The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-09 00:00:00

OXFWID AND CA.VDRIDGE BOAT•RACE.

PUTNEY, TriNtJ.ty, 1 o'Ci.,,cs.
At a quarter to 11 the Calitabs went out and
paddled to Mortlake, occupying k 7. minutes. They
rested nearly half an hour, and then Paddled up
to Larker's mils and down to the Ship, whence
they started with a good side wind for Putney, doing :Pt
strokes per minute. They finished at 3..1 and 40, distressed,
having accomplished the distance in 21 minutes 23
seconds.

The Oxonians are expected every minute from Mortlake.

GE THE fits iiiii or I{olll ESTER. —WO
have to announce the death of the Bishop of :tochester,
who expired suddenly at 10 o'clock on Satunley night.
The light reverend prelate was to have preached at the
Chapel Royal, St. Jallities, on Sunday g, and his
place was taken by the Bishop of Ely. His lordship died,
it is ,tatisl, while preparing his sermon for that occasion.
The late Right Rev..luseph Cotton Wigram Lord Bishop
of Rochester, was son of the late Sir Robert Wigram,
first baronet, by his second wife, the youngest daughter
of Mr..l. Watts. The right rev. prolate was born in 1795,
and married, in PM, the daughter of Mr. Peter Ark•
weight, of Willersley, Matlock. He went to Trinity
Calk, c, Cambridge, where he obtained a scholarship. He
was ,i‘th wrangler, and graduated B.A. in Is2o. In 1522
he was ordained, and priested by the Bishop of London the
following year. hi Is'a he was appointed secretary to the
National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor,
and in the same year appointed preacher assistant at St.
James's, Westminster. In Istil he was presented to the
rectory of East Tisted, Hants, and in 1•17 male Arch-
deacon of Winchester, which position he held till hie ap-
pointment to the see of Rochester. From DCA up to 8460
he was rector of St. Mary's, Southampton. The right rev.
divine had published a large collection of sermons and
several of his charges in the archdeaconry. lie was conse-
crated bishop in 1860, and was the Mith Bishop of
Rochester, the see—one of the oldest in England—having
been founded in 604. The episcopal jurisdiction include',
the city and deanery of Rochester, the counties of Hertford
and Essex, excepting 10 parishes in the latter county, and
in addition to the arcleleaconries be was patron of sixty
livings. The death of the Bishop of Rochester places i.t
Lord Derby's disposal the first bishopric be has had to fill
up during his present premiership. On the last occasion
of his lonlahip being in power the only see to which he
had to appoint was that of Bangor.
FUNERAL or Ma. C. H. BENNerr—Yesterday
the remains of the lamented artist Mr. Charles H. Ben-
nett were interred at Hampton Cemetery, a large number
of his friends and colleague■ attending the funeral.
MeLaStelioLv OCCURRENCE. —On Friday after-
noon • student of divinity, named dames Finlay, who
resided with his mother in Garnethill, Glasgow, lost his
life under the following painful circumstances :—A double-
barrelled rifle, lent for some time to • friend, had just
been returned, and ou Fr.day morning Mr. Finlay was
ohserved cleaning the weapon. In the forenoon he went
out with his mother, and accompanied her in certain calla,
but subsequently parted from her in the street, as she had
some other appointment to keep.
On reaching home he
went to his own room, and in about ten minutes the report
of a rifle was heard. The room was shortly afterwards
ertcred, and Mr. Finlay's body was found lying on the
floor, with one aide of the face and head almost completely
blown away. The rifle was also lying on the floor, broken
across at the junction of the stock and barrel. On the un-
discharged barrel there was a cap. The person to whom
the rifle had been lent says that it was not safe, having a
tendency to go off at half-cock. On thin point, however,
some persons who have seen the weapon would seem to
boll a different opinion.
THE ALLEGED PLUNDER HY WREt•K ERS.
Yesterday Mr. Montagu Bore opened at hover
an inquiry, ordered by the Board of Trade, into the
alleged plundering of the ship North, which was wrecked
upon the Goodwin Sands on the 30th of August last. The
inquiry was ordered in consequence of representations by
the Salvage Commissioners of Lloyd's, contained prime'.
pally in a pamphlet written by Mr. Harper, secretary to
the Selvage Commissioners, to the effect that shortly
after the ship was ',reeked she was surrounded by Deal
boats, and her cordage, copper, and fittings plundered to
the extent of 1,500 i. The case has been repeatedly
before the public, and has excited considerable attention
in shipping and commercial ciroles. A number of
witnesses were examined, and the inquiry will be pro- I
cooled with to-day.
CRUELTY TO AN IMBECILE DAM:INTEL—At the
Nottingham Police-court, yesterday, Mr. J. Harlow, a
master-smith, and his wife, Elizabeth Harlow, were
charged before the sitting magistrates with cruelly ill-
treating their daughter, Mary Harlow, a person of weak
intellect. The case occupied four hours. It appeared
from the evidence that the young woman, who is 27 years
of age, hail at times been locked up for several days in an
attic without food, and upon one occasion she was kept
four days without sustenance. She had also been beaten
frequently with great violence by the female prisoner,
' who washer mother-in-law. The mayor, in conquinywith
Mr. Richards, went to the prisoners' house and saw the
poor woman, who was in a most wretched condition. The
little clothes she had on were in a most filthy state, awl
her hair was matted, presenting on the whole a most re-
volting spectacle. She was immediately removed to the
imbecile ward at the workhouse, by order of his worship.
The bench committed both the prisoners for trial at the
Midsummer Assizes.

