The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-06 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, April 6.

The two factions of the Left and the extreme Left
party have determined to present an address to the
Emperor prior to the close of the Reichsrath.
Herr Brestel, the Minister of Finance, has de-
clined decidedly to re-enter the Cabinet.

THE FRENCH FUNDS.

According to Reuter's telegrams the French
Rentes to-day were quoted 74f. 07c.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-(THIS DAY.

Sales probably 12,000 bales. Market firm.

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE.

(THIS DAY.)
PUTNEY, Wednesday.

A dense fog banging over the river put us in mind
of a February instead of an April morning on our
early visit here, but the weather promises to brighten
up at the cheerful presence of the genial sun, who is
now coming out in all his glory to cheer the two
crews at their respective hotels, awaiting anxiously
the coming strife, and being scrutinised by those
who thus early have come to Putney to take posses-
sion of every eminence and available coign of van-
t tge ground whence can be gathered a glimpse of the
competition as they race past.

Both crews are well, and betting is 5 to 4 on Ox-
ford. From the tendency to back Cambridge we
doubt not but that Cambridge will be slight favou-
rites before the stars, or the speculations will be at
evens.

Mr. Lord, of the Thames Conservancy, has been
busy since five this morning attending to the duties
consequent upon keeping a clear course, and at half-
past two he will effectually barricade Putney-bridge,
so that no craft passes after that. Only two
steamers will accompany the press and umpire,
and he former will bring down the colours of
the winner immediately after the race. We are
glad that the Conservancy have remained firm, and
in spite of the abuse they have received only suffered
these two steamers to follow. The public will be
grateful for the change in time, if they bear in mind
the terrible scenes of past boat races, ten or twelve
steamers colliding, and dense masses of excited
humanity on board them in imminent peril.
Mr. J. W. Chitty, of Exeter College, will be the
umpire ; Mr. E. Searle, the eminent boat-builder,
starter; and John Phelps the waterman, judge at
Mortlake.

The honourable decoration of the " blue riband" of
the Thames has given rise to many a gallant struggle
on its broad expansive bosom, but none has created
more thrilling interest, from a variety of causes, than
that which it is now our business to record. The
frequent and continued Euc c ess e s of Oxford hai been
met this year with more than the usual endeavour to
change the fortune of the day, and there were indica-
tions in the course of the selection and early train-
ing of the crew which ha 1 given the friends of
the Cantabs more sanguine expectations of triumph
than of lite years. From the beginning of the prac-
tice, replete with its usual self-abnegation, laborious
journeys were rowed under more than usually trying
circumstances, but all was borne bravely and for-
gotten in the ardour and excitement of youth and
the earnest desire to represent their University
with credit, and, if possible, retrieve lost
laurels. In this preliminary stage the Cam-
bridge crew gave more promise of steady
progress with less changes of hands than the
Oxonians, and the predilection in their favour and
speculation on their prospect of success were con-
siderably enhanced by the Light Blue division
bringing to Loudon, a fortnight ago, a "team"
possessing the characteristics of such appearances of
health and strength as entirely eclipsed that of any
crew which has shown at Putney for the last three or
four years.

This great race now annually inaugurates the
rowing season of tihe metropolis, which for the
purposes of sport extends itself to Putney. This was
the twenty-seventh contest, spread over a period of
something like forty years. It will be seen by this
that erstwhile it was not as now an annual, but
since it has been of yearly occurrence it has
grown into an all-absorbing subject of excitement,
and speculation is anticipated with anxiety, and
received with pleasure and delight by the denizens of
this great city, who cherish the sport as one
thoroughly identified with this our sea-girt isle.
Thousands of persons of all grades, from the
proudest noble to the poorest artiz9.n—to say nothing
of many of " the fairest portion of this fair creation"
—have, during the past fortnight, flocked to
Putney to view the rowing practice of the rival
candidates for fame. Speculation was rife as to
the result ; but the uniform success which had smiled
upon the exertions of Oxford ever since 1860 pro-
duced a strong feeling in their favour—the achieve-
ments of the past could not be overlooked, and an
impression seemed to exist in the minds of many that
they were unconquerable. Following this course of
reasoning, Oxford was backed at odds varying from
b to 7 to 4, although it would be hard to say that
there was any such superiority displayed in the rowing
that would justify so marked a preference.
Mr. F. Wellan, who has of late years so signally
distitagnished himself as an oarsman, was what is
termed the Oxford " coach," Mr. G. Morrison,
formerly of Oxford, performing the same office for
the Cautabs. Both were most zealous in the dis-
charge of their duty, and deserve the best thanks

of those for whom they so warmly iutere3ted them

selves.
The following were the crews :

