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London, England, 1825-07-11 00:00:00

THE SAILING MATCH.

The Sailing Match which was obliged to be put off on a former
clay, on account of there not being sufficient wind to take the ves-
sels as far as thavemend, was rcnewed on Saturday, between
I. Lady Louisa - Mr. T. Smith - 13 tons . Rotherhithe.
2. Royal Eagle - —C. Stokes - II . - Ditto.
3. Deception - R. IVhite - 18 - Vauxhall.
8. Grevhound —l. Vinck - 21 - Rotherhithe.
8. St. George - —E. Codd - 12 - - Stangate.
Saturday, at a quarter past nine, the Favourite steam-boat left
the Tower-stairs, with the gentlemen of the Thardes Yacht Club,
and a small 'tarty on board, tor the purpose of starting the above.
mentioned boats from Biackwall.

The steam-boat reached Black wall a few minutes before ten, and
found the vessels that were to contend for the prize, which wu a
handsome Silver Cup and Cover, lying ready for starting as soon
as the sh,mal ahould be given ; immediately on the Steamer's ar.
rival the Commodore ordered the first gun to be fired, to give the
men intimation to prepare, and iii about ten minutes afterwards,
the second and final gun being fired, Aim boats cleared from one
another, hoisted sails, and were off Without a minute's delay. The
St. George took the start, followed close in her wake by the others,
the Deception lagging behind, and never once offering any reason.
able chance of victory. The contest between the four was kept up',
for some distance, tit) at length the Lady Louisa decidedly took the
lead, and somewhat to the eastward of Erith was a goad half-mile
a-head. At this period, the breeze somewhat freshening, ensiled
the Royal ' Eagle and the Greyhound to reach' het, and from
Broadness Point to Gravesend (the first half the race), the play be.
t ween these three vessels was most admirably managed, and kept up
with such skill that the chance of winning the turn was dubious till
the last minute nr two that honour was ut length obtained by the
Lady Imidsa. who steered round the boat th it was moored °lithe
opening of the Rochester Canal, in just four hours after she
had quitted Illackwall, and about one minute before the
Greyhound. In pressing forward to that point the Royal Eagle.
which till that niorpent had showed herself a beautiful boat for
sailing, foul d an Indiaman, by which the gaff of her mainsail was
broken about a foot from the end ; the consequence of which was,
that so much of her mainsail hung useless and an incumbrance.
As soon as she got round the boat site lay to and spliced therlamage,
but this of course threw her into the hack ground. The St. George
and Deception never went round the boat, and consequently lost all
claim to the prize. On the return home, much play was made
between the Lady Louisa and the Greyhound, and the Royal Eagle
made great effirts towards recovering the distance she had lost
through her acedent, but it had retarded her too much for her ever
again to have a chance. Aluch nautical skill and manoeuvring were
displayed between the Greyhound and the Lady Louisa, which at
last terminated in favour of the termer, by about ten boats' lengths
a-bead. On nearing the buoy round which they were to sail,ac.
cording to the printed directions on the " inside," the Commodore
ordered the steam-boat to be lashed to it, end sent out word to the
Louisa and the Greyhound, that as he did not think that there
would be room to pass " inside," they were to sail round it from
the outside ; this order the Greyhound, whom we have already said
to be the first boat, obeyed, and was first round it ; the Lady -Loui-
sa, however, succeeded in obtaining a passage " inside," and sailed
round it about a minute after the other, according to the printed
directions. The whole of the crews engaged in a squabble with the
Commodore, on the question of who had won the Cup. The
Louisa claimed it according to the printed directions ; the Grey-
hound according to the orders of the Commodore. The point,
therefore, turned upon whether the Commodore was vested with such
supreme power, as to permit him at pleasure to' alter the printed
directions issued by the club at large. it is but justice, however,
to the Greyhound to state, that she was so much a-head of the
Lady Louisa. that whether she had obeyed. the Commodore's orders,
or the printed instructions, she must have arrived before the latter
vessel. By this fact the Commodore seemed to be swayed in his
decision, which was in favour at the Greyhound.

Sr. PA NC RA S DISTRICT SURVETORSIIIP.—A Mr.
Crunden, it seems, had held the three districts of St.
Pancras, Paddington, and Chelsea, nearly half a century,
and resigned that of Pancras at the end of last year into
the hands of the Magistrates, who, in due course, elected
Mr. Baker (son of the late Chief Magistrate at Bow-street,
and the Middlesex Treasurer); but, it coining out that
Mr. Crunden had received a consideration (2,0001.) for his
resignation, the Magistrates refused to swear in 'Mr. Ba-
ker, and deprived Mr. Crunden of his other districts. Mr.
Baker again contested the business, and was again return-
ed, but the Magistrates still refused the oath. The mattes
came before the Magistrates in Session on Thursday, whel
several Resolutions pro. and con. were moved, which ter-
minated in favour of Mr. Baker, who was ultimately
sworn in, with a dissentient of 22 of the Magistrates
present. _ . _

ELECTRICAL E I.—A specimen of the Gymnotus Elec-
tricus has lately been examined by the Parisian silvans.
The greater number were satisfied with a single touch and
consequent shock ; but one Doctor, either urged by a
greater zeal 11. science, or governed by a more insatiable
curiosity, resolved to try the utmost extent of the animal's
powers, and seized it with both his hands, but had quickly
reason to repent his temerity, for he immediately felt a
rapidly repeated series of the most violent and successively
increasing shocks, which forced him to leap about in the
mcst extraordinary manner, and to utter the most piercing
screams from the agony he felt. He then fell into con-
vulsions, in consequence of which his muscles became
violently contracted, for frotn some strange property in the
fish it became impossible to detach the animal from his
grasp. In this situation he remained a considerable time,
and would, in all probability, have expired under the
agony of his sensations, if some one of the persons pre-
sent had not suggested the plunging of his hands in water,
when the eel immediately dropped off He, the Doctor,
has been since most dangerously M.—Scientific Gazette.
During the past month of June disease in the metropolis
has assumed rather a serious aspect. Of the three princi-
pal disorders that are usually prevalent here, there died—
of fever, .52; of measles, 45 ; and of casual smallpt x, 96 ;
to which eight are to be added who died at the Smallpox
Hospital, out of 96 patients admitted, of whom 53 were
discharged well, and 31 still remain on cure. Vaccination
has been resorted to by 376 out-patients, which added to
1980 since the commencement of the present year, amounts
to 2.536 in the first six months, which we mention, as it
shows an increase of 1180 beyond the number at this pe-
riod of the last year. It is remarkable that, during the
month of June, deaths by fever increased from 4 to '24, in
the last week measles from II to 17, and smallpox from
el to 26, which had been, during the four weeks of the
month, 26, 23, 21, and 26.

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!he giuk works at Hove are proceeding rapidly ; we un-
derstand the company have already received upwards of six
miles of main pipe.—Brieliton Gazette.