The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-07 00:00:00

THE RACE.

By half-past four o'clock the course had been pretty
well cleared of craft, though there was not such an entir(
absence of small boats from the centre of the river as iz
the case of the Oxford-Harvard race. The two steamer(

were stationed between the Bell and the steamboat pier,

opposite which were moored a couple of skiffs, from tig

sterns of which the racing boats were to be started.

There were not quite so -many passengers as usual fol
the umpire's steamer, on board of which were the Prince oi

Wales and the Prince of Teck, arrived shortly before thl

start.

The first of the crews to put off from the shore wa.
Oxford, who had won the toss, and selected the centr(

station, placing Cambridge on the north shore, the tide
then running quickest in mid-stream, though there v.-ae
not a great deal of it., Ten minutes after Oxford cams

Cambridge, who were loudly cheered on putting off fron
the shore abaft a quarter past Ave. There was little dela3
in the starting, however. Once the boats were in positiot

the signal was soon given by Mr. Searle. The boats go,

away well together, Oxford with slightly the faster stroki,
bat almost immediatelygiving way to the Light Blue, wiz:
10114ilY drew On them..and the crePic were igdiaz bi

Time.

Oxford
Cambridge
Cambridge
Cambridge
Cambridge
Oxford
Cambridge
Cambridge
Cambridge
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Cambridge
Oxford
Cambridge
Oxford
Cambridge
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford •
Oxford
Oxford
Cambridge

14m 30s
3m Os
31m Os
29in 30s
32m 30s
30m 45s
23m 30s
21m 5s
22m Os

21m 30s
25m 29s
25m 50s
22m 35s
21m 23s
24m 40s
26m 53
23m 30s
24m 41s
23m Gs
21m 403
21m 24s
25m 35s
22m 40s
20m Us
20m 5s
21m 303

THE BILLIARD MATCH.

Won by.

easily
1 min
lm 45-s
length
lm 4s
13 sec
30 sec
2 length
easily
foul
27 sec
11 strokes
a length
35 sec
22 sec
Cam. sank
1 length
48 sec
30 sec
43 sec
26 sec
4 lengths
15 sec
a length
6 lengths
3 lengths
2 lengths

The annual four-handed billiard match contested
by the rival Universities was decided at the St.
James's Hall, Piccadilly, last night. The represen-
tatives of Oxford were Mr. J. Lascelles (Pembroke)
and Mr. F. Haygarth (New) ; and of Cambridge,
Mr. 11. A. Richardson and Mr. F. Edwards, both of
Trinity. The contest was 500 points up, and shortly
After eight o'clock the game was commenced, and
the Cantabs gradually assumed a lead. At 10.15
the game was Cambridge 405, Oxford 347 (betting
3 to 1 on the Cambridge), but the lead was gradually
decreased until 401 was called, when Lascelles, miss-
ing a difficult cannon, let in Richardson, who made
32; 438 to 401 Richardson kept steadily adding to
his score, and went up to 497 in a break of 18, which
broke down owing to his missing a cannon from a
kiss. In his next turn he holed the red, and Cam-
bridge was hailed the winner at 10.45 by 63 points.
The game was marked throughout by Oxford Jona-
than, with his usual accuracy. This evening the
single match will take place.

ACCOUNT OF A GIPSY TENT.—A long, low tent,
about twenty. feet in length, and not more than seven feet
in height, and of the same height and breadth from one end
to the other. The frame was made of strong hoops placed
pretty closely together, with strengthening girders be
tween; it was well covered with good Scotch blankets,
which had once been, the gipsy told me, " as white as the
driven snow," but which were now brown and weather-
stained. A kind of division was made across the middle
of the tent. In the front was a space answering to the
kitchen and family sitting-room, the centre of which was
occupied by a large convenient brazier, filled with glow-
ing charcoal ; this had a circular shake-clown of straw,
perfectly fresh and clean, surrounding it. The further
portion of the tent contained a bed' resting on the ground,
but piled high with mattresses, and covered with rugs and
blankets of the most brilliant colours, scarlet, amber, and
blue ; two or three boxes also covered with gorgeous rugs ;
a set of china richly painted, and a silver tea service ; a
parrot in a ludicrous brass cage; a picture or two ; and a
Taal Christmas tree with its ordinary accompaniments of
oranges and sweetmeats suspended to its decorated
branches. A pretty lamp, which hung from the middle of
the low roof, shed a brilliant light upon all ; while the
charcoal fire made the tent even warmer than was desirable
on a mild winter's night. The occupants were two only, a
widow and her unmarried daughter, who was a handsome
and graceful young woman of seven-and-twenty, expressing
a lofty contempt for the men of her tribe, and informing
us that she put up and took down their large tent alone,
without their aid. These two possessed, besides their tent,
a caravan, and the mother held a license as travelling
hawker. The daughter was sitting cross-legged on the
straw with a very. large earther.ware bowl before her,
where she was mixing the ingredients for the Christmas
pudding, which seemed likely to be of incredible propol.•
tions for a family of two, as she was stoning three pounds
of raisins for it. Both were busy, and evidently not in a
mood for fortune-telling, o: possibly they did not consider
us worthy of any exercise of their pow.3rs. Very cour-
teous they were, with a finer sort of dignity in their man-
ner than many an English lady would shew under a similar
affliction—the visit of perfect strangers at a domestio
crisis.—Diekena'S All the Year Round.
With reference to the rumour which continues to-
be circulated, of an -alleged intention on the part of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer to remit or modify the rail-
way passenger duty, the Financier notes that such a step
would most especially benefit the Great , Western Com-
pany, as, according to a close calculation, the abolition of
that tax would be equivalent to a dividend at the rate of
I per cent, on that company's stock.
The members who supported Mr. Peter Taylor's
motion in the House of Commons last night, for the pay-
ment of Members of Parliament, are the following :—J-
Bright, H. Campbell, J. Clay Cowen, G. Dixon, IL
Fawcett, E. T. Gourley, Sir Gray, A. Illingworth, A.
Johnston, Hon: A. Fitzgerald, Sir W. Lawson, R. A.
Ma,cfie, D. M`Laren, P. M`Malion, W. Morrison, S.
Plimsoll, T. B. Potter, NV. S. Roden, E. Smith, Sir
David Wedderburn, G. H. Whalley, J. White, T.
Whitworth, Tellers for the ayes, Mr. P. Taylor and Sir