... P 0 P-T I - N Tir TvrF.--A fair share of patronage was given to the Border meeting at Carlisle, but this is just the time when the aristocratic patrons of the Turf do not care to travel so far from London. The Cumberland Plate. like the Northumberland last week, seems to be going down hill, only six horses coming to the post. There was a rattling finish between Mrs. Pond and Constantine, the ...

... SITVIMAING AND DIVING TIlE Long Vacation is with us, the swimmers' memories awaken. The few glorious days we have chanced on Lately have yielded visionsof calm waters, breeze-rippled, that have lapped us luxuriantly. Leman, Glengariffe, Sorrento, Tenby, the southern sea, the dear old Thames weirs, each and all yield pleasant sport again memory-wise. Why, when in London, are we denied the ...

... a c~POtI THE TURF.-In point of weather, which was genial and springlike, the Bristol meeting in the earlier part of the week may claim to have been the most successful of any yet held this season ; while the sport witnessed was quite as good as could have been expected. It was as disastrous, too, generally speak. ing, to all backers of favourites, who have made a most wretched beginning. The ...

... 1pol~t I THE TURF.-A suburban steeplechase meeting at Kingsbury, under the auspices of Mr. Warner, of the Welsh Harp, Hendon, is the only Turf event of the present week which has engaged the attention of sporting men devoted to this amusement. It was very doubtful, owing to fog and frost, whether there would be any racing at all on Tuesday, but matters were much better at the Kingsbury ...

... THE INTERNATIO)NAL YACHT RACE THE glorious Fourth of July,' when Americans at home discharge innumerable guns, and let off multitudinous fireworks in honour of the anniversary of their national independence, was celebrated off the southc.r extremity of the Irish coast in a still more original fashion. On the afternoon of that day a battle commenced between two of the leading maritime nations ...

... rl -? I ORT ING C THE TURF.--The chief meeting of the week, at least in thl North, has been that at Newcastle, which excited the usual interest among the horsey miners, who are nothing if not in earnest. They dearly love racing, and to them the Nottrtdunber- land Plate, though only an ordinary handicap, is by tradition a kind of Derby ; and they know by heart the winners for years back, ...

... (SE ETCHED IN ANTICIPATION OF THE UVENT) THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAY RACE THE Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race is a great national holiday. The best proof of that is the spectacle of the thousands who pack the banks of the Thames as far as the eye can reach. In that crowd you will not find a single element in our English social life unrepresented. There may have raged on the previous night a ...

... o SPR.T~a LIKE many of our weekly contemporaries, we were unable to give the name of the Waterloo Cup winner in our last num- ber, as the result of the Altcar contest was not known in London till Friday afternoon. The Dog Derby was unusually interest- ing, and even exciting, and between thirty and forty thousand persons were present. If we take the mean between the two we shall not be far out; ...

... FLT I I THE TURF.--There is no denying the fact that the Doncaster Meeting has been a little bit flat ; the fields have ruled meagre, notwithstanding the abnormally wet summer has kept more horses on their legs than is usually the case, and the general racing afforded but little genuine excitement. The weather, however, was delightful, as indeed it usually is during the first fortnight or so ...

... I' --0 FT THE TURF.-The First Spring Meeting at Sandown Park has given evidence, if indeed such evidence were wanted, of the increasing popularity of the Esher tryst; and it may be fairly anticipated that the fourth year of its existence will eclipse its predecessors. The improvements recently effected on the course, and the management of a practical and liberal executive, tend to this result. ...

... >\g SPORTI N THE TURF.-Turning back for a moment to Epsom, the weather for the Oaks, the Ladies' day, was much more favourable than that for the Derby, but the interest on the great race was down to zero, as no one could believe for a moment that, whatever might be the state of the ground, the favourite, Lord Falmouth's unbeaten filly, Wheel of Fortune, could be defeated. Only seven could ...

... As soon as the Goodwood week is fairly over the season gene- rally closes, and society begins to take its flight from the close and weary town. Signs of the times become apparent about the end of July. The last nights of the opera are advertised. Bet- ting on the Chesterfield and Stewards' Cups grows fast and furious, ad Liberal members inveigh against the factious conduct of the oppsition, so ...