The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-11 00:00:00

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MARTLRBOXII CLOD v. OXFORD UNIVIIIIFFT.—
Play in, this match at Lord's was resumed at tee migrates
past 12 yesterday, the Club inniegs finishing for 96 ruse a
trifle akar 1 o'clock. The Ueivereity Memo oommeaced
their sepood ioeiop with Mama OW and Tinton, to the
bowling of Ortiody and Weettea, and each bowling as is
rarely ire in them day. ensued. The following is the full
more of the Nutt& :-11.0.0. and Grimed : fist
110 ; second innings, 96. Oxford : first inning, 99
secood, 44.
Tag SURREY Riliwirer Y. Timis= Or Cam-
Emus Uervianers.—Play is this. match on the Oml WWI
resumed at 11.50 yesterday. Upwards of two thousand
vilitere atteoded, and enother day of peat kitting minted.
The besiege iloiehed up at the peat number of 416 news.
Cambridge, at 1 o'clock, opt with the Hoe. T. de Grey
ad Mr. Armitage, to the bowling of Sewell and the Surrey
Colt Shepherd (left-hand medium). The inninp finished at
7 o'clo4 for 266 nue, and being 150 rens behind. The
Cambridge had to follow their innings, and when time was
called at half-past 7 they bad lost one wicket fm 23 rune.
It, was immured that play would be reamed at 11 o'clock
La
Law. OF CRICK= —Yesterday afternoon
• ng of the members of the Namlebinie Cricket Club
rem I. the Racquet Court, Lord's Greeted, fee the par-
pose og maidens' Qs prepnety of aliens" tin laws X.
and XXIV. The chair WU to
by Earl Dudley, and
there were about fifty iambi. preaset. lb. Rumba
had gimp smite of motioe for the alieratioa of law 31.„
which provides—" The ball must he bowled. II thrown or
jerked, or if the bowler, is the actual delivery of the ball,
or in the action immediately preceding the delivery, shall
maim hie heed or arm atom hie shoulder, the sceptre shall
all No Deli' " The proposed alteration was— " The ball
mint he bowled. If thrown or jerked the umpire shell
mil No " After some disourioe. • divans meek
plain, whoa the *umbers were—For, 27 ; against, 20; majo-
rity for the mole am, 7.

AQUATICS.

Puma or WALas Yates Cuir.—Tbe reflood
watch of the steam of the above slab was lead, M a oat..
mitts* sheeting last sight, for Thursday, 30th lost. The
nor Mil he among yachts of 15 lees sad wider, and then
wall be two prizes, value 201. sad 51. The wean. will be from
Lush rote the Chapseas sod back, with a time allowasoe of
coo Waste per taw. !striae to dome 11 oaday, to TM het,
at 9 o'cleek, at the Preemaeose• Taesra, Geist.
street, Limas's-is% sad a etesatbsat welt have Barakrall
ims 11 is isompoky.

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PRENCEESS.
This Ev►ina. LIGHT AND SHADOW.—Lad THE
CORSICAN BROTHERS. Mom VDUs, sad Walter Lay.

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Salem Jonian, hevdle, Canna Winn». Morns. layened,
Moreland, llQor.l. lanced*. Madison* end fawn Mans
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pIITAWFIA.

TYCO Evoximp. iPPIENTICHB ; or. Todestry
fad Idioms'. —ROB HOT. lisotot Percy Roma* sad Ma C.
St. Coro. —Aod LAIHLED TO THE HIEN ; or, Tbo 1611.3104ke
and the Mutineers. —Comoro of 01.

MOH WAIIDI AT LONDON ILLEDOL
MIS DAT Nandm AIL itsa
To-Nozaow —Nantes, OA .ANAramA 71 UNA

LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 11.

