The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-18 00:00:00

AXIMICL.

1. JULY 17.

The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Crimbria, from New York on the 7th inst., has
arrived here with 140 passengers for this port,
Havre, and Bremen, 39 sacks of mails, 737,466 dols.
for London, and 127,657 dole. for France. On the
11 th the Cimbria spoke the English ship Ella
Badgcr,:the 16th the Bremen barque Pallas and the
English barque Potbound, and on the 17th the
English steamer Novara, from Hamburg for Liver-
pool.

FORZION-01,71C1, JULY 13.—The Queen bee been
grasiourly plowed to appoint the Honourable Tranvia John
Pakenham, now seaetary to her Majesty's kgationi at
Stockholm, to be secretary to her Majeety's legation at
Starch.—Gessits.

RAILWAY AND OTHER 8111,8 BEFORE PARLIAMENT.
—Yesterdayt in the Howe of Commons, in Mr. Dodaon's
committee, sating in the Members' Tea-room, the Devon
and Cornwall Railway, the Belgravia and South Kostrang-
tog Nar-road, and the Hake of Iticimicod's Estate BIM,
all went through committee and were ordered to be
reported. In group No. 9, Sir Edward Colebrook', chair-
man, the Cambrian Railways (Revived Line to l=
was again under consideration, the preamble was
to be proved, the claims agreed fo, and ordered to be
reported.
During the past gummier of • century Horniman's
Tea. MN* god horamoo oak. and GYP wader olooolmo •
oonoovocuot of file Ratoool P!1. we.flooloolo.
V:41(64.13==""P"6". P'd 0"

So far the Royal Agricultural Society have had
no reason to event of their visit to the Midlands,
as on Thnrsdalf the admissions amounted to 3,032,
or 1031. 18s., IPhich is considerably in advance of
any crowed* yet. Friday's temperature, after
the heavy shower of the previous night, left
nothing to be desired, and the reduction to half-a-
crown swelled the attendance to upwards of
14,000. Busbies, as a general thing seemed
rather alma, but 1601. was refused for Jack
Horner, the first prize pony, sire Little Tramp.
In this claps was a very popular representative of
the Principality, and Maid of the Heath, the
first-price hunter mare in foal, was very much
admired by those who go for quality, and could
pardon rather queer forelegs, Go a-bead was a
great favourite with the Yorkshiremen " for the
deeds which she had done" in the hunting field
before her maternity cares began ; and the feats of
Mountain Dew invested his sound good-looking
dam, Whiiify, with peculiar interest. The merits
of Orangeman in the old hunter class were still
the subject f hot dispute, and we never knew any
hone respeng whom opinions differed so widely.
The judged hardly seem to have given him a
thought, en the grounds that he looked slow,
and had dose too much hard work. It seems that
be has regularly taken his turn with Mr. Tailby
three times a fortnight for three seasons, and we
still incline to the London horeedealer's opinion
that be is in good, if not better, than lady Der-
went. This mare looked beautiful both in the ring
and in her box, but how any judges ever raised
Mountain Dew above charger-level sorely passles
a good inlay. lir. Wood, of Market Overton, has
a lengthy, short-legged horse in the hunter class,
whose only,drawback is the setting on of his neck;
the Earl of Rosalyn also showed a useful " gen-
tleman in black ;" but Mr. Gale's horse was much
too lumbering in his style for the

Shy-fed soda watering youth
That now o'er a country nil.

