The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-04 00:00:00

AQDATIC AMUSEMENTS.

The revived Thames National Regatta took
place ypesterday. There were not many entries, and the
attendance of spectators was extremely limited. The
preliminary heats of the Sculley.' Prize (901.), termed the
Championship of the Thames, from Putney to Mortlake,
were rowed, se also the preliminaries of the Pair-oared Prize
(WI.) The racing commenced at half-past one with the
Championship of the Thames. First Heat. J. Percy,
Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1 ; H. Kelly, Putney, 2 ; W. Sadler,
Putney, absent ; G. Hammerton, Kingston, absent. Won
easily by four lengths. The champion pairs was the
next race. rust prize, SOL ; second prize, 101. ; third
prize, 6L Chisvrick to Putney. First Heat. R. Cham-
bers and A. Thompson, Walleend and Newcastle, 1 ; H.
Kelley and R. Cook, Putney and Oxford, 0 ; C. Marshall
and R. D. Marshal, Durham, absent. Won by six
lengths. Second Heat. G. Scott and J. Taylor, New-
castle, 1 ; J. Sadler and G. Hammerton, Kingston, 0 ;
F. Kilsby, and F. Phelps, Putney, 0. Sadler and Phelps
fouled at 100 yards, giving Taylor the lead, which he held
easily all the way. The ruing will be continued at 2
o'clock to-day.
A scullers' race for 1001. took place in the afternoon
between Benjamin Edwards, a waterman of the Tower,
and George Sheppard, a waterman of Chelsea. Both are
noted millers, Edwards having won the Tower boat and
defeated many good above and below-bridge men, and
Sheppard has displayed good rowing qualities, when he
raced Cain from Putney to Mortlake two years ago. The
men bad been in active preparation for the event—Ed-
wards at Mr. Wilcox's, White Hart, Barnes, and Shep-
pard at Tom Hoare's, the King's Anns, Hammersmith,
and were in good condition. Two steamers accompanied,
and Mr. C. Bush was referee. Edwards won the toss, and
took the inside station; they got away level, and shortly
afterwards Edwards drew out with the lead, clearing his
man in a quarter of a mile; then Sheppard drew up
slightly, but fell away again to the Soap Works, where he
was again on even terms with his opponent, with whom
be rowed 60 yards, and then quitting him, won with ease,
Edwards coming up towards the finish.
In the morning a swimming match took place in the
Serpentine, under the auspices of the Alliance Swimming
Club, the competition having to decide the captaincy of
the club. The distance was 600 yards, Parker's clever
performance three weeks since with Morris in the German
Gymnastic Society's 1,000 yards challenge cup race of
course made him the favourite at the start, and he won
the title of captain of the club, accompanied with a valu-
able prize, without any difficulty:—H. Parker, 1 ; V.
Grant, 2; J. Coombe., 3; H. Bedford, 0. Swimming
with a pretty side stroke, and travelling at a rapid pace,
Parker came to the winning Sa dozen yards in advance
of Grant, the winner's time • llmin. 20sec. Coombee
swam into third place, only a yard in the rear of
Grant, and the race between these men during the final
100 yards was very exciting.

BRIGHTON WEST PIER.
TO ras ISOTOZ OP TIM =POEM

Six,—The attention of my directors having
been called to a paragraph under the above beading pub-
llihed in several of the morning newspapers of this day's
date, I am instructed to state for the satisfaction of the
public that the board have caused a careful survey of the
pier to be made, that not the slightest strain or displace-
ment has been found= and that they confidently believe
that the structure is in every way perfectly secure. The
directors have been informed by their engineers that the
construction of the pier is not upon the principle of abso-
lute rigidity, but provides for deflection as essential to the
security of such a structure as the Brighton West Pier.
With regard to the assertion in the above-mentioned para-
graph, that vibration was caused by the force of the wind,
I have to observe that last evening there was but very
little wind, and that for the last two years the pier has
sustaiued no injurious result, from the most violent
winter gales.—l am,

' F. 'II. WELSFORD,
Secretary to the Brighton West Pier Company.
August 3.

SHOCKING CRUELTY ON FIHIPIIOARD.—The ship
Arnui, of Greenock, sailed for Quebec at the beginning of
last April, and shortly after sailing seven boy stowaways
were discovered on board. Till sea-eielmeas overcame
them the lads do not appear to have been ill-used, but
afterwards and during the voyage they are said to have
been subjected to the most cruel treatment. Six of the
lads, who were miserably clad, two of them being barefoot,
were left upon a detached field of ice near the Newfound-
land coast, and told to walk to land, the only provisions
given them being a biscuit each. Pour of the poor fellows
were picked up in a wretched, frostbitten condition by a
passing boat, but it is believed the other two perished,
The master and mate—Bohert Watt and James Kerr—
have been arrested at Greenock, when they narrowly
escaped rough treatment at the hands of a mob. They
have been remanded by the magistrates.
HORRIBLE OocunnENTE. A young cripple,
named Mari Ann Burley, living about four miles from York, in a fit of despondency at the apprehension of her
sister on a charge of robbery, threw hentelf, on Satur-
day, under the engine of a traia which her own brother
happened to be driving. He thought at first she intended
to speak to 'him from the side of the line, but when her
rash act was committed he became nearly frantic, and it
required the utmost efforts of the stoker to keep him from
leaping off the engine. The poor girl was shockingly
mutilated, but did not die till late the sante night.
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