OXFORD.

st lb
1. R. W. Mirehonse, University ll
2. A. G. Lewis, University
3. I'. S. Baker, Queen's
4. T. E. Edwards-Moss, Baliol

5. F. G. Payne, St. John's
6. S. W. Woodhouse, University
_ _ _

7. W. D. Benson. Baliol

8. S. D. DarlYshire, Baliol
T. H. Hall, Corpus, cox

CAMBRIDGE.

1L 12

1111
7 8

st. lb.
1. C. El. L. Randolph, 3d Trinity l9 11
2. J, H. Ridley, Jesus
3. J. W. Dale, St. John's
4. R. A. Spencer, 3d Trinity
5. W. H. Lowe, Christ's
6. E. Phelps, Sidney l2 4
7.. T. F. Strachan, Trinity Hall
8. J. H. D. Galilee, St John's l2 1
H. E. Gordon, Ist Trinity, cox 7 12

By the above weights it will be seen that, exclu-
sive of coxswains, which are necessarily omitted in
the computations of working hands, Cambridge
wcre only a few pounds heavier than Oxford.
A good start was effected at 13 minutes past five,
and both crews dashed off at great speed. After a
very exciting race, victory this year fell to the
CAMBRIDGE boat, which arrived at the winning
post at 5.35, one boat's length in advance of OX-
FORD.

The time occupied in rowing the distance was
L 9 minutes 22 seconds, being, nearly three minutes
Less than the race occupied last year.

SPORTING I.NTELLIGENCE-IHI3 DAY.

NORTHAMPTON MEETING.-TIIIS DAY

(Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
RACING PRATE.

Tibthorpe
Flash

Pompano ..

Seventeen ran.
ST. LIZ HANDICAP.

Idus

Miss Dayrell 2
Robespierre

N ine ran.
LAWN STAKES.

Chibisa 1
Seringapatam
April Morn

Six ran.
QUEEN'S PLATE.

Fusco 1

Free Trade 2

Compromise e. 3

Seven ran.
EARL SPENCER'S PLATE.

Bosworth
Amaranth colt
St. George 3
Twenty-seven ran.
ALTHORP PARK STARES.

Simplon 1

Mount Pleasant
King of Clubs

Four ra►n.
TOWN PLATE.

Conrad
Queen of the Valley
Chibisa
Eight ran.

FLAT RACIN
AP.

i'r FIXTURES.
,IL.

Croxton Park 1
Northampton 5, 6
West Drayton 7, 8
Thirsk 7, 8
Liverpool Hunt 9
Durham ... 18, 19
Lichfield .. lB, 19

Knighton 19, 20
Newmarket C 18 to 22
Catterick Bridge 21, 22
Abergavenny 21, 22
Eastbourne 22
Cardiff 26, 27
Croydon '2B, 29
•
AY.
- -

Newmarket Ist S 2 to 6
Edinburgh 7
Chester . lO to 13
Winchester 10, 11
Salisbury 12, 13
C lielmsford 17, 18
York ' 17, 18

'Wye 19
Doncaster l9, 20
Ifarpenden 2O, 21
Bath 24, 25
Stamford 26, 27
Croydon 26, 27
Epsom 31 to Juno 3

WINNERS OF THE GREAT N

PRTHADIPTONSIIIRE STAKES.

1819 Fernhill, 4 yrs, 6st. Elb.
1850 Priestess, 4yrs,6st.lolb.
1831 Valentine, 4 yrs, 6st.

1861 Danae, 4 yrs, 6st. 91b.
1862 Stampedo, 5 yrs, est.

21b.
1863 Fairwater, 5 yrs, Bst.

