The Express.
London, England, 1861-06-19 00:00:00

SOLDIERS DAUGHTERS' HOME.

The annual meeting and festival of this excellent
institution took place on the premises of the Home, High-
street, Hampstead, yesterday afternooo. The building and
beautiful grounds adjoining were thrown open to the public,
and a large number of highly respectable visitors,
availing themselves of the fine weather, took ad-
vantage of the opportunity thus afforded of inspect-
ing the establishment. Among the company present were :
the Duchess of Somerset, Major the Hon. H. L. Powys
Keck, founder of the institution ; the Chaplain-General of
the Forces, General Sir Hope Grant, K.C.Et., Colonel Lyrae,
ea, the Lord Bishop of Sodor end Man, the Hen. C.
Gress and W. Hare, chaplain. of the forces; Colonel the
Hoo. C. Powys, Major-General Boileau, Limit-Colonel
Hogg, Lieut..Colouel H. W. W. Wynn, M.P., Major-Ge-
oeral Buckley, M.P., Colonel Pitcairn, Major-General Lord
West and Lady West, Quartermaster-General Reeves,
Colonel Fowler Burton, C. 8., Colonel Chapman,
C. 8., and other persons of distinction. The grounds
and various parts of the buildings were tastefully
decorated with banners and with appropriate designs
worked in laurel leaves. At intervals during the after-
noon the inmates of the Home sang several beautiful
melodiss.

The talented band of the Royal Artillery, from Wool-
wich, performed a selection of popular music in their usual
able manner.

The meeting, which was held in the school-room, was
commenced by prayer.
The Rev. G. B. GUNN, Chaplain-General of the Forces,
was unanimously voted to the chair.
The Secretary (Mr. Marsh) then read the report, which
stated that, notwithstanding the length and severity of the
late winter, no death had occurred in the home during the
year. The number of the inmates was the same as last
year. The progress of education at the school had met
with the approbation of the Rev. F. C. Cook, one of her
Majesty's inspectors of schools. The finances were so far
saterfactory that the charity was out of debt, but it would
not be able to increase the number of its inmates without a
large addition to the number of their subscribers.
Sir Hon Warr moved the adoption of the mport,whith
was seconded by the Bishop of Soma and MAN, and carried
unanimously.
The meeting was subsequently addressed by Major.
General Boileau, Colonel Wynn, WY., the Hon. H. L.
Powys Keck, Colonel Hogg, the Rev.C.Green, and Colonel
hit. Pitcairn. _ _

-7i;e prZiedinp terminated with a vote of thanks to the
chairman.

BOY AL THAMES YACHT CLUB.
--

The second regatta of this distinguished club
took plus yesterday, and presented two very exciting
and spirited contests. The weather was exceedingly fine,
and the attendance of spectators, u usual, large.
The following were the contending craft :
Yachts. Tons. Owners.

Quiver l2 Captain D. T. Ch am berlay ne.
Dun Juan
Folly
lIITRA YAW&
Creole 2B Mr. J. W. Ledger.
43 Yews. J. and T. "

Cycloss
Era

The interest of the ram was sustained to the hat by the
time allowances to which the sinallar boats were entitled ;
and the nos Walked Um:

B. N. S.

Folly
Doe Julia 5 12 33
Cyclone 5 21 0
rva.
iver 5 23 25
5 27 0
The Folly consequently took the prize of the smaller boats.
and the Eva received that for the extra match, a second
prize being generously given to the boo Juan. The Prince
of Wales steamer (Captain William.) conveyed the club,
Mr. It. Green, the vice-commailore, being the °Mow in
command. The (tread accompanied the match, with a very
respectable freight ; and Lord A. Paget's new Wetcr Lily,
with the noble commodore's family on board, cud a vast
number of other gentlemen's yachts, were also afloat.

CRICKET.

OXFORD v. CAMBRIDGE.

