The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-28 00:00:00

ROWING.

THE ANGLO-AMERICAN U A.VERSITY MATCH.
The Harvard crew made their first appearance on the
Thames yesterday morning, and, as might be expected,
the aquatic touts mustered in considerable force on the
taw-path at Putney to w:tuess the performance, which,
however, was limited to a quiet paddle up the ft ach and
back. Iu the evening, shortly before half-past five, they
again got afloat from the London hard, and ro wedLisurely
up to Barnes, whence, after a britf rest, they returned to
Putney with the ebb. It would be, of course, unfair to
assume that this, their preliminary spin, offered any ade-
quate miteriJn of their real form, inasmuch as at present
they must necessarily be, to a certain extent, stale
after their voyage across the Atlantic ; but, judging
from what we saw of them yesterday, we cannot help
thinking they have yet a good deal to learn if our English
notions on the subject of "style" aro well founded. They
are unquestionably an extremely powerful crew - ket-p
good time, and sit their boat very steadily, but they all
exhibit a marked tendency to do their work with their
arms rather than with the body and legs, and, with the
exception of their stroke, Mr. Simmons, who is decidedly
the most finished oarsman of the lot, seem novel to get
fairly hold of the water until the oars are nearly at right
angles with the boat. They are also some what " dead" on
the chest, and consequently slow in the recovery. As we
have before remarked, however, it would be unfair to
judge of their pretensions from a first performance; indeed
it is by no means unlikely that the slx,rtcomings to which
we have called attention may arise in a great measure
from the fact that they are unaccustomed to row on tidal
water, and we have no doubt that a little more- practice,
under the care of Harry Kelley, who, we understand, has
been engaged in the capacity of "coach," will see them in
much better form. To all appearance they will rtquire
very little training, all four being thus early in very fair
condition. The Oxford four paid a vi,it to Putney yes-
terday, and bad an interview with the Harvard m3a for
the purpose of making arrangements as to the time and
place of the match, and we understand it was definitely
settled for it to come off over the Thames Championship
Course, some time between the 23d and 26th of August,
the precise date to be fixed hereafter. The Harvard crew
left the Star and Garter Hotel on Monday, and took up
their quarters at a private Louse, just above Situmonds's
yard, where they will rt main until the day of the race.

PARIS CORRESPONDENCE:.

TUESDAY.

Cabinet councils are held almost daily at the Ministry
of the Interior. It is said that the bases of the reform
scheme to be submitted to the Senate are settled, and are
very liberal. The text of the decree will be
submitted to the Cabinet to-day. The President and
Vice• Presidents are to be elected by the deputies at the
opening of each session, the election of the President
being submitted to the Emperor's approbation. Ministers
may be deputies, as may also magistrates of a high order.
The right of moving amendments is fully allowed. On
this and other points the old usages of the constitutional
monarchy will be resumed. No change is contemplated
at present in the division of France into elect2r4l eircum-

scriptions.
The case of the cashier Taillefer, and of Pic, the manager
of the L'Etendard who profited by Taillefer's gains and
fell with him, is now on at the Paris Assizes. A
summary of the Act of Accusation against this
French Higgs may be interesting. Taillefer has
been since 1832 the principal cashier of the Union
Life and Fire Insurance Company. His salary was
£2OO per annum, with a share in the profits. Taillefer
had sole charge of the money, and unlimited confidence
was placed in him. Last April two of the directors asked
him for the company's account with the Credit
Fonder. Suspicion was excited by certain discrepancies
in these accounts, which Taillefer tried to adjust, but in
vain. He then confessed that he had misapplied a
certain amount, but declared it was his first offence. How-
ever, the directors refused to conceal it, and Taillefer,
seeing that his case was hopeless, and that further inquiries
were inevitable, admitted that he had embezzled
more than £40,000, adding that the author of his
trouble was M. Pic, formerly banker, proprietor of the
journal Etendard. Taillefer was arrested, and his defal-
cations were found to amount to nearly £60,000, extending
over a period of twenty years. Inquiries were
made as to the manner in which he had disposed
of this sum, and it proved that ho had invested
a large amount in his brother's business, which
had failed, and that he had remitted to Pic, in his double
capacity of banker and director of the Etendard, about
£44,000. Pic, who admits he received the money, declares
that be was ignorant of the misappropriation, but his
correspondence with Taillefer shews his complicity.
Taillefer at first hesitated to accuse Pic, but, incensed at
his professions of innocence, he has since given ample
details of their transactions.

Of late there has been a spirit of insubordination in the
Paris National Guard. The National Guard of Berig,
one of the suburbs, was indignant at not being allowed
to mount guard at the polling-places during the election,
but their remonstrances were met with orders to disband
and disarm. Some other battalions protested, and they
were also disbanded and disarmed. The 45th battalion
have followed their example, and will most likely share
their fate.

A well-organised band of robbers, having their leader
and their second and third in command, have for some
time been preying on the inhabitants of the Parisian
suburbs, more particularly in the neighbourhood of
Corbeil. Lataly the chief of these depredators has for-
tunately been apprehended, with two of his men. They
were captured at a farm near Longjumean, which they
were busily engaged in stripping, and made a stout resist-
ance. It is hoped that the whole band will shortly fall
into the hands of the police.
An individual named Gasserant has just died at
Charonne, after an remarkable career of adventure. In
early life he became possessed of a considerable sum of
money in a suspicious manner, and ever after lived by his
wits. He underwent five years' imprisonment for a
fraud he practised at Nancy in 1833. He pretended
to be the Prince of Morocco, aide•de-camp of the Emperor
Napoleon,and rode into the town, declaring that the Em-
perorhad changed his route, and would shortly pass through
Nancy. He stated to the Pr6fect that iu his haste he had
not had time to take sufficient money. On this the
authorities advanced him EIGO. The pretended prince
was arrested on the following day, as he was playing off
the same trick at Strasbourg.
A marriage is announced between Lady Hamilton,
sister of the Duke of Hamilton and Chatellerault, and
granddaughter of the late Grand Duke of Baden, and the
Duke of Valeutinois, only son of the reigning Prince of
Monaco.