The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-24 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.

The Colquhoun sculls were presented to the Lady Mar-
garet Boat Club in 1835 by Mr. J. Colquhoun, and are now
open to the university. They are held by the winner for a
year, the club at the same time presenting him with a cup
of the value of £l5. All the best men who are in residence
generally enter for these races, and tile successful compe-
titor may fairly be considered the best sculler of his time.
These are bumping races until three men aro left in ; these
three then row a time race. There wore 14 entries this
year, being not so many as usual. The first race was on
Tuesday, the 20th, when they started in the following
order:— Sir A. Lamb, 3d Trinity; Weighell, Jesus;
Shann, Ist Trinity; Finch, Lady Margaret; Roe, Down-
ing; Airy, 2d Trinity; Wood, Emmanuel; Leavens,
Queen's ; Griffiths, 3d Trinity ; Maddock, Clare ; Elton,
Jesus ; Watson, Christ's ; Hon. J. Gordon, Ist Trinity ; and
Rasch, 3d Trinity. The favourites wore Griffith, Shann,
and Finch, whilst Lambe, Wood, and Gordon bad several
supporters. There were five bumps made. Shaun bumped
Weighell at Grassy-corner. Airy sculled up to his post, as
Roe did not put in an appearance. Wood, to the astonish-
ment of every one, bumped Finch over two places in the
Plough-reach ; Griffiths ran into Leavens easily, and Elton
bumped Maddock. The two last, getting across the river,
somewhat stopped Watson, who was in consequence
bumped by Gordon. This last bump, however, was not
claimed, and Watson was allowed to row again. The sud-
den collapse of Finch, who was looked upon by many as a
probable winner of the sculls, was a general surprise. He
lost his lead completely, steered wildly, and came utterly
to grief. The second race took place on Wednesday, and
the nine left in started in the following order:—Elton,
Wood, Rasch, Griffiths, Shann, Lambe, Airy, Watson,
and Gordon. Wood bumped Elton, who steered some-
what wildly ; Griffiths bumped Rasch at once ; and
Watson bumped Airy, who was afterwards swamped. The
third race was on Thursday, when the remaining six started
thus—Lambe, Wood, Shann, Gordon, Griffiths, and Wat-
son. This was a very fine race. Shann bumped Wood
going round Grassy-corner, and Griffiths bumped Gordon
just before Grassy. Wood was badly steered, but he
sculled pluckily. A protest, however, was made against
the bump, as it was asserted that Shann started in front
of his post. This being referred to the captains, they de-
cided in favour of Wood, who was thus left in the race.
The fourth race was on Friday, a most miserable day. Only
the most enthusiastic rowers ventured to go down to the
race-course, but these constituted a large number. The five
started in the following order : —Lambe, Watson, Shann,
Griffiths, and Wood. Shann bumped Watson in the Gut,
and Griffiths bumped Lambe over two places round Ditton-
corner, sculling in such style that he is at present the favou-
rite for the final time race, which takes place this day.

TH F. POLITICAL CAMPAIGN IN THE UNITED STATES.
—The Daily News holds that bhe triumph of Re-
publicanism in the United States is complete. The
Democratic party is permanently discredited and
overthrown. The history of American compromises
is at an end ; and the history of the application of
American principles to the difficulties of Federal
Government has begun. The President and his ad-
visers, the Southern leaders and the Northern De-
mocrats, would have continued the old record, be-
ginning a new chapter of compromises with
inequality and concessions to injustice. But the new
leaf is turned, and the moral of the last elections is
that there is no power on the continent which can
turn it back again. Mr. Johnson's attitude towards
Congress when it meets, strengthened by knowledge
of the character of its successor, will make no per-
manent difference to any but himself ; at most it
will only decide whether the new era of reconstruc-
tion shall have a calm beginning, or whether its first
hours shall be obscured by storms.