This match was resumed yesterday at Lord'.,
which ground was visited by fat more of the aristocracy than
were present on Monday. The game was exceedingly in.
westing uutil within half an hoer of drawing stumps, at
which period Cambridge had got a decided advantage. The
game will be resumed this morning. The score ►ands as
follows :

CAMBRIDOL

T. L Bakie, key_,= c keade, b
Walker

A. Bateman, Tay., lb or, b Walker 0 not out ' ill
U. M. Huwden, )aq., b Brandt .. 1 run out
U. U. Mardian, kaq., not out .. 70 b Daubeny a
W. Bury, Nut, b Walker 8 to Walker
U. Onalow, Foy., c and b Inge.... 17 b Walker
A. W. Daniell, Zack., c Itoade, b
Daubany ll c Gander. b Inge lB
llon. C. U. Lyttalton, b Smith .. 7 c Pews, b Inge lB
W. J. Lyon, req. c and b loge .. 15 b Daubeny .
B. Lam Eq., b nge
IL W. molter, Raol., b Wanda .... 10 b Smith
03,1b2,w 4

Total l6l
OXFORD.

Total.

T. P. ooro;;Zi,:i., rota ost .. 0 e De;1490,b laltar.... U
14 D. 44 alkar, Bey., c Plowden, b
Daniell
H. lteade, Lei., c Bury, b Daniell 49 c Lane, b Bator
E. 0. tiandturd, Mao, c Lyttelton,
b Salter
Y. lnge, Voq., lbw, bLyttelton DI Ibw, 0 :alter
J. A. Pep" key~ b Salter
B. Hume, Lao., b Lytteltun • b Lyttelton
B. Linton, Bp., a Bateman, b
Bolter
LT. Daubeny, Eoq., b Lyttelton 0
Y. Brandt, Eel., lb w, bl 4 ttelton 0
Y. Bowden Smith, Bey., nut out.. 0 b 13...1ttr
L 14, Lb V, w 7, u.b 2_.... 30 b 1, bb 3 4

Total 179 Total.

SOUTH WALIS MINERAL RAILWAY. —A Wharn-
cliffs meeting of the proprietors was held yesterday, at the
offices of the company, so. 6, Victoriaatreet, Westminster,
fur the purpose of considering a bill to enable the company
to extend their railway to Bnton Ferry Ducks, and for other
purposes. Lord H. Lennox was in the chair. The adver-
tisement by which the meeting had been convened having
been read by the secretary, Mr. H. WiLion, Mr. Norton, the
solicitor, read the heeds of the bill, which authorises the
raising of 30,000/. additional capita in the usual borrowing
form for the completion of the proposed extension. The
directors take power to cancel forfeited shares, and issue
new *hares to the amount of those cancelled ; awl to attach
to all or any of their unissued shares, and also to all or any
of the shares to be created or issued under the act, any pre-
ferential dividend which the company may think fit. rho
object of the measure is to complete the °nailed under-
taking and to carry out the new project, which will be of
great benefit to the company. The bill was sanctioned with
one dissentient, who objected for the purpose of giving him
a locus atandi before the committee of the lords.
SOOTS KINELINCITON biUBZlM.—During the week
ending June 15, the visitors bsvo been as follows :
Oa Monday, Tuesday, and Batuiday, free days, 5,533;
on Monday and Tuesday, free evenings, 3,141; on the three
studeuta' days (admission to the public 6d.), 1,902' ass
students' creaming, Wednesday, 116 total, 10,69Lr0m
the 'peeing of the 111111611/1. 21093,ie9.

T W OPENCE

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, JUNE Ig.—PROMOTIONS AND Ain
POlNTimitn. —Eogiuoun H. Cook, to the Indus. Se super-
numerary ; G. T. Shuidall, promoted to the rank of en-
gineer in the Excellent, for service in the Stork A. Mar-
shall, promoted to engineer in the Indus, for service in lin Thaie ; P. Gmetli“iii, promoted to engineer in the Dramas ;
W. H. Grose, promoted to eogine,r in the Steady ; V. A-
Davies, promoted to engineer in the Asia, for service in
the 1411110ra, ; 1. Bis+.l4 promoted to engineer in the Corn-
wallis, for service iu the Ruby • .1. H. Bretton, promoted to
eaelleacin the Hecate; F. W Mutton, promoted to engineer in
the Indus, assupernu merery; 10. Martin, promoted to engineer
in the Arguing ; H. T. lies, promoted to engineer iu the
Forte ; W. Collier, promoted to engineer in the Cumber-
land, for service in the Julia ; B. Harvey. promoted to
engineer in the Victoria and Alt rt ; cud k. Taylor, pro-
rooted to acting engineer in the Scourge.
Second class Assistant Engineer J. P. Williams, to the
Asia, fur service in the Osborne.