Lancer web the reserve number in the very
weak thorough-bred sire class, for which the
winner, Angelus, was sent up much too fat. There
was less disease than usual among the horses,
but the one which had everything safe on her
merits in the hackney mare class was disqualified
for spevin. In the class for cobs not more than
fourteen, one, the Earl of Roselyn's, The Dean,
was put out as being above the specified height. ;
and Mr. Groncoek's Champagne Charlie and Mr.
Warth's Zingers, two rare goers, were first and
second. The latter was bought for 251. not long
since, and hu well justified the diacernment of his
owner, Mr. Groneook. Matchless, the first pure
pony mare, was a beauty—in fact a pmfect little
horse in miniature, and she was well backed up
by Captain Barlow's clever black mare Piccadilly,
and Yr. Grouooek's natty little bay Pretty Susan.
Trade in short-horns was as dull as in horses, as
those who wanted to sell generally asked too long
prices. The firet pure yearling bull was put np at 300
guineas, but is still unsold ; and a bull calf, which
did not win, at 240 guineas. In the course of the
afternoon, however, Mr. Fawkee's yearling bull,
Frs Diavalo, was roll by Mr. John Thornton, the
cattle agent, to Mr. Blythe, of Woollumpten
House, Barks, for 120 guineas. Commander-in-
Chief had a large levee all day long, and taking
them throughout he headed a really good class of
old bulls. He was second at the Plymouth
Royal Show in 1865, and has not been
out since, and is, in fact, reserved entirely for
home use at Warlaby. Mr. Booth's first
prize cow, Lady Fragrant, which carried every ,
thing before her m 1865 has badlito calves by litm,,l
and is in calf to him again. The two-year-old
heifers, like the yearly heifers, are very middling,
and great discussion arose about the placing of
Mr. 'Foljambe's two bull calves, Knight of the
Bath and Knight of the Crescent, but cavillers
were considerably silenced when Mr. Calshaw, the
celebrated Towneley " trainer," pronounced judg-
ment in favour of the judges. Mr. Foljambe had
a fine white and cherry blossom in the cow class,
but the judges doubted her fertility, and expressed
their conviction that they would meet ere long at
the Smithfield Club. There had been the most ex-
traordinary difference of opinion at Warle.by as to the
respective merits of Mr. Booth's yearling heifers,
Patricia and Lady Gaiety, one of which was second
and the other " the reservenumber." Lord Penhryn
was first, as in 1860atCanterbury, for heifer calves,
and Mr.Skelton second; and as regards the question
blood, it is somewhat remarkable that Knightly
on Booth won the first prize in the heifer or calf
class,. and Knightly on Bates in that for two-year
old bulls.

The show of Herefords was much reduced by
the deaths of so many staunch showers and
breeders, Monkhouse, Perry and Rees, etc. Since
Plymouth Mr. Baldwin, who wall once so in-
vincible, was conspicuous for his absence from the
ranks where he has won so often. Two-thirds of
the animals which did win were desoondants of
that good old bull Sir Benjamin. The first prize
old bull Battenthall, bred by the breeder
of Battersea., won inthe bull calf clam at
Worcester in 1863, and has not been in
public since. Mr. Edge's Brandon, the first
pure yearling bull was sold to go to Ireland.
Among the Devon's, many of which were sad
" Aztecs," or rather " chimney-piece ornaments,"
Mr. George Francis's first prize old bull, Albert
Victor, excited no little notice-from his nice sym-
metry and evenly-covered flesh points, and lacioplg
Tooled at him as much as ``Plimley's heifer"
amongst the Herefords.
Colonel Inge's first prize, Leicester sheeting,
has been lot to Mr. Owen, of Blesinten, in ler
land ; but, to tell the truth, the Leitrisier min I
and &beetling rams do not make a very riatt:t
show this year, and-fOr true types of the
the county, the visitor must go among the-Uei;-.
.Lgue:mers. It seems strange that such sheniell
the case so near the home of Bakewell, batert
then that Bakewsil himmalLahendil bst
lying in the chancel of a deserted church, la the
garden of his old residence at Dithley, with some
inches of pigeons' dung above his grave.
Lord Wenlock's hoar of the small white brood
must be added to the list of disqualifications, so
that the two commoners have a peer to keep them
in countenance. Mr. Atherton states that he
bought his disqualified sow from Mr. Sexton,
and that he simply signed the pedigree
which Mr. Sexton drew out --for him. Some pig
mi
en pass over these flats of the " pig dentists "
with magnificent disdain, and we observed that
oie of the cards was torn down. Stlll this is not
always the case, and we are probably on the
threshold of another of those ntustastasiory
series of polemics which pigs: teeth &Iwo,s wiU•
engender. Mr. Eden's luck II very remarkable.
His small white boar Lord Nelson, bred by Mr.
Crisp, which was second last year at Bury, is first
now, and he wins one of his first poses with
Queen of Trumps. This remarkable sasiddle-breed
sow has already hadthreelittens—of fifteen, of four-
teen, and of nineteen—of which she brought upp
thirteen. One of her owner's best entries reached
Leicester station in safety, and was then choked
by the atmosphere before she could be got out
of the crate. His pig-blood is Mr. Hind-
son's, and the greater part of his winners
are by Ring Lear. This boar has won both in the
small and middle class at a royal meeting, and
would have tried its fortune this year as
one of the large breeds if it had not slipped its
hip lest Saturday while it was being washed.
Upon the cheeses, for which there are
forty-four entries, as well as the imple-
ments; we shall say a word in our nest. The
only drawback in the general arsangtenents
hal been the impossilnlity of gettinc 01 prise list
• •

