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THE INTERNATIONAL SCULLING MATCH.
We are happy to announce that the preliminaries
of this long talked of affair have been at last most
amicably settled. On Saturday evening last, Mr.
W. Bray, the representative of the New York
Clipper, accompanied by John Hamill, the brother
of the American champion, and old Harry Clasper,
of Newcastle, met by appointment a number of
Kellye's friends at the. Bells, Putney, where, after
some little discussion, the articles were duly drawn
up and ratified, the whole affair passing off most
pleasantly.

The matches are to take place during the week
ending July 7, and it is expected that the Tyne will
be the scene of action, though Hamill has not yet
definitely announced his selection.
We append a copy of the articles

Articles of agreement entered into this day, the 12th of
May, between Harry Kelley, of Putney, England, and
James Hamill, of Pittsburg, United States of America, who
hereby agree to row two sculling races of five miles each
in England. The place of the said races to be named by
Hamill after his arrival in that country. Each race to be
for the sum of £250 a-side, Hamill to receive .£lOO
as an equivalent for coming to :England to row the
said races. The distanCe in each race to be five miles, or
as near so as it may be possible to arrive at, on a suitable
course. The first race shall be a straight away sculler's
lace, as usually rowed in England. The distance in the
second race to be two miles and a half round stake-boats,
returning to the place of starting, each man to turn his
own stake-boat from left to right. The stake-boats to be
moored to the satisfaction of the referee, and the stations
to be tossed for by the men before starting.
The men to be at the starting place in each race
one hour before high water. The said races to be
rowed on two days following each other, during the week
ending July 7, 1866, Kelley to have a clear calendar
month's notice of the days and course selected by Hamill.
A first deposit of £250 a side has been made good this, the
12th day of May, and a sum of £5O has been paid to
Hamill, being half the amount allowed for expenses for
coming to England. The second deposit of £250 a side to
be made good on the 25th of June, 1866, on which day the
referee shall been chosen, and a further sum of £5O paid
over to Hamill for expenses. Both races to be rowed, if
possible, on a smooth course, on which point both men
shall agree, and, in the event of any dispute, that question
shall be submitted to the referee, whose decision shall be
final, but in any case both races shall be rowed during the
week ending July 7, as above specified. The cutters to
keep astern of the hindermost man. The stakes to be de-
posited on the days above named with the proprietor of the
Sportsman, who shall be final stakeholder. Either party
failing to comply with these conditions to forfeit all the
money down.

HENRY KELLEY,
JAMES HAMILL.

HOARE AND SADLER FOR £2OO.
This interesting smilers' match came off yesterday,
the course being from Putney to Mortlake. The parties
having rowed to their positions, Hoare on the Surrey side
and Sadler the Middlesex side, the start took place, and be-
fore 150 yards wore rowed Sadler was clear of his opponent.
They rowed in this position till off Finch's, when
Sadler caught a crab, and he had no sooner done so than
the same mishap occurred to Hoare. This was the only
mishap that occurred during the race, which was never in
doubt. Sadler won just as he pleased.

Betting at Starting-6 to 4on Sadler, and as much as
10 to 1 was laid on him before he had reached Hammer-
smith-bridge.

It was avery hollow contest altogether.

GLASGOW, May 12.—Cotton.—The cotton mar-
ket has been very distressed during the week, and little
business has been transacted. Goods and Yarns—Business
has been nearly suspended this week in consequence of the
continued fall in cotton. IronT-The market has been in a
depressed state during the week. On Monday transactions
took place at from 655. to 60s. cash ; closing quotation
60s. cash, rather sellers. Prices gradually dropped till
Thursday, when business was done in warrants at 555. 9d.
to 565. cash. On Friday, in consequence of the panic in
London, it was resolved to suspend business in the iron
market till Monday.

THE CHOLERA n LivEriPooL.--Several more
deaths have occurred on board the Jessie Munn and at the
workhouse, while the disease ias also made its appearance
at the Bank-hall warehouses, and in a nest of low lodging-
houses near the Sailors' Home. Amongst the deaths re-
ported are those of Mr. Ross, t surgeon, who attended the
patients on board the Helvet:a, and Father Callaghan, a
Roman Catholic clergyman a;tached to the Eldon-street
church, why caught the diem) whilst vieiting patients.

