The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-14 00:00:00

AQUATICS.

THAMES BOAT RACES.
The seeks d mess ander the above title, se • ettir.
MOM fee the Theme Grad Regatta, were mai up
yeeterdsp by MIN firehiste sport, but were hardly so sum.
reedy as is antleipatod. It had been indeed rumeute
kg ratssce ilestley that, is coneequence of the laseseed
death of VterCheseelles of England, these ewe Ital
been sed ; see were swab tumours altogether without,
der es sees es the melancholy event wee kliegs
he Me feemmilhee of shemessiseat, they took late semilem
ties the geeplety eillerng that our of Digest tarn.=
ma she bed simm bees a eunuch newest el the
Ilagetta, sad who, by►hit hdahailr, had - plaid be himself
the geed °Makes of all It wm however. hoed
ie wig oat these lamas% m Vie tide mold set=
fors ferisight, sad a peilmsemeet let sense a peeled wewM
Ore eemind s great ram memo as me who amid
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steed it,—Me watentes win had maned themselves
fte
this match.
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madames. sad• muse of emenigen foe wassmiem of the
fern" thin were lout pain amend, while ef the Was

llettiamay (link) 1
R. Doubled** (Blue end white)
T. Lett
H. Hallam (Yell and bitch) •
They startled of well, Doubled,' data got a alight lead,
sad Ilsoltimep belajnisso: Lett laylag sloes oa his gear
ter. It He maw asatiaasd to 11!• riot oa the MI&
diem Wok, mina Des leaved Sl•e•faary rather too
mach fats ea *Mai am, mad both were costeequeaUy
somewhat sat des* sums.. By these mesas Lett, who
hid bona rafts 'Mau. by proper stettrago and very gene
romiap, ass sasWd to collar th• leading pair again, sad at
the Crabtree they more all well together. Here Meekiuney
pat Os • mot doSseseined effort, and Doubledee relaziag in
• oorressoadiag manner, while Lett panned • pretty good
pace. Masklassysitimately wet by four or fire lengths.

Irma rm..

(Net) 1
It Doukas
J. A. Mesesager
Ce (Black and white) 0
7.
renes (bloc 0
All four got away as oven sea die to Messrs. Searles' past
when Combos was throws off by the othen, who sonsused
to make a most beautifsl race of it till off Rose Cottage,
when, la eosseqwese of Meetenger loeleg Vs scull he wee
throws late the third plea. After this Desbledee, is in the
first hie, again pressed his opponent into the gamy shore,
sad a slight feel was the consequence, which, had there
bees a neseelltp for the umpire's decision, would have been
ghee whet Doubledn. Messenger then bourse to overhaul
Dmhledee, and slightly pined upon him all the distance.
Metkinney woe by ow clear length ; tee second man
(Doubled's) was muesli more a-bead of Messenger.

REGATTA.

The annul bent races on flyer irw mr need on
Monday. and attracted • very large company to witness
them. The Trafford Park Stake. of 61. 6.., for youths
wider 18 years of op, in four-oar gigs, was contested by ten
mew, in four classes, the river not being wide enough for
more than three boats at a time, with deciding heats to
determine the best of the beet, and occupied a trossiderable
portion of the afternoon. The hat deciding heat lay bi tween
two boats, called the Oen and the Mischief, and was an in-
targeting race, terminating in favour of Mischief. The
principal event of the day was the Chadwick Cup, of 201,
for four-oar gig., with 16s. each crew added, the first boat
to pay the second 31. There were three entrits, two
of them being Manchester boats, manned by the
Bhaltepeare and Princess, rival clubs, and the
other being • Newcastle-upon-Tyne boat, manned by
Jolts Salter and the fear Cloven, whom prowess has
carried off prizes on the Thames, the Mersey, and the Dee,
as well as on the river which flows through their native
tows. The Manchester men having ones before contended
suceeesfully with the., betting was realm brisk, end up to
the time of s was even. Some offers of 8 to 4 were
then taken, but the odds soon increased wonderfully in
favour of the Clasper.. The course is a mile up tits • ream
and • mile down again, and • good start being obtained,
and the boats getting well off together, the breath of the
epectators seemed suspended almost for twenty lengths or
so, Ito equally did the competitors appear to pull with each
other. The boat of the Clasper., however, now drew slightly
ahead from between the other, and notwithstanding the
opinion of theorists in such mitten that the short quick
strcke of the Manchester men was best ',looted to fresh
water rosin', the long rteady palls acquired by the others
upon tidal yaws griodeally placed them more and
more in advance, till b to 1 and ultimately
20 to 1, in their favour was freely offered in
the betting circles. The up stream nos virtually decided
the contest, and the Newcastle boat came back half-a-dozen
lengths ahead, an apparently easy winner, the Princess row-
ing in second. The neat race was for the Stewards Cup,
val 25 guineas. There were three boats entered, but only
two came to the scratch. One of these was a Manchester
boat and crew the Nemesis; the other was a boat manned
by mill'ary enema in garrison—Lientenants Dumeresq,
Lansdale, Hunt, and Hnatchball, of the 3rd Dragoon
Guards. The Nemesia won, but the young officers in the
rival boat gave them some trouble. The last race was a
match, 6 boats entered : won by the Confidence,
Henry Ault It was past seven in the evening before the
sports INN over.

