Henley Regatta

The pleasant holiday assemblage of spectators to witness the annual contests of aquatic prowess on that beautiful reach of the Thames below Henley Bridge affords the subject of our Extra Supplement Large Engraving this week; but as this notice is written on Wednesday evening, for the purpose of going to press in due time, we call say nothing, till next week of the actual events of the Regatta to take place on Thursday and Friday. The home readers of our paper will know, by the day of publication, whether or not the Regatta has been favoured with summer sunshine, and what has been the character of the races from a sporting point of view; but we have no doubt that, if the skies have been clement and genial, without a drenching shower on either the first or the second day, thousands of people will have been made happy for several hours; and we cordially hope it will be so.