Mr. Cameron-whom I have had the pleasure of meeting at the hospitable abode of a mutual friend-to enter into a contract with the Wenham Lake Ice Company, who would no doubt insure him against all risk of a forfeiture.

The three Frenchmen, in whose company I travelled from Fort William to Loch Ness, complained greatly of not having seen a Highlander since they had been in the country, and inquired if Caledonia was entirely peopled by foreigners. The fact was, they expected to see every Scotchman in the Highland garb; a dress which, I regret to say, is now pretty nearly confined to the ball-room and to the retainers of a few Highland lords and chieftains. Near Fort Augustus we met one of the Inverary keepers, who was arranged in full costume, philibeg, dirk, Glengarry bonnet, &c., &c.: one of the Frenchmen, who was an artist, suddenly called out to the coachman to stop; and no sooner had the latter pulled up, than down jumps the draftsman-or rather down he would have jumped had he not been caught in his long Spanish cloak, by which he hung suspended, looking exceedingly like an umbrella blown inside out. No sooner was our friend, however, released from this dilemma, than he pulls out his drawing-book and commences sketching the keeper in the coolest manner imaginable, perfectly regardless of time being of the slightest object to the coach or its passengers. Finding that he would be left behind, he was reluctantly compelled to cut short his picture and to resume his place on the outside of the coach. But Europe was not deprived of the likeness of a genuine Scot, drawn from the live animal; as at Inverness he had full time and oppor tunity of exercising his talents, and with better success; and no doubt the sketch has since been transferred to copper or stone, and is at this moment embellishing the window of some print-shop at Paris. And here I think I had better pause for the present, reserving for a separate epistle our doings on the moors, of which I hope on a future occasion to give a short catalogue raisonné.

A DEVONIAN.

MENDICANT,

WINNER OF THE OAKS, 1846.

ENGRAVED BY E. HACKER, FROM A PAINTING BY J. F. HERRING, SEN.

When the gentleman-farmer of old, as tradition avouches, received, in return for certain slight services, this little kingdom of Great Britain, as a decent-sized farm, he was prompted, it is said, in pure greediness of heart, to ask them to add on the Isle of Man as a pig-stye. For this give-him-an-ell-and-hell-take-an-inch disposition, the unhappy petitioner has long and severely suffered; and yet, when we come to look round, there seems more of a common or fellow-feeling about us than any very

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obvious hostility either to the precept or the practice. "The more we have, the more we want," is a maxim tolerably well supported through every class of society; and perhaps with none in greater or more continual request than the gentlemen of the Turf. Here it is vires acquirit eundo with a vengeance, without law or limit to the end to be attained, but the rather indeed progressively increased" by that it feeds upon :" let the first step of our last venture be the summum bonum of some remote two-year-old stake, and, as a matter of course, our whole heart is at once set on the subjection of the Criterion and the Clearwell. Let the Craven at Coventry or Trial at Pytchley but come off as was counted on, and straightway the two Riddlesworths open our hopes for the Two Thousands-the Thousands for the Derby--the Derby for the Leger-the Leger for the Coop"-and so on ad infinitum. Lord Foley, we have heard, pinnacled his pleasure on the glorious association of winning the Derby and walking Bond-street; but then, as his lordship never had the ell measured out to him, we can give no guarantee as to the moderation he might have evinced as regarded the inch. While the Epsom honours were airing on one side of Piccadilly, surely the Doncaster laurels might bloom upon the other, and St. Leger and St. James make an acquaintance, through his lordship's good graces, as gratifying as profitable. Who, that has lived thus far into 'forty-six, shall say it would not have been so ? Who, that has lately witnessed the measure for measure asked and obtained, will dare to put a stopper to human wishes? The Derby's done quite as well as could have been expected, and all, forsooth, is happiness and hurrah; and yet still there's a manifest craving for the pig-stye: to make our comfort complete we want the Oaks as well. Granted, again; one good turn (of luck) deserves another, and here you have it; satisfied now we should hope, and no mistake. Sam Day rides back to scale, with his hand on his heart, and certainly looks his content; Will Sadler helps him home in an ecstacy of excitement never yet equalled; while honest John whimpers out an acknowledgment of finished felicity that the Archbishopric of Canterbury, the Lord High Chancellorship of England, or the Premiership of Downing-street would have essayed in vain to wring from him. Mark, however, these same sons of fortune but a few hours afterwards: they have counted their thousands and tens of thousands, scratched our names from their books, taken all they could take, and then, opening on a new page and another desire, demand the odds "you'll lay agen' Pyrrhus for the Leger?"

