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ASCOT RACES.
To-day I visited Ascot.

Race-courses are similar every where, and present the same objects; good horses, cruel riders, knowing men, dupes, jockeys, gamblers, and a large assemblage of mixed company.

But this is a gayer scene than most others; and every epithet, appropriate to a course, diminutive or otherwise, must be in the superlative degree when applied to Ascot.

This is the general, and often the only impression that most men carry away with them.
Mr.Slick, who regards these things practically, called my attention to another view of it.
"Squire," said he, "I'd a plaguy sight sooner see Ascot than any thing else to England.