AND Loss o 1.1711 AT

Hatara.x.—On Thursday evening this town was visited by
a most awful *Arm of thunder and lightning, accompanied
by heavy rain. Unfortunately, the storm did not plat over
without loss of life; a little boy, named William Lambert,
aged 12 years, son of Daniel Lambert, delver, Upper-lane,
Northowram, having been straek dead by lightning. It ap.
pears that about a quarter past 8 o'clock in the evening, the
mother of the little lad was sitting in the house near the fire,
dammed beico sat in • chair near the out wall and the wall
of the adjoining house ; a little girl being eat at a short dis-
tance from him sad cacao to the chimney. The door of the
house was thrown apse, sad also • window up gain. A little
above the head of the dowered a pair of tongs were hung
epee the wall, es customary in many cottage houses.
Tile thunder at this time was load and terrific, and the vivid
flashes of lightning succeeded oath other in rapid successios,
until at length there came one brighter than the rest, and
which rendered the mother of the deceased insensible for
some moments. Upon otescionsasea retuning, the little
girl screamed out, " Mother! Willey's dead!' The dis-
tracted mother ran towards her child, who eat motionless is
his little chair, with his head upon his bruit sad his arms
hanging by his side. She spoke to him, but he answered
not; and calling in her neighbours, the little fellow, who but
a moment or two before was full of life and vigour, was found
to be a corpse. Not a single mark was found upon his
body, except a very slight discoloration of the chest. A
few yards above where he wee sitting the plaster was
knocked off the wall to the extent of about twelve inches in
length and one in breadth ; and the middle nob of the or-
nanieatal werk at the head of the clock, which stood in the
opposite corner of the house, was knocked off. There was
also a rent in the floor above the clock, and the posts of the
bed were found to be slightly damaged. In the bedroom •
small piece of plaster was aloe taken out of the wall above
the fin-place, bat neither the loop before alluded to nor the
fender' or fire-irons bad apparentl born moved. It would
appear that the lightning bad the chimney,
through the room floor above the clock, and, being attracted
by the tongs on tie other corner of the house, expended itself
spots the Warta:ate child sitting beneath.
VOLTINTART STARVATION TO AVOID TRANBPORTA-
TION.—Yestarday, Mr. H. M. Wall held an inquest in
the House ef Contrition, Coldbath-fields, Cleekeawell, on
Heap Smith, aged 21, a notorious character, who had been
soulemesd lo lea years' tramportation. In coy amuses of
an industriously but falsely woad report that dammed hod
bees starved In death by the pima !authorities, the iaspairy
suited great interest. Ihe wooer and Jury having viewed
the body , whisk is a sere skeleton, sevs witnesses were
examined he 'Yoe MeMmests it appeared oat the de-
ceased had bon oommitted r peison a great number of times
ice various 111.1•1116, and while undergoing punishment had
always behaved inoffensively until subsequently to the last
mimes seemed wee him. On the 6th instant he began to
est as es 1111111111111•11 sad extravagant way, and it
was llonsi seessiery to re • strait wantcest is order
to prevent him fees hurting himself or others.
He obelloately perukes& is refusing to swallow any
solid had, and he aping wsklealy on the 10th iasteat.
It,. Wekedeld, blue news, said he watched the came
closely and with Ike he was of opinion that
deceased's Insanity was assumed to escape punishment. He
refused all kind of solid boa, which bad to be forced down,
and then he would throw it bock. He complained of no
disease. The day preceding his death, witness, in the pre-
sence of another medical man, ordered the removal of his
strait-waistcoat, when he struck right and left at
them, so that he had esti& to be pat under restralat.
They had not the slightest idea of deceased's ap-
proaching death. Wham performed a post aerials
examisatics. The body wee emaciated, bat he could
sot discover internally or externally the muse of death :
all the organs wen healthy. In his opinion deceased volon-
tarly starved limed! to death. Every possible AM was
male to cave hi Ills The jar, retuned the
" Deemed AM ken the else% enduseisharti
adtenstes, ken Ike west 51 pr sonekhoment eikkk
errhesstlenop=si deesseees refesles es Ws die
Jury sea Tided for him." To whisk the
Jury MIA theiren or the kind treatment whisk
&weed the peissa.