Petroleum as Steam Fuel.

When the duration of our coal supply excites so
much apprehension and discussion, it is pleasant to
turn round and consider the prospect, day by day
becoming brighter, of being able in a great degree
to dispense with its use in stationary and marine
engines—for nothing less is aimed at and promised
by Mr. Charles J. Richardson, at Woolwich, and
Mr. Simon Stevens, at New York. That the
prospect is brightening we think will be admitted
by even the most cursory reader—after perusing
the particulars, illustrated appropriately, in an-
other column, concerning Mr. Stevens' scheme,
and those which we are about to give here, re-
lating to that of Mr. Richardson. It is claimed
by the American that he can raise steam, rapidly,
to a given pressure, without any loss of fuel power,
with reduced dimensions of boiler and furnace ;
that, the firing is continuous by feeding the fuel
through a pipe into the furnace—loss of heat in
opening the doors being prevented ; with freedom
from smoke, cinder, ash, or in fact any refuse; that
he can command a forced fire almost instantly-with-
out a forced draught; furthermore, as a consequence,
coalheavers and stokers on board ship can be dis-
pensed with, and there will be neither ash nor clin-
kers to be removed from the furnace room, over the
gangway; lastly, less space required for stowage of
fuel. Such a list of advantages is perfectly startling
—the locomotive itself was scarcely a greater inno-
vation.

We will now turn to Woolwich Dockyard and
Mr. Richardson. Here the experimental boiler is
in full blast. Instead of the usual fire-box and
ash-pit there are employed four rectangular cham-
bers, about a foot in width, and rather less than four
times that in length—a perforated fire-door being
provided for each, in front. These chambers are
divided into two—the lower half fOrming the petro-

leum trough, the upper the combustion chamber.
Separation is effected between the two by means of
a diaphragm, through which the petroleum perco-
lates to be burnt on the upper side. Mr. Richardson
contemplates effecting certain modifications which,
when completed, will enable him to evaporate 161bs
of water with a pound of petroleum ; the average
evaporation with good anthracite coal being about
811bs of water to the pound of coal. There is some dis-
similarity in economic results, as compared with Mr.
Stevens' experiment, but we refrain from making
any remarks thereon until Mr. Richardson has com-
pleted his trials. The boiler does not yet work to
Mr. Richardson's complete satisfaction, but he is
confident that the introduction of the steam beyond
the flame will overcome the difficulties now remain-
ing, its introduction below the flame, as announced,
having a tendency to force the oil and vapour over
the bridge, and cool the flame to a material degree,
though it must certainly get rid of the smoke nui-
sance, so very disheartening at an earlier stage. The
endeavour to make the steam more efficacious when
introduced over the flame is now being proceeded
with. When the steam is mixed over and with
the petroleum vapour the superfluous carbon of the
oil is absorbed by the oxygen in the steam, and
forms a gas which burns along with the oxygen—
or, to put it another way, not only carbu retted
hydrogen is burnt, but large quantities of carbonic
acid gas in addition. The economy is obvious, and
when the highly inflammable nature of these last
mentioned gases is considered, the importance of
the modification will be at once seen. The reduction
by the temperature of the flame may be obviated
by introducing the gases in a highly heated state
into the combustion chamber—excluding cold air
altogether, if possible : this would necessitate an
addition to, or alteration in, the existing apparatus,
but no doubt Mr. Richardson could easily get over
that little difficulty.
We see no reason whatever for doubt as to the
results, on the part of Mr. Richardson—rather,
every reason for congratulation, and we are not
inclined to think with him that the petroleum fuel
can only be economically employed on certain
ocean routes. The area of supply is gradually ex

tending ; and doubtless in course of time our high
class geologists will as readily pronounce on
the probable localities of petroleum as they have
done on those of gold and silver, and quite as suc-
cessfully.

On the whole we think we are correct in stating
that the prospects of petroleum are very flattering.
It is impossible to reckon how much the use of coal
as fuel has lightened the labours of the men of this
generation ; who, looking closely into the subject,
can estimate how much more the use of petroleum
will tend to the same all-wise end !—English Me-
chanic and Mirror of Science and Art.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE, - This Day

LONDON, May 15.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Easterly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

PLYMOUTH, May 14.—Wind W.—Sailed—Lord Nelson
or Melbourne.

