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The Oxford and Cambridge Boat-Race came off on Wednesday, and

Cambridge won for the first time in ten years. The day was fine, all London turned out ; there was a frightful crush all along the river bank,—attended, according to the Lancet, by a long list of accidents ; there was a good deal of ruffianism, and let us hope there was some little enjoyment. Holidays in London are too few for us to grudge one, but the astounding fuss made about this race is not creditable to English sense, and we vote that the Press next year report it like a divorce case,—with nothing but names and result.

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