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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 246, 23 July 1872, Page 3

A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette writes as follows, —“ The Lil/ertc, which paper, os' I have bad recently occasion to remark more than once, takes special care to instruct its readers in matters appertaining to England, in writiug about the Oxford and Cambridge boat race, says that the champions sometimes go down the Thames as far ls Kew and even Richmond. 1 The course is always straight and without turns. Then from 25,000,000 to 30,000,000 of bets are mada each year at Putney, and the morning after the race 50 suicides arc committed in London by losers, who return to town and blow out their braius, 1 but the custom is so general that nobody takesany notice of it. Both Houses of Parliament are present at these jousts, and the Archbishops of Yotk aud Canterbury and the Bishop of London occupy a place on the ferry-boat, which ferry-boat, followed by t ,p o or three hundred craft, descend the river at the regulation , distance of a hundred yards from the rowers. The above information was probably derived by the correspondent of the L'ibertc from the hackney coachman who charged him £6 Bterbng for the journey.”