... The return of wintry weather is a most unfortunate matter for spoct at the present jisuctore, and owners and trainers of greyhounds have equal cause of diissatisfaction with those identified with horses. Sundiry coursing arrangements have had to be abandoned this arvesi, and the change is extremely damaging to thej prospects of the Waterloo Cup, which is set for decision a little more than ...

... she has killed rats in the week ending September, 1879. There is something grandiose these figures. English county where invitations are worded thus, Mrs. Smith home, Hatting, the thought of slaughter of four hundred thousand rats must cause a thrill of envy. young gentleman in of Mr. Payn's stories once nad a strange adventure. and his bull terrier were accidentally locked up in a barn cope ...

... SKA TING. TIE Origin of skating, as of so many interesting things, is lost in the night of ages, Authorities, however, are generally agreed in regarding it as of Scandinavian birth; and it must evidently have proceeded from one of the frozen countries of the north. Not that skating is by any means a northern pastime. There are probably at this moment more skaters at Paris than at Stockholm, ...

... OXFORD, Tuesday Night. The weather Btill continues very severe here, 17 degrees of frost having been registered last night the Badcliffe Observer, who, unlike his predecessor. to,the public of Oxford each morning the result of his scientific researches of the previous dav ana night. The sis has consequently become more frozen, and now affords excellent skating from Saundor'a Bridge to Iffiey ...

... b« held shortly, the President of the Royal Institute of British Architects has received the following letter from the Duke of Edinburgh: Sir, —As chairman of the Council of the Royal Albert Hall, lam led to ask, through yon, the attention of the members of the Royal Institute of British Architects, of which you are the president, to the invitation which has been sent to many individuals for ...

... c~~~TORTINQ~ THE TURF.-The publication of the weights for many of the important Spring Handicaps has infused a life into Turf matters, though trainers at Newmarket and elsewhere are at their wits' end as to what to do with the horses under their care, owing to the state of the ground. The acceptances, which will be declared next week, will set the speculation ball rolling, at all ?? death of ...

... TESTEUDAY'S SP0OTS. RowING.-Tim OXFORD AND OMAilDOS BOAT-31ACrE.- It has bhen a very unfortunate week for the practice of the Thai. versity crews, both having been subjected to the tender mercre3 of Jack Frost, who has bound up the respective rivers in his iu-y grasp. Oxford has sought freeh fields and pastn es nevw in the upper reaches of the Isis; and at Cambridge, where a boating man ...

... CHAMPION SXATING. A friendly invasion of skaters from the Fen districts on Monday overran the three hundred and fifty acres of strong, smooth ice on the Welsh Harp Lake at Heudon. What rowing is to men living on the banks of the Tyne or the Thames, what wrestling is to Cumberland and cricket to Kent, such is skating to the lowlanders of Cambridge, Norfolk, and Lincolnshire. Given a good old ...

... Sharp frosts have proved a bar to all out of door sports but skating this weelk, and those able to wear the irons have had a rare time of it near the Metropolis. Fish Smart and other notable performers from thle fen country have raced for big prizes at the Welsh H-arp, and while the hard weather lasts there will be other inducemrents to crack skaters to demonstrate grace snd speed over the ...

... less noticed, thaw has last set iu, and we find ourselves face to face with an old grievance and a familiar trouble. The care of the streets of London is committed to the vestries of the different parishes, and the cost for their cleansing is included in tbe rates they levy. For this purpose the past winter has been peculiarly favourable. Frost has made the roadways hard and clean, and a low ...

... that it impossible for to return rejected communications, and this rule can iu ...

... THE two winters which have driven hunting-men to desperation, and made havoc of all the sports in which horseflesh is engaged, have pro-- vided skaters with an amount of amusement and exercise which the oldest of them cannot remember and the most sanguine could never have hoped for. They will be long remembered in the annals of the skating clubs which now exist in considerable numbers all over ...