judge from the figure drawn by one of the officers of the "Alecton" during the struggle, and communicated by M. Berthelot, the animal had terminal fins, like the calmars; but it has eight equal arms, like the cuttle-fish. Now, the calmars have ten, two of them being very long. Was this some intermediate species between the two? or must we admit, with MM. Cross and Fischer, that the animal had lost its more formidable tentacles in some recent combat?" Professor Owen, writing upon the armed cephalopods, says: "Let the reader picture to himself the projecting weapon of the horny hoop developed into a long curved sharp pointed claw, and these weapons clustered at the expanded terminations of the tentacles, and arranged in a double alternate series along the internal surface of the eight muscular feet, and he will have some idea of the formidable nature of the carnivorous cephalopod." Having extended to this length a few of the particulars given of dangerous denizens inhabiting the deep, we have no further space left to enter now upon the fisheries in different parts of the ocean-world described in the very interesting volume before us. EMBELLISHMENTS. FORMOSA; THE 2,000 GS. AND 1,000 GS. FILLY OF 1868. ENGRAVED BY E. HACKER, FROM A PAINTING BY HARRY HALL. ENGRAVED BY E. HACKER, FROM A PAINTING BY E. CORBET. DIARY FOR JUNE. THE OMNIBUS: CONTENTS. PAGE. THE WAY BILL.-Events of the Month-The Derby-Hunting. . 387 THE ENGLISH RACE-HORSE OF THE PRESENT DAY . 412 417 . 419 . 425 THE OLD INNS AND OLD COACHES.-BY WHIZ THE FRESH-WATER FISHES OF GREAT BRITAIN; BY MR. HENRY L. . 453 454 459 THE TURF REGISTER.- -Fairy House Steeplechases (Ireland)-Knighton-Isle of Wight-Torquay - Catterick Bridge-Hambledon Hunt (Waterloo) — Irish National and Kildare Hunts-Manchester-York-Eastbourne Hunt-Lewes Spring-Thirsk Spring-Aldershot Divisional Steeplechases-Curragh AprilHowden (Yorkshire)-Hampshire Hunt-Croydon-Biggleswade (Bedfordshire) -Liverpool Hunt Club Spring-Newmarket First Spring-Athlone (Ireland) — Whitehaven-East Devon-Cardiff-Sevenoaks-Chester-York Spring. D D r3 51 10 711 r 3 49 12 Moon HIGH WATER rises & London Bridge sets. morn. aftern. h. m. h. m. h. m. 3 12 12 24 12 50 8 8 913 3 43 1 13 1 35 r 3 48 FRISES 1 M Sale of Rawcliffe Yearlings. 2 TR.T.Y.C. Match, Gravesend. 3 W Cricket-Cambridge v. Norfolk. 4 TR. Mersey Y. C. Ocean Race. 5 F Yearling Sale at Acton. 6 SR. Yearlings' Sale, Hampton Ct. s 78 Trinity Sunday. Paris Races. r 8 M Cricket, Lord's-N. v. S. Thames. s 9 T Ascot Races. Cork Steeple Chases. r 10 W Royal Hunt Cup Day. 11 T Ascot Cup Day. Cantley Regatta. r 12 F Cricket, Oxford-S'thgate v. Univ. s 13 S Sale of Middle Park Yearlings. 148 First Sunday after Trinity. 15 M Cricket-M.C.C. v. Cambridge. 16 TR. London Y. C., Rosherville. 17 W R.T.Y.C., Gravesend. afternoon s 8 14 19 11 36 5 0 5 20 1 58 2 18 11 15 9 4 2 38 2 57 51 3 15 3 35 32 3 51 4 8 6 4 25 4 43 21 S Second Sunday after Trinity.r 3 44 1 22 M Cricket, Lord's-Oxford v. Camb. s 8 19 8 55 2 11 2 35 2 9 45 2 57 3 21 29 M Cricket, Lord's-Gents. v. Players. r 3 48 30 TR.T.Y.C. Ocean Match. r 3 47 7 7 8 7 38 s 8 18 18 T Hampton Races. THE OMNIBUS. "There he sat, and, as I thought, expounding the law and the prophets, until on drawing a little nearer, I found he was only expatiating on the merits of a brown horse."-BRACEBRIDGE HALL. WAY BILL:-Events of the Month-The Derby-Hunting. THE Stats regards the Two Thousand and the Oaks, our Maga is HE great events have come off so close to the end of the month, that, left in the lurch. The dead heat of Moslem and Formosa seems forgotten already, and the fact of the Two Thousand winner not being in the Derby threw an indescribable damper over that race. England may not love coalitions, but she dearly loves to have a Two Thousand winner on whom she may pin her allegiance for the last month. Mere two-year-old characters grow stale to the taste. Bar Formosa, a worse set of fillies never ran for the One Thousand. She began a regular innings for Buccaneer, which have scored nearly everywhere, Harpenden included.. Badsworth has also kept Carnival well before the public, and loud have been the wailings over the two expatriated bays. Buecaneer has had a fine chance with eleven, thirty, and thirty-nine foals to his credit in Weatherby during 1864-66. In his first season he had five two-year-old winners, and in his second eleven. Carnival's chance, as far as we know, is confined to thirteen foals in 1866, and ten in 1867. Blair Athol has a brilliant chance with twenty in 1866, and thirty-two in 1867; but the defeat of Fitzwilliam and Duchess of Athol at York was a sad check, and there was no anxiety to buy the filly, which was put up at Lord