The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-12 00:00:00

INTERNATIONAL- BOAT RACE.

PUTNEY, Thursday.
The Oxford crew did not go out this morning in their
cutter, but, under the mentorship of Mr. G. Morrison, had
their practice in pair-oared gigs. Their debut yesterday
afternoon has created the most favourable impression, and
good judges here declare they so near approach perfection
that there is but little more to acquire, and that another
fortnight will make them the most finished crew that ever
appeared upon English waters.
The Harvard crew went out shortly after 11 to row up
to Chiswick against the ebb and returned down it. They
exhibit on every occasion some amount of improvement,
and the weather this morning suited them admirably,
there being no wind, and a very fine tide down, which
enabled them to row at a great plc°. Their style is be-
coming better, and in fine weather they close their oars.
Hitherto they have had no steamer accompanying them—
no " coaching," but now they have a small screw lent
them by a Cambridge gentleman.
The following are the crews, with their present weights,
with which our reporter has just been favoured:--
HARVARD. St lb OXFORD. St lb
1. Fay ll 0 l. Wellan
2. Lymsn
3. Simmons
4. Loring
Burham (cox.) ... 8 0 Hall (cox.)
No steamboats will be allowed to accompany this race.
The day is not definitely fixed ; the 25th is expected.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXIIIBITION.—The lady
visitors to this popular exhibition will examine with
interest the beautiful Russian costume in which the effigy
of her Imperial Majesty the Empress of Russia has been
clothed. It is something quite novel.

THEATRICAL IrmisT---Miss Clara Louise Kellogg
has gone to the White Mountains. Before her return to
Europa she is to give the fourth act of Thomas's " Ham-
let," at the New York Academy. Miss Louisa Moore is
engaged at Wallack's the next season. Mrs Madeline
Henriques-Jennings is so reported. Mrs Emily Mestayer
is re-engaged. Mrs. Laura Leclair Phillips and Mrs.
Sefton also return. Mr and Mrs Barney Williams will
commence their autumn and winter engagements in Boston
on the 20th of September, not August, as has been stated.
After a Southern and Western tour they will go to Cali-
fcrnia, where they have not played for 15 years.
The New York coirespoudent of the Chicago
Journal tells of a man in the Brooklyn Navy Yard who has
for many years done the work and drawn the pay of a ma-
chinist, who has yet found time during all this while to
gratify a yearning thirst for knowledge. It may be sur-
prising, yet it is nevertheless true, that ho has mastered
the French, German, and Italian tongues, made himself
partially acquainted with Hebrew, and obtained a tho-
rough knowledge of botany and geology. He has con-
tinued to work on from day to day at the Navy Yard
bench, spending all his nights and nouns iu stuly, and
husbanding all his earnings to purchase books, of which
he has a library of nearly eleven hundred volumes ; and
now he is suddenly promoted to a prominent public
position.

DuNvILLE and Co., Belfast, •are the largest
holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re-
commended by the medical profession in preference to French
Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta-
tion Quotations on application to 41.1 essre. Dunville and Co,
Belfatit; or 4, Beaufon-buiPlings, Strand, LondQn, W,C.—[Ad •
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