The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-27 00:00:00

The Torquay Steeple Chases are fixed for the 15th Feb.
The Duke of Richmoi.d has disposed of his brood mares to
M. A. Lupin, of Prance.
The brown co't by Touchstone out of Rowena, first called
Wamba, is now called Rotheram,
The Oundle Grand Steeple Chase, with 100 soya. added, and
th,. Free Handicap, close on Thursday next, the 29th inst.
Died, on the 14th inst., at his father's, near Cheltenham,
Charles Collingbourne, the steeple chase rider, aged 22, from
fever, taken by him at the late Cowbridge Race Meeting.
A few (Lys ago, Mr. Robinson's groom, whilst riding Car-
nabiensis, put him at tome timber, in which his legs became
so curiously entangled that the wood had to be sawn before
he could be extricated. The horse has been rendered valueless.
A bay colt by Young Cotherstone (by Cotherstone out of
Lilla) out of Mr. I isle's Miss Orbell, has been named Bay
Cotherstone, Mr. Lisle has ttamd his bay two year old colt
by Touchstone out of Breastgirth, Gladstone. Young Cother-
stone has been sold to go to Australia.

Sir James Boswell has resold the Red Lion to Mr. Thomas
Dawson, and has bought his bay colt Tommy (described ss
Tom) by Malcolm out of Rockeda, by Bay Middleton, grand-
dam Hambletonia, by Stamford, the dam of Sir James's
celebrated old horse General Chas6e. He remains in Davy-
son's stables.

The Bey of Tunis, who has the reputation of being one of
the four best chess players in the world (writes the Paris cor-
respondent), has challenged the Chess Club of our Passage
Jouffroy to a rubber game for .4'1,000 sterling. The first game
has already begun. The club drew the first move.—Daily
News.

The committee of the Cheltenham Spring Meeting, assisted
by the secretary, Mr. Sextie, are using every exertion to
render the forthcoming lat and Steeple Chase Meeting, on
the 12th and 13th of April, a first-rate one. The programme
will be revised, additional sums added to the various stakes,
and every necessary improvement studied to enhance the
character of the sport.
Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., has presented to Mr. John Scott a
very elegant piece of plate, in retuni for a hors,.! which Mr.
John Scott sent as a present to the learned gentleman at the
time of the occurrence of his accident. The article is the
work of Messrs. Emmanuel, of Hanover-square, is of silver,
and is a model of the hoof of West Australian—the size of
life—with the figure of a horse in frosted silver upon a surface,
which opens and forms a large snuff-box.
Count Batthyany has given the following names to his foals
of 1853:—Brown colt by Surplice out of Calm, by Sheet
Anchor, Peaceful ; bay colt by Surplice out of Clemency, by
Lanercost, Absolution ; black filly by Robert de Gorham out
of Pergularia, Coal Black Rose ; bay or brown filly by Don
John out of Rebecca, by Cornus, Maid of Judah.
Yearlings of 1853:—Chesnut colt by Collingwood out of But-
tress, Wooden Wall ; brown colt by Van Tromp out of Calm,
by Sheet Anchor, Dutch Tar; black filly by Launcelot out of
Yarico, Cacique; brown filly by Launcelot out of Whim, by
Voltaire, Whimsical.

THE CHASE,

THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS MEET

To-morrow. (Wednesday)) 28th, at Twemlow Hall
Thursday, 29th Mere
Saturday, Slat.... Norton Priory
Monday, January 2nd Peckforton Point
Wednesday, 4th Saighton
Thursday, sth Tarporley
Saturday, 7th
Each day at half-past ten o'clock.
SIR W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS MEET
To-morrow (Wednesday), 28th, at . _
Thursday, 29th
Saturday, 31st
Each day at half-past ten o'clock.
THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE HOUNDS MEET
To-morrow (Wednesday), 28th, at Dithorn
Friday, 30th Whitmore Station
Each day at half-past ten o'clock.

Halston
Lightwood Green
Iscoyd