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entered the arena. The Life Guards wore small blue undress or forage caps, red silk shirts, broad blue belts, knee-breeches, and black boots. The Lancers had red caps with gold band, white flannel shirts, red silk ties, red and gold belts, and boots with legs of drab cloth; of course all were spurred" as well as booted. Three goals were scored in the first hour-two by the Lancers and one by the Guards, the Lancers consequently being the victors. In the second game they scored two goals to their opponents 0, winning that also. This match was the return to a drawn one played at Windsor a few days previous.

20. CHESS TOURNAMENT AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.-A novel feature was introduced into this game. Simultaneous and blindfold games were carried on, Herr Zukertort, the visitor from Berlin, conducting ten games at once, without seeing the board. The greatest interest, however, was centred in a series of matches by telegraph, on a scale never before attempted. Wires were laid on to the concert-hall, where the tournament was held, and direct communication was thus secured with the clubs of Glasgow, Birmingham, Bristol, Nottingham, and Hull. Against the representatives of these five towns the leading metropolitan amateurs played a series of twenty games by telegraph. For hours the click of the wires was heard incessantly; but want of time unfortunately prevented most of the games from being finished.

-THE VOLUNTEERS AT WIMBLEDON.-The meeting of the National Rifle Association at Wimbledon terminated to-day with a review and the presentation of the prizes by the Princess of Wales. The advancing skill of the volunteers in the use of the rifle has been demonstrated in a most marked manner, and probably in no greater degree than in the shooting for the Albert prize. In the first stage, Mr. Wilson, of the Ulster Rifle Association, made 82 points out of a possible 84, nineteen of his twenty-one shots being successive bulls. In the final stage, Mr. Ross, the Queen's prizeman of 1860, won the prize by getting on the bull's-eye, at 600 and 1000 yards, twenty-five times out of twenty-nine shots. The Queen's prize was won by Colour-Sergeant Michie, of the London Scottish, with a score of 65. Sergeant Michie, who has been four times in the first hundred, but never in the first sixty, is a native of Fifeshire, and is occupied as a confidential clerk to an eminent mercantile house in London.

The camp has been visited by all the notable foreigners who are at present in England. On Tuesday the Burmese ambassador, accompanied by some of his suite, was present. His Excellency has presented to the Association a most beautiful and valuable cup, to be shot for. Perhaps it may be best described as of about the size and shape of one of the old-fashioned finger-glasses. It is of pure gold, and exquisitely adorned in relief with figures and embossing. It is surrounded by the twelve signs of the zodiac, and is a most interesting as well as costly specimen of the work of the Burmese goldsmith. This prize has been valued at 2007.

The ambassadors from the Panthays, and the Persian ambassador, have also witnessed some of the contests.

The English eight, led by Mr. Wells, M.P., won the Elcho Shield by not many marks from the Scotch; the English twenty, the International Challenge; Winchester, the Public Schools match; and Private Cowan, of Cheltenham, a very small boy, the Spencer Cup for the highest individual scorer from the schools. The Commons beat the Lords by three points; and a team of Canadians carried off a prize given by the Rajah of Kolapore, which they had especially come to contest.

23. RAILWAY SCENE.-During the thunderstorm which passed over London to-night a most exciting scene took place near the York-road Station on the Metropolitan Railway. The station in question is situated in a deep cutting, and the fall of rain was so heavy that a large amount of water had accumulated, extending for a considerable distance. As soon, therefore, as the 6.18 train from Barnet, which was filled with passengers, emerged from the tunnel, the water had reached such a height that it put the engine fires out, and the train was consequently brought to a standstill. It was found that the points would not work, and that owing to the storm the wires of the electric telegraph could not be used. The latter misfortune was all the more important, inasmuch as the express which runs on to Farringdon-street was at the time overdue. Another engine was procured by the officials, and chains were attached to the train. Every effort, however, in this direction was unsuccessful, owing probably to the sleepers floating about in all directions. The excitement at this period was painful in the extreme. The majority of the passengers were unable to leave the carriages, owing to the depth of the water, which was making down the line in a perfect torrent; women were fainting, and even the servants of the company seemed paralyzed with fear, being totally unable to prevent what threatened to be a terrible disaster. A few of the passengers by dint of the greatest exertions had been removed from the train, when suddenly a shout announced that the express was coming, and a huge wave was seen issuing from the tunnel as the train approached. The same cause, however, which had placed the Barnet train in its terrible position proved its salvation, for the water also put out the fires in the express engine, which drew up, to the immense relief of all the bystanders, within about five feet of the hindermost carriage of the former train.