Taos difference in the French and English ways
of treating criminals is not limited to the trials in
court, but extends to the oell and the scaffold. It
would shock us to know that the vilest murderer
went to bed with hopes of mercy, and was awakened
out of • sound sleep by a turnkey, told his fate,
and executed within half-an-hour. Yet this was
exactly the experience of the wretched La Pom-
IMLAIN who suffered for his crime on Thursday
last. The man had been found guilty of • foul
murder, and not a single ream could be assigned
why, in • country where capital punishment
is inflicted, his life should be spared.
Still he had some faint hopes of
mercy. He had friends who might presume
somewhat on their influence, and who actually put
it to the test. We refrain from speaking of the
high connexions he had been ►ble to form, and of
a consultation to which he had found admission in
the case of a person of distinction. Up to Wed-
nesday night he clung to the hope that the efforts
made on his behalf might be successful, and retired
to rest in that trust. "At half-past five," our
correspondent writes, "the grefier of the Imperial
" Court entered his cell and found him in bed and
" sound asleep. He woke him up, told him that
" his petition to the EItPLROR for • pardon had
" been rejected, and that he had now nothing to
" hope but from the mercy of GOD, and must pre-
" pare to die at once." This is indeed to make
death terrible. A contemporary yesterday un-
dertook the difficult tank of conveying an idea
of the fearful suffering which this war is causing
to the people of America, and adopted
for that purpose a computation based en
the Egham catastrophe. But, as we all
know, a battle in which • thousand men
fall does not excite two hundred times as much
horror as the casualty at Egham. Soldiers in •
campaign expect battles, and enter them with
emotions which prepare them more or less to face
death. It is the suddenness of the event,
occurring as if by a treachery of nature, just
when the mind had abandoned itself securely to
pleasure, that makes an accident like that of
Tuesday last so horrible. And it is this same
suddenness which in the eyes of most Englishmen
will be thought to have constituted an intense
and extra-legalaggravation of the punishment of La
P 030131.413. This, however, may be disputed from
some points of view. To some minds there is almost
cold-blooded cruelty in the opposite practice of the
Americans, who keep • criminal twelve and
eighteen months in gaol tinder sentence of death
and then bring him out for execution. We suspect
it will be found that the treatment of La Post-
lIERAIS shocks us most owing to the operation of
religious feelings, while the American system
offends more against the feelings of nature. In
the British army • " short shrift " is considered as
adding to the horror of an execution, because our
soldiers believe in Goo and immortality. A
Chinese soldier, in similar circumstances, would
probably not care to ask for delay. In the Litany
we pray to be delivered from sudden death, as
conscious of imperfections needing a dying prayer.
A late eminent judge, looking at the subject from
the purely natural point of view, was accustomed
to say that he thought this supplication founded in
error. The practice of our own country in dealing
with condemned criminals acknowledges the
consideration due to religion, and allows a brief
period for reflection before the criminal is driven
out of the world to enter upon an unknown state;
but it does not keep him in prison as in Rome until
men have forgotten him and his crime, and his
execution has the appearance of being a measure
of gaol delivery rather than • satisfaction rendered
to justice.

Tr.s days ago the Tory newspapers published •
report of a party dinner given by a " University
" Conservative Association" at Oxford, to which they
ascribed considerable importance. Archdeacon
DEN mow spoke there "as 'party man," and "gloried
" in addressing those who were as much party men
" as himself ; " and it was there that Lord ROBERT
CECIL delivered that speech which has since been
noticed in the Hone. of Commons. Mr. WARD
HUNT was there also, and proposed the health of
Lord DERBY, who is Chancellor of the University, as
" • leader in whom the rank and file of the Con-
servative party had the most thorough confidence,"
a tout which was acknowledged by Dr. WYNTER,
President of St. John's, and Private Secretary to
the Chancellor. The Daily News now publishes
three letters which have passed between the Earl
of DERBY and Professor Coan,torox on this sub-
ject. As the Chancellor of the University is the
guardian of the interests of the whole academical
body, irrespective of party, Mr. CONINOTOX RBA
naturally desirous of ascertaining whether he ap-
proved of the act of his Private Secretary on this
occasion in speaking for him in acknowledgment of
a party toast. It is not suggested that any important
consequences depended on the approbation or dis-
approbation which Lord DERBY might express,
still every member of the University wishes to know
how far the Chancellor values his neutrality
among the parties which exist in the body. It
appears that Lord DERBY approves of the
function which Dr. Wrirrza assumed as the Chan-
cellor's Private Secretary. He does not conceive
that the relation in which Dr. Wvrrza stands to
him or to the University—for he is a paid
officer of the University should limit his

political action. Bat thus,
Private Secretary may, with hi's approval,

at party awntiLg, sails Vast obireoterreiicimi
to a party tool is th• noble Earl's name, by the
Mme ride Lord Dam himself might attend •

The oonsSicadenes is

merely interesting on moons% of the citrons Tory
opinions expressed at the dinner, arid as showing
the extent to which Lord Diner is willing to be
identified with the speakers.

gbe Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE. Joss 10.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis of
Hems, Priam= Beatrice, sad Primmer Isioingeli, drove out
yesterday aftrecoou is a curriags end four.
Lord Charlie Fitzroy attended as horseback.
Prices Alfred diced at Fraction house with the Prime
aid Priam. at Wars, material by Lieuterwat Haig.
Berl Gruainils bad ea =dimes al the Queue.

