SPORTING
... VA 5OTIN~ THE TURF.-The supremely wretched weather which accom- panied the Lincoln Meeting attached itself later in the week to that of Liverpool, and the Grand National day on Friday the 27th was as bitter a day as almost any experienced on the cold Aintree Plains. The sport, however, was pretty well up to the standard, and was opened by Strathblane, one of the Lincoln Handicap starters, who ...