The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-08-31 00:00:00

ST. OLAVES REGA774.

The fifth Anniversary was celebrated yesterday, hy a well_
contested rowing match, for a prize wherry, value •23f. given by
subscription of the inhabitants, the candidates being six in number.
all free witterencti, of Battle-bridge Stairs; the mach was decided
in tour hems, to start fnnn a host moored etiffliamberlarne's Wharf
to St. licorge's Stair Ilnrstly-down, Alla bark again twice to
Battle-bridge. For the tint heat the competitors were Richard
Penn. purple ; Edward Friol, scarlet ; Hobert Mitcham, pink.—
Fog ah • second, William Sheppard, green; William Connaway.
yellow ; and James Law, blur.

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At om- the lents idarted, amid the cheer* or a Veit nitmh,e o
liper!atora ; and the lint heat ass was rlevirly by Robert Mitcham
who came In far a-head a hit 'rhe second, which
commenced at three, claimed %I-at. Sheppard as the victor t the
thint, Richard !Senn ; and the fourth and hint heat, which lay be-
tween the flame last-mentioned, and decided the singer, wan gained
by George 3litchsin; the other live receiving the following re-
wads:—

Shepparti N brat
Ruin 34
Frosa 4th
lwmlwar Ith . . . .
lith . . .

The day was tii,usually line. and passed without the least alloy
to the happiness of those who witnessed the manly scene, with the
exception of the sodden illness of.lsnies Law, wheiresigned the con.
text in the second heat. The boat was alternates taken round
the perish in procession.

PROLIFIC CH ARA TRR OF CON FF 61 FOR& FIT L!TaaA•
•sell R.— .%! 01011111 the New Critical Gazette notices, in
its three tirst Numbers, no less than tau New Works pub-
lished in the months immediately preceding ; yet the
Fourth ,Vvniber, which will appear on the lot of Septem-
ber, will include above Sternly others that appeared 111 the
month of July. A cheap review of every new Work with-
out exception, so early as a month after its appearance, has,
as might be expected. created an extraordinary interest in
the literary world. It was the one thing which everybody
wanted and called for. _ _ _

I 'omparative number of vessels entered Inwards at Clam-
! pm, from foreign ports, for the first four months of 1g..13
and Is'a, taken from the Clyde Commercial List :
ltila—
Lisbon 2, Cadiz I—Total 3. 1414—Mallaga, 1, Rotterdam
1, Lisbon 4, I:ravelines I, Seville 1, Bourileaux I. Mar-
seilles t, Charante 1, Smyrna 1, Terceira I, New Orleans
3--Total 11.
Mt
reels
Matt

INTELTIGENCE.-19e understand that the pros.
eta of IVheal l'aynter Mine, mar Plaistow, are very
.ttering. A few obeys since, a lode about three feet big,
was cut at the adit level, which is 13 fathoms in &loth.
The ore is yellow, and of a superior quality. It is, how-
ever, supposed that the lode at the neat level will be of
greater consequence. The lode already cut runs parallel
with that of the old and once valuable rnine called 'Fry-
man', in the same neighbourhood, which has aiao been
recommences' under very favourable appearances.
Last week, an Officer of the Depot at Albany, engaged,
for a wager, to shoot twentpsevers bias out of thirty ; he
hit them all, but four fell without the bounds (100 yards),
so that lie lust the match only by one bird.
An old mail named Croasman, died last week near
Bridgewater, who had kept his collie by hita for the last
it) years, and used it as his cupboard.
A few days bOlee, Mr. Pratte, of this town, fell from a
scaffold and pitched on his head, but fortunately hail on •
thick enp, which is supposed to have saved Lis life.—
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