Her Majerty drove eat Shia epees* in a carriage and
four, mecionspaaied by the Prince sad Primers Louie of
Here sad Primus Lainisgen. The Equerry in Wait*
vas ia aStrodases Cu horseback.

flair Royal Highnesses the Prises and PtiDOSIII of
Wales, attended by the Coaster of Morton, Liestanifit-
Gerssesl Lays, sad Lieutenant-Colonel Kappel, 'vial&
b Majesty, frees Frogssorabooss, and esassised to
!snobs.

Their Royal lilighawase the Priam and Prisoner Walsh
the Prince sad Princess Louis a/ Hems, Prime Alfred, and
Priam@ Helena, mat to Leedom' this thermos. Is
attendants wens the Coarser of Mottos, Lieutenant-Ga-
ss& Hoofye, Lientenaat-Colooel Heppe!, Lady Caroline
Barrington, the Bermes' de Greasy, the Has. Horatis
Steptced, the Hon. Harriet Phipps, Lisat.-Oelonel Use Has.
D. de Roe, Major Cowell, Lientemat Haig, sad Dr. Becker.
The Queen bald a mused today, which was stranded by
KM Granville, the Doke of Sommer, Sari Roma% and
Sir George Grey.
. _ . .

Mr. Helps, Clerk of the Council, attended.
At the council an order ma approved ateetituting
Leeds no 'seise town for the West Riche. of Yorkshire.
Yowl Granville, Berl Russell, and Piz George Grey had
audiences of the Queen.

The Prince and Prisons of Wales returned to Marl-
borough-boon from Fromm yesterday aliaraoca.
The Prima of Weiss, aecompanied by Prises Alfred and
Prima Louie of H. rode oat on horseback, attended by
Lieutenant-Calmat Leippal.

STATIC BALL

By command of the QueeL, a state ball was given
laid eversion et Bnekinidiarn Palma, lio which a party of
between 1,800 and 1,900 was invited.
A Guard of Honour of the Foot Guards Tae masted in
front of the Palma

The Royal Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard, with
their officers—Lieutrant-Colonel Cooke, the Resign, and
LieuteoaotColooel Palterer, the Rios in Waiting—were
oa duty in the interior of the Palace.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Weir,
attended by the Countess of Morro, the Hoe. Mrs. &oar,
the Earl of Mount Edgeoumbe, Earl Spencer, Lord Harris,
Lient,Golonel Koppel, and Mr. C. L. Wood, arrived at the
Palace from Marlborough-house shortly before 10 o'clook.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and
Primer Bogy arrived from St. James's Palace, graded by
Lady Geraldine Somerset sad Colon l Home Purr.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived,
attended by his Equerry.
Their Royal Higbee's'. the Grand Duke and Grand
Duchess of Mecklealoug Strelita arrived, attended by Lady
Caroline Cost, Berea von Pleases, and Barns Luke.
Their Royal Highs sass the Prince and Prisms of Wales,
ecorepanied by her Royal Highness the Primer Helena,
his Royal Higher. Primo. Alfred, their Royal Highoseess
the Prince and Printer Louis of Here, their Royal High-
er.. the Ducker of Cambridge and Prisms Mary, his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, their Royal High.
armee the Grad Duke sod Greed Duchess of Mecklenburg-
Strelits, conducted by Viscount Sydry, the Lord
Chamberlain, and attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen
in Waiting, entered the ball-room soca after ten o'clock.
Her Roysl Highness the Prioress of Wales wore a rich
white satin dress, covered with tulle, bouffant. of tulle
and ruches of white crape ; a veil of tulle over the drew,
ornamented with jet, with lilies of the valley, and with
large white lilies. Headdress, • tiara of diamonds ; neck-
lace, brooch, and earrings of pearls. Her Royal Highness
also wore the Victoria and Albert Badge and the Order of
Isabella of Portugal.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena wore a dram of
white tulle over • rich glare slip trimmed with Mash rams;
redder' of blush roses ; pearl ornaments mad Galen.
Her Royal Highs the Primes' Louis of Hesse wore •
blue asps dress with two lace flounces over tulle rushes II
trimmed with pink mess mad brown leaves ; beaddrea, •
tiers of diamooda ; a diamond stomacher, and necklace and
earrings of diamonds.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge wore •
black satin dress with rich Isom Bourses ; ►eaddrs, tiara of
diamonds with yellow ranee and black lace ; staaraber,
necklace, and earrings sapphires and diamonds,
Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge
wore a white tulle dries trimmed wit► sears of imelataa
embroidered with poppies and straw. Headdress, • tiara of
diamond stem and poppies ; stomacher, sacklaos, and ear-
rings pearls and diamonds.
Her Royal Highness the Grand Dueller of Mecklenburg
Strelitz wore a blue satin dress trimmed with point lace
and point lace flounces Headdress, a tiers of dramatis and
Bowen ; stomacher and necklace dismosda.

