As a satisfactory proof that the Queen intends to countenance
and support the turf, we are enabled to state that her Mujesty has been
gracigraciously pleased to appoint the Earl of Albemarle Stewuid of the ously Races for next year, and to signify her intention to continue the plate of 100 guineas as usual. The announcement has given great pleasure in the racing world.—Post.
It is estimated that there are about 2,000,000 horses in England, of the value of 25,000,0001. sterling. Of these the number charged with duty amounts to rather more than 340,000, the total amount of duty being about 430,0001. Not more than 1,000 of these horses are blood or race-horses, contributing to the revenue only about 1,5001., or 1-220th part of the whole duty. The Royal Stud at Hampton Court consists of nearly eighty horses, mares, and colts.—Morning Chronicle. [The above paragraph is taken from an original article in the Spectator, verbatim, except the words in Italics. We quoted the Times as our au- thority for the statement that " the entire stud at Hampton consists of 77 horses, mares, and colts." The paltry Chronicle wants the infor. 'nation, and takes it, making a needless alteration to avoid naming the Times : nay, it seizes the very article it so uses, as an occasion for calumniating its instructor, by representing the Spectator as an accom- plice of Sir Francis Burdett. Thanks to the True Sun for nailing down that brazen falsehood on the instant.]
A considerable number of valuable blood horses and brood mares were embarked last week for Russia, in the name of Count Matuszevic. They are supposed to be for the Emperor Nicholas.
It is stated that the Earl of Wilton is about to sell his stud of race- horses, and to give up the turf, in consequence of which Heaton Park Races will be discontinued.—Lincolashire Chronicle.
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