The Express.
London, England, 1856-09-13 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING,

BWIMWNG MATCH.

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ST. AMOBBM'S, San. 11.
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The name Lane arm
rot Ns Asterism o'er the mequed sob,
rime berme, Mille seder, to wades the wars
In the good old times the ishebiteote of the
British islands isdialged tossaidnably Is &thistle sameises
Cit• uterstelf, sriffsery, and rassieg had other
places of sultimitkis thee Sherwood Bonet, sad ether Me-
diate this the moo of "Merry Bow Bead." Msay a
quiet village gyms "'loath* Timed," wars the Women
work woe dose, sad the can's was drawing le a idea% rug
with the sheet of entouregemest sr *labeler& as the rode
athletes mingled is the kees costeet ; sad many a pees
&stab glen saw the enressafd wrestler, or beawsy sense
ttrower, receive with blears, sad awkward grass the still
mere awkwardly waders/ compliments if "the yellow.
hiked bittoee'ill lusts bat Waist a' the stair
s' her laddi• that be bad pith la his sire
as west u Nye is his heart." Perhaps them simple
' folks were wroeg in 004 se Isiah of their evenings to the
wen; bat Cressy, Agisovert, ad Timbres Yield tostiSsd
that whether it was a good or s bed Wog to be ebbs to
Maud s dust" without abrinkieg, sad to des! oss that
left a second timelines' for, their vitlage-gran eauseraute
had mabled them to do both. Their esneadaati, however,
seem to have thought it wee wrong, and accordingly they
abjured tabled* sports, sad trek exclesively to bills of
train sad literary institutes. le our day, again, it somas'
to Cave been discovered that we me both attend to ear hello
et lading sad literary institutes, sae alas lemma little time'
to seeing sad Wrieg part is the may pristine ezerebes of
our honest-harted, broad shouldered forefathers. Tim es
mum " usual" gathering throsibost Use mislay which
our newspapers ham Pearce does dosarthisg an a pro old this,
Nor do we thick that the people will be say the worse fix
these gatherings. Oe the ecstasy, towelpms them as en
!sensation of a readies egatest the spirit et bodily leastinty
sad that effeminate desire he silly le door semmensems

whin, we era ion, to my, mast be at down ase shares.
torten) of the yousg ass of no oboe. Perhaps, however,
to, hale dbertminaties is ohms in Me escosragnmat
which tea coutry is breasts, to beam as stbleds nor-
sins. Some, that is themselves sra of Tidy tills sm. n-
ano a /ergo pianist of &thistles ; sad ethos, whose value
W wUI allow, an left comparatively unlisted. Is this
latter shoe stands list .ha mealy esenist of s
art ninth eau safely sae, been it ma cab Me
ld* so sotto which the Forth 81friossig
inscribed ea Its neds/s, " Health, Pinar, sad
Safety." We are happy to is. that, in the re-
vival of oar aatfoael games, swimming is bogus to bo
rated at its true vale. The Medias of oar article is, se •
metris *meat, a proof of this ; and we beg lane to amps-
Seism OM City of Bt. Andrew's as the fast that, as it was
mem dim tat to eve up ear old astiosal gases, seek es
rthey were, so it boa bees won tie AM to easearege a
aim sad s better kind of atklafk sport, Perhaps, betas
Jeep, we soy Five a fall WOOS, of the sewly-lattitntod
Swimming Club of St. Andrew's, Ind faaiet awn largely
is the gnat dais. that swimming ought to hews on
national attention. In the mistime, Isciwown we shall
amass ourselves M a brat sosesat of the swimming main,
Me list of the season, which ease al on the 10th current.
Omnidsrably before the time of " Step Rock startles," the
bp, sides, sad top if the "Step Book" were oesapiel by a:
sassy ant highly catenated group of several birdied' is
so% youths, and boys, of all ago sal mit
'Maks to the popular sympathise ot the inatlemes
of St. Attdrow's sot a few ot Use laisestia pinks of Um
tows and sidebboarbeod were present, to coustaanos sad

Steel ths hook ealisieb Ids Penh, new
himself loa~asty sastess for aka
steasee're:take mirk. At else Villa seelsely, of tor tke
peseery Is had heo sack, the easeetitoo kit
Iks tee and& fog swimming were boated of to a beat
200 yolk Nes die reek. Hon they 'Sewed and egalpecut
tboaseise kw Ike beat.