-DISCOVERY OF LIVINGSTONE.-This day Mr. Stanley, a young correspondent of the New York Herald, who has become suddenly celebrated as the discoverer of Livingstone, landed at Marseilles. Last year the editor of the Herald telegraphed suddenly for young Stanley, then at Madrid, and proposed to him to go and find Livingstone, offering carte blanche in the way of expenses. On the 3rd of November, 1871, he unexpectedly came upon the traveller at Ujiji. His despatches graphically described the meeting.

Anxious to enter the African town with as much éclat as possible,

he disposed his little band in such a manner as to form a somewhat imposing procession. At the head was borne the American flag; next came the armed escort, who were directed to discharge their fire-arms with as much rapidity as possible; following these were the baggage-men, the horses, and asses; and in the rear of all came Mr. Stanley himself. The din of the firing aroused the inhabitants of Ujiji to the fact that strangers were approaching, and they flocked out in great crowds, filling the air with deafening shouts, and beating violently on their rude musical instruments. As the procession entered the town Mr. Stanley observed a group of Arabs on the right, in the centre of whom was a pale-looking, greybearded, white man, whose fair skin contrasted with the sun-burnt visages of those by whom he was surrounded. Passing from the rear of the procession to the front, the American traveller noticed the white man was clad in a red woollen jacket, and wore upon his head a naval cap with a faded gilt band round it. In an instant he recognized the European as none other than Dr. Livingstone himself; and he was about to rush forward and embrace him, when the thought occurred that he was in the presence of Arabs, who, being accustomed to conceal their feelings, were very likely to found their estimate of a man upon the manner in which he conceals his own. A dignified Arab chieftain, moreover, stood by, and this confirmed Mr. Stanley in his resolution to show no symptom of rejoicing or excitement. Slowly advancing towards the great traveller, he bowed and said, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" to which address the latter, who was fully equal to the occasion, simply smiled, and replied, "Yes." It was not till some hours afterwards, when alone together, seated on a goat-skin, that the two white men exchanged those congratulations which both were eager to express, and recounted their respective difficulties and adventures. Mr. Stanley's statement is that Dr. Livingstone appeared to be in remarkably good health, stout, and strong, quite undismayed by all that he had gone through, and eager only to finish the task he had imposed upon himself. The Doctor having been shut out from the civilized world for so many years, Mr. Stanley found himself acting as a kind of newspaper to him, and the details of what had occurred in Europe and America interested him exceedingly.

"When we were alone," relates Mr. Stanley, "I handed to him a packet of letters from home, and said that after he had finished reading them he should next be told all the news from the civilized world, so far as I myself knew them. No, no,' said Livingstone, 'for three years I have been waiting for letters from home, and I can afford to wait a few hours longer; give me the news of the world!' So I reported to him all that I could think of: the striking events of the Franco-German war, the capture of Napoleon, the flight of the Empress, and declaration of the Republic; the fall of Queen Isabella of Spain; the election of General Grant in America; the opening of the Pacific Railroad; and whatever else I thought likely to be interesting to one who had lived so long at

such remoteness from the movements of civilization. One of the very first questions which he put, with a view to supplementing my budget of intelligence, was about the welfare of his dear old friend' Sir Roderick Murchison; I answered that at my latest advices he was quite well, for it was only on my return to the coast that I learnt of his death, which I since knew had happened only about three weeks before I saw the traveller in whose eventual safety the veteran president so staunchly believed. Although Dr. Livingstone had been absent from his native country so long, he spoke English perfectly, both in phrase and accent."

"After I had told Livingstone everything," continues Mr. Stanley, "he narrated to me in return all that had happened to himself; first recounting the latest and, in some ways, the most important facts, and afterwards going back over the whole period of his voluntary and toilsome banishment, to give a complete and connected history of his wanderings from the time when he quitted Zanzibar in the fall of 1865. This narrative was not the occupation of a single evening, as you may suppose; for it lasted, with the explanations and amplifications necessary for one who had not been among the scenes themselves, during all the four months I remained with Livingstone, from November 10, 1871, to March 14, 1872." The explorer has transmitted to the New York Herald two autograph letters: one addressed to Mr. James Gordon Bennett-the present proprietor of that paper-who originated the idea of the special search, thanking him for his generosity in "sending help to a man who was utterly broken down and destitute;" the other, which is very long, devoted to the subjects of the slave-trade in Africa, and of the geographical, or, rather, hydrographical discoveries which he has made. Mr. Stanley reports that Dr. Livingstone has consented to communicate special intelligence to the paper which he has so ably and bravely represented; so that the first accounts of the future discoveries of which the enthusiastic Scotchman is in quest will first appear, it may be expected, on the other side of the Atlantic.