John Gully, Esq., the owner of Pyrrhus, Mendicant, and Margrave, is a clever man and a lucky one; he has done what was never yet done, and chiefly through the agency of those who could never before accomplish, perhaps, the greatest feature in this united performance. The carrying off Derby and Oaks in the same year is of itself a fact by no means without precedent, as the following list will sufficiently prove :

In 1791, Duke of Bedford won the Derby with Eager, and the Oaks with Portia.

In 1796, Sir F. Standish won the Derby with Didelot, and the Oaks with Parisot.

In 1801, Sir C. Bunbury won both races with Eleanor.

In 1815, Duke of Grafton won the Derby with Whisker, and the Oaks with Minuet.

The power, however, of adding, either before or after, the St. Leger to these companion victories has hitherto been allowed to Mr. Gully alone, and even with him the "great fact of having lived to win Derby, Oaks, and St. Leger can scarcely as yet be applied in its full force. In 1832, when Margrave, under his name and colours, ran first home at Doncaster, he was generally known to be the property of a joint concern, who, as the firm of Ridsdale and Gully, had a long string of horses with the Scotts, and who had opened that season quite as well as they finished it, by winning the Derby with St. Giles. years, though, before this, Mr. Gully, when entirely on his own account, was just within an ace of doing the trick; his horse Mameluke, for which he had given Lord Jersey the large price of four thousand, being only beaten by a head, and that head far more the man's than the mare's. Beyond these, his trump cards have been but few, the following about the best, in a somewhat off-and-on kind of career :-Dictator, Cardenio, Rigmarol, Tyke, Tranby, Florestine, Lady Fly, Hokee Pokee, The Era, Maid of Orleans, Old England, Weatherbit, and The Ugly Buck. These include the brightest ornaments since their owner's accession to John Day's stable, at whose hands Mr. Gully has certainly found no falling off in his turf fortunes. That he will continue where he has hitherto been treated so well, is now pretty well settled; though, in consequence of the father retiring from public life, his horses will, for the future, be under the sole management of John Day, junior-a good general, who has, in fact, a fair claim to any attendant honours the late Derby and Oaks may carry with them.

PEDIGREE.

Mendicant, a dark-brown filly, was bred by Mr. Whitworth in 1843, and is by Touchstone out of Lady Moor Carew, by Tramp, her dam Kite (Vulture's dam) by Bustard-Olympia, by Sir Oliver.

Lady Moore Carew, bred by Mr. Allanson in 1830, was a very fair provincial performer in her time, and has also given a tolerable return during the few years she has figured in the stud-Lady Sarah, by Velocipede, for one worthy of place in the same page as the winner of the Oaks, continuing to run on and well.

On behalf of Touchstone, Mendicant appears as the first Oaks winner that celebrated stallion has produced, and, at the same time, as something like a contradiction to an opinion which was fast gaining ground, viz., that the Touchstone mares couldn't run.

From the above pedigree it will be seen that the Derby and Oaks winners of this season are connected in more ways than one, not only coming from the same stable and running in the same colours, but tracing back, and that in a very recent degree, to the same family; as, in evidence thereof, Pyrrhus the First by Epirus, Epirus by Langar, out of Olympia by Sir Oliver; Mendicant, out of Lady Moore Carew, by Tramp, her dam Kite by Bustard, out of Olympia by Sir Oliver.

PERFORMANCES.

In 1845, Mendicant, then two years old, the property of Mr. Gully, and ridden by J. Howlett, ran second to Mr. Forth's Sting for the Lavant Stakes of 50 sovs. each, 30 ft., at Goodwood; Lord G. Bentinck's Cherokee, Mr. Payne's Collingwood, and Mr. J. Day's Cambaules