printed, in consequence of a strike at 4 a.m. The
Horticultural Show has been a great attraction
during the week, and the members of the Chamber
of Agriculture had a cold collation this evening at
the Bell Hotel, after which they discussed the
tenure of land. This should be an especially in-
teresting subject to the Leicestershire landlords,
as rents are now fall two-thirds higher than they
were before the repeal of the oorn laws.

THE CAMP AT WIMBLEDON.

WIIIIBTXDON , FRIDAY Nrear.

There are considerable evidences of moving in
the camp to-day. Partementeans, rugs, coats,

redo cases, and

are being carried by

commissionnaires to the cabs and Sys in waiting.
Bedding is turned out of many a tent, and lies
disregarded at its door ; and the quartermaster
is besieged by successive applicants for the return
of a portion of the money paid for a fortnight's
stay. Many of the men knocked out of the
Queen's Prize are off to their respective
homes, and the camp begins to thin.
Hand shakings, farewells, and promises to
meet here next year, are to be noted on all
sides, and the camp commandant has had
to issue an order to-day requesting that one of
the regulations may be more strictly observed.
This relates to the notice to be given by the men
intending to leave camp, and is absolutely neces-
sary for the transaction of the day's business.
Rix o'clock in the morning and twelve o'clock
at midnight are among the hours which have
been selected by departing volunteers to enforoe
their financial claims upon the quarter-
master, and it has become important that
regular office hours should be observed. The
next fashionable day will be next Tuesday, when
the Public Schoolm match is shot. The gathering
of yesterday will be repeated then, and the friends
of the young competitors will assemble much as
they do at Lord's on an Eton and Harrow day.
The following schools are entered for the match,
and a keen struggle is expected :—Eton, Harrow,
Cheltenham, Marlborough, Roesall, Winchester,
and Rugby.
The people who address letters or send parcels
to their friends in camp are calming maddening
confusion. The celebrated funetionary in the
General Post-office whose practised skill is m-
g:Let:tin deciphering ill-written or badly-worded
se would be of little use here. The fault
is one of head not hand. "The Camp, Wimble-
don," is no more explicit than " The Parish, Lon-
don," would be; yet hundreds of communications
arrive daily with no other clue to those for whom
they are designed. The result is a game of cross-
questions and crooked answers from early morning
until late at night. Boys with telegrams running
their feet off in search of a Private Williams or a
Captain Jones ; tradesmen with parcels of carpet
or baskets of choice food; people from the country
anxious to see their local acquaintance under
canvass ; markers, soldiers, volunteers, and com-

