She has a straight and somewhat ewe neck, very deep shoulders and girth, arched loins, good ribs and strong quarters, drooping towards the tail. Her hocks and knees are also good, but she has not for her size very large bone. Sunbeam has a blaze of white in the face, and one white coronet. She is altogether a catching-looking, racinglike filly, and, notwithstanding her failure for The Oaks, unquestionably one of the very best of her year.

PERFORMANCES.

In 1857, at Liverpool July Meeting, Sunbeam, then two years old, ridden by Aldcroft, and carrying 8st. 4lb., won the Mersey Stakes of 15 sovs. each for two year sold, T.Y.C., beating Mr. Eastwood's Proud Preston Peg, 8st. 4lb. (2), Mr. Barber's Polly Peachum, 8st. 2lb. (3), Lord Derby's Bravura, 8st. 4lb., Captain Christie's Orchehill, 8st. 71b., Mr. Walker's Terrific, 8st. 4lb, and Mr. Parr's York, 8st. 10lb. 7 to 2 against Sunbeam, who won by a head.

At the same meeting, ridden by Aldcroft, and carrying 8st., she ran second to Mr. Smith's Conductor, 6st. 12lb., for the Nursery Handicap Plate for two years old, T.Y.C. Six others also started. 5 to 4 against Sunbeam, who was beaten by half a length.

At Goodwood, ridden by Wells, and carrying 8st. 7lb., she ran second to Mr. Howard's Perfection, 8st. 4lb., for the Findon Stakes of 10 sovs. each, for two years old, T.Y.C. Nine others also ran. 6 to 1 against Sunbeam, who was beaten by a neck,

At York, ridden by Kendall, and carrying 8st. 4lb., she ran third for the Convivial Stakes of 10 sovs. each, for two years old, T.Y.C. Admiral Harcourt's Gildermire, 8st. 1lb. (1), Mr. Parker's Wilton, 8st. 5lb. (2), and eight others also ran. 3 to 1 against Sunbeam, who was beaten two lengths from the winner.

At the same meeting, ridden by Flatmam, and carrying 8st. 4lb., she ran second to Gildermire, 8st. 4lb., for the Rawcliffe Produce Stakes of 10 sovs. each, T.Y.C. Four others also ran. 2 to 1 against Sunbeam, who was beaten by a length.

At Doncaster, ridden by Perry, and carrying 5st. 4lb., she won the Corporation Plate of 100 sovs., &c., T.Y.C., beating Lord Londesborough's Rosa Bonheur, 3 yrs., 7st. (2), Mr. Dodsworth's Skycutter, 3 yrs., 6st. 121b. (3), Mr. Fisher's New Brighton, aged, 8st. 9lb., Mr. J. Anson's Culcavy, 5 yrs., 7st. 2lb., Lord John Scott's Lady Hawhorne, 3 yrs., 7st. 21b., Mr. Crawfurd's Church Langton, 3 yrs., 7st., Mr. Robinson's Lady Emily, 3 yrs., 5st. 10lb., and Mr. Smith's Conductor, 2 yrs., 5st. 2lb. 7 to 4 against Sunbeam, who won by three-quarters of a length.

At Manchester Autumn Meeting, ridden by Plumb, and carrying 8st. 6lb., she won the Half-Holiday Handicap for two years old-half-a-mile -beating Mr. Henry's Greenwich Fair, 7st. 13lb. (2), Mr. Jackson's Julia, 7st. 5lb. (3), Mr. Gill's Adventurer, 6st. 71b. (4), Mr. Eastwood's Hesperithusa, 8st., Mr. Park's Megara filly, 8st., Mr. Osborne's Leprosy, 8st., Mr. Booth's Joan of Arc, 7st. 71b., Mr. Copeland's Thornhill, 7st. 4lb., Mr. Cunningham's Darkie, 7st., and Mr. Pettitt's Latona colt, 6st. 10lb. 6 to 4 against Sunbeam, who won easily by a length.