26. SALE OF THE MIDDLE PARK STUD.-The celebrated stud collected by Mr. Blenkiron, of Middle Park, has been disposed of by auction by Mr. Tattersall, during three days' sale, concluding to day. The sale was attended by representatives of nearly every European country, who made large purchases. The catalogue contained a list of 234 animals, consisting of mares, colts, fillies, and three of the best stallions of the day, Blair Athol, Breadalbane, and Gladiateur. The total amount realized was 106,395 guineas, the three stallions fetching 25,500 of this sum-Blair Athol, who was purchased by the English Stud Company, reached the top price, 12,500 guineas. Gladiateur was next, Mr. Harcourt paying 7000 for him, beating Breadalbane, who was knocked down to Count Lehndorff, for a thousand. The mares that fetched the highest prices were Isilia and Inspiration, Captain Ray obtaining the former for 1600 guineas, and the latter, with a filly by Saunterer, falling to Count Lehndorff's bid of 1550. The other large sums obtained were

Seclusion, 2500 gs., Mr. Chaplin; Tunstall Maid, with a filly by Blair Athol, 1000 gs., Mr. T. E. Walker; and Gratitude, 1000 gs., M. Cavaliero.

27. MDLLE. CHRISTINE NILSSON, the Swedish prima-donna, was this day married to M. Auguste Rouzeaud, of the French Stock Exchange, by Dean Stanley, in Westminster Abbey. The Secretary to the Swedish Legation gave the bride away, and Mr. Cavendish Bentinck, M.P., gave the wedding breakfast. The Abbey was crowded with the fashionable, the operatic, and the curious.

31. THE AMERICAN FLEET.-The Prince and Princess of Wales paid a private visit to Rear-Admiral Allen and the squadron under his command, now lying in the Southampton Waters. Admiral Allen having returned in the "Wachusetts" from Antwerp, and retransferred his flag to the "Wabash," and three additional vessels of the squadron having arrived within the last few days, the squadron anchored below Netley Hospital on Wednesday afternoon to receive the Prince comprised six vessels-the "Wabash" (flagship of the Admiral), "Congress," "Plymouth," "Wachusetts," "Brooklyn," and "Shenandoah." In the evening the fleet was illuminated, and the Prince entertained at dinner on board the royal yacht the Admiral and all the Captains of the fleet, the American Minister, and other gentlemen; an invitation having also been sent to the President's son, Mr. Frederick Grant, who, however, was compelled to return to America some time before the interesting occasion we have chronicled.

THUNDERSTORMS.-The meteorology of the month, says the Times, may be said to have consisted in one grand prolonged demonstration of the powers of elemental electricity. On the 6th the weather became sultry, and storm-clouds overspread the sky. Distant thunder was of frequent occurrence, but no lightning was visible here (Shoreham), and a few large drops of rain only descended on this high ground. These phenomena, however, betokened an electric storm of wide area that visited England, and was accompanied by lightning and torrents of rainfall. In London and the southern suburbs of the city it was especially severe. In Oxfordshire trees were struck and split to fragments, telegraph-posts thrown down, and growing crops greatly damaged. In Warwickshire the storm burst forth with unprecedented fury; the lightning was remarkably brilliant, and the thunder sharp and reverberating. The streets were submerged and houses flooded. Worcestershire, South Wales, and Devonshire were also visited. At Merthyr Tydvil a large reservoir burst its banks and swept down with great force, and the country adjacent was buried four or five feet deep beneath the waters. Horses and cattle were washed away, and great damage to property ensued.

On the 11th, after a very cppressive and sultry day, the thermometer in the shade standing above 70 deg., and solar radiation 140 deg., broken thunder-clouds swept over the sky, and frequent flashes of distant lightning were visible. At 9.30 p.m. a portion of