The Rev. like A. Booty, 'nekton, son of one of the I
Rat Madawaska gentlemen mimosas that Scotland he,
prodatad, and himself &Ant-rate swimmer, was stationd at '
the rock to sot as umpire. Dr. Archibald, presidia of the
club, kept the time; and Bailie Stale, at the buoy, gave
the starting word. At the Bailie's " Oast, twice, Wks," '
seta of the club's best swioamen leaped iato the water,
and Stock out lustily for the geol. At Ant, the compeUton
kept well together ; bat before tag Mr. C. lioneymen mod
Mr. D. Turner took the lead, naming in splendid style,
and almost abreast. the one perhaps half a 'frith before his
rival at one time, and half a length behind him at Rather;
while they were followed at no wiry gnat distaste
by Mr. J. Fortes., who paned after them with
fine pluck, sad dogged pertinacity. At this stage of the
pro/median the sight was out well worth wag. We
had a seat in one of the two hosts that followed the match.
The wind wee still, 'Ltd the water was without a ripple.
Right baton no ware the awinamen, paling for the gom end
boons, is all the streogth of youth end aU the grace of the
swimmer's an; aid beyond them, on the ledges of tho
butane "Step Rock, • wen the estier faces aid monomials
bodies of the crowded spectators. Not • word woo attend
24 the two Midwest mimosa, Mann. lionspeum end
Toner, seared the rope. No tine could tell who was
to be Ant. Stroke for stroke, loch foe Mob, had
they kept together; based they might almost have
shakes heads as any Instant dories the nor. Bat was
Hosteyasa had tanned the reps sad Turner had, almost
neat instant, Sang his arm over It, a shunt role from the
spectators which amounted at ones the terniaatios of the
not ad the lament wbich they had felt in it. We speak
the truth when we say that we bare tilde's beheld any
isimpetatiou which was so well aleolata to seeks god sus-
tain the Mares& of ea lookers ; and vs heartily norm:slat
the ecommittee of the Sr. Asidraes Swimming Club cs
their very successful entettalonent. The swimming was
allowed oar all hand. to he very good. Charles
Hoaernan, the witner of the Ant :medal, fa • coat
sad eapaltious swimmer, • vary young as. in years, hat
evidently no novice is the art of swimming. Mr. Tuna's
swimming is characterised by variety of style sad by • 'nee
sad ease which is seldom attained by • swimmer of only
three yeas' standing, as we believe Mr. Tuna is, sad that
with the wahine disadvestige of aver having bathed
sail he had reached his twentieth yew. TM time ocapied
in swims's' the 200 yards was 6 missies 20 secoade—.bon
enough time whoa it is kept in mind that the competitor
bed to swim la the teeth of a very considorable must.
At nodose of the club'. eampetitioa, some el the gentle-
ma gnat subscribed a sem, which was divided Sato
four prime, the competitioa for which to he restricted to
bola of frost twelve to eaten years of age. The distant
to be manned war area the Lake " and back. On the
Sipa being givesothout • data ante folios, dashed off
to the soak. ploughles slide way to the tuning palms as If
Naar life doessded at Ikea a:onions, and Matto twihled
them a task HU die wake of • yacht of 90 toes berthas.
/kit tens was laden a keen use. The result stood as
Maws:

S. d.

iSillell Kirk 1 .... 6 0
David Orsbaa 2 .... 2 6
Charlie Stewart 3 .... S o
Robert Harvey
It is only jest to sad, rtat r. Charles Blackwood, sea or
nephew Girths Bdiabargh publisher, would have bees dis
chiedly Ant, but for a 'mistake as to what was to be dose st
turning, by which be lost wore storied than could be re.
severed is so short a nee.

VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS
IN THE CIVIL thavicts—Was Department: Mr. M-
onad Die'', eltrk cf works, Royal k. valuer Department
at Leeds, has Wert aypolated to the Murkier. Customs:
Mr. Anita Ill'oeran bee been appointed • searcher in
Ludoe ; Mr. Betj min Wright Ism been sppanted attests's
clerk is Loudon; Mr. A. C. Boras has bees appointed ea
extra clerk at Poutbamptou ; Mr. Dsniel Costae his bees
appointed • Wernher sad patrol at Liverpool. Indeed : ,
There is • vacercy fur a salAupeotor of eonstabulsry, to be 1
/sleeted by Sir Donna MThertor from the best INSB is the
fora, without szaminatiott Beat Indies . Lien B.
0. Campbell has bun appointed an amistant commitsiorier
of the third slam in the Punj sb;.Mr. D. 0. Ntooker, first as-
sistut to the CoMmiesioner of the Tesasecrim and Martabea
Provisoes, has bee. appointed Postmaster of Moulmein, in
addition to hie result diodes ; Mr. W. C. Wood has been
promoted from the third to the second grade of entre ea. I
shirt lathe Punjab; Captain A. B. lasiabal,i Beading
polled agent In Turkish Arable, has been seeeisied
perms-
neatly to that °Boa Sarre Lease: The ofies of gates',
Advocate ban become rarest by the death of Mr. Bulew.—
, Civil Service Gosato

HouTON RAOO.B SCUOOLL—Ao apireal is undo
b the pebl;c binevoleoce as behalf of the Holton Ragged
lilekook la Hammed-square High-street, which ere, we
meet to near, lasesiehieg 'for want of fends Thi y wire
set es foot In Kay, 1848, by • go id Sandy-schoel teacher
who had hoes shocked at the vies end protacity which he
1 witticism' is the street. of that neighbourhood, oa hie way
to sad from the Bonday•reh oh He wee assisted, after
SINN years of patient and bumble hbour, by the liberality
of Yr. H. 0. Bain, Kr. 8. Hankey, sad satire, who pays
mwry to provide a buildiog. llsay young men sad worsen
him Wow saved to society by thew schools. Twenty ores
bay, bees reclaimed from s life of crime and sent to Aso•
rite. live others to Australia; many bays bees placed
is domestic ionise or other holiest employ est ut.
111 is sot to the erodit of • Christie. community
that • dobtof 120!. should now be suffered to lie moon seek
es iastitotias as this. The Boys' day school hos the oast
of fends, has been closed till the debt ls cleared o 8; this hes
gives Hirer* pain to the committee, but they trust the no.
enmity Is only iemporsry. The other brooches of the in-
elastic. desi reel support. A bilge daily infant school is
carried °. by a pain fr n. eeme; the schools are inched three
times ea the sabbath, writing elegies bur nights in the week;
a large Dorms Society is carried on here, =skis( clothes for
the pO4: ; • bunching pansy seeing' hunk, • teetotal
society, mad • Bend of Hope. Pereira are visited, sad
. during the last throe gleams aumh-re have boos relieved
who were is the lest sieges of destitutioe.
RwohNoOs Pisa.—Mr. Farlow. of Caunewesttilf,
, reou.sts us to state that be knows noil.ing of the "hogs
pike" which is a parsgrspb generally einsalatad St the
smassucemest of the week he was said to bays eaptared at
Sevotosks. kir. Endow dad not know the 'sae of *a
potions& assosiatod with his la ale isasesary swam '

ILato Intentititu.

COURT OF BANXRUPiCT.-Birr. 12.

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lIPICULATIOXIII. ,
I.llb woo the esominatioe meotieg is the ease of Has
Josue AM* and *Om*, Crass, Vltual I"vaults+ °II
Groat Bt. Helm Weed of Anat. Gage% Blom" 881/M•PoL
TM btabrlitto ft anserod, hod bo•gbt goods b tido
emelly Mr We in the Crime, wham one of than Mob-
ilise himself f 4 "the at George's Nom" Owing to the
messatitioa width" smoremes "imams insured, the trading
rengerd in a considerable loss. They bad began is April,
OK with a capital ei TeX, at 'bleb 6001. belonged to
&NW They sow owe to messareti medlar" 4,642'
book* Pe4 of liabilities. The emote ars retuned at War
boils ilia if irsalifil debts. The mite bed bum 1,6001.
Ina asposseedialai I Mem, Meg _ _ .

PIM spsdal statpmeat filed ca behalf of the banbrapt
=oppeared that ha had sameatered sahaard of
to the engem. Oa arriving at /Mahlon in
Sepeombor lrt, Colonel Harding ovoid not allow him to
phle Ya.teatfn Ye tows, bat mat him as to the front to a
plea mad Measyleseb, Neves miles and a half distant,
ishemby the memos of transport ware saormoasly
weessil. Then was a d-lap of wend wash' la the arrival
of Mt venal a a blander in the eharterparty caused farther
Manaltios. 'Alta his stores were °potted, he was robbed in
all dibeetime, and narrowly gimped hash% his property de-
obeyed byline. Shortly after pease was proclaimed, sod this
Maness berraght the sprealatian to asad. Mr. Smith
oaagM 1M &we's fever, end after eafferiag for mend
ha manned to this simony, ad pm up the wreak
of his property to the aredltors.
Mr. Gimp supported. Mr. Smith, of Tokeahosse-yard,
is the part it the 'tepees, odred no oppooltios ; end the
heaknipts pooled.