Hastings's sale. The Yorkshiremen were as keen to see Fitzwilliam as they were in '63, when Ivan, the first of the Van Tromps, was stripped. Westwick ran another great second, and Lady Dewhurst proved the soundnnss of Mr. Holmes's judgment, when two years running he picked her and Virtue from the Rawcliffe lot, at 900gs. the pair for Mr. Gee. The Sawyer won the Londesborough Cup in a style which showed that, like Todgers, he "can do it when he likes." and that Mr. Eastwood's liking for him ever since he was a foal was most amply justified. Nothing but fine weather saved Doncaster from being a downright failure. There was no real life in it, no speciality of any kind on the list; and unless it establishes a great four and five year old St. Leger, for horses that have never started as twos or threes, and gets rid of all the hunter certificate and private stable restrictions, and confines the riders to non-professionals duly qualified to ride for the Grand National Steeple Chase, it never will do any good. The finish between Ainsley and Out-and-Outer was one of the very severest of the season. Osborne's riding of Mandrake at Chester was a fine piece of old-fashioned jockey ship; and we may shortly look for some more of the sort from Aldcroft, now that he has got so well to the weight and made a fair start at last. Chester presents three subjects of reflection-1. Regret that it is not compressed into three days; 2. Confirmatory proof that the Duke of Beaufort sold a lot of moderate horses very well; and 3. Another proof that when you tell racing people the truth they never thoroughly believe it. In fact, till Paul Jones showed that he could act like a steam engine," thousands looked on that expression of Mr. Hodgman's as mere idle gasconade. It was worth while going up the Bath hill on the first day, but certainly not on the second. Grimston's defeat of Speculum makes three-year-old forms still more involved, as the little Garryowen chesnut" was beat away from Vale Royal over the Rowley mile. Still, Vale Royal's desperate defeat in the Two Thousand was, perhaps, in a measure, owing to the orders. The pace was poor for nearly half the way, till Challoner forced it on Moslem, and Mann was strictly ordered to wait. His horse pulled and yawed about furiously, and must have got upset, as he had no effort left in him at last. Achievement met a great horse in Julius, and one who can stand very severe races, but there never was such a one as his sire to take work. It was said that the 3,500-guinea Vauban and Hermit were to manage Julius between them, but the Derby chesnut has had his gruel twice over from him, the Two Thousand winner dare not face him, and now the St. Leger heroine tries to give him weight, and dies like a stone in Challoner's hands. Never did horse give such an account of his three chief St. Leger opponents. The week before the Derby passed over without any broken bloodvessels and rumours of owners' deaths. Speculum's downfall at Bath did not break the dull current of affairs; and really, after the very poor display of Rosicrucian and Co. in the Two Thousand, very few felt surprised that Blue Gown seemed to be the horse at last. For weeks past the farmers round Kingelere would have nothing else; and Lord Hastings was fully persuaded of that in his own mind, as was proved by his winter tip. But for the sympathy felt by the public with the Marquis, there would have been very little to talk about. The Earl went and came "like the Simoom;" first back to 100 to 1, and layers of 5 to 1 against his starting; then back to 15 to 1 on Sunday, and the report along with him that Cock o' the Walk would go to make a pace for the pair; and then to 50 to 1 on Tuesday. John Day was up at Tattersall's on the Monday afternoon, looking stouter than ever, and a fine portly pair he and Isaac Woolcott made. We have seldom seen the yard fuller; but we missed some familiar faces, more especially from Yorkshire. Joe Whittaker was there, in a vest which made one cool to look at him; but not a jockey, save Nightingale, looked in. Masters of hounds showed up in plenty-Earl Powlett, Lord Macclesfield, Lord Kesteven, Sir Watkin, Mr. Musters among the present, and Mr. Foljambe and Mr. Barnett among the past, and generally clubbed in a little circle. Sir George Cholmley was in the gallery, bravely wearing his 86 years. He was at Edinburgh, under Dugald Stewart, when Brougham, Sydney Smith, and Horner were all busy in the execution of the " Edinburgh Review,” and Baron Parke and Lord Brougham were fellow-students with him in the late Chief Justice Tindall's chambers. Of Lord Brougham we never heard anything sporting save one, and that was when, as a youth, |