At the same meeting, ridden by Plumb, and carrying 6st., she won the Grand Stand Plate Handicap of 60 sovs.-half-a-mile-beating Mr. Jackson's Ghika, 4 yrs., 6st. 6lb. (2), Mr. Jackson's Julia, 2 yrs., 5st. 2lb. (3), Mr. Wright's Jane, 3 yrs., 5st. 13lb. (4), Mr. Dodsworth's Skycutter, 3 yrs., 7st. 1lb., Mr. Robinson's Attorney General, 3 yrs., 6st. 4lb., Mr. Saxon's Red Robin, 5 yrs., 6st. 2lb., and Mr. Osborne's Lot Three, 2 yrs., 4st. 101b. 5 to 2 on Sunbeam, who won by a length.

At Newmarket Second October Meeting, ridden by G. Fordham, she won a plate of 50 sovs. for two-year-old colts 8st. 71b., fillies 8st. 5lb., T. Y. C., beating Captain Christie's Orchehill (2), Lord Portsmouth's Pinsticker (3), Mr. Moseley's Marauder, Mr. Mellish's Little Treasure, Mr. Craven's Yaller Gal, Mr. Sutton's Ethon, Mr. Barnard's Topsy, Lord Clifden's Chanoinesse, Mr. Webb's The Harem, Mr. Alexander's Brown Middleton, Mr. Redford's Erringham, Mr. Sutton's The Flying Duke, Count Batthyany's The Courier, Mr. Gulliver's Magnus Troil, Baron Rothschild's Scribbler, Lord W. Powlett's Frederick, Mr. Fisher's Cloak Colt, Duke of Bedford's Melibœus, and Lord Glasgow's Blacksmith. Even on Sunbeam, who won by a neck. In 1858 at Chester, ridden by Wells, and carrying Sst. 3lb., she won the Palatine Stakes of 15 sovs. each, for three-year-olds; a mile and a-quarter; beating Mr. Barber's Polly Peachum, 8st. 61b. (2); and Mr. Thompson's Terrific, 8st. 3lb. 5 to 4 on Sunbeam, who won easily by a length.

At the same meeting, ridden by Pritchard, and carrying 5st. 8lb., she was not placed for the Tradesmen's Cup; two miles and a-quarter. Won by Sir C. Monck's Vanity, 4 yrs., 6st. 10lb. Twenty-seven others also ran. 12 to 1 against Sunbeam.

At Bath, ridden by Wells, and carrying 8st. 71b., she won the Biennial Stakes of 10 sovs. each, &c., for three-year-olds; a mile and a-half; beating Mr. Barnard's Accurate, 8st. 10lb. (2); Lord Ailesbury's Charles II., 8:t. 101h. (3); Mr. E. R. Clarke's Simpleton, 8st. 10lb. (4); Duke of Bedford's Gin, 8st. 101b. (5); and Mr. W. Day's Bridal Tour, 8st. 71b. 5 to 4 on Sunbeam, who won by three lengths.

At Epsom, ridden by Wells, she ran fourth, though not placed, for the Oaks Stakes of 50 sovs. each, for three-year-old fillies, Sst. 7lbs. each; a mile and a-half. Won by Mr. Gratwicke's Governess. Eleven others also ran. 7 to 2 against Sunbeam.

At Ascot, ridden by Chillman, she won the Coronation Stakes of 100 sovs. each, for three-year-old fillies, 8st. 71b. each; one mile; beating M. Lupin's Maladetta (2), and Lord Derby's Target. 7 to 4 on Sunbeam, who won easily by half-a-length.

On the same day, ridden by Chillman, she ran third to Mr. Howard's Eclipse, for the Biennial Stakes of 10 sovs. each, &c., for three-yearold colts, 8st. 71b., fillies 8st. 3lb.; old mile. Sir J. Hawley's Fitz Roland (2), and three others also ran. 4 to 1 against Sunbeam, who was beaten four lengths for second.

At the same meeting, ridden by Bray, she ran fifth for the Gold Cup; two miles and a-half. Won by Mr. Starky's Fisherman. Five others also ran.

At Goodwood, ridden by Fordham, and carrying 7st. 4lb, she ran

second to Mr. Turner's Stapleton, 3 yrs., 6st. 4lb., for a Handicap Plate of 100 sovs; a mile and a-quarter; five others also ran. 2 to 1 against Sunbeam, who was beaten by a length and a-half.

