The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-06 00:00:00

ROYAL THANBB YACHT CLUB.

TIER%GRELT CHANNEL /WATCH TO CHERBOURG.
The mot Channel match from the Nore to Cherbourg was
started on Friday morning, and ooneludod on Saturday, after one
of the finest item on record. The prizes were a cup value MOO,
o sad MO ad
presented by Dir.
ded George
the Duppaclub: , and a second and third prize
f rib by
The following were the entrier and coed/titer
Albertine, sehoouer, 116 tons Captain J. Ormsby Phibbs.
Canibris, schooner, 190 tons Mr. J. Ada
Gloria's", schooner, 133 tons Mr. A. 0. Wesson
Pantomime, schooner, latoiss Colonel W. T. Markham.
Condoncutter, 138 tons Captain W. Ewing.
Niche,. cutter, 40 tons
Julia, yawl, us tam G. F. Muss.
The Niote, having other engagements, did not go. There wain°
time allowance ; to sail with the usual fittings, ordinary cruising
trim, to the satisfanion of the committee. Wends to their
usual boats, anchors, and cables. A pilot, but no cites Lands
allowed. No restriction as to calms, and not more than di
friends allowed on board. In our lain we gave the order in
which they panted Dover ; we now subjoin the result received
by telegraph from Cherbourg.
Gluriana, winner
Cambria, second prize
Albertine, third prime
Julia... ..... .
Pantomime.

.. 10 hours 56 minutes a.m.
„ 57 „ 31) see.
.. 11 „ 12 „ 0 „
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. „ 21 „ 0 „
25 „ 0 „

PIGEON 8110077NG.

Although the season is drawing towards its close, there
would spear to be but slight abatement in the interest attached
to the sport, if the great assemblage at the Gun Club ground,
Wonubolt &ruble, may be taken as a fair criterion. The event
for declaim was a £lO sweepstakes, at 16 birds each, SO yards
rise; and there were 26 competitors. The details in a reasonable
space being impracticable, it must mike to say that after mine
admirable shooting, the end of the fifteenth round left three coin-
pikers for the prisee--those three gentlemen having killed 19
birds each--and the ties came off ea follow*:
Major Whittingstall (First prize IMO)
Viscount Stormont (President of the Gun
Club) (Second prise £6O)
Mon. Rowland C. 11131.(Viee7President of the

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(iun Club)) (Third pri‘se 920 i
Prior to the above-mentioned event Mr. Reginald Herbert shot
a match with CAptain W. Peareth, at 25 birds, 20 yards rise, for
ft 2.5 a side; Mr. Herbert winning by one bird, killing 90 to his
opponent's 19. Captain E. C. Revile also won a match for 110
aside, at seven birds, beating Mr. H. Rudd by two birds. After
the great event several sweeputakes were shot, the dividers of
the spoil being Mr. William Gregory, the Hon. Rowland C. Hill,
Captain E. C. Revile, Mr. 11. Rudd, and Captain Peareth. The
guns of the drat and second in the LlO sweep were made by S.
Chant, of St. James's. set. On Saturday next there will be a
sweepstakes ef 210 each, 15 Mrda, 25 yards rise, and a very large
entry hasalreody been made.
At the hew Red Huuse, Hurlingham-park, Pulliam, a f 5 hand!.
eap sweepstakes was the attraction, and out of twenty-four com-
petitor, a fourth killed six birds each, and shot off thus for the
two prises into which the money was divided:
Mr. Garnett Braithwaite, fled prize, L 100... I 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1
IA Comte de Gendre, second prise llllllllO
Mr. George Pritchard
Major the. Hon. A. Anson, M.P.
thr Charles Legard, Bart,
lord Henry Paget 0
There was the usual sweepstakes at SI each, which wee divided
between Mr. *G. Pritchard and Mr. C. C Coningliam, who shared
the ocertnbations of twenty-three.

ADMIRALTY, JULY 4.—lntelligence has been re-
ceived at the
.Admiralty that Mr. Frederick J. Whittaker,
assistant-engineer, 2nd clam, of the Rinaldo, who was
supposed to -have been Diet in the steamer Volga in March
last, reached the island of Miaki, about SO miles from
Yokohama, in a boat belonging to the Volga. [lntelli-
gence from Japan in another column states, it will be
seen, that Mr. Whittaker succumbed to the hardships of
the position and is dead.]

iirEviEw os'{3ooTcll VoLttriTEEna.—A grand re-
view and sham fight, in which over 10,000 men were en-
=took pleas in the Queen's Park, Edinburgh, on
y. The forces, which were wider the command of
Major-General Rumley commander of the forces in
North Britain, consisted of the Bth Hussars, the Fife
Mounted Rifles, the Royal Artillery from Leitb Fort, the
18th (Royal Irish) itegmient, and the Artillery, Engineers,
and Rifle Volunteers from the city and county of
Edinburgh, and the counties of Berwick, Haddington„
Peebles, Selkirk, Roxburgh°, Linlithgow, Mkt, Clackman-
nen, Stirling, and Lanark. From 80,000 to 100,000 per-
sons were estimated to have been preeent as spectators.
To add to the pietuseeque effect of tho scene, the furze on
the bill side, dry astinder with the long-continued drought,
was set fire to at amoral places, and threw up sheets of
flame and fumes of emoke into the air.

DEATH FROM STARVATION ...-10u Saturday an
inquest was held at the Duke's Head Tavern, White-
chapel, by Mr. Humphreys, touching the death, from
want, of IDornelins Denser, aged 63 years. The deoeased
was a bricklayer's labourer, bat being out of work he fell
into great dietrese, and was frequently obliged to' walk
about the streets all night for want of a bed. He had not
enough food, and sometimes be was without any. A
woman named Faizabedi amen used to give him money
for • lodging occasional, and on Tuesday last be went
to her room,at 11, Mose-onuet, Whit chapel, but she being
absent he lay down on the bed completely exhausted.
When she returned she found him almost unconscious,
and he quickly became' quite so, and she left him in her
Tom, and attended tim till next ay, when
he died. W. Wm. Godfrey, M.13.C.8., said that he was
called in to the deceased after death, and be found the
body much emaciated. The post-mortems examination
shewed!that the blood was tins and pale ; al/ the organs
were soft and relaxed from losq-ceatinued privation, but
were otherwise healthy, and there mien° trace of food
in the intestinal canal. The cause of death was want of
food—starvaticin. The jury returned a verdiet "that
deoesse(t died from Maniton from starvadan."

THE ;CROPS IN THE EAST.—Then were light
rain! AMl,Friday mid Saturday in some parts of the eastern
district, but .more rooistspre is still urgently required. On
the good.deep soils of Norfolk and in the fens the :beats
look smell, bet on the light lands the yield will be node.
rate. The reports made with respect to the barley crop
in Norfolk nee genteelly of tgloomy character.
CRYSTAL PALACE: FIVN SHILLING DAY.—
Atrtnoimer, JULY 4.—A4mimmisus by messes tickets, 17,122;
atieto on moo* 18,374; total viajtoes, 30,496.
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