The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-08 00:00:00

PROCESSION OF BOATS AT PUTNEY.

On Saturday the fourth annual procession of boats of
the metropolitan amateur rowing clubs took place at Put-
ney. The weather was delightfully fine, and the pageant
was, as usual, very attractive. The procession consisted
of two twelves and two eights of the London Rowing
Club, and numbers of eights and fours of the Ariel,
Thames, West London, North London, Phreaix, Ino,
Kidbrooke, and Ilex Clubs. Each contributed what was
termed "a representative eight," besides the other boats,
and the whole was headed by a London Rowing Club
twelve, bearing the commodore of the fleet, Mr. Herbert
H. Playford, many years a great leader of aquatic
sports, who was rowed by the captains and officials of
each club. The great veteran rower, Mr. J. Layton,
President of the London Rowing Club, now in his 70th
year, took the stroke oar in the second Rowing Club
twelve. The procession started from Putney with their
respective flags flying, and proceeded up to the White
Hart at Barnes, accompanied by a Citizen steamer filled
mainly with ladies, and then returned down the centre of
the river to Putney. They preserved excellent order up
and right down to Hammersmith-bridge, after which, with
the natural impetuosity of youth, there was some inclina-
tion manifested to finish with a race. Everything passed
off in the most agreeable and satisfactory manner, and the
whole scene was exhilarating and pleasing, tending to
establish a universal feeling of kindness and good fellow-
ship between the various clubs.

GUATEMALA.—The British Consul at Guatemala
reprts good progress in that Republic. He states the
exports in 1866 at £411,224, and the imports were of a
larger amount, if freight is included. From two-thirds
to three-fourths of both imports and exports belong to the
United Kingdom. The cotton export in that year was
only to the value of $77,875, the depreciation of price
discouraging the cultivation, which is attended with great
risks from blight, army worm, excessive rains, and strong
winds. Cochineal continues the main article of export
with which Guatemala pays her European creditor, but
the cultivation of cotton is assuming large proportions,
and it was estimated that the exports of coffee this season
would exceed 10,000,0001 b, of the value of about £200,000
A scheme has been projected for establishing a road from
the capital northward towards the Atlantic, as tar as the
town of Gualan on the Montagna river, with steam navi-
gation down that river. It is believed that this would
lead to a considerable emigration, and especially from the
Southern States of America, with a view to the cultiva-
tion of the immense tracts of forest lands now covered
with valuable timber, mahogany, cedar, dye woods, &c.,
and which also, with comparatively little expense, would
produce rich crops of sugar cane, tobacco, coffee, cocoa,
and in fact all tropical products. This enterprise would
also prove a great advantage to Belize and to British in-
terests, but the pecuniary difficulties of such an undertak-
ing are great.
A HINT FOR TRAVELLERS.—A well-known Ger-
man traveller, F. Jager, in his "Sketches of Travels in
Singapore, Malacca, Java," (Berlin, 1866), describes the
powder of the Pyrethrum roseum as a specific against all
noxious insects, including the troublesome mosquitoes and
those which attack collectioni. Re says—" A tincture pre-
pared bymacerating one part of the Pyrethrum roseum in four
parts of dilute alcohol, and, when diluted with ten times
its bulk of water, applied to any part of the body, gives
perfect security against all vermin. I often passed the
night in my boat on the ill-reputed rivers of Siam without
any other cover, oven without the netting, and experi-
enced not the slighest inconvenience. The buzzing,' at
other times so great a disturber of sleep, becomes a harm-
less tune, and, in the feeling of security, a real cradle-song.
In the chase, moistening the beard and hands, protects the
hunter against flies for at least 12 hours, oven in spite of
the largely increased transpiration duo to the climate.
Especially is it interesting in its action on that plague of all
tropical countries, the countless ants. Before the windows
and surrounding the whole house where I lived at Albay,
on Luzon, was fastened a board six inches in width, on
which long caravans of ants were constantly moving in all
directions, making it appear all almost uniformly black
surface. A track of the powder several inches in width,
strewed across the board, or some tincture sprinkled over it,
proved an insurmountable barrier to these processions.
The first who halted before it were pushed on by the
crowds behinds them ; but, immediately on passing over,
showed symptoms of narcosis, and died in a minute or two,
and within a short time the rest left the house altogether."
—British Medical Journal.

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