At the same meeting, ridden by Wells, and carrying 8st. 21b., she won a three-year-old stake of 50 sovs. each; a mile and a-half; beating Mr. Jones' Ditto, 8st. 71b. (2), and Mr. Saxon's Princess Royal, 8st. 21b. 5 to 4 against Sunbeam, who won by a length and a-half.

At the same meeting, ridden by Challoner, and carrying 7st. 4lb., she won the Chesterfield Cup of 300 sovs., &c.; mile and a-quarter; beating Mr. Cooper's King of the Forest, 4 yrs., 7st. 71b. (2); Mr. La Mert's Katherine Logie, 5 yrs., 7st. 13lbs. (3); Major Houstoun's Harry Stanley, 3 yrs., 5st. 12lb. (4); Mr. Howard's Sedbury, 3 yrs., 7st. 121b.; Mr. R. H. Jones's Ditto, 3 yrs., 7st. 71b.; Colonel Martyn's Nereus, 4 yrs., 7st. 6lb.; Baron Rothschild's Mentmore, 3 yrs., 7st. 4lb.; Captain Christie's Orchehill, 3 yrs., 7st. 2lb.; Mr. Mills's Pensioner, 3 yrs., 7st. 21b.; Mr. Gratwicke's Newington, 5 yrs., 7st. 21b.; Count F. de Lagrange's Zouave, 3 yrs., 7 st.; Lord Anglesey's Tricolor, 4 yrs., 7st.; Lord Clifden's Chanoinesse, 3 yrs., 6st. 7lb.; Sir W. Booth's ch. c. by Windhound, out of The Maid, 3 yrs., 6st. 2lb.; Mr. Ten Broeck's Babylon, 4 yrs., 5st. 12lb.; Mr. Payne's Turned-loose, 3 yrs., 5st.; and Mr. Hodgman's The Beacon, 3 yrs., 4st. 8lb. 8 to 1 against Sunbeam, who won by three-quarters of a length.

At Doncaster, ridden by L. Snowden, she won the St. Leger Stakes of 50 sovs. each, &c., for three-year-old colts, 8st. 71b., and fillies 8st. 21b.; a mile and three-quarters; beating Mr. T. Dawson's The Hadji (2); Mr. Merry's Blanche of Middlebie (3); Lord Derby's Toxophilite (4); Lord Ailesbury's Compromise; Mr. Barber's Prince of Denmark; Count Batthyany's The Farmer's Son; Mr. Murland's Longrange; Mr. Nichol's Volta; Mr. Crawfurd's East Langton; Count Batthyany's The Courier; Lord Clifden's The Knight of Kars; Lord Glasgow's Brother to Bird-on-the-Wing; Mr. Gratwicke's Governess; Admiral Harcourt's Gildermire; Mr. Howard's Eclipse; Mr. Parr's Kelpie ; and Baron Rothschild's Mentmore. 15 to 1 against Sunbeam, who won by half-a-length. Run in 3 minutes and 20 seconds.

At the same Meeting, ridden by L. Snowden, and carrying 8st. 4lb., she walked over for the Don Stakes of 50 sovs. each, &c.; one mile.

At Newmarket Second October Meeting, ridden by Wells, and carrying 8st. 11lb., she won the Select Stakes of 50 sovs. each, for threeyear-olds; D.M.; beating Mr. Sutton's Eurydice, 8st. 4lb. 7 to 4 on Sunbeam, who won by nearly a length.

In 1858, she has started thirteen times, and won eight:

Sunbeam's engagements, for 1859, are-in the Claret at Newmarket, with Blanche of Middlebie to help her out against Toxophilite; in another Sweepstakes at Newmarket, versus Toxophilite; and in a Fouryear-old Stake at Goodwood.

