The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-10 00:00:00

THE BANQUET.

This event, which annually follows the great
boat race between the Umiversities, came off on Saturday
night at Willis'. ROOM., King-street, St. James's, the Hon.
GIORGI Duman, Q,C., M.P., of Cambridge University,
and prisident of the club, occupying the chair, faced by
Mr. 11. 0. Smith, the hoe. see. of the club, and R. N.
Phillips. of Cambridge University, one of the vierepresi-
dente, while amongst three present were Xmas.
Brown, Bailee, Senhouse, Coventry, Henley, Schneider,
and Harrison, of the Oxford crew ; Maws. Berth.
wick, Pigott, Kinglake, Watney, Beebe*, Lawn, and
Btrevensos, of the Cambridge crew ; J. Hawkinaw,
at ; J. 0. Chambers, President al C.U.B.C. ; J. W.
Chitty, of Exeter College, Oxford ; Hon. 0. Carnegie,
M.P. ; W. Lawson, Y.P. ; W. Niolionen, Herbert T.
Stewart, R. Lewis Loyd, C.U.8.C.; R. H. Faris, C.U.8.C.;
J. Wright, C.U.B.C. ; J. Hall, 0.U.8.C. ;C. Schofield,
C. U.B.C. ; Rev. F. M. Arnold, President of Kingston Row-
ing Club ; Walter Bovill, C. Dickens, jun., Rhodes Cobb, J.
Draper, C. Walton, sad many others well known in aquatic
circles.
Mr. NLOBRIBOIc who was received with continued ap-
plause on rising to speak foe the Oxford crew, said
he bUdly knew whether it was kind on the part of
the chairman to say that that was the principal toast
of the evening, because that generally required a long
reply, but if such was the one, he, however, iatuded to
do what was wrong. No doubt it was exceedingly pleasant
to stand there as be did and reply gent to the toast as a
winning oarsman, but he thought with the chairman that
they bad worked hard to win, and deserved praise for their
victory ; he could not fail, however, to express his thanks,
and that uf all his crew, to then clever Woke, Mr. Brown,
to whom entirely their eatery that day wail due, for had he
not had the courage to row that slow stroke victory
would probably have decided for their adversaries. He
had exercised a great amount of self.oontrol and exhibited a
great amount of seltoonfidun, sad he (Mr. Harrison)
was proud to my that Mr. Brown had been fully justified in
the curse he Ind adopted, as the result had shown. Of
course he could not expect the Cambridge crew
to sympathise with his feelings in this matter, but he should
at least enlist their sympathy in the ever-recurring nuisance
of the steamboats. It was not the first time in that as-
nimbly, to which they had been so kindly invited by the
Than Subsoriptioa Club, that objection had been taken to
the meaner in which the steamboat captains had binned,
and this year he thought they had left themselves still
mores,:olie:r. to
li;oftrdenia laotriton.
ikThirlmlght, perhaps,
bea ;i, cams have
behthe post they had so crowded mud them that, cossalthig
their own safety, and with the ormesat of Mr. Kinglike en
the other aide, they had determined not to start with par
Bible drowning before their eyes, end they had returned
th their boat yards, when, as it was, they were nerirly
driven ashore ; and thee, again, after they had started they
bad been aurrousded, and he really must say that the per-
thew hired those steitinbosts were more to blame thaa
captains themselves. Far hie own part he would have
bees willing to have gone ashore, and Dever returned to the
starting-post at all, or done anything so that the steam-
bogie might have come to grief ; arid once more he would
suggest, if no other means could be adopted, that the ran
should be shifted to some spot where they might be safe
from interruptiou. No one could regret snob a course more
than himself, but something must really be done. He again
thanked them for the extreme kindness they had shown
him and his mew, and could only hope that he might steed
there for years to woe in the same position.
Mr. CHAMBIBB. who was received with universal ap-
plause, said be felt extreme please.. is returning thanks
for the Cambridge crew, Ina, at the same time, he could
sot but feel a certain amount of diflideoce, having to return
thanks for a crew which had lost five years in enoosseion.
He could sot account for their loss, and, perhaps, it was
due to the aseembly that he should give something like an
explanation epee the subject. Is the first place they had
to train on a river which was sometimes so ocean of water
that it was a complete ditch, and whore very often the
water was drawn off, and they had none at all. They bad
also another disadvantage in the choice of their men, as
they had to pick from men who west up in their fourth
year, while their antagonists had them up to their fifth
year. True. they poisoned the admirep in suntan., but
this was more than counterbalanced by the difficulties
arid disadvaatoses ha had before referred to. He could
not hat endorse the opinions uttered by Mr. Morrison with
regard to the etearaboats, and he unwed them the umpire
had hese upwards of threrquartore of ea lima get es the
refractory tugs beck, and thee atoll sin seamed without
=in the aid of the Thames polies ; sod he really
it that, considering the fad that the 'pennon came
to see a gestlemees nee, when wahlig whatever wee car-
eened but the tumour of the nisi thesseilves and the sal-
Veralles they represented, they were treated In the most
lisiastel muss. They stopped them before the mart, and
west have douse thermals, he behind, but that the pies
of the gnu Ind left them ler bolded, and me it was, little
seesbasise of the nee a tug me isle them, nearlyoutting thin
butlb half ; wad as several geadseass In the beat odd
I she min they had to wed refuge la • trindly dams. and

that way. Is ooachmioa, WO: iegretting the
feet that his university had again bows asettocemint, he
might mime them that so pair would he Awed to bring
• wmatog craw to tha post next year, and with regard to
the two wawa that rowed that day, &gooiest whom so much
bad beak mid, he might remark them " Ow* thi wi^
rownis to loot at On were good ho go."
" Tbe Realth of the Thames Sultweription end its officers."
" The Bowies Ohba of the United Klagdam," sad *that
bsaeM taik"md•

THI BTLLIAND NATCHILL—Ai usual with the univer-
sities, the yearly matches at billiards, viz., the double
sad single pine, task pleas oa Seturditris St. JiIIII4WF
ball. The °sided rspreesslatiss WWI Omani, 6to
4 Slag laid on them for both mends& he Dark Ms in
the doable metals were W. E. Stokes (Qags 's) and Watt
Resell (Obrist Church), who (Lasted A. Payee (St.
Peter's) sad Arthur Smith (Trinity) by igpoiots, after •
pod match. The angle mega was pleyek wish later is
the evening, the anoplituss being A. G. Paps. (Si. Pets's,
(Ambridge) and W. Z. Seeks (Queen's, Wog*, wham
Peps woo cleverly by 21 pasts.