... ?? THiL TURF.-Perth and Stafford have offered a little sport for the locals, but it is almost unnecessary to say that the sporting world has been at Newmarket this week, not, perhaps, so much for the purpose of seeing the racing provided at the First October Meeting, as for doings connected with the coming Cesarewitch, Middle Park, and Cambridgeshire. Indeed at this meeting it is seldom ...

... AMONGST all the accounts of sports in the Highlands, I do not restember ever to have met with any description of the herring fishery; such may have been written, but I incline to think that authors generally have passed over the subject, either as not coiming actually under the head of sport, or, which is quite as likely, as being one upon which they are not prepared to give any information. ...

... THE INTERNATIONAL EOAT RACE ABOUT a month earlier last year, England and America were intently watching for the issue of the great aquatic struggle on the Thames between the representatives of New Cambridge and Old- Oxford-the undergraduates who hailed from Harvard and those who came from Isis. This year, just a week ago, while the whole of the civi- lized world hung feverishly upon each ...

... ?? -i Ii , - ?? I -; ; Wol R, P o RT N THE TURF.-We are now in the midst of the Sprin' meetings, which may be said to conclude with the Derby Weet The Newmarket First Spring has been the great gatherig f e present week, and, before the Derby, Chester and Bath haf to hold equine revel. The proceedings at the headlquarters 0 no Turf hardly sustained their usual interest, though there the lack ...

... NOTHING in the whole London Season seems to delight the fashionable world more than the Ascot week. Society never penetrates as far as Newmarket, and Epsom is now as sacred to the revels of the undistinguished crowd as Hampton or Croydon. But Ascot is just at the right distance from town to prevent the profenumr vulpis from approaching, and yet not too far to make the journey irksome to the ...

... Le Roi est nort, vive le Roi / Stockwell is dead, and Macaroni, his successor, reigns in his stead. The cele- brated son of The Baron and Pocahontas was taken ill with inflammation of the intestines on the 3rd inst. and died on the 5th. As a two-year-old he won nothing, chiefly because he could not be fully prepared on account of his great size; as a three-year-old he won the Two Thousand, and ...

... THE GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE RACING has at last begun in earnest, and all regular turfites are highly delighted to have got over one of the dullest winters ever experienced. Lincoln and Liverpool this year hare for the first time been fixed together, and thus it was rendered impossible for anyone to witness the two great opening races ot the year, the Lincoln Handicap and the Grand National ...

... SPO RT N~ THERE has been plenty of racing during the resent week; West Drayton (which seems to have a hebdomadal gathering), Bath, Salisbury, Wye, Manchester, and Harpenden having held their usual meetings. These, however, are generally speaking more interesting in consequence of the congregations of book- makers and sporting men interested in the coming Derby than for any exciting racing ...

... SP~aING TnE TURF.-There is always an additional interest felt in race meetings in the week before the Derby, and many attend them simply to watch the market and hear the latest news con- cerning Derby horses. The Bath, Manchester, and Harpenden gatherings have been quite up to the average. the first-named, as usual, attracting a large assemblage of fashionables. On the Lansdown the Stakes ...

... cRICKET METEOROLOGICALLY cricketers have had a bad time of it lately, and if the drenching St. Swithin's day last week is really a prelude to further downpours they have indeed fallen upon evil days. In such a case, unless the game is to be sponged out altogether, our elevens (amateur and professional) must be enveloped in mackintosh suits, somewhat after the fashion of the Captain Boyton ...

... PO F-T IN TiHE TURF.-Times have altered, since by general consent no horse-racing took place during the present week. But now when the season has once commenced Turfmen can brook no interregnum. Consequently there have been meetings at Not. tingham and Eltham, though, as might have been anticipated, the racing produced little of interest. At the former the Maccaroni Stakes were won by Sir G. ...

... SHOOTING MA TCH IN BRITTANY. TRE Camp at Wimbledon is broken up, and our rifle- men having shown what they can do with Enfields, simall-bores, and breech-loaders, have now leisure to talk over their successes and failures, to compare the scores of this year with those of last, and to see how far we have advanced in the science of killing, a serious consideration in these days of war and tumult ...