The Sun.
London, England, 1871-02-18 00:00:00

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)

The Oxford crew, as last given, rowed from Oxford to
Abingdon, and back to the railway bridge, a distance of
about ten miles, yesterday afternoon. • They were coached
by the President and Treasurer from horseback, and re-
turned by rail. Their practice was confined to from
twenty•five to thirty strokes per minute, at which rate
they rowed very fairly together, although a strong wind
faced them.

The Cambridge University boat went over the usual
course yesterday afternoon, coached during various parts
of the spin by Mr. Gawatkin, Mr. Goldie, and Mr. Kisby.
The style in which the crew did their work is spoken of
favourably.

LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE STAGE.
The Athenceum says :—Mr. Philip J. Bailey, the author
of " Festus," has written a poem of about 250 lines in
length, called " Life Recluse," which will appear in the
Gentleman's Magazine.—Messrs. Hurst and Blacket are
preparing for early publication Mr. Labouchere's "Diary
of a Besieged Resident in Paris." The volume will con-
tain many letters that have not yet appeared, some of
which were picked up at sea, and others found in balloons
which had descended in various parts of Europe, the
whole forming a very curious publication.—The following
posts at the British Museum have been filled up by the
Lord Chancellor and the Speaker :—Mr. Carruthers takes
the Keepership of the Botanical Department, recently
resigned by Mr. Bennett ; Mr. Edwlrd M. Thompson
succeeds to the Assistant-Keepership in the MSS. De-
partment, vacated by the appointment of Dr. W. Wright
to the Arabic Professorship at Cambridge ; Mr. Barclay
V. Head is appointed Assistant-Keeper in the Depart-
ment of Coins ; and Mr. Eugene A. Roy, Assistant-
Keeper in the Department of Printed Books. Mr.
Roy 's post is a new creation : his special task
will be the superintendence of the Catalogue.—
"We have news," writes our Paris correspondent, " of
the wounding, in the provinces, of M. Ernest Duvergier
de Hauranne, a young writer, whose articles on the
United States, published in the Revue des Deux Mondes,
attracted considerable attention."—Mr. Seward is said to
be devoting his leisure from politics to the preparation of
" A History of the Obligations of the World to America."
Mr. Charles Mathews is about to visit California. He
has recently been playing in Australia Sir Simon Simple
in Mr. Byron's comedy, " Not such a Fool as He Looks."
—Mrs. Scott Siddons played for her benefit at the Globe
Theatre, Boston, "King Rent's Daughter," and " The
Honeymoon." Mr. Peter Richings, an American
actor of some note, has died from injuries he received
while riding.

CRYSTAL PALACE. One Shilling Day—Friday,
February 17th, 1871. Admission by season tickets,
1,652 ; ditto on payment, 904 ; total visitors, 2,556.
The increase in the Army Estimates will not
cause a great augmentation of taxes. There is a natural
increase of the revenue which will go a long way to meet
the extra charges ' • and the addition to the Income Tax,
if anything, is not likely to exceed one penny.
THE NEW CANON OF ST. PAUL'S.-111r. Glad-
stone has given Cambridge a turn by appointing as suc-
cessor to the late Canon Melvin the Rev,
Joseph B. Lightfoot, D.D., Fellow of Trinity Col-
lege, Cambridge, and Hulsean Professor of Divinity there.
The new Canon is one of the Chaplains to her Majesty,
and Examining Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canter.
bury.—Rock. •
OUR SMALL ARM AND AMMUNITION TRADE.--
The exports of small arms, as might have been antici-
pated during a time of war, were larger last month by
£116,210 than in the corresponding month of last
year. Manufacturers do not, however, get the benefit
information which the Government themselves must pos-
sess as to the countries to which. these goods have
been sent. Why the information should be with-
held it is difficult to see, especially remembering
that if the returns are of service to any one they
are of service to the manufacturer who -would desire
above all things to be informed upon the ports of the
world to which goods as a whole are going ; thus they are
made aware of the tradethat is being done by other manu-
facturers as well as themselves. Ammunition is set down at
an increase upon last year of nearly £lOO,OOO ; nor have
we here either any return as to our customers. The total
value of the small arms sent out in January this year was
£137,610, against £21,397 a year ago. The ammunition
exported last year was worth £136,329, against £37,366.
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