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o'clock in the afternoon. My brother immediately applied to Herr Bohren, of the Hôtel de l'Aigle, who at once exerted himself with a promptitude and zeal which cannot sufficiently be praised, and which demand our grateful acknowledgment. He sent off directly six guides, under the direction of Peter Michel, to use their utmost efforts to discover the body of Mr. Elliott.

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The body of Mr. Elliott was ultimately found shockingly lacerated, and was buried in Grindelwald churchyard.

AUGUST.

7. OPENING OF FINSBURY PARK.-Finsbury Park was formally opened to the public by Sir John Thwaites, Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works. The ceremonial was of a simple character, and the spectators were comparatively few. At three o'clock a procession was formed, composed of vestrymen, schoolboys, the 39th Middlesex Volunteers, the Stoke Newington Rifles, and Sir John Thwaites and several of his colleagues. A circuit of the park having been made, the processionists marched to a spot upon which a rude platform had been erected, and from this Sir John Thwaites declared the park open "in perpetuity." The volunteer bands then played the National Anthem, after which the admission of the public was signalized by the firing of twenty-one maroons. The next part of the programme was a brief address by Sir John Thwaites; Mr. Sheriff Cotton then offered a few remarks; the National Anthem was played a second time, and the ceremony was brought to a close.

12. EXECUTION AT PORTLAND.-Jonah Dethridge was executed for the wilful murder of a warder at the Portland convict establishment, within the walls of the county prison at Dorchester. The prisoner's life revealed a long series of offences against the law, and a considerable portion of his existence had been passed in gaol. He was a native of Wednesbury, and although only twenty years of age when sentenced to penal servitude by the magistrates at the Stafford Sessions, in January, 1865, it was stated that he had been summarily convicted no less than eleven times previously. The offence of which he was charged was that of stealing from the person of Annie Morris Constable a purse and the sum of 18. 11d., at Great Barr, on November 11, 1864, and the Court, taking into consideration the number of previous convictions, sentenced him to seven years' penal servitude. During his six months' probation in Stafford Gaol, his conduct was reported to have been good, and on May 15, 1865, he was sent to Pentonville, where he remained six months, before being transferred

to Portland. Here the convict bore a uniformly bad character, and was so sullen and obstinate that the warders had frequently to report him for insubordination. On March 23 last he was engaged with others in the erection of a bastion on the Verne fortifications, when the warder in charge of the gang spoke to him in reference to his work. Dethridge sullenly replied that he should do his work as he pleased, and used other insolent language towards Trevett, who was then standing on the embrasure of the bastion, about eight feet from the basement. About an hour after the altercation occurred, the convict, armed with a heavy pointed stonepick, crept up the embankment, and, stealing behind the unsuspecting warder, dealt him a terrible blow on the head, knocking him insensible into the battery. The cowardly attack was followed up in the most savage manner, the convict leaping down to the spot where the officer lay, and striking him two terrific blows, which completely shattered the poor fellow's skull. The other convicts hastened to the rescue, but not in time to avert the dreadful outrage, and the unfortunate Trevett died while being conveyed to the prison hospital. The prisoner made no attempt to escape, and, after an official investigation at the establishment, he was committed for trial at the Dorset Summer Assizes, on the 25th ult., when he was sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Lush. He seemed to treat the affair with the utmost indifference, and even smiled contemptuously as the learned Judge assumed the black cap previous to delivering sentence of death. After his condemnation he maintained a sullen, obstinate demeanour, which nothing seemed to ruffle, and up to the last he manifested no concern whatever as to the awful doom which awaited him.

17. FATAL COLLISION ON THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—A deplorable accident-inasmuch as it was fatal in a terrible manner, by absolutely roasting alive one poor fellow, and injurious to several others-occurred on the Great Northern Railway a few minutes before midnight, at Barnet.