LAW INTBLLIGENCIL
TRIB DAY.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
imam Ma. Ccoomenoxte FOWL
MI °Midi& COMMISSION. SEW, LOAN, Jan 'Milt-
ANC' CO u .
This was the last examination meeting is the ease of this
amnesty, whose affairs was brought before the mart some
menthe ago.
Mr. Pear.,, for the assignee, said the ranagiet direst ,or
Mr, Hamad. who had been ordered, wider theillith seetin
of dm 7 sad 8 Vienna, pp. 111, to prepare ths banes-
sheet of the enspasy, had mot filed any anseate, me had
he eves sweadered.
Mr. Lucalsaid be appeared ter Mr. Ibusand, Si show
mem why the socciens had mot been Hied, and to ask for us
adjournment.
hir. Pear., asked that Mr. Banand should be firer sun-
goosed to sweatier fa the saint, way, as be had not
yet onsplini with that requirement et the set.
Mr. Lame said Yr. Bansmil was present, bet meld net
newly with the 13th Maw, bessale he had best teamed
by Sri W. Vaughan Moen Chancery, to deliver pail
the Imuks and mine of Os eseapsay, end bad been re-
fused access to them Meths mienat preparlegnalmisace-
skeet. There was me atesa to his sarrsalfe bias tam ;
but at he was nadir two juziedietiosse, he eient=esemmigs
with the readreenais el both. Ultimately •
,wsaid he nada rat la the Mester's ssas, mid Use
asaMsees WAS Main Gimpy of It.
Hie Honour said aff be weld do was to mean She sur
render and listen to say eppliestin for an adjournment that
might be made. If good reason was showmAhe maid gnat
on- • otherwise he would adjourn the examiaatMet gift die.
i`ter a conversation, the surrender was taken.
The Honour expressed an opinion that thtse proondings
Is bankruptcy would only tend to increase expense, as, the
affair haying got lab Chancery, it wield be impossible to
prevent it going through that court. When a ease was
eon there, it was intliosei'3le to get it out of the grasp of
the Court of Chancery. In many owe, he considered that
the provisions of the winding•np sets wire used only for
robbing Innocent creditors, and for the beet fit of knew.
Mr. Lams said the proceedings in this case bad been insti-
tuted for the benefit of the creditors, and would no doubt
have that result.

His Honour said it was only by the assistance of some of
the credi.ors that these bubble companies were enabled to
carry on their frauds. In some cases of this kind be had
observed very large SUMS claimed by advertising agents. If
these men had not chosen to advertise oa credit, the eeen-
peal., would not have succeeded in duping the public. They
were like the trumpetor of old, who, scoording to the fable,
was entitled to less mercy than those who fought themselves.
They aided the delusion practised by these companies, and
the effect of the winding-up acts wes to put mosey in their
pock.ts, by drawing more out of the unktftnete bole who
oad born made their dupes.
Ultimatay the examination was adjourn.d. 13)me proofs
of debt were taken, upon which no question was raised.
The liabilities of the company, which carried on basins's at
71, Cornbiil, ate seid to be about io,oon. Tao amount of
assets to at present uncertain ; bat the deficiency will proba-
bly be made up in the usual way by fixicg a list of contri-
butories.