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Town Talk.

BY THE SAUNTERER IN SOCIETY.

THE unknown quantity is exactly the thing to exhibit without exaggeration or excess the extraordinary numbers that exhilaration, exercise, and expectation will extravagantly excite to an exodus from town. The extensive exile, or extravasation of the life-blood of London-exclusives, exquisites, and excur

exclusive property of D'Estournel, if that amiable animal will but consent to keep its temper and restrain its desire to eat, or otherwise destroy its jockey,-just for five minutes!

I may mention "in this connection "-racing, to wit-that I have received a racy set of "rules and conditions" from Tipperary. The Tipperary race-course is clearly not to be looked on as the ordinary "course of events," and the regulations in force upon it would puzzle any one but an Irish sportsman. Here are a few of the posers:

"Any person refusing to allow his horse to be sold after winning a Selling Race will forfeit the race, and same to go to the fund."

I suppose whether the horse, or the race, or the person goes to the fund is from the Hibernian point of view all "the same "-only different. Then one is told :

"N.B.-Any person raising an objection to lodge £5 with the Stewards, same to be forfeited should the objections prove groundless."

If a person did not raise an objection but could not raise the money, what then? It seems from the wording of the sentence that the groundless objection would be all the forfeit the stewards could exact. But the best is to come:

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Any horse not standing in the stable of a subscriber of £1 to the race fund, sionists exemplifies the night previous to, or during the race, the owner of same will have to pay 2 sovs. before his horse will be allowed to start."

one of those exceptional and extreme cases when all England expresses its ecstasy and exhibits its expansive and exuberant sympathy with an excusable forgetfulness of external differences, which, when examined, will exhibit excellencies we should not be led to expect, and which is an exponent of a national feeling extending from the most exalted to those of the meanest extraction-I mean without further excursiveness (for the eccentricity of which my exemplary reader may expostulate with me most justly)-the love of sport. If the weather is but fine, one of the largest gatherings may be expected on the Downs, for the race is quite an open one, and everybody will be anxious to see it. I don't fancy any of my readers will suspect me of an intimate knowledge of horseflesh and racing, but as a saunterer in all societies, I may mention the impression I gather from my wanderings-namely, that the race is the

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This is simply extortion! Fancy having to pay £2 for permission to start your horse for a race, during which he must, according to the rules, stand in a stable! The rules state that no federancy " is allowed;-it's a pity they did not obtain the services of some literary confederate before they ventured on these tricks of composition.

Ir is high time the Gulf Stream were taken out, cleaned, repaired, and put back again. A week ago we were at Midsummer-the week before at Midwinter, to which we have as suddenly returned. MR. KINGSLEY'S favourite North Easter has come back with neuralgia and rheumatism in its train. I fear our prospects of a good fruit year are gone. And it is all the Gulf Stream, I am told. Has it gone to the Paris Exhibition, or is it a democratic current that is diverted, but not amused, at the spectacle of a Tory Government successfully carrying a Reform Bill? I only hope it will behave like a well-conducted tide, and come back to us in time for the Derby.

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AN AWKWARD MOUNT.

Mr. Bull (to Gldst ne, who is put up for "Liberal Party"):-" YOU TWO DON'T SEEM TO GET ON WELL; BUT THAT HORSE HAS GOT ALL THE WINNING IN HIM, IF YOU CAN ONLY GET HIM ALONG!"

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