The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-06-02 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT TATTERSALL S, MAT 31.
This being the last public day of betting, previous to Epsom
Races, which will take place to.inorrow, the TOM was thronged
with spotting characters of every description. It was all hurry
and bustle—comparing books, and making fresh engagements on
the Derby and Oaks, occupied the whole time unfit six o'clock,
when the room closed. The odds varied frequently in the coarse
of the day, and left oft' as under :

DERBY.

2 to I apt Serab
44 to I 281. t Elephant
to I apt Reformer
GI to 1 opt l'ettrie
1l to I aptthmor.4
20 to 1 apt lUrenallier

----- - -
20 to 1 agst Silyertiil
23 to 1 aim Skinn
23 to 1 Idlst Don Carlos
30 to I ago Sir Gay
30 to 1 agst Ridicule
30 to 1 agar Skiff
0.11!L 8,

6 to 4 eget Cobweb
9 to 2 apt Rebecca
7 to I apt l'iscountess
to I apt Mk% Jigg
Nothing done on

i 0 to 1 apt bady Elinor
10 to 1 apt Barcesa(illy)
12 to 1 apt Prlneipisaa
14 to 1 apt Tiara
e Doncaster St. Leger.

AT THE ONE TUN, Jc■
LAdT

IN 1r S ST. JAINZejI.
W ELve. o'CLocc.

5 to 8 apt Scrab
3 to I apt Reformer
5 to I agat Elephant
7 to I apt Cedric

DERRY.
DI to 1 agst Os and
30 to I apt Grenadier
90 to 1 apt Skim
30 to I apt Don Carlos
OAKS.

Cobweb even apt the field I
4 to 1 apt Rebeeca

8 to I agst Miss Jigg
20 to I agst any other

PROSPEcT OF FIELD SPORTS FOR JUNE.

arouse, which are several week/ earlier in breadintg tai the
partridge or the pheasant, will be found to have Fen,vally batched
their young in this month, and many of than will now be able to
tiy. The weather has born favourable for the breeding of these
lords, and we have no doubt they will be found plentiful in the

ensuing season.
By the end of the month of June a tolerably correct opinion
may he formed as to the quantity of game that may be expected.
particularly of winged game. The greet or general hatch of both
partridges and pheasants takes plate about the middle of Jut;
it, therefore, the months of May and June be line, that is, free
from an excess of rain, these birds may be expected in abundance.
They experience little or no inonnvenicece or injury from occa..
Anna showers; but when min continues to fall for many hours
together, and particularly when the ditches are filled with water,
or the lard perhaps overflown, the mischief that ensues is hicsl-
culabk. Same perms suppose that a wet season is favourable
to the breeding of grouse : such an idea, however. appears to us
preposterous ; and, as far as we are able to form an opinion on
the subject from considerable experience, we feel not the least
hesitation in declaring our perfect conviction of the contrary. In
fact, we are inclined to regard a wet season as injurious, not merely
daring the period of incubation, but as it occasions the drowning of
many very young birds ; it also lessens, we conceive, Hie quantity
of their food. The young of all these birds, for some tune after
they' re hatched, feed principally, if not id:together, upon insects;
consequently, if in a wet Demon there are fewer insects to be
found (which we incline to think is the case), the young birds
must outfit from a scarcity of fond.
Of young Hares we are able to say but little. We have wen DIED.
some; hut these' animals seldom voluntarily present themselves to I On Sunday I°.^^l/11n. suddenly, aged 71, et Birmingham. on
observation, except in rem strictly reamed grounds. Hares are his journey ftem his seat at Putney to XI inehmter, James Ackert.
! very prolific; the doe wilt produce three dints at least clueing the Rs+ of Larkhill. leafed. formerly Colonel of the Ise regiment of
season ; and as the weather has not been unfavourable to these • Ilanch"ter and 8•It°14 Valuneetes
animals, no doubt ran be entertained of an aleiralance. I At Heating% on the 2.lth nit. R.:l. Patnaon Wallace, Em.
Fnies went to clirket ea lief. perhaps than staled. With infinite On the 27. h alt. at Etigbaaton near Birtnieghani, Sani,
regret we II itnes4rd the der.truction of several bitch-foxes in r state • the wife of William iialletas
of gestation towards the close of the hout,,,,g moot of On the 2:Jd alt. Peter Mempson, Esq. of the Willows, near Bir-
' Sportiv. mingbani.
At :Host of Annan, the lath ult. David Steuart, Eau. for-
, timely merchant in, and Lora Provo,' of, Edinburgh, aged 73
I years.
The 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of rosit hes received or. I At Loehr,Kafk: on the 7th tilt. LieumnatiteColooel Thomas Kinloch,
dem to prepare to embark at Dublin for Portsmouth. At Speingkell, on the 17th ult. Cherles Douglas Maxwell, aged
The 2d for the queen's Royal) Reglmest inivntry is ordered, ;
etql,
oars, fourth OM LieutenanMieseral Sir John Heron Max-
on the arrival of the alit Regiment at Portsmouth from to Bart.
march to Chatham.
The 2il battalion of the &I regiment of Guards has received orders
to prepare for embarkation r
at Ply
fur Portsmouth, on its HIGH WATER THIS DAY AT LONDON-BRIDGE.
route to Windsor Maniac, 27 min. after S. I Alknuma, it min. after
The ;fith Regiment of Foot is ordered, on being replaced at
Windom by the 2d battalion of the 3d regiment of Guards from Printed at THEDRITISR PRESS Ogee, by J. W. CAJSTOS.
Plymouth, to proceed to Ireland. I 1111, Strand, and Published by IL CARRON, tams Rl"'

7ilE ARMY.