, he is still lively and vigorous, and could trot at the rate of ten miles an hour, on a good road, with ease. The late Lord President Hope, in 1822, informed a friend that he had then a horse forty-six years old; still I question if this famous charger ever attained the age of little Donald, or performed the same services to four generations.-Inverness Courier. END OF VOL. XIX. Printed by Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk-street, Strand, London. INDEX TO THE NINETEENTH VOLUME OF THE SPORTING REVIEW. (NEW SERIES.) Alarm, Pedigree and Performances of-227 Amusements, Public, of the Me- Anacreontic-by George J. 0. Angling in the Northern Rivers of Batavia Race Club-by Young Bear Shooting-by H. Lloyd, Beasts, British, Extinction of-by Burton Hunt, the-by Henry Coaching as it is-by Glendower Correspondence, Intercepted, from Declaration, Right of-by Gold- Deer-stalking and Grouse Shoot- FINE ARTS: The Exhibitions-399 Yacht Squadron Fistic Tournament, 1847; with Fox-hunting and Stag-hunting in by Game Laws, the-by a Barrister Grouse Season, Close of the; Gun, the, and how to choose it— by Ramrod-280 Guns and Rods, a Scrap or two Handicaps, the Great Spring-by Hare, Observations on the, and Herring, J. F., Esq., Memoir of -(with a Portrait)—138 Hounds, the Ludlow-by Lounger Hounds, the Heythrop - By Hounds, the Albrighton-292 Hounds, the Beaufort-346, 357 Jack Tar, Pedigree and Per- formances of-437 LITERATURE:- Angler's Manual-143 Mastiffs, Monograph of the-by May Morning, a (illustrative of the Odds, State of the73,150,220, Peep, a, at the Provinces; or, Pencillings in the Provinces: "The Rabbit Beagle, the-by Velveteen Racing Season of 1847-by Craven Racing Season of 1848, Com- Racing in April–by Craven- Racing in May-375 Romance and Reality-by George Salmon Fishing in the Tay, Sporting Incidents at Home and Sporting in France, Physiology of Angling Society, Oxford- 452 Chloroform-220 Cricket Match in Skates--219 Dysen, Mr. Paul, Shocking Death of-219 Etty, Mr., Death of-452 Game, Dealing in-218 Morpeth Coursing Club-73 Prince Albert and the Prince of Wales Cricketers-451 Shooting at Strathfieldsaye Sporting Firearms, a Tax on Testimonial to Lord Hare- |