SINGULAR ConteTozwee.—At the Liverpool
coroner's court yesterday an inquest was held on the body
of a woman named Elizabeth Fleming, who on Friday
morning last was carrying her grandchild down, when
her foot slipped, and she fell heavily to the bottom of the
stairs. Although the child escaped any serious injury,
the poor woman was so injured that she died the same
evening. One singular feature in connexion with this
case is this. In the early part of last week an inquest
was held on the body of another woman, named Minavql
Fleming, who resided in a ditfcrent part of the town.
On Friday week she, too, was carrying her grandchild
down stain, when she stumbled and fell down to the bot-
tom of the flight. In this ease the child also escaped any
serious hurt, but the woman died in the evening of the
day when the accident took place. A verdict of accidental
death was returned in each cave.

ENG its] TRAVELLERS IN .4 si ERICA. —The British
traveller who comes out to see the United States, over-
flowing with a sense of his country's greatness and
American inferiority, sows the seeds of more national
prejudice than even Lord Russell contrived to do. And
he is very common, especially of late. He abounds in
the hotels, walking in among ladies with his hat on,
calling out for his beer in tones of great grandeur,
intending thereby to strike awe into the minds
of the bystanders, and looking upon the natives
as poor creatures very much to be pitied for not having
been born in England. Unhappily, these are the men who
are taken as representatives of the national character.
Let two Englishmen enter any quiet hotel and you see
the difference they make in a few minutes. They have
grumbled at everything, abused the waiters, scolded the
chambermaids, and mole everybody uncomfortable.
There is a ready sneer on their lips for all
that they are shown or told. "We asked an English-
man here to dine with us the other evening," said a lady
to inc a few days ago, " and be did not nothing but snub
us from the time lie entered the door till the time he left."
" And why did you submit to it?" I asked. " Ah, you know,
he was our guest—and an Englishman," added she, slyly.
We all suffer by the behaviour of these sturdy "
Ushers." Would that you could keep them at home!
Luckily we sometimes see travellers of • very
different kind, who make warm and cordial (Wends
wherever they go, and leave nothing but good
to be mid of them. I have heard such men
spoken of with pride and affection. But the com-
mon tourist--the man who comes out here to laugh at
everything—ought to be put an end to in some way. I see
a great deal of my dear countrymen from time to time in
New Ycrk, and my love for them is not what it once was.
I think it is possible for a man to be English and yet have
objectionable pectins' ides of manner. There is no country
in the world where the man who is going about honestly
desiring to gain information receives so much help, and is
treated with so much generosity and hospitality as this.
I have never known the -kindness of the people to fail. Even
after they have been ill-used,they will still open their doors
to the stranger and give him a hearty welcome, hoping
better things from him than they received front their last
guest.
ne
nitravel
A start
may thousands of miles, as I have
and with only one letter of introduction. He
will be passed on from town to town and house to house
with a readiness which at once destroys the thought that
he is in a land distant from his home. If he is only a decent
man, he will soon find himself surrounded by " troops of
friends," such as no one could bhi adieu to without sincere
reluctance and pain. But, instead of profiting by. these
opportunities, the tourist conies here with his nose in the
air, and "I am an Englishman" tone in every word he
says. Mr. Banks may say foolish things in Congress, hut
I wish foolish speaking was confined to American peal-
cians.—New York Corrapoodent of flee Times.