The Express. — 1868-07-24 (London, England)

THE WIMBLEDON REVTEW.—In consequence of a communication received from the South Western Railway Company this morning to the effect that volunteers in battalions and corps will not be conveyed to Putney station, but only to Wimbledon, and the railway company having reduced the fares for volunteers in corps by that route only to Bd., corps that proceed by railway from Waterloo mast proceed to Wimbledon station, and will be assembled on Wimbledon-common to be brigaded. In consequence of this alteration those corps that arrive at Wimbledon wi 1, after the review, return in brigade under the orders of the brigadier to that railway station. Every volunteer is recommended to provide himself with a water bottle.—War-office, July 24 1868.  A large and influential meeting of the Liberal Association for Oxford was held in the Corn Exchange on Wednesday night. The Right Hon. E. Cardwell, M.P., and Mr. Vernon Harcourt, the liberal candidate at the coming election, were present. The Mayor presided. CligmainAH.—The Cheltenham Reform Club held a dinner in the Town-hall late on Wednesday night, chiefly in order to make &demonstration in favour of their liberal candidate, Mr. H. B. Samuelson, son of the member for Banbury. The hall was crowded almost to suffocation, and the gallery was filled with ladles, who waved their fans and handkerchiefs, and joined enthasiastinslly in the frequent outbursts of cheering. The room was beautifully adorned with flowers, and mottoed flags and banners, and a band played thresighout the dinner. -Kr. 8. thiley, jun., president of the club, was in the chair, and among the others present, besides the guest of the evening, were Lord ritikeZ4W" Sir W. Russell, M.P. for Norwich ; Mr. W. P. Prioe, M.P. for Gloucester ; Mr. Holland, H.P. for Evesham; Mr. Samuelson, M.P., and Captain Price, the liberal candidate for Tewkesbury. Excuses for non-attendance were read from, others, Lord Amberley, 84 F. Goldsnaid, Y.P., Colboa:ei Kingsoote, M.P., Mr. P.W. Martin, M.P., and Mr. Neste, M.Y. Lord Firxhardinge, formerly member for the borough, replied on behalf of the House of Lords to the toast, " The Liberal Members of both Hotises."_  Finn ON THE Moose ne Tim Warr Rum:tiro. —The heather on one corner of Bombelds Moor—an extensive range of moorland lying on the hills between Aire. dale and e, a the West Biding—ma, on Friday week, accidentally set fire to .by some wailers, who require stone far • farm, dwileoping by ire the acetonic which moored some done they lied to get. The resell =at. the Ilreawilk great Tepidity over the dry end • on the adjoining moors, and after nearly a sores have been laid waste, the fire dill smoulders. Its further progress is arrested only by continual watoldng and greet effort. Heavy min will alone extinguish it. Bo effectually onsemed is the heather and vegetation over this wide tract of moorland, that for years to come it meat be a barren waste. The shooting grounds of several gentlemen (and sepenally that of Mr. George lone Fox) are entirely destroyed, and years man elapse before they emu be rendered productive for any purpose of the kind. AA wpm* of desolation, awful and interminable, spreads out before the eye of the spectator as he proaches from many points of the moors. peat still burns in many place, and wide expanse of voluanio-blre aspect. For a fort night water cart have been extensively used in pleas where the peat was liket from the= to be famed into flames; t every s oafW hitherto to extinguish the ire. It v the number of grouse destroyed is large. • =oar: remaining in the ocversnot that have are numerous, Crass on the wim, and with no premonitory symptoms of the grouse &mess about them. The area which the Ire has traversed is about four miles in ma direction and two miles in another. MtraDaw AND thrunriz.—A ahoolcingtizpecly was perpetrated mar Preston on Wednesda y man named Charles Hamer cut the of his sweetheart,Mirabelli Brindle, and afterwards committed suicide by homing himself. Both parties were factory workers.  DR. DR