... THE INVTERNA TIONA L RACE. No's iNG is nmore grateful to an international sentimentalist than an international match. It heralds that reign of universal brotherhood and amity to which all things are inevitably tending. International misunder- standings are the offspring of mutual ignorance. All we want in order to live quietly is to appreciate each other thoroughly and knog each other better. ...

... 7JE HARV lARD-OXFORD iBOAT-RACE. li c01 ae is now over, and our prophecy of its features and result might .! erv c llually for history. Oxford started and rowed throughout on e prinlciple that they had to go from Putney to Mfortlake and that ,an:Cerslnth was not on this occasion their winning point. Harvard, like Cir Camlbidge namesakes of the Cam, seemed to think more of a lead ,,,an an) ...

... THE NORALITY OF FIELD SPORTS. ] IN an interesting article in the last number of the Fordai,-gly Review Mr. E. A. Freeman has shown that he possesses no less courage than learning. Himself a country magistrate, he has dared to denounce fox- hunting, and to denounce it on principles which would cut down at their root all similar sports. He actually ventures to declare that a game- preserving ...

... A FEW weeks ago there died in Paris an old man who, as a boy, had been. hunting groom on the Prince of Cond6's estate at Chantilly. This wag before I 789, when the country seat of a great French nobleman was kept on a scale of royal magnificence, and when of all the estates of the king- dom Chantilly was, perhaps, the most splendid. But there have been. considerable changes in France since ...

... A SIGNIFICANT commentary on the morals of racing men is to be found in the doubts which have been expressed as to whether, after all, there was Annthing essentially disbonourable in the conduct imputed to Sir Joseph 1awley by his libeller. Sir Joseph's own opinion we know, and we should have thought it impossible for any one to take a different view of the question. The offence of which Sir ...

... BETTING IN LONDON.-MONDAY. To-day s transactions at the Clubs were liitn'd bii; number and amount. On the Waterloo Cup sery C was done, while the main feature in connectioil Mtn 1 Grand National was a renewed desire to iiveit oil Lamb, 500 to 30 being taken and asked for; the rell1 ing bets will explain themselves. No chian' pr.- itself on the Two Thousand, with the exceptiu of A 36 15 being ...

... | ~SPO)? TING NVEWmS. PROGRAMME OF FINCHLTEY Clp STEEPILECHAS'-E8. allr. Captli O a, ?? Reginald li 1ei Brer: Mr. a..llf Q.Vl. Jdgad err c - Starter. Mr. U.Cttl. . TuESDAY, JTANUARY 4. (New Izacc.}--ThCr Ow,,N BUNEris' C:,Value i~3 yen'i olds, Iht; fljve, l~t idili; F;x Nd of 5o sovs, 711b extra t iimiideii S 'INXI,(, yeai ?? alIowed( 711h geitcn leme riders p; e.iaas'F miles aiid a haf.- age ...

... .SPOR YNVG 1E !VS FINCI-ILEY CHRBISTMAS STEEPJC1'A1[ Tui.SjtAY. The FcNCciLEY PlAIT (h1tiniiciap) of 51 sees; - extra. About two miiles. Mr. T. Drax's Basquinc, by Vultigeti'-l'crgi1lrit,. ltst Ill, . (1E. Sir. Norris'siWedding lieal, aged, lit .. ?? (Kitie' S r. Adams',, Owen Swift, ageTd, list ?? ?? (lre Mr. llarrington's Ada, 6 yrs, 12it . (. . Mr. J. Woodward's Frailty, ag'ed, IIst 41i(I'. ...

... SETTLERS AND NATIVES IN SOUTH AFRICA, F. rom Mr, John Robinson, a late member of the Legislative Council of Natal, we have received the following communication. The letter is dated Dur- ban, Nov. 22:- Permit me to set before the British public certain facts concerning the Queen's dominions in South Africa, which in the present discussion of the colonial question, may not be so well known as ...

... T|H1E MORALITY OF FIEID SPORTS. THE controversy about field sports is still raging after the usual fashion; that is to say, few. con- verts have been made, but some very shrewd blows have been given and taken. No sensible effects, so far as we aie aware, have been produced upon the subscriptions to various hunts or on the attendance at popular meets; no. stable is yet advertised for sale and ...

... ENTRIES FOR THE SPRING HANDICAPS. riPSODM SPRING MEETING, TUESDAY, MARCII 29. 'Ili CITY AND SUBURBAN HANDICAP of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, and only 5 if declared by a time to be fixed when the weights appear, with 200 added; the second to receive 50 soas; the winner of any handicap with public money added after weights, Sib; two, 10 lb extra. About one mile and a quarter. 140 subs. Glaicul (bred in ...

... TATTERSALL'S.-MONDAY. The spirited proceedings further eastward were not followed up at Albert-gate, where matters proved rather tame except on the Grand National, in connection with which two or three prominent transactions took place. After 1,000 to 60 had been offered against The Lamb, 17 and 15 ponies were tendered successively, but in each instance without a response. This oppo- sition ...