O 1 PLYMOUTH, May 14.—Arrived—Wave Queen, from
Algoa Bay.

CLYDE, May 14.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Abbie Thomas,
'rom Trinidad.

LBY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. I

GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, May 14—Eliza, from Drontheira ; Betsy, Caro-
line, Baltic, and George—all from Dantsic; Red Coat, from
Sines; Olga, from Porto Rico; Vest, from Windau ;
Battrinda, from Konigsberg ; Storm Nymph, from St.
Lucia ; Asia, from Sydney ; Laura, from St. Kitts ;
Favourite, from Antigua ; Mary Ann, from Memel ; Anti-
cella, from New York ; Energy, from Windsor ; General
Slade, from Guernsey.
Arrived, May 15—Mellona, from Guernsey.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed, May 14—Rowena, from London, for Otago.

A well-dressed young man, speaking with a
foreign accent, took a cab the evening before last on the
Boulevard Montmartre and told the coachman to drive
aboat and bring him back to the same spot. The man
proceeded to do so, and when crossing the Place Louvois
he heard a pistol shot fired in the vehicle, and on stopping
found that the young man had blown out his trains.
From papers found on him be appears to have been a
Spaniard, named Ferdinand D--, 27 years of age, and a
commercial traveller.

Two trucks laden with straw, forming part of a
goods train, shunted into a siding near the St. Denis sta-
tion of the Northern Railway, wore set on fire the day
before yesterday by sparks from a passing locomotive, and
were entirely destroyed. Fortunately they were detached
in time to save the other part of the train. The loss is
estimated at 6,000 f. for the trucks, and 700 f. for the straw,
which belonged to a forage dealer at St. Denis.
The Government of Austria is said to have ceded
to representations of the Cabinet of Washington, as the
volunteers destined for Mexico have not been embarked,
and will, it is said, be incorporated in the Austrian army.
" We learn by a letter from Berlin," says the
Pays, " that the War Department has taken measures to
make the landwehr occupy all the garrisons, so as to leave
the whole active troops available ; and that it has caused
the four military schools to be closed, and the pupils sent
off to the army."

According to a letter addressed to the Nurem-

berg Correspondent, an extreme irritation has for some time
prevailed between the Austro-Bavarian garrison of Frank-
fort and the Prussian troops in the same city. The Aus-
trians and Bavariahs the other day made an attempt to take
the Prussian barracks by assault, and were only prevented
from continuing by the intervention of their officers. The
next day a workman apostrophised a sentinel, calling him
him " Dog of a Bismark !" EA violent disturbance arose be-

tween the workmen and the soldiers, which lasted several
hours, and a Bavarian patrol had to interfere twice to re-
store order. Seven persons were arrested; six men were
wounded, one of them a soldier.

"Ideas of peace," says the Constitutionnel, "seem
to be gaining ground beyond the Rhine. We may
note as a symptom of that opinion in the North of Ger-
many that the Ilamburg News and other journals of that
city strongly urge the Prussian Government to renounce
the project of annexing the Duchies, and to be contented
with an arrangement which, while constituting Schleswig
Holstein as an independent State, would secure to Prussia
an advantageous position in a military point of view.
A STRANGE LUNATIC.—The attention of persons
passing along the Boulevard de la Chopinette was attracted
the day before yesterday by a man dressed in a braided
costume, and indulging in strange gesticulations. All of
a sudden he stopped short, jumped on a seat by the way'
side, and exclaimed to the crowd which had gathered
round I am Bismark, and I have come here to give
utterance to the voice of nationalities. People, you are
deceived, but you shall soon know the truth ! I alone,
Bismark, can enlighten you !" He was hero taken posses-
sion of by a sergent-de-ville, and led off to a police sta-
tion. The unfortunate man has been identified as a trades-
man of the Quartier Bourdonnais, who had become in sane
in consequence of losing a considerable fortune by un-
lucky speculations. He hasnow been placed in a lunatic
asylum.