each with OPecific errand, are to be
seen wandering to and fro, and searching in vain.
A moment's reflection will show that to look for
one out of several thousand men without any
other clue than the common address of all is like
searching for the proverbial needle in the bundle
of hay. The camp is a congregation of small
towns. Each town has its own population, its
own regulators, and its own public servants.
There is no general directory for the camp, and
to send to or ask for a volunteer whose where-
abouts you don't know, and whose corps on
don't specify, is simple folly. Yet it is done all
day. Men, too, without..mo.o kiernames of the
people they want in their memory, ask vaituirl
to be shown " any of the fellows from East
Cornwall," or " North York "—a request it is
impossible to gratify. At present, the full
burden of the prevailing stupidity falls
upon the post-office, the telegraph officials,
and the quartermasters ; and the latter
are to be pitied most. Their duty being to take
the money for tent accommodation, to issue the
necessary orders for stores, to return the balance
due to the men leaving now, and to keep ac-
count-papers and lists, they are worried out of their
lives by a successive stream of idle questioners,
whose meaning it is often impossible to guess,
and who look for exclusive attention as a right.
Captain Mildmay and the council of the associa-
tion are profoundly ignorant of the annoyance to
which existing arrangements expose some of their
smartest men. They are out of reach of the par-
ticular nuisance we refer to. If one of them could
spend an hour incog. in the quartermaeter's tent,
occupied by a Fusilier sergeant at the end of the
shop-booths, he would at once recognise the ne-
cessity of a properly organised " Inquiry Tent,"
at which personal information respecting the
people in camp should be asked for and supplied
according to fined rules. At presents useful mili-
tary duty is impeded by the constant sillynessee
of men, women, and children; who scarcely know
what or whom they want, but who are obstinately
bent upon puttingquestions and expecting replies.
The eau* put out by the association against
throwing down fusses or matches has had
little effect in saving the grass. An enormous
patch by the firing places at the Wimbledon end of
tie enclosure caught fire yesterday afternoon, and
now is to be seen charred and smoking in the sun.
'The magical rapidity with which this tindery
grass catches and spreads fire suggests serious
apprehensions as to the effect of the road-
*aye of the camp igniting. Is there any.
fel cost
neolnelir Ai!toe these beiejg
not
ttre d morning
~ •i inters matter of fire insurance the money
aid bawell "int. As it is, the more prudent'
luateersmay be seen poi.tting a plenteous skean
/tom jug or can about their teuo,und po guarding
olexeselver and their properir trcia the wpret -evils
fire. A tamp order that' taniti-M4p!abill: near,
, . e pre for a couple Of:iiidelbo: ,illset)lialr, trent;
mad sides of his tent would be itiourfuny obeyed,
arid garden hose and guns pssolto tubing arc
among the incongruous articles on ask. -Perhaps
sewing machines should be placed at. the head of
these. What a volunteer is to do with a sewing
ronchine, except sell it or give it away; low he is to
employ hie tame on it in camp ; and what the
inducement was which mused a dealer in
the &eider to station himself among the other
bemire, are all among the mysteries of trade.
Here they are, however, at werlF mending
and hemming with purposeless energy, to the'
amusement of the passers-by.

The Wimbledon oab-proprietors have come to
their sensei, and it is as easy and as cheap to get
from the Wimbledon station to the temp now as it
has been all along from Putney. The fares
Del/Wat first from Wimbledon were simply
ive; but a new list of prices has been
printed, in which the original tariff is reduoed one
hundred per amt. Every cab carries one of these
in a eonspsestoas place ; and tb visitors wishing to
see the shooting from the Wimbledon side of the
inclosnre the main line from Waterloo to its station
Will be most convenient.

- - -
A word of praise must be given to the voltunteer
band width ploys doily in the large umbrella
teat by order of the ameciation. Its music is
wallsietad and admirably played ; and the
concert bongs are thoToolhij appremaied by every
one in camp. The Civil liaosoe Corps, by the wa
meditates [giving a cowed next week. The
Cheshire baronet, whose eccentric strains of
amateur music have been familiar to one section
of the eamp, has left to-day.
The intend* heat hat been tempered to-day by
some grateful broom. which, holtover be=
riflemen, are exceilively welcome to the
" !1.1",/114
• i