Achug aLvond clam Assistant En A. T. V. Forster.
and J. Brough, to the Cumberland, a supernumeraries.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—Tvaspay.
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
7 to 2 apt Underhand (t)
to 1 *nape fAI
111 to 1 •L Zoe Tabee (t)
100 to $ York Minster (t)
NEWTON HANILICAP.
2to 1 apt Cape Flyaway (t)
7to 1 Sutton (t)
7 to 1 clu're Arnie (t)
Nothing done on any other event.

FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.

is,lt pCrilaph, no infornustioneven for tho.;e least
aalwined with the dirty annum of the prize rirg to bs
told that the champion's belt, for the possession of which
Heen.in and Sayers struggled with such cruel obstinacy,
was eventually ewarded to neither. The trophy was left
open to public competition, though, as the belt huppens
to be one of those peculiar gift, of fortune which are
not to be had fur the liking and en its poss.:Beim
entails some personal responsibility, in the way of
having to fight all comers, uo matter how many or how
big, the number of candidates for the dangerous honour
was, on the ',Lahr decidedly limited. The firet claimants
were Hurst and Paddock. Hunt is the champion wrestler
of Lancashire, • man of gigantic frame and almost super-
human strength, but perhaps the most unskilful boxer
that ever entered the prize ring. In his contest with Pad-
dock he was dreadfully punished, but almost by accidect
matrived at the close of the fight to hit his adversary one
blow, and one blow from such a Goliath was quite sufficient,
for Paddock was all but killed by it. Hurst therefore earns
into full poesemion of the turbulent honours of the belt, to
which • hexer tainted Mace at once laid claim. Mace is a
very small man, though possessed of wonderful strewth and
activity, almost a harder hitter than Mayers hims&, and
reputed to he the moat scientific pugilist alive. Yet, eve
with these advantages, it seemed almost monstrous ta
suppose that he could contend for au instant with any'
chance of mooed against an adversary so overpower-
: nig in straigth, and size, and weight, as Hurst.
Nevertheleec, a match was made for the champion-
ship, and yesterday it wars fought to an issue ea
an wised in the Medway, and resulted in Mace punishing
his gigantic antagonist so fearfully that he may literally
be said to have almost killed him without receiving •
singlo blow in return. The contrast between the two MS
es they entered the ring was even more startlingly dispro-
portionate than that between Hessian and Sayers. Hurst
stood nearly six feet three inches in height, and weighed li
stone, while his gigantic swarthy chant and limbs, in which
the muscles stood nut in great folds and knots like bosses of
bronze, made his figure look even larger and more formid-
able, if possible, than it was in reality. In looking at
hie massive proportions, and the evidences of tremendous
strength us the thews and sinews crept and rolled with
every movement, one felt a kind of fascinating terror, which
changed to almost sickening apprehension for the fate if
the man who had dared such a Colossus to a combat. Among
ordinary men Mace would have seemed • terrible antago-
niat foe arty to cope with, but, dwarfed and almost over-
shadowed by the giant he had challenged, his venture
seemed little short of sheer madness. His height is barely
over fit. tha., his weight only ten stone and rebel/ ; yet, ma
be prepared himself for the contest yesterday, there wag
an easy air of nonchalance about ban, which, coupled with
his compact fair frame, and lithe and active figure, on which
the small, but hard and well-developed muscles showed
out in startling relief, made his venture appear lees desperate
than it was to those acquainted with his skill mad strength.
Hurst, to his other advantages, added that of winning the
choice of corners, and of course took that with his back be
the sun, leaving its fierce rays full in the face of his antago-
nist. When at last, after shaking hands, the men stood
alone In the centre of the ring, it seemed almost like coo-
nivizig at • murder to permit a coated between two men so
daproportioned in size, height, strength, and weight.
Yet Mace, as he stood up almost in the shadow of
his great amathust, seemed confident, though, of course,
very cautious. Lightly Mace moved in snot out, feinting
and smiling. as, with s noiseless bound, like a cat,
he sprang just out of distance of the ponderous arms
that seemed only required to move to crush him.
Gradually they drew nearer and nearer, the giant waiting
for his chance, which the other now and then appeared to
give him, though in reality, he ventured nothing. At last
Mace carefully ventured in, said smock his opponent slightly
