TRAINING.—The process of training horses for the TURF was formerly plain, simple, open, and free from mystery or ambiguity. Circumstances, however, are so altered, and fashions have so changed, that a training-stable exceeds in _secrecy_ the inmost recesses of his Majesty's Councils, upon which the prosperity and peace of so great a nation entirely depend. A training-stable is, in the opinion of those who conduct them, the very summit of earthly dignity and _imaginary_ consequence. The "insolence of office," so emphatically alluded to by our immortal bard, cannot with justice be better applied than to this immaculate _mart_ of _integrity_, this delectable haven of sublime and _unsullied_ perfection. Those noblemen and gentlemen whose opulence and liberality command respect, are entitled to insure it; but it is frequently and publicly seen upon the common race course, that they are _gratefully_ treated by their own pampered and subordinate _harpies_, with the most consummate confidence, and upon many occasions (if their own judgments are opposed, or opinions thwarted) with the most _contemptuous_ indifference. Thus it is even with the great and independent, who have no sooner relinquished their horses to the superintendance of _others_, than they have resigned their _free agency_ also; and it becomes almost a crime to offer _an opinion_, or to ask _a question_: the etiquette of professional secresy must by no means be assailed; and it is only as matter of favour, that a man can get a sight of his _own_ horse, or obtain _authentic_ information of the real state of his condition: if the owner (unless he is of _the family_) presumes to obtrude a question, he will not be so likely to receive an unequivocal answer, as one of the most _deminutive_ stable-boys.