111 b. . .
1852 Poodle, 3 yrs, 4st. 51b.
1853 Defiance, 3 yrs, sst.

101 b.
1864 Dollar, 4 yrs, 7st. 91b.
1865 Scamander, 5 yrs, 7st.

131 b.
1834 Jacqueline, 4 yrs, 6st,

81b.
1855 Hungerford, a., 7st.

81b.
1866 John Davis, 5 yrs, 9st.
1867 Miss Havelock, 4 yrs,

131 b.
1856 Siding, 4 yrs, 6st. 61b.
1857 St. Giles, 3 yrs, 6st. 41b.
1858 Borderer, 4 yrs, 7st. 41b.
1859 Bevis, 3 yrs, 4st. 111 b.
1860 Simple Simon, 3 yrs,
sst. 91b.

Gst. 71b.
1868 Mariner, 3yrs, sst. 111 b.
1869 Marquis of Carabas,
4 yrs, Gst. 71b.
1870 Midsummer, 4 yrs, Bst.
31b.

THE MARQUIS OF BUTE. —We ( Cardif and
Merthyr (.guardian) have the best authority for stating
that the rumour in circulation a short time ago, to the
effect that the Marquis of Bute was going in his yacht to
visit Australia and New Zealand, has no foundation in
fact. His lordship, we are assured, will be in England at
the end of May or the beginning of June.
A. LUNATIC AT LARGE.—John Sladen was charged
at Clerkenwell with being a dangerous lunatic at large.
He attended a lecture given by Mr. Bradlaugh, and upon
seeing that gentleman afterwards he said he should like to
kill the Queen. Mr. Cooke said the man should be de-
tained until his friends were communicated with. He
was removed from the court with great difficulty, saying
that he would have Mr. Bradlaugh to defend him.

The public will learn with surprise that the First
Commissioner of Works, who had, as has been already
stated, applied to Mr. Barry for the surrender of the vast
mass of drawings in his possession, the bulk of which were
the late Sir Charles Barry's property, and are left to Mr.
Barry as his heir, has not only declined to enter into the
merits of the case, but has threatened legal proceedings
against Mr. Barry. The importance of this matter to all
professional men can hardly be exaggerated. The cor-
respondence botween Mr. Ayrton and Mr. Barry will
shortly be issued as a parliamentary paper.—The Architect.

A PLEASANT RESIDENCE.—Dr. Thorne, medical
inspector of the Board of Health, has made a startling
report upon the sanitary condition of the borough of
Penryn. He says that stagnant pools and decomposing
refuse are to be found everywhere in the streets. The
streams running through the town are open sewers ; the
slaughterhouses are confined and undrained; there are no
water-closets ; the river is offensive and revolting, and, as
a consequence, destitution and death are prevalent. Ho
adds that the suburb, in the parish of Budock, is, if possi-
ble, more filthy than the municipal portion of the town.
A NEW POSTAL CONTROVERSY.—The contra,
versy into which the Post Office has got with certain
foreign and colonial news agencies is not very creditable
to the department. They have announced somewhat
suddenly a resolution to make four ounces the maximum
weight of all single newspapers sent abroad or to the
colonies, and to reduce the size of parcels to about a
fourth of the present limit. The result is that loud and
juevous complaints are raised—and we must say very
stly—by those engaged in transmitting newspapers to
the colonies. They have made contracts for supplying
the trade at one rate of postal charge, and with a high
maximum weight for the parcels ; and all at once they
find the charge in many cases practically doubled, while
they are involved in more expense by the multiplication
of parcels. So sudden a change, even if the object were
a good one, is inexcusable. The defence of the depart-
ment—that it was desirable to introduce uniforpity7ts no
excuse for fining people in business
is which is the
necessary and always foreseeable effect of suddenly alter-
ing the conditions of trade. The case the worse fos
the department that it had ample warning and still per,
severed with the change. We doubt very much moreover
whether the desire for uniformity in this case will not per-
manently be mischievous. The increase of postage is
really very great on heavy newspapers for India and the
East ; and doubly heavy when such newspapers are Nerd
by Brindisi, Such an increase is decidedly in the wro
direction at a tune whan the announcement is wade that
the Government is to yield to Mr. Graves—a concession
we are glad to notice—in the matter of inland post
upon printed matter.—Econentist

The carriages on the line of tramway from near
Brixton Church to Kennington-gate will commence
running on Saturday next. The company have ten
carriages built on the American principle especially for this
line of route.

