The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-27 00:00:00

BETTING IN LONDON-7'l=AT.

The dubs were again scantily attended, and speculation proved
on the most limited scale. The principal feature of the day was
the extraordinary demand for (hirers, who at anything over 8 to
found ready takers. The remaining transactions were few and
unimportant. Man* price"):
009Divoop STAKE&

Bto 1 .s•t (lomp;aToa, 100 1100 to 9 apt Romping (t)
to 12 t aod w) 100 to 8 Taloautt (t)
10 to 1 Ecarte (t and off) 100 to 4 rowderham (t)

CRICKET.

IgURRgT v. OXYORD

The teeeeEeirWeiThie iaitthit7‘p;Lifelo7lTiesitterly value-
law in eatimattng the chances of an eleven's success in future
engagements" has received another grating illustration this
week at the Oval. For the third year in sucomsion, the van-
quished team in the great Univereity Match at Lord's, fins beaten
the Surrey County kleveri, which has as often defeated the vie-
tors. Yesterday at the Oval play was resumed at 12.20, Surrey
having a terribly up-hill game before them, and being, moreover,
deprived of the seantance of one of their beat "rill round" men.
M.C.C. AND GROUND v. GLOUCESTER/3=E.
This match was brought to a couelmion at Lord's yesterday in
favour of the County by 134 runs.

THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' BzwEvoimrr
Lernrunow.—The annual dinner in aid of the funds of
thin institution, which was established in 1849, was held
last evening at the Castle Hotel, Richmond. In the
absence of the Right Hon. G. J. Ovechen, M.P., who was
expected to be present, the chair was occupied by Mr. J.
R. Hooper, of Q eenhithe, the treasurer of the institution.
The report laid before the subscribers showed that the
total income from all sources during the year amounted to
2,2931. 3s. 241. The institution has expended 9,0001. in
relieving 67 pensioners, and the annual cost of the 42
'persons now upon the funds is 1,4301. The amount of
New Three per Cent. stock standing in the names of the
trustees is 7,7181. 16s. Id., and to this the board have
ordered a further investment. raising the amount to
8,0181. 16s. Id. The annuities granted to indigent mem-
bers vary from 401. to 601., and to the widows of members
from 261. to 301. The chairman proposed the customary
loyal Meath, the announcement of the arrival in England
of his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh being re-
ceived with great enthusiasm. In recapitulating the his-
tory of the institution, the chairman took occasion to an-
nounce that its progress had been moat satisfactory, and
he concluded by making an earnest appeal to the sym-
pathies of those present in the interests of the society, the
object of which is to relieve necessitous commercial tra-
vellers, being members who are aged, or permanently in-
capacitated from earning a subeistenos, and also to pro-
vide for the relict of their widows. The subscriptions
announced by the secretary amounted to 538 guineas.
THE FIRES ON THE YORKSIIIRE Moons.—The
fires which have been reported on the Yorkshire moors
were still smouldering yesterday, though their further
destructive progress is believed to be arrested. Nearly
4,000 acres of moorland has been left black and desolate,
with probably scarcely a living bird, or animal or vege-
table, excepting the largest trees, over the wide expanse.
The young grouse and rabbits which abound on these moors
have been totally destroyed, and sheep grazing thereon
have in some instances perished The cause of the tires
is not, it is believed, as was alleged, the sparks emitted
from a railway engine on the Rosedale branch line near
the Cleveland-hills, a little south-east of the Tees, though
one of the fires was first observed on Monday, the 15th
instant, in that locality. As fires are not unusual on the
moors in the summer time, no notice was taken of it for
some days, until it had got such a hold as has no
previous parallel, and it was found almost impos-
sible to compaas it with • view of putting it out.
Here about 3,000 acres were devastated. At about the
tame time a moor belonging to the Marquis of Aylesbury,
to the east of Northallerton, which is eight miles distant
from the former moors, was observed to be on fire at a
point about a mils distant from any fire or railway. This
has given rise to the impression that owing to the dryness
of the weather, through the drought, with their simul-
taneous appearance, the fire must have arisen from
spontaneous combustion. Lord Feversham, Lord'Hoyne,
and Lord Do Lisle and Dudley, are the chief sufferers.
Though the destruction of grouse has been great, the great
bulk of Yorkshire moorland lying to the north-west
remains intact and promises well.
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