... SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. m Compared with the excitement associated with the objection to the winner of the Cesarewitch last week's racing at Warwick, Thirsk, and Sandown Park, created only passing interest. But for the maiden successes of Mutual Consent, the first foal of Fair Rent, by the defunct Sir Charleß ; of Hope by Glen Arthur, dam by Oxford out of Lady Rose ; and of Primate by Preferment ...

... STORTING INTELLIGENCE. • -_■— tead of history repeating itself in connection with this year's Derby and Oaks, except that both events were carried off by the first favourities, the •victory of Melton has broken the Bpell that previously surrounded Middle Park Plate winner. at Epsom; and the honour can no longer be claimed for the Dewhurst Plate of that longer distance two-year-old race proving ...

... l^, _^ I ONDON _~ RORUJSAUX ?? MA „ soura of France, and ?? ' ?? ?? NAVIGATION ?? mag- *~m9. __ Steamships GANNET and LAPWING with I .SS? ?? =»ns_. ?? ?? ?? I?- J 0 Reward's fees. Through tickets ' arenow issued to Arcachon. Biarritz, Pau. Cannes &c ■Hie return vessels leave Bordeaux every Friday Autrust 18 ?? mt 4 am. ; 19. at 7 am.; S6, at 3 a.m. *»-• August 12, For further particulars ...

... THE WIXTER EXHIBITION AT BURLINGTON HOUSE, (Second Notice.) Two landscapes by Gainsborough, among the British pictures at Burlington House (No. 1 and No. 147), suffice to remind ua of the frequency of his practice of a branch of Art which he never found remunerative, and they assure us, too, of th© genuineness of his feeling for Nature; but they are hardly masterpieoes. The second, and aa it ...

... TH_TrXITED STATES TH . AND CUBA. V-AR3HITS AT .HAVANA. fVBOM OCR COI-RESPONDEXT.) NEW YORK, Wep_.fsd.-T Nioht. V.l of a British warship at Havana Thoa ™uch Pleasure to Washington and htf *? ivc \ n *r t l i perceiving that tho situation AYali-^-VJthat even Spanish punctilio ;_ now so rt- offence was intended by cannot a ' sunl j Unitefl States warship ?? capital. D 0 BELTER'S A.KVCV.) 1 ...

... TIIEMILITARYMAN(EL T YRES. SIGHT ATTACK AT ALDERSHOT. «. The night operation— the chief operation of ;V,e Manoeuvres — was conducted to a success- ful issue in the early hours of yesterday morning, amid weather that did not conduce t ,. the comfort of the troops. While the divisions were marching out on Tuesday night to take up the respective positions plotted them in the general scheme, a ...

... One can hardly repress the conviction, after reading the memoir of this great novelist and play- wright, that the fact of ita having been written by relatives is much to be regretted. In striving to vindicate the character and abilities of a man »bo Uttle needed such championship, the authors protest too much — indeed, a great deal too much. Doubtless the inclination to treat in a somewhat ...

... / — • THE EEPo^-ED CONFLICT NEAR MERUCHAK. fIUECTKR'S TKLEORAM.I ST. PETERSBURG, August 3. -Nothing whatever is known in official circles he:« w't* l i c ' Ba n* to any con ffi«t or collision having taken place between the Russians and Afchans on tlie Afghan border ; and tho report of some gU nposcd lighting near Meruchak, mentioned by a London morning paper, is declared in well-informed ...

... Wednesday Evening, Weakness has again been the pervading feature of the Stock Exchange, business continuing limited on the absence of orders from the public, whilst quotations have been adversely affected by the news from Afghanistan and the dull weather here, ln the English Funds, Consols, Reduced and New 3 per Cents, receded 1 per cent. India 3 per Cent. Stock gave way | per cent. Several ...

... Tie new play, in which Mrs. James Brown Potter has cl. ct..d to make her third appeal to the favour of London pla> po. rs. proves to be founded upon a very old story The „ tic Ic .- :■! dof bes de Castro has been a favourite theme for lit- Tary treatment ever since it called forth the famous Ptanzas in the Lusiads of Camoens. A tragedy by UuuAus, a novel by Madame de Genlis, an opera by ...

... states that 44 the soldiers broke into the Cathedral, battered down the organ, pulled the communion rails, and carried the table into the centra the ohoir. representati ...

... TROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. PRETORIA, Junk 22. On Friday, June 17, the troops, which a few days 'previously had entered Potchefstroom amidst so much pomp, prepared to take their departure. The konour of England, had been upheld and asserted, «nd her name vindicated. What matter the trouble the left behind her, the loyal she abandoned, the in justice she perpetrated by this act? Had not Eng- ...