... EPSOm RACES.-THE DERBY AND OAKS; - The aspect of a Derby Day has been presented in so many shapes that we 'may be spared the task of elaborate description. Frith has painted the scene, and Montalembert has sketched it.' The Grand Stand wasinmot drowded thtferee 'the'crush of carriages on the bill larger,-the- excitement deeper,!and-the fuin -ad hilarity-moreboisterou, than evenwour remembrance ...

... TO SPORTSMEN AND OTHERS.-SOME GOOD FISHING TO BE SOLD. Simultaneously Vi th the swindle of Tom Provis, a plant on a scale of far greater magnitude has been attempted in the United States, by the proposed sale of all the fisheries on the coast of British North America; the seller being an individual not altogether un- knowvn to fame, bight the Earl of Stirling, and the purchaser Mr Robert ...

... The attraction of the Derby has this year surpassed all precedent, the numbers collected on the Downs being greater than is remembered upon any similar occasion. Besides the immense number of visitors who preferred the ready and rapid mode of transit by the rail, hundreds of persons, tempted by the extraordinary fineness of the weather, selected the read. which was thronged with vehicles of ...

... EPSOM RACES.-THE D)ERBY.-A finer day for the coming oil' of this great sporting event has never. perhaps, been seen, and the gatberingwescsequently immense, The Grand Stand was literally crammed, and no dense was tle crowd in the betting enclosure that it was almost as difficult to ascertain the movements therets it was in the town. The struggle for the premiership lay between Clineser, ...

... EPSOMX RACES. i1 aid_ WTA1_ THE DERBY-A finer day for our 1 Isthlmian games than W eo- nesday proved, it is not possible to have, and the Downs never, perhaps, presented a larger attendance of company. The first race commenced at two o'clock, and was totally disregarded by a large majority of the visitors, who were busily engaged in unpacling hampers, and settling themselves for the great ...

... Sir, Never was there a design on my part to violate a confi- dence. You will, on reading the signature of the enclosed, find the name of a man whose uncle held high office with signal in- tegrity. The nephew left the army several years ago, but his courage and humanity would never allow him to remain in idleness. He has lately been engaged in performing the most dangerous duties at his own ...

... - .. I ?? TnE ANERICAN CHALLENGE0l naddition to tuse usal excitement caused by the Ryde Regatta, all the naval sporting world have been in commotion, in conse- quence of the challenge offered by Commodore Stevens, the American yachtsman. to the Royal Yacht Squadron, the particulars of which are these: 'Te New York Yacht Club, in order to test the relative merits of the different models of the ...

... ToE GREAT ST LEGER.-Thie great sporting event, which came off on the 18th inst., will be memorable this year in the annals of the turf from the circumstances attending the first result. Of the latest betting on the course, it is only necessary to say that 6 to 4 was currently offered on Vol- tigeur, 4 to 1 and 9 to 2 taken about Pitsford to a large amount, and 30 to 1 to two or three hundred ...