... UYIVERSITY RACES. AT a time when public interest is so much excited by the late University race, it may not be out of place to trace the fluctuations of fortune in these matches from their commencement. Notwithstanding the superior advantages offered for boating upon the Isis, the recreation is first recorded as a university pastime upon the Cam. Oxford, however, soon followed the example. ...

... HOW THE UyIzVERSITYBOAT RACE WAS LOST. THExaE is a reason for everything, and one exists, we may be sure, for the seemingly mysterious defeat of Cambridge in the University Boat Race for six years in succession. Just at present, indeed, the embarrassment lies rather in the perplexing abundance of reasons suggested than in any lack of them. It is not given to every man to row in a great race, ...

... THE people of Chester have been passing quite a gay week; they com- menced on Monday with a hanging, and on Tuesday they proceeded to the races. And on Tuesday evening, when the Franchise Bill was having a rest, and Mr. Sheridan was having his way, and Mr. Gladstone was having a lecture on courtesy from Mr. Ferrand, the natives of and the visitors to Chester addressed themselves to the more ...

... BA TH RACES. To go to Bath, whether spontaneously or upon requisition, is, during the race week and when the weather is such as we have had for the last two days, to do that which is far from unpleasant. For if anybody knows a finer view of its kind than is to be seen from the Bath racecourse, it would be an act of benevolence to point it out. Even Goodwvood is scarcely more charming. The ...

... EPSOM RACES-L'ENTR'ACTE. FOR public purposes the hippodrama at Epsom may be considered to have but two acts-the Derby on Wednesday, and the Oaks on Friday. The racing on Tuesday is but a prelude, and the sport on Thursday is but an interlude or entr'acte. Somebody of renown has described, in a poem of more or less worth, the feelings of a man left alone in a lately crowded ball- room, whence ...

... PARIS, May 27. IF the day of the race for the Grand Prize does not hold the same distin- guished place in the Parisian calendar of holiday festivals as the Derby day does with us, it is rather because it does not so much stand out than because it is less attractive as a spectacle. The scene of to-day at Long- champ was of the most animated and exhilarating kind. Bright sunshine, a ...

... THE CUP -DAY AT ASCOT THE racing yesterday as Ascot was poor enough sport for such as take after Hiero, Tyrant of Syracuse, and other patrons or clients of Pindar, but must have appeared something like horse-racing to gentlemen connected with the linendrapery and cognate professions. For the struggles for pre-eminence were very close between the many holders of the parasol -from her who ...

... . The great ocean' race of the tea ships is now being run from China to England. The following, we learn from Hong Kong, is a list of the com- petitors :-Fiery Cross, Scnca, Arie', Taiesing, which were to start first; and Si, Lancelot, Saeyping, C11inaman, Ziba, Black Prince, and Young 7ochi/nar, which were to sail a few days after the others. The betting at Hong Kong runs very highl. Ariel, a ...

... BA TTUE SHOTS. A FEW days ago a contest took place of extreme interest to the powder and shot world. The amount of the stakes competed for and the fairness of the conditions of the match attracted to the Great Pigeon Sweepstakes at Cremorne almost every sportsman whose skill with his weapon promised him any chance of carrying off a prize. Such full accounts have already appeared in the daily ...

... HENLEY Regatta has once more come and gone. The racing on Wednes- day was confined to trial heats, which proved among the closest on record. The river this year is fuller and the stream stronger than usual, which circumstance, added to the fact that a heavy wind blew down the reach the whole day, will account for the discrepancy between the times of this year and those of last. The ...

... THE ELEVEN GENTLEMEN v. ELEVEN PLA YERS. THIS match, an annual one for the last five-and-twenty years, has rarely been played with more emulation. Any odds on the Players and no takers has been too often the cry before the game began, but this year some good judges took the Gentlemen for choice. This year, as last, the selection of the Gentlemen was made with a wise consideration of nerve ...

... THE INTERNA TIONAL SCULLING RACE. TiE match for the championship between the representatives of England and America, which took place on Wednesday and yesterday on the Tyne, was probably suggested by the previous effort of one of our colonies to win that distinction from the old country. Green the Australian came over in 1 863 to measure his power against Chambers, then champion of the Thames. ...