The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-08 00:00:00

rsz GRAND NATIONAL BUMS CONTEST.

The weather coneidered, the attendance at
Wimbledon yesterday, the fifth et the cosiest, was tele
se numerous as mold be exposed. Although the pro-
pummel was rather an attnotive eie—the most in
of its items being the match been= the universities al
Oxford and up= eildehthe Weatiooof Wise
was geesetally sonseeirsted-rthe essather was as bed es
could he desired is the weep& lest Wind in the after-
noon, although thee woe seas tes ether seers wed thee
was wished for by the eneeses sashes. The Oxford
and Weedy orrapetillos- did sat ecenwee till thee
o'clock, and was receded by the aratents, tammeocisig st
half-pee 9, for Lead Yeraces pries, Nees. ffley's prim
the OW, the All thew, the 141110Callikill Cup, and the
extra prim, beide the apart at the sighting Urges, pool,
and the naming deer.
Osmium theses thee was the denting off the lies for the
St. Georgs's Veep pad the geoid Cup. These were the
'vests MUSA &idol.
With regard to the former, the coldest for the vase was
onfioed to Peruse, of the Ist liversess, and lose, of
the Queen's Weemineten, each et whom soared 30 in the
general contest on Saturday, while seven other vollinesens
who made 29 bed to shoot off their dee to Wide the dell-
Ratios of the third sad fourth rises which an awaited
under this bead. Fearnison sow made a beer's ye
with bia first shot, beating lase, who 'sly wade
a centre, by ow poet. Be therefore takes the
Itt. Crane's Vise for his battlers, and the yid
Jewel of Pa. George, vale about 201., for himself, Leib
taking the 'wood prise, a eller of PA. G•Orrho qualsl. ; while Sewn,e 11th ' takes the t=
sharsesidiav
distisetios of the we arose of St. • sad
of the Civil Service, a photograph of the w net& Sae • ,
Si. Gump% Challeoge Vase n the ph of Colossi
of the Si. Gowen Raba, sad is worth 2501. It willittigi
until Skis west of sext year by the Ist Inverness, wee it
will hays to be sundered se the battalion which rile
hooky enough to seed the marksman who makes the •
some, end so on from you: to year. But in the sweet the
same battalion winning in three successive yeate—s very
unlikely thing—it will become the absolute proptrty of that
battalion, and will be retested in the eucaediag year oat
of the receipts from the entries. Mb year there are up-
wards of 1,600 oompetitxs, belcoging to 100 katteices, 90
of which wt their best ewes to elapse for the prize or
The karold Cup, valve 501., wee won on Saturday by
Nicholls, 10th Stafford, Gibbs, let Gloucester, taking 251.
of the 101. added by the Notices' Rifle Association ; the
third prize of 151., end the fourth of 10/. added in the
rune way, being won yesterday in the sheitteg by Hogg,
let Peebles, and /IL Oebos, 14th Edinburgh.
The Oxford and Cambridge Match, although not so
exciting as that of the Lords and Commons or that of the
Public Schools ea &nerdy, was sot without a oonsiderable
amount of general interest. There was no prize, the com-
petition
being solely for the palm of victory. Each univer-
sity sent eight men to support its bosour, and each man
had three shots at 200, EitA, and 600 yards respectively.
There was a majority of 64, hit and points included, in
favour of Cambridge.