three or four times in the lace. They were only little blows,
but enough to show him that he could reach the slow, un-
wieldy boxer, when he chose, and get out of all danger of
return with perfect certainty. Apparently satisfied with this
knowledge, Mace began the tight with a terrific blow, which
completely closed Hurst's eye, and seemed to mike his
bulky frame tremble to his very feet. Before the first round,
which busted ue:arly 12 minute e was over, Hurst wee half-
mothered in his own blood, aid his face so gashed that,
as far as appearmees west, Mace might have been assault-
ing him with • razor. Still, as it was known that Hut%
bad but to give one blow to win the day, no one seemed
inched to back Mace, who might at any moment get •
stroke that would annihilate him. Yet the tremendous blow
that seemed always impending iiever came. Hurst knew
evidently nothing ef boxing, and his antagonist theme
fore merely drew aside with the mat perfect mpg fruid from
the slow, awkward, movements of the ponderous arms, de-
livering his own strokes full on the head and face of the giant
with a force mid rapidity that was terrible. la vain, like
• blind Cyclops. Hunt threw his arms abroad, and streak
to grasp, to strike, even to tench hit lithe wiry foe—in tam,
he strove to hem in into a corner. Mace would e;mply .
fiat his treinendem blows full on the neasiod face of his
oppooent, deiced butler Lis arra, and I a gouts almost Lame
the
the eve could follow his movements. Hurst was literally
deluged with blood, which poured over his huge figure
such stsvauis that Mace himself was covered with it, and the
clothes of Burst's two seconds almost neonatal. Nothing
showed the enormous strength of the man more the
that he could sustain this fearful punishment and km
of blood with apparently little diminution of his colossal
power. He still pursued Mace with unabated determine.
Lion. but never uuce eves touched him, while, oa the other
hand, Mane's blows sounded loud all ors r the ring, till frees
&sharp crashing smash they gradually di listened down to a
splashing sound like striking raw meat, that was sickening
to hear. Nothing stopped the copious drams of blood thee
flowed from all parts of Hurt's face, and the whole of this
one.sided contest became di sting and horrible beyond all
description. After there had been ten rounds, and the fight
had lasted some three °quarters of a o hour, H ..rat's second., and
backers saw that his chance was hopeless, and urgently strove
to make him discontinue But, though now utterly blind,
his features smathed out of all recognition 'theist as a human
being, and reeling from his fearful loss of blood, the gory
disfigured giant still tottered front his corner, only to be wilt
staggering back by an antagonist that he seemed capable of
annihilating. Mace now no longer fought cautiously, but
hit when and where he pleased, and even closed with the
great wrestler and threw him heavily. It was all over.
Hercules himself would have succumbed to such fearful
blows, and the alerming hemorrhage which followed them.
and which now began to wok all the min of the
ring. Brettle, Hurst's chief tacker, at last rushed
into the arena, and insisted on his fighting no more,
but the Ineittled giant seemed Mr...pubis, of understanding
his defeat tram such a little man, and groped sod staggered
out again. Blind and fainting it only required one or
two more blows to finish the affair ; but the infliction
of those on the helpless heap of flesh was horrible and
sickening beyond all description. His seconde and backers
gave is for him without tie knowledge, and kept Hunt
in his corner till he gradually became alineet
and all the rasterative ads of the ring were exhatsted
in efforts to keep him from fainting, which, in the
seam of a surgeon, and in his then fastefailing power,
might have Reefs a most serious affair. The spectacle which
be presented too too horrible for description. Eveu the oldest
champions of the ring were aghast at the fearful punishment
indicted in fifty minutes. Mace Lad not a single mark
ion him. The dockyard police were despatched in a
reamer from Chatham to prevent the fight, and arrived
just sa it was ov uite odicial that. It is a kind of da-
-1 elf to this revolting iuees to say that par Hurst's com-
rades un both rides were most solicitous In their care of
him after his defeat, and Mace went about among then
and radioed • subscription fur him amounting to sal. Snit
facts, though undoubtedly praiseworthy, but pointy coua- •
terbalance the horrible nature of the whole contest. Yet •
pugilist's think that in • few years the ring will again glow
with all the brutal magnificence of the days of the Regoncy.
:Revive the ring! It would be easier to restore the
Heptarchy.—Ti des.