The trains to which the accident occurred were a passenger train returning empty to Southgate, after delivering its passengers at Barnet, and a goods train on its journey down the line. The passenger train was the last one due from London, and it was at Barnet at half-past eleven, with the engine facing down the line. The engine was detached or uncoupled from the train with the guard's break, and ran by a crossing-line on to the up-line, with the tender first. It so ran past the now empty train, and, coming to another "crossing," ran again on to the down-line, and was attached to the rear of the train. The engine-driver, whose name was Murphitt, asked the signalman if all was right, and the reply was, "When you are all right you may right away." Deceased, whose name was Arthur South, said to Murphitt, "Now, get ready, Harry, and right away: make haste home," and jumped into his break, and the train started. A goods train was waiting at Whetstone, and to this the signalman sent the messages to

"get ready" and "come on," "line clear." Whetstone being about a mile off, on the London side, a point ought to have been held over to allow the train to pass on the up-line; but this, apparently, was not done, and the train came into collision with the goods train, just about half a mile from the station, engine meeting engine. Murphitt jumped off, and the stoker, Casseldean, did the same after him; but the two were so much injured that they had to be taken to the Royal Free Hospital. The engine of the passenger train reared against the other, and in a moment there was an explosion of the gasometer in the guard's van of the passenger train (the train being lit with gas), and the unfortunate man's body was thrown by the explosion on to the front of the engine, where it burnt all night; for the carriages and the van continued to burn until after daylight.

24. CRUISE OF THE LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY.-Mr. Childers, M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty, with Vice-Admiral Sir Sydney Dacres, K.C.B., First Sea Lord, accompanied by their staff-officers, secretaries, &c., sailed from England for a cruise in the Mediterranean, with a fleet comprising the cream of our modern navy. They were:

1. The "Agincourt," 28 guns, 6121 tons, armoured, iron-built, screw-engined ship, of 1350-horse power. 2. The "Minotaur," 34 guns, 6621 tons, armoured, iron-built, screw-engined ship, of 1350-horse power. 3. The "Northumberland," 28 guns, 6621 tons, armoured, iron-built, screw-engined ship, of 1350-horse power. 4. The "Hercules," 14 guns, 5234 tons, armoured, ironbuilt, screw-engined ship, of 1200-horse power. 5. The "Bellerophon," 14 guns, 4270 tons, armoured, iron-built, screw-engined ship, of 1000-horse power. 6. The "Monarch," 7 guns, 5102 tons, armoured, iron-built, screw-engined ship (double turret), of 1100-horse power. 7. The "Inconstant," 17 guns, 4066 tons, unarmoured, iron-built, screw-engined ship, of 1000-horse power. 27. THE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOAT-RACE.-The longexpected contest on the Thames from Putney to Mortlake, between the four-oared boats of the Harvard and Oxford University crews, representing the championship of America and old England respectively, resulted this afternoon in a victory for the latter.

The river was kept clear of all steamers, barges, and other large vessels, by order of the Thames Conservancy Board; a line of sentinel barges, with a strong iron chain made fast to each bank of the river, having been placed directly across at Putney, to prevent their coming up; but many hundreds of small row-boats lay close to both shores, though forbidden to move out upon the water. Only three steamboats (the "Lotus," appointed to convey the umpires; the "Sunflower," allotted to the newspaper reporters; and the steam-launch "Ariel," for Mr. Lord, the officer of the Thames Conservancy) were suffered along the four-mile course. The towingpaths, the banks, the roads, and the bridges were thronged with spectators, who swarmed more thickly at Putney, Hammersmith,

Chiswick, and Mortlake, both on the Middlesex and on the Surrey side, than was ever seen at the annual match between Oxford and Cambridge.

The two crews, all being ready, went down to the river shortly before five o'clock, the Oxford men to the Leander Club boat-house, and the Harvard men to that of the London Rowing Club. They at once proceeded to embark. The Oxford crew were first afloat, and pushed off from the shore about five minutes to five o'clock, followed almost immediately by the Americans. Both crews were loudly cheered as they paddled down to the post. Some little time was wasted before they could start, for, by some oversight, no station boats had been provided from which to hold the sterns of the racing boats preparatory to the start. At length two skiffs were procured, and, dropping their anchors just ahead of the line of lighters, were placed in position. The two racing boats then backed down to them, the Harvard crew taking the Middlesex side, while the Oxonians were on the Surrey side, both immediately opposite the Star and Garter Hotel at Putney. At ten minutes past five the starter-Mr. W. Blaikie, Secretary of the Harvard University Boat Club-prepared to get them off; but the Oxford crew not being quite ready, a few moments of suspense elapsed. At length, at fourteen minutes past five the signal was given, and the race commenced.