Mr. Merry, the owner of Sunbeam, is a very determined and very popular sportsman. Few men now on the turf enter with more spirit into the thing. None back their horses more heartily, or, as in the case of Hobbie Noble and others, give longer prices for what they want. His stud have lately been in the care of Prince, who does them every credit. It is seldom indeed that any animal has shown the bloom of high condition more than Sunbeam did for both her great races. Still, when Mr. Merry purchased Lord John Scott's horses, they were allowed to remain with Dawson, and a well-known trial between Sunbeam and Blanche of Middlebie gave the latter the best of it. Prince, however, never lost his confidence in his own mare. Luke Snowden is one of the most resolute and able of our light weights. Although educated in the North, we believe he is a New Forest lad. He had been rather under a cloud for some time past, but the St. Leger has given him another start, and he is "up" now in almost every race of importance.

The only "curious coincidence" attached to the St. Leger of 1858, is that like that of the previous season it was won by a filly who was fourth for the Oaks.

KNAPSACK WANDERINGS IN MERRIE ENGLAND.

BY LINTON.

No. VI.

Lynmouth-beautiful Lynmouth! how shall I describe it? for I must own, as we pulled our reins and halted for a time, to look around us, that my imagination had done but scantily justice to the lovely scene I gazed on, coloured and enriched as it was by the golden sun of an autumnal evening, which was sinking, as it were, into the depths of the blue sea, leaving its rays on the many-coloured woodlands below me, and the dark-blue mountains of Wales as a back ground.

Nestling in a deep and luxuriantly-wooded vale, through which the

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river Lynn-if river it can be termed-rushes towards the Bristol Channel, we beheld, from the towering heights on which we stood, the charming village, which appeared, as it were, to sleep in peace beneath the shelter of overhanging woods, and hills verging into all but mountains, that rose around and above it in every direction, except where the ravine in which it stands unites with the shore; while numerous charming villas peeping from the rich foliage by which they are sheltered, and which conceals them from their neighbours, seemed to have been dropped as if by chance in their several delightful nooks. Two Alpine brooks, splashing and sparkling over their rocky beds, rushed tumbling and foaming through the wooded ravines that open on this sweet village, from the east and south, and threw their waters under ivycovered bridges, which add additional charms to the rural and picturesque scene.

A short mile west of Lynmouth, or it may be more faithfully described as on the hill above it, is Linton, the tower of whose church we looked on in the distance, as well as over the lovely valley I have named, from the spot where for the moment we had pulled the rein ere descending, the whole forming a picture of wild yet calm and peaceful loveliness, which few spots in the Highlands of Scotland can equal, and few in Switzerland surpass.

"This, then," said I to myself, "is the spot par excellence' to establish oneself for wild red deer-hunting on Exmoor; more suited, I should say, to the wolf or the chamois, the whirr of the woodcock, or the cry of the eagle. Aye, Boreas! what sayest thou to these hills? puzzlers, I fancy, to wind and limb. Dost thou think, my gallant beast, that the hostelry in yon vale," in the windows of which lights like small stars were already twinkling, "will afford something better for man and horse than the Red Deer' ?" The latter words were scarcely uttered, than a sharp slap on my back, and the words "I believe ye, my pippin," made me start and turn in my saddle.

I beg you ten-thousand pardons, sir," said a fine young man, whom I had seen go well in the run, mounted on what I should have pronounced, and soon found to be the case, a strong, well-built, longbacked, short-legged horse, bred on the moor; without exception the best of animals for deer-hunting. "I beg you a thousand pardons, sir; I really took you for Jack-our Jack-Jack of the Moor, a first-rate sportsman, and therefore a first-rate fellow.”

"Well he may be, my good friend," said I, "if he can put up with such gentle salutations, however kindly intended, if frequently administered. However, you are pardoned, with all my heart," I continued, laughing: "and as you appear to know these parts well, if there is aught to be had in the village below, of a consoling nature to a tired and hungry hunter, why join me in a capon and a flagon of sack, and welcome."

"Gladly," replied my new acquaintance, "most gladly. Nothing more unpleasant than to eat one's solitary meal alone-nothing more agreeable, after a good day's sport, than to share that meal with a pleasant companion, and that companion a sportsman. As for hunting the red deer, there are few better quarters than the romantic vale into which we are now descending. The accommodation is first-rate; however, you will soon judge for yourself. There are three inns-one at