His Royal Highoese the Prime of Wales wore the oviform
of the 10111 Hamm with the ioaignia of the Order of the
Garter sod the Star of ladle.

Am moo u their Royal Highnesses the Prince mid
PADOISI of Wales mitered the tall room the donning coot-
mewed.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales will give their grit ball on Monday, the 4th of
July, at Marlborough House.

Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for a
danciog party on Wedamdey, the 22nd inst., to meet their
Royal Highnesses the Priam sod Priem= of Wales.

The Earl and Countess of Egliuton will leave
toenail llooday out for Eglioloa Castle, N.B.

Miss Coutis hss issued cards for an assembly on
Monday, the 28th isst.
The Duchess of Hamilton (Psofe Princess Marie of
Bain) sad Lady Mary Ramifies have abandoned their
intention of visiting 800tlend this summer, and will in a
few days laave town for Paris on their way to Hades-Bedsa.

We (Post) learn that The O'Connor Don, M.P.
for Roscommon, will shortly marry Yin Taoism., daughter
of IL and Lady Louisa Tenison.

Min Sheridan, a daughter of R. B. Sheridan,
Ep., M.P. for Dorchester, is about to be rnamed to the
eldest moo of the Rev. Lord John Thytne, one of the canons
of Weetatisater.

The Royal Academy Exhibition will be opened
is the evening. as of late years, at the end of the eighth
week of its continuance, on the 27th instant.
The twenty-fifth anniversary meeting of the
Emilssiological Society will be held on Wednesday, June
22, ►t 8 o'clock p.m., at the Lecture Theatre of the South
Kensington Museum. A discussion will be held "Oa the
Plan and Construction of Town Churches, both artistically
and practically considered."

The second summer flower show of the Royal
Botanic Society will be held on Monday out, in the sages
in Retest's. perk.

_ .
Madame Harriers Weppern is announced to
make law first appearanos this evening at her lkjesty's
Tbestre in the part of Alice, in !tomboy's eke-drum;
Roberto it Diem)lo.

We (Heropoth) believe Mr. Gooch, the eminent
engineer, hie 'valved hie appointment on the Greet
Western.

The Great Western advertise that next Monday
the Hammersmith arid air Jauntiest will be epees&
Trans will be ran between Hansersormitls and ParrMidas-
street, calling et intermediate stations, every half.horu.
Extensive earthworks are about to be erected at
Mfrs End, Deer Oolwell Bay, fa the isle of Wight, direetly
opposite Horst Olinda, ea the Hampshire mask es which
earthworks will be mounted the heaviest guns.

CHANNICL SQUAD ON.—The squadron under the
commaed of Rsar•Admiral S. C. Dams, C. 8., is to hays
Plymouth Sound for fipithoml oa 'keep

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Galway 11166 W.
Vaimot_la 29 ......1101 W.
Cape Our ..19...1 W.
t=kr. 29.46 66 W. 6.21/.
.29.761 LILL
111601tead ... 29.11661 LILL
Pambr0ke...,29.78 &LW.
Pamares .. UAW 67 WA. W.
Oral ..... MOO 601 W.
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126.66. 129.90 64 SAW.
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laerbaraush. 267/ 16, LW.
Maids .. 29 76 66 W.&W.
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LW. to W., varying, DIANAL W.N.W. to M.N.& and
moderate to Aronig, back, Aroma to
rob at at lima derste.soweabowen.
B.W. to N.W., trait to Wwatina. As above.
Wroth& equally, NW
B. to W. and N.W., Rodman. W. to N. and beet,
moderate to strong, Wrong to moderate,
rain In plaos• • few shower,.
,ta next above, bet hi henna. La seri above.
Weees N. to A,
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England laa

bera-orries, Joxe 7.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint Jobs Budd Pbesr, Esq.,Banistet-et-lAw,
to be • jedgp of the High Court of Judicature at Fail
William, is Bowl. —Gantt&

IMPORTANT MOVEMENTS.
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the Federal m. is reported to hold
a panties within seven miles of Richmond.
Lee's right rests on the Chickahominy, below
Mechanicsville.

his unofficially reported from Kingston, Georgia,
that the Confederates attacked Sherman yesterday

morning, and were repulsed at the end of two-anci-
a-half hours' fighting.
Reinforcements for Sherman were arriving, and
he is stated to have subsequently reached the
railway near Marietta.

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