The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-25 00:00:00

SPORTING IX PELLIGE.VCE.

The principal events of the season being concluded, there is
little to record but the betting in the forthcoming races-of next
season, and the only betting of moment since our last has been
connected with the Derby and Oaks, and upon these affairs the
speculations have been exceedingly cautious and limited. In
Liverpool nothing worth recording is touched upeu; and in
Manchester, Bubastes, for the Derby, has only found_hackers,
with the exception of the odds having been taken against some
others in order to "-make a book."
' We stated in our report of the Holywell Hunt meeting, that
P. R. Price, Esq. and Henry Stanley, Esq., M.P. for Preston,
were appointed stewards of the Manchester meeting, and we
are glad to say that the choice has given universal satisfaction
to the members and admirers of the turf generally, the former
gentleman being a well-known and liberal patron of field sports,
and the latter a complete prototype of his venerable grand-
father, (the Earl of Derby,) as regards his attachment to the
cockpit. The Earl of Derby seldom if ever ueglects to provide
the Manchester pit with good and efficient birds, and the selec-
tion of the two gentlemen appears to be hailed with pleasure
by all the lovers of old English pastimes.—We have already
inserted the appointments for the Liverpool Aintree meeting,
and. as the interests of the sportsmen of the sister town are
identified, the appaintments for the Manchester May meeting
of next year may not be unacceptable; they are as follows :
For the first day there are the contests for the Wilton Stakes,
the Produce, the Free Handicap, the 100 says. given by the
owners of the course, and his Majesty's Plate of 100 sore. value.
For Thursday there are the Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, with
50 added, the St. Leger of 25 soya. each, with 100 added, the
Tradesmen's Cu), value 100 soya., with 100 added in specie,
together with a Handicap of •)5 sovs., and the Plate of £5O
value. For Friday, (the last day,) there are the Lancashire
Stakes of 100 sovs. each added to a Handicap of 25 soya. each,
the Broughton Stakes of 15 cove. each, with 30 added, the Ker-
salt Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 25 added, the Plate of 80 sovs.
value, and the Handicap of 5 sovs. each, with 40added. Seeing
the selection of sports for each day, we should imagine that the
good folks of Manchester, especially the turfites, will experience
by far greater enjoyment than on any previous meeting. The
following is the latest state of the odds, which, however, in the
present early state of speculation ou the events, may be con-
sidered as merely nominah.--,
THE DERBY.-11 to 1 agst Buliastes, (taken); 15 to 1 agst
Bentley, 35 to I agst Brother to Whale, 40 to 1 agst .Pincher,
45 to 1 agst Brother to Kate, 5000 to 75 agst Old Bill.

FIELD SPORTS, ANCIENT AND MODERN.
No. 1.

(Written arpreisly for the Liverpool: Standar:44' -

The field-sports of Great Britain having of late years attained
a degree of perfection unequalled in any other part of the
-world, a portion of.our columns set apart at this season of the
year for notices of recreations, which constitute the source of so
much pleasure and interest,.cannot but coutribute to the enter-
tainment of our readers.
The literary habits and taste of the present day, contrasted
with the manners which distinguished the sportsman of the last-
century, mark a correspondent progressive science and general
information ; yet it must be admitted that, with the exception
of some of the early. papers bearing the si,,nature "Nimrod,"
which (with all their numerous faults and inaccuracies,) are
rather pleasantly written, the greater proportion of the matter
contained in the several. periodicals on the Diversions of the
Field, which now issue monthly fromthe press, is less in accord-
ance with the taste of the man of education than adapted to the
perusal of those more immediately and practically connected
with the kennel, the stable, and the race-course.
It is then to this general absence of all classical and literary
attainments, in those who have undertaken to minister to the
information of the sportsman that the present papers owe their
origin, and we address them to the country gentleman, as now
distinguished for polished manners and a cultivated mind.