. .
nr 11 10PLINO.
The leskrept was described ea a bookseller, of South-
seiptea•buildiage, Holbota, bat to batter !sown from his
siaseassa as meaty with some hwarease impasiee. This
wee the ezeadestiew meeting; bat the ateetate set bets,
filed • short edisiniarat was ordered. The debts are re-
tained at 3,8001 ; 10,00 W.; assets laeoasiderable.
IN 11 /0111602( LOP 11411.
The backrest. wen leereliaate, of This
tem the etaalaatios tweeting. The joie% belasee-eltiet
shows • east of 2,1351. dam 'to aesteared ereditort, with
awes Waned at 3101 There were se mate. The Wien
were said at 1,7661., steely lammed by an asaseassefel
eissigataiat of Lob to the Spesieh toast ; expiates, 6381.
Mr. Liaklater asked lot ea adjoarsmeat, which was
°edited.

elf lan 110111101.1.1110111.
The baokropt kept the Grasshopper Tama sad eating-
holes is Graseehosch-street. This was the certificate
weethig. The beakrept ewes to oosecored weditoes
3,2161 ; to those holding newrity, 2,674/. The property
held as security le reload et 3,9301. ; Bittern Webbed by
the Reeterager), 4011. The profits had bees 7674 ; the
losses 1,1441. • camases, 1,0001. Tin beakropt had a capital
1,4801. in&
The Commissions— What was the bankrupt in this
cwt
Mr. Btoplter (he solisitor for the aseipees)-134 kept
the Grenhopper Tavern sad dialog-rooms is Greenhorn-
sweet

Casino (tbs *Bela assigueo)—Aud was a speculator
I load sad letilliop.
The pormirdosor—Thre I supporta there is aethirog for

Sielise—Notbiog at present ; bat there will be
game °We property in a short time.
a Mr. Orman—There it 7COI. is tie Bark of England, bet
an wanienlik lionesses maims It all. There may be 2001.
to 300Lbeyoarithat.
I Mr. ss. as behalf of the bankrupt, said that he
kali andel es die tavern business far several peen with
mem bet be bad nofortsnately bees induced to venture
Inks igalliMag epremilotions at °rosewood sod alsewhete. In
esnelmmenes of the default of a peruser be lest largely ;a
kinks keenwas entailed upon him by the failure of the
budder who had contracted to complete tlte bosses. The
bankrupt was obliged to complete them ; he beam. involved
In °lmagery and common law proceedlar ; and the freak
was his failure.
Mr. fitopher said the assignees did not oppose.
Tire Commissioner—Do they thick the bankrupt is en-
titled to • mom; close outdate ?
Mr. Stopber—Yee.
A second clam certificate was ranted.

IN _ 11 RIIIISII.I._

The cam of William Regis Rumen, the celebrated blacking
isinufeeturer, of No 30. Strand, hes titan for sem, time
haws the court ander a petition for arraugement.
Mr. Linklater now appeared in sappers of a petition for
adjudication in bankruptcy, which had been promoted by a
creditor who Monate Mom the private arrargenient. The
regulate preliminaries Ming complied with, toe aledica-
lion was made. . _ . _

The bankrupt in described a. William Hugh Reesell,l
blacking nianufacterrr, of No. 30, Brand, 'radios under
the firms of n Willtem Buseall and Co." and Warren,
Ruse% and Co." The liabilitim are stated at between
22,000 i. and 23,0001. ; assets from 13,0001. to 15,000/. It
a that there at* about 4,000 debtors to the estate.
Priaattioneur, in making tie aajudieation, °Mama that
the first steps in ell bankruptcy were an parts, and did Ott
require the premise of the bankrupt. Nor did the presen-
tation of a pantos for arrangement at all interfere with or
impede any hostile creditor in his right to Ile a petition in
bankruptsy. At the ewe time each •mediter pica:waded at
hie pea