The Express.
London, England, 1861-07-26 00:00:00

ETON AND wasfmnrarza ZIOHT•OARED RACE.

This race, second only
test for the blue ribbon of t.M
sitiaa of Oxford and Cambrid
next, August 2, the crews, eon
being u under:
eNN.

in importance to the con-
Thames between the Unirer•
die, will be rowed on Friday
riveted up to the last moment,

_.....
st lb .. _............--
st lb
1. J. E. Parker
6. L Mort
A. Z. B. Nears
4. T. C. Orme 9 1 4. A. P. Dawson
6. lt. A. Kloglake lO 7 AIL N. Thomas
6. Lord Boringdon .... 10 1 6. A. R. Tomlinson lO 0
7. C. B. Lawes
H. Garnett stroke) .... 911 J. H. Forster !stroke,
Hon. C. Needham ,coil . 7 1 H. Walker (coxswain,
The race will be rowed on the up tide, from Putney to
Chiswick, shortly after 10 a.m. and several steamboats will
aeoompany it, the Messrs. Searle and Messrs. Uoyd and
Campbell, old servants of Westminster School, having
boats for the occasion. The exchange of Mr. Garnett as
stroke for Mr. Humphrey has made the friends of Eton less
sanguine ; and as the Westminster boys beat a strong crew
of old Westminster' on Monday, and both eights are rowing
well, a fine rem my be expected.

TEI GREAT FIRII AT LONDON BILIDON. —After
i Nearly five weeks' bard labour on the part of the firemen
this
.fire may be said to be nearly extinguished, the only
portions of dame remaining being in the vaults nearest
Hay's wharf. During Wednesday night aa many as thirty
prom; owe and boy; entered the great sewers in search
of tallow, and whilst therein the tide rose so high as to
reach their necks, and according to the statement of Mr.
Tow, the head ewneer, two of the parties were carried
away and were drowned. Mr. George, the manager to
Yea Tuplis and Harding, upon seeing the exhausted con-
dition of the men, procured a bung, and having tied it to the
sod at a long string be threw it down the opening of the
sewer, and by that means several of the men were enabled
to grope their way towards the man-hole, but the other two
more carried away by the fume of the water and mint have
perished.

ANOTHISR Flll NZAIL TOOLIY-f4TßElCT.—Yeaterday
morning about Ave o'clock • Are broke out is the premise,
belonging to Mr. T. Nag, brat and mop manufacturer,
Na 1, Minto-etreet, Bershaedasy, sad was extinguished, but
not until the upper Boors were wed mat and part of the
roof destroyed. The pretniaes of kb. J. Wallace, currier,
No. 140, Long-lane, are also damaged by Are, and the con-
tents injured by water. The origin of the Are I. unknown.
The sufferers were insured.

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THE WIETIIINETIA STREET RAILWAY.—At the
bet meeting of the Westminster Beard of Works an appli-
ration was mode for • to lay down a line of rails
in 00•U•11•1100 of lime along Victoria-street, along
Bridgeatnet, sad over West inter-bodge, so as to unite
with mother line of rails along Lambeth, end to the Ele-
phaut and Cutts), but the board, after discussioe, decided
that a letter be sent to the applicants stating that the
opinion of the board was unfavourable to the extension of
the line.
RAILWAY Com tatrrnA4. —Yesterday, in the Earl
of Chichester's committee, the bill for the Ramsgate exten-
sion of the Margate Railway was passed. The other bills
passed were the Colne Valley and Halstead and Midland
Conaties and Shannon Junction Railway. The bearing of
the Newcastle, Demerit, and Wisardale ease is likely to
terminate sad a decision be come to to-day. In the Com-
mons, the bills el the West London Extension Railway, and
of the Westadastar Life hemmers for a dissolution, were
CraThe committees on the Income and Property Tax,
.lic Accounts, Poor Relief, and Cadashal Survey met to
ash* their mom.
A VOLC NEM KILLED AT • PAR ADE. —A me-
lancholy, acid, as it hes tuna proved, fatal accident occurred
to a member of the Deader Volunteer Artillery Corm
&Meg spends is the Barrack Park or. Tuesday ever ing. The
aseideatYppeaedupon the finng of the first or second volley
of bleak cartridge, and, it is believed, was occasioned by the
aesidental discharge of the carbine in the hand, of the rear-
m& maa. Preparations had been made for firing the volley,
mid fs is supposed that the man had neglected to raise the
meads of his piece, and prematurely touched the trigger,
which most have been at full cock at the time. The blank
sartridge lodged in the left side of the deceased's head, and,
einyig away • part of the skull, left the brain protruding.
The pace mom, whose name was David Young, passed a very
1111Mhea_ *lit is the infirmary, aid died at hall-put twelve
twe
the
°leaches. follawiss thersoon. The deceased leaves a widow and

Tas NEw RititiSINTATION OF TEI CITY.—The
elovalkm of bard Jain Rena to the Upper Mouse will crests
• romp la Ow of the city of Londoa, which it
will he very aMeeh to Y sollatactorily, for Lord John's high
it trend great samba we not easily to be paralleled.
io be hoped t the Iliedeel Choice will fall upon some
worthy whet* serefoss to the commercial Interests
of the ty entitle bb. Is the %mow. In another point of
aim namely, ea one whet by his enterprise and enemy In
Itoolisees, rosy be taken to • "representative man" in the city,
=►re moinioned Mr. J. W Benson, the well known 'relab-
el Innptehill and Cornhill, In whose vast establish-
Mots • bleach of the watch, clock, and jewellery business
lwrpartleelere, send two post, e stamps
fA•eme ire
beiweeiL) pempilsk WY& lie will forward gratis.—
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