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The Harvard crew dipped their oars into the water first, but the Oxonians were almost as quickly under-way. So rapidly did the Americans get their boat off, that off the Duke's Head, about half way between the Star and Garter and Simmons's yard, they led by half a length, which advantage they had increased to a whole length opposite the London Club boat-house. The cheers and countercheers of the multitude made a deafening uproar. At the Bishop's Creek, on the Middlesex side of the river, the Harvard crew had, if possible, added yet more to their lead, and seemed to be clear of Oxford, with a couple of feet to spare. On getting past the Willows, and the site of the old half-mile post, there was no change. The Harvard crew, who were rowing a very rapid stroke of at least forty-two to the minute, held their advantage, if they did not slightly add to it. The Oxford crew, on the other hand, were pulling a very steady stroke of perhaps thirty-nine to the minute, without hurry or scrambling, and with every appearance of keeping it up all the way; but their boat, nevertheless, appeared to be moving slowly, compared with that of the Americans. At Craven

Cottage the Oxford crew, as both made for the bend to the right' seemed for a moment to be coming up to their opponents; but this was more in appearance than reality, owing to the crews, which had hitherto been wide of one another, closing together preparatory to entering the long reach for the Soapworks' point. Indeed, they approached the Harvard boat so rapidly that their coxswain was compelled to edge out a little so as to keep out of danger, and a too free use of his left-hand rudder-line caused his boat to lose way and ground at the same time, the Harvard crew at this moment leading by something over a length. At the upper end of the garden of Craven Cottage the Harvard coxswain, apparently not liking the slack water under the Middlesex shore, sheered outwards, and bored the Oxford crew towards midstream, the latter giving way at once. This little bit of manoeuvring gave the American boat a further advantage, so that off the Grass Wharf, just above the Cottage, they led by a length and a quarter, or thereabouts. Below Rosebank Villa, while the two boats were crossing the water for the point on the Surrey shore below Hammersmith, the Oxford crew drew up slightly, and the pace of the Harvard men seemed to diminish a trifle. But this idea was immediately dispelled by their once more drawing away from Oxford, as they passed the Crab Tree, the American boat being well steered out, nearly in the centre of the river. Here the flood-tide was less spent than closer in shore, where the Oxonians were taken. Consequently, for a short distance it appeared as if the Harvard crew were about to leave the Oxford men astern; this being just above the Crab Tree and some distance below the clump of trees adjoining the Soapworks, on the Surrey shore. But on rounding the point below Messrs. Cowan's wharf the state of affairs underwent a change, the Oxford crew once more beginning to hold their own, and, as the two boats passed the Soapworks, perceptibly gaining on the Americans. A cheer was sent up by the crowd which had gathered on the wharf; it was taken up and re-echoed by thousands of people as the boats came in sight of Hammersmith-bridge. After passing the Soapworks, and when the boats were pointed for the centre span of the Suspension-bridge, the Oxford crew, who now benefited by the flood in the middle of the river, began to overtake the Harvard boat, overlapping it just below the steamboat pier, and drawing up several feet over its stern as they both shot the arch-reached in 8 min. 20 sec. After passing the bridge, the Oxford crew, who were vociferously cheered by the crowd above, gained still more upon the Americans, and off Biffin's yard were barely threequarters of a length in the rear. Opposite the Doves it became clear that it was merely a question of time when the Oxford boat would overtake and pass its rival; but the Harvard men made such gallant efforts to avert defeat, that it was some distance before Oxford could be said to be on even terms with them, the Harvard four still leading off the Oil-mills by from a quarter to half a length. No material alteration occurred for another hundred yards,

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