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LONDON, nrsiwar, SEPT. 21.

SPORTING INTELLIG RN CR.

A SPECIAL EDITION of the " EXPRESS,"
seataining the matte of the day's Races, is pub-
lished every main daring the Sporting Seseoo, at
six o'clock.

A norm be. not elapsed since the public were
informed that Lard DZIBT was resolved to quit the
Turf, and betake himself exclusively to in-door
pastimes. His life has hitherto been divided between
the two most exciting of modern pursuits, Parlia-
mentary politics and hone-racing. With charac-
teristic spirit he has enraged in both very much in
the Name way. To helium he has brought all the
buoyancy of pleasure, and to pleasure all the shrewd-
ness of a man of business. In the midst of mo-
mentous consultations his friends have been put out
by his uncontrollable levity, while at Epsom or
Doncaster he frequently wore • preoccupied look,
and those who disliked him were wont to say
that his earnest gravity had in it something
sinister. The troth is that a man of his
mental mould seldom is able, and never
for long, to throw half of himself into either
amusement or work. He is too wilful, impulsive,
and egotistical, to do otherwise. He could not, for
the life of him, refrain from quizzing the men he
designed for his colleagues at the very moment he
was putting together his Cabinet ; and the excessive
keenness he so often betrayed in affairs of the Tart,
has exposed him, more than any other man of his
station, to bitter words from betting men. From
which of the two avocations his Lordship derived
most real enjoyment it is not for as to say ; but we
have little doubt that hie satisfaction at "licking" en
opponent in debate was very mach the same as in
beating • competitor for " the (gyp;" and that his
delight in carrying a close division was at all times
essentially the same as that in winning " a hotly
"contested stakes." When, therefore, the announce-
meet was made, on what seemed to he good as-
thority, that the Earl was about to devote
himself altogether to polities, those who knew
him best ascribed his determination, if serious,
to so change of tun or disposition, but simply to a
conviction that he had not tines to enjoy both. He
found that his heavy "engagements" at I)ot:easter
interfered with his other engagements at Downing-
street, and that, to do ►imself and his bipeds justice,
he mast relieve himself of theatre of his quadrupeds.
There stall was a lurking suspicion, however, in
many a mind that the whole would tarn out to be
but a dodge after aIL From his schoolboy days
Lord DOlliT has loved • dodge; and nobody that
he. had the means of closely observing the man in
any relation of life sea doubt the net with which
he conceives and execute, a feat of this description.
Well, it seems that those who pat this constnu-
tioe upon the Palates's intentions wen in the
right, and that has foerfooted stag is sot to he
broken ap after all. The sham sale sate of sa
Saturday last. and was well attended by ail deem
of runtimes. The whole contents of the stshiss
were trotted oat—fillies and four-year-olds, breed
mane and sires, colts in training, and celebrities of
promise or performance. We are told that the
entire stud excited general remark as being in mad
admirable condition. Mr. TATTRRIIILL presided Oa
the accession, and in many instances there was no
slackness in bidding. Like the employer whom ea
this occasion he served, he wisely began by getting
lid of as much se he could of outstanding responsi-
bility. A filly and colt, each of them having " heavy
" engagements," as they are termed, were suffered
to go, the one for three and the other far
seven hundred guineas. This done, the best of the
other yearling., in spite of various good offer'', were
one after another bought in. Then came the lots
"in teeming." The public by this time appear
to have rather got out of temper, and seemed
disinclined to be made fools of by being drawn into
useless bidding*. Birdbolt, and Woodnymph, sad
Boomerang were successively walked round the
silky ring, and walked off, no man desiring to have
them; but as in the preceding class two were put ap
with the intention of selling; and sold they were se-
oordingly. Was it caprioe,or an ominous sense of the

unsuitableness of their names, that made their master
part with them ? Did he think it might be unlucky
if he were as Prime Minister to est up his " Target"
again for all the world to run against ? Or did some
sompunctions visiting. and disagreeable memories of
other days prompt him to try and get quit of
Mutineer, that he so often had backed to win, and
whose wayward eye had often gazed fondly into
his own ? As be wee to go, however, there could
be no harm in taking the lest turn out of him, sad
• gentleman wee found enterprising enough to in-
vest four hundred and fifty guineas in the discarded
ems. We come now to mums better and longer
kmown. Antiquary, said to have cost eight ban-
died guineas not very long agm when Lord DERBY
was still a Conservative, his lordship would not
hap sow at any pries, and he was accordingly
noerificed for twomid-tweuty. Like the venerable in-
stitutions of oar country-oring, going, gone. Next
noose Streamer, said to be " • riarier," whom nobody
wished to poisess at a high pries, and who quickly
vanished to make way for the awe great attractiows
of the scene. Who has not heard of that favourite
failure, " Tolophilits " ? Aid who that has ever
son him would not like to be the owner of "
wee,"? Far be it from us to undertake the duty
of appraising either; still further be it from as to
affect the: power of divining the Pommies motives
for saying that he wished to part with either of

them. We are journalists, not jockeys; and our 1
bueisese is to give an account of events that concern
the community at large, not to peep into betting-
books or to pry into foreign affairs. All we know is,
that it looks uncommonly like is if Lord DERBY
never intended to sell the well-known racer or still
more celebrated sire. Two thousand five hundred
guinea' was bid for " Toxophilite " on Saturday
last ; the reserve price was declared not to have
been reached, and the pet of the field was accord-
ingly bought in. Thirteen hundred guineas was bid
for Fazzoletto, and he was bought in by a friend of
Lord DERBY'S for fifteen hundred; the would-be
purchaser offered to take him at th►t price, bat was
informed that the reserve set upon him was two
thousand.

It is a curious little chapter in the biography of a
fancy PRIMIER. To give his sedate and methodical
rivals a fright, and make them believe he is going
to do nothing in future but mind affairs of the State,
he makes known his intention of selling his horses,
and now they find that he has only been selling
" them." After tiring them out with all manner of
rollicking and irregular round games, with forfeits
unpaid, laughter unlimited, and something too
much of confusion, he challenges them to a quiet
rubber of strict whist, and then revokes is the first
round. Finding them not disposed to give him the
credit he counted on for throwing over his party
principles, he thought he would like to hear what
they would say if he offered to throw his personal
pastimes in ; perhaps the offer did not meet the
appreciation it ought, but certain it is that the
sacrifice has not been made.