The Western Mail records the death of Mr. Evan
Thomas, at St. Melions, on the 3rd inst. The deceased,
who had nearly attained his 81st year, was engaged in
thr battle of 'Waterloo as private in the Grenadier
Guards. _ _

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his financial
statement, will (according to the Birmingham Poat) make
a considerable reduction in the poll-tax levied on railway
companies. That tax is now charged at the rate of £5 in
every £lOO earned, parliamentary trains included.
The shops of Mr. Birts, jewellers, Green's-end,
Woolwich, and Messrs. Urry and Philips, jewellers,
Deptford, have within the past few days both been
plundered by burglars boring holes through the steel
shutters and plate-glass. In both of the instances the
burglars got
_off lindetectect -

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS. TUESDAY.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at
five o'clock.

NAVAL RETIREMENT.

The Duke of Rtimmosn said that after Easter he
should call attention to the order in Council of the 22d of
February in the present year, relating to the scheme of
naval retirement, and to point out the precise effect the
order would have on the naval service. He should con-
clude by making a motion on the subject.
ECCLESIASTICAL TRANSFER BILL.

This bill, on the motion of Lord LYTTELTON, was read a
second time.
The Dublin Collector General of Rates Franchise Bill
passed through committee.
THE GOVERNMENT OFFICES.

Lord REDESDALE then called the attention of theirlord
ships to the vacant ground and unfinished buildings
in Downing-street, King-street, and Parliament-
street, which were to be taken for the ex-
tension of the site of the public offices, and
said he should also like to know the terms
upon which a house lately erected, fronting St. James's
Park, had been allowed to be brought forward beyond the
line of frontage.

The Msltems of LANSDOWNE stated, with reference to
land and building, that it was the intention of Govern-
ment to push the completion of the buildings on as rapidly
as possible, and.it was hoped, with the present year, great
progress would be made. The purchase of the houses
required as the site of public offices in Parliament-street
and King-street had bean arranged, but with respect to
the houses built in the park, they had been erected on
private property.
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S MONUMENT.
Earl CARDOGAN moved for copies of any correspondence
between the Chief Commissioner of Works and the sur-
veyor of St. PSul's with reference to the monument to the
late Duke of Wellington, and as to payments to the
artist selected to execute the work.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said there would be no ob-
jection to give the papers reluired, if pressed for. The
work was now going on as rapidly as was possible, and
there was the fullest expectation that t4e whole would le
completed within the l r ;Fent 3 ear.
The motion for the production of the papers was then
agrexl to.
Their lordships adjourned at six o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY.
The Speaker took the chair at tiro o'clock.
MONASTIC INSTITUTIONS.

Petitions against the appointment of a committee to inquire
into these institutions were presented by Mr. Eastwicke,
Mr. Pease, Mr. Baines, Mr. Williams, Mr. Synan, Mr.
G. Moore, Mr. Maguire, Mr. Bagwell, Sir T. Maley, Sir
R. Palmer, and other hon. members.
RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

Sir H. IBBETSON gave notice that on the 3rd of May
he shall call the attention of the House to the number of
railway accidents that have taken place, and conclude
with a motion.

DISFRANCHISEMENT OF BRIDGWATER AND

BEVERLEY.

The tLITORNEY-GENERAL gave notice that on Friday he
should ask for leave to introduce a bill to disfranchise
Bridgwater and Beverley.

THE LICENSING, BILL.

Sir W. LAWSON said in the event of the Home Secretary
not shortly introducing his licensing bill, he should on an
early day call the attention of the House to the public